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Apple are partly to blame, but the trend for 'full screen background' websites doesn't help. If the content obviously continued below the fold you'd scroll without needing a prompt. Websites shouldn't be designed in ways that make you have to learn to check if there's more content hiding under what you're seeing.
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No pain, no gain ;)
Why doesn't Quora request the removal of such content? It's former content from its own site after all …
> The way I'm going to use this list is to look up services before I sign up.

You should try the Chrome Extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/justdeleteme/hfpof... I wrote using the JustDelete.me data. It adds a traffic light to the omnibar indicating if the site is hard to be deleted off.
hmmm, is the landingpage an actual example of the design framework they are promoting or not? i'm not 100% sure

if it is, well ...
http://www.webpagetest.org/video/view.php?id=131217_9H_A6M.1...

you can have a beautiful design and a super cool responsive website, but if it takes 10 to 12s for above the fold content to be useable, you are missing the point and your users/customers.
I wish they were more transparent about the components used for the site, specifically for licensing purposes.

Example: The demo site uses Proxima Nova, which is loaded via Typekit. That's not an open source font, there's nothing documenting that they have a sublicensing/resale license, which means it's an added cost to someone to either license each weight of the typeface ($29 per weight, and I think I count 8 weights = $232). Alternatively, that font is only available in the Typekit $49.99/year plan, which imposes pageview limits. The typeface really seals the deal and adds to the emotion of the page, and could be a big disappointment or added cost to someone. Certainly, startups don't need the drama of being accused of copyright infringement.
Libwebsockets contains a simple command line client and server:

http://libwebsockets.org/
I notice you called them “games machines” and not “home computers” or even “computers”. It seem to me that you knew very well what I was talking about, but choose to be obtuse.
Get your articles total word count, and divide by the average word read per minute.

Here's a WP plugin that does this: http://codecanyon.net/item/minutes-to-read/full_screen_previ...
"IT" is now being used more often to mean "computer janitor" than all the jobs related to computer/system operations. It's a bit of a shift in the terminology.
Well, if we are to trust the data provided on your parent's link, yes, Google's research is inferior. At least in terms of number of "best papers awards", which is of course only a metric.
It wasn't infuriating enough that you paid double for character-licensed flavors of the toys?
You've hit a minor portion of what a doctor actually does, the differential diagnosis.

At my last business (in sleep medicine), we learned that our patients who met their long term respiratory therapist (RT) before their differential diagnosis had a 20% higher adherence rate than patients who met their RT afterwards.

Concentrating on the Dx is a common desire of the bay area crowd but the reality is we value human relationships. A computer with the best differential diagnosis capabilities will under perform a reasonably competent doctor with empathy simply because patients are more likely to adhere to the prescribed treatment regimen.

now, augmenting doctors with additional information is a different story. I've spent the last 10 years of my life working on that problem.
I'm not sure how they (or anyone really) prove that they actually removed all information, other than running something like 'select name from users' and sending you the results so that you can see that your name isn't there.

If they send you all info that they have about you, that doesn't prove that account has been removed, it only proves that they have all your data.
Yeah true, I think you've hit the nail on the head - much as I sometimes wish something like Python were the standard instead, the lambda functions are fiddly (even if the list comprehensions are great).
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I agree with the other respondent -- your post is confusing and/or misleading because the word "work" is completely ambiguous.

The question is not whether anti-bacterial soaps kill bacteria (they do). The question is whether using them has health benefits or not.
Yup, the redder the flag, the sooner you should quit.

Facebook is also on that list.
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Clicking the "More" link (bottom of page) will give you the 30 next ranks. Repeat 10 more times to see #360.
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If an expert system prescribed you extra strength Tylenol would you feel better?
I think you are taking a too simplistic view of diagnosis and put to much faith in AI. I have also noticed Watsons good results, but I do not trust them yet, there is a lack of evidence supporting the claim that Watson can make 90% correct diagnosis.

Medical imaging is a big part of diagnosis, especially in many cancer patients. There is a huge effort to automate the segmentation of tumors, and even though algorithms often have higher inter- and intra-observability agreement than radiologists, they often fail miserably for "non-standard" tumors. A fully automated system that scans the patient, make the diagnosis and treatment plans and provides treatment is very far future.

A completely different issue is that the specific combination of a highly developed brain and opposable thumbs are sometimes necessary. Consider cardiac response teams in hospitals, but also general patient care where the ability to fluff a pillow can be just as important as placing a quick IV drop.
Except this was no acceptable solution. Instead of using a better hashing algo than strlen(!), the function names was chosen by length, leading to one of the largest and most criticised flaws of PHP: the inconsistent function naming.
It's really "funny" how all this is happening.

