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There's a simple reason why Gutenberg's technology was explosive and these alleged Asian moveable type systems were not:

"Gutenberg's True Innovation", not present in the article despite that being a paragraph heading, wasn't any of the things mentioned in the article.

Gutenberg created a system to easily cast letters as interchangable parts (centuries before Eli Whitney, as it were) This meant that Gutenberg built a system to mass produce printing presses

Carving the letters for an entire typeface by hand could take over a year. However, Gutenberg created a system for taking a hand-sculpted typeface, turning each letter into a mold, and then quickly and cheaply casting each letter. The result: mass production of the most difficult part of the system to produce, the typeface itself, and thus a way to mass produce printing presses.

This article is about as poorly researched as The Oatmeal's ode to Tesla.
I know you are outsourcing the low-level coding, but if I were you, I'd look for slightly more senior guys. 10/hr comes with a lot of hiccups in my experience. But maybe you guys are willing to put a little more management time into the project for the discount. Either way its a give and take. Good luck!
I agree; it's also very distracting to me.

The large, handwriting typeface works well for the list items as it makes you focus on it, but the "Today" heading should be different if only to clearly separate the middle section as your "list". Overall terrific design though.
Disqus isn't a site you visit directly, it is a plugin service which site owners can plug into their site.

As part of its functionality it relies on the ability to uniquely identify a user across sites (to provide user authentication).

There are quite a few other services that work in a similar way.
Actually, using a mouse doesn't hurt me at all. It might have something to do with the fact that I can twist my arm around one time completely, or the fact that I can't sit still long enough to do any real damage. I was mostly speaking for other people :)
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Why not move the satellite first, litigate about the patent later?

What this really sounds like is a case of somebody taking their lawyers much, much too seriously. Courts have the right to tell you what to do or not do. Lawyers, however (unless they are judges) do not have that right; people unfortunately overlook that point all the time.
> I'm amazed her insurance company offers her a policy given her apparent disregard for liability she's potentially assuming on their behalf.

Insurance policies generally explicitly exclude commercial leasing of the vehicle, otherwise rental companies would already be ripping them off.
I can not watch Dick/Rick Hoyt's video without choking up. Whenever I am feeling down and feel that there is no way out, I watch their video for inspiration.

I personally think that this video of Team Hoyt has better details about the story behind their struggle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=relat...
I think you underestimate the disruptive potential that Stripe gives. Dealing with payments is one of the biggest pain points that a lot of people have when putting together a new web venture. They've uncomplicated the payment part of the system enough that it essentially removes that pain completely allowing many more developers to take the plunge into a side project that they can potentially make a little cash with. Having revenue coming in keeps those developers going and we will see some great things come out of it.

That has huge potential! Unless an easier competitor comes along I do and will continue to use Stripe for anything that I'm not using for a primary source of income.
Great job! I typically use JoesGoals.com, but it doesn't have an iPhone app. Your app looks perfect for this.
They are raising money to build a prototype, and it looks like they will succeed with the raise. Congrats to them! The donor levels are mostly just about recognition.

Icon Aircraft (among many others) has been working on the challenge of making flight a little bit more accessible for some time now. Check out the icona5 channel on YouTube.
it is not necessarily a bad thing that our general populous is more educated. What I am appalled at is the cost of higher level education and those who willingly choose private schools and copious amounts of debt.
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I'm not trying to advocate I'm trying to convey my understanding of patent law.

Likely the reason that boeing was granted a patent is because going to the moon to place an object in geosynchronous orbit is non-obvious, according to the patent office.

Reasons I could see the series of turns being rejected for use in an automobile is probably because of obviousness and prior art. If you invented something that allowed you to drive to china faster via a trasnit of the moon then you probably could get a patent for it.

I didn't say any of the things you said, I said that an idea alone can't be patented because of machine-transformation test, if you'd like to argue about whether it makes sense take it up with the SCOTUS. Also, patents don't grant ownership they grant monopoly on use of the patented claims for a period of 17 years.

