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Yeah thats true. But frankly I never got why practically "everybody" takes their screenshots on a mac - It's almost like I've to go buy a mac just to take the screenshots and do my screencasts.

P.s: I did buy a mac last year.
Hahaha -- my reaction to the article was as thus:

"Intelligent people are less likely to have babies? Oh, good riddance, then! Less children means a smaller drain on our planet's natural resources and is an essential measure toward letting us catch up to our growth to a point where we can adequately provide for everyone...

...Oh god -- I wouldn't be a very good evolutionary parent, would I?"
One of the reasons is that type looks much better on a mac.
Thanks for the heads up - will take a look.
I haven't used Mixpanel, only Kissmetrics. I wanted to run the analysis on all of our data and while that's doable in Kissmetrics, Excel is faster (desktop vs latency of web app requests), more flexible (I can do what I want vs being limited to what KM lets me do), and likely easier to get data in (import CSV vs ...?)
Even though the intent is to make the screenshot look more professional, there is a flaw that makes the result look unprofessional. The flaw is that the text in the title bar and the location bar isn't rendered as it would be on a Mac. See the difference in this reference screenshot I found: http://macamour.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/safari4_....

Here are the problems with the text rendering that I could spot:

• The current text has too much hinting and not enough anti-aliasing. Use different font smoothing settings in whatever code you're using to overlay the text.

• The font appears to be Aktiv Grotesk, but should be Lucida Grande.

• The baseline of the URL text is not aligned with the baseline of "Google" in the search bar.

On the other hand, the light-gray-shadow embedding effect of the title looks good.

As a side note, the explanatory text has very many small grammar and capitalization errors. Getting the text revised by a friend might help. But it's not too bad, because the controls are really all you need to use the site, and the controls are explained pretty clearly.

Also, I like the fact that you give default values for everything, so you can see exactly how the app works without digging around for an image.
There are at least 2 better http servers for Python, uWSGI and gEvent. Tornado is known to be slower: http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers . More specifically, uWSGI has been shown to respond at under 25ms with 15k+ concurrent connections.

Throw uWSGI behind Nginx (with it's new websocket support), tune it a bit, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it "pass" and perhaps even be competitive.
Not sure - will run another analysis in a couple months if it's important enough to figure out.
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I'm curious, why is it essential? I'm a bit of a MUD enthusiast myself, and I've never had to use ed. On the other hand, my favorite MUD's long-form editor (like for newsposts and journal pages) has an ed-like design.
The developers may actually be using Linux/Windows, but the designers have quite a bit of influence if they control the final presentation of the product to the user. The bias towards Mac screenshots could be due to designers typically using Macs (a stereotype that has proven to be true more often than not from my experience).
In general, I agree that Helvetica looks much prettier on a Mac than on Windows (one of the main reasons I despise seeing font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; on pages). Some other fonts don't look too bad on Windows, though.

I don't know much about font rendering; this is just what I've noticed. For what it's worth, some screenshots of the same text with font-family set to Helvetica [0], Myriad Pro, and Segoe UI on Windows 7, Firefox.

Helvetica(/Arial): http://snag.gy/Jneor.jpg
Myriad Pro: http://snag.gy/f2IJx.jpg
Segoe UI: http://snag.gy/ujvpX.jpg

[0] This actually defaults to Arial, I believe, because afaik Helvetica is not bundled with Windows. (Is there no way to use asterisks on HN?)
I thought something similar myself, but what I don't understand is this:

If the powers that be just want to keep us happy to paper over the shittiness that their regime brings, why are they so adamant about banning drug use? If I were in charge, I'd see that as a cheap way to buy the population happiness of the kind that makes them not want to rebel.

In fact, in the Brave New World world, that's exactly what they do -- give everyone drugs so they're happy enough not to challenge the SQ.

So what gives?
* I'll see what I can do.
* I am using Lucida Grande, but it needs to be installed on the machine.
* Should I move it down like 2 pixles? Seems fine on my machine though

Thanks for the feedback. I am not english native - ran the blog through a online-grammer-checker something and it said everything is fine :)
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I understand a premium, but a mass market gym could be 40 to 60 dollars, and a crossfit gym was 140 to 200 dollars.
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This is what helped me.