Approved by our "representatives" in DC.

Approved by us, the consumers (by our continued use of the concerned technologies, products and services).
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So, PHP is a good tool because a 'better' programmer can make good things DESPITE using PHP?
Can't disagree there. But, Monads are a huge hurdle and memory leaks are hard to fix.

(Although I should add it's a few years since I've played with Haskell. Maybe things have moved on....)
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A finger is a natural 1, and 45 is 2deci, thus your hands make a natural decimal-base.

Note that when you tried to show base-(9+2), you made a mistake in counting. It looks like you treated "all fingers" as 9+2, and "all but one fingers" as 9. That's inconsistent. Unless you have 6 fingers on one hand?
These are really beautiful photos.

Insects get their iridescence and colour by adjusting the micro-structure of their surface[1] so that it reflects light in different interference patterns - this is much energetically cheaper than synthesising the big dissociated organic ring structures that we use in pigments and dyes, and more stable (but, obviously, must be "grown" into shape rather than painted or stained).

This is also how most flowers get their colours[2].

[1] http://animal.discovery.com/insects/butterfly-colors.htm

[2] http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/4/505.full
Non-commercial license. What a shame.

In parts of the European Union, the CC-NC provision essentially amounts to a complete uselessness of the document, because of the weird definitions of the word "commercial".

For instance, here in Germany, if you have a blog, no advertisements, make no money out of it, but you have thousands of followers, you are acting in "commercial scope" (ie. you are too successful to be non-commercial), thus inviting all the nastyness of being sued for commercial copyright infringement.

The only thing I can do with a CC-NC document without legal risk is to look at it.

The sad thing is, that now nobody will bother to scan these documents and put them online under a different license, since "they are already out there for free!!".

It is quite likely that nobody involved with the project knew this, which goes to show how dangerous the NC-provision is.
The license is called "Developer license" which I at least associate with multiple use, and I don't see them specifically mention "single use only" (although I see that the text can be interpreted that way) .. http://designmodo.com/startup-license/

EDIT: got a reply from them on twitter: https://twitter.com/Designmodo/status/412867217118605313

You were right: "one license - one project."
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> Look at the steps to get PHP installed versus other languages. Then look at what "Hello World" and a simple form take.

That's really just not true. Installing anything capable of CGI is as easy to install as PHP.
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What they can and should do is remove all you data that relates to you excluding invoices (which should just copy your data and not simply reference it) and logs that you need to keep per some law.
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an interesting definition of 'better' - functionality fragmented across 3 apps (+ 7 other editing + uploading apps) and it takes 10 seconds from app launch to be able to actually capture an image.
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It irked me that when I deactivated my account, it wasn't immediately obvious that it hadn't been deleted. I only found that out when I saw the page was still live on Google.

I then contacted their customer service to find out why it hadn't been deleted. Their customer service team was responsive and helpful, and it was deleted within 24 hours.
If it is bad on your hands, imagine what it is doing in many toothpastes now.
Okay then, here is a discussion topic.

The author mentions that teens see Facebook as a utensil and not as something "cool" anymore.

Okay, fine, but how does that predict the end of facebook? If facebook becomes a utensil, a utensil that a good chunk of grownups still continue to use no less, why would that mean the end of facebook?

The author further talks about the 70s and 80s and things that were cool. Great, but if he stated that teens see facebook as a utensil, what does "cool" have to do with anything? If we stay with the 70s and 80s statement, do you know what other utensils we had in the 70s and 80s? Cars. Cars are utensils as a mode of transportation but also they are an outlet for some people to show the world who they are. What I mean is, we still drive cars even though we had them in the 70s and 80s. They just look different as technology and consumer demands have changed over time.

So, there is no reason why facebook would go down just because teens currently don't see it as "cool" anymore. As long as it is useful to manage your private contacts, and as long as it adapts to people's changing demands it can go on.

In short, were facebook on its way out, there would have to be one new "cool" thing to replace it. It is not enough to just have something similar but without users like g+. And if such a thing emerges, facebook still isn't doomed right away. They would just now have a reason why they maybe should listen to their users a little more. Regarding thins like privacy settings etc. As long as they don't have a competitor, they can pretty much do whatever they like as people don't really have an alternative. Should we start seeing teens leaving in droves for new hip platform X, I think facebook would recognize this and we would start seeing some more user friendly changes.
Exactly. Since I can buy on some internet retailers without creating an account, there is no logical reason why another retailer can't delete my account. I understand that they need to store the invoice, but that could be stored separately from the marketing database.
No you don't. I've had broadband for years without having any relationship with BT.
Long website short, this is a fixed website theme (a nice large one at that), cut into slices. I don't see anything fundamentally different from anything you'd fish out of ThemeForest for 1/10 the price.

