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So, a medical student tells his professor that he does not want to study the ear problems but plans to specialize on the nose problems instead. "Really?" asked the prof, "so where exactly do you plan to specialize - the left nostril or the right nostril?".

Similarly, git is speciailizing is small, text-only projects, but will not work well for a project involving some sort of grpaics-enriched GUI or large code base or both.
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It is also the freedom to: live wherever you want, do most of the things you want to do, go wherever you want, and (most importantly for me) the freedom to not have to spend most of your time at somebody else's whim.
It looks to me like he carefully phrased it not to assume anything.
Why did you decide to get out of it? It seems rather lucrative and straightforward if you've cracked the code...
It's the government that has the violence monopoly. Industries are lobbying for governments to use its power do certain things. I believe corn syrup is cheaper because of government subsidies/tariffs/taxes makes corn syrup cheaper than sugar in the US.

Consumers are rarely forced to buy soda. But the producers are using corn syrup over sugar because the government has put it's gun to the head of the market.

Even in the US you can find Coke with sugar if you are prepared to pay the price. Government is the reason it is so expensive and hard to find. If you believe positive "change" is coming to American sugar tariffs with the new administration I think you will be disappointed.
I always figured people didn't keep jellyfish because it wasn't popular for whatever reason, not because of technological limitations; that's quite interesting. Jellyfish are more problematic than their chill demeanor suggests.
I would point out that hospitals, large financial sites, corporate headquarters etc. have backup generators for electricity and usually at least 1 water tank to ensure a supply of water.
No shit, but we're not scientists and this isn't that kind of discussion. I have no need to prove you wrong.

You're spouting nonsense as if you haven't even done the most basic research on your own. You could have found plenty of scientific research that has been done with a trivial amount of Googling. I'm not going to do it for you; educate yourself on the issue because your fears about dosage are simply unfounded nonsense.
Some of your repliers are beating around the bush a little, I'm going to come right out and say it: Source control systems are for controlling source code. They are built from top to bottom around the idea that they are storing text files. They are build around the idea that a text-based patch is a meaningful thing to use. They are build around the idea that there is a reasonable merge algorithm to use to merge two people's changes.

They can be used on things that physically resemble source code but aren't, like text-based document formats (raw HTML, for instance), but you probably won't need their full power and, by design, they lack features that would be useful in that case. For your convenience they are capable of storing small quantities of binary data since most projects have a little here and there. But in both cases, you're a bit out-of-spec.

When you try to stuff tons of binary data into them, they break. They do not just break at the practical level, in the sense that operations take a long time but maybe someday somebody could fix them with enough performance work. They break at the conceptual level. Their whole worldview is no longer valid. The invariants they are built on are gone. It's not just a little problem, it's fundamental, and here's the really important thing: It can't be fixed without making them no longer great source control systems.

I use git on a fairly big repository and the scanning is currently at the "annoying" level for me, but the scanning is there for good reasons, reasons related to its use as a source control system. On my small personal projects it definitely helps me a lot.

SVN is the wrong tool for the job. I don't know what the right tool is. It may not even exist. But SVN is still the wrong tool. (If nothing else you could hack together one of those key/value stores that have been on HN lately and cobble together something with the resulting hash values.)

And, going back to the original link, criticizing git for not working with a repository with large numbers of binary files is not a very interesting critique. If Perforce does work under those circumstances, I would conclude they've almost certainly had to make tradeoffs that make it a less powerful source control system. Based on what I've heard from Perforce users and critics, that is an accurate conclusion. But I have no direct experience myself.
The former. Nobody is twisting this guy to use git so I don't care if it doesn't work for his scenario, I care if it works for me. I've heard the "can't deal with large binary files/repos" many times before, I thought he was going to explain why that was the case.
Despite having lived in the US for a couple of years now and beginning to lose my English accent, I think if I ever met the bloke who does this, despite my love of beauty, elegance and other good things, I'd inevitably end up slapping him heartily on the back and pronouncing: "Good for you, mate. Nice one. Gotta hand it to you."

I've long wondered about those long-paged red-yellow-and-white sites. They've always seemed like they live in this other, mysterious world. A parallel web, at least. Who would read this stuff? Who would /write/ this stuff? Do they not know what they're doing? Now I know they (often) /really/ know what they're doing. It's not my thing at all, but it's impressive.

And yes, very much 4 Hour Work Week. Equally yukky and impressive all at the same time.
I seem to recall most exchanges going thusly:

pg: Robert, do you have anything to add?
rtm: No.

