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I think you both have missed the point.

When you code CSS the "facebook way" :(, you don't have to worry about bleeding effects.

Want your h1 to have a margin of 35px or whatever? You give it the class large-margin or something. You don't have to worry about affecting other h1's, because they have the classes specific to the way they should be styled.

When you style in the way the root comment is suggesting, you do have to worry about bleeding styles, because selecting h1 tags in one section may also style an additional h1 tag you didn't mean to style.

The whole point is: don't select specific elements to style, rather, create classes of types of styles, and, when creating an element, select the classes of styles you want the elements to have. This way you don't worry about bleeding styles, each element has the classes representing how they are supposed to be styled, and you will never accidently over-select elements.
Excel is not a database.
I had trouble seeing where it actually houses the MacBook Air? In the first photo it looks like the battery and custom power-charging cable. There does not seem to be much clearance for the lid of the Pelican case if you put the MacBook on top.
I don't think it's a useless gesture, just that it seems more like a PR move directed at the community than directly related to SteamOS.
It's really because of Apple and their rules. Apple discourages Free and Pro versions of the same app (they may have loosened that up recently, but at one time, in an effort to combat app clutter and promote IAP, they would reject you). On iOS, there is no real way to try-and-buy without Freemium. At least in Android, and I think WP, you can get a refund within a certain time frame. Couple this with users generally seeking out free or super cheap apps and treating them as fairly disposable, just having a premium app for an upfront price, not being an established known brand, is basically a death wish.
I wish Seamless would innovate more. Recommended restaurants or meals would be awesome. Seamless has a total lock on the NYC market, but their website sucks, their ratings are highly unreliable (due to restaurants faking ratings), and they rarely add new features.
I used to work in the aviation industry and had lots of similar conversations with pilots. After a while I began to realise it's essentially just like every other industry: those the flew for well run airlines tended to be happy and those that didn't weren't.

P.S.
Professional pilots are known to whinge quite a lot so you might want to take what he said with a little pinch of salt... try lurking on www.pprune.org for a few weeks and you'll see what I mean :)

P.P.S. Having said all of that, some shocking stuff really does occasionally go on (I've personally seen it happen) so there are genuine grievances out there.
Tip for soldering the milspec connectors.

Slide your heatshrink tubing over the end of the wire. Strip the insulation from the wire so that the copper will bottom out in the connector cup, with about 1/16" (1-1.5mm) left bare beyond the end of the cup.

Clean the wire with some alcohol & a cotton wipe, taking the opportunity to twist the strands back together. Tin the wire with your solder. Use a large paperclip or tweezers to prevent heat transfer that might melt the insulation. Locking forceps can work if you bend the handle so that the jaws don't crush the wire.

Once the wire cools, coat it with a thin layer of flux. Then cut a length of solder to fit into the connector cup. Insert the tinned wire next to the solder strip and heat the cup. At the exact moment when the strip of solder melts and blends with the tinned wire, rock the wire away from, and then back down against the back of the cup, and remove heat. Hold it still while it cools.

Slide the heatshrink over the connector and shrink it with a heat gun. Don't use a lighter - it chars the insulation and you'll have to start over. Most hair dryers don't get hot enough (darn safety rules!)
> First, I don't think we agree what desperate means. Desperate makes it sound like revenues are shrinking or something.

Think of it like being at sea on a sailboat. You've got a nice solar powered GPS unit, modern top of the line navigation. You've also got a box full of current charts, maps, a sextant and compass, and you've got an old OMEGA system too, just in case. While out at sea, you take a look at your maps only to realize with horror that you accidentally brought your box of AAA road maps of Nebraska! What a dope you are, but you're still doing fine. Then you take a look at your OMEGA system, but discover that it no longer works because they shut that down in 1997!

You've still got your GPS, it is still doing just fine but don't you think the failure of your fallbacks would make you a little nervous?
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Why not go the whole nine yards and say "we're going to be using iOS on the desktop soon"?
Ah yes, that does matter. My 2012 MBA has a better battery life than the 2011 MBA, and this year’s MBAs in turn have way better battery life than my MBA. It also matters a great deal whether you have the 11" or the 13" model (which has way better battery life).

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/macbook-ai...
But they do use it as a reserve that is the basis for said loans. After all, they wouldn't have any money if it didn't come from the Fed, or another central bank, originally.
Would be great to try, but I have an android phone. Is there a way to get notified, if and when an android version gets released?
One thing I guess I don't understand is why Nvidia's own drivers are closed source to begin with. What do they gain by it? Is it that open source drivers would make their hardware easier to reverse engineer? Is it that the drivers themselves are an important piece of IP, and competitors would learn all these cool tricks they use in their drivers? Neither of those fit my model of the role and value of drivers. It seems like they'd just want to maximize the usefulness of the hardware they sell. But I'm obviously missing something.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. That's quite a variety answers.
But you know it's spelled correctly, right? :)
If the business is sure to fail and you have money left but no clear idea what to do with it, wouldn't simply liquidating and giving partial returns on investment be a reasonable option?
There is no perfect system, no ideal.

