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>I mean look at the warnings on what is basically the next step, TPN http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/nutritional_disorde.... . He is basically drinking almost exactly this

You do realize there is a substantial difference between drinking it and injecting it right? You are talking about the side effects of completely bypassing the entire GI system and providing for all nutrition through an IV.
In that case, they've been doing this same kind of stuff with their other brands for quite a while and either are ignoring the pain it generates or aren't feeling it.
I was half expecting that some developer was auctioned off for a $2.7M signing bonus just like in the good old days.
They can be given to groups, as in the case of the 2007 Peace Prize:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
This post is spot on, IMO. I bought Brennan's book, and chose the middle tier, because I knew that while I could certainly apply the concepts from just the book to my site and write the copy myself, I knew that the likelihood of that happening in the next year would be somewhere around 30%. It's easily worth an extra $80 for me to have pre-written copy I can tweak to my situation. Not just because it will be faster, but because it will get done sooner. There's an opportunity cost to not improving my consulting website for X days, and it's WAY more than $80.
The databaser in me wonders about the applicability of a two-phase commit protocol.

Suppose PG/YC (s/PG/{FW or BF or ...}) acted in the role of a transaction coordinator.

Instead of sending confirmation messages directly to each other, the parties would send their confirmations to the coordinator. Like an escrow agent, the coordinator would wait until all parties had confirmed and then send agreement notifications to all.

This might allow investors to commit with contingencies, such as requiring other investors or a minimum investment greater than their own investment.
100% ? What are you smoking? He spends millions on malaria nets that have a proven record of saving lives. If that is wasting money I don't really want to know what you think the right way to spend money is...
I would say that this is untrue. How much (or how little) people care about what you say is simply tied to what they've heard from you or about you in the past.

A framework project helps with this, because it presents a history of your work - but it only helps if other people are actually using the framework. That same history and reputation could be established by authoring a widely-used library, or by voluminous contribution/collaboration with open-source projects.

In some cases, even just imparting your knowledge can establish the positive reputation. This is where blogging and speaking at conferences (and unconferences/lightning talks, to start out with) can help.
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Can this be viewed without registering?
chrome --disk-cache-size=1 --media-cache-size=1

1 is a size in bytes (must be >0).
This is not happening in Chrome as of last year, but you can use a proxy like Fiddler2 or Charles.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8806625/is-it-possible-to...

[edit] Also:

Random perl script: https://github.com/inno/pluck-har

Google's record/playback Chrome extension: http://code.google.com/p/bite-project/
I would want a potential investor to spend a little more time on due diligence than that. Also, does the lawyer work for free? Don't you want to do some of your own research on the investor? This just sounds utterly bonkers.
Software doesn't develop itself. Infrastructure doesn't build itself, and rack space isn't free.

Google has to generate revenue somehow, and their primary method of doing so is with ads.

So, how can you use Google's services, block their ads, and then call them evil for protecting their revenue stream?
The funniest thing is that the whole thing is not true. Yeah, you can disable the first DRM layer in JavaScript but after 30 minutes you will get always thrown back to the main menu.
oh, geez. I am on 10.8 but I dont use Apple Mail and I was going to go back to it solely for OS X.
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>The point here is not to bash vegetarianism, but to point out that it took her 12 years to develop health issues.

No, it took her twelve years to admit to and respond to health issues. They presented very early on. She was simply on a terrible diet, and was deficient in iron. No mystery, no "unknown unknowns", just a very simple, straightforward, common deficiency we've known about for decades.
In retrospect it seems yes. But my guess is that "consumers" here were probably friends and family and they told the OP what he wanted to hear.
And most importantly the saving of history even if the feed goes down.
I worked in a warehouse once with a guy who didn't have a bank account and had to go to check cashing places to cash his paycheck.

He used to have a bank account, but at some point he ran into overdraft fees, so he'd have to pay a couple hundred dollars to settle that out before he can access the banking system. He couldn't afford that.
It happens. There are investors who are notorious for offering lower caps to startups that have already started raising money. The solution is essentially to route around them. We advise startups to approach such investors last, when they've already raised enough that they feel comfortable saying "take it or leave it."

(There was a big kerfuffle a while ago when an email of this type got leaked.)

There's another case, though, when the startup has initially raised money at a higher cap than the market will bear. We warn founders about this, but they don't always listen. In that case they give the earlier investors the same lower cap that they negotiate with later investors.
Some games do more interesting keys to try to hide the certificate. Spread it in the binary, encrypt it with a key spread in a similar way, etc.