People think this is OK because the inventor discloses his invention to the public for anyone to use after the monopoly has ended. Note that no one gets to use SpaceX's inventions in rocketry because they don't file patents, conversely if you come up with the invention yourself you're free to use it because they don't have a monopoly on the invention.
That would not be a better analogy because you are shoehorning in an emotional component as well.
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"So we evolved Snap for Windows 8. This feature lets you run any two WinRT-based apps side-by-side"

If this tongue in cheek? Since when is software evolved? I prefer to design my software, and not let it progress randomly. And am I supposed to be impressed with two windows? A whole two? How much extra for three?
Does anyone happen to know if all the fellows are American? I cannot seem to find this info online.

Quibbling detail, I know. But I had the impression the competition was not just limited to the U.S. (Which in no way "argues" the above point. I tried to let it go. I really did. Curiosity killed the cat and all that.)

Thanks.
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HTML5 Media Capture[1] provides extensions to input tags to allow access to camera and microphone devices, eg:

<input type="file" accept="video/* ;capture=camcorder">

<input type="file" accept="audio/* ;capture=microphone">

It isn't widely implemented though (just in the Android Browser, Chrome on Android and Firefox Mobile).

The recommended way is to use the getUserMedia Javascript APIs. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ is a good guide.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/
Hi Alec, I'm sorry about this. Could you please send me an email. There is a bug where Worqshop crashes if you have empty projects on GitHub. It's a known issue and I'm fixing it at this very minute. Thanks. Donny
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Well, he's dead. In some sort of spiritual way, he is liable. What's going on here isn't about the guilt or real liability, it's about trying to turn pain and suffering into money. The simple rules for that are if you're going to try to sue someone, sue someone that has money and sue someone that you can get the money from.

RelayRides, I would think, would be a better target, you might get more money faster but the reality here, unfortunate or not (depending on who's side you take,) is RelayRides is going to be sued and Ms. Fong is probably going to be sued too. Tell me why RelayRide's funders aren't the ones holding the bag here, figure that one out, you nearly never hear about that.

Sometimes it sucks. Sometimes people don't seem to mind. OJ Simpson was acquitted of murder (re: as in found not guilty by a jury) and yet he was sued for moneys due to the death of his ex-wife and her friend, everyone sort of felt okay with that. Ms. Fong, strictly speaking, didn't crash the car, but she stood to profit from the cars use and it was her car and she has insurance, she's going to likely get sued. It's a real bummer those folks got hurt, sounds pretty rough to me, I hope someone makes them whole or as whole as they can be. It's the system we've got.
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European regulators are worse, China is its own story, everywhere else is pretty lax afaik.
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I am inclined to agree.

In my experience, at any given non-technical university, the number of students studying discrete maths, or even CS, is a relatively small group. This is relative to other areas of study.

Perhaps the issue is that Thiel's VC recruitment scheme, which is aimed at students who might study CS, delivered under the guise of an argument that "degrees are overpriced", is being broadcast to a much larger pool of students than just the ones you describe.

Perhaps there might be some students who have no intention of studying CS or discrete maths who are now thinking of dropping out or not attending university, based on this idea of overpriced education.

What do you think?
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As a broad observation about everyone on this thread, I'd say* a small percentage of the population (me included) naturally notices and thinks through details like these. Most other people (users and developers) don't give a crap and function just fine in their lives.

*no scientific evidence
You guys are lucky. I wish I could be working with an entrepreneurial designer. It would step up the quality of my apps (ex: http://weekplan.net).

Where did you guys meet? Online? Offline?
Simply selecting "Request Desktop Site" from the menu in Chrome for Android pulls up the same (quite usable) one-page presentation. This is just a bad "mobile" site in general, and a broken browser detection scheme on top of it.
Perhaps you are stuck in some weird loop due to attending school in different states, or have attended really lousy schools.

When i was in elementary school in NYC, we learned about ancient civilizations and NYC history in 4th grade -- the ancient part was kicked off with a field trip to the Egyptian artifacts at the Met.

