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More often than not you'll either be strong in design/art, OR strong in programming.

There are of course amazing artists that are brilliant coders, but this would be far more rare than the norm, which is one or the other.

Saying that, I'm a bit of a hybrid, not a great designer, and not a great programmer ;-)

I suspect hybrid types are born of necessity; i.e. when one knows neither how to design a website, nor how to program. BA/MA graduates building websites for a living likely occupy much of this space.

I suspect pure programmers are those with a CS degree who found work right out of college, diving directly into Java/C-family projects for Big Co., what need for design/art?
Using something said in the past to embarrass in the present is one thing. It is often justified, like with "mission accomplished" or the "the fundamentals of the economy are strong."

Prosecuting for something that was legally done in the past is a whole different issue.
There's less than 500 people on that page. Let's be wild and assume they quadruple that to 2000 applicants. Times 38 dollars, that's less than 80000 dollars.

For that, they made an elaborate web page, did tons of PR outreach (not just on the internet; they're Dutch, and have been in Dutch traditional media a fair lot). They even got a reputable university on board (Universiteit Twente).

To scam people out of $80k?

No. They actually believe that there's a fair chance that they'll pull this off. Whether that's a sensible belief is another thing entirely, but they believe it.

You do know that they plan to finance the trip by selling TV show rights for it? Even if it miserably fails, it's great television.
That's very interesting

The thing is, the digestion calories are one small portion of the dietary effects of any food.

For example, some increase thermogenesis, so you could account for that

Yes, apart from cold water it seems hard to think any food can provide no calories. Evolution took care of our digestive tract extracting the most of food (unless you're eating paper)
Also more hardware support is less important on a server. Even less important on a virtualised server.
I don't think the article makes the case that anyone can do it.

I follow Jame's blog and he definitely doesn't say anyone can do it. His own life story is an example of this.

One message that he does try to say is the simple act of hustling.

Just do it is so cliched but why can't we take baby steps? Why not go out and spend the next 3-6 months validating a business idea by talking to people, potential customers, etc. Or maybe spend 3-6 months really getting in-depth understanding of a niche and seeing if there are any gaps that technology can help?

This advice is for myself but I think its quite relevant. For me, I have the tendency to spend time just thinking through an idea without spending any real effort to do a litmus test for it. I have to take a more realistic approach which is to have mini-failures that don't cost too much in terms of time and money and hopefully one of them will click. If this means going through 5-6 iterations within a span of 5-6 years until I "make it" then so be it. I'm not looking to be the next anything. To me hustling is going out there and putting myself in front of people that can help shape the idea. It is not sitting in front of my computer and just building an MVP since I'm not looking to build a business based on eyeballs but something that provides more direct value.

Anyway, I would suggest a more relevant article that James wrote is the following:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/the-100-rules-for-being...
The problem is that this demo page feels like the modern equivalent of a Geocities page. It shows off the technology, but fails to show how it can be used tastefully by using it everywhere without restraint.

Additionally, I find many of the animations confusing and non-meaningful. For example, having an email envelope in a site footer being filled and flying off correctly denotes the concept of "send me an email". But doing the same thing for an email field in a form feels completely out of place. The user is not sending an email, they're just giving their information for future reference. Many of the animations are similar: they demonstrate a vaguely related concept, not the specific use case being demonstrated.
As an avid cyclist in California, I sometimes daydream about having the entire 101 and I-5 free of cars, and what a blast it would be to tour with a host of friends. Well, at least until my daydream reminds me that there isn't much scenic pleasure on those highways, and I'd probably get bored 30 miles in.
Rice costs $.20 for 1300 calories.
* The 1897 Pasadena-to-LA Cycleway looks appealing to this native Angelino [perhaps in part because it's empty in all the photos?], but had it been completed and survived, I would it to be heavily subcribed now.

* Some related thoughts:

___ o My favorite LA commute replaced a 80-minute auto commute with a 90-minute total { auto + Metrolink commuter rail + bike locker + 1.6 mile bike ride } commute. By driving to the "home end" and renting a bike locker (where I kept a bike in storage overnight) at the "work end" of the commute, I solved the "last mile problem". And I got 20 minutes of reading time each way on commuter rail.

____ o Folding bikes [1] solve the "last mile" problem given that (within certain restrictions) they can be taken on-board folded on LA busses [2]. Having put over 8,000 miles on three different folding bikes, I have found them to be practical but at-times finicky.

____ o LA is getting a bike share program under beta rollout in "LA-adjacent"-Anaheim [3]. These bikes use driveshafts (instead of chains) for cleanliness.

