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That's like claiming that the only people who love literature are English majors. It's simply not true. For one, there are plenty of people in all sorts of disciplines who had a good exposure to and still like math. More importantly, there are many people who enjoy logic puzzles and games but hate "math" because they have a warped perception of what "real math" actually is.

A good introduction to math would turn a person's innate interest in thinking and logic into an interest in math. After all, at its base, math is really just a way to approach logic in an organized and systematic fashion. I think at least a basic understanding of some more abstract math--especially formal logic--is as valuable to a well-rounded person as an appreciation of literature or knowledge of basic history. Sure, the basic person on the street doesn't need to be an expert on algebraic topology, but they don't need to be experts on romantic literature or 17th century Belgian history either. This doesn't mean that they shouldn't be well versed in some--and probably a fair bit--of literature and history, and, in the same way, they should be well versed in at least basic mathematics.

Now, one of the problems with math education is that what they teach is not really basic math. Rather, they teach subjects that are readily applicable at a fairly superficial level. I think a good grounding in formal logic and set theory, for example, is far more valuable in general than a thorough understanding of differential calculus. And yet it's the latter that is considered basic and widely taught, probably because it is immediately useful to engineers and physicists.
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Another gamification farce that we'll most likely never hear from again.
I've been thinking about this idea a lot recently. I'm wondering if you would like to have a discussion? If so, please email me at maxim.hn.4418904@vekslers.org

Maxim.
When there are thousands upon thousands of 'partners' integrating their API, how does a consumer, or a business, sift through that shit and find the gems?

How does Twitter even know about or be aware of apps that are either violating their terms (before or after any terms change), or are awesome and solve a unique problem?

They're big enough now that this is a required means of developer communication, verification, and management.

This applies to any platform after a good length of time and adoption. It probably should have come sooner-- it may have even better telegraphed their hand before the blog posts did.
Well it does matter from a practical sense in that you'll need to write checks for $2500 a month (plus HOA). You may recoup $5000 or so in tax relief at the end of the year, but you still had to come up with that money in the first place (let alone save up $100,000 which is no mean feat, even if you're making a low six figure salary like a lot of professionals in their late 20s/early-mid 30s).

I guess my bottom line with my original comment was, I can think of a lot better uses for the money, time, and effort it takes to buy a $500,000 condo, and to me the returns in my quality of life vastly outweigh any sort of long-term security you might feel from owning a home
I'm anxiously awaiting this pen to arrive:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/894128597/the-pen-projec...

Sure, its expensive for a pen. But I plan on carrying it around with me everywhere and I wanted a pen that I feel reflects my values and interests.
From what I recall the parents assets can be used, up to a certain percentage, to determine what the child is eligible for. One way around this is to use a Roth IRA, since it allows you to take money out for college without a penalty and would not be used to determine FAFSA.
Agreed. Twitter needs to die already.
Additionally, how does that leap of logic make sense? They're no longer keeping a presence on Facebook Pages in protest of Facebook Ads, but they're proud of Twitter by comparison simply because Twitter doesn't offer a comparable advertising service at all? Who is to say that, if Twitter did offer a similar ad platform, that it wouldn't yield the same results?
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Well, yes, mostly. But you also want your email to be read, not only delivered. Your email mail also contain some kind of CTA (call-to-action, website to visit and so on...) which you are trying to get the reader to respond to. Those numbers may be higher with well designed "beautiful" html mails than plain text ones.

Lastly, you may want to measure how many people actually opens and reads your mail and when they do it, instead of just letting it languish in your inbox. It's trivial to do by embedding tracking pixels in the html mail, but impossible in plain text ones. Personally, I abhor html mails like the plague, and the people who believe that bold facing or underlining some text somehow makes it easier to decipher some meaning from the text, but they do have a purpose. Mostly for marketing purposes I admit.
If a company terminates an interview early it might leave a bad impression with the employees who participated in the interview. And you have to work with those people tomorrow.
No contest to (a) and (b) - I agree there.

As to (c) I was reading "system" as the two signup pages, not the overall wifi system. Still, unless there's a difference between the mobile and laptop services, they're the same product regardless of type of device used to access the system, and you're paying for the service.

It would be like an all you can eat restaurant charging extra if you were over certain weight/height thresholds.
>Do as I say, not as I do.

Which is mighty fine.

