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> That is a number that came from one study, from the 1980s, which was conducted by a feminist, and which includes attempted attacks.

Upon reading your comment, I went back to look for original source material. You are right, I could not find a source or even mention or that fact. Instead, I found citations for studies that show 1 in 4 women will experience a sexual assault (not just rape) during an academic career, or that 1 in 4 women will experience sexual violence from a partner in their lifetime, or that 1 in 6 American women have been the victim or an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. So I do apologize for having the wrong statistic.

Also, since when does being a feminist automatically disqualify your study or paper?

> Rape is a serious crime; don't diminish its significance or the extent of its harm by claiming that there are nearly a hundred million rape victims in America (which invites people to ask, "Why aren't all those victims in counseling? Is rape really a crime whose victims need counseling?").

There are at least hundreds of thousands of sexual assault survivors in the US, which is horrifying enough. As for what you said about counseling, those kinds of comments are one of the more common kinds of derailment people trot out and you and I both know is there is a large number of reasons why any person is not in counseling (for anything, really): cost, stigma, lack of access to counseling services, etc.

In any case, OPs paranoia about being castrated by angry feminists is laughable and spreads FUD about feminism, esp. in regard to what rad fems consider feminism to be.
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I wrote a deployment script for s3/cf/r53 in python last week. It's pretty janky right now and is very oppinionated on a lot of things, but it handles invalidation requests for you and the code is simple enough to easily modify to your liking.

http://www.github.com/heyimalex/s3tup
Okay. You want a piece of blog software. It has to have SEO plugins, Facebook integration, Twitter integration, fine grain editing controls, and requires approval for publishing.

Oh, and the client only wants to spend $1500.

What software are you going to use?

Many PHP projects are driven by momentum. PHP is a language to get things done in, and I know plenty of incredible PHP programmers who use PHP because it has unparalleled adoption and a library of off-the-shelf OSS software that can't be rivaled by any other programming language.

I'm pretty okay with people shitting on PHP, but shitting on PHP programmers is a completely different story. We use PHP because it gives us a leg up that no other programming language currently can.

Unless you've only been a programmer for a few years, you'll understand the libraries matter more than the language when it comes to writing software. In that regard, and with regards to the OSS software written in PHP, it probably comes close to or beats CPAN.
This makes sense to me, but at a startup assuming that the CEO is the lifeblood of the idea for the company (as s/he should be) aren't they essentially the PM manager that you describe here? I guess this is a moot point, but we're obviously only focusing on a startup that is heavily technology focused.

What about one where the pudding is actually a process or physical commodity and the technology portion is merely an extension of this?
"Grandma bike" is a pretty derisive term for a practical utility bicycle. It's like a guy in a two-seat sportster with a tiny trunk calling a four-seat sedan a "grandma car."

I call my '96 Camry a "grandpa car". (In part because my grandfather owned it before I did.) I'm not sure it's as derisive as you think.
Since we're talking about treatments for addiction, I'd like to give a shout-out to ibogaine[0], a psychoactive substance.

Apparently after a successful treatment with ibogaine, it's like an "addiction switch" has been turned off in your brain. I was interested to read this article hoping there would be more about the "addiction switch", which I find a fascinating concept.

Instead, maybe with this treatment, the switch simply gets burned away...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#Treatment_for_opioid_a...
90% of my trades are long. I should be shorting more often, but I seem to have an irrational apprehension towards it, which is just plain dumb.

It depends on the trade. If I have time to get a better feel of the way the stock has been moving, I'll trade volatility. That's when I'm setting lots of limit orders in a short period of time, which is uncommon for me. If I knew how to trade programmatically, I'd be doing a lot more of this. It's something I should learn this year. But most of my trading is based on what I feel are fundamental flaws I pricing.

I make it a point not to actively monitor. I have Google Finance up all day, but I'm not glued to it. I just set a limit order to close my position as soon as I get into it. No real automated trading tools and don't stop out (which is really bad practice I should change). I've looked at autotrading via subscriptions, but since I'm booming gains as high as these pros, I see no point to encumber myself with complexity. For now, I'm a profitable simpleton. Of course, I fully understand my days are numbered. I'd much rather I didn't trade, but I can't any other activity with this kind if return in time invested.

You're right--I should be coming against a big loss. Actually, I have seen big losses, but I just never realized them. That's what I mean by being patient. I just wait it out until the company turns around.

The sites I use for insight are: Google Finance and Trefis. And I see what is going on in the order book--I use Interactive Brokers, which offers access to almost tick by tick trading.
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> "Grandma bike" is a pretty derisive term for a practical utility bicycle. It's like a guy in a two-seat sportster with a tiny trunk calling a four-seat sedan a "grandma car."