This would imply that the world never actually gets better at all, which I think is clearly refuted by reality. Anyone given the choice to live in 1913 or 2013 would clearly choose the latter -- even if they might ask for 1968 over either!

Just because social perfection has yet to spring from the singular pen of one philosopher in a cafe somewhere doesn't mean that convergent improvements don't happen.

Enlightenment-driven social democracy works better than other systems we've tried. Maybe it's even a local optimum we can't improve on through mere hill-climbing. What I do know is, if we just sit there saying, "There's no ideal to reach towards, shit just happens, what the hell?", we'll never accomplish anything.

We know what we like, so that is an ideal: make a system we like better than the previous systems.
There really is comparatively little "proprietary IP" on the kernel side of a GPU driver. In almost all cases, the kernel is responsible for doing things like setting modes, managing memory allocation/mapping between the GPU and CPU domains, and transmitting command buffers from userspace to the hardware. Where there is proprietary stuff, it's generally related to stuff like DRM (HDCP) or video playback which aren't covered by the kernel DRM framework anyway and wouldn't prevent an free interoperable driver.
Discussing the CAP theorem is a discussion on what is theoretically possible.

All I am claiming is that it is theoretically possible to make a CP system that, in practice, is highly available. That does not mean one actually exists.
For a project ostensibly inspired by K&R C, the copy on this site is amazingly opaque and full of its own rhetoric. Recommendation: delete all the linguistic posturing and get down to the hard work of casting light on your ideas. Let that speak for itself.

By way of example, the K&R C book had a beautiful clarity and ability to fluidly move between the realms of reference, spec, and tutorial. If you're going to hold K&R C up as a model, you'd do well to mimic its documentation philosophy.
Then I stand corrected!
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No you missed my point, completely. I didn't say anything about the changes in iOS7. I don't know whether they are good or bad for general users, and neither does the OP. Both of us can have our own feelings about it, and both can come up with theories that back our feelings up. But theories are a dangerous thing in UI design. They can be incredibly convincing and yet still be proven wrong in testing. As a UI designer you have to constantly doubt your own theories about what is good and bad, and trust scientific observations (of real-life usage and stats) over your instincts sometimes.
Valve is one company which has been developing a distro internally. nVidia is another company which has been working on polishing up some documents in order to release them on their FTP site. Yesterday, both companies stepped forward and announced what they've been up to lately. Neither of them have noted any relevancy at all to each others developments and (as an outsider) it seems unreasonable to speculate on such based on timing alone. SteamOS is unlikely to ever use nouveau and nVidia is even more unlikely to consider SteamOS as a reason to release documents for nouveau. Many more projects are ongoing all over the world and any two of them could at some point make announcements on the same day.
there is a very slim slot above the battery and charger, that holds the closed laptop. When it's all close everything is quite well protected.
Please re-read the comment I replied to, which was asking why MySQL Cluster (NDB) would not be considered as an alternative to Galera. Using Galera in production myself, I'm well aware they are different things.
As an employee you have fairly little to lose if you play your cards right. That's the benefit of the employer-employee relationship and being compensated primarily in wages.

So my advice is to ride the bubble because the inflated salaries and other compensation are good for you, but be mindful of what might happen if the bubble pops. If it's bad enough, you might be left unemployed with very few job prospects for a period of time. Don't inflate your lifestyle, and use the opportunity to build up a large savings account. If the bubble pops, that'll tide you over for a long period of unemployment until the job market recovers or give you breathing room where you can pivot your career.

If all this talk about bubbles turns out to be just fear-mongering and it doesn't pop in the end, it's still money in your pocket you can use to bootstrap your own company or eventually retire on.

The worst things to do are to spend all the money you have, or invest it in bubbled assets that might evaporate.
Watching the video blew my brains out the back of my head. Figuratively of course. Thanks for not letting me get anything productive done for the rest of the day.
I do this exact same thing
Indeed, esp. when satellites are involved.
Is this entirely an open source project, or are there plans to do something like Keen.io?
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Go rock climbing in a remote area... a lot of times you will have zero signal for miles around.
It looks to me that the biggest cut-out is exactly the size of a 13" MBA. The computer also isn’t very deep, 0.4" on average.
Good article.

Now, try the Win32 API, then go back to Cocoa. That will put the "pain" into perspective.

OSX developers are writing at the same level as C developers using Win32 directly, but with a much nicer, object-oriented API.
The problem with starting an airline is that the pilot's union has the leverage to capture all profits: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines

The key issue is that you don't just need to be certified to fly a 737, you need to be certified to fly a 737 for a specific airline. This makes strikes extremely powerful because you can't easily hire replacements.
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It seems like Urbit is art for art's sake. The fact that it executes is a side benefit.