I'f I'm telling you to be good and I'm bad, them I'm a hypocrite.

That doesn't mean that my advice is bad, or that you shouldn't follow it.

Follow an advice (or not) by the intrinsic value of it, not by who the one giving it is or what he does.
We buy our certificates from Bulkregister, $12.95/yr for single host (GeoTrust RapidSSL) and $89/yr for wildcard (Comodo Essential Wildcard). We paid for the maximum possible duration (4 and 5 years) and do not worry too much about renewals, we can always switch after that time if we see a better offer... StartSSL is free but limited to 1 year validity and too much paperwork/legalese for my taste.
It's not necessarily unheard of. People who work at architecture firms routinely having portfolios of stuff they've worked on. If you don't have a portfolio of work from previous employers handy, what is in your portfolio? And if one doesn't have a portfolio of demo code that showcases style and experience and skill, one doesn't really get to complain that someone else doesn't have context to judge appropriateness for a job, or that they are expecting some context to be able to make an informed judgement.
Of the biggies who uses Ruby?
From Failwhale to Stamp Of Quality in a few short years.
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He didn't invest in the company. He was granted shares. He sold them at his first chance.

Thing is Jason is all about living the good life not being rich. Good life != rich. He was doing well for himself before Basecamp and Basecamp was just part of his strategy to manage his own work more effectively so he would have time for stuff that is actually better than coding or designing - like spending time with family or driving race cars a la DHH.
Other article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450308

There was a Univ of Wisconsin study, and an "Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio" study, and their results contradict.
Other article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4450307

There was a Univ of Wisconsin study, and an "Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio" study, and their results contradict.
If you like programming, you could do some functional programming. I found Haskell to be a fun gateway into learning about algebra.
It's also important to point out that this is a manufacturing process patent. Those don't work like software patents.

Fundamentally this is an improvement in the ability to make metal stuff. It might be faster than CNC machining for low volume production, and as less material is wasted it's probably cheaper. Likewise it's almost certainly faster than making casting tooling for low volume.

But fundamentally, it's just making stuff. We already have plenty of ways to make stuff from metal. So anyone who wants to make metal stuff isn't meaningfully impacted: at worst they might be priced out of the market for the new toy, but most likely they just have a new option to investigate. The patent inefficiency impacts only people who want to improve on this obscure technique. What won't happen is that the public will lose access to metal junk.

Software isn't like that at all. Everything is built on everything else. If you get a patent on something like "pinch zoom" and refuse to license it, no other devices can use it. The public loses, because all of a sudden important features can't be combined with other important features.
Who said the GiBs need to be fetched from disk; they could already be in RAM. Even if not, it's still adding many system calls and context switches when the CPU could be doing other things; the machine isn't running just this one thing.
Right now, it's only on the iOS platform, so anyone with an iPhone or an iPod touch can leave a tip on any topic they can think of. There's no way to verify the source of the tip as of yet (unless the person explicitly states it in the tip). The identity of the author, however, is tied to their Facebook (and later on, Twitter) account.

If it takes off, we have plans to expand to the iPad and the Mac platforms, and then possibly a web and an Android version.
Oh come on - I personally know people who've hired readers in college because they absorb more efficiently through hearing it spoken aloud. Others despise pictures - they want written descriptions. Some the other way around.

Rationalize it any way you want - they learn faster and better one way than another, measurably.

And about bad teaching: the whole class gets it, but a few. The teacher is clearly not addressing their needs, but they are also clearly not doing it 'wrong' - many do understand just fine.
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A board seat is a lot different from just holding equity. I own HPQ, RIMM, and YHOO, and if I had a board seat in any, my push would be for sale and getting rid of everyone above the first layer of management and engineers. (Boardmembers can't do this directly, but can work with shareholders and management, and ultimately hire competent CEOs)
It solves about 50% of the problem for me: the biggest frustration for me is not being able to quickly glance at a listing to see where it is. If I could open 20 Craigslist listings in 20 tabs and see a map in each, that mostly takes care of it for me.
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I'm all for heavier users paying more for the service, but breaking it down by device is asinine.
No, I created a new account about two weeks ago and it never asked me for a serial #. I can use both the Cloud Reader and the desktop KindleReader application without problems.
Ah yes, got it, you are correct. Thank you.

The supply curve is the amount of goods produced at x price.

