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Well, all I can say is that when you are hiring - it's very tough to find skilled developers at all, let alone with design skills. Designers are easier to find, but not a lot of them code. That's just my own personal experience plus a general feel for the industry from reading and talking to a few other business owners. It's funny how it seems like everybody is a programmer or UX designer - until you actually have to hire staff - then suddenly there seems to be none around! Of course it might be different if I was hiring at Facebook or Google rather than a small tech startup.

But anyway, don't confuse my saying I'm an adequate designer to mean that I have no taste or that I produce fugly apps. Nor am I rotting away in an ancient IT department with no clue about the current state of software development. I work on a team & we all have our own specialties. I need to have rudimentary design skills, but it would usually be a waste of resources for me to get overly involved in the actual graphic design.
> 1. We have a little bit of text we can be reasonably sure voidnull wrote -- some sort of text-likeness algorithm might be able to give us some candidates -- pointed at newsgroups/forums/etc where SDF users might hang out.

People call me extremely paranoid for this, but I've seen how effective author-analyzing software is.

I would almost certainly try to learn a new language if I want to stay anonymous, and only use that language for my anonymous alter-ego.

There are plenty of non-English communities out there, and if you're data is sufficiently interesting, people will translate it for you.
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Very, very cool. Amazingly polished, and takes a lot of different dietary needs into account. Thanks for making and sharing!
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I am sure you can, but statistics are not on your side. Domestic violence is mostly done by men. I hope your choice of companions have improved since.
Probably not.

I love the technology, but the feudal model is completely insane. It's worse than iOS-- at least iOS devices won't arbitrarily record you and upload it to a single large company with a EULA agreement authorizing them to do with it whatever they please. Every Google Glass wearer is a spy that might be uploading everything they see and hear to be... data mined by advertisers? shared with governments? stolen by hackers and used for blackmail? It's so insane the mind reels. I can't believe anyone is even thinking about using this platform.

Oh, I'm sure Google will "promise" not to do anything "evil" with this platform. But always remember two things: (1) corporate policies can shift at the whim of the board and the shareholders, especially if the board's makeup changes, and (2) governments can compel corporations to cooperate, both by legal means and extra-legal/para-legal threats and incentives. Finally: nothing is completely secure against malicious hackers.

It's an alarming trend. Each new form factor that has departed from the PC has brought with it an order of magnitude ratcheting up of feudal control and reduction in user control: PDAs, smart phones, tablets, and now this, which is off-the-charts insane.

I'm astounded that Google is getting away with it, honestly. Microsoft would never have been permitted to even contemplate something like what Google and Apple have done without wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I really think we need a term for this stuff: feudal computing. It's a total 180-degree turn away from everything the PC and Internet revolutions stood for.

I predict that Glass will fail because of this, not the technology, and I really hope it does. If it succeeds in its present form it's a dangerous harbinger of things to come. Say goodbye to general purpose computation for the masses.
Define 'consumer grade' and 'serious startup'

Code is not big, other resources like images, etc, may take more space, but that's often not an issue.

More importantly, 'consumer grade DSL' may be all that's available depending on the location.

Of course, the website is not being served from there.
Yes, there is. I've worked as a paid-by-the-hour contractor for a single client for years at a time. I've done this for three different clients - for 4 years, 2 and 1/2 years, and (my current client) 3 and 1/2 years. In my current role, I serve as dev lead and have significant input with regard to strategic direction of the project. I might be an outlier and my experience may not be shared by many, but I'm evidence that scenario C exists.
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Yes, but if the site is designed poorly then the user will spend as much time trying to figure out how to navigate around it than they would waiting for this modern version to download. I'm not saying the new one is easier to use, but you get my point.
Government websites need to start with the user.
What's the point of showing all the information if it's not relevant ?
What's the point of showing me permits that only apply to residents, if they don't apply to a business owner ?
What's the point of showing me tax information if I'm a tourist ?
They shouldn't make you look at all that.
They should make it easy.
3 buttons to start with : resident, tourist, business.
Add 3 photo to make it attractive and a few language choices.
I still think the one used by the Spanish Congress is worse. URL for legal document 162/000609:

http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/...
I thought so when I started writing it :)
I think it's funny that the photo in the article is of two guys stealing an ATM (note the pantyhose masks).
If you are interested in this take a look at: https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

http://www.designweek.co.uk/analysis/govuk-goes-worldwide/30...
Why you'd want a 3D printer? Isn't that kinda obvious? To make parts for your next 3D printer of course!

