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Putting viable life on Mars would be such an important threshold.
It would guarantee life to survive even the destruction of Earth.
Important stuff. Like Raid1 for data redundancy.

Not many things could destroy both Earth and Mars, except the expanding of the Sun in 5 billion years and maybe the fusion Andromeda/MilkyWay in 4 billion years if we're not lucky. Also aliens.
I think this is just the start. They've figured out their stuff, got their product in good shape, got some paying customers. Obviously from here on, iterative improvement is a must but they'll probably be able to scale their marketing and hit more and more clients as they go. Maybe offer even more plans to bigger clients with more features, that kind of stuff.

100 customers = yes, people want this. Now it's onwards and upwards :)
Try Sococo instead of Skype. Its tested under low-capacity situations and we (I work there) intend it to be self-adjusting to conditions.
A lot of people seem to be moving their blogs to one of the static site generators with posts stored (and versioned) in Dropbox or Git as Markdown text files. Does it actually increase the amount of content you publish and makes the whole process easier?
Haters gonna do the thing that haters are naturally best at.
ClippyJs is pretty nice... I used it in http://uglyhack.appspot.com/boingy/ for pure nostalgia.
Not sure I buy the "waiting for iPad Mini" reasoning. Is there any proof that normal consumers even knew an iPad Mini was imminent?
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Agreed. My current project is 61 linkages with a quarter million lines of code. I rebuild it from scratch in a couple of minutes. A faster computer reduces my cycle time - giving my employer something like 20% more Engineer-hours for his money.
I wish there were more concrete examples (and diagrams) of how things at "eye level" didn't work in Brasília. Is it just the straight, too-far paths to each landmark? Is there a lack of connecting bridges across the freeways?

Also, a little more exploration of how this applies to web and app design would be interesting. It seems that the lessons from Brasília would be inverted: thinking too much of the small details and not of the broad visual scope (especially across pages). It doesn't seem like too many designers get hung up on designing for a far-out zoom level, since you learn pretty early that you have limited screen space to work with.
"wordpress is awesome"... NOT
The thing is, you can fill your whole company with go-getting geniuses, but not every task in the company requires that, and if you give the boring-but-necessary work to the whizkids, they're going to get p-ed off and leave.

Stick the smartest on the cutting edge stuff that is the true source of competitive advantage for your firm. Keep the rest for the important-but-dull work - HR, Payroll, etc.
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Be fair - for math patterns you're expected to choose the simplest fit. For language, the highest-order fit (e.g. meaning, not letter count). Why? Its cultural - thats how IQ tests are done.
Yeah, the whole thing felt like an Apple keynote in text.
"One more thing:"
Isn't that dangerous though? Could altering its atmosphere have a destabilizing effect? What if they evolve too fast and turn against us?

Edit: interesting to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
the verified account will be correct tomorrow. this is a timing bug that some users encounter where one procedure finishes faster than another (it's rendered before all data is there, somehow). the retweets is funky because Twitter is migrating to a new API version which I've adopted mostly. but the retweets feature will be gone in the new api feature, they don't offer that data anymore. so it might not be reliable right now.
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It's a super interesting concept because I think more sites are using wordpress as a CMS and the custom skinning for wordpress sites has a spanned a new industry in itself.

As a site note: super +1 for the very last comment, made me laugh.

"i hate it/hate you/hate everything - Noted. Haters gonna hate."
So, this is basically Ghost:Wordpress::Firefox:Mozilla.
yeah, their data records are sometimes faulty and I need to scale down (even if it's not a time out) to 1 record per request to find the faulty in one hundred accounts. so that sucks.

and regarding replicating, originally that's what I did. I had up to 20M of Twitter's 140M records cached almost - but that probably wasn't cool with them on the long run and i was unable to maintain a database with one table having multiple gigabytes of data.
At this stage I think a fork is needed, the work needed to change the core, the people behind WordPress just won't get behind.
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Opinions vary a bit and Xcode is certainly much better at 4.5 than it was at 4.0 but I live in AppCode and would hate to have to actually write much code in Xcode.
Programmer? Uh.. no.

I worked for 25 years in house techie/programmer for a child development agency. I had discovered that the best leaders are the ones who know how to lead, set the course and work with all the groups. From having a good staff to rely on as well as be an effective communicator with drive and empathy. Definitely good to to be a people person.

I think having a programmer oriented person in the cabinet staff would be a good thing, but not as a leader.
>Others are still struggling at 2% after 2 years, with not much chance of improving

Better than still struggling at 2% after 20 years, with not much chance of improving.
Obsolete, maybe. But I am a better person for learning the principles underlying Swiss Inheritance.
I'm not sure how it works in Germany, and it won't stop them if they really want to screw you, but you can stipulate on your work contract that all the code produced belongs to you - that should give you some leverage if it comes to that.

