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Oh, I'm thick! I see what's happening now!

The problem is it doesn't produce any gain in clarity for the purposes I'm using it for. I think for the acceptance tests, it's use is fine.

I can see if it were part of the public API, there's an argument that an interface could be used, but even there, I'm not sure it'd aid readability.

Semantically, however, they're of course identical.
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I think economists can be terrible people. Why? I'm an economist, and my first thought to this article isn't "Hey, that's horrible that people want to contract AIDS!" My first thought is "Hey, this is a natural experiment from which I can estimate discount factors!"

Of course, the second thought is then "Once we know that, we can adjust the benefits ratio to discourage people from willingly contracting HIV."
I'm sure it's just me, but I've never felt bad or weird or bad or even cared much about the possibility of paying 20 bucks for something vs 19 bucks with a 5% off coupon code. That one dollar savings doesn't seem worth the hassle of spending 20 minutes on Google. I'd rather spend that 20 minutes billing 100 bucks/hour making a website for someone.

Reading these comments it seems there are a lot of people on Hacker News who seem quite passionate about the idea of getting the best deal they can and not "feeling like a sucker".

Which is fine, but it's definitely a feeling I don't experience. Maybe I'm just weird.

With the topic at hand, having maintained an online shop for a client for several years, I see that they use Coupon Codes as a customer service thing. Didn't like your product? Here's a onetime use 15% off code so you don't hate us. At least that's how they used it. So I always ignore those fields.
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Several of the interesting comments on the blog post kindly submitted here suggest that a reason not to be so doubtful about Soylent is, in the words of one of those comments,

most people currently eat extremely sub-optimal

Are we really sure about the EXTREMELY suboptimal for people in the developed world who are not morbidly obese or dangerously underweight? I have much doubt about this assertion, because for sure my diet, as a middle-class North American, is much more varied as to number of different foodstuffs eaten per week or number of foodstuffs available per season than the diet of, say, my grandparents, who lived to the ages of 48 (death in car crash), 82 (death in car crash), 87, and 99. General rates of morbidity (illness) and mortality (death) are decreasing at ALL ages throughout the world known to most Hacker News readers. Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,

http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."

http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

A comparison of period life expectancy tables and cohort life expectancy tables for men and women in Britain

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lifetables/period-and-cohort-l...

helps make the picture more clear. ("Period life expectancy" is what is usually reported for a whole country. But cohort life expectancy provides a better estimate of future lifespans of young people today,

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

and is still steadily on the rise around the world.) So if many people today are eating "suboptimal" diets, as claimed without particular evidence by some of the supporters of the Soylent startup, it would appear that the health effects of that suboptimality are, at least, swamped by more favorable trends.
For the life of me, I can't understand what you found wrong with that use of "substituting". It's correct. It's clear. It's perhaps less colloquial, but it's hardly inscrutable tech jargon.

Surely there are better targets for your editor's urges...
Typical of Out/Advocate to feature blacks/browns only in negative/stereotypical stories. Never a black/brown positive story, of success, excellence, achievement or anything constructive.

I've stopped reading ages ago, and they really only represent and advertise for white gay male.

If you really want to see what white gay men do for "fun", watch (better not really, it's a disgusting true story of a "chaser") Todd Verow's "Bottom". Totally not the clean cut wholesome gay white male these publications like to promote, and equally disturbing.
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Haha, I didn't realize this was a new feature. I googled this and found this feature, and was using this feature yesterday. (info was on their Support site, but not their blog) I missed my chance for sweet karma! :-)
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Note the word 'just'.

They explicitly don't allow commercial purposes. But that's not the full list of what makes something a banned server.

What is the full list? Hell if I can figure it out.
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Considering the shitfits people were going into over Reader being eliminated, you'd think people would be a little more cautious about giving Google the keys to the kingdom on things as crucial as calendaring, contacts, and mail. Which is why the original article was a pretty good summation for me of why I'm not going to go Android any time soon, personally.
Can anyone provided an explanation of how the binary patch is applied?
Great point. As someone who was more of an introvert until recently, my relationships with professors and students helped propel me outside of my social fears. Both of those relationships are outstanding for future opportunities to any student that works for them.
yes, he has. as has substack. basically everything.

but part of the reason they are so prolific is that they focus on very small, single use modules that do one thing well. So they have hundreds of repos, but many of them are 10 - 15 lines of code.
1. How does Bitcoin make taxation more difficult than paper money? How does it make taxation difficult at all? Even if somehow Bitcoin made it hard for a corrupt government to impose taxes, there are a lot of things the government could do to make Bitcoin hard to use (and they only need to ensure that a large number of people have trouble).

