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Oh, wow, she’s absolutely clueless about typography and gets some pretty basic facts wrong. (To pick just one example, Crimson is not the new typeface. Large organizations that have a rather decentralized structure – like universities – tend to favor fonts that are easily available to everyone for their day-to-day communication. Stanford just picked a popular font with a SIL Open Font License, but they do not use that font for the wordmark. Crimson was not specifically created for Stanford, though it was, funnily enough, created by a German guy.)

All of this is very embarrassing and finds its ridiculous apex when the author scolds the wordmark for having a taller f than S. I would suggest taking a good look at Sabon or maybe the headline of her article (the blog uses Georgia which is a mighty fine font, not too dissimilar from what Stanford now uses for their wordmark).

I don’t think there is anything wrong with disliking the new wordmark, but if you lash out at it you should at least try to get your facts straight.

(I personally do like the wordmark, though. It’s a conservative, carful change, but that seems entirely appropriate for a university. I’m not such a huge fan of all of the applications. Sabon – in combination with all-caps – looks fine but also quite old-fashioned and cliche – and Stanford never struck me as that.)
It may be necessary to paint it via canvas, however that opens up a can of worms that completely bypasses the video element.
nx is way faster than rdp if you have a large display
>I'd expect the belt supporting a launch loop to have similar constraints [as space elevators], and the dynamic bending of the belt would raise fatigue concerns.

The reason inertial schemes like the space fountain and the launch loop were created is to overcome those material limitations. Aside from the scale, the engineering and material science of a launch loop is relatively straight forward.

The seminal paper, which discusses rotor fatigue and much more: http://launchloop.com/LaunchLoop%3Faction=AttachFile%26do=ge...
Ah, you watched GI Joe too.
I bet they could be acquired by Amazon/Audible pretty fast for audiobooks
Sorry, Major edit. I did not answer the question as posed first.

We are primarily a service business that also sells hardware and software, and we design custom databases. The software almost always has "pay as we go" milestones in the contract. This keeps us funded and forces checking in with the client at logical points to make sure the design is going the right direction.

All of our invoices show Due on Receipt, we grant 30 days, then either a cheerful reminder, or a late fee and reminder.

Too many late invoices (three - we are rather forgiving) with no communication ahead of time gets the client dropped.

On the service/sales side:

With new clients or large orders, we ask for deposits or retainers.

We also offer reduced rates of blocks of hours if paid in advance (can help with starting cash flow).

As an aside, we use referral fees paid to people who refer clients to us. Arbitrarily I arrived at 30% of first hour and %50 of second hour (None beyond that) charged to the new client is paid to the referrer (Service work only).

First, it gets us more referrals for work, and second we get to take advantage of the reputational value of the reference - Few people want to flake on their invoices if it is going to make it back to the referrer.

YMMV.
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Do you think this would be the sort of thing that would benefit from having specialists?
if you read further down in the wikipedia article, it shows zibold's collector which produced about 0.9 liters/square-meter/day

just pointing out that efficiency may be better than what you are estimating.
imagine the mysterious compression waves we'll find out there :)
You might want to change the language/syntax highlighting of that gist. That apostrophe on line 120...
Hmm....any chance this is mere misdirection by our future live giant squid overlords? (jk)
It's never a giant squid <kicks the dirt>
UPDATE: Ebook available now, in all formats! Print version still won't come out until approx. March 2013, but you can pre-order.

The ebook version will be for sale via early release very soon (hopefully within a week or so). Note that the content is still unedited and quite rough, so that's what you'll get. But of course when you buy the ebook from O'Reilly, you get lifetime updates, including of course a copy of the "final" ebook once all the editing is done, around March 2013.

Currently, only the printed, paper edition is available for pre-order. Meaning, if you click the pre-order link now, you will get a paper copy, but not until March (or so).

For the ebook, just hold on a few more days.

Thanks for your interest!
Your post is full of errors.

CMOS radio didn't exist in 1995.

802.11a didn't come out 'after' 802.11b. 802.11a and 802.11b were ratified on the SAME DAY.

802.11g is a bit more than "802.11a in 2.4GHz".
> And it's pretty amazing.

No it's not. It's the most horrible thing I've ever experienced.

You have Part A, B, D, with an option for C. Then for D you need to go to a 3rd part to actually get the coverage, and for A and B you can pay for Gap coverage, from yet another 3rd party.

Or switch to C and cancel all the rest. Except of course for when you don't cancel them and instead combine it with some of them.

Then there is PACE which replaces part D, except when it doesn't and you need both of them. And depending on your income you might actually need PACENET with a different set of rules.