In high school in upstate ny, we studied global history and current events from grade 9 through 11. The Chinese portion sucked -- we basically covered the opium wars though the cultural revolution, but we studied many aspects of global history.
Being "educated" != having a college degree. What was missing from the piece was any mention of the difference. Vivek Wadhwa was portrayed as someone who believes "you gotta have that piece 'o paper to make it in America." Also, the piece was somewhat disingenuous in that it kept harping on the supposed risk those dropping out were taking even though it later mentioned that most in the program easily could re-enter college. It's like those saying that the 18 year-old LeBron James was giving up his chance for an education when he chose the NBA over college. Perhaps Thiel could have defined opportunity loss for the audience (sarcasm, of course).
Canadians Have resources up the ass spend billions on education and have always been self satisfied with just being Molson drinking Dipshits Should Canada have its own Paypal like system of course it should...So Canada Put down your Molson and build one...But I am starting to wonder if Canadians really have what it takes...Look at R.I.M. they had the world by the balls and completely blew it.. I need say no more
I'll miss it. I thought the glass was a nice touch that wasn't too gaudy.
A pre-nup pretty much protects what assets you had before the marriage in the case of a divorce.
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So it's totally anonymous except you store the IP addresses, huh?
Your note about using a cool UI animation as incentive is fascinating. Just. Fascinating.

I know it would work on me.
You really think that the Windows API is the main thing holding back app developers?
Yeah I'm not sure this project passes the smell test. I don't know much about airplanes but a few things seems off when I think of this design in terms of basic physics.

The "boxwings" seem to be a worst of both world approach. It ads a lot of surface going across the air and thus a lot of drag, without providing the width which would usually make available the torque necessary for stability and control.

Torque is (force * distance) and, for roll control, this distance is usually provided by wide wings. An airplane having shorter wings would probably go through the air more efficiently (provided you didn't add a second set of wings on top of the first one) but would not provide much control to enable safe flight in all possible conditions. Short wings don't provide much leverage on the roll axis.

It also seems like in this design the top part of the "boxwings" plays the role of the tail of the plane. However, it looks like we get the same (force * distance) problem but on the pitch axis. In order for the tail to give a good amount of torque for pitch control, it has to be located away from the wings and the center of the aircraft.

Again, I'm just guessing based on physics here but since there is no tail other than the one located near the bottom wings, it might be difficult to stop the plane from pitching up or down out of control.

If we were to design planes for efficiency only, they would look like arrows or missile. They would have minimal wings or fins to slow them down. The reason, we have to have things sticking out far from their middle, is to add the ability to safely control them in a wide variety of conditions.

This aircraft has both lots of wing, thus a lot of drag and yet the extra wingage doesn't get the wings positioned away from the center where they would add the most stability and control. Unless the "Laminar Flow", "Wake Propulsion", "Open Thermodynamics", "Subsonic Area Ruling" or the other technobably things mentioned on the website somehow compensate for this, it seems like a lose-lose design.
What amuses me is that most of the replies are "How to bypass the GPL so I won't have to give away the source"

Then we have threads against the GPL in other posts and how BSD is great because its more free and that has nothing to do with "being able to keep the modified source".

Well if the author decided to make it GPL one should respect the choice of the author, on top of not being unethical capitalists.
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That's going to be straining on the eyes if you prefer to work in dark environments.
At the moment an attacker doesn't even need to take control of the servers since all the code is sent without SSL so a MITM attack would be enough.

Edit: though of course if the javascript is never requested again it limits the window of opportunity to man-in-the-middle.
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Windows 7 already has this feature too - if you drag a window to the edge of the screen, it snaps to take up half of it.
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Am I the only person who liked Vista? Seriously, it blew XP out of the water, I never had a single problem with stability and it looked and worked much, much better. I even had a win 7 free license (MSDNAA) but I never bothered installing it because Vista was just fine for that particular machine - FWIW i'm a mactard now.

I think most of the Vista hate is just bandwagoning. The XP love? I have no explanation for that
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NoDevent is an event appliance for the browser. It lets you send events from your rails server directly to browsers.

