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Hong Hong also has a growing startup community:

http://www.hksua.com.hk/

And there's efforts in getting the communities in the two cities to better work together (such as the Web Wednesday groups).
Awesome. When you're in town, check out the Web Wednesday group:

http://www.webwednesday.hk

And feel free to get in touch with me:

http://www.cubiclemuses.com
Everyone knows you take Australia first, for the 2-army bonus. It's pretty hard to get Asia, so you might make your way towards Africa or North America.
MCD is still doing really well for itself despite the critics. The food there now is much better than I remember it being in years past. I have a lot of respect for how they handled the whole Super Size Me thing.

It's kind of sad that people would break up that statue like that. Regardless of your opinion of MCD, the Ronald McDonald house does a lot of good things for a lot of people.
I agree with this guy -- CSS is horrible :)

One of my Great Plans For The Future is to write a language that abstracts away HTML, CSS, and (some) JavaScipt. You describe your layout in a format that makes sense, and the compiler will decide whether to use tables, CSS hacks, or whatever.

Ideally, this wouldn't be necessary, but I've never written CSS without the knowledge of the HTML it's going to be applied to, nor have I written HTML without considering how to style it.

I am not being dumb, either. HTML needs all sorts of hooks for styles (classes), since HTML doesn't have any meaningful elements. (Oh boy, I get <p>, <strong>, and lists.) When I have done three-column layouts, my HTML has always needed tweaking -- the content has to be in a certain order (usually left/right/center, which is stupid), and it has needed hacks like <br class="clearfix">.

So clearly we don't live in an ideal world; we are stuck with HTML and CSS the way they are. It is time to abstract away the stupidity like programmers abstract away the computer with high-level languages.
This reminds me of Azimov noting that he wrote the Foundation Series in his head during his daily walk to his editor's office.
Their loss. :)

I know they like Python, Java, and C++; but I don't really know any of those languages.
bizarre that there isn't more research on [7-Keto].

Check my PubMed links, in my response to shaunxcode.

Provigil (import from India el-cheapo).

I have imported the older, cheaper version of Provigil (Adrafinil; costs about 1/5th of Provigil price, after correcting for dose-equivalence). I have been wanting to try Provigil (also known as Modafinil). Which offshore pharmacy do you use, if you don't mind my asking?
China has a higher literacy rate than countries of similar economic development that use alphabets such as Brazil. In both Taiwan and Japan, literacy is very nearly 100%. The US doesn't fare as well.

Blaming China's "low levels of speaking proficiency in the national language" on characters doesn't make much sense either. Dozens of languages are spoken in China and Mandarin has only really been a standard for about a hundred years. You might as well be condemning the EU for having so many people who don't speak English well.
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For those who are like me and open a ton of tabs at once: this is the one that's autoplaying. Just a heads up.
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I think you need to consider that the character 車 is far, far older than the automobile. If you think of what kind of bed a carriage would be on, it makes a bit more sense.

The real problem is that few people even know what a lathe is nowadays.
You can get around procrast in this case by deleting your HN cookie. The next time you visit you would have to login again.
When you first start learning CSS you learn how to get rid of tables. When you get really good at CSS you learn when to bring them back.
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One thing that CSS does especially badly that tables do well is correlated sizing. It's easy with tables to make all the elements in a layout row all have the same height. Doing the same in CSS is possible but requires so many hacks that the net result makes you feel dirty.

I've watched this war for years now, and just wish both sides would give some ground. As long as you do your layout with the fewest amount of tables needed (trending toward zero), the you shouldn't need to guilt yourself out about it.
I don't understand the point of the app, is it just a place to vote on insightful tweets? Your app needs to tell me somewhere prominent why I should use it and what benefit I will get from using it.
A hacker approach to health would be interesting.

Apparently John Walker (co-founder of Autodesk) wrote a book on weight loss taking an engineering approach (The Hacker's Diet, http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html). I wonder if anything like that has been written for strength training?

The 100 push-ups plan seemed to appeal especially to hackers, but while it seems like a good start it would be nice if it were a bit broader in scope.
Grids need more coverage, as they are by far the best way to bypass css misery and create a flexible, controllable layout for your website. They require a whole lot less markup than tables, are more intuitive, are much more controllable, and in general should never be not used. With Grids, you start thinking about ratios rather than pixels, which is a real help in making your site aesthetically pleasing and flexible.
> wow, demographics change on HN, pg wasn't kidding

Right Click -> View Source
Ditto... I'm on a break at the moment because my house is too far from the gym and I don't want to risk being flattened by an angry bus or cab by biking to it every day - and, perhaps more importantly, I'm too lazy to go out much in the cold and wet London winter.