Since x isn't being changed here for sellers, it doesn't move.

The demand curve does move because of the distorting effects of the subsidy/PDS, and then again because of corruption.
Sometimes pirated software off better. Some games might have DRM and require an always on internet connection to authenticate so you can play. Pirated games might have no such limitations.
Lovely idea, and I think it's damn useful: I just wish it didn't have an external dependency on dotcloud!
Groupon actually pivoted to cater to small business management now that I think about it. This dosen't mean they were successful at it, but I wonder whether Jason had anything to do with that. Groupon might be able to recover and survive as a company but I don't think the VC's will make it with a big return.
> Yes, it's international.

I asked if it was intentional -- I tried to search for all of san jose, but the system instead searched on a specific block :)
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Wow, could we put the mythical "startup" on any more of a pedestal? '... merely a successful small business' as a diminutive to 37Signals? We've really jumped the shark here, haven't we?
Would becoming homeless be a good strategy to cut costs?
That is a Foreman's understanding of prior art?
US desperately needs a large number of able hands to handle patent related cases that have resulted from easy doling out of patents by the USPTO. The present Intellectual Property Regime is becoming a threat for innovation itself.
> VC wants to make a profit within a year

Typical returns take 5-7 years for a VC. < 1 year returns tend to be low.

You are presenting things you believe as facts. Please don't do that.
Why must time be earth centric?

Because time is ultimately for human end users, and humans live on Earth.
Yes. I just looked in the admin settings for Google Apps and it gives the option to default it to restricted posts.
There are numerous HN posts about how people don't want to spend a lot of time doing coding during an interview. Or are offended that they'd be ask to do a code test as part of an interview.

Those people are instant no-hires. You aren't going to write code when I ask you to write it? That is your job!

(I would grant exceptions is very exceptional cases, like the candidate having physically lost his hands. Or being blind.)

And doing work for hire like this is considerd spec work in other industries

Are you talking about the company giving the guy a problem, and then taking his answer and putting it right in their codebase without hiring him?
This is nothing new. I had very precise, laser sintered, steel objects in my hands during exhibitions, at least 5 years ago.

I never understood though, there seems to be no laser sinter aluminum. The most common answer is oxidation. But how hard can it be to do it in a vacum?
Jason made it pretty clear that he was joining the Groupon board:

* as a personal favor to Andrew Mason
* to get some board experience

He emphasized:

* he had not changed his stance on bootstrapping companies
* his board involvement was not an endorsement of groupon
* he sold his shares when given the chance

So I guess I'm missing the hilarity, other than seeing you try to pick another fight with Jason Fried.
He paid for a WiFi connection between a device and the internet. He received a connection between a device and the internet.

If GoGo can't tell the difference between a laptop and a mobile phone, that's their problem. And no, the UA string doesn't guarantee that and there is no law that I've heard of that prevents users from altering their UA string (or anything for that matter). They showed him a price for a service on his device, and he bought that service.
Indeed! I've seen stuff much like that. Not pretty. A prefect example of why visual programming is no silver bullet.
The best outcome for users is being able to search one site listing all possible ads from many sources. Unless craigslist starts bringing in others results, and I'm not saying they should, it's still less useful for apartments than padmapper.

I really don't see any win for craigslist here, other than making their site a little bit less horrible for this particular function.
I posted it as a gist on github for better formatting. I hope you don't mind. :) https://gist.github.com/3517051
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Agreeing with what you said as well.

I think (as the user 'grecy' mentioned in another place) that as a population, programmers are in a relatively unique position. They (we) can be in a situation where there are a lot of clear opportunities to make more money given more time investment (that can't be simply said for a coroner or a florist for example) AND having it being a lot of money. Couple that with that that it's true from a relatively young age (out of college) and it gives you some pretty interesting (blessed) challenges.
It's more than inconvenience when your whole service is down because some database queries take up to 30 seconds to complete (and often time out), and when replication on some servers is days behind (and some are up to date). We also had to completely flush our data a few times because of some corruption we couldn't recover from.

The truth is, MongoDB is awesome if your dataset fits in memory, but if you're in a write-intensive environment with 400-500GB of data, it's just not there yet.
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"why would have he not only given advice but invested in the company"

First, let's get your facts straight: I have not invested a penny in Groupon. I haven't put any personal money into any private company other than my own. I was awarded options as compensation for participating on the board, just as other board members were.

