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>I've heard that if you sign a contract under the threat of death that it is not legally binding. Now I know the doctors aren't making the threat, but I think the situation is remarkably similar, right?

No, duress and desperation are distinctly different things.

If it was me looking at a 91% chance of not being here in two years, I think I'd be inclined to seek out alternative and experimental treatments. When it's better than 10:1 odds against being able to see my niece and nephews grow up, I think I'd even consider intentionally infecting myself with bacteria to get that chance. And, I'm saying that now, as a healthy, youngish guy, so I can only imagine what I'd be thinking if I actually had a GBM growing inside me.
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Does Markupwand use scripted Photoshop instances in the background? And if so, how did you manage to work around the fact that the standard Photoshop license does not permit such use?
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Excellent idea. You should pitch this to Groupon!
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Hmmm. This seems to leave out part of the picture. Apple is also using its substantial cash pile to lock up supplies of key components. Some supplies get paid well past delivery, others may get money well before.
The title of the patent: "Setting cookies in conjunction with phased delivery of structured documents" implies that this only refers to a methodology used to set cookies in response to user input.

I'm unsure whether Facebook actually use this on their user privacy page. It would seem insecure to store permissions in cookies.

The rest of the document is corrupted or not written in English so I can't be sure of the details.
You an APM now then Jenny? Is that what you are upto over in Googlererland?
It doesn't have to be junk. You can sell levels, content packs, editions, etc.

To me, the lesson is that it's really hard to get someone to part with money until they love your app-- and a crappy description and a few screenshots in the app store don't get them over that hurdle.

It'd be interesting to see Apple implement a 24-hour Trialware option-- I'd wager we'd see a huge bump in app quality AND a big bump in actual sales. Free trials are a proven way to sell software.
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Yep, every web development job I've ever had has required me to get Photoshop installed, usually sooner rather than later. Then the company moans and drags their feet about licensing costs etc. My current Mac has one old cracked version of Photoshop, one version with an expired trial, and the Gimp...
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I am completely flummoxed by this patent.

1) Setting cookies is a browser feature. How a social networking site, which was not involved in developing a browser can patent this?
2) How can setting a cookie be termed as an invention?
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At least the valuation sounds rational.
I have a lot of fun with my local Fry's and their "security checks". In reality all I do is briskly walk past, and wish them good morning/day/evening. Most of the time this throws them enough for the moment. They seem to do the math that they're not paid enough to deal with my shit. But the few times it has been raised as an issue, I've always (of course) properly paid for my merchandise.

I know it's a bit immature, but as a result of those minor confrontations, it always gives me the jollies every time I stroll out with just a "Good evening!"
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We're considering using a wiki to host some internal business processes.

Is there a popular SaaS solution for wikis?

Obviously, the alternative is always to host (and maintain) privately on our server.
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"That includes engineers and artists. They could work from 9am to 11pm for months."

My experience through various sectors of the software industry (including gaming) is that virtually nobody really works 9 am to 11pm for months. But some people are happy being at the office from 9 am to 11 pm assuming the "work day" includes a multi-hour team lunch break, some random breaks for playing Doom II, Diablo 3 or the newest Battlefield or whatever is hot at the office, lots of slashdotting/redditing/HNing/etc, hours long discussions about what happened on the hot geeky tv show, etc. So what it comes down to isn't even the workaholics vs the non-workaholics, but the totally tech-focused geeks vs the people who have non-tech things going on in their lives.

FWIW, up until my early-mid 30s I was very much the former, so I don't entirely begrudge that lifestyle, but I think it is mostly fantasy that those people are putting in significantly more actual work hours than the other group. Personally, I know I'm vastly more productive putting in 8-ish hours day now than I ever was when I was putting in 16-ish hour "work" days, though everyone's mileage may vary.
It obviously does not affect everyone in the same way, but as a generalization, I would say that becoming a parent clearly makes one a more responsible person.
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We are interviewing for experienced developers at the moment and the lack of general unix knowledge is really surprising.

