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Great points.

1. We think in the categories we compete -- polos, tee shirts, etc, we are comparable (and strive to be better!) in quality and style to Lacoste, RL, James Perse, etc. These companies use great inputs, and the biggest difference in the actual design will be our lack of logo. We think that, in itself, makes a statement, and we hope there are a lot of people like us who appreciate the statement that it makes. We aspire to have higher quality and more consistent style than Uniqlo and American Apparel.

Yes -- people are paying premiums to other brands, and some of it, for some people is aspirational. We hope people will pay for quality, and if anything, vote with their dollar for a company that reflects their value. We don't want to charge a premium for that though. Our values will be present in the brand by necessity, because we're going to be detailing all along the way of how we're building our company.

2. To us the biggest problems with fit are intra-brand consistency and intra-style consistency. Many manufacturers have poor quality control and a single shirt in the same size will come off with vastly different measurements. ex: http://reviews.urbanoutfitters.com/5309/15787476/bdg-v-neck-...
we'll never, ever have this happen. Quality & consistency is of utmost importance to us.

We want you to find the size that works best for you (they all have an inch or two leeway) and once you know it, you can order without worry. Even before then, you can, because we offer free returns, paid postage both ways, but we want the experience to be pleasant from day one. We're pioneering a bunch of ways to make the experience as easy as possible including FitPaks, true-to-measure sizes, questionnaires we've devised, accurate photos of real people, and many, many other things -- but we're always open to ideas!

We hope you'll follow along and continue to give us candid feedback. We are confident that our success will depend on the support and feedback from people like you!
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I bet you could package that for $50.

Surely even at $500/ball, it'd still be cheaper and safer to use a system that requires close to no training. From the demo video, it seems that the ball also detects carbon monoxide - I imagine detecting other chemicals would come in extremely useful as well.

At a glance, it seems like there's a lot less that could go wrong, given the number of moving parts involved with the helicopter.
Thanks so much!! Holden, Maine it is! Are you in the tech/startup world?
Is it because people from MIT go around saying it is the most important university in the world?
You must justify it because you are advocating for race based discrimination.

We have already proposed an alternative: economics based discrimination. It is better because it captures the group of people that deserve help more accurately.

We are not whining, we are having a discussion.
> We are somewhat socially liberal - gay rights are making headway here - and fiscally conservative - our state sales tax is 6%.

Based on this everything else you mentioned about Iowa, it seems like it would be a great state for third party candidates to try to upset the two party balance.
On (2). I'd like to see someone fix that problem. Zappos did it by allowing people to return as much as they want. I don't know if the same strategy would work for clothing. Bodies are more varied than feet.

I bought a custom made leather jacket and it's by far my favourite piece of clothing. I'd love to see that whole process transfer to the web somehow and not be painful. I want to see it on the web because I want access to more people like the guy who made my jacket (I also want him to be able to make these jackets for more people, they're awesome)
Nice work! Perfect timing too as I was just trying to figure out the best way to integrate Twilio into an iOS app already using Parse.
Please write up what you brought with you. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to benefit from your research (and field testing)!
I gotta say Parse has a great CEO. The key to success is partnerships in the direction of innovation and expansion of offerings based on consumer needs. Creating win-win deals not only between you & your customer but also between you & your partners. I wrote an email to Parse few weeks ago on possible integration with Twilio. Never heard from them, and now see this. Good stuff.
This is news?

GNOME killed the Linux desktop on the day it was started.

KDE was a real start to a Linux desktop that could have been competitive with Mac OS and Windows. Red Hat didn't like the license, and ever since, Linux has had a plurality of broken desktops and none that work.

The oddest thing is that the developers just haven't realized how bad their products are, or that the Linux desktop experience has been consistently getting worse over time.

Look at Unity in Ubuntu. All the most basic things, like cut and paste, scrollbars, and window resizing are FUBAR. Rather than recognizing the world-class nature of the shell environment and providing a better -term application, we just get bloated terminals for which cut-and-paste almost works.

(I'll admit the system monitor app that comes with Ubuntu is pretty, but I wonder how it makes the CPU go to 25% on a machine that's capable of high-end gaming)

This year I learned how to make a "Linux desktop" that's better than all of them. I run Windows 7 or 8, then I install Ubuntu inside of VirtualBox. Most of the time I ssh into it with a putty terminal, which is much better than any -term in Linux? (Why? Why can't Linux make a *-term that's better, or at least not worse, than xterm was in 1993?) Most X Windows apps work great with the cygwin X server, getting managed by Microsoft Windows.

