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This comment was more of a response to the discussion surrounding the whole "flat design" trend. Perhaps I should have responded to a particular comment, but my thoughts on the subject weren't specific to any one person's opinions.

My thoughts, put another way, are that I don't like that this particular aesthetic is now being held up as some great way forward in UI design. I don't like the discussions that seem so frequent here, that completely miss the point. This is merely a style, and really has little or nothing to do with affordances or whatever reasons often professed by supporters and detractors when it comes up.

The fact that this particular look has attracted so much debate and thought is what confuses me.
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Some math such as geometric proofs are still harder for many people to do on computers. There is always a cost/benefit calculation when building and learning to use tools. So, while it may seem obvious to us that software is a net win, when you don't think in those terms it's far from obvious that it is.
Come now, you know the parent meant "flat trend in computer UI". This isn't a discussion about art.
Many critics of institutional psychiatry hold that the construct of mental illness is often used to medicalize nonpathological behavior that doesn't meet social norms, putting a scientific stamp of approval on judgements regarding human behavior, morals, and ethics.

Given the uncertain pathophysiology of ADHD, the degree to which symptoms resemble moral judgements, the dramatic increase in diagnosis following advocacy in the psychiatric community, and questionable improvement of long-term outcomes for patients treated with medication, ADHD is seen by them as a good example of this point of view. I assume that's what he was alluding to.
Right, so in the cases you're talking about there, you have made some sort of argument that government is necessary and therefore needs to be funded. However, I can't help noticing that everything you described there collectively represents a tiny drop in the ocean of what a lot of governments do, and the total cost represents a similarly tiny drop in the ocean of the tax those governments charge everyone to fund themselves. Making an analogous case for many other, much more expensive government activities is not so easy: medical care, education, personal security, provisions for the elderly, energy production, housing, all these have been provided effectively as a public service, a private enterprise, or some hybrid.
Hey I'm the guy behind the video. The song was actually produced specifically for the video by my music partner Derrick Calloway. We produce under the name Enso (www.ensoofficial.com)

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The last link is apparently the source of your information but it is not referenced as such. Why not?
How is any of this relevant?
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I don't think so. The reason we've had Nvidia and AMD support on Linux for so long is because of the large 3d/sfx and of 'gpu accelerated number crunching presence' Linux has.

The end user Linux desktop market has never really been on their radar, perhaps that will change somewhat with the advent of Steam, but really I expect that unless the aforementioned markets adopt Wayland or Mir (with the latter being most unlikely imo) then NVidia and AMD won't target them with proprietary driver support.
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patio11's list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Gerrymandering is a serious problem, but it just changes the tactics necessary to win: Instead of spreading out nationwide to try to change the result in every individual district, we concentrate on the districts with contested seats. And because those seats determine who gets the majority in the legislature, if you can cause a substantial number of votes to change sides in those districts based on the party's stance on your issue, you can influence the party's platform -- or deprive them of the 51st vote necessary to pass legislation contrary to our interests, because the representative from the contested district can't vote against us without it costing the next election.

In addition to that, gerrymandering just pushes the real campaign into the primaries for those seats. If your representative's party has a hard lock on your district's seat, do what the Tea Party has been doing and primary the incumbent. And fewer people vote in the primaries, so each vote you can shift from one candidate to another counts for more there.
-1 for requiring registration before I know whether this App gives me value. Good idea but I don't love starting our relationship this way
I was supposed to buy one this week. Now I'm scared...
So, uh, you had to restart the device? You're specifically talking about placing the phone in DFU mode which is restarting the phone and holding the home button while it's turning on. I really don't mean to sound crass, but that's hardly painful.
>But it worries me that Ubuntu is increasingly striking out on its own.

It's a little distressing, I agree, but on the other hand, are you ever really "out on your own" when you have a big user base and your code is GPL?
Thanks for the comments - kind and otherwise.

I'm happy to let it all stand unchallenged - there's a lot you're not aware of or not seeing, but we know what we're doing and we're gonna keep doing it.

And yes we will be writing about Wingtip sometime soon.
So she was born in 1908, but Facebook changes it to 1928, yet lists her as 99 years old? Something doesn't add up there...
Sounds like some BS journalistic license has been taken.
Discussion on the Apple Forum (more useful than the original link):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4735947?start=210&t...
I think this is very dependent on the area of maths. In applied mathematics, obviously simulation is of huge importance; and in very fundamental pure maths the language is close enough to formal logic to make it easier to apply computer-aided proof.

