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The more I write code the more I agree your sentiments, but when I start to reminisce why I got into web-design in the first place it had nothing to do with the web but more to do with the user's interface; thefwa's most influential [flash] site of all time is Eric Jordan's 3rd release of http://2advanced.com available at http://v3.2a-archive.com/. It is anything but minimal but it remains clean, intuitive to use, and downright awe-inspiring.

IMO, this is an example where a complex view [along with a modular sense of control] can work for busier interfaces.

[added_edit] I think your Stage 4 criticism holds true and for a very good reason, which is that most web-designers don't know how to control or present a view as something the_developer/the_user can rationalize and digest in visual terms according to the model of which it is representing. Generally, the view doesn't need to obsess so much in how the model looks but I think why 2advanced stands out in this regard is how he is able to encapsulate control according to the view and present a modular sense of what information means according to the spaces it occupies.
I don't know about meetups outside NYC. NYC has the guys from Make doing meetups periodically.

I've been doing hardware essentially my whole life :-) If you have something you want to talk about, bounce ideas off, or just want to know how to start, you can contact me through my profile. I love talking about this stuff.
getting people to traverse pages and fill out forms is tough. however there are so many politically relevant comments generated on the web yet they arent directed to politicians. tapping into this existing content production would be a great goal and integration would be the mantra to get you there. a button is not deep enough and doesnt meet the expectations of a modern web user.
I hear where you are coming from. That is partly why we included multiple ways to contact their politician, as well as only allow people to search for their politician by location instead of by name. We want to help out actual constituents, because that is who politicians are most likely to listen to.

There are several tools out there that people use that let people create a form letter on a site and then send that to their politician. The problem with these systems, is that they aren't real people contacting their politicians, they are mass emails, that flood politicians in boxes. Hopefully, our tool will help real constituents contact their representatives with real concerns.

We know right now we won't totally eliminate that problem, but are open to suggestions about how to eliminate them.

Thank you for your input.
Firefox extension "Scrapbook".
Protip: grab 5-8 contiguous words from the preview, go to news.google, search for that phrase, read your WSJ article for free.
will this stop others from providing a forum for "erotic services" advertisements? no. but this will bring some sort of order to the current system on cl. and cl is the largest market place for this kind of stuff.

at the risk of being flamed, i kind of liken this to whats going on between arrington and fb re. holocaust denial. if fb squashes holocaust denial on their platform, will it kill it everywhere, no (duh). but it would draw a line as to what is acceptable and what is not on their systems.

neither cl nor fb are legally responsible for what people post on their sites. but cl made a decision to "do the right thing"(tm), im pretty sure fb will as well.
What was your original username?
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There are many sites out there that will get you a politicians contact information. We want to be an alternative that a site like Huffington post, Townhall, CNNPolitics, and others can use to on their site so that their readers don't have to search on another site. It helps publishers out by keeping readers on their page longer, hopefully.
It's just you. It's supposed to be punishment, not a wrist slap. If you're better off breaking the law and then paying the fine than not breaking the law - the fine is not serving its purpose.
It depends on how you manage it -- there are people who chain themselves to the business, but if the business is really worth $10mm (and not just because of inflated hope, let's say it has $2-3mm in sales and maybe $500k-$1mm in ebitda) you can bring in operators who, when smartly recruited, take a huge amount of stress off the founder and allow you to run the business part time, once you've instilled a good operating culture.
As a modern web user, what are your expectations? How do you see a tool like this working. Thank you for your input.
I think you're confusing friendliness with subservience.
I had to make sure I wasn't reading The Onion. Why does Craigslist think they're the new authority on what free speech we are and aren't allowed to express?

The correlation between the crazy medical student and Craigslist does not imply causation, the same way keeping guns from a murderer won't stop him from using a knife.
> Craigslist is probably somewhat protected by their sheer size and high profile.

Profile, maybe. But not size... AFAIK, CL is still a mostly small team operation...

http://www.mslater.com/2007/1/26/the-craigslist-anomaly

...though they are a little bit bigger due to the increased local coverage since that article was written.
I agree, Web2.0 for developers and Web2.0 for designers are two completely different cultures.
Why not just charge for them?
Hi Peldi, thanks for the replies. My goal was just to bring up the topic for discussion generally because it's an issue everyone deals with at some point and there's no "right" answer. Everyone has to make their own decisions and I'm sure you're making the right ones for you. Thanks again and good luck.
Incorrect; I mail them a new password.
I doubt that they will lower the payments from the member states based on this. And if they did, I doubt that the member states will reduce the tax burdens because of that.