But I'm planning to move soon, and one of my first priorities while moving will be to find a place close to a gym so I can start weight-lifting again. It does feel absolutely great, and the article is right - it's a scientific/experimentation endeavour. It took me 2 years to figure out how to make my body actually build muscle.

For the record, it turned out to be a combination of the following (and all these ducks needed to be lined up, which is why it took me so long to figure out the winning combination):

- Rely primarily on heavy Squats and Partial Deadlifts (which have to be done very carefully following good form to avoid injury - see http://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Tell-All-Handbook-Weight-Trai... for information) as my core exercises... if I don't do these two, the other weight lifting exercises don't build much muscle for me.

- Over-eat and particularly eat some protein shakes while training (need to ensure there's an abundance of foodstuff for my body to build new muscle)

- Make sure I get at least 8, ideally 9 hours of sleep every night - sleep deprivation == no new muscle tissue

- Train each major muscle group only 1.5 times a week - i.e. 3 times every 2 weeks. More often than that is actually counter-productive.

The benefit of doing all this is feeling fit, feeling great, feeling on top of things. I strongly recommend it to anyone (just make sure you follow safe exercise form - and don't necessarily trust the gym staff about that, I've seen many of them practice or even advise very poor exercise form that will cause injuries in the next 10-20 years).
"It’s getting tougher for companies to raise money, but I think the good ones are still getting it done," said Ron Conway.

I think that's key... certainly, some opportunities that were worth a shot when everyone was flush with cash are now untouchable, but angels, like all other wealthy individuals, are still looking for good business opportunities. Convincing them might be a bit harder and require a somewhat more "this start-up will make money, here's how" approach, but it should still work.
No one would sign up in the first place. Hordes of vitamin sellers from Utah have trained the public that way.

Unless the name of your site is facebook.

Numbrosia was kind of cool. But they are just fun games, are you sure they were ever destined to be high-traffic sites or pay for themselves ? Not everything cool is meant to be a business.
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I'd say that once you get to the point of considering $500 to be a nominal cost, you're not really a startup any more.
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Though an interesting data point in terms of specific numbers, I also am not very surprised that VCs are losing money at the moment. What I did find somewhat refreshing was the fairly limited discussion of how this is an indicator that venture capital is dead and Silicon Valley innovation has come to a grinding fault. I think the days of needing millions of dollars to build a web app might be over. I think its possible to start a company with less capital now. But... there are still plenty of capital-intensive and innovative companies for VCs to invest in for the big payoff.
I got my membership here in September of last year and didn't start going daily until January 1st (I made it a resolution). In my experience, I either go 6 days a week or I go 0. It takes a ton of reinforcement for me to make the habit.
But, surely mobile IE.
In theory, if that becomes a big enough hole, the market should rectify it on its own.

You can already go to Starbucks and buy $10/lb 'Fair Trade' coffee, and many 'hip' brands (American Apparel comes to mind) trade on their humane wages and treatment of workers.

I'm not saying it's a complete solution (some of the costs are still likely being externalized, although that's more a problem in the case of pollution than labor), but in general when a savings is made because of a negative externality (it's 'costing' others, instead of the just the buyers), a 'non-negative' version will spring up, and sell for a handy markup.
Lot of people share very insightful, thoughtful and inspirational tweets. Unless we are on Twitter for 24x7 it's impossible to follow such great tweets in real time. The search.twitter.com is good for people who can afford real time monitoring of tweets.

But for the rest of us, it's good to check good tweets voted by other users just few times in a day. That's the purpose of Tweeght - to learn from these insightful tweets. Hope it is clear now.
It was not that Ehrenreich "had a job in Minnesota". She chose the twin cities for her experiment. Here's the passage where she describes the deep thinking of her selection process:

I had thought for months of going to Sacramento or somewhere else in California's Central Valley not far from Berkeley, where I'd spent the spring. But warnings about the heat and the allergies put me off, not to mention my worry that the Latinos might be hogging all the crap jobs and substandard housing for themselves, as they so often do. Don't ask me why Minnesota came to mind, maybe I just had a yearning for deciduous trees. It's a relatively liberal state, I knew that, and more merciful than many to its welfare poor. A half and hour or so of Web research revealed an agreeably tight labor market, with entry-level jobs advertised at $8 an hour or more and studio apartments for $400 or less. If some enterprising journalist wants to test the low-wage way of lif if darkest Idaho or Louisiana, more power to her. Call me gutless, but what I was looking for this time around was a comfortable correspondence between income and rent, a few mild adventures, a soft landing.