But in very pure disciplines which rely on several layers of supporting definitions and theorems, there is little to be gained from numerical computation - but huge amounts of bootstrapping are still required before the computer can prove results of its own using logical manipulation.

To take a simple example, writing a computer program capable of proving that there are infinitely many primes - without embedding so much domain knowledge in it as to render it useless - seems a pretty nontrivial task.
Are you saying that Canonical is the 'entire Linux FOSS community' ???
How does a computer help when you have conjectures involving infinite mathematical structures or extremely large numbers? You can't ask the computer to enumerate the solutions for you. You have to reason in a roundabout way, possibly building some abstraction.

Even if there are some branches of mathematics that will be affected by computers, at the end of the day, there will still have to be someone who does the conjecturing, someone with enough knowledge to pose the question to the computer.
Show photos of landmarks of the place they are searching flights to.
I bike a lot and I don't notice that I really eat more on days when I bike. And if I do it just means that I eat a slightly bigger portion of whatever I was eating anyway so the cost difference is negligible.

Also the price of gas is relatively fixed whereas with food you can economize by eating ramen instead of steak.
I'm a pretty seasoned traveller and I'll give you one bit of advice if you want to meet people: go to your local bar early when it is pretty much the bartenders and you. Likely they are bored and will have a chat with you. Mention that you are a tourist ask some questions and soon they will be introducing you to the locals.

It is a great way for meeting people and having a great time. I've used it many times. Last week I was in the pacific for work and by night's end was invited to a BBQ for the next day. It turned out to be a great BBQ and a unique insight into the lifestyle of the island.

When I visited Paris I made friends with the local bartender and was receiving free drinks by nights end and invites left, right and centre to join people on little adventures.
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True, perhaps the presentation of the site would be improved if there was more balanced arrangement of UI and content? That is to say, actually have content?

I guess the OP is assuming everyone knows the Bootstrap convention and so it's just skipping past the bull, so to speak, and showing you the goods. Unfortunately, right now, it's showing the UI elements in exactly the way one would do so to show the weaknesses of flat UI. I think the juxtaposition of the buttons and the menubars floating in space is especially problematic, because it's too easy to think "buttons, more buttons, big extra long buttons"

And then this is immediately followed by the Input elements which, after seeing the first two sections, look just like buttons with a white background and different text-alignment...that's also an unfortunate arrangement.

Anyway, I hate to bag on something that's a proof of concept (and an attractive one at that) and wasn't intended to be as thoroughly documented as Bootstrap...I'm just pointing out that this particular arrangement is more confusing than it needs to be.
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Not going to defend his monumental stupidity to make such a statement, but if you're thinking that Republicans have any kind of lock on monumental stupidity, I beg to differ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
What’s good about that one is it went on for years and all the politicians knew about it.

I think you are trying to make the point that money bought the all politicians. While that is somewhat true in some cases it isn't the full story.

I suspect if you dig deeper what you will find is that no one cared enough to fix the problem.

I'd note in particular that the bill designed to stop the abuses in CNMI was passed unanimously in the Senate, but then blocked by Tom DeLay in the house[1]. While is it easy to say that DeLay blocked the bill because of money, the truth is that DeLay is quite happy to block any bill that involves new labor laws.

Abramoff found someone who's politics already aligned with what he wanted to happen and then made sure that person saw it as something important enough to do something about it.

I'm not at all sure that is political corruption at all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_CNMI_scandal
> A bicycle plus messenger bag and rider weighs 80kg

wait, what?
"If you go back far enough, beware February 30th, 1712"

OK, my girlfriend and I looked it up. All I can say is this: experience matters. These are not things they teach in school (not any school I have been too, anyway).
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I'd probably buy it, but not with the DRM they're shipping with it.
Forget about third parties. Third parties can't win with a first past the post voting system -- the minute you have three viable parties, the two most similar parties immediately starting losing elections to the least similar party because the more similar parties split the vote between one another, and since they're not stupid they realize this and stop running candidates against one another, effectively merging into a single party.

But you can get the result you want through the primaries. Run your candidate against the incumbent in the primary and keep emphasizing your specific issues and publicizing the incumbent's corrupt stance on them -- even if you don't always win, you may be able to get the incumbent to change positions.
Maybe you weren't around awhile so you don't know the backstory. Link expiration is partly because the servers back then wasn't able to keep up with datascraping, for example when we made the only useable search engine for a few years.
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Why worry about this when the LG panels have horrible ghosting? I had to have mine replaced, and luckily got a Samsung panel (this was on the original Retina 15" hardware, though apparently this happens elsewhere too).

