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I think I'll do HTML/CSS/JS sessions (classes?) on this platform. If you wanna get in touch email me hello[at]cssdeck.com :)
if you want to go into mobile look at this http://mobile.tutsplus.com/
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I am shocked, absolutely shocked that the vast majority of economists have been right for decades. Next thing you'll tell me is that limited quantitative easing or government spending increases employment!
There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll have to handle support too.

Not sure if we're typical or how much load 30,000 users would generate. Personally, I pull/push at least once a day. Just something for you to keep in mind.
Happy to hear it. I think it's time to try a 100% tax rate and see how that goes.
On good hardware there were PostgreSQL instances running a billion queries a day back in the 9.0 days. Often these are actual accounting apps where reporting matters and so NoSQL would be a very poor fit. For example the French government uses it to distribute welfare program dispersements. The Wisconsin Courts also uses PostgreSQL at loads in the billion per day range. I know there are larger instances out there.

Now a days we are talking about thousands of concurrent users and up to 350k reads/sec on high end machines.
well this one is going to be 9 months. i don't know what the time between s2 and s3 was.
No thanks... that would cross the line between full disclosure and malice.

It should be trivial for anyone who understands HTTP and threads to reimplement.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/well-aisle-be-its-a-smart-...

I'm sure there is better out there though!
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No, but scrolling across is difficult. And they hijack all the scrollbars so that they can show you a light grey box instead of the slightly lighter grey box which your browser normally shows. If they just displayed everything vertically and didn't mess with the scrollbars it would be an infinitely better site.

Oh, and their theme locks up Firefox, however I'm willing to blame that on FF rather than the designer(s).
Too late to edit but it is worth noting that stored procedures are also very much all or nothing in terms of quality. Well-writen SP's are a delight to work with. Horribly written ones are infuriating. It's not like other environments where the quality of the code can degrade gracefully.
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Not sure if the "gold is made of stars, diamonds are from coal" line will convince her. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=739720...

I give major props to my now wife being OK with the gold engagement ring I bought out of principle. It had a fanciful cheesy design too. :)

Good luck!
Am I the only one that thinks 5 inches is far too big for a phone? I'm not sure how I feel about the 4 inch iPhone 5, but I'm certain I don't want anything that is 5 inches.
Never used coffee script, but is it missing a new-line at the end of the file?

My intuition says it's reaching the end of the file before reaching the "end-of-block" unindent characters. I mean, the tokeniser should output enough outdents to get you back to indent-level zero when it hits EOF, but maybe it's not?
Same way as in Note 2, they better be decreasing the bezel area.
Part of the reason though is it is easier to get an idea of what you need from a NoSQL database and what you'd be giving up if you are already on an RDBMS, right?

I think the advice is right on and I see NoSQL databases as very much useful adjuncts to the relational systems, not as replacements.
Instead of shutting down the service with an export option to a data file, how about identifying two or three competitors you'd recommend and working with them to export the content directly into another service. This way you help out both your customers and another startup.

For example, if Grove.io content can be made to work with Flowdock, contact the Flowdock team and work with them to put a big "Migrate to Flowdock" button on the shutdown announcement page.
I clerked at a law office while I was in college -- the lawyers there were happy to offer free 30 minute consultations because the conversion rate of the people that showed up for those was actually pretty high. It was a great way to build trust right off the bat and to ensure it was a good fit for a longer term partnership
In court cases where hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars are on the line, it makes sense to pay the lawyer who is 1% better even if he or she costs %100 more.

Anyway. You won't be hiring the $1000/hr lawyer. For almost all the stuff that startups need to get done, a lawyer who charges in the sub-500 range is going to get it done and done well.

Don't let sticker shock fool you. Lawyers provide an essential service. It would be nice if we didn't need them. It would also be nice to get free unicorns and backrubs from models. Too bad, that's not the world we live in.
I'm thinking even the apple logo (with bite) on the back of a macbook, etc...
Or "super-premium" vodka. That's an entire product that didn't even exist until someone decided to create it, largely as a way for people to demonstrate to others that they're well-off enough to purchase super-premium vodka.

If you can get yourself into a "value through market position" opportunity early on, it seems like a license to print money.
Or python, which is where the author is coming from. In python there are fewer syntactic ways to write the same thing (semicolons aren't optional, they're just not permitted. The only ways to write and and or are 'and' and 'or', '&&' and '||' simply don't exist. Map literals always look like {key1: value1, key2: value2}, the braces are non-optional ).