They have given fines out before. If anyone can point to an example where the tax burden was reduced after a fine, I would like to see it.
What is considered standard salary?

I'm actually genuinely curious.

Kudos to them for returning the money rather than trying to ride it out. That said, I somewhat agree with the post below about things taking time. You need to be around a while before people start to trust you. That has to be an especially problematic hurdle if you're managing people's joint ownership of physically indivisible objects.
What does Craigslist's removal of a section on their site have to do with your right to free speech? (Hint: The answer is absolutely nothing.)

Why should they expose themselves to liability unnecessarily?
Don't miss the Computer History Museum, near Moffett Field.
TellMyPoliticianViaHandWrittenLetter.com would be more effective in my experience. Politicians might not feel guilty ignoring an email/e-communication, but a hand written letter, personally stamped is harder to ignore. A state of Maryland politician in a town hall meeting I went to made this point clear during our towns last NIMBY fight.
In my experience as an interviewer, the original post was an example of what I always hope for--when the interview turns into a real discussion, and you're able to gain insight into the interviewee's character as well as his/her technical prowess. I always ask a mixture of open-ended and technical "quiz" questions.

More than that, I was a bit baffled by the negative responses. Willingness and ability to examine the assumptions behind a task are attributes I want in teammates.
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This.

Who wants an employee who never questions the requirements?

I can't think of a better way to end up in project management failure than to start writing a solution to a problem you don't understand.
The article is very misleading.

Researchers in many cases do not need to request permission if the research is focused on a new drug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_exemption
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I really like the site layout and colors. One thing: your css relies on Verdana; you should have a backup set of fonts, the last in the series being sans serif (something like font-family:Verdana,Arial,Luxi Sans,sans-serif;).

Cambria is pretty and popular now (vista font), but it is broke on my fedora 10 box. It doesn't get skipped, it displays badly.

I think the site is a cool idea. Do you intend to sell ads?
No, it's civil disobedience. The Pirate Bay wasn't started to facilitate watching Prison Break to couch potatoes, or to make money, or even to fix such "deficiencies" of copyright as life+70. It was founded by an activist group explicitly against the whole institution of copyright. That's why they go to court where couch potatoes would have surrendered already.
Whats with the diver holding the machine gun ?
I mean - those are big rats but even then!
Hey! Sorry about the delay on moderating your comment. For some reason MT didn't notify me about it being there. I've approved it now so it's up on the actual post. And thanks for the awesome tunes and your work on Bloops!
That's silly. If I were in law enforcement I would _use_ erotic services ads as a way to prosecute those involved. Something like Craigslist would be an asset for me.
How is this an example of doing the right thing?
It's not about fairness, however. The game would turn into a game of "press" rather than a game of "basketball." At that age, the strategy that wins is not as important as developing basic skills that can be used later, such as in high school where the players are physically developed enough to throw over a press.

The problem is the physical limitation of how far the girl can throw a ball. If you tell NBA players they can't pass more than seven feet, the press would be a dominant strategy.
Oh and freQvibez, it would be totally awesome if you wrote up a post explaining in more detail the options for sound creation and configuration. At this point, I've pretty much been mainly copying existing sounds and tweaking them. As far as I can tell there's no comprehensive spot with all of the options listed out.
In FB's case, doing the right thing will only drive holocaust deniers further underground. Banishment is not the way people should debate ideas, however stupid they are.

Specially when they are stupid ones.
Excited to see it in action and get a chance to play with it myself!
Thank you for the correction. Perhaps I bailed out of the last discussion too soon to see the truth, rather than the assumptions and associated whinging.
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Dadsys? I just looked at your site and you're all over the map, way too diverse, almost unfocused.

I don't know about the rest of the mobile applications, but the two things I can think of monetizing are SqueezeBooks and LangPop:

SqueezeBooks: how about SqueezeNews? Give me a customized, highly focused and well combed summary of a certain industry and I will subscribe. I'm in online advertising; I should come to your site, select my category and be given a long list of highly specialized sub-categories. I choose the ones I want and you aggregate all related news, monitor websites, mailinglists, google trends. Summarize articles for me, with a combination of automatic summarization + some human editing, and I should be able to submit my own feeds. Something like this, "executive intelligence review"; if you just pick one industry, you should be able to get a good chunk of the executive crowd, a highly coveted readership. Just pick ONE industry that you're passionate about and go for it. You can even review startups for potential VCs, give them the raw deal. TechCrunch and other sites are verbose and annoying because that's how they make their money. You will make your money by being succinct and brutally honest.