Thank you.
I tend to agree, but digital pics could easily be updated for whatever was fresh. Just take the pic that morning and put it in the system.

Thinking about it, I bet there's a way to use pics effectively even in a high end place. Sell the chef with the pics, or better yet, sell the prep process. The extraordinary cooking process, etc.

In the end, though, you're right. High end is about the experience and you want that personal touch.
<real-world-gripes>

What if your product is creating giant networked ovens for Nabisco assembly lines?

What if the product is an Enterprise Firewall Spam Detector IDS Bad Guy Defeater Gateway Proxy with more feature check boxes than atoms in the human body and the PM (who is a PMP, obviously) has a BA in English with a minor in interpretive dance?

What if the product is a series of experimental HIV vaccines?

Not every product in the world is a consumer webapp.

</real-world-gripes>
Oh, and "a good portion of rejection from investors and prospects could simply be the way you are pitching elevates you above their level, and their natural ego"

A way to refine that is to say, when you pitch to elevate you above your level, you are challenging the investor or prospect and probably leaking out contempt. The investor or prospect is likely to reject your pitch to answer that challenge.

If there are no challenge, then this kind of byplay does not distract from the epic awesomeness of the idea.

"... focus less on what you created and more on what it will do for them." <-- Ha! That deepens the understanding of "Customer Development." If you're caught up with the Jungian shadows to demand credit, then you won't really try to understand user benefit or user needs since you put yourself first ahead of the customer. Cool.
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Nope. Its far more easier than C++, Java. I'd say even easier than other in its league such as Perl, Ruby, etc. but that would be argued I know. But no doubt, its a good candidate for 1st language.
I completely agree. Why has nobody made a WP replacement in rails yet?
Isn't that stuff already very well documented in Python's own documentation?
A note for those attempting to use Ethernet to Airplay mirror:

Your router must allow multicasting between WLAN and Ethernet clients, otherwise your Pi won't show up to iDevices connected via WiFi.

If this is a problem for you (as it was for me) your only solution is attaching a WiFi adapter to your Pi. The consensus for best support, lowest power and tiny footprint is Edimax EW-7811UN (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003MTTJOY).

I just grabbed an old Linksys WUSB54GS that I had laying around and it played nicely with the Raspberry Pi with little to not effort.
That's strange, I flew from Detroit to New York the other day, and it seems pretty rapid and sophisticated to me.
I'm slightly confused. Is LinkedIn pulling a Tumblr? Is Eric employed by LinkedIn now? Can anybody post posts on linkedin.com/today? Is a link at linkedin.com/today a stable URL or only good for today? Today when/where? What's going on?!
Grouper was part of YC's Winter 2012 class: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/yc-alum-grouper-launches-in...
Does not have to be about fear, can be about respect. Can also be about less fear (the gun being a great equalizer): for example, a frail person can be less afraid of punks.

As far as your example, I am not quite sure what to make of it. Does not even sound like a good joke, sorry.
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Bike to Work day is not about being cool, it's about promoting healthy commuting alternatives.
Thank you so much for saying this. It perfectly captures my feelings about this piece - and also my frustration for what eating out has become. I actually had some asshat try to take pictures of the meal I was eating with his iPhone the other day.
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Actually, it does not.
Total value. Rental price per acre per year in my area of Minnesota is about 7% of the sale price per acre.
Although that is sound advice in the event you're caught in a small rift of snow, it will mean nothing when hitting a ditch that sinks your car to the frame in snow which is often the case in situations that the story illustrates.
If I want to sell Linux apps, what is the alternative?
This topic makes me think of 2012 American adventure drama film co-written and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, and Dermot Mulroney "The Grey", which is based on the short story Ghost Walker by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carnahan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_(film)
Compared to millions of US kids being medicated for ADD with Ritalin, which can leave permanent marks like stunted growth. Or millions taking anti-depressants which also leave permanent marks, especially with prolonged use.

All these treatments have side effects and benefits so lets not blow China's lack of ethics out of proportion in this case. Prescriptions for drugs that permanently alter the brain are handed out with criminal carelessness in the US.
2nd the Instagram is 'sneaky as fuck' comment
Joe Sixpack can also have high leverage through options contracts.
When I see WordPress I think this, but not PHP in general: haven't you used any frameworks? Unless you're KTLO who actually would build any web/service and not use a framework?

There are plenty of good frameworks out there for PHP that allow you to write clean code. Most of them have only existed since PHP4+. I understand where you are coming from, but in reality when you're writing about software design language is generally a moot point.
The crazy list of the world’s top Wikipedia searches in 2012
As a Linux user, I pay developers whenever I can and if there are no official channels like Ubuntu Software Center then I just donate directly.
It's like people in Ferraris yelling at people in Toyotas.
I saw a talk from a US Army-funded researchers on cold weather adaptation. He described how to reliably train oneself to induce the "hunter's response".