Even python's critics would admit it's a very readable language, and it would be unusual to claim it's not expressive.
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One person has opposed CS and now using it.

Many people (including me) tried CS and back to JavaScript.

It's all about readability, team size, and choices.
Even better, write some image-processing software that can automatically grade diamonds more quickly and accurately than human appraisers.
Exactly. And for the same reason my lawyer above is giving me a fixed-price on the work he's doing.

(I think he's nuts for quoting fixed-price on anything legal, but I'm hardly going to say no.)
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If container height is given by percentage you have to wrap it in another div with display: table. And if container is supposed to behave like inline-block you have to wrap it in yet another one. If you need to sprinkle around some margins and paddings (esp. with percentage height) you have to choose boilerplate divs to apply them to carefully.

Btw. your approach is exactly same that we had 10 years ago but with CSS table behavior faking rather than table tag.

Yay. Progress.
Yet another reason DNSSEC is more trouble than it's worth.

It's a gift to anyone wanting to do this type of DDOS.
Mere consistency is not enough. List is hard to read because humans do not have a natural feel for how deep a set of nested brackets are, and you have to be able to spot the matching open-bracket to understand the code.
Ha! We said the same thing at the same time. I prefer the way you put it though :)
Yes there is a lurking iceberg of things that aren't in the public eye like Facebook or Google, and that's where the really intense and interesting stuff is happening. I wonder what the guys at Visa make of all the hype around these websites, when they were doing these volumes all along...

At said 60k pages/sec job, you know who we looked up to for databases? Starbucks. Walmart. McDonalds. 'Cos we'd seen what they do, and anyone who thinks Twitter is impressive, well it'd blow their minds.
I'm with you on this. It's bullshit to compare the two; for one thing, SF is not the Bay Area, and for another, Chicago doesn't pretend to be the startup capital of the world.
> Did you read the article?

Yes, and I also read the title and first few lines, which suggest a different conclusion than the article itself. This is a very common practice in science journalism -- the title and first few sentences lead the reader to one conclusion, and the body of the article is full of perfectly appropriate qualifiers that most readers never see or appreciate.
I've been looking for reasons to retire, and if the tax rate were 90%, I'd be out.
He is one of those who is just a loud mouth, without any knowledge...

Imagine 17 year old hacking site of hackher guru(!!!?)
The hackers must be on a casual web patrol and they stumble on his website again. They must be then thinking, "oh! let's play some pranks." Blip, blip, blip, blip ... 10 seconds ... hacked. "WTF! That wasn't even funny."
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> Really why should you wear a suit? Or why should you wear a watch? Or why should you dine a good restaurant?

Many people are questioning the first two. :)

"good restaurant" is not quite precise: if you meant "popular", "chic", people are questioning that too. If you meant "has tasty food", then the analogy doesn't hold.

Your roses example is a good one though.
My point is that the address field of my browser is already a "command bar" and that the URI is already a command line.

With a carefully chosen URI scheme, 100% RESTful or not, you have your command bar.
We are running a massive balance. We have a tremendous national debt.

Our economic growth hasn't been paid for yet.
agreed! After a LOT of deliberation about what high-end smartphone to buy, I finally ended up on a Nokia 500 (Symbian Belle, Wi-fi, good sync support, super Nokia Maps) because I realised that I didn't want to always be connected, and I had no use of a super powerful phone, other than the fact that I could brag about it. I have no data plan. For most people the level of smart-ness offered by an entry level smart-phone is more than enough. Calendar/contacts/calling/messaging is pretty much the same quality across all mobile OSes. I think the whole app craze is propagated by social media junkies and corporates who want vendor lock-in or a Silicon Valley culture that values start-up invites and social wastes of time over everything else.
The real solution is not to use open resolvers and open caches, full stop. Run your own cache on localhost. djb has always advised against third party DNS, but people don't listen. I've even caught the author of the DNS/BIND book admitting it's a smart idea. Moreover you'll be immune from DNS poisoning.
Which just goes to show you how ridiculous the patent suits have been because the S3 looks nothing like an iPhone.
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I think they chose the wrong lawyer to speak with. From what I can tell, he's a lawyer more versed in dealing with much larger companies and venture capital transactions as opposed to the typical start-up (if such a thing exists).

Particularly in the field of web (contrasted with physical products/live events for example), the need to consider compliance is reduced. If you are providing a good service to users, it is unlikely you will run into issues in terms of consumer complaints.

I would caveat it by suggesting that intellectual property is (obviously) an important area to consider. However, there are online tools for patent searching which will be able to give you an idea of whether your product could be patentable (no patent search even done by a lawyer or patent attorney would be exhaustive in any event).