I've had lots of problems with Apple hardware over the years, most of it dealt with very well by Apple, but the panel ghosting was by far the worst.

I'd open Gmail, read email for 2 minutes, then flip to my terminals on another desktop and could still read my email. Yuck.
Guys there is an easy way around your problem. if your results are as good as you say they are then its just a matter of tweaking your ux. offload the result delivery to email and pubsub the actual search. If you have thought of this I would be interested in hearing why it doesn't work. If not then please at least include it as an option.
The responses to this comment seem a bit unnecessarily condescending, but they share an underlying point - unlike the more realistic design trends, this one does not require Illustrator/Photoshop tutorials (except, perhaps for the icons, but that's more about learning precision with the pen tool). The flat design trend is more about an overal feel than exact design technique. Color plays an incredibly prominent role here - you'll notice that the same teal, dark blue, burnt orange, etc. shows up in the popular examples of "flat design". Note this UI set, the Layer Vault site, Built by Buffalo, Spelltower, etc. In comparison, Craigslist theoretically uses a "flat" design, but it would not be grouped in the same category because it doesn't have the same feel. If you start with a similar color palette and forgo the use of gradients and drop shadows, you will be well on your way.

Typography plays a large role in this trend as well, although not as prominently. You'll notice the heavy use of sans serif fonts, although some examples (Medium sticks out in my mind) have nicely used serif fonts for body copy. Larger line heights and font-sizes (18px+ for base font size and line heights between 1.2 and 1.5 em) utilize white space well to make the design seem less compact - an excellent practice, because without other cues for depth, the flat visuals can look quite cramped.

I would advise creating a dummy page and playing with these different styles. This trend is great for learning by doing, rather than learning by recreating (you don't need to get that perfect gradient to pull the design together). Tools like color.hailpixel.com can help you pull your color scheme together, and resources such as Symbolset.com can provide nice icon fonts that will tie your flat design together. You can also download the "What Font" extension to Chrome (do they have one for Firefox too?) to see the dominent fonts being used in these designs. I've been seeing Lato (http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato) pop up a lot recently.

Anyway, best of luck!
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Is it abuse if it's in moderation?

(hint: No)
Bicycling is surprisingly expensive once you don't want to lose weight. At 200 calories per dollar (i.e. about $10 per day for a sedentary diet) and four dollars per gallon of gas it comes out to the equivalent of 25 mpg. There's obviously a whole bunch of other relevant factors, but personally it hadn't even occurred to me that food would be my primary bicycle-related expense until I started riding a lot.
You actually described the reality very well despite your condescending sarcastic tone.
I don't want to have to go to all my friends' walls to see what they're saying. I want it to be in my feed, unless I explicitly remove it, or give Facebook permission to choose. I'm not holding my breath, though.
Read: Nothing will come of this. President Obama also said he would veto CISPA, close Guantanamo Bay, curb ICE, pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, end indefinite detention, defend labor rights, stop hiring former lobbyists in the White House, end the practice of recess appointments, oppose FISA, and end the use of drones to assassinate terrorists, among many other blatant lies.
Let's not forget that reduced maintenance costs are often touted as a reason to opensource code in the first place. And when you consider it was developed by Apple and so presumably fit there needs well when released it as working code, it's not surprising that adapting it to new use cases involves more work than maintaining it.
Well, it has usernames. That's a policy in and of itself!

The policy, then, is completely implicit: you can have any valid username which may or may not reflect your own name.

Oh, and you can't change them after the fact. As far as I know. That would be a nice feature...
Medicare kicks in and absorbs all medical costs at social expense beginning at age 65. Cyclists seldom die before 65, so that is a social cost.

Cycling has known cardiovascular side effects. As a result cyclists seldom die suddenly of heart disease, the cheapest of the common ways to die. Another social cost.

Everybody dies of something but cyclists are proven to live much longer and consume extensive social resources in their lingering. Triple social cost.

The ideal health policy for our nation's fiscal health is to tax cyclists and use the cash to buy cigarettes for young people.
Haha. I'm afraid to look like I'm asking for my own recreational purposes, but what doses would that be?

Again, this is anecdotal and doesn't prove anything, but when I've taken too much Adderall at once I haven't found it very pleasant at all. It wasn't fun and nothing about those dosages made me want to repeat the experience, much less experiment with even higher dosages.

(For me, "too much" would be taking 15mg in a single dose. I know that's not a huge amount in the scheme of things.)

> I agree that typical meth use is
> very different from typical medical adderall use.