(Oops, fyolnish beat me to it.)
It allows the storage and retrieval of structured data. To me that means it can be (and is) used as a database. Whether there are better tools is beside the point.

The reality is that Excel is the cornerstone of today's financial analysis. It is the de facto tool of the trade and can benefit from expansion of its core feature set.

As someone whose job is Financial Modelling, I wonder how distributable models / spreadsheets built using this are. That would be a barrier to adoption for my use case (and also that I'm the only person at the office who knows what Python is).
He put the [sic] there because you spelled "disingenuous" as "disingenous", lacking the penultimate "u." Clearly just a typo, as you have now spelled it correctly several times.
> I sent a few notices before and after shutting them down, but their mail was hosted on the down VPS, so they never got it. Man, they were angry.

Isn't this why most competent hosts request/require a secondary contact e-mail, not hosted by them?
If anybody from DataNitro is lurking, I have a question: what's the advantage of using DataNitro over Win32com + Python?
That's really the last hurdle between ARM-based laptops, I think. If they can fully port UIKit, then expanding some of the concepts (like UIWindow) out would make it pretty easy to port an iPad app to an ARM-based MacBook. Or, have a special mode that runs iPads apps fullscreen, and problem solved. I would love a secondary machine the size of an 11" Air that ran for days on those massive batteries.
Thinking back to about 2007, I remember the frothy fervor surrounding all of the new "web 2.0" companies that were coming on the scene back then. I thought for sure that the tech industry was about to see another apocalyptic event as the web 2.0 bubble popped. Thankfully, that bubble never popped (although another one did in '08).

I think it's healthy for people to be paranoid of another bubble forming ... it helps potentially keep it at bay. At least, that's what I tell myself :P
more likely: IP encumbrances in code (or specifications) that they've licensed (or licensed access to).
That's not how fractional reserve banking works. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking#Exam....

The key to understanding the fractional reserve system is that banks take title to your money when you deposit it, and you get in return an asset (the account) which is essentially a promise to pay you that money on demand.

A bank can't just "create" $900 million by making a $1 billion loan when it only has $100 million on hand. Rather, depending on the reserve ratios, $1 billion in notional assets can exist backed by only $100 million in central bank money. That's because those notional assets are not in fact money, but IOU's that people are willing to treat as functionally equivalent to money.
I think I agree. I think this post works in complement to the hiring one (mainly the treat your cash like the last you'll raise and the warning that people are a huge expense).
And yet, despite all the valid criticism of all the flaws in iOS 7, it's a massive improvement over iOS 6. And the user reactions show that.
This is exactly what i thought. Really cool build, but if you're going mil-spec, shouldn't you have chosen a more rugged-looking computer? With the macbook air it kind of reminds me of a Volkswagen on a jacked up monster truck chassis. My T61 would look badass in this, though.
I'd always assumed it was because they were tweaking things under the hood to specifically target benchmark tests.
that's not very good advice. that's called being a chump.
I'd say NVidia use closed source mostly to push Cuda instead of people trying to use openCL. E.g. their OpenCL driver imposes 3GB memory limits (or at least used to in the past) for kernels but with Cuda they will enable 64bit if necessary (on the same gpu hardware).
I'm under the vague impression Percona's codebase has some additional patches involving backup and management that haven't been pulled into MariaDB, but I might be mistaken. Obviously there's also simple release cycle lag.
Here is the full text of the email, also sent to the Mesa3D development community.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andy Ritger <aritger@nvidia.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:44 PM
Subject: [Nouveau] offer to help, DCB
To: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org

Hi Nouveau developers,

NVIDIA is releasing public documentation on certain aspects of our GPUs,
with the intent to address areas that impact the out-of-the-box usability
of NVIDIA GPUs with Nouveau. We intend to provide more documentation
over time, and guidance in additional areas as we are able.

As a first step towards that, we've posted a document here:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/DCB/1/DCB-4.0-Specification.html

that documents the Device Control Block ("DCB") layout in the VBIOS.
The DCB describes board topology and the board's display connectors.

I suspect much of the information in that document is not news for
the Nouveau community, but hopefully it will be helpful to confirm your
understanding or flesh out the implementation of a few unhandled cases.

A few of us who work on NVIDIA's proprietary Linux GPU driver will pay
attention to nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org and try to chime in when
we can.

If there are specific areas of documentation that would most help you, that
feedback would help NVIDIA prioritize our documentation efforts.

If you have specific questions for NVIDIA, you can ask here, or direct
them to: open-gpu-doc@nvidia.com. I can't promise we'll be able to answer
everything, but we'll provide best-effort in areas where we are able.