Though he did talk during the interview. In this age of Twitter he's my hero.
But that's all because money pays for the stuff.

(I think I'm being stupidly obvious right now, so I'll apologize: I thought the OP was referring to the social impact that people knowing you've got money has, and I don't think that's actually what he meant.
That's the rub. It doesn't occur to most Americans how many products contain corn syrup. Wander through any conventional supermarket in America. Study the ingredients list for whatever product you have in your hand. The list of ingredients is printed in a small, sans-serif font below or next to the nutrition chart.

Notice the corn syrup in condiments: ketchup, salad dressing, peanut butter, jam, some pickles and mustards, etc. Notice the corn syrup in yogurts, ice creams, and frozen desserts. Notice the corn syrup in fruit drinks and flavored milk drinks. Notice the corn syrup in breakfast cereals and brand-name hearty-looking breads. Notice the corn syrup in brand-name cookies and crackers (Ritz, Wheat Thins, IIRC). Notice the corn syrup in canned pie fillings. Notice the corn syrup spaghetti sauces. Notice the corn syrup in canned soups.

Any food not located at a far outside aisle is likely to contain corn syrup. If a food has a brand name and it comes in a bottle, jar, tub, or box, it probably contains corn syrup. If a food comes in a can and it's not plain vegetables, it probably contains corn syrup.

I kind of exaggerate here, but not much. I notice that factory producers have been eliminating corn syrup from some foods in the past year or two. So, you might see "cane juice" or sugar in the ingredients list, instead of corn syrup. Cane juice is the new euphemism for sugar.

One of my Russian-American friends said about ten years ago, "I khate American food. Too sweet." It's "too sweet" because so many products contain sweeteners. If you're accustomed to American food, you probably don't notice the sweetness. Therefore, it wouldn't occur to you that it contains corn syrup (or sugar).
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If it makes you feel better, I flag each post with a title like that and comment, and I think a few other users do too. So it's not just you.
Obviously you've never been to Canada. ;-) Hydroponic growing and "sea of green" techniques have made it possible to have marijuana "plantations" in containers the size of minibar fridges.
Nutritionists have been saying this for years. This is why the very high end multi vitamins ($50-100 per month!) include such a wide variety of ingredients, and the does is somewhere between 9-12 capsules PER DAY.

Examples:

Life Extension Foundation: http://www.lef.org/Vitamins-Supplements/Item01335/Life-Exten...

NSI:
http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Synergy-Supreme-Multi-Vitamin-Ve...
We who hang out on HN don't have a very diverse group of acquaintances. If we find someone to be an idiot, we probably don't waste too much time with him. So, we end up with a very biased view of the world. Given this, when we see a smarmy-looking site for an expensive parrot book, we laugh and think, "Who the hell would buy that?" The guy who's running the site was able to see how dumb most Americans (or at least English readers) are and picked a business accordingly.

Also, many of us would be embarrassed to admit that we were making our money this way, so we avoid even considering such activities.

So, what other information niches exist that would satisfy the needs of some small fraction of other 90-some percent? Yes, this question is arrogant, crass, and probably repugnant to many. However, it's the kind of question that Parrot Guy probably asked himself when he got started.
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The mention of blueprint got me thinking about CSS frameworks and that there's probably alot of value in using one. What are its strengths? weaknesses?
Dude, I talked about thresholds that would ensure that people would maintain their awareness within certain limits... you talked about overdose. We're not even discussing the same thing. The legal limit on alcohol is not to prevent people from dying, but to prevent them from driving when their reaction-time and situational awareness are reduced. Alcohol is easy to control because they can make you blow those alcohol-meters. How do you measure how "high" someone is? It's not so easy.

Scientific research on this topic does not seem mature enough. It's an ongoing effort. But it's better than nothing.

To cut a long story short: just because something as dangerous as alcohol is freely available and culturally acceptable, I think we should be careful about legalizing drugs. I have smoked pot, my friends have smoked pot. From my experience, it's a lot less dangerous than alcohol. Scientific seems to suggest that pot is not particularly dangerous (unless you smoke an entire field).

I don't think we disagree on much. The difference is that I believe that one should be exhaustive when analyzing this issue. All possibilities should be studied. Information should be provided in an unbiased manner. And, ultimately, people should be able to decide whether to consume or not without any baby-sitting from the government.
Wow!!! That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info!
That's exactly the format that all the Jay Abraham-style gurus recommend (originally for snail mail spam, i.e., junk mail), and it apparently works very well.

The longer the better--12 pages isn't too long.