The biggest problem is that the people developing this garbage don't have any idea of how bad it is. Mac OS and Windows have been getting better over the last ten years, but Linux enthusiasts won't admit that Linux has been getting worse.
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Not sure about funny; it's useful for a quicker GPS fix : https://plus.google.com/112413860260589530492/posts/jVJhPyou...
This is exciting. I wonder what the next Star Wars thing will be that comes out. Hopefully Disney won't ruin their image!
Probably something new would have to be invented as there is no mechanism to send messages to the browser in plain html. Something equivalent of a form element but without the action attribute. It would be nice to have something like (spitballing)

<some-new-form>
<input type="hidden" value="fullscreen" />
<input type="submit" value="Go fullscreen" />
</some-new-form>
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Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.
If the US government wants to atone for its immoral actions in the past it should pay reparations not institute a system of race based discrimination.

If, on the other hand, the US government wants to help disadvantaged people gain a level economic footing with the rest of the population they should use a much better predictor of disadvantage than skin color.
Which is why it's good for marketers but not the user. I don't need to see the same ad more than once in a session but many video sites will display the same handful of ads every couple minutes. This is especially prevalent on twitch.tv when watching gamers stream, it's usually the same ad every time. After the first time I see it I'll just visit another tab while it's playing (mind you the audio is still playing.) If they were to pause while I was doing this I wouldn't bother watching at all.
Steve Jobs spent eight years discussing furniture with his family before buying a sofa etc

As opposed to buying some disposable POS that will break and/or you will throw out in a year? I'm not a fan of Steve Jobs, but I admire his pursuit of "the good", even if I didn't agree with his definitions of "good". And maybe something to stop and think about is that his discussions with family about furniture were time spent building connections with them.

Also, it's always fascinated me how some people say that people are absolutely more important than ideas, when that is an idea itself. Sometimes spending too much time finding "the best" can be a waste of time, but absolutism in either direction is a bad thing. Maybe taking some time to pick a better car will save you time and money and stress in the long run because it won't break down on you as often.

I can understand your Tyler Durden reaction to the article ("the things you own end up owning you"), but sometimes being responsible and buying something that won't end up in a landfill is the right thing to do.
I know its yet another useless comment, but back in the day of E16 and beginnings of E17 I was a really big fan. Its great to see it finally being Alpha!

Congratulations to the Enlightenment team!
"...has to happen based on race..."

That is racism.

And there are other ways. You punish people who are racist and you acknowledge that as the reason for their punishment, but you help people based on their situation. If they happened to be in that situation because of previous racism, that in no way has to be taken into account in how they are treated going forward to help their current situation.

Sorry, but as soon as you use race as a means to classify another person for a decision you need to make, whether your intentions are good or not, you are being racist, and you are perpetuating the line of thought that is at the root of the problem.
> I also believe that limiting customization is important. Any Firefox dev can tell how terribly hard it is to improve Firefox without breaking addons. GNOME does not have the man power of Mozilla, let alone Apple. They want to create great things by implementing them one at a time.

If Gnome doesn't have the resources to do proper UX design, the answer is NOT to force incomplete/broken UX on users. It's to leave options open for others to fix the UX as needed.

Design is about making choices, but if you don't have the resources to find/make the best choice at least allow the end user to make the choice they prefer instead.

What I find amusing though, is that even OSX allows more customization than Unity/Gnome. In OSX I can turn off backlight dimming on battery, I can move the dock to different sides of the screen (essential for multi-monitor setups), and I can also tweak other things via plists. There is also more than one screensaver.
@throwawayjoke

No, this is not an example of a sunken costs fallacy. This is not "in for the penny, in for the pound" sort of logic.

Consider that the alternative is letting the organic waste rot, and in the process, release C02 and methane.

What they are doing here is removing CO2 temporarily from the atmosphere with solar power, then releasing the CO2 to produce heat which they then convert to electricity. It's solar power, they just use photosynthesis and the general population gets some use out of the middle step.

The reason this is not a good idea to do with CO2 that was taken out of the atmosphere millenia ago is that 1) we don't want that much CO2 back in the atmosphere, and 2) we don't want that much CO2 back in the atmosphere that fast. Doing it in the short term, unlike in the long term, is not creating "unplanned" conditions.
callmeed, you should drop me an email at william [at] fromholden.com, we're always looking for new suppliers, and help understanding deeper into the supply chain!