1. Focus on one simple app, one framework(I'd recommend Django over Rails if you are new to web development), one reference book (http://www.djangobook.com/). Quick goals and instant gratification helps when you are starting out.
2. Reading the relevant chapter(s) of the book before starting the implementation has worked better for me.
3. Build the UI first (use Twitter's Bootstrap to get this done quickly). I am more motivated when I 'see' the end product.
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Would the average person who prefers "professional" screenshots be able to tell the difference between Aktiv Grotesk and Lucida Grande? You have a sharp eye, but I would think 99.9% of the population looking at these screenshots would not complain about Aktiv Grotesk.
gross.

>Because reproductive success is the ultimate goal of all living organisms

I know it's popular and often interesting to examine evolutionary motivation for behavior, but there's a line crossed in saying it's the ultimate goal for all life.

We have a long history of celibate lifestyles. We have a long history of discovering motivations that supercede our biological imperatives.

This is an article with some vaguely cited statistics and some vaguely stated opinions.

There isn't even the basic attempt to qualify the most important things in life. It seems that this is because the submitted title is linkbait and much different from the actual title ('The Disadvantage of Smarts,' hardly better); the content seems to be a low-key low-detail interview.

the more I look at this the more I suspect ballot-stuffing to get this to the front page. 13 points and it's at #4 after 48 minutes?

Well, I guess that fulfills my grumpy quota for a while.
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Well, I actually do not think that the tiles in the "circle of colored tiles" are green. For me, they are as much blue as green.
If anyone else is like me and wondering what he's talking about, here's a description from one of the victims:

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Your point is well taken. I did not mean to imply that this is bad design decision on the part of Unix. I was also trying to articulate why the current behavior makes sense by describing the mechanics of inodes. However in my experience many novice developers, especially those with limited knowledge of Unix, find this behavior quite surprising. Delving into this curiosity presents a good jumping off point for finding out more about Unix file systems (and, yes, this is all the more reason including references). The HN audience surely includes many people, such as yourself, that consider this to be completely common knowledge but the fact that at least 9 people found the article useful indicates otherwise.
Intelligence is not wisdom. Everyone, no matter how smart, has access to wisdom.

Being intelligent complicates your life sometime. I suspect that you're more likely to get a depression too.
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Sorry I accidentally downvoted your comment instead of upvoting it. I upvoted a couple of your other comments to make up for it.
I think the "relatively" may refer to evolutionary timescales, in which case - maybe. It would surprise me, though, especially given that psychoactive drug use has been observed in the animal kingdom (source: wikipedia - what else?). Certainly on any shorter timescale, alcohol etc. use isn't even close to a new thing.
We just asked, and gave them the stats as to why ("Gyms who use this feature have X% more athletes claim").

Worst they could do was say "no".
I just upvoted his comment to make up for your mistaken downvote. All is right in the world again.
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... I really like the `either go with me or your an idiot` push... false dilemma anyone?
It's funny how everyone who reads this article tends to view himself as intelligent. Maybe that's just the type of crowd at HN, or maybe it's Dunning-Kruger at play.

Even if I share this link on Facebook, most people would agree with this article, relate to a few points and think they're intelligent.
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Catchy title, but very suspicious article.

TLDR; author claims that intelligent people are paranoid freaks that prefer evolutionarily stupid things. What things are evolutionarily stupid? Sterility, monogamy, homosexuality, and other manifestations of social order.

Or, a scientific spin on fundamentalism.
Why was this article removed from HN home page?
> It's unlikely to change at this point.

I wonder about that. Is it b/c PG is the only the HN source committer, but without enough time to evolve the site fast enough to keep up?

Or is it something else?
> Keep it invite-only perhaps.