From a startup design framework I would have expected multiple cohesive templates (web+email+business cards+letterhead+banner+tshirt+etc) with a good way of customizing everything at once (colours, fonts, spacing).
I'm building some projects that are only targeted at 5.5 -- once you do that, and stick to all the PSR standards, then it's actually really nice, super productive, and the cruft that exists gets ignored. I like PHP still shrugs
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http://designmodo.github.io/startup-demo/framework/samples/s...

http://designmodo.github.io/startup-demo/framework/samples/s...
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I do buy things often using GoG, or Amazon, or Kickstarter or PayPal. I've never had to enter my address before.

Hell, smaller companies asked for address but never checked it against my CC info (which is outdated anyway). I never had to enter the correct address for one of them.

I want to donate, but this form just bounces me I've so far tried at least 10 different combinations. I have no idea what bank entered as its information.
But you can delete threads, right? I frequently see '[deleted]' with replies to the deleted thread.
To be flippant it's starting to sound like you're describing the canned question list in a call center :)

The computer analysis of photos was actually something I thought was quite positive. I believe they've been doing this for skin cancer for a while (based on what my mother, who worked in a skin clinic for a few years described to me, before she escaped to do GP work again).
I'm pretty sure this is #1 on the frontpage because they gamed HN. I don't how it's different from all those themes. Except for the price and the landing page.
well I suppose that really depends. When there is little to no code and the feature remains incomplete, then it's pretty bad.
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I think that more specifically they'd say that this should be adressed by volountary charity. Which is nice in theory but ignores how inefficient that tends to be.
I can't see the part in your story where you found out what the chest pain was and that any form of diagnosing entity [sh|w]ould have picked it up.
The flickering most likely was the result of the most naïve way of redrawing the screen:

clrscr();
draw();

This redraws twice, by first clearing and then overwriting again. The flickering should go away completely if you actually redraw the screen, e.g.

gotoxy(1, 1);
draw();

At least in the things I wrote in Turbo Pascal back in the day this was enough to fix performance problems from drawing too. gotoxy() calls cost time too and simply writing a large bunch of characters in one go is often fast enough. Of course, writing directly to video memory is by far the fastest approach.

The last time I had fun with this was with FreePascal in my first semester with a friend. We wrote a text-mode UI library for one assignment (it wasn't strictly necessary, but it was a fun learning experience); it had a message loop that handled focus and dispatched input to controls, full-screen "windows", sub-screen dialogs, and buttons, text input boxes, combo boxes, and tabular view. We used gotoxy() and write() calls throughout, which had the benefit that we could test it on my friend's old VT-100 terminal as well (it was slow as hell, though, but you could literally see where to optimize draw calls, similar to using X remotely over a slow network where you can watch it draw each menu half a dozen times), but planned on moving to a more optimized strategy. Alas, we never really had the time for a v2 rewrite so the project just went to die. And by now it's probably of no use to anyone anyway (but it taught me a lot about how windowing systems work or at least can work).
I guess bill & ted refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Ted%27s_Excellent_Advent...
If you go back and look at my comment history, I think you will see that I engage with people in a thorough, honest, and often self-critical way. I don't think your Dunning-Kruger idea is actually plausible. Are you thinking of that based on this one post, or do you remember me from other discussions?

Anyway, I do make pithy comments that are not intellectually thorough from time to time. And if you were to look at my post history, I'm sure you'd find some things that I wouldn't be proud of. But in general, I don't try to "win" arguments; I try to learn, and I try to help others learn, which requires connecting to their current context of knowledge, not just making hand-wavy arguments.

> I'm suggesting that when you understand something as little as you seem to understand the philosophy of anarchism

The word means "without power" or "without government." So I'm not sure why you say I misunderstand it.

That said, I do think many "anarchists" actually mean something else. For instance, from what I can tell (and please correct me if I am wrong--I'm not at all certain), Chomsky is actually advocating devolved communalism, which is a form of coercive government. For some reason, he wants to call that "anarchism." I want to call him on that. I don't think it's right to take the word "anarchism" and have it mean local communalistic government.

Maybe when you say I don't understand "anarchism," it's because I interpret it to mean "without power," and you interpret it to mean some kind of devolved communalism.