What we think is disruptive is the ability to be a trusted go-to site/brand, while not having to support the overhead of retail stores -- inventory, labor, etc are no joke. If we offer a superior product at a lower price, and you buy from us and enjoy it, we think you'll be back over and over -- that means we can keep margins a bit lower, and earn a good revenue stream from each supporter over a long period of time. It is a different model. We think we can continue to communicate new things you'll enjoy, and that is something traditional retail just can't do well. They largely have to wait for you to return, or spend absurd amounts on television and magazine advertising in hopes you'll come back.

I do think it is a disruptive model; but some things remain the same -- quality matters, and your brand represents who you are. Further, we think in this day-in-age, who you are is increasingly important. A lot of old school apparel brands are a fabrication of some fantasy land... we can't and won't do that. Social media is our mouth piece and only authenticity carries.
never heard of any of these guys, wtf?
I was just reading about this, this morning. But do they really? I mean the votes show it, but at the same time, 500,000 people left that question blank on their ballot, and they also ousted their governor who was pro-statehood. It would be great to see this progress in our lifetime!
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I think for the most part, the people that are unhappy with Gnome 3 aren't looking for something new: they just want Gnome 2.
Unfortunately I don't live there anymore so the high-res plots have expired from the RRD, I just have the daily averages.
> Instead we have a system that systematically disadvantages non black people.

This is patently false. If you're white, you're at a huge advantage from birth. It's trivial to find data supporting this.
> Because once someone has served their time and their probation the idea is that the state is saying their debt has been paid and the state no longer believes them dangerous.

I don't think this is strictly true, otherwise an "incurable" paedophile would never be released, regardless of whether they have completed their sentence.

I take your point about the "etc". It needs to be serious, predatory offenders, not 15 year-olds sexting each other.
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Remember that Mozilla is making a mobile OS based on Firefox, where all apps are written in HTML/JS.

As part of this, they're adding API's to provide the sort of hooks that mobile apps need, such as being aware of battery status.

They would also like these to be standardized across all browsers, so that HTML apps can properly compete with "native" apps.
The big thing missing in EVE for me is being able to play without being griefed by other players. Unfortunately I have an _extreme_ dislike for PvP - which creates a love/hate relationship with EVE. I'm into pretty much every other aspect of the game - even the huge spreadsheets people often joke about.
It is not racist. It would be racist if it argued or presented itself in such a way to express that one race was inferior or superior. It does not.
Check out the actual curriculum and determine if you would be learning stuff that you wouldn't easily be able to learn on your own. You can get by in software development without ever writing a compiler, converting automata, or hunting for K5 in a jumble of lines but I would argue those things can contribute positively to analytic thinking and in those situations where there is a parallel, you can have an intuitive edge.

Cross-disciplinary knowledge can be a great advantage as well, physics and economics mesh quite well with computation.

In my experience, a CS minor is generally a plus on a resume if you are a recent grad, less so if you graduated 10 years ago and haven't worked on related projects or in development roles.
Another way to get an appreciation of the skill of the creators is to watch their amazing promotional videos.

https://vimeo.com/fiftythree/videos
Mostly not having to worry about removing shopping lenses and any other things. It's a growing lack of trust in Canonical.

I don't use my Linux boxes as a desktop most of the time otherwise I would be giving XFCE a proper try. In fact the main desktop use is child use so I don't want to change it too much.
Thanks to the Internet there is not a consensus behind what is worthwhile because you can't fact-check the credentials of the massive amount of opinions on any topic.
"If you’re the type of person that happily pays $4 for a coffee-like beverage"

I don't know what Tom Cheredar thinks makes a coffee drink only coffee-like, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to start your article with what appears to be a veiled insult.
I was disappointed to read that they gave up the principled modeling approach (the 80-year old German paper mentioned early on in the article) and instead collected 100 data points that "looked good" and interpolated somehow.

The article says that the Kubelka-Munk model achieved color mixing that was "too realistic" and therefore difficult to use for the purpose of creating a distinctive brand palette. What this tells me is that they weren't looking for a model of how colors mix together, but a model of what colors look good together.

> "We know red and yellow should yield orange, or that red and blue should make purple--but there isn't any way to arrive at these colors no matter what color-space you use."