2. Welfare is a reality of life, and has been as far back as we have written records. If you have a better system that might actually work, I'm all ears, but until then we need to deal with the reality of this world.

It is also wrong to assume that transaction fees for Bitcoin will remain low forever. As Bitcoin exchanges and other services start complying with financial regulations, the costs of that compliance will be passed on to their customers. Bitcoin is not useful without exchanges in countries that will not accept Bitcoin for tax payments, which at the moment is all countries.
The two situations you're comparing are vastly dissimilar.
I have to share my war story of trying to get prospective employees and offering them 2000 shares, 0.1% of the company. Only to find out they someplace else that offered them 50,000 shares, because 50K > 2K.

And, no, it's not the case that I'm better off without these people.
OP here. Even great candidates tend to commit these faux pas. Increasing the market's information about your appeal will improve the quality of incoming opportunities. There is no reason not to be the best 'passive job seeker' you can be.
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There's no use in an app where you have to look up the readout to interpret the result. That means the potential market for this app are SW geeks who have memorized the climates of planets and moons in Star Wars.

Analysis: sizeable market.
While the real solution would be to provide a real social safety net to prevent that from being an incentive in the first place. The US, where you have to be dying of AIDS to get social services.

America shits me to tears. As someone who has lived all over the world, the absolute cruelty of the American system never fails to baffle me. I love a lot of things about the US but the idea that the suffering that lead this man to contract the disease in the first place is just what he deserved because he was unlucky enough to be poor . . . well, words fail me.
I use a ProVari with an iClear30 dual clearmomizer most of the time. At home I use a genesis style atomizer (an RTS at the moment). It's more advanced (and expensive) stuff though.

For a good middle ground between quality and price I would go with a decent variable voltage battery (like a Vision spinner) and the iClear or a vivi nova tank.

As for juice, I like Papa Smurf from LJ's E-Smokes and pretty much anything from Mrs. T's Bakery (mmm... banana nut bread...).

There really is a huge disparity in quality between products right now, with the larger brands almost always being the worst. The best source of information that I've found is from a guy named P. Busardo. He has hundreds of Youtube video reviews and tutorials.
Part of the problem is that by European standards, unions in the US have been treated as pariahs for a century or more, and been fought relentlessly, whereas in Europe, parties supported by unions have been in power for lengthy periods in lots of countries.

US unions won tremendous concessions early on, at horrible costs to their members (a lot of blood was shed) - they were instrumental in laying the ground work for the 8 hour working day (and most of the world celebrate May Day in their honour, and in commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre), but unlike Europe where the workers movement continue to grow in influence and eventually effectively won a place at the table supported by governments friendly to their causes that forced business to learn to work with unions in a completely different way, the antagonism just kept escalating in the US.

If you treat people like shit long enough, they'll do their best to live up to the image you portray of them.
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> Best thing to do: forget about them. If and when the time comes, you'll know what to do.

That is terrible advice.

If you work at a startup then compensation will be a mixture of salary and equity. You should know your worth and negotiate your number when joining a startup. You should understand the details of the last financing: how much was raised? who were the investors? how long is the runway? what were the high-level economic terms of the deal?

You should ask around to see what is fair market terms for the options you should receive. You should do a search on angel.co/jobs and look at comparables.

Read Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson even if you are not a founder. Founders and investors know this stuff. If you are naive going into your employment you may end up being screwed out of upside.

Get your papers straight.
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With Mad Men and Breaking Bad winding down, I wonder if AMC can maintain it. They seem to have garnered the reputation of being hard on showrunners (Both Matthew Weiner and Vince Gilligan have had issues with the network). Walking Dead is on it's third showrunner.