Also, many coders aren't that motivated to start their own companies (else the world would be 100% startups :) )
"... taught by B-school professors..."

Feeling a little pretentious today? Your point was valid, but your tone was off-putting.

I think we can all agree that the network effect exists, its only its power and longevity are what is really in question.
To clarify, this bionic leg is not directly mind controlled[1]. Instead, the leg uses EMG electrodes on the tigh that record muscle activation signals, i.e. motoneuron discharges in the tigh muscles[2]; these neurons are presumably activated by spinal cord networks responsible for locomotion. These are activated by brainstem networks (a part of the brain we share with the most primitive vertebrates), which of course at some level are controlled by the cerebral cortex. Just to say that there are quite a few layers between conscious thoughts and the electrodes.

Still very impressive! And I think this is much more promising technology than direct brain recordings actually.

[1] Like e.g. José Millán's wheelchair where signals are extracted directly from the brain: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/420756/wheelchair-makes...

[2] http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/zac-vawter-w...
Sounds more like a party platform. First organize a pressure group inside one of the major parties. (Even Ron Paul eventually decided he's more effective inside the GOP.) Win a couple of primaries. Get a speaking spot at the convention. Then you can start dreaming about the presidency.
Why software patents are nonsense
You are the one doing mental gymnastics. I never said it was right to make a copy, I said it was not stealing. I am sorry that you want so badly for them to be the same, but they are in fact legally different for very good reason.

I would not say the shoplifter is hurting anyone since shoplifting is distinctly different from copyright infringement. He would be depriving someone of their property. Copying something does not deprive the IP owner of their copy.

I'm not trying to justify any immoral act, I trying to prevent justification of absurd laws that infringe on people's basic freedoms (SOPA et al) by stopping people from using hyperbolic statements.
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I agree. I am hoping MS does a turn around as competition helps everyone.
Having only two is great for developers, though, at least as long as native apps are preferred by users.

There's a limit to the number of different platforms one can support, especially if they have their preferred programming languages like Android with Java and Apple with ObjectiveC, Microsoft with C#... and even worse, they all have their own UI metaphors, so just porting the code isn't enough. And of course they all have their own app store with weird rules and specific payment options.

Edit: and then I'm forgetting the OpenGL versus DirectX debacle that we'll also get on mobile if MS gets their way. At least now both big platforms use OpenGL ES. Sometimes I wish that standards actually worked and not everyone tried to invent their own :/
The guy on shark tank with the smiley face sponge had one patent and two others pending. The idea wasn't the smiley face, it was a material which changed properties depending on temperature.
Why not go the roots route? Build a parent theme/theme framework that does everything you want - while maintaining WordPress as its base. This allows you to take advantage of the changes in WordPress overtime - and allows users to switch to a full website if their blog takes off and they turn it into a company/personal website instead of blog. Best of both worlds.

I think forking wordpress isn't as good of an idea as building a product which changes wordpress but still leaves everything in tact if someone wants to switch without requiring complex importing/exporting.
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A well written argument with plenty of valid points. I'm just going to stop using Wordpress now.
This would absolutely be better solved by an entirely new application, written from the ground up.

And the whole-page-is-images thing really bothered me too. Some nice designs and interesting ideas for sure, and knowing CSS isn't a prerequisite for being a designer, but damn, I have some doubts about the understanding of the technologies here.

Which is probably exactly where the concept of "forking Wordpress" came from—a misunderstanding of exactly what that would entail.

Modern rewrite is what's needed, definitely. But don't call it anything related to Wordpress. Don't need to.
>How about we need a engineer to be running this country

Herbert Hoover. Need I say more?
Hi Phil,

I am probably in a position similar to yours 2 years ago: I am working and learning to code on the side.

Could I ask you how did you get the integration with xero and freeagent? I am working on an app too (vendors and orders management) and I keep wondering how to reach out potential customers.
yeah, but i don't even go to rate limit (i check before every call). i stop 2 or 3 calls shy of it, so that doesn't limit me. but if I send an API request and that request times out and does not return data, then it still cost me a precious call (and one closer to rate limit).
Here is another good idea for Touch Business card http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3QVdMkg1cs (More relevant to the purpose of the card)
Slow loads are an individual implementation problem as much as it is a Wordpress problem. Wordpress will happily give you more than enough rope to hang yourself with (e.g. Recent Comments), but even slightly savvy engineers should be able to avoid the pitfalls and AJAX expensive queries when needed.

I agree that Wordpress should have saner defaults but it is not impossible to build a fast site with it.
sweeping statement, I understand. at core is my position as a materialist - I think everything is physical / material / biological. 'Intelligence' is simply an expression of that, and IQ as a measure of that is measuring something that's biological, like left-handedness or height.