At least she did 30 minutes of web research!

(If you read the chapter, you also see Ehrenreich chooses Wal-Mart at $7/hour over another retail job she was offered that paid at least $8.50 and perhaps $10/hour. It's page after page of her shooting herself in the foot so she has something to complain about.)

Also, the critique by Lamon does not suggest Phoenix but rather "the Sun Belt", which includes many of the cheapest places to live in the United States.
In this case, I actually find the baroque "misspelling" charming. It's like Ben Franklin is spelling the word "tweet." The overwrought spelling fits the tone of the site: a little more weight is expected here than in the usual Twitter message.
Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html

"North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."
I've found the same thing; numerous factors go into muscle gain. For me, I no longer eat as much or as balanced as I did when I was training seriously, which means I don't make the gains I used to. I also lack a partner which means no spotter; I think spotting is a huge help. I'll be surprised if I am back to my old level even within 6 months, which is a really long time just to double the weight I can put up in most exercises.

But you know what? I don't really care. Just the act of going, of noticing slightly flabby parts of me start to iron out after only a month... I'm pretty happy with it. It still makes me sigh, though, when I can't even bench 145.
I particularly agree with your point about caffeine and stimulants. I've found that I very rarely do my best work when I'm all hyped up. Yes, sometimes you have to stay up to finish that last really cool feature or whatever... but most of the time when I go too long I just end up writing bad code that needs to be rewritten the next day anyways.
Ha! This is honestly going into a comedy I'm writing about startups. This is Arrested-Development-level hypocrisy.
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well, but living in Sidney is a lot cooler than in Manila, ya know ;)
Please paste an update to the example, that just 'behaves' like the table then?
eg the background goes to the bottom, bad things don't happen depending on size of the content etc.

I've never seen a css example that behaves like a table.
teachstreet.com attracted funding from Madrona (a pretty solid VC firm) as well as Dave McClure, I think. Same thing, I suppose.

Bounce around craigslist for a bit and see how many people are buying and selling lessons. It's a big business.
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A troll is someone who is intentionally baiting a flamewar. I don't really think it makes sense to call people who voice strong opinions trolls.
design flaw.

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...

hate to carp on it, nobody likes hearing I told you so, but a design flaw is a design flaw.
If you can demonstrate a well-considered revenue model (i.e. cash, not eyeballs), there is still plenty of money going around. We raised a seed round in October, and it was actually much easier than all the doom and gloom you read about angel money drying up. I think the key was ensuring there is real, hard cashflow opportunities.
I've used shop.airsealed.com but more recently www.thepharmacyexpress.com because it's cheaper-- Never had any problems.

I love pharma-hacking, always looking for recommendations... India is the way to go. I was over there a couple years ago and someone told me they basically only have two price points for pills in the country-- either ~13 cents or ~24 cents. Totally different pricing dynamics without all those nasty patent laws... One time I asked a hotel concierge for a substantial supply of Ambien and he just laughed, "no valium? ketamine?"
It depends on how you are counting "majority." According to w3schools, IE6 & IE7 combined make up 46% of browsers right now and Firefox makes up 44%.

If IE had taken Opera & Firefox's lead a long time ago we would not still have this problem. CSS is not the problem, support for CSS is the problem.

Hopfully the IE8 will swallow the IE6 & IE7 market because we really need to take advantage of these great "display: table" properties that have been around for the last 11 years.
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Tape Archiver.

They're not unusual, they're short.
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I have the sneaking suspicion that there are a lot of coders contributing to this recent rash of CSS vs. table discussions who flat-out don't know how to write CSS very well, and can't be bothered to learn.

That was my obligatory quasi-offensive hook to get you reading. Now, before you actually get angry... there's nothing wrong with that! You're a coder! Do what you do best - write awesome useful stuff! ...and don't be afraid to acknowledge that there's a language out there that looks like code, but that you don't have a handle on.

As someone who has spent the last several years doing nothing but writing HTML and CSS in a professional capacity, I am here to tell you that if all you beautiful, intelligent hackers out there (I'm only being facetious about the beautiful part, 'cause I've seen some of you ;) really understood front-end layout the way you understand all your programmy stuff (which I do NOT), we wouldn't be having this discussion.