I don't mean this rhetorically at all... what do you feel is the reason (or reasons) for this?
What you are repeating is wrong.

There are checkpoints a hundred miles from the border in many states and several videos of people suffering horrible results when they refuse searches at these checkpoints.

The TSA also routinely performs searches far from the border with their VIPR team. (because someone might drive a train into a building? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_a... )
I think you mean your addiction is no longer outside the social norm. Caffeine is addictive, regardless what you rationalise or not. The only way to not be addicted is to severely limit supply...
https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca
It's a lot more pleasant to eat a meal than it is to pump gas into your car.
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Having sat through a similar course, and despite being a proponent of Porter, I too was enjoying the article. Until the point where they mentioned Peter Drucker's "foundational insight," at which point I realized it was just another "my business guru is better than your business guru" pissing match. Forbes is crap.
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One thing I think more people should do is post contact info in their profiles. Remember, the email field doesn't get displayed!

And, of course, people should be more willing to contact each other outside of comments for whatever reason. I've had some very interesting, protracted side conversations from HN and they've all been great. That's also how I've met some very interesting people and seen some very interesting companies.

EDIT: Oh hey, reading through your linked post, it seems you have that exact point there, and I was just paraphrasing you. As you can guess, I agree with it wholeheartedly :P.
Hey, I never implied North Korea had any torrent sites to go after.

Besides, that's their thinking, not mine. If anyone's unlucky it's them.
All Facebook gets from me in all this is that I spend less and less time on Facebook, because all I do is look at the news feed, and if there's only five new items from yesterday, then I leave. I wish I could say I was sticking it to them for being jerks, but I know they don't really care about me or need me. And it's not like all my friends are going to go to Google+, or heaven forbid Diaspora. Excuse me while I go post this story on my wall.
The phrase "hand-whatever" has lost its novelty. I'm reluctant to make such a short and flip comment, but I can't be the only person who cringes every time I see it.
Perhaps then you aren't aware that IPv6 stacks can reach IPv4 addresses, nor that IPv6 packets are a popular way to compromise systems that support both IPv6 and IPv4, because the IPv6 stacks are not as well hardened.
The challenge is that not only do you have to really nail it with the "one bullet", but you probably also have to prove it as well. Just coming up with the best answer might not be enough, because people don't trust travel sites to do that. How do you earn trust? You have to convey the sense of an exhaustive search encompassing all the best-known airlines (especially the budget ones), all the available fare types, and flight times. It's almost like putting together a business case for the trip. "Here's the recommendation, based on all these different things we considered."
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You forgot to include the economic cost to production that occurs when a bicycle courier ends up beneath an SUV. This delays delivery from the SUV, unnecessarily uses up emergency services, and moves delivery onto other, inefficient bicycle couriers who have to take up the slack while the original spends 6 months in hopstial.
This just in: Facebook is a business and wants to make a profit.

Seriously, how is this surprising? You want to use Facebook to increase your own business, you pay them. If anything, being able to reach a fraction of your followers for free is an evolution of freemium.
> You are asserting that the law firm's long working hours were caused by her med use. Do you think you might have that backwards?

It probably becomes a vicious cycle / race to the bottom. You take more drugs to work longer hours and compete with your colleagues, who start taking more drugs so they can work more hours to have the edge over you...
> This is neither the law nor the actual practice in the US.

Not true; this is absolutely the actual practice in the US. Look what you have to do if you want to avoid being searched in one of these rights-exclusion zones:

http://masonmark.com/mundane-american-hero/
Please stop the emotional diarrhea. You have an intellect, so use it.

Reread my comment again and this time think about each word. You will find that "kill" or an equivalent word does not appear once.

What does appear is "genetic engineers". What do genetic engineers do? They create new organisms with genetic sequences chosen to encourage particular traits. Traits like intelligence and creativity.

Then we simply sit back and wait for the wild-type organisms to go extinct. No killing is needed, as even a few seconds of reflection would have let you find out for yourself.
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Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/1173/
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Azimov explored this idea in his short story The Dead Past

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
650W is far too high for the output of an average person for an hour ([3] shows this is almost 1 HP which should indicate how far it is off).

Here is a more informed link:
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2010/07/power-outputs-from-t...
"choose between cutting significant features from the app or only shipping our new version to the newest Android phones (ICS and up)"

The ICS move wouldn't have been a bad option. It would've helped a lot of users convert to ICS+ devices, which Google probably would've loved.

The APIs from 4+ are much more robust than pre-ICS, and it probably would've saved more headaches while building the new version in addition to the one already described in the post.
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