Thanks,
- Andy Ritger
Pitchweight - Rate, Tag, and Listen to Any Song
Hello all,

We're launching our site today, called Pitchweight. Any feedback is greatly appreciated: http://www.pitchweight.com

Here's some PR friendly stuff we're sending around:

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Introducing Pitchweight, a new web experience in which you can rate, tag, and listen to songs from all your favorite artists. We're doing something that has never been done before. Pitchweight is currently at a fully functional beta build and offers the following features:

- Weighting algorithms produce reliable quality scores for every song after they've reached statistical significance, all based on open sourced public input
- A multi-category tagging system that enables the creation of an ultimate musical encyclopedia
- An advanced search system to pinpoint the music you want to listen to based on scores, tags, and a variety of other filters.
- Send your songs to a radio playlist that'll play the music for you
- Upload your own music if you're an artist through our full fledged registration system if you're not already listed on the site

At Pitchweight, we want to connect people with the music they want to hear. We've got lots of ideas how to accomplish this and the website is only the beginning. We know the challenges that face the music industry because we've experienced them first hand. Spearheaded by BBC-played artist and Capital Grey frontman, Filip Mandaric, Pitchweight has the drive, innovation, and ability to disrupt the current status quo in the music world. Go to www.pitchweight.com and become part of something that may be the next great thing!
That's an excellent criticism. Of course the problem is exacerbated by the HN link pointing to the philosophy doc. The greatest philosophy is to have no philosophy at all, but perhaps we're not quite there yet.

Actually the K&R equivalent for Hoon doesn't exist yet, and when it does it will be the first thing to read. Since it doesn't, the Arvo tutorial is the first thing to read:

http://www.urbit.org/2013/08/22/Chapter-1-arvo.html

But this itself is incomplete. Watch the video first:

http://www.urbit.org

Then build Arvo and use the sekrit code it generates to, basically, subscribe to our newsletter.

It's just a bad idea to document anything before it works completely, because you end up with doc that validates this criticism. The right way to build a language is to build it, use it, get comfortable with it, actually master it and become an expert of sorts... then document it. Sadly, not too many of us can live up to this ideal.
Support for tables would be nice.
So I just looked at the quick start demo code. Did everyone notice the irony in it? We created some fake people and some fake orders and randomly let the people see the fake orders. Then we try to predict based on this data. A bit silly isn't it?

But anyway, the whole thing seems pretty cool.
I see I slightly missed the root commenter's point myself.

There's a trade-off of consistency across your site. I personally think it's not a good design choice to encourage different pages to have different style sheets.

Anyways if you want more specific styles, don't create specific selectors, instead create more specifically named classes so you don't lose the positive properties of the facebook way (Can we please get a better name?).
No matter how the OP came to his conclusions do we not agree that if you look at it, it could be better and not everything shares usability practices between apps. For a fresh look (2 month tested) release iOS 7 has too many bugs.
The 13" has a lot better battery life than the 11" and the 2012 has a lot better battery than the 2011. I get 3-4 hours out of my 11" 2011 MBA.
... the co-pilot on the Colgan Air commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo on Feb. 12 earned only $16,000 a year. (The company later said she earned $23,900.)

http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2009/06/16/pilot-pay-want-to...
Couple of guesses

a) If the drivers were open patent trolls and competitors would sue.

b) I have heard stories about some graphics vendors who have a lot of duplicated code in their drivers for supporting different generations of cards. Instead of building abstractions that achieve generality theyve succumbed to the copy paste rabbit hole.

c) If we all saw the mess that lives in the drivers none of us would be okay with it running it as a kernel module.

d) There are questionable optimizations that vendors would be caught on.
A permanent, secular rise in the maturity of the tech startup ecosystem (and of "software eating everything") would exhibit many of the same signs of high growth, or the same collection of Verhulst growth curves in disparate indicators, as a bubble. Dev salaries, SoMa rents, and MBA hanger-on density are probably useless in distinguishing between the two.
Bubbles are usually preceded by some regulatory or legislative change(s) that fuels them. This legislation usually has good intentions but falls victim of unintended consequences. For example, you can trace the housing bubble to the easing of lending standards through the modifications of the Community Reinvestment Act in the late 90s [1].

Legislation that creates new investments opportunities, coupled with cheap capital is a dangerous combination. I would not be surprised if the new JOBS Act [2] provides the spark and the Fed's loose monetary policy provides the fuel that creates a startup bubble (quickly).

Companies like Angel List [3] and Wefunder [4] have been quick to recognize this and take advantage of the new demand pockets the JOBS Act creates. Just check out their home pages.

As Sam mentions, there may be some time before it bursts, but it's very tough to figure out when it will be...and early stage company shares are not liquid.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOBS_Act
[3] https://angel.co/
[4] https://wefunder.com/
I wouldn't call it a framework either, was just curious about your opinion on it.