Joking aside: I have a few spare time projects where I am going to need some way of producing mechanical parts. For instance I am designing an integrated device for controlling the flow rate of dialysis fluid during peritoneal dialysis fluid exchange. I've been working on this for a while and have gone through many designs. Mostly as a learning exercise.

I think that in a few years it will be more common for people to make simple objects in their home. Brackets, mounts, adapters etc. I'm not sure if a lot of people will necessarily be involved in designing parts, but through the wonder that is the internet: you'll have vast repositories of ready made designs that can be printed.
couldn't disagree more. Underneath the "frosting" of the design surface of this site is one of the best user experiences I've had on a government website in a long long time. As someone who is in the middle of building out a large government site at the moment I'm keenly aware of how hard it must have been to bring the Manchester council team along with their design and ux decisions. For me this is the real triumph of this site.

Well done folks.
This is awesome, but watching the Youtube video is a little problematic on iOS. Users may get lost when you throw them over to the native player. Is there anyway to make it popup in Quicktime instead (like when you try to watch an embedded video) ?
Now this is what a government site should be. Sterile, cold, lightweight, and functional. Give me as many of the most common links as you can on the front page and make it easy to find the less common stuff. Period.
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gov.uk looks like a domain squatter webpage :)
I'm glad its license is MIT ... I've been searching for similar plugin, but never found one with that license!
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I was thinking the same thing, I live in germany and am very aware of the net situation. I hoped to find a nice summary on the Telekom peering blackmail they do, the net neutrality issues of mobile internet and t-entertain/spotify, vdsl-vectoring, ds-lite (not telekom but unitymedia) and the very apparent anti-internet climate of the government and law enforcement. What I got was some incoherent rant of some very specific issue he personally had, useless.
...and then we'd have a real reason to root. ;)
His/her/their story is very interesting.

Didn't Satoshi have email conversations with other developers or interested users? What about forum or wiki accounts for the bitcoin sites? Domain name registration? Web hosting account?
I can see Glass being interesting in some situations, but mostly I don't feel like it's a vital product for me. And I certainly don't feel the attraction in the way I did with a smartphone.

I would feel very differently if this were an implant and not something I wear. I do not want to have something on my face and the advantages I see from Glass don't outweigh that desire.

For example, I don't see the advantage in being able to photograph things from my head. Sure, you can imagine a situation where having a camera attached to your head is really useful and being able to take an instant photograph would be fantastic, but I'm not ready to pay the price of a thing on my face all the time for that benefit.

I can imagine having Glass as a display for a GPS as very helpful. I wouldn't mind driving with something like that especially if it could be part of sunglasses. There I am concentrating on a task which Glass will enhance. So, I view Glass as task-enhancing not life-enhancing. A lot of recent news has been of the gee-whiz it'll change your life variety which is off-putting. It's more likely to be incredibly useful in some situations.

Lastly, I do not trust Google and so the idea of a device that uploads stuff in any automatic fashion is not something I want. (It's not just Google, I don't trust Apple's iCloud etc.). I may be unusual in that. I would actually prefer that there be a 'home cloud server' which would be where my photos, emails etc. were stored and processed and that I had total control over.
If traditional gender roles are NOT so strong with you, why you are the one so strongly defending "XIX Century" role of a father "provider" who can't be a good parent and gets the children in less than 10% of divorce rulings?

Somehow when talking about employment 50/50 rule is very forward thinking, but if somebody would dare to employ the same rule to divorce court rulings it's "19th century".

So when at work we are all forgetting about the traditional family rules, but when in the court law having a divorce case we can be as sexist as we were 100 years ago?

That's your progress? As long as it is better just for one gender it is good? That's how you fight sexism?
They look very similar but the markup is quite different (KashFlow is a Wordpress blog, Manchester is "Jadu CMS") so I don't think they just used a template unless they went back to the original PSDs.

FWIW, http://www.jadu.net are the agency who made the Manchester site.
There's also guys. I'm a student, so a common question at a party would be 'What do you study?'. The correct answer 'Physics' normally gets this reaction: 'Oh, I dropped that as soon as I could, cool that you can do this.' and then they turn around and talk to someone else. The only ones not doing this are other physicists, mathematicians and maybe IT people (consistently men and women, but it's worse for men). My female physicist friends report the same behavior.