As to brand protection, trade mark registration in the territory where you are based will be relatively cheap and will give you a degree of leverage if someone else starts up a similarly named service. Although it must be said that the main reason people will copy a name is to piggyback on goodwill which will not be a relevant consideration for most start-ups.

Many actual start-up lawyers will be willing to give a few hours of their time for free or at least should be, to talk with you about your business and highlight any initial concerns and make recommendations to help your business.

If they do provide recommendations, I suggest that if they haven't done already you request a fixed rate for any one particular piece of work. If they can't provide a fixed rate, I suggest you look elsewhere. There are sufficient good lawyers out there to enable you to find one who will be willing to be more flexible on fees than rigidly sticking to an hourly rate.

In terms of tax, I would suggest the above but in relation to an accountant, the basics of corporate taxation are relatively simple and you should be able to find an accountant willing to give you time for free.

On a side note, although it is easy to bash lawyers' fees, if you are a large corporate operating in an area where legal compliance is crucial, an hourly rate of $1000 per hour is a drop in the ocean if it saves you many multiples of that in avoiding costs. Blame shifting in ensuring you have someone that you can sue if they make a mistake can be priceless. But that doesn't mean it's appropriate for start-ups particularly considering monies could be spent better elsewhere.
Maybe a mouse with touch scroll
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I'd like to compare it (speed) to my version using python+mechanize..
Not saying that they don't exist, but I've literally never seen a python style guide (other than "don't mix tabs and spaces", which is part of the language now), never seen someone make a commit just to fix code formatting in python (something that happens quite often with every other language I use professionally), and never had any trouble working on other people's python.
The actual study concludes with this:

The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth. The reduction in the top tax rates appears to be uncorrelated with saving, investment, and productivity growth. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie.

Seems to match the title pretty well.
>"Not waving them away, just saying that these kinds of issues are not all that common because most real-world databases are trivial cases."

If this is the case, then, it's only because database application developers go out of their way to write compatible code. Things like upserts are not trivially compatible between vendors, and so are avoided by people trying to write portable applications.

Similarly, let's look at SQL 2003 structure data type inheritance and how this is implemented in Informix, Oracle, DB2, and PostgreSQL. Ok, so it isn't in PostgreSQL, and Informix allows tables to be inherited as well as types, and will even happily return result sets with different numbers of columns per row (google "Informix jagged rows")... And Oracle and DB2 look pretty close in this way until you get under the hood.
I'm inclined to agree. I really like my S3 but it's big enough already. I don't think making their flagship phone so huge is a good idea. Leave that for things like the Note.
Have you even used Windows Phone? The market place is so hideous it makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
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I would recommend doing something about the demo page. It is going to give people a bad first impression of the tool even if it is awesome.

Maybe either turn off collaboration (which would greatly detract from the value of the demo, I know), or limit things like linking to outside images, Javascript alerts, and more malicious things. With how often everything gets overwritten, it's not as though anyone is going to be able to do anything complex that requires any of those things anyway.
A classic, I read it first almost a decade ago.

My advice, take her on a trip to Paris and Versailles instead... or climb Mount Everest if you're more adventurous. We have great memories.
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Gotcha. Thanks for the insight. Strange to launch an app with such an issue.
Somewhere, some lawyer is probably wondering why it costs $1000/hour to develop what she believes is just a simple website.
The trick to avoiding the problem of extra statements is to only skip the braces if it all fits on one line:

if (somethingBad) return NULL;

That's a clear visual indicator that the braces have been skipped, but it's basically impossible to look at the next line and not know that it's NOT part of the conditional. Also, if you're having trouble fitting it all on one line, it's a good cue that you're not in a situation where skipping the braces is safe.
Agree. Let's ban profits altogether, punish companies daring to fire people by putting their CEOs in jail and then nationalize their assets, redistribute all money around all classes of societies to remove once and for all the inequalities of life, providing government jobs for everyone and we will be closer to a real paradise on Earth.

Oh wait. Russia tried that. For more than 65 years. It did not work too well for them.
Let's try this then:

Assertion: "high" (greater than 50%?) marginal tax rates make economic growth impossible.

Evidence: Top tax rates between 1940 and 1980 were between 70 and 90%. Growth was higher than it was after 1980.

Conclusion: the assertion about the harmful effects of a high top/marginal tax rate is false. (I think this process is called "induction").

Note that this does not prove that high tax rates are beneficial, only that they are not harmful.