A little bit of shell scripting goes a long way in automating away dev work.
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I've wondered about this for a while, so I looked it up. The Internet (always a trustworthy source, I know...) seems to disagree with you - or at the very most think it's a grey area, leaning towards that they're allowed:

http://www.thelegality.com/2008/03/12/stop-that-paying-custo...

http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/store-security-and-you...
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I've heard that if you sign a contract under the threat of death that it is not legally binding. Now I know the doctors aren't making the threat, but I think the situation is remarkably similar, right?

No, they're polar opposites. If I hold a gun to your head and demand you do something, I am (i) forcing you to do something that is (ii) against your interests. If you're sick and I offer you an experimental treatment, I am (i) not-forcing you to do something that (ii) is in your interests and benefit. It could maybe save your life. A cancer patient is not legally incapacitated like a child; she has the ability and right to make decisions influencing her own life and death.
As another commenter mentioned, it sounds like the waffle maker is more pissed about the slow payment than anything else.

But yeah, that's the thing. when you are a nobody dealing with a big company? net-30 means they start thinking about paying you in 30 days. This is not at all clear to someone without that experience... and if that one big company is how you pay the rent? well, you have trouble. (that's another thing I love about having a lot of small customers rather than one big one. I can be easy about people being late. When I was a contractor, after the 30 days in the 'net 30' were up, I'd just stay home until they fedex'd me a check. I felt all weird, because the customer was paying the middleman, it was the middleman that was sitting on the money for 45 days.)

Note, I don't think this is because they are trying to save pennies in interest. They sit on the payments because as long as they owe me money, they have vast power in any sort of dispute.

Really, both small companies and big companies need to realize this; Groupon needs to understand that they are dealing with people that haven't had to wait on corporate payment schedules before, people that often don't have access to short-term credit. Groupon needs to understand that these people are used to the situation where 'net 30' means 'you will get your money, at the very latest, in 30 days' - and Groupon needs to act accordingly, if they want to play in that market.

Of course, business owners also need to learn that when you deal with a large corporation, the contracts they write are worth nothing; if standard procedure is to mail 'net 30' checks 45 days after getting the invoice, they are going to mail 'net 30' checks 45 days after getting the invoice, and there is nothing you can do about it. If you deal with large companies, you need to keep more operating expenses as available cash/credit than when you are dealing with small companies, and really, you need to have a lot of patience and toleration.

(Of course, this is part of why you charge large companies more than you charge small companies. At the same price? it's simply not worth it to deal with the bullshit.)
You have to engage with him in a positive manner first, ask him politely to correct the accuracy of the statements. If he doesn't within a few days then pressure him again, perhaps mentioning your desire to 'not' involve a legal team. That should do it. Of course if he reacts badly it make swiftly become a good idea to involve lawyers as he's really stepping over the mark.
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You cannot use ONLY these "meant to be" semantic tags (<article>, <header>, ...) to describe semantically all the content you have.
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> More and more it seems that the only smart way to make money writing code is selling SAAS B2B apps.

The problem with that is mining good ideas. I seem to only come up with "fun" ideas, i.e. games, with certainly have the aforementioned problems. Would love to come up with a sensible B2B idea one day.
I agree whole-fully.
I know many "experts" in various areas such as programming, web dev, security, and a few others.

Rare are the ones who know how to use these basic commandline tools.

The last time I've shown ngrep to a sysadmin he was like "omagad amazing" - always feels nice :)

But, that's not really an obscure tool. I initially thought everyone knew that, like most know nmap.

Turns out most know nmap and ssh because they're really that well known (generally they don't know most options)

Makes me sad! Command's line easy and fun!
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Sorry I will clarify with a genuine question: where is the public source code with changelog?

It seems like a snapshotting tool, so you check out the stub and then dump the snapshot into it from the depot.

(this is similar to how Windows is built inside Microsoft).
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Still better than having to work with 3000x3000 PDF's exported from InDesign...
So the owner didn't understand cashflow?
If someone is willing to pay a large amount of money to influence a programmer, they'll be willing to manually negotiate / transfer it (rather than doing it through gittip).
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First, I wasn't really complaining about the use of the verb "care". I think it's OK to abbreviate like that when talking about evolution, as long as we're aware we're anthropomorphizing.