Of course none of that is impossible to break, and there is a point of diminishing returns (when it's easier to try to change the certificate loading code).
A pissing match of who can find the most errors in other people's code is probably a good thing :P
It's when it starts being about personal aesthetic preferences without any consequences in terms of code readability/quality that I think it starts to be annoying.
There exist various proxies that do this; for me, the first Google result for "proxy record replay http" leads to http://code.google.com/p/http-impersonator/wiki/GettingStart....
There is no verification of a verbal handshake deal. This protocol is more about clarity than being bulletproof.
If I'm misinterpreting dscrd's argument please help me out. I interpreted his critique to markets as they won't work because they represent the will of the people, and sometimes the will of the people is wrong (because they're irrational)? He seemed to accept that argument and wanted to push it forward..

> There may be rational components to each of those (they give pleasure), but when viewed in the light of my decision to not live next to a coal power plant (I don't want to eventually get sick), they seem like pretty irrational decisions (because they'll eventually make me sick).

Sounds like value theory to me. It's a simple cost/benefit analysis. Donuts make me reeeaaally happy, so I'll indulge. To make up for it, I'll run a mile. I like eating a donut and running a mile over not having a donut at all. It's not a matter of rationality, but preference -- which is what value should reflect. The creation of value can't be institutionalized by a central planner because preference is so diverse and changes at a rate quicker than any beurocracy can address. Again, just one persons observations.
Also, if your window size is greater than 2^8 and you can afford an extra 2 x window_size bytes, the optional indexing greatly increases the compression speed over normal LZSS; the typical linear scan for every byte really hurts as the window gets larger. The index construction is O(N) in the window size for both time and space, which should be doable on many systems.

It doesn't change the fundamental algorithm, just speeds up the compression's pattern detection.
You don't your side of the argument any favours by offering made up nonsense like "aspartame causes osteoporosis" as an example.
Good point. OP just followed the style used by Sussman and Abelson which use Lisp and Scheme interchangeably.
I think old RailwayJS now CompoundJS has similar goals to look like Rails, yet bring goodness of NodeJS to the masses.

http://compoundjs.com/

I tried it before when it was RailwayJS and it was really good and fast. I didn't do any major projects in it.
From the article:
'The particle was named for Peter Higgs, one of the physicists who proposed its existence, but it later became popularly known as the "God particle."'
Calling it the "God particle" is an insult to science, and "Higgs Boson" is definitely the more popular term. Here's the adword keyword analysis for both: http://imgur.com/dsNVbum
"Higgs Boson" as a search term is 4.078 times more popular globally and 3.322 times in the US.
I don't think so. I even had to register to view - and it's my talk!

I haven't received any marketing stuff from Cloudera or O'Reilly however. Honestly, I doubt those companies would do anything questionable with registrations.
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What I find interesting is that malaria gets less funding because the countries with malaria are so poor. And they are poor because of their governments are bad.

And if a country with malaria suddenly started to grow quickly, it itself would also quickly solve its malaria problem.

So what do charities do? They fund malaria cures, not government reform. They fund the treatment of symptoms, not the root cause.

And why don't we fund the root cause? It turns out it may well be much harder than curing malaria. How do you un-corrupt a thoroughly corrupt government?

And Europe has a horrific colonial history with the developing world, especially Africa. First worlders attempting to dictate what and how 3rd world leaders should do would be embarrassingly reminiscent of colonialism. And here embarrassing means leader might lose the perceived power which keeps them in office.

And lastly donor countries tend to have laws against corruption which would punish charities for paying off foreign leaders. Even if they are paying them off to reduce poverty or something good like that.

So here is a totally crazy idea. Make an exception to foreign corruption laws if the cause is worth it.

Then offer secret payment to developing world leaders if they meet certain metrics. And also offer them advice on what to do to meet the metrics. And do it all in secret.

Imagine Kim Jong Un one day suddenly starts slowl and steady market reforms. Imagine 10 years later North Korea is growing quite fast, and Kim Jong Un is a dedicated fighter of corruption. Imagine Kim Jong Un himself starts to encourage direct democracy, first at village level and then higher. Imagine a few years later Kim Jong Un gives an emotional speech about the two Koreas being one, liberty and democracy in the North, and then resigns leaving a Swiss like democratically chosen group of people in charge, and a North Korean government structure looking quite similar to that of Switzerland. Then Kim Jong Un moves to southern California with a mysterious fortune of several billion dollars, a universal pardon from the US president, and protection from foreign prosecution in the states.
Even more awesome would be the ability to send the recorded content to someone.
Alright, I'll download the compiler/etc right now :D
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Exactly. There's an opportunity cost with everything we do. Personally, I'm a "grind it out" kind of guy. Yesterday I stayed at the office, late into the night, trying to solve a problem myself. I got home (at like 8pm) and my wife said: "Why didn't you just ask your co-worker for help?" The next morning, I went to the expert (my co-worker) and he solved my problem in 5 minutes.