If you're just working on a personal project, or trying to hammer out the beta version of your web app... sure, use tables, so you're not wasting time trying to do something that's not your core competency. However, if you're taking it beyond that, or trying to get into front-end stuff in a professional capacity, you need know CSS like the back of your hand. Someone who's competent at layout should be able to write something from scratch that does whatever they want it to without having to debug it for hours.

If you're at the point where your biggest problems would be solved by using table layout instead of CSS, you're probably not at a point on the CSS learning curve where it's appropriate to make assertions about which layout technique is superior.

All that said, if you're a coder, why do you want to get into layout anyway? Your skills are WAY more valuable... designers like me are just here to make your work look good ;)
There's an object shell included by default in both Windows 7 and 2008.

There is none in Linux - you end up having to find regexs to match data rather than simply piping to where and asking for the field you want.
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I'm kind of annoyed that Gizmodo took the link down. It's just a Google away, but still, it would be a nice token effort to stand up to the hypocrisy.
* It's redundant as there's posh out of the box, which has built in aliases for common Unix commands

* It reimplements common Windows services

* Doesn't separate content from presentation

* Doesn't integrate with other server software

* Lacks the reporting tools posh has - eg, sending a table to Excel.
Zsh has a module called zmv which lets you do things like:

zmv '(??)-(*).mp3' '$1 - ${(C)2:gs/_/ }.mp3'

Which would change "01-foo_bar_baz.mp3" into "01 - Foo Bar Baz.mp3"
This is going to sound totally flippant, but I think it's always worth considering sources... let's take a look at the author's site, and reflect on how we feel about taking front-end design advice from this person.
Eventhough a minor point - thier homepage still says,

"Copyright © 2007 Two Smart Dogs "
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Thanks, personally I never take any citation literally, both parts (agreeing and opposing) could have, even subconsciously, changed some parts.

As for the book I mentioned: it didn't influence or change my mind, it has only been a very, very interesting read (because there are opinions from a few christian people, but most are from non-religious people, who recognized the geniality of the New Testament, and the absolutely unique position of Jesus Christ in history (in both past and present).

Few people know how deeply the whole european history has been positively influenced by christianity. One of the best statements of the book is: christians don't ask people not to be rational, but to be it profoundly!

(If you only stay on the surface of the things, everything seems possible. Only a deep understanding shows the whole reality...)
cough Wii Fit cough

Although to be honest I don't really believe in the Wii Fit yet. But if it worked, it should be fun...
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I'm trying to become a better C programmer so I began to read the 4.4bsd source code. Are there other interesting sources to read ?
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I thought grandparent was referring more to the quality of the content than the claims of the argument.
He wasn't detained.
the downside of that is that web developers tend to have several browsers at their fingertips.
maybe more like google's gmail googles, where you have to solve 5 2-digit math problems in under 60 seconds. but this time, make them really freaking hard.

But, no, I'd just as soon not have override at all.
I find his choice of "typical" CSS layout to be misleading, when neither his site (which uses CSS, naturally), his blog (CSS), any of the pages he links to (CSS), or this site (tables) use such a layout.

Yes, he chose it to illustrate his point, but that point doesn't connect to the trollish overstatement of the title. It is evident that person can use CSS for other layouts (even using floats) without ever encountering the problems he describes. The real conclusion here is that CSS is hard or even impossible for some desired layouts--something just as true with tables. I doubt that that's news to anybody.
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Job ads are ads, too. Since I started putting Google Ads on one of my pages, I realized that Amazon affiliate links seem like quite a bad deal. At least if people just buy books, Google Ads pay way better (my impression from rather limited experience). Maybe one has to hope for people buying really expensive items on Amazon occasionally.
The gym: where everybody is in better shape than you, no matter what shape you're in. It'll take about six months, but you'll get used to the idea ;)

And most of them are very nice and willing to help newcomers. They only look like they're about to send you through the nearest wall.
When I put together the new email template for our site ( http://woobius-dev.posterous.com/enhancing-the-look-of-the-e... ) I went straight for tables. And, unsurprisingly, it worked great in all email clients right off the bat.

I don't feel dirty from using tables now. I use floating divs whenever it makes sense, but if it takes too long to screw around with the divs, or if it feels like it will take too long, I switch to tables in a heartbeat.

Otoh, there's something to be said for the various grid css layouts out there, like Blueprint and the like. They might be contrived, but they work pretty well on a wide variety of browsers. Where reasonable, I still favour using something like Blueprint rather than tables. Not sure why, though...
That's the fault of IE6 and 7 though, NOT CSS. Blaming CSS for the inadequacies of MS browsers is flawed logic.
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