Another network, FX, seems to be trying the HBO/AMC model in getting quality programming and is going out of their way to appear showrunner friendly. It'll be interesting to see if they can capitalize on some of AMC's missteps in nickel-and-diming their own shows.
I have a simple system that works very well:

Never order anything online before checking dealnews.com; Takes 10 additional seconds, saved me thousands. Among other things, they give you every single Lenovo deal (including through the Microsoft Store, which is often better than the coupons in the Lenovo store -- and usually arrives within a couple of days rather than 3 weeks), and they give you the past deals/coupons, so you can see if you need to wait a couple of days to get a 30% price reduction -- Lenovo, and many other vendors, have 30% off in two out of every 3 weeks, or two days out of every week.
Looks like Azure introduced their own version the same day. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/08/12/windows-az...
That teaches me for not looking at the source prior to commenting...my apologies (I am at work on limited time)...

I still feel this library (with the exception of the cleaner feeling API) is not much more than a wrapper/extension around the native functionality.

But good job on making it pleasing to work with (as it appears to be), and the website around introducing it is also quite nice...if I was using these DOM-wrapper-sugarizing libs to any serious degree these days I would likely consider it.

Overall this looks nice, but I feel like the javascript world is mostly moving away from the whole 'modify the layout that is pre-generated' and more towards a data driven/render what I specify world...
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I'm not saying that it doesn't have the possibility of being unpleasant at times, I'm saying that it doesn't strike me as a serious objection to a brand new transit method that is superior to existing options in so many ways.
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"How does "unwanted programming" make money?"

In the 80s/90s before Steam there was an arms race to ship smaller and smaller floppy disks/cdroms/manuals into ever larger cardboard boxes to "software stores" (The original "app store" I guess). In the old days you'd get something like Turbo Pascal or whatever in a fancy box with binders and manuals and stacks of floppy disks in cases shoehorned in like sardines, and by the end of the battle before retail software died, you'd have a giant empty box four times as big with a CD in a paper slipcover and a single sheet of paper. The idea was your competitor can't sell if there's no space for your competitor...

Because of drunks, sleeping people, crazy people, senile people, high people, you make a certain small fixed amount off every channel. You could broadcast a blank black screen or an infomercial and about 1% of the population would "watch", or at least you can bill the advertiser for that.

Old story in retail. Food stores are the worst. Quarter century or so ago I just about saw reps in near fist fights at shelf resets because another rep was encroaching on "their" space.
It's similarly much less an issue when you map your keys correctly. Control goes to the left of "A", meta below "/". Much less pinky travel. Sun got this right way back in the 80's with the Type 3 keyboard (vi users prefer its placement of ESC too).
There are concurrent collectors that do not stop the world (e.g. Azul's) that you might want to look at for game development.
For those wondering, I believe that Google Play in China does not support purchases, thus their absence from this article.
No (smart) website would actually say that. They'd say something like, "Thanks for being a regular! Here's a discount." Like a friendly checkout clerk, rather than a stalker. So then tech folks know they're probably tracking stuff like that, but you knew that anyways.
This has interesting parallels to a frequent bone of contention in the UK: the role of disability benefits or pregnancies in propping up people's lifestyles.

One of the oldest running tales is of the 16 year old getting pregnant in the hope of getting her own "council flat" (i.e. a place to live) rather than because she wants a baby. This just seems like the more extreme end of the same situation in a country that's not quite so forthcoming with social benefits.
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Thanks! I had no trouble at all with the text. I just created a centered div above the webgl canvas and loaded a custom font from google fonts. I believe I used jquery to accomplish all of this.

It felt like cheating because there was no way I could make the text look this good within webgl under the time constraint (I only had 48 hours for the whole thing).
Windows phone has the app independent way of doing messaging in their messaging hub. Quite useful.
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If you want to write code to manipulate numeric arrays, why not use an existing high-level language that is good for this? In other words, why are you using Excel?

Not suggesting that you shouldn't; just curious to hear what benefits Excel has for you that keep you using it past its sweet spot.
that was a super fun little game, with TONS of pop-internet-culture references...
I've been dealing with similar issues for a couple of years now. At the worst point I was unable to talk in groups of unfamiliar people without my heart rapidly pounding and face flushing. Not sure if it's quite that bad for you, but I'd recommend googling social anxiety. After learning about that I ended up working with a therapist and taking a year of improv classes. This was by far the best thing I've ever done and really helped my conversation skills. It'll also help with your confidence, which will in turn reduce your nervousness.