There are times when paying an expert, or buying the "kit", is just worth it. I could have been home at 5pm, spending time with my wife and kids. Instead, I was at the office, banging my head up against the wall, not really getting anywhere.
this looks cool; thanks for posting.

i just wish the hero graphic wasn't so gross. what we have there is a white man-child in the middle, spectacled, with little beady eyes behind the big frames, hunched forward like he wants to get punched in the face. to his right we have a hot a chick, her sexy little stomach is showing. she's got big anime eyes. i'm not sure what her deal is—is she the project manager? to the left is a black dude smiling so wide you can't even see his face. that guy looks straight out of some racist shit from the 20s. i wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that guy was a white dude in blackface. anyway, weird graphic.
Its important to note that just because the middle tier isn't bringing in much revenue does not necessarily mean its useless. For many products, the sole job of the middle tier is to make the top tier look more attractive.
I agree, It is just as important to trust the investor as it is to trust the startup.
We (Clerky) have a service that lets you do the paperwork part of that with software. It's in private beta, but will be available publicly shortly. No need to have the lawyer on call or courier service - you can just enter in the deal terms, generate docs, and sign electronically.
Read Andy Kessler's WSJ article from today. It provides an answer:
Want to Change the World? How About a Billion-Dollar Prize

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732362880457834...

You can google for the story to get beyond the paywall if you need to.
But might that not be a problem? Some deals must get hung up on the documentation, no? Or perhaps more reasonably, a disagreement over the materiality of something discovered in due-diligence? This can't be a promise to invest X at Y valuation no matter what, which it might be if it were treated as a legal contract.
Interesting that there is not only iOS/Android/web apps for this, but a Chrome extension and Mac Desktop app as well. I would've figured that this was a service could survive on a web app alone (with email service).
Quite! Also interesting is that you came even though you were expecting navel-gazing, so you must find value even in that.
I have been using Mention for the past couple of months and even though their UI is not quite there yet, they are way better then Google Alert.

The only thing that is very annoying at the beginning, at least for me, was that I received A LOT of false positive mention... So I had to "Train" it a bit but now it's all good.
Quite to the contrary. I'm pointing out that while a bunch of people choose to worry about potential threats in the future, the exact kind of threat they worry about is already here, and actively destroying the world and ruining lives. The prophecies are all true, you could say, they're just coming true right now in a way that the worrying prophets don't recognize because they themselves, insofar as they favor capitalism, are participating in the damage.

When I first realized this, the irony kind of threw me for a giggling fit.
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I'm surprised more people don't do this. It's pretty easy to set up.

Here's a little bit I wrote about using rss2email + emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HOWTOReadFeedsInEmacsViaEmail
Tiffani Bell from PencilYouIn. Sian Morson from Kollectiv Mobile, Hadiyah Mujhid was once involved with a startup, Ama Morfo, Janelle Jolley, The ladies from Techturize....
I've imported content from google reader, and there's folders, but manually i can not add any.
Hey, we will be starting the interview rounds soon and I don't know if I'll be able to get someone on such short notice. Though I'll try my best! Thank you for your suggestions.
I'm a black female developer who founded BlackFemaleCoders (http://blackfemalecoders.tumblr.com/) as a way of building a community of us out there. I've found it difficult both throughout my CS studies and while working in the field to find other women like me who can share and relate to my experience and I noticed that there wasn't really a strong presence out there for those of us already in the field to connect with each other. I'm hoping my blog can help fix that.

In terms of my experience, I can count on my hands the number of other black women developers I've encountered thusfar. Whether it's at conferences, in my classes or at work, I'm often one of a couple or the only black woman around (and oftentimes black person in general). I'm not happy about it and have become an advocate for getting more women of color (and women in general!) in STEM fields, specifically in computer science.

I've shared more on my experience as being a black female coder here in this post: http://blackfemalecoders.tumblr.com/about

I encourage you all to check it out and please get in touch with me if you are interested in sharing your experience! (twitter @lifeissweetgood)
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I wonder if the auction includes benefits like vacation time, signing bonuses, parental leave, work hardware etc?
>Cash is more ubiquitous than phones

Are you sure? Right now I have a phone but I don't have any cash.
No it isn't. "Good" is not a strictly ethical question. In this case, someone is wrongly pretending that whatever is "natural" to eat is also "healthy" to eat, and thus "good".
A job seems like the last thing I would want to leave up to be "sold to the highest bidder." From an employee's perspective there are so many other factors outside of compensation that are relevant to whether I would want to work somewhere. From an employer's perspective if you are hiring mercenaries willing to work for the highest bidder, what do you do when company X is willing to pay more than you can afford?
I don't think many people turned down Yuri Milner's offer.