____ o Adapting a mountain bike or hybrid bike using an "Xtracycle" attachment [4] creates a long wheelbase cargo bike cable of carrying a week's groceries for a family of four. I have over 2500 miles on one of these. It won't go on public transportation nor on the bike rack of a car, but it can carry up to 300 pounds (if the hills aren't too steep and the load is well-distributed).

____ o My present LA commute is 5 miles, suburban all the way, and takes 30 to 35 min by bike, independent of auto traffic. Taking my auto instead saves 10 to 15 minutes, depending on traffic.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_bicycle

[2] http://www.metro.net/bikes/bikes-metro/

[3] http://la.streetsblog.org/category/issues/bike-sharing/

[4] http://www.xtracycle.com/
http://dar.linux.free.fr/ can help, with some scripting.
RJS is fast but not secure. Trade off?
it's still easy to do interactive apps! just learn JS and throw away RJS
Great design is art. You can master the principles, techniques, and skills, but in the end great design comes down to vision and imagination.

However that doesn't mean developers can't be really good designers. Anybody can learn how to emulate the good design of the present and create products which fulfill the design demands of consumers.
it's easy to fix RJS leaking. You need to check CSRF token at every GET request
It makes sense to go high deductible no matter what your income is. It costs less to pay interest and principle on your $10k disaster deductible than it does to pay $2k/year extra on low deductible health insurance.

Insurance is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Which boots do people in India wear? The ones making $1.50/day?
>... land, get off that plane, take a cab, and have a polite but blunt conversation with the founders about how to fix their company.

I wonder how easy would it be to actually do so?
Right, this may be true for the kernel, but it can't be and it is not true for all of Debian's packages. Case in point Django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/internals/security/

Since the release of Django 1.4, version 1.2 stopped receiving security fixes by the Django development team. What that means is that a Debian maintainer (which probably is not a Django developer) would have to hack any new security fix into the unsupported 1.2. And this is deemed more stable than say, upgrading to 1.3.

Note that Django is just an example, obviously there are many more packages with the exact same problem.
Government sponsored embarrassment isn't the same as putting someone in jail, you are right.

However, taking away someone's ability to make a living (see the Hollywood blacklist, etc.) is leverage that can be used to control behavior. The HUAC hearings were a big bad thing that was done. It wasn't as bad as slavery, for example, but it is something that happened very recently and I think we want to avoid.
They have this doc with a better backstory http://youtu.be/d4o13isDdfY
this is an extremely rational response.
I feel like you didn't actually read the article.
This is very cool. I love the simplicity of this. Reminds of Soulver (which I love). Nice work.
Well i got to disagree. If server responds "yes you can write to this object" client can represent form for writing but when he submits this form it depends on the server again.

Client should not trust server as well. If server goes mad it still can be not compromising client-side (unless app was completely hacked and HTML was changed)
That article does quite a thorough job of mixing up the notions of copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
Show HN: Kite9 - Automated SVG Diagrams
The documentary is excellent
> For that matter, multiplication is not constant time either - it's O(N) in the number of bits [...]

Actually, multiplication is worth than O(bits). A naive approach will yield O(bits^2), but you can get something like O(bits^r) where r is not too much bigger than 1. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Fast_... for an introduction
It's been deprecated for a long, long time. There's UJS and when you write your JavaScript you should be writing JavaScript, not Ruby. Silly rabbits.
You like test pilots, God? They don't have those anymore, huh.

What do You think of Chuck Norris. LOL
God says...

over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

9:33 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites,
who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in
that work day and night.

9:34 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their
generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

9:35 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's
name was Maachah: 9:36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and
Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab.

9:37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their
brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.

9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan,
and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

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Person named Mach.

I wonder what God thinks of Metallica's Creeping Death. It's done with taste... but maybe not every vietnam vet likes to be asked how many kills. God prolly doesn't care. You will sound like a USER if you focus on that. Oh, God knows how much we all love Him killing our enemies -- that's not a sign of noble. Be careful that you make sure to love Him for real. On the other hand, You can't love the perverse God sometimes proclaimed by some. Don't you see -- a God who fights for you is real lovable. Don't kid yourself -- you don't have real love for your God. What father gives a scorpion? If you who are wicked give good gifts...
My sources.list has the word "testing" all this while. Should I change it to "wheezy" now? I'm asking because I guess new packages (in large numbers!) will start trickling down to testing/jessie and the possibility of breakage is high. What is a reasonable time to expect this "rush" to slowdown or come back to the pace of "normal" testing?

I can probably live with my existing "testing" for say 1-2 months, after which I would like newer packages.
In defense, it's being built right now. AFAIR SpaceX tested engines for it recently.