Medicare is an incomprehensible MESS. There are people who's entire job is simply to understand Medicare and help people with it.

And I'm sure I've missed a whole slew of other programs.

In contrast private insurance: Pay your premium to one company. Done.
Thanks for the kind words. My goal with this book is to make the content friendly and approachable. If I can convert a single JavaScript hater, then I have exceeded my own expectations. :-)
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Musk also said it would cost less than going by plane. Unless he has some novel approach to creating underground tunnels that's radically cheaper than existing methods, I don't see how this could be possible.
I've seen two fortune 500 companies do exactly the same thing with ERP systems. The projects were over budget so they cut the user training, no one used the system beecause they didn't know how.
For completion's sake, yes you can do that in Python, it's just slightly uglier (as far as I know) using

''.join(filter(None, [a, b]))

and

itertools.cycle([None, None, 'Fizz'])

itertools.cycle([None, None, None, None, 'Buzz'])
We offer this as part of matchist (http://matchist.com).
It generally starts with the type of client you're dealing with. There's a type of client that will pay all the time and there's a type of client that will haggle with you every time. The better you get at learning how to spot them, the less trouble you'll have getting paid.

With my new startup matchist (http://matchist.com), we're actually tackling both these problems (finding the clients that will actually pay on time, every time, and guaranteeing that they will). We vet all clients and escrow payment so that you know you will actually get paid when work is complete.
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90% penetration will not be for at least 4-5 years, if that.

Thank mostly IE for that, But also Safari and a host of mobile browsers.
Don't they use the same datepicker throughout the OS? Why do they have different ones for different apps? #DRY
From the article:

"In an interview on Wednesday, [Gabriel] Weinberg said it is difficult to make his DuckDuckGo the default search site in Google's Chrome web browser, and that Google disadvantages his company in the Android mobile operating system as well. ....

"It's one-click to get onto Firefox and it's five steps on Chrome and people generally fail," he said.

The Google spokeswoman said popular search alternatives were offered on its Chrome browser in a dropdown menu, such as Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, but any search engine could be easily added."
For the purposes of this discussion I am assuming that the traditional FHS with multi partitions is useless and or detrimental feature. Not something I agree with but for the sake of argument...

How then do you differentiate between legacy cruft and cargo cult?
Some people misunderstand that government actually provides Medicare:

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/get-your-goddamn-gov...
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Wonder if there should be an option to over-donate. I'm particularly sympathetic to certain illnesses that I've lost loved ones to, and covering the cost of the immediate treatment is lovely but I wouldn't mind giving that person a little more so they can be comfortable while recovering and cover future bills from follow-up treatment too.
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"2. Get a deposit (ideally one month's pay) up front. If your client doesn't want to put down a deposit, find another client"

Same here , if they aren't willing to pay a % up front , the discussion ends there. Move on to the next client.
I was looking for exactly that as well :-)
What's the qualification for a "popular search alternative" ? Is there a specific level of market share that's required before a SE can be included in that list?
Why in the world did you let them know they were receiving a manual email?

We faked a ton of "automated" email notifications and nobody ever caught on. The CEO did most of the fakery and it was really beneficial for him. He got to try out a lot of things and see what worked. Once he had something stable, we actually baked it into the product.

It was especially use with matching algorithms. After doing things manually, he could say, "Well, the key factors for a good match are X". And he had actual experience to back it up, not the sort of handwavey notions these things often get built on.
Their material seems to be in the national archives.

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/17...

BCPI seems like some sort of copy service / a service for people who do not want to fly in and physically visit the archives.
Which is totally true. Also, if one has already searched on DuckDuckGo, it's even easier to switch to it as it has been added to the search engine list.
I thought this sounded familiar. Apparently another artist - Sergey Larenkov - does the same thing.

Here's the HN submission about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570085
Wait, 'one-click'?

In Firefox if I click the dropdown on the search field, then click 'Manage Search Engines' I get a dialog in which can be found a link to 'Get more search engines...'.

Clicking that opens an add-ons store tab with the 'Search Tools' filter applied, none of whose above-the-fold suggestions has anything to do with DDG. That's not one-click, it's a runaround.

In contrast, Chrome automatically adds search engines as you browse the web and lets you set any one of them as the default. It also has clearly labelled fields to let you create your own by copying the format of the ones listed. Getting to there takes 3 clicks and a scroll.

Two reasonable gripes: the existence of the free-edit fields is not immediately obvious upon clicking 'Manage search engines...' and neither is the fact that the domain name in the second column is an editable keyword.
I'm looking at this from the point of view of the technology, rather than the standards, as that's where I was involved. From a technology point of view, 802.11b (particularly its 1 and 2Mbps modes) was developed before 802.11a, and so is "older". I know this, because I had the design for the world's first 802.11a modem on my computer's screen, and one of the professors had earlier bought an instance of a DSSS WLAN (essentially 802.11b) to see how it performed.