My evidence... I've not seen any evidence to the contrary. We do see evidence that physically messing with brains causing changes in brain function. Brain damage can cause impairment to memory - short term memory is one of the elements of IQ that gets measured in tests that I've taken.

If you have evidence to the contrary that what we measure as IQ is somehow not rooted in biology, please share it.
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Yeah, my retina display gave you away. Looked pretty bad.

This isn't a dig on your images or design (I really liked the ideas and design for sure)—but out of curiosity, do you find image layout easier or more difficult than CSS? I ask because if I wanted to build something like this, I'd go straight for HTML/CSS not because it's proper but because it would be faster and easier.
I remember in philosophy class in college learning that ancient philosophers thought philosophers should lead society. I think there is a quote from Thomas Jefferson where he says the best president would be one who was a farmer.

I think the best way for our people to change the government is through the House of Representatives. I think we could get an engineer elected in SV, NoVa, Boston, Austin, RTP... maybe a few other places if we really tried. That would be a good place to start.
In general, I think people are often too worried about this. In any industry where you already have the relationships with the customers, you are already ahead of the competition. It takes hard work to foster relationships and sell well. Any dev who thinks ripping off an idea is easy money is sorely mistaken. Without marketing and potentially funding (depending on the kind of idea), it is just code sitting on a server somewhere that nobody will ever find.

Also, as a developer who does occasional contracts to help people build out their MVPs, it would be career-suicide to steal an idea - the last thing I would want is bad word of mouth. Entrepreneurs do sometimes cluster, attend meetups, bump into each other when pitching etc.....word gets around fast in that kind of circle.

And lastly, as someone who works closely with other developers on occasion, for any given idea, half of the devs I chat to don't think the idea has legs, the other half have no inclination/time to build it themselves.

In the end, if you are hiring someone to build it for you, chat to some developers, get a feel for them, ask for a reference or two if you don't know them well (in other words, do you due diligence) and go from there.
Stop calling it a fork—it needs a radically different core. So start over from the ground up! It needs to be a new project, not a fork.
I learned using a typing-teacher program as well.

Just took an online test (which made me copy a quote from the Origin of Species) and it gave me a 78 WPM number, so 110 is pretty amazing (and maybe a hurdle to switching).

Test: http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php
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I think the big difference between a slider and radio buttons is how much screen space is taken up. For radio buttons, you have the text description ("ON", "OFF") along with an indicator / selector to the side. Whereas the slider combines these two elements. This is more important on smaller screens, where the text / selection area would have to be enlarged to accommodate finger input.
This sure is a pretty boring post. I guess what I'm trying to say is, "So?" This is hardly news worthy, just run of the mill update that comes at delegated intervals in the business world.
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I actually like Herb ( I named a fish after him ). I think he was handed a poor hand when he came into office ( unless you think his 8 months in office is what triggered the Great Depression ) and he did the best he could to get out of it. He was a republican who not only raised taxes, but laid the groundwork for recovery under FDR. He was so good BTW that he was brought back into Washington after he was voted out to help run things. Like I said we need more engineers running the country
I'm not talking about front-end, I mean back-end.

WordPress is over 100 files of code 3mb size, loading on every page, BEFORE plugins.

It's impossible to build an active, non-cached site with it.

I have 100% dynamic php forums running side-by-side with wordpress and they are completely uncached - for WordPress that's impossible at the same load.
Forking WP is not a solution (maybe bad).
If you want to make a revolution write a blog app from scratch.
"People often say that WordPress is free as in speech, not as in beer"

Do they? What do they mean? Can't you download the full, working source code of Wordpress anymore?
Old article from 2011. Please update title
Don't forget that Android only had a narrow lead over WebOS until the Droid came out. For most of its first year Android, in the U.S., was relegated to T-Mobile and I believe only 2 models there. It added Sprint in October of that year and in November, Verizon.
In what way are they dragging their feet?
Ripple effect means retractions stigmatize entire scientific fields
Wow, that's a presumptuous claim given the sample size of the tests.

I mean we're talking about a whole planet here, with the possibility of canyons, valleys, underground structures which may have who knows what trapped inside them.

Maybe there are tons of gases trapped and hidden inside the surface of Mars and the atmosphere is devoid of it because over millions of years, those things escaped into space?
I've been committing code to the core WordPress codebase for 3 years, so while I'm not a PHP developer - I have some idea.

Perhaps one thing overlooked in the argument for fork vs new build is that there aren't a huge number of developers with the skills to make this happen who would do it entirely on an Open Source contribution basis as opposed to, say, a startup basis. Appealing to existing WordPress developers, businesses and users, as well as cutting down time to ship first working concept, are (in my mind) some important arguments in favour of a fork.
Yes, this is could be a much better project if it was written fresh, and preferably in a different language altogether.
Yes, TIT-FOR-TAT is the winning strategy in iterated Prisoners' Dilemma.