It's amazing, but it's well-documented.
> Data structures, you mean like hashmap, vector, list, sequence?

No, algebraic data types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_types
Similarly, git is speciailizing is small, text-only projects, but will not work well for a project involving some sort of graphics-enriched GUI or large code base or both.

As I mention a few replies up, this covers about 99% of all programming projects. Very few projects have gigabytes of source code or graphics. If you just have a few hundred megabytes of graphics, git will do fine. If you only have 2 million lines of code, git will do fine.

Things larger than this are really rare, so it is not a problem that Git doesn't handle it well. Or rather, it's not a problem for very many people.
i want to make an impact on other people's lives, like creating a popular product or teaching them how to do things in right ways.
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Part of my business school experience consisted of listening to decrepit, senile, old professors making fun of engineers who tried to start businesses but lacked basic business skills. This kind of arrogance, at the very least, serves me.
I always remember what my mother once told me: "Son, whatever you do in life, treasure your family and friends. Don't do things I wouldn't be proud of and always remember- health is greater than wealth."
When I see that site, I think timecube.
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Wish I could but I don't fit the criteria. But thanks, your offer is much appreciated.
These attracted my attention, for no programmer I know enjoys them...

Really?

Maybe I have competitive split personalties, but testing my code is a lot of times more fun than writing it. And at least for junior developers, getting feedback from those with more experience is probably the most valuable part of a job.

It kind of blows my mind to hear that some programmers commit code they haven't thoroughly tested, or avoid showing their code to other people...
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if you have not noticed yet, HN is pretty heavy on the entrepreneurial spirit. That is to say we generally accept the constructs of Capitalism.

If you do not like advertisements, develop a better system that gives companies a good incentive for offering products and services to consumers AT NO COST.
Is there any way to stop it from reshifting the focus to a random new tweet? If this is going to be used for something, I think this would have to be the first step. Otherwise, it's mostly just eye-candy.
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CSS frameworks generally do the same thing.

They reset the browsers setting, e.g., setting body, div, span's margins and padding to zero.

They setup the typography, picking a global font, setting up font-sizes, margins and padding for html elements such as h1, p, ordered and unored list, etc...

They provide a way of setting up a grid. Blueprint, by default, uses a grid chunked into 40px segments, creating 940px wide design. You then place divs inline or nested to create your design.

Blueprint also provides some extra goodies like defining styles for forms, error and success styles for divs, and some ie fixes.
I was taking you seriously until you claimed that that blog was the "best source of information on British/EU politics". Uh-huh.
I love working with it and it's also relatively fast compared to the other existing php frameworks. However, I have not used any of the others, so I can't really compare it. Maybe someone else can chime in.
I get down voted because I actually implemented what he said?
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I'm interested in insider books from startup people. I really liked Charles Ferguson's "High Stakes, No Prisoners". Are there any others like it? (Of course I have Founders at Work)
And my point is people have already decided; massive amounts of people already smoke it regularly. This is no need for any additional study, we know its effects, it's America's big dirty secret that a large minority of the population smokes all the time.

You're talking like there's some big bad unknown danger lurking around the corner and we should tread carefully. That's just bogus, pot isn't some unknown what if, it's something massive amounts of people do all the time already. It's a joke that it isn't already legal. It's a joke to suggest that it's even dangerous, it's not, and everyone knows it.

The last bit of resistance is people like you balking about moving too fast and not being careful enough or wanting to place limits and all that as if we aren't 30 years past that kind of timidness. People who are scared of pot are a joke.
Perfumes and food flavors are concocted in the same factories in New Jersey by the same chemists. In other words, food flavors are food perfumes. Factory processing of mediocre quality farm products can create a food which is not particularly appetizing. Adding "natural flavors" or "artificial flavors" makes this brand-name food smell yummy. And adding some colors makes it look yummy.

"Natural flavors" are made from plants or animals using old-fashioned processes. "Artificial flavors" are made from 1) plants or animals using newfangled processes or 2) icky substances such as petroleum or coal tar. "Natural strawberry flavor" is made from a tree (birch? willow? can't remember), not from strawberries.

I'm pretty sure I learned these factoids around ten years ago from a book called Mauve, about the history of fabric dyes, of all things. Or some of this might be found in Fast Food Nation.

BTW, my aroma memory tells me that if you slap on some Polo cologne, the scent that remains after a few hours is "blueberry flavor" from Betty Crocker muffin mix.
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Although it's somewhat less complex, similar vending machines that make poutine (a French-Canadian dish that's basically fries with gravy and cheese curds) have been around for a while in Montreal.