Granted the early "802.11b" radios might not have been CMOS. Their frequency was limited by what was technically possible in a consumer product though. I can't remember exactly what was in that "802.11b" WLAN. The 802.11a band was definitely set by what was possible in CMOS. The CMOS radio itself might not have existed in 1995, but planning was in progress and we had a pretty good idea of what was possible.
I'm curious, how many clicks is it to replace Bing as the default in IE?

Isn't it impossible for DDG to become the default in Safari?

Not saying they're wrong to point it out, but rather that they should be consistent in pointing fingers if they do.
This is a problem with every name that conveys actual meaning. If you're trying to sum up something complex in 1 or 2 words, people will inevitably have misunderstandings if all they go on is the word.

He picked the name Lean because a substantial part of the philosophy comes out of Lean Manufacturing. And because an essential part of it is striving to be lean. Works for me.
> Currently, moving to London isn't possible for me, I've been with my girlfriend for 3 years now and I have to take that in to account when relocating is considered.

Move to London together, perhaps? You can probably make more alone there, than your two wages together at the moment. (Add in a London job for her, and it becomes even better.)
My point was not a general one about tech products becoming obsolete with time. You and I are perfectly capable of assessing the range of tech products available at this point in time, weighing up the advantages of buying now versus what products are likely to be available soon, and making a buying decision which is optimally satisfactory. Additionally, we have large disposable incomes, so even if we are not that happy with one or two of the purchases we make it is generally not a big deal for us.

Kids on the other hand are, in general, poorly informed, vulnerable to fads, and have limited disposable incomes. I'm sure a lot of kids barely even know what an iPad is - they just know they want one. And when they get it, and they do what kids generally do with these devices - play games - how are they supposed to know that the iPad sucks for gaming? For a lot of the current generation of kids, the iPad will be an entry point into gaming - it has the cachet that Nintendo had for earlier generations. Kids buy or ask for iPads because then they can show them off at school. But the iPad is such a limited device - the cost for a highly modular OS with an abundant app ecosystem is that there's just not much to get your teeth into with the device. The most interesting thing you can do with the OS is long-press an icon until they all start to wiggle.

I watch my little brother with his $600 iPad. First he's playing Dragonvale - a Farmville clone - for hours. Then he's playing GTA3 - do you know that videogame is 10 years old I ask him? Don't you want to play it with a real controller instead of slidy glass controls on a heavy tablet? Then he plays Chinatown Wars - more slidy glass controls for a ported DS game. Maybe I'm just being cranky and my-generation-was-better-ist. Maybe there's a lot to be said for one device that can do all of these things. Maybe the iPad is great because first kids plays with the games, then they find other cool apps, then suddenly they've set up recording studios at home. I dunno. Anyway as a game-playing device in my opinion the iPad is too limited, and as a useful tablet I think it is very far from a mature ideal of how a tablet could work - and I think tablets will evolve very, very quickly over the next three years, and the iPad will look very outdated soon. So I feel sorry for the kids because I think they could do better for gaming and because their new treasure is about to submerged in a looming surge of innovation.
This is true of every startup. (E.g., see Crossing the Chasm.) And of every company, really. Even mature companies do a ton of product testing on their audiences.
Thanks sinner ;) The good guys at futura.io have agreed to help us with an iOS app, and we're hoping to get started on that soon. Also looking to integrate open graph ASAP. So much to do!
If you're feeling inspired to try this yourself, go to your local historical society/museum and ask to go through some of their albums. My town has volumes of old photos like this from 20-50 years ago with easily recognizable standing structures.
> Bradley Manning was stripped and left naked in his cell for seven hours.

This was according to the New York Times[1] in March of 2011 and it took place at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va.

Might not be torture by most standards (though personally I think solitary confinement is torture) but I would hardly consider it proper conduct.

Also, who can say what really happens at Guantanamo...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/04manning.html
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Does anyone use Spectacle? How does this compare?
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This is my favorite comment of all time.
If what's different about your product is a minor tweak on an existing giant, then you have bigger problems.

Even if you are trying to beat an incumbent, you probably don't need everything they have. If there is a true unmet need in some audience, then they will be willing to put up with quite a number of missing features because you are solving their problem better than the incumbent.