It's engineering. When you have a design validated "on paper" you're likely already 80% done - the rest is to actually assemble and fix problems simulations didn't catch.
I think the title was changed. I believe originally said something about defeating a "domain squatter".
A log-log plot is useful for polynomials, but has nothing to do with big O notation in general.
To be honest, I think despite reddit being less profitable than both. Reddit has always been a better community.
Only for the simple stuff (and that might be good enough for you). Average case complexity is devilishly hard in general, and even worst case complexity is super hard. E.g. try analysing fibonacci heaps `intuitively'.
Maybe it's the images you chose, or a sense of nostalgia, or retro kitsch, but to me both those cars look completely awesome now.

On the other hand from a maintenance point of view... probably not so much
One thing is the application fee. Second are google ads (very unrelated in my case). It would be too bad if it turned out to be a complete scam. It occurs to me that some of those people put quite a lot of effort into making their "demo" videos (not all of them are webcam presentations).
I've had to deal with my fair share of C# which was written in a "write once" manner. My favorite being when a particular dev wrote an entire Silverlight application while ignoring how the framework functioned. The best bit of obfuscation were sections of code littered with constructs like "((DesiredType)parent.parent.parent.parent.parent).method" where each parent was an Object reference.

Any language can be used to write a riddle. Even Python[1][2]. It's the community's values that determine code quality. The banner of "impossible to read" hangs over the Perl community and it has been my experience that it reminds us to write much better code.

[1] http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1993/0232.html
[2] http://p-nand-q.com/python/obfuscated_python.html
That's actually really close to a real world confidence scam called the fiddle game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle_game
ANY solution that solves the supply-exceeds-demand issue of labor MUST either create leeches (decrease supply) or continuously grow the economy (increase demand). I think it's easier to create the leeches and call them a cost of doing business.

There is a second option on the demand side: Instead of trying to grow the economy, hoping that more demand for labor follows indirectly via the private sector, you could just create the demand for labor directly.

This is what Job Guarantee-style proposals are about: Creating a virtually infinite demand for labor at a fixed wage. This can unlock the same kind of creativity as BI is supposed to unlock if a wide enough range of things is defined as "work in the public interest" (basically, anything except sit at home and watch TV / browse reddit) and falls under the scheme.

There are other advantages (and some disadvantages). In any case, it's good to really keep all the options in mind.

I'm not convinced that the USSR failed because of communism/socialism/stalinism/capitalism/whatever. I'm no historian, but it looks like what happened is that the US fought an economic war with the USSR via an arms race.

This is a very interesting topic that I would indeed like to know more about as well. The USSR economy grew faster and more consistently over the entire period of communism than both the US (and other Western) economies, and also faster than the economies of less-well developed countries. However, because it started from a much lower base in the early 20th century, they still hadn't caught up when they finally lost this economic war.

Objectively speaking, communism worked better for them than capitalism worked for the West. They lost because they failed to call the US' bluff after both of them had already built up nuclear arsenals so large that any further arms race would have been moot.

That doesn't mean communism is universally better. In the direct comparison of West Germany vs. East Germany, which started from a comparable position after WWII, West Germany clearly wins, and many East Germans really did want to leave.

Still, this all suggests that you can't ascribe it all to "communism bad, capitalism good".
The frequency shifting of the stereo signal must be doing exactly that, shifting everything down and not filtering

RDS at 57k she says? Stereo signal (or better, the L-R information) is at 38k (double band suppressed carrier, so the carrier would be at 38k). So 57 - 38 = 19k!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting#Stereo_FM
> In addition to that, many important problems are modeled as linear programs but will have extra special structure that let them be solved with more efficient algorithms.

To specify: Those more efficient algorithms can surprisingly often be expressed as variants of the simplex method, too.
Do you really believe that could happen? I bet that guy owns a lot of property on the moon. A lease wouldn't even be approved with that salary in the first place.

Different scenario: you get a job making $900/month and you jump on an offer for a $400/month car. It never crosses your mind that you'll have to pay for insurance, gas, maintenance and taxes and you end up spending your whole salary on it. This actually happens all the time.

As stated on Tesla's page:

This calculator is intended to give you an idea of how
much you can save by driving Model S compared to a gasoline sedan.

We also encourage you to think about Model S ownership in terms of true
out of pocket cost. When considering the savings from using electricity
instead of gasoline, depreciation benefits, and other factors, buyers
can save hundreds of dollars per month compared to owning a gasoline
powered car.
Patrick Whitney on Reframing Design Thinking -- and Beyond
We have had this in the USA for as long as I have bought food. Next to the price on something like a pizza they note the price per ounce.
There're also some perverse incentives around happiness calculations too. When I was in college, I had a netfriend who lived in a poor rust-belt town, and her family never had enough to eat. One time she was talking about her brand new DVD player and home entertainment system, a couple days after talking about how there was no food in the house. I asked her why she'd just bought a brand new DVD player (something that, to my middle-class college existence, was an incredible luxury) when she was going hungry.