I have talked to anarcho-syndicalists and they claim that there is no government and no force. Oh, except yes, the syndicate exercises police power and taxes people and decides on wealth distribution. And if you don't like the syndicate, you can go join a new one. Well, guess what? That is government. It is not anarchy, except if "anarchy" does not mean what its Greek root words mean.

I agree with "anarchy" as anarcho-capitalists describe it, but I just don't think it would be stable for more than 5 minutes. That is precisely the thing I was pointing out in my comment.
Am I alone in finding it absurd how this product is being marketed? I saw the title and expected some guidelines on how to build a business, and instead found some static website components and an over-the-top video. Their dramatization of their product reminded me of the Vooza parody video in its silliness.[1]

To be clear, I have nothing wrong with the fact that these guys have created a useful set of website components...but having a pretty website is a miniscule part of building a successful company.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L3Kgc6Y7E
Allison asks: “What linker debugging strategies do you have?”

Change the linker script randomly (actual thing that has worked)

Change variable attributes from ‘private’ to ‘public’ at random (actual other thing that has worked)...

Changing stuff at random (without having any idea why you're doing it and without keeping track of what you've already done) isn't a very productive debugging strategy - it's more like an act of desperation. At least use the scientific method:

- Make a hypothesis about what might happen if you change X.

- Observe and record what actually happens.

- Think about why this could be, and then think about what experiment you could do next to get another step closer to the answer.

If you have a hard time coming up with a reasonable hypothesis, it might help to learn more about the system. In this case, reading the linker documentation to find out what the various options do could be more productive than just making random changes to the linker script.
Life in Russia significantly improved during last 15 years, but crime rates are still high everywhere. However, it depends on your life style whether you face this danger on the streets or not. IT jobs are among the best paid here, so you can afford secure neighborhood. Modern Russia has large police force and a half-million army of CHOPs ("private security enterprise"), guarding malls, banks, offices, train stations and local trains etc.
As for the gays, I've been living near a gay club in Moscow several years ago and never seen any criminal activities related to it (never visited it since I'm not a gay and there were too many drunken freaks).
Ironic that I struggle to read the text on this page due to the horrendous colour contrast. I give you the middle finger, fuckthissite.com.
> the reality is we value human relationships

that reminds me of this:

We don’t utilize EMR at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Partly due to patient confidentiality concerns. Partly because every operating room I’ve ever been in that has computer capability results in a nurse with her back to the surgeon and patient, typing constantly. Not good patient care, in my humble opinion.

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but you had to pay for extra physical cables to be installed to your house right? and the same again every time you move?
yes, they "gamed HN" by having an affiliate program ;-)
> What does delete even mean in these circumstances? The best they're able to do is just remove your public profile (if such a thing exists) whilst leaving everything else intact.

They should delete everything except what they can't.

And I think the same should happen by default with collaborative services like Wikipedia as well (see below).

> The very nature of a collaborative work means that removing some contribution from the past could alter the work as it stands today. i.e. Wikipedia

Collaboration only makes it more difficult to erase all traces of your use of a service, because other people expect to keep your edits in their timelines. But this has nothing to do with whether or not you should be able to delete your public profile and username/password.

It's very easy to delete Github accounts, but any contribution you made to anyone else's repository will continue to exist and have your name in it (because you can't rewrite Git history without breaking a lot of things). That's exactly how anybody with basic knowledge of Git would expect things to work. You can delete your account and your own repositories, but your contributions and other people's forks will remain.

With services that don't rely on Git, it's even easier to rewrite history, so there's not even any need to keep your name. For example, Wikipedia could just display a grayed-out [deleted] where it would normally display your name & a link to your profile. Or treat it as an anonymous edit. Or whatever else makes the most sense given their architecture.

As long as the ToS clearly states what gets deleted and what doesn't, I don't see any problem with partial deletions. And of course there are always CoD letters and other legal mechanisms for circumstances where you really want to make things disappear.
Seems broken/spammed. I doubt the homepage for some random local German soccer team is annoying that many people.
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There's factors you're completely missing. One of the things doctors do is ferret out information that the patient doesn't volunteer - they socially manage the patient to divulge information. Until we have diagnostic computers that can pick up on non-verbal cues and other such nuances, we'll have doctors.
Or if you want the current distance.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+to+mars
You can self-host Proxima Nova for $29 per weight ... drum-roll ... of one time payment.

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PS. By the way, Mark Simonson was one of the first type designers to experiment with liberal web-friendly licensing and would you just look how well Proxima is doing these days.
A lot of the UK has cable, but also recently I believe they're now unbundling the exchanges in a lot of the bigger cities, which means you don't have to buy a BT phone line.