Feel free to message me if you'd like to talk more.
In my opinion, it's just about the money. iOS users spend it more than Android users, thus more focus on iOS app development.
Once Linux gets full PC game support, Ubuntu will be profitable.
This is not analogous, and you should know that. The invested effort of going to a store is a lot higher. Look at the abandonment rates of average grocery store visits compared to even the highest-conversion website and it should be obvious how this analogy falls apart.
Anybody know what the comparable Azure service costs?
TL;DR: "If it’s cold outside, chances are temperature sensors sometimes outside are colder than usual."

By itself, I have to admit I don’t find this particularly surprising, especially since they both averaged over space (whole cities) as well over time: There is no data presented on how well the correlation between battery temperature and outside temperature works out within a single 24-hours-period – given that most people are asleep at 2am, this would be another factor all/most batteries have in common apart from the outside temperature.
They'd better make sure not to fall in American Airlines "Lifetime pass" trap, then:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...
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Seems the author is suffering from fanboyism induced blindness.
The main points made about Android that make it great have little to do with Google: the ability to set default apps, intent sharing between apps, notifications, customised launchers, etc. Also in the referenced post the Android user describes rolling his own solutions with Bittorrent Sync: http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better

Somehow OP glossed all over that and shifted the discussion to a troll baiting exercise. The truth is that whether you're wed to Google's services or to Apple's you're make certain tradeoffs, but one key difference remains is that you can be a Google user on the iPhone which puts them ahead in my opinion.

Also I don't buy the disingenuous argument that since Apple is less adequate at services they are somehow better at privacy - more data makes better apps.
Jumping to a conclusion based on no evidence is something Pinker would scold you for.
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"Note that, in this demo, I assume the visitor is using a WebGL-enabled browser. A better practice would have been to first implement the page with static images to ensure basic functionality for everyone, then add the 3D effects as a progressive enhancement for advanced browsers."
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None of the services you listed at Google are going to cause me problems to pull my data out if I need to move somewhere else on short notice.
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They squeaked this one out yesterday evening. I'm surprised at how well that worked.
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I think one of the core differences according to his article is that the "data" for google calendar/contacts/etc are only stored on the cloud. You don't have physical copies of these on your desktop. Apple's products have historically been on the desktop so your calendar & contacts would mostly reside on your home computer and the only thing you would lack is the cloud syncing if apple were to go kaput.
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"This cruel paradox — having to get really sick in order to enjoy a better, more comfortable life — has not gone unnoticed. "

There is no cruel paradox here. I cannot begin to understand the level of lazyness, lack of self responsibility, and sense of entitlement that would lead someone to think that contracting full blown AIDS would be the 'only way' to live more comfortably.

This is the line of thinking that only comes from someone that would quite literally rather die a slow painful death than work and support themselves.
I stopped reading the mainstream gay media a long long time ago. There was a point when I realized it represented a way of life and culture that I had no interest in, and would never welcome me either. The only thing I have in common with much of the mainstream gay community is an attraction to the same sex, my geekiness represents many more important cultural touchstones to me.
Good point, but at the current adoption levels of both Android and iOS, carrier backlash is almost irrelevant, especially in US.
It's your complaint that is ridiculous.

The checkout page should have the lowest friction possible. Coupon boxes make people hunt for them. Anytime a customer leaves your store there's a chance they may not come back. This applies to physical stores too.

> is it easier to tell people to type in www.mysite.com/coupon to their browser or is it easier to tell people to enter COUPON at checkout?

I hear URLs spelled out in radio ads all the time. If this were 1996 you might have a valid point, but not in 2013.
I think the Reader shutdown is actually an example of why I am fine going into the Google ecosystem. Marco talks a lot about lockdown, but I haven't experienced it. Reader's shutdown was pretty abrupt, but I am happily using The Old Reader (minus the shutdown scare and less than stellar uptime) the same way I used Google Reader. Sure, I'd prefer Reader to still be around, but overall the transition was easy and pain free. I trust if the same thing were to happen to Gmail, Calendar, or Contacts I would have the same experience. And meanwhile, being in the Google ecosystem while it still runs makes my day to day life much better.

The only product that would concern me is Voice, and even then I believe a suitable replacement would pop up and Google would provide a relatively easy transition.