Why did I give them advice? Because they asked me for it and I thought I could help. A lot of people ask me for advice, and i'm happy to help where I can. I don't have to agree with someone on everything to give them advice. I like Andrew, he asked me to help him, I wanted to help him, I'd never served on a board before, so it sounded like a great learning experience. It was - I don't regret the experience at all.

Andrew knew where I stood - and where I stand - on VC, investments, growing quickly, hiring a bunch of people, etc. He was interested in my perspective on product, design, and user experience, not on financing, growth, etc.

I was asked to leave the board in 2010.
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You conveniently skipped:

0) It was an all day interview where everybody was given chances to grill him.
Again, that's theory.

We had a population explosion while we were racked by famines and deaths through starvation.

What you are mixing up is first world and third world economics.

In the third world, children are seen as units of labor, and not as units where time, training and money has to be sunk.

There are other reasons for the pop boom, but im hitting only the relevant one.
Does anyone else thing that the documentation for ember.js is really lacking? Some of the classes it has aren't even documented (ContollerMixin comes to mind) and others are lacking in the documentation depratment. Also, I don't seem to be able to find a full listing of instance methods for a class, I have to climb up the inheritance tree in the docs class by class.
The Doctor is always a little off.
In addition to the other examples, there's very clear one-handed pinch-to-scale at 6:30 in this video from 1991:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5772530828816089246
This guy could have built the next Salesforce / google. but he eschewed hiring a sales team. He didn't want that, but still. Failing to achieve your true potential is not something to be bragging about all over the web.
Pray tell, what would make it a startup?
Exactly. The vehement, cowardly servility in favor of employers' feelings on display here is nauseating.
Well, at least Klout didn't get a badge. That really would have taken the cake.
Leopold is a great brand, and they were my top pick till they ran out of stock. Instead I bought a DAS with brown switches and haven't looked back. I highly recommend mechanical keyboards, they are very enjoyable to type on.
> The only people who love math are math majors. Most humans don't love math.

Oh, this is so wrong. Did you like Avatar? Then you like math. Avatar is one long, beautiful mathematical expression, from beginning to end.

> This is like trying to become smarter by listening to classical music.

Granted the problem with the basic idea, this has it all over trying to become smarter by listening to Country & Western music.

> Is it ironic that those suggesting these ideas can't separate correlation from causation?

Math is neither a cause nor an effect -- it is both.

I could argue this point in detail, but instead I will get Bertrand Russell argue it for me: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."

Richard Feynman said, "To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature."

I can't think of a place that equals America for complete and willful misunderstanding of mathematics.
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PHP Best Practices (http://phpbestpractices.org/) might be useful. I can't personally vouch for it.
If anything, that comment just confirms his consistency.
Thank you for your input. The trip planning was one of the use cases. The thing is that it doesn't really matter what kind of price review is that since I'm not limiting the users in what they can post (obviously because I don't know what other people are looking for to buy). Maybe it's even a short term offer that will expire in a week and nobody will be able to leverage it. But that's fine because people will get an _overview_ of how much things can cost in that area (someone will make a conclusion that since there was such a good offer, maybe there are other good offers that are simply not listed on PriceFlurry).
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Simple version: If he thinks and thought the Groupon scenario is "absolutely disgusting" why did he advise, take a board position, and retain shares in an "absolutely disgusting" venture?

Options presented by me:

A) "absolutely disgusting" is an exaggeration

B) JF is a hypocrite

C) JF has changed his mind over time
Would https://www.fivepad.me solve the other 50% for you?
Neat. Then this might actually be useful in real life :).
A "leap hour" would presumably require changing the UTC-equivalent itself.

Earlier I proposed exactly the opposite. Never change UTC, just redefine your timezone to create an apparent leap hour. Since we already do this twice a year in many countries, it should be less of a problem.
Imagine if MLB thought AAA ball was going to cannibalize its audience? What does that say about Major Leaugue's future?

Zuckeberg did the smart thing with IG, his just bought it ! (at 1% of his company value = NBD). Why doesn't twitter just roll-up some of the better products? And keep the collabritive ecosystem? Can they not "afford it"?

The valuation gap between twitter (at what $6-7B?) and its ecosystem players is so vast...something doesn't add up to why they should have such fear.
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