You can see a demo of it at: http://nodevent.com. Anytime someone joins and shares their location you will see it in 'realtime'.
I'm a huge fan of office "suites" - smallish offices which comfortably hold 3-6 people. It's a good sweet spot between open spaces full of dozens of people and individual offices. Usually suite-mates are people on the same team/projet as you, so you still get that open collaboration, but aren't distracted (or distract) the other people in the office whose daily work is unrelated to yours.
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WinRT on ARM seems to be what you want. The Windows 8 store will certainly cause a gold rush as well.

But are you honestly arguing for forced obsolescence here? The most agile app developers would have a chance at a quick buck. The Windows team could kick out ugly code. And then?
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There's a great analogy he failed to make:

Going to college is like BUYING a house. That's what the market has overbought. Everyone needs a house, but renting is an option. Renting is being self-educated; for the purposes of how much you learn, either can be adequate -- renting clearly covers the low end better, but I know a lot of rich people who rent super expensive properties, too.

Being entirely uneducated is being homeless; no one is advocating that.
IAAAE (I am an aerospace engineer). Actually, long (or wide, to use your term) wings tend to be more efficient. The term you're looking for is "high aspect ratio," which efficient airplanes (see the Global Flyer, for example) have in abundance. It is the ratio of wing span squared to wing area (viewed from above, not the front). The explanation for why this is true is complicated, but this gives a good overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(wing)
Absolutely not; a fair number of them are from Europe, and some from Asia. (I am one of the "mentors" who get to vote on finalists, and help them out after they're in). Out of 40, maybe 15-20 were non-US born, and maybe 10 were non-US citizens.
Most people also use laptops. Being able to only look at the bottom 60% is especially frustrating.

I wish I could move Xcode4's "iTunes-style" header to the bottom of the window when coding on 13".
If you use /etc/hosts to block sites can be enough for some people to break the habit of casually drifting to those sites when your attention is on the wane or you're trying to focus. Less of a hassle too.
Thanks for the quick reply. I deleted the empty repos and it's working wonderfully. I look forward to the update. Being able to create entirely new repos from the iPad would be a big plus.
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The stats don't matter because college has been the default choice of young people for decades. The winners in life usually go to college, so the best companies will usually be founded by college graduates. The point is that college isn't adding much, certainly not $250k, towards the success of those founders. And it may be even more detrimental to society than the debt - so many of New York and Chicago's best and brightest were steered to banks and hedge funds, for example.

YC funds a lot of founders who are young and have not finished college.
I see that it has been closed as "not constructive". Looks pretty constructive to me!
If the route is non-obvious and doesn't have prior art probably.

If you invented a warp drive that could get you from New York to London in 3 minutes you could probably file a patent for folding space in a manner that gets you from New York to London in three minutes with out smushing the earth into bits.
A better analogy might be that going to college is more like rent-to-own. The rates border on usurious and the terms draconian, and should at any point you miss a payment or choose temporarily relocate, you stand to lose everything you have paid to date.
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But look at it from a student's point of view. In case he gets a useless education and a huge loan, the student's life is ruined. If he gets some money from a "me too angel" and works on a non idea and fails... he still gains valuable experience and knows more about the real world and programming and a wealthy guy becomes a little less wealthy. From a student's point of view this is probably the best time to learn and let some one else foot the bill ;-)
If you've got an hour to sit back and listen to Peter debate this subject, enjoy this video

Debate: Too Many Kids Go To College
For The Motion: Peter Thiel & Charles Murray
Against The Motion: Vivek Wadhwa, Henry Bienen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTQ-dBYSlQ
It's hard to start and actively run a company in the United States if you're not American citizen especially if you don't even have a bachelors degree to get a H1B visa from your own company.
Not suggesting a 50s diesel. But anything up to the price of a prius would be better.

Point is, even a gasoline suv pollutes less than a prius overall if you don't use it that often.

Just arguing that as an engineer, you should look at other solutions instead of jumping the bandwagon. Let pointy hairy bosses and ruby on rails guys do it instead.
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