Well, that's clearly not true. In the HSL color wheel [1], orange is halfway between red and yellow, and purple is halfway between red and blue. Should have picked a better example.

[1] http://www.workwithcolor.com/hsl-color-picker-01.htm
If this thing uses Javascript on the client side to send email or make phone calls, couldn't any visitor modify the Javascript to email anyone with any message (or make phone calls to anyone)?
Your definition of racism is incorrect.

"Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior."

Wikipedia.
Awesome blog post, Kelly!
The risk of sarcasm is that you are taken seriously. You probably should have just deleted your comment rather than drag it out.
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I wonder why do people making these kinds of videos keep uploading them to Youtube. Are they trying to get blocked to make a point? Because otherwise, it seems just stupid.

EDIT: 001sky is right, I didn't realize this was an old video.
Plus, it's DC-HSPA @ 42Mbps. Which has been shown to beat LTE speeds in some areas.
"Keep in mind this is an AT&T/T-Mobile phone. T-Mobile doesn't do LTE at all, and AT&T has just started their build out. On their website, they still measure it in cities; that should tell you how limited the coverage is."

I don't think AT&T's LTE coverage is as limited as stated here. I live about 20 miles outside of Boston and my town and the next town over both have LTE. And it is fast, very fast. On my LTE iPad I get over 40 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. In Boston I get about half that.
> I've bought clothing from only countries with better than not labor laws for the past several years.

This has the effect of giving employees who already make, say, $100 / day more options as to where to work, while refusing to give those who make $10/day (or $1/day) workers oversees choices like this.

I find this effect to be stunningly at odds with most of the stated political goals that usually correlate with this opinion.

If redistribution from the $100/day person to the $50/day person is good, why is redistributing employment options from a $10/day person to a $100/day person a good thing?
Some companies offer 3D models you can dress up. There was also a startup in Germany if I remember correctly that offered the technology for online retailers. I didn't see it used much though.

We had another fashion related project about 5 years ago, offering custom made hoodies and jackets online. In the end we gave up because many of our customers didn't get the sizing right even though we had detailed tutorials for that, forms with illustrations that showed what to measure and so on.

If you spend 150 bucks on a jacket and the sizing is wrong... well that's no fun. Its not such a big deal for shirts.
Mixing pigments (ink or paint) can be done in CMYK because it is a subtractive process. It would have been realistic and something that anyone who has played with finger paints or crayons has experienced. (Although I agree that it's not very relevant to the end result, it would have been nice to see it in the discussion.)
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Voted against this as well. My main reason is from an article from the Economist[1] that has still left an impression on me to this day.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/14164614
Samsung Galaxy S III is now the world's best-selling smartphone
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Of all products I only like the polo. The only way to buy one is by spending $65 on an additional v-neck and crew neck - that to me is a flaw: wanting to push/x-sell unwanted product doesn't work now a days.
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I am really impressed with the direction Parse is taking. It seems to me they are fixing the right problems and they are doing it step by step.

One thing I would love to see, is a way (an API) to abstract their Javascript library. I would really like to use another JS library other than their own. That would make the cloud code feature even better for me.

I am wondering how long it will take them to stop marketing themselves as a mobile app platform. They are [becoming] much more than that.
Isn't this solved by storing Gemfile.lock? I thought that was the whole purpose of that file..
I'd rather say Oxford is ;)
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I'm really enjoying the Coursera course on learning to program https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython. They have an interactive python implementation in javascript, so all the exercises are via browser - no configuration required at all. And the exercises are to build games.

Although I'm not building my own projects in the exercises, I am building something that I understand. This week's exercise was Pong and I'm looking forward to Asteroids in week 8.

Making something concrete really helps me understan the concepts.
It would be interesting to include day of week as well. I have read that Sunday is a good time for example, but taking into account viewer traffic, time on front page etc, (as the OP does of course) that might well be different.
I believe it's common courtesy to actually provide some citations when you claim you have data.
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I agree that affirmative action is a good thing, but I thought it was a quite interesting discussion we were having.

Let's go back to the original topic at hand and refrain from derailing the discussion with personal messages directly to the poster and those like-minded.

A good argument is not solely made up of logical arguments, but it does not sacrifice logic for pathos. If your argument is sound you should be able to defend it both logically and emotionally.
I'd imagine a corollary to #2 is by replying to comments at or near the top.
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There's always going to be significant racism against any demographic that is legally put above or below others.