LangPop: Programming language comparisons are stupid. Everyone has a few favorite ones and a few he uses for "work". How about you review frameworks and libraries? This looks like more work than it's worth, but you can outsource the work to specialist programmers/columnists, each in his own domain of expertise, and do it on an ad-revenue sharing basis.

When you have the right traffic, talk to me about delivering the advertising :-)

Regards.
The actual blog post at http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/12/going-live-and-webca... says, "We’ll be making our first attempt to go live with Wolfram|Alpha this Friday evening, May 15. We’ll start webcasting our preparations at 7pm CDT (UTC -5)."

I don't know how I feel about a Friday night launch. On the one hand the weekend allows for fixing problems, but on the other hand they are doing a webcast and have been building publicity for more than a month.
You should look into what happened with GovWorks.com and try to avoid their mistakes. Research should be easy: there was even a movie made about them.
There's nothing hugely interesting posted yet, but SDForum http://www.sdforum.com/ often has interesting events with lots of networking opportunities. One big advantage is that many conferences are here - for example Google I/O just one week before you arrive, which is something to keep in mind if you have not booked tickets. I have hear that the four seasons in palo alto gets various luminaries staying there, but that could simply be a vicious rumor. You should visit Moffett Field itself - I work there, all you need to get in is a government ID. They'll ask you where you are going - tell them to building 19, it is where all the contractors go and they will just wave you through - though I think telling them you want to see hanger one is equally valid. If you ask, the guard will also get you a map that could point you there. It's more interesting for historical reasons than anything else, fyi. You can't get back to ames, though. I guess one advantage is the community of developers and investors that happen to be around here, which is something that is difficult to see on a short visit. For coffee in mountain view I recommend red rock and blue bottle in SF, barefoot down further south in san jose. The bars in mountain view and sunnyvale are not worth visiting, some in palo alto may be and definitely downtown SF - check yelp for details.
In the meantime, they just released a screencast demo done by Stephen Wolfram. It seems to be getting lost in the other news of the day but its pretty cool.

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/13/stephen-wolframs-int...
So bureaucrats are robbing monopolists.
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There are two subjects: How to interview, and how to be interviewed. Say we were talking about wearing a tie. My post would be about why you don't want to require ties in interviews. Your comment is that if the company might require ties, it might be sensible to ask them what to wear before showing up.

I think that your suggestion and my post can coëxist happily.
Would this be something you'd do in a real-world situation? Or would you question the requirements and the need for such a feature?

I'd be doing the latter, so why should I have to behave differently during an interview?
I think there is some tricky business regarding entrapment and that sting operations have only met limited success. If I were in law enforcement, I'd feel stupid wasting my time investigating violations of a law as ill-conceived as anti-prostitution legislation. How many unsolved rapes, murders and robberies are there out there? There shouldn't be a penny wasted on something this trivial until those are taken care of - and girls forced into prostitution is a totally different issue which would be largely addressed with legalization.
It's an interesting exercise to ask what the thesis of this article is. It's not that all founders who take VC are idiots. He's not saying that Larry & Sergey are idiots-- and implicitly that he's smarter than them. He hedges pretty conspicuously there. All he's saying is that some VCs are bad. But that is hardly news. Every line of work has some people who are bad.

Imagine the corresponding article about roofers. It would be called "Idiot Homeowners," and say, as if it were some great discovery, that some roofers are bad-- that they overcharge you, and then do bad work as well.
Absolutely... I guess as someone who will be doing two interviews with different companies in the next several days, I've been in the mindset of the interviewee.
Its not. They just have 80% market share in a huge market, so they are treated differently. Technically these were optional rebates by intel, which I think is what pisses the intel guys off so much about this.
No, you're missing my point completely. I'm saying that it doesn't matter whether or not you line the pockets of the people who produced and published the initial data on the web. If it's published on the web on a public site, it is available for anyone to use.

Particularly when it's factual data, rather than, say, an article. You might recall that the copyright acts do not protect factual data.
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As I understand it, about 65% of the EU budget is paid by the states as a percentage of their Gross National Income. This percentage is decided by the Council (i.e. the member states themselves). So in theory the fine could lighten the burden on the states.
However, the 2009 budget of the EU is about 130G EUR, the Intel fine is about 1% of that, and the EU budget is small compared to even a single member state, so the amount per citizen is negligible anyway.
I agree with you, but an interview is not quite "the real world", which is something that all the parties involved realize.
Generally I want to work for my rational self-interest. My goal is to attain a state of non-contradictory joy, i.e., happiness. I want to preserve my life, and my liberty, and my property. If I preserve my life, liberty, and property, I at least have a chance to be happy. This is what it is all about. The individual pursuing his own happiness.