You just go sit outside in the cold for five or ten minutes at a time while keeping your hands and/or feet submerged in insulated warm water. The goal is to expose most of your body to the cold while keeping the capillaries open. After about fifty repetitions of this (at three to six repetitions per day), your body gets used to the idea of maintaining circulation despite an overall cold environment.
The linked article spoke about creating the QA tests before the product was finished or even designed by the designer. No plan is going to survive contact with the enemy and no spec specific enough to have formal tests written for it is going to survive contact with reality. As clearly seen in the linked blog.

The PM needs to take a step back and let the designers/developers handle the tricky details of the spec, and let the testers test the resulting product and spec from them - not the high level initial spec. You don't need to bring in your testers until you have something concrete for them to actually test against.

As something concrete so that we don't get lost in abstracts: if you are building an accounting package that needs to calculate a user's tax rate from information pulled from twitter, then having your testers create a framework for testing exact tax rates before the product is complete is folly. You may only be able to generate a 'rough band' of tax rates, and now your whole perfect spec and testing is out of the water as all the values test incorrectly.

Rather get your team to build in a way to add tax information to the system, then once they have they have the method to get the best data possible you add details to your sparse spec and bring in the testers to test the real implementation against the real spec.

Obviously there are tons of other nice patterns to follow here that are heavily written about - but the "design in stone from on-high" is a very fallible approach. Not that it hasn't worked in the past - it's had some great success - but it requires someone with a perfect image of exactly what they want and a team willing to follow that person exactly.
Mild frostbite != blackened skin. I'm curious of what situation you got yourself into because that sounded fairly serious.
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Did you forget that 7 million people speak French in Québec? And because a language is not much spoken, it doesn't count?
Ruby and Python are increasingly invalidating this argument. Python has some of the best diverse library support of any modern non-Java language. And for web stuff (which is basically all PHP does anyway) ruby is basically there. Yes we don't have an out of the box CMS aimed at the WP market yet but that just means someone needs to make it. I've worked with WP a lot and I understand why people do that and I don't disrespect them. I've also spent time staring at its guts and man they are gnarly. However if you're talking about designing new software (which is the situation you are in if you are talking about software design patterns like singleton) then choosing PHP because you are comfortable with it is a cop-out.
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Really nice work, Iron.io team. I particularly like that you put those numbers in perspective to other popular services at scale.

There's something comforting about knowing that any one site's individual requirements are a small fraction of the total capacity of a system. I may be preaching to the choir here, but that's one of the things that I like most about using (and building) cloud services.

Something that fizx and I have observed while building websolr.com (our hosted Solr search service) is that as you scale the larger aggregate, the challenges of the average use case become increasingly trivial. For example, we're serving hundreds of millions of requests per day, and indexing billions of documents. That's a few orders of magnitude larger than any one of our customers, but they get all the benefits of a system that's designed to operate at that scale.

Put another way: how often do you really take the time to benchmark your message queue (or search engine, or whatever) to make sure it can scale to 10x or 100x growth over what you currently need? Or take the time to actually scale it to that capacity? Does that even make business sense? And yet, in a properly built cloud service, a 10x or 100x growth for any average customer is going to be a much smaller marginal increase against the aggregate.
The point of the post is to discover passive investment opportunities, not employment options.
Yes, the problem that the rich can afford to find ways to dodge taxes is a big problem. I was not bringing the concept up as an actual solution, but in refutation of vaadu's claims about wealth distribution. If you could actually tax 90% of the income of the top 10% (where "income" means what we all would think of as income, not what the very best accountants fail to sweep under various rugs), and that income remained about the same as it is now, then it would rapidly pay down the debt.

Is it possible to tax the most powerful people in world like that? No, probably not, as you said. It would require extremely smart people to write extremely smart laws while somehow keeping lobbyists from intentionally inserting tax loopholes, so good luck to us with that.

Would the "real" income of the top 10% remain the same under such conditions? Hard to say, really. We don't really have the data to see how an economy would behave under such alien circumstances, so any predictions we make are bound to be based on ideology, and ideology is notoriously poor at making accurate predictions.
Command Line is without any doubt superior than Ubuntu Software Center but I have slowly started moving all software installation and update related stuff to Ubuntu Software Center and System updater respectively. Ubuntu Software center is at the moment a little clunky.
If you're quick at math here's a fairly accurate way:

F->C: Subtract 30, divide by 2.

C->F: Double it & Add 30.