Well I probably count as the masses. But one model might be a sort of web of trust. You start off with a few people who are ultimately trusted. And then as your web grows you can track who let who into the site. People who consistently let in poor members get their invite privileges revoked or are kicked. Have a reputation threshold before you can invite people.
All learning is by immersion. The best way to start learning flirting is to observe couples on dates, and note their body language. You don't need to be close enough to hear their voices, since body language will be your important leader. If you can hear them speak, even better. You can also make it into a social outing by bringing along a friend and making running commentary on the date (this will help you exchange notes and speed the learning process, and it will also make learning fun and thus increase retention). Note that these things (esp #2) are both fairly socially unacceptable, so be aware of that and try to be somewhat discreet.

Once you do that, go out and use the body language you've learned to indicate flirting and assess other's reactions. Test, adjust, repeat. The hardest part is that you'll need to find a group of people whose opinion you don't care about until you're vaguely OK at it. I suggest parties, not bars or clubs, because they are the most conducive to the wide range of flirting you'll tend to want to master.
They (intelligent people) are more likely to be homosexual, because humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually.

Whaa??? That's the kind of thing you just can't assert without a mountain of evidence. I'm actually surprised he stopped short of saying that they're more likely to be white because the first humans evolved with darker skin tones.

This is reactor-grade crackpottery.
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It's absolutely true. Homo Erectus almost certainly did not use tobacco, alcohol, or psychoactive drugs, at least, intentionally so. "Relative" is just that - on evolutionary time scales, at least half a million years or so.
Do you have evidence against his claim?

I'd agree that humans (and other animals) have likely been consuming things for psychoactive effect as far back as such substances could be found... but a wee bit of consumption doesn't invalidate Kanazawa's point. We've gotten a lot better at collecting, cultivating, creating, and consuming psychoactives, in evolutionarily-recent history.

Europeans had to learn about tobacco from the new world. Tobacco's been bred to be stronger since the introduction of agriculture... just as our cultivated fruits are far sweeter than their natural precursors.

Evidence of alcoholic fermentation goes back perhaps 10K years (skimming Wikipedia). But even if the practice is quite a bit older, it's still 'evolutionarily recent'. Our primate ancestors might have happened across some fermented juice occasionally... they couldn't pick up a six-pack at the Kwik-E-Mart every night.

Finding and consuming exactly the right mushroom/cactus alkaloid for creating visions, and not the other ones that kill you, has become a lot easier with literate traditions. And pills made in chemistry labs.

What was a trickle of opportunities among our primate forebears – a level they would have presumably adapted for – is now a torrent. Kanazawa's point here seems sound in the broad-generalizing sense in which it was offered.
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Er considering your karma is far less it's not quite going to make up for it. I'm assuming you've been rather successful in the important things in life ;) ?
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This article is weak. His entire argument appears to be based on the assumption that intelligence necessarily leads to people choosing an "evolutionarily novel" thing over a smarter or evolutionarily beneficial thing.

Citation please?
I found the interview pretty disappointing. As much as evolutionary psychology can be fascinating, its claims have to be supported by some data or at least some seriously sharp reasoning to be worthy of anyone's time. That famous Carl Sagan quote on extraordinary claims fits really well here.

His basic argument seems to be that intelligent people are always contrarians, which to me seems downright false. Smart people just have a tendency to be more skeptical, really. I guess framing things this way would not be as inflammatory, however, and thus not sell as many books or get The Economist to offer the dude a piece of its precious real estate.

Finally: More intelligent boys (but not more intelligent girls) are more likely to grow up to value sexual exclusivity. = I would love to see what kind of data (if any) he is using to back this up. Sounds really fishy to me.
Actually, Kanazawa implies intelligent people are less paranoid, because paranoia was the evolutionary norm.
The whole point of having multiple namespaces is to have, well, multiple namespaces.

If everyone registers their name in all namespaces, there aren't any more names to go around, just more fees for every name owner to pay.

The thing is, it's completely legitimate for prgmr.com, prgmr.net, and prgmr.org to be unrelated entities. It's also legitimate for prgmr.sux or whatever (assuming that top level domain is created) to be owned by someone that wants to say bad things about me. The only illegitimate use is attempting to deceive users in to thinking that you are me.

Though, I think I understand your point better now; You are saying that we really only have one namespace, and the "buy every variation of your name on all top level domains" ship has sailed.