Note that the definition from Wikipedia that you quoted says nothing about "survival". Death isn't even a requirement. You just need a change in the allele frequencies of a population to call it evolution.

With that survival line you were probably referring to natural selection, which is just one of the aspects of evolution, and again not a requirement for it. You can have evolution by genetic drift, for example. But even if you were just talking about natural selection, putting the emphasis on survival (and "nothing but survival") is incomplete and misleading. Death/survival don't need to play an important role in natural selection (though there are instances when it will, of course). For example, small differences in the average number of offspring already mean natural selection.
Does the local Tesco have those price-checker barcode scanners in the aisle's... That's a good place to check if the fake barcodes work.
As a developer and mostly as a gamer I find IAP a cancer, not just regarding the app store but on gaming console as well with all those DLC.

As a gamer I feel like I don't actually own the game, I've installed it and all, but it's like this feeling of not being "safe" and confortable while playing it. I'm always expecting to find some stupid option to request my credit card in order to upgrade my weapons or some levels so I can finish the game.

We shouldn't be loosing this sort of honesty in gaming, just give it a price for the whole thing and get out of my way.
Correct url for patent 8,225,376 "Dynamically generating a privacy summary": http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

Due to my linking mistake the original USPTO url started to return a different patent. A cookie feature and not the user privacy setting patent.

Looks like readwriteweb also covered this yesterday: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2012/07/mark-zuckerberg-wi...
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Another useful one; Fire up a instant web-server from local folder on http://localhost:8080:

> python -m SimpleHTTPServer
As the developer of www.psd2html.co.uk I can honestly say I am very happy that someone else out there is doing something similar to me...you might ask why?

When I launched Psd2Html in late 2010, I was unable to get on the front page of HackerNews, or any other website for that matter, I was down-voted to oblivion. I had insulting, slanderous comments posted on the Mac App Store which were untrue.

I was ridiculed by "hand coding only" services like www.psd2html.com, the employee lots of people and don't want to make people redundant, but the problem with this approach is that they will never move forward.

I was certain, and I'm still certain hand-coding will go the way of the Dodo.

So Markupwand, thanks for re-validating the idea, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the idea was worthwhile.

I can see that I need to enhance my service/business model/add relative CSS positioning as an option.

I hope we'll be good competition for each other.

Thanks

Chris
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Many birds can see ultraviolet, it's fairly common since it seems to allow them to differentiate flowers the same way many insects do. Some flowers look completely different in the UV spectrum (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-473897/A-bees...). This is why it's important that many types of pet birds have some natural daylight.

As for emotions, that's a harder thing to prove. Dolphins are intelligent enough they should be classified as sentient non-human persons according to more progressive scientists. They have the richest range of emotions we've seen outside of chimpanzees, and to be honest, chimpanzees are so very nearly human it's quite amazing. They don't seem to lack any faculties that humans have, but some of their emotions are just less pronounced or developed.

Sometimes it seems the only reason that chimpanzees aren't affected more emotionally is that they don't understand the implications of what's happening. It's just ignorance more than a lack of emotion.

What might exist in the way of emotions humans don't have is things that are bio-chemical. Nature has a way of "rewarding" behaviors that are productive with a positive feeling. Do cuttlefish feel something other than love when doing their dances? What does an octopus, which has a nervous system entirely unlike a mammal or fish, feel when going about their day?
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$ curl -I news.ycombinator.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close

Keep in mind that this will fire a HEAD request to the server which, depending on web server you use in development, may not return the exact header you'd get with GET (IIRC, Jetty used to do this).