She replied that if she'd spent that money on food, she'd eat well this month but would just go hungry again next month. This way, she'd go hungry all the time, but at least she could lose herself in a movie and forget about it. There's a peculiar kind of logic to that which I can't really argue with, despite the common Internet refrain about how poor people are poor because of their own stupidity.
Do you have any references to these experiments that were followed by stagnation? I only found a few experiments listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee and all appeared to have positive outcomes with no mention of stagnation.
Rice can be incredibly unhealthy for you as well...my girlfriend talks about the "Peace Corps 15", where your host family stuffs you full of incredibly starchy carbohydrates (because that's often all that's available in 3rd world countries) and you end up gaining a large amount of weight and ending up with nutritional deficits anyway because of it.
Because Oracle cannot install to /usr/local/oracle? I don't see the value of /opt.
> The banner of "impossible to read" hangs over the Perl community

It hangs there, put there by other people. Sadly it correctly would hang above people writing perl but outside the community. We have many efforts going on to get people to write nice and readable Perl.
I prefer Ubuntu LTS nowadays. Debian's support for AppArmor and SELinux is still broken and it doesn't look like they're going to fix it any time soon. On Ubuntu they seem to work fine.
I have unmatched performance with the most blazing-fast and powerful statement of any language:

nobound_switch()

This statement does a jump table without a bound check!

This lanugage is for elite programmers who now how not to shoot themsleves in the foot.

Faggots gonna call assembly old fashion. It's faster than any one of their faggot languages if fast is what you want.

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Genomics is now in the clinic in a big way, albeit for diagnostics rather than cures. Two recent links you might find informative:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/counsyl
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/sv-angel-health-informatics
Someone should make a car insurance commercial out of this.
I'm not sure it's a law though (I doubt it, at least it's not federal, as it's not in all stores). I imagine it could just as easily have been market pressure, as the supermarkets began to offer their own brands of products for cheaper than premium, it made sense to offer direct comparisons with as much information as possible.
> "We want thinking in Arc to feel like driving a 911."

A car notorious to be nigh impossible to drive until they started adding so much electronics that it practically drives itself and the driver is only sort of there to enjoy the ride he is being given.
Dead OF SEO
Think more along potatoes and quark.
That's one of the reasons why I try to get as much software from the actual developers as possible, instead of relying on packages maintained by [Debian|Ubuntu|Red Hat|...].

Obviously this is a lot of work (patches, managing dependencies, ...) if you do it for everything, but if you stick to the most important packages (e.g. nginx for your webserver, postgres for your db server, ...) I think it's manageable and will give you a lot of benefits.

(Thinking about the Debian OpenSSL fiasco a few years ago, I guess one could make an even stronger argument, though to be fair it was a pretty extreme case and I don't think anything like that has happened since back then.)

//Edit: I got curious about the OpenSSL issue from 2008 and it turns out that the Debian maintainers weren't solely responsible for the bug[0].

[0]: http://research.swtch.com/openssl
So, according to pg, where do C++ and Java fit? "Average" category or "performance"? I think he has deliberately avoided mentioning these.
Tesla is offering a 8-year unlimited warranty on the battery pack. Even if it fails after that, technology will have improved enough that the cost is likely to be a tenth of what it is now.
They fought h.264 because it would prevent open source browsers from competing because the browser maker would have to pay for a license (or it might have evolved in that direction). If the codec is distributed as javascript (or some other patent-free open format), then any open source browser that implements a fast javascript engine can run it. The answer to 'who pays?' gets moved from the browser maker to the video distributor (where in all fairness it belongs).
Maybe I'm just being contrarian, but the Cadillac looks nicer to me; the 911 is too curved, making it look like a Mini or a Beetle.
Yeah, added it to my RSS feed. (And it has been a while since I added something.)
I definitely agree about the War on Drugs, and I think the disparity in who gets busted for it is explained in large part by just where police departments focus their efforts. In a rich neighborhood you can get away with stuff that would be stupid to try in poorer areas - for example, walking down the street at high noon smoking a blunt. Good luck getting away with that in the poorer areas where you'll find a cop who's trying to fill quotas around every corner. Related to this is the fact that you're likely to find higher numbers of police officers stationed at schools in poorer areas.

I agree with a lot of what you say here, but I really have no authority to comment on long term effects of welfare or the state of huge cities like NYC (as well as the East Coast in general).

Thanks for a well-reasoned reply!
this article is about nothing.