Basically, start off nice. If people are mean, punish them by getting mean. If they are nice, treat them in kind.
They're also about evaluating the viability of human life on Mars.
Unrealistic for software that powers over 20% of all new websites. Also, a bit presumptuous of the core team. I think there is a lot of support for a simplified UI (see Matt's post above). Just because there is a barrier before you get patches submitted doesn't make the core team unwilling. Each decision needs fleshing out before getting put into a new version of WP. If it wasn't that way, the project would be a (total) mess.
Working in a given profession for an extended period of time imparts a certain world view. Most politicians were lawyers, and I think it shows. Maybe we need a "hacker" president, not just a programmer, but I do believe that a programmer president would have a point of view very different from those currently represented in the government--one that can understand and appreciate the technological challenges that will continue to grow in importance. The Internet and its effects on business, war, civil liberties, and everyday life is very much uncharted territory and understood by very few. Until someone in a position of sufficient influence, perhaps the president, understands software, I think the government will remain in the dark ages.
Big country, with a large and growing population, a democracy (ie no transition liability unlike china), strongly investing in STEM education, previously a world leader before the british invasion, without too many concern about equality (ie no self restraints)

It only needs a manufacturing sector to be the next #1. Considering how manufacturing is spreading in SE asia (Thailand and HDD for ex) it might happen soon.
Instant runoff voting has the problem of nonmonotonicity. A simpler ranking system without rounds of elimination and vote shuffling would be better, IMO.
We are listed here: http://www.freeagent.com/developers/goodies which drives some traffic our way.

FreeAgent and our customers have mentioned us on twitter/blogged about us sporadically over the last couple of years.

Don't just wait. We are still working on our Xero integration (I only really started on it last week), and I stuck up http://floatapp.com/xero so we could collect emails of people who wanted to try the beta, and we've got ~70 replies (mostly from accountants) by sharing it on twitter/facebook/linked in/Xero's support forums.
There's a little bit of contradiction in your desires: you say you want to keep "exactly the same theme and plug-in structure" but you also want to limit backwards compatibility. You also say you want to remove bloat and non-core features yet you want to bundle a load of questionable plug-ins. The nicer interface and UI would be welcomed, but I think if you start going too far you'll detract away from Wordpress's core appeal.

Don't forget there are many alternatives to Wordpress that have more features built-in, but Wordpress has succeeded because it's simple, flexible and easy.
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Simple, Samsung has to sell there product in an attempt to make a profit on them, Google on the other hand is selling theirs at or near cost as a "Content delivery system". They don't need to make money up front for the device.
Nope - that quote is reserved for Brasil :-)
This may be against twitter's ToS, but can you create a bunch of accounts with different API keys to access the api concurrently and get around the rate limits?

I'm sure twitter must account for this, but how do they? You don't need to provide much information to get an API key.
well in terms of UX its a lot smoother! And sure I need to work on the website asap. Thanks for the feedback!
PHP has the big benefit of being deployable anywhere. Without that fact it is unlikely that projects like Drupal or WordPress would've taken off as they have.
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so much high fructose corn syrup
I actually made a similar observation to this in high school, and promptly used what money I could to get myself a crappy netbook. (I also didn't really have that much disposable income back then, just what I made working retail)

An observation that I've made after using (a later, the first one broke) netbook with a conventional build versus the same netbook with a SSD is that with a hard drive, netbooks are painfully slow. Once you've swapped that for a really fast SSD, and stopped using Windows on it, it boots in 10-15 seconds and programs usually launch almost-instantaneously. I've found it to be almost as nice to use as my (much nicer and newer, quad core with a nice graphics card) desktop. There are exceptions to the 'almost as nice': flash doesn't work well, screen size is an annoyance sometimes, and you clearly aren't going to be doing much with CUDA. But considering it cost ~$550 with the SSD (which was almost as expensive as the netbook), as compared to well over $1000 for the desktop+screens, it's pretty awesome (and portable, too) for someone who doesn't always have extra cash (students don't have the best salary).
I disagree. The judges don't sufficiently understand the Internet or software to interpret the relevant laws and parts of the constitution. There is too much room for the Justice Dept. to continue defending what should be considered unconstitutional attacks on our civil liberties.
Well, they are right : if someone manage to find a request which regularly fail with timeout, he could use it to spam Twitter's servers indefinitely.
The JSON output contains all the sentences arranged based on their importance. It also contains the total score of individual sentences plus their scores for each features (criteria).

The features used are title, sentence length, and sentence position. More feature / criteria will be implemented soon.