It's certainly possible that the general slowdown since 1980 is due to other factors, such as growing scarcity of cheap energy and other materials. But investigating alternatives will screw with the livelihood of somebody in the top 0.01% income earners, so one might argue it's harmful to your health to push too hard for such :-)
This happened to me, too. For once, carrying travelers checks came in handy.

In Turkey, most ATMs accept my extra-long PIN, but very few have UIs designed to fit more than 4 digits. On many of them, the digits will continue outside of the form field and sometimes all the way off the screen.
The consternation over the ever increasing phone size will be proven to be the same as that over the omission of a numeric keypad on smartphones.
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> tax increases -- produced the effect -- economic growth.

I don't see that in the title, in the summary, nor in the body of the article. How did you get to this conclusion?
Such places exist. I know of one (http://eragem.com/) but I'm sure there are others.

The euphemism "Estate jewelry" instead of "secondhand" or "used" seems to be preferred.
I changed it to :fixed and shrunk the header bar on content pages. Looks fine on the iPad. I need to learn more about responsive design principles, etc. before I rewrite it for phone resolutions.
It's shocking how much clearer and more inspired this guide is than the equivalent for Windows 8. Makes me pessimistic about Microsoft's competency.

Also, the Google guide is much nicer to look at itself than MS's.
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Of course they do.

Any responsible host filters all outgoing packets to limit them to <only IP addresses we own>.

For example, linode does this afaik.
In Finland you actually don't get to pick your own PIN. The bank sends one to you when you get a new card and that's that.
Exactly the hidden issue here is whether you will have the newest version of Android or just be stuck on an old version. People are even still selling ICS capable phones with Android 2.3 today.
This is true. Robert Haas ran a couple of posts a while ago about differences between InnoDB and PostgreSQL. He basically pointed out that in InnoDB, the table is contained in the primary key index, while in PostgreSQL, it is an indexed heap of pages. Moreover InnoDB does not support traversing the table in physical order, so sequential scans of a large table are ghastly performance-wise.

What this means is that optimizations appropriate for InnoDB (index everything you search on) are very poor for PostgreSQL and vice versa. In PostgreSQL you index only a few columns, typically join conditions and a few select search columns, and the combination of the operating system and database will do the rest. In short, InnoDB only does index scans (and the table is a special index). This makes some things perform better (primary key lookups), but many other things perform worse. Moreover optimizing for one does not mean optimizing for the other....
Still doesn't roll of the keyboard, does it?
As you likely recognize, that's a completely irrelevant point. To demonstrate: let's try 0% tax and see how that goes.

Like other things in economics, there is an elasticity to the impact of reducing taxes. Going from 80% to 50% makes a big difference. Going from 35% to 39%? I'm not sure it packs the same punch.
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Luckily no one is proposing 90% taxes then.
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Man, what a bunch of copycats! Who do they think they are, making phones with screens larger than 3.5"?
Can you give examples? I'd really like to see some unreadable python, and other than nested lambdas I can't see any real ways to screw it up at the basic syntax level. Even golf-style python tends to have a structure that's easy to follow (though what the code's actually doing can be another matter), and I feel it's significant that there's no obfuscated python contest.
This article well illuminates the dictum to beware analysts picking their own time horizons. Calculating impact from five-year growth rates is problematic for business cycle, responsiveness, and exogenous factors.

Cato's reply is here: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/tax-rates-impact-economic-per...
IIRC there was actually some talk of Adobe legal stepping in to stop the use of the term "photoshop" for editing an image.

For obvious reason it went no-where.
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It might just be me, but the (R) is practically invisible when looking at the logo on the whole. The TM is much more obnoxious, but I can see why they might be hesitant to use four rectangles askew without it.
IMO, this is true.

1) Saul: "sometimes you need a criminal lawyer".
2) Startups: "sometimes you need an entrepreneur lawyer". I've always heard that the difference between competent and great lawyers is that competent lawyers will tell you what you can do within the law (i.e. how you can handle a financing round, etc.), and great lawyers will help you figure out how to do the best thing for yourself and your business while remaining within the law.
Have you looked at Postgres-XC yet? It's Teradata-style clustering for PostgreSQL.....
Of course, one could look at some of the Northern European countries that are neither purely communist nor purely private property capitalist, and consider the possibility of a happy middle between a communist dictatorship and a banana republic style oligarchy.

How do you expect to create a fabulously wealthy startup if you are the child of an "untouchable" caste with 0 initial resources???
After which he promptly brought new life to the Powerbook series.

So when will Flickr be releasing a working mobile app?