In thee machines, it starts with pre-cut fries. You see them dumped into some oil, fried for a bit, then dumped into the container. Cheese curds are then dropped on the pile, and it's finally shot with a bunch of gravy. All-in, it takes about four minutes, and it's pretty good poutine (if you like that stuff).
This will probably not make it above the noise in the thread but I think the following would be useful:

- You would ideally have at least one person who you trust who is a coder who you can show source code samples, previous work, etc., for a quality assessment.

- Previous business references are valuable, as only so much of the overall usefulness of the person comes from raw coding ability -- there may be other habits, personality characteristics, etc., that (good or bad) might influence the decision.

- I highly recommend starting out a new coder with a simple contract project so that you can assess her ability to communicate, work toward a goal, etc. You should probably pay whatever the coder thinks is fair, b/c this is not a bidding war exercise. You mainly want to see about work habits, style, compatibility with the existing team, productivity, etc. By doing this you are giving both parties (yourself and the programmer) a chance to feel each other out and determine if it's a good fit. This can even be done as a part-time project while the programmer is still employed elsewhere, reducing risk for everyone involved.

- Things like blogs, open source contributions, etc., are nice, but I think of them as a hobby and unless you're thinking of hiring one of the few very well known luminaries in a software community, the fact that your prospective hire has a blog is probably not all that indicative of superstar qualities.

- Character traits like tinkering are great too, but just because someone is focused on a main task and doesn't tinker with each new thing that comes along doesn't mean she's somehow a worse programmer than the tinkerer who writes something in every new framework, etc. I have known great coders with both characteristics and I think the bottom line is that good coders know what's out there and can easily help you evaluate it for your business, even if they didn't spend the past 5 weekends hacking out a side project in erlang -- unless of course you truly end up wanting to use erlang, at which point their side project was a great investment that cost you nothing. However, most skilled coders could read up on erlang and catch up in about a week, so we're not talking about all that much overall productivity.

- I'd beware of coders who prefer highly complex solutions to problems -- in a business scenario sometimes a less elegant, easily understood solution is ideal.

- I'd beware of coders who are unwilling to adapt to your demand for quality. Perhaps you don't need 3000 lines of test code for an internal whiteboard app. It's good to find a coder you can trust to make the right call, but some are very unconcerned with your budget and timeline and may not realize where the rubber meets the road from a business perspective.

Any hire is going to be a relationship and hiring a coder is not too different from hiring a business person. You need to establish trust and confidence. Frank and clear communication is key to this. The coder should not think of you as a "suit" and you should not think of her as a geek. Ultimately the reason anyone is getting paid is because it's a business and that requires judicious use of tradeoffs.
Don't forget sugar tariffs. If the sugar lobby was not in bed with the corn lobby to keep cheap caribbean and south american sugar out of the US market the price advantage enjoyed by HFCS would not be a significant factor. [For the record, there are reasons other than enhancing sweetness to use HFCS but if sugar costs were close to parity with HFCS it would fall from the second or third ingredient in many processed foods down towards the bottom of the list doewn near "natural and artificial flavorings", etc.]
Social networking website for cancer awareness
I am planning to create a social networking website to spread the awareness of cancer in india. My main audience of focus are Indian youth. I am planning to use Insoshi open source to build this site.

I want to know if it is a correct approach.
I would really appreciate your comments.

Thanks
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Two quotes from the comments on Cringley's site bear repeating (or should I say "parroting" - sorry ;-)

William: "Ugh. I was really excited you’d found something that entrepreneurs could do to bring value to the world. But this guy’s taken the basics somebody could get from any $20 parrot book, added a heap of the sort of dubious marketing that fills the low-grade tabloids, thrown in a web forum they could get for free, and charged $80 for it. From an economic perspective — which is something we clearly could use more of — this business adds little or no value to the world. All it does is extract money from people who aren’t smart enough to find the right parrot book through Amazon or their local pet store. It moves money around, but it makes us net poorer, as it consumes more value than it creates. I’m sure it’s great for the guy running it, but don’t fool yourself into thinking this does anything good for our economy at all."

Mike Gamerland: "Following this model, you would suggest we all pick a niche market, identify ourselves as someone we are not, with experience and expertise we don’t have and sell products to people who, by the very nature of the market – would find it difficult if not impossible to know the truth... So - instead of identifying expertise and raising it above the clatter of the girl 'who would love to talk to me now' and the 'banker from Africa – who can make me millions,' I am stuck with more liars working to get money from me."