They may feel differently about a bigger, later stage offer, but they may have to trade that off with how quickly they want to start spending money. Would the speed and organisation of a VC impress you?
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Guido mentions that you can't get an accurate stack trace in the presence of tail-call optimization. That alone makes it an absolute no-go for just about ANY production code (where ease of debugging is orders of magnitude more important than ease of writing in the first place).
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I have found that tips for traveling are all over the internet so I have none to give really. The advice you heard me tell you now is told by many others in travel blogs. http://reddit.com/r/travel
That's why you have your attorney look at the contract thoroughly. It's not about distrusting anyone, it's about making sure you're as protected as you can be.

Truthfully, a contract is only as good as your attorney is.
B) AirBnB for oil tankers

Is it just me or does this actually sound quite interesting?
A bit heavy duty and not cli, but http://www.charlesproxy.com/ is capable of intercepting and outputting logs.
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Can someone define cap for me in this context?
Honestly? Given what you've described, they aren't interested and it isn't happening.
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This is a fantastic idea, and there is no reason that this couldnt be an option to the Handshake Protocol.

Also, these bills will be sold off and collected when massive failures happen in later years.
This is not uncommon. Google's NYC headquarters is in Chelsea and many of their employees live nearby. Just a few blocks away are the New York City Housing Authority's Chelsea Houses which provide low income housing for over 1000 residents. Google and the Chelsea Houses are just blocks away, far less than 30 minutes, and yet are totally different worlds.
Yeah they are verbose (like so much in C++ sadly).

For frequently recurring patterns like "return o.bar" you can write a templated helper function that returns a functor which you can use like this:

getmem(&FooObject::bar)

It's longer than the C# version but shorter than the lambda and easier to type because your editor can auto-complete most of it (unlike the lambda which has a lot of syntax). It becomes even shorter than the lambda if FooObject needs to be const.

I use this technique a lot. For instance I can do:

std::sort(people.begin(), people.end(), compare_by_member(&Person::last_name))

to sort a container of Persons by last_name. I've been doing that since long before C++11 and still prefer it over lambdas because it's shorter, easier to type, and clearer when read.

Here's the code for compare_by_member if anyone's curious: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5163229
OTOH that's also a data issue: some of the top quality US and even French producers are trying the Stelvin and other new tech closures, but it'll take 30-40 years to know if they're as good as the cork (but without the 10% spoiling problem). They hope so. Prmeability, reduction and all sorts of complex chemical issues are on the line, and it's not a linear, rctuangular, clockwork modernist problem!

And.. it's again a customer-driven thing. People like the ritual of a cork. It's soft data, but oh so important. Take a long time for people's expectations and preferences to change as many blind-utopian technologists find to their cost.
A handshake sure sounds like a gesture used to signify that a deal has been negotiated to the satisfaction of both parties. Why would it not be a contract?
I think it's an important insight that certain inefficiencies can be tied to livelihood of the customer (wine sellers) and even the end user (wine buyers). There are strong emotional attachments to the PROCESS of making wine, promoting wine and selling wine. If you go to wineries throughout Sonoma county, you can clearly see that small, independent wineries often take pride in doing everything by hand and controlling their own selling to restaurants etc.

It is very similar to bookstores and record stores. Yes, there are big players that are handling there own optimizations but if you are a small winery (or bookstore/record store) you are doing it at this point in part as a preservation of an artisanal experience. There are countless ways they can do things better but there is a genuine fear that "optimizations" can be a slippery slope to Walmart-ville, both in how they think and how they are perceived.
For me, the lack of lamba functions meant I was less likely to use many of the algorithms from the standard library. In general, you want to provide a functor to such functions, and it doesn't make sense to define a class, overload operator(), and get the member variables and instantiations to line up when you could just write a for loop. With lambdas, the compiler will do that boiler plate for me.

(Yes, I say "will" - I'm not yet working on something that lets me use C++11 features. Sigh.)
My impression of the wine biz is that supply is fragmented. In which case the network of relationships is complex (many-to-many) and so costly to maintain.
In my business (insurance) disintermediation only followed massive consolidation on the insurer side. Many-to-many became Many-to-few. Cheaper to maintain, easier to scale.
Hi, thanks for your suggestions! I'll look at some of these things myself like you said. Maybe a generic discussion on programming would help in judging the candidate as well. I'll keep your points in mind. Thank you.
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