So, if I am working towards my own rational self-interest, there is nothing I would rather be doing.

If however I working for the Collective, then I would rather be working for my own rational self-interest.

That is all there is to it. Work for your own rational self-interest. And if you are not, then I would suggest changing that, because you cannot exist for others. You can only exist for yourself. So if you are not working for yourself, for your own self-interest, then it is time to do a re-think. If you work for an employer, that is fine, so long as it is to your mutual benefit. Everything you do must be to your own benefit in the end, and as soon as it is not, then you should cease and desist.

In brief, I will work for me. If I cannot work for me, then I will go Galt, I will disappear, and I will stop the motor of the world (or at least my part of that motor).
Good luck finding the right situation!
This isn't being driven by law enforcement. It's being driven by elected Attorneys General.
Just try to imitate the behaviour of this library in your favorite language. I tried in Tcl, simulating macros with upvar, uplevel and even with sugar and is not easy to get the same result.

http://tverdeforge.googlepages.com/ahtml.tcl.txt
> Your risk equation is overestimating the worst case scenario.

This is a claim that you have yet to back up with anything beyond general hand-waving.

> Super bugs are NOT at all easy to design. And there's plenty of natural super bugs like swine flu, etc. that come around every year.

To cause significant damage a biohacker would not need to actually design the super bug, she would just need to design some interesting sequence that has a novel and unfortunate interaction with the human immune system. Poor lab procedure (like deciding that the sequence did nothing and dumping the results down the drain) could easily introduce this sequence into the wild where other bacteria could pick it up.

The difference between hacking code and hacking biology is that broken code goes nowhere. Nothing it out there picking up the bits you delete and recombining it with existing code to see if the result gives its progeny any advantage. This is not the case with tinkering with biological systems.
This reminds me of a UK site called WriteToThem.com (http://www.writetothem.com), formerly FaxYourMP.com, which provides an interface to contact your local MP automatically, either via e-mail or fax.

The people behind it later went on to form mySociety (http://www.mysociety.org/projects/) and sites such as TheyWorkForYou (http://www.mysociety.org/projects/theyworkforyou/), the official Government Petitions website (http://www.mysociety.org/projects/no10-petitions-website/), among others.
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I was just thinking about the very same thing yesterday.

Home to work commute tagged with time can help many application to alert high traffic or better times to travel, car pooling.

It would also be interesting to watch what others are doing in and around my area at any point of time.

Visualisation would be the key.
Sure. That's true. Copyright doesn't protect factual data.

But there is what's legal, and there is what's ethical. If I traveled around the country, measuring the heights of roller coasters for my website rollercoasterheights.com, I did it to get people to come to my site. If that information is harvested from my site and displayed elsewhere, I've done a lot of work for nothing.
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Not everyone is aware that the First Amendment, like all the Amendments, apply to government. It prevents the government from restricting our speech, and does not dictate what kind of ads a private enterprise may choose to allow.
Hadn't heard that one before but it sounds like a good idea :). I think drug enforcement comes up a lot in these arguments because it is currently such a tremendous misallocation of resources. The point will come where we can't afford it anymore.
After seeing that, I strongly suspect my browser will get a 3rd text box next go the google search.
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I absolutely agree. In the past four years I've switched from scientist (well, grad student) to mechanical engineer to software developer. Transitioning can be stressful and difficult, but I'm really happy with where I am now. I look at it as if I'm focusing a microscope. When you begin, you use large, coarse refinements until you get approximately the right focal length. Then you can worry about focusing in on smaller details.
I installed the plugin for wordpress, but it seems like the links it generates are redirecting incorrectly. Try
http://www.tellmypolitician.com/search/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.g... - for me it redirects to http://tellmypolitician.comsearch/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google...
I'd say it tastes like chicken. :-)

Seems like {perl|ruby|etc}-light.

I don't get it. The scripting languaguages in common use are quite similar; what distinguishes Nimrod?
There's quite a bit of Silicon Valley in my book: The Geek Atlas. http://oreilly.twi.bz/a
Thank you for pointing that out. If you send a request through the site, we can let you know when we have it fixed. Or email me at info at tellmypolitician dot com
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