If you hold that position, (and while I disagree, I see how you could hold that position) then yes, adding another top level domain does not expand the namespace, but it does mean that all name owners need to buy another name.

While I do agree that people have a strong preference for .com names, I think this means people are less likely to confuse a .com with a .biz or a .ly or what have you. In fact, almost the only uses I've seen of other than com/net/org and government sites have been for companies that integrated the top level domain into the name, like del.icio.us or what have you. I don't think the existence of prgmr.ly would cause any confusion.

This got me wondering what prgmr.net was (I mean, I am kinda a network, so prgmr.net is arguably more appropriate) - it looks like a Korean programmer's blog. I approve.
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Thanks for all the tips! I'm reading through these comments now.
When the article lists a bunch of 'suggested reading' with more detail, and the article subject is in fact a researcher in the field, if you really want a 'citation' you should just go to the recommendations or publications. Not wave 'citation please' like a cheap flag.
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wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

I am not sure what "intelligent persons" the writer researched before writing the article, but the points are very misleading and wrong.
I think you're misreading the article.

Kanazawa makes a claim that intelligent men are more likely to prefer monogamy because the evolutionary norm is polygamy.

The reporter/interviewer says "Really?". Because, here's the thing, Kanazawa's argument at this point doesn't hold. Just because somebody is good at something, does not mean they prefer it. Just because intelligent people are good at adapting to evolutionarily novel things does not mean they prefer to do those things.

Where does the preference come from? According to Kanazawa, because of paranoia. Humans appear to be designed to be paranoid; they are designed to see intentional agents behind natural phenomena.

"This is because making the mistake of thinking that a natural event has an intentional agent behind it is less potentially costly than being oblivious and thinking that an intentional event, like someone trying to kill you, has a coincidental cause. The paranoid outlive the oblivious."

I believe that at this point, he's referring to humans in general. Humans in general are paranoid. Intelligent people are extra paranoid, hence they don't want to do the evolutionarily normal thing, they want to do the evolutionarily novel thing.
As an example of this, kernel developers have in the past responded to NVidia by marking kernel symbols used by the nvidia kernel module as GPL-only.
For me, motivation is key.

I pick something I want to make, and make the feature that provides the most "bang for my buck" per say.

IE: When I tinker around with my Arduino Uno, I always try to get something to move first (turn the motors). Huge motivational boost for me. THAN, I figure out how the heck to get it to talk wirelessly with my laptop.
In America? First of all, I'm impressed that you're able to speak on such a grand scale as to paint a very large, very diverse nation with such a simplistic and sarcastic brush.

Second, what exactly was the value in posting that? As a means of making a point, it's obnoxious at best, and useless at worst. Surely there's a better way to contribute to the conversation.
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Just do your own thing. I wrote a lot of PHP when I was learning 10 years ago. Because it was PHP everywhere and that's all I had in hands. Do I do a lot of PHP today? Nope, occasional hacks and quickies, that's it. But from there I went to actionscript, javascript, C#, Flex / WPF / Silverlight... Touched C, C++, Haskell, Python, Go... Heck I even have some Haxe on my computer.

Whatever you have in hand, pick it up and do stuff. Pick a language that you can run easily, debug easily, and that is mature in the sense that whatever you google for, you will find. Try and pick a project that you are passionate for and open a github repo and give it your best shot. Try and implement the same thing in different languages if you think it's fun, or try tackle large problems with simple solutions that may only work 60% of the time.

Who cares, just do stuff that you can then show. Get an internship anywhere, stick in for a year or two. Then move on to the next place. Surround yourself of smart developers. Seek them and see how they think. Not wankers, genuinely good people. Not only they know their job, but they will love passing on knowledge. Ask them to review your stuff, bounce ideas, dumb questions, everything. That's far better than books IMO.

One thing is for sure, I don't learn much from books. Books help when you have a very gritty issue you feel totally helpless against. But most of the time, books as thick as bibles will drain you and turn you off and make you call it quit.

It's a computer, it can do anything. Period.

EDIT: do read books still, watch talks, they greatly open the mind.
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