Or if you're really just trying to test the hypothesis, you can cheat. Proxy all of match.com and just insert your own rankings and logo. Or just sell it honestly as something that helps you find the best people on match.com. If people buy it, then you know you've got something. If not, then you have learned that nobody cares enough for you to go build match.com.
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Hi David, this is a beautiful piece of work. I remember the first time you told me this would be a good interview question. Ever since, I've been far more interested in the long chain of tiered technologies that make possible every single every small action on the web.

Thanks for sharing :)
You've got it right. People say a lot of things that aren't true about themselves. Especially when you're asking them hypotheticals. Surveys have their uses, but they are not proof.

The only solid evidence that you have a real business is that you get money from people for something you did for them. So you get that evidence with the smallest experiment possible. That's the MVP.
I've never been a big fan of podcasts. Some have done a good job of mixing current topics with in-depth dives into specific areas and a dash of humour/personality (boagworld, for example), but most of the others I've tried out are either long rambles on very specialised topics or ego-stroking interviews. There's also production time delays/weekly (or longer) release cycles.

Radio news... I haven't really looked into this since moving to the US, but in the UK, no radio news channel covered technology well and it's difficult, given a finite amount of time, to use that time to listen to exactly what you want. e.g. tuning into the World Service here, I get some very random content which is sometimes interesting, sometimes not. Perhaps NPR is different.

I feel Umano addresses both of these - topic freshness/specialisation and good use of finite time - in different ways.
You should watch the video linked in the parent post. A lawyer pays for themselves.
I am fairly sure it would not help. If you're rubbing past air at that speed, you'll have pretty serious friction issues.
> I think the examples of MVPs that have worked best appear to be targeting [...] folks [...] with a high degree of tolerance for failure

Yes. This is true for almost any groundbreaking product. The book Crossing the Chasm is the classic work on the topic. Almost any startup should seek out an early-adopter audience of people who need the product so much that they're willing to put up with flaws.

One thing more startups should do is narrow their marketing to the early adopter audience. Everybody else, you try to defer until you have a more solid product.
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Click-and-hold on the firefox search engine icon in the search field, and a list of engines appears. I clearly see "Add DuckDuckGo" as an option in that list while I am on the site, and you can slide the mouse over to that option and release. So yes, one click.
Another way to think of it is that a hurricane is nature's way of transferring heat energy from the lower latitudes to the middle latitudes. One wonders what would happen if we somehow did manage to keep hurricanes from forming, how it might subtly effect the oceans.

Going the other way, hurricanes, tropical storms, and tropical disturbances often account for a nontrivial part of an area's rainfall. What happens when we remove that from the system?
I have been a happy DDG user for more than two years and it's one of the best things I have done in a while. It works well, and it's great for productivity. So, that Google does not take it extra easy on them is not surprising. However, as Google matures, they will realize they need an AMD to their Intel. Something that poses little business threat, yet diffuses the antitrust threat. ... Watch.
The nice thing about failing too small is that you have plenty more chances to get it right. The trick is to do your small failures with small audiences and with minimal brand impact.
At least they appeal to the same values in their rhetoric.
I worked for a company with 25,000 office employees worldwide and can say that they won't be leaving Microsoft anytime soon for this reason.

They were using IE6 all the way up until 2010, finishing the deploy of IE8 two years after it was released. :/
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My girlfriend's father died, and it sucks. She lives far away, and I would like to send flowers.

I just got the feeling of dread that I used to get when I had to go to Expedia. Surely this is a solved problem, but Google is full of SEO'd crap.

If someone could have a working MVP when I wake up tomorrow, that'd be awesome. (Only kind of joking.)
I really like the idea of duckduckgo, but it just doesn't do it for me. As an example, I can't find articles posted in the last hour, let alone the last week (eg. iOS 6 jailbreak).

I know it's slightly off topic, but this would certainly encourage me to use this - and I have a community around me that tends to adopt what I do.
Ask HN: a good/simple oauth frameworks for webapps
me and my startup are creating our first web app, and are using https://www.accountchooser.com/ when it works, it works. unfortunately it fails to authenticate users about 50% of the time :( I'm not sure if it's our fault, but there isn't a support forum to ask :(

any recommendations for a better choice?

FYI we are using python2.7 on GAE, if that matters
I am not supporting DuckDuckgo's claim, but the procees is indeed less painful if you just install their extension,

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo...

I don't know why no such addon exists for Chrome?

EDIT: Ugh I am woefully wrong, the Chrome extension only shows up when you visit the site from Chrome. Perhaps they mean choosing a default search engine in Chrome is not as straightforward as Firefox. You will have to open preferences -> Search -> Manage Search engines and then change the default engine.
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I couldn't agree more. It is a pain to set Google as default search provider in IE.