I like to use something like this in such situation:

$ curl -s -D /dev/stderr news.ycombinator.com >/dev/null
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The perl-ev handshake time graph looks like someone falling down. ha.
Semantic html is overrated in my opinion. As if every web page or application could semantically fit the header, article, footer, summary, section, nav, menu paradigm. I'm not against it, but probably, we will have another set of semantic tags in 5 years, and 10 years later yet another set of semantic tags.
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But what are these problems? What is it that requires fixing?
Because guns are better for self defense. That is why police need guns. Their task is to investigate crimes and apprehend suspects. It's not to shoot people.

What does it matter how many fewer ways there are to kill a lot of people with a can of gasoline? A mass murderer only needs one way.
Great post!

P.S I have used (ie paid for) PSD2HMTL and the folks did a magic job. I recommend them to all.
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I use photoshop to sketch ideas or for some more complicated parts of a design. But in layout and styling terms I work directly in HTML/CSS.

I actually started doing it this was because products like TypeKit don't supply the fonts to use in anything other than the the web browser.

I don't think it's the case any longer that to be a designer you have to be tied to a particular piece of software to produce your work.
Here's some armchair advice: focus on e-mail and hunt for website owners that send out newsletters. Make sure to tell them exactly why what you're offering is better than what they already have.

Some organizational advice: have less stuff on the landing page. Keep the what and the why, but have the how elsewhere. And there's a lot of wasted real estate with that grey box; try to use it to pitch.
Being able to disable blocking gen 2 GCs for a period of time will be really useful for games and multimedia applications. You can disable the blocking GC during your update/render logic, then turn it back on while your main thread is blocked on vertical sync!

Being able to do this kind of scheduling aware GC would be a big boon for browser environments too. I've been pushing browser developers to do this and hopefully having working examples of it in other environments will help motivate them - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730113 for one example of how this might be done.
The first claim (which is typically the broadest thing claimed):

1. A method comprising: accessing a profile for a user stored in an electronic database; presenting a first user interface to the user; receiving a plurality of privacy setting selections provided by the user using the first user interface, wherein the privacy settings selections identify, for each of a plurality of different categories of information associated with the user, one or more other users who can access that category of information; updating the profile associated with the user to incorporate the plurality of privacy setting selections; generating, by a processor, a narrative explanation of which other users can access which categories of information based on the privacy settings selections, wherein generating the narrative explanation comprises, for one or more of the privacy settings selections, selecting a narrative explanation template based on the privacy settings selection, wherein the narrative explanation template comprises text that identifies a group of other users who can access a category of information about the user profile based on the privacy settings selection; and providing the narrative explanation to the user associated with the profile in a second user interface after receiving the privacy setting selections provided using the first user interface.

This seems to be attempting to patent the idea of having a dialog where the user can select settings, and then a system that explains the current settings back to the user using templated NLG. Except, limited specifically to privacy settings. Really at a loss how such standard techniques could constitute an "invention".
Context switching is, in the literature, known to be productivity destroying, and while it may feel like a very productive day if I do things from four categories, I can tell you that when I actually go back and look at the results it is feelings-nothing-more-than-feelings.

e.g. If I were doing nothing but customer contact mode, I know that I can send 50 emails in a day of moderate complexity. (e.g. Consulting mini-proposal for a client, support issue for BCC customer, pre-sales question for AR, ... x50. I know this because I have verifiably done it on e.g. launch days before.)

I did four things today -- video recording, hopped on a call, sent emails, and... shoot, only three things but I thought I remembered four. My subjective experience is that 1/3rd of my day was email. How many emails did I send? 1/3 * 50 = ~15? No. Five. And it (subjectively) felt like pulling teeth even though three of those were the same email with a few hand-written edits in the middle of them, whereas after I get into email flow mode for I can normally do two hours without getting bored.

I've got at least two hours into working with video today. How many 5 minute videos have I completed? Umm, zero.

Contrast this with yesterday: yesterday I putzed around to 6 PM and then coded until 10 PM then quit for dinner. I got two features coded and tested then squashed a pair of bugs. Yesterday feels non-productive in some ineffable way ("I putzed around until 6 PM! I only worked 4 hours and my salaryman brain rebels against the sheer laxity! All I did was code six measly little commits!") but it almost certainly added more to the business.