Right now I just mostly lie about my subject at social gatherings, because I'm so fed up with this.
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Also the "deep internet" is frequently postulated to be "huge" by "people".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web
likewise. looking forward to toying with it as I think it presents some interesting use cases, though i realize its pretty far-off from a 'printer' in terms of capabilities..
This is funny, because Microsoft Research actually works on that.

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-19718-5...
great project! Does it work with AngularJS's JQuery lite?
Exactly (though my username might be the one exception to that…) – the post I replied to specifically said that apparently only female voices were getting up-/downvoted or that this was only a concern for female voices, so I am a little confused about it.
I guess we can't expect a benchmarking yet but it feels like an intentional oversight to mention AMD once and only in context of standalone graphics chips.
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Seriously, does anyone of you reading this here ever use the word 'cyber'?
It has been pointed out, in these comments, that the design is quite similar to that of http://www.kashflow.com (though the markup is quite different)
Much as I love my fat arse, $750 for a chair seems a tad exorbitant without a doctor's note.
I meant "natural advantage" as perceived 50 years ago. What I meant is that in case of women social roles have progressed since then, while male social roles are still what they were 100 years ago. (i.e. today's father has as many parent rights in the courts as he had 100 years ago. Which are much less/worse than mothers rights).
I've tried the demos on my iPhone: my only gripe is that when a pop-in is taller than the screen and that I scroll down/up, the whole page scrolls down/up. Is there any way to dissociate scrolling until the pop-in is closed?
A very good point, and something I've considered. You might just be right and I'm just getting old and crotchety :)

I still see git requiring more commands for simple tasks and the model of what is happening has more moving parts (more complex). This gives git the ability to do a lot more, but my thought is for the majority you don't need the more.
If this is to replace taking your phone out of your pocket or bag (as Brin suggests it has for him in a TED talk), it'll be used everywhere.

Personally, I can't wait. :)
You can't get business ADSL, SDSL or a leased line in Germany I woudl be surprised if that is the case.

In fact knowing Germany I am not surprised that using a consumer line for business is not breaking some rule.
Aberdeen is an independent city council

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/
From personal experience, it appears that this reaction occurs to all physicists, regardless of gender. Maybe men care less about this than women and are hence less easily disinterested in the field?
The benefits of keeping as much info above the fold has been debunked time and time again. These two sites you linked are unnecessarily cluttered and take time for the user to absorb. They look like they were designed in 2002.
thanks, fixed it !
True but thats a separate issue maybe you need to ask your MEP why they cut the budget for BB rollout to rural areas in the EU - But didn't cut the CAP subsidy for farmers
Yeah, I hear that, and get the same - you can see the shutters come down the moment you say you did your degree in physics, or that you run an IT company. These days I tell people in random social situations I studied golf course management and run a marketing company. Goes down far better. If they're talking to me five minutes later, I reveal.

That said, I think this is far more of a factor for women as they tend to be far more sensitive to social pressure than men. Why this is is another topic entirely, but in short: culture.
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It was up until last week, but http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-pre✓™ was the canonical version. Now it redirects to the version you don't need to know the ALT keyboard jockeying with.
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Thank you. I often wanted to write a rant about the epidemic usage of that word, but now I see I don't have to (I can just link to it, like a cow ^^)
One could argue that sexism tends to be gender biased.
If you development/technical roles are all male, then your supporting (manager/etc) roles must be mostly female if you end up with company-wide gender balance. This form of semi-gender-balance is not uncommon; many supporting roles (HR,etc) tend to skew female. As a female developer, I find the technology differential between the genders to be at least as awkward as having a strong but more uniform gender skew across the company would be.

Without any individual behaving incorrectly in any way, it feels awkward to be the only technical female in a company. Having a non-zero number of other women present is better than none, but it's completely different from having a non-zero number of equally technical women. When the information flow of technical information is always male-to-female, it just makes me feel uncomfortable, even though no one is doing anything wrong.
I recall last year the Uk wanted to integrate mandatory Facebook logins into all their sites. Looks like they've since dropped that idea.
Agreed. OSX's font rendering in my opinion is superior to Ubuntu and other Linux distros. It is subjective though - after all, some people claim to prefer ClearType.
I interpreted it as which kind of female voices got up-/downvoted: the ones that go along with general consensus or those that are critical of male privilege.
Statistics are derived from crime reports. Men do not report domestic violence against them by women. I went to hospital for "sitting on a shoe" and "tripping and smacking my face on a bannister".