Often known as the "Bob & Doug McKenzie method" from around here it makes for fast conversions since the actual conversion (°F - 32) * 5 / 9 = °C is close enough when dealing in the normal temperature range of weather.
They've had problems, just don't leave money there. Dollars or Bitcoins. Do your trade, pull it all out.
"Problem #3: Have to Wait FOREVER for Waiter to Order, Re-Order, & Pay. Also, Nothing To Do While I’m Waiting."

This is pretty straightforward. If you're in a huge time crunch, order delivery. I'm not sure what it's like in the bay area, but here in Chicago you can order something from grubhub with very little friction.
Yes, I agree. Efficiency is not what I want from a restaurant.

Waiting for my order is one of those rare times to spend time with someone, discuss things, and absorb the restaurant atmosphere. A good restaurant menu doesn't list all ingredients and recipes, presentations and pictures. I want that anticipation, that wonder, and that trust in the chef. When I receive my food I like to be surprised; to discovery and explore a dish, even if it's something I've had before.

If the restaurant leaves a lasting impression on me, in terms of atmosphere, service, and taste, then I won't need a reminder of what I had last time. I don't need details/pictures of dishes because I already have that trust in the chef.

And in terms of service, a good restaurant/waiter will recommend something for me, or know what I have ordered in the past. It's part of the social experience of dining, having an actual discussion with the people who know the food.

Dave seems to be suggesting the exact opposite of what I would want in a quality restaurant experience. But I'm sure his opinion is different with children in the mix. It's really interesting how diverse the dining experience can be, and how both class and social groups can change your view of it.
That's http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CLMJLU for our friends on the other side of the pond.
I find Arch Linux's pacman/AUR far better than apt-get or Aptitude. Apt is all over the place - apt-get, dpkg, and building from source is just another story.
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I'm a long time Debian user and always use apt-get, but I just used the USS for the first time to buy Sword & Sworcery to have something to play for the holiday. Painless purchase and one click installation.

Chose that game after seeing it in the Steam client, but wasn't able to buy it for Linux there.

Great game by the way.
Right. twitter search for putlocker.com or sockshare.com
#whac-a-mole
I never understood how megavideo got taken down when youtube had a much larger library of pirated content. Still does. Just watched Dredd 3D on it last week.
I do not want to interact with more technology in a restaurant, but I do think restaurants tend to have stunningly bad websites.

Most restaurants have either 1) a giant PDF or 2) a crazy interactive Flash experience. (Would you like to build an animated pizza? Would you like a Taylor Swift CD with your pizza?)

When I come to a restaurant's site, I want to see this:
1) Location and hours
2) HTML menu with pictures

This could all be on one page.

If there's an online ordering process, it should be fast and remember my favorite choices. That's about it.
D&B database is widespread in the US, not internationally. In fact, I own a credit card company/bank and never heard of them until I needed their number. Their database is large because they are filling it, not because companies request.

In fact, S&P and Moody's are the only ratings/registry that can get you anywhere in the banking system.
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When asked by a technical person in a technical trade, it's an easier question to answer. When asked by an HR person who knows little about the craft, the subtext is very, very different.

A far better way of getting the same information would be asking "What skills or abilities are you hoping to develop here?" followed with "What kind of stuff do you see as a sub-par use of your time?" and "What would you be happiest about knowing you never had to deal with again?"

By asking slightly less direct questions, you're likely to get far more direct answers.
And store it where - on your hard drive?
Excellent. Will do, thanks. :)
I think this quote sums it up: "Do not tell me that “good developers can write good code in any language”, or bad developers blah blah. That doesn’t mean anything. A good carpenter can drive in a nail with either a rock or a hammer, but how many carpenters do you see bashing stuff with rocks? Part of what makes a good developer is the ability to choose the tools that work best."
Just to clarify, it sounds like you're suggesting that a larger menu will have less-fresh food. That makes intuitive sense but confused me at first.
Yandex will still have to comply with DMCA in their English/USA-oriented .com version.

But I guess what will actually happen is people skipping Google and going straight to torrentz.eu.
Grandma bike specifically refers to bikes with retro looks or the original designs that the retro bikes take their inspiration from. It doesn't refer to utility bikes in general, at least I've never heard it used in that way. So it's not derisive at all, just referring to "how bikes used to look 50 years ago."
I personally agree with everything the article says, and came up with most of these ideas years ago, as my "ideal" restaurant. But most people are like you, and value the status quo restaurant atmosphere over increases in efficiency. There's no way this would work without a massive cultural shift.

But personally, the ridiculously inefficient eating-at-a-restaurant process is one of the reasons (along with saving money and staying healthy) why I prefer to eat at home whenever possible. Other than for social purposes and specialty food, I avoid restaurants like the plague. For example, there is no reason for me to go to an Italian restaurant when I can make the same dishes at home with less time than it'll take me to drive to the restaurant, get a table, eat, and drive back home.
Love it! What's the objective of the project?