Ergo, whatever statistics you're looking at, sample bias, sample bias, sample bias.
Looks really nice, but at first I thought I needed to scroll down to see the other services instead of clicking the button first. After clicking, it was clear to me that this obviously is a button. But this wasn't my understanding when I saw the page at first. Anybody else had the same issue?

When I go to a service, for example "Roads, parking & transport" and I go to the bottom of the page there is a section called "Policies, statements & resources". Now I need to click it in order to see the items, why not have it in this state by default? I've checked some of the other pages and there never really are a lot of links underneath there anyway, so this won't make the pages a lot longer.
Quote from Peter Thiel starting around 39:10 in the video:

"Mean wages have been stagnant (not median). It’s not an income an inequality issue. Mean wages went up 350% in the US after inflation from 1933 and 1973. [They] went up 22% from 1973 to 2013. Median wages were flat, so it’s become more unequal. Even if you had redistributed everything, it’s gone up only 22%."

I feel this is an overly US-centric view of humanities progress. Globalisation produces winners and losers in the short term, and even though manufacturing jobs are being destroyed in the US, millions of people are being lifted out of poverty in China and other low cost developing nations.

If you are using the argument that stagnant wages in one part of the world means human civilisation is not progressing technologically, does that argument stand up if you look at global living standards?

There was an interesting argument (unfortunately I can't recall where I heard it) that put forward the idea that World War II was like a massive subsidy from the US Air Force to the US manufacturing sector. The US Air Force destroyed many of the industrial cities of America's global manufacturing competitors (mainly Germany and Japan) and other major European nations were destroyed also and were bailed out with the Marshall Plan.

All this meant that for decades, the US manufacturing sector had it artificially good because of greatly reduced global competition, as factories and other manufacturing infrastructure had to be totally rebuilt in the other big industrial nations, which took decades. This was great news for US car companies (and other manufacturers) in the decades after the war, who could churn out (relatively) unreliable and fuel inefficient vehicles, which were bought in huge numbers as they were the best available. In the 1970s, the combination of the oil shocks and encroaching competition from Japanese car makers, who innovated with reliable, fuel efficient and affordable vehicles, meant that the good times were over.

Tl;dr using US wages from 1933-1973, and 1973-today is the wrong metric to measure human civilisations technological progress, for a variety of reasons.
IMHO it's the designer's job to make the UI. That means providing the programmer with templates, CSS, and UI related JavaScript.

If all the designer can do is mockups, then IMHO they are not doing their full job. Like I said in the other reply, it's like a programmer saying "I made the DB schema, what more do you want?"
Is the success of 'silicon roundabout' forcing new start-ups out of London?
How about http://www.tsa.gov/tsa-pre%E2%9C%93%E2%84%A2 ?
It's "TSA-Pre✓™" and you have to type in the checkmark and the trademark symbols, otherwise it 404s

Edit: ho, they fixed that and it's redirected. Too bad, that was funny :)
Anyone else think that "Iris" is a fairly obvious reference to "retina" displays, indicating that Intel expects devices which come with Haswell/Iris to include retina-standard displays?

(It has been years since I've commented on a hardware thread, I had forgotten how much fun this kind of codename Kremlinology can be)
Almost surely still going to be utter shit compared to a decent GPU like a Radeon HD 7970 or GeForce GTX 680.
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I'm the front end technical lead for a major department in a top 10 U.S. State (that's all I can say). As much as I love the way that certain public sector entities are embracing modern design principles for their sites, there is a balance to be struck.

Form always follows function when it comes to design, and when it comes to government, function requires that the site is as accessible as possible.

Color selection, JavaScript use, and extended backwards compatibility with older browsers are among the the many considerations one has to take into account for the elderly, the impaired, and those who simply don't have access to modern browsers. That being said, it's definitely possible to have stunning design with these things taken into account, we just can't implement every bell and whistle we're used to.
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I'm not sure if your original choice of words was regrettable, or if you're trying to cover a retreat. The tenor of your comments (here and elsewhere) certainly suggests the latter. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the former .. never use "natural" when you mean "historic." And "Somehow (emphasis added) we came to believe that women can be as good employees as men" implies that you find this unbelievable. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but that is exactly how it sounds.
It's an underscore followed by 4 bytes, possibly the integer 2650072859 or 468186269. If they're intentionally trying to obfuscate their URLs to prevent crawling, it might be further encrypted somehow.
The rendering of curved lines appears much better, but vertical and horizontal lines are very poorly rendered. You can see this clearly in the Chinese character "中" - the first character inside the parentheses on the first line.
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