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> If you are using bootstrap for it's color choices you're doing it wrong.

I don't agree. I've launched several semi-successful sites where I've used Bootstrap solely because of the looks. Why exactly is that wrong?
It's possible to end up in a different circle of dependency hell with macports, where it insists on installing 10 different versions of everything at great length, when you already had a perfectly good one. If I'm not a python or perl developer, I don't want to compile many different point releases of those language ecosystems just to run some little utility scripts. And then of course everything is connected to everything else, so you can end up trying to solve graph theory problems when you're meant to be working.

Battle-hardened *NIX admins rightfully laugh at this attitude, but for a lot of web developers who use their laptops as a "sharp tool" and do all the heavy lifting in linux vservers, it makes sense to have a slightly laxer approach to package management.

(and then there's the increasingly common cases of build scripts just being broken on macports, because it receives less and less community attention now. this can combine with the above dependency graph problems to produce situations where it's easier to just nuke /opt/local and start again.)
Interesting. I have always found how different cultures "say no" to be one of the biggest acclimatisation factors when working on an international project.

I've worked with Japanese clients where they won't disagree or discuss problems explicitly. You might have your attention subtly directed at something for you to discover the problem yourself but no-one will tell you you are wrong.

I compare that to some German engineers who are breathtakingly blunt and have no problem saying "You are wrong. That won't work. We will not do that." no matter how sensitive the client situation.

On the scale of things, I see us Brits as fairly sensible. Put a German and Japanese person in a room and you sometimes needs a Brit to translate between the extremes. We sometimes flannel around too much in an effort to be polite but IMHO we take the effort to balance clarity and politeness.
That's a great question. At this stage we are certainly not interested in becoming overtly "prescriptive" in any way. Our first focus is on providing a cool utility to avid health trackers to aggregate data from their apps and gadgets in one place.
Hey joliss, I'd like to ask how you pick up your traffic? I've got a similar project as yours, and it has the same problem - it's a remake of a popular game with lots of high ranking webapps on Google. None of the SEO and social media did the trick for me. I even built a plug-in widget. So far a handful of links send most of my traffic, and I don't get in a month what you get in a day.

My project is: http://sudokuisland.com

How would you go about it? Thanks.
Yes, a lot of archaic names which are very rare. Also, Russia is multinational country, so Russian (as in ethnicity) and Russian (as in nationality/citizenship) names are different things. A lot of names (but not family names) are actually Tatar, Armenian etc. A combination of that name with typical Russian family name is not unheard of, but pretty rare to attract the attention which is the last thing you want if you use fake name for any serious purpose.
You need to understand that systems programming is very different from PHP. You have to worry about many more conditions. (What if another thread calls function X, just before someone calls this function? I need a mutex to protect this data structure. But what are the performance effects of that? Do I need to think about how multiple cores affects this? Etcetera...)
Very interesting! Could you drop a line on the github repo how to use the phonegap build process with an app build for node-webkit? this would be awesome! I'll not have the time to make your described wonder happen, but at least truly crosscompiling apps for desktop & mobile is a thing I'd like to see happen.
I think this stems back to the fact that those with a failed startup, lost investors hundreds if not millions of pounds. As a culture I think we're FAR more risk averse.

So someone standing and saying "Yeah, I lost some a bunch of money that some old guys shouldn't have invested if they weren't prepared to write it off" is a huge stigma over here.

In the states, you have way more professional tech investors so the "bad vibe" about losing that money isn't as bad.

I think US founders carry it almost as a badge of honour, a symbol of a war fought bravely to the end. Here it;s just like, "Oh, you fucked up last time.... I'm going to stand over here now"
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Or this it seems is the only explanation why my likes and shares which have until now been around 20-70 per post dropped to 1-2 (if at all).
Oh right, I see now that you are in fact the Apportable guys. Fair enough ;)
Totally agree, tools are important and key to real understanding of what you're building. I worked for many years as a tooling and manufacturing engineer (non-software). Our typical product development cycle was something like this:

1) R&D engineer: invent something

2) Process & tooling engineer: invent the manufacturing process and design the tools to build the thing

3) Manufacturing & product engineer: monitor and improve product quality and yield

Many software companies, especially startups focus too much on 1 and not enough on 2 and 3. Also, there's always some friction between the R&D and process/manufacturing camps, the former typically look down on the latter as technicians or paper pushers. In the other direction there's often the perception of R&D as being out of touch with the real world. Also, it's easier to hide incompetence in R&D because the metrics are foggy.
Seems reasonable to express disappointment at the decoded message. I'm not sure why you're trying to be the white knight in this.
I think the best call in most of these is to make it easy to interface with your doctor over. Might mean exposing yourself to more regulations, but seems like what would lead to the best outcomes.
I just use the Responsive Skeleton framework: http://www.getskeleton.com/ which is basically a grid system with some media queries. Then I can build whatever I want on top of that.

Saves time, overwriting a bunch of code and I can use it with whatever I want - Less, SASS, MYTH, etc.

Plus the code is about 200% cleaner.
Not directly comparable but Intel processor names and architecture are the worst. I mean who can remember all the differences?

Same goes for OS X version names. Unless you are a Mac Dev nobody can remember what is what. I feel windows got their version names right. Easy to remember.
Someone created http://www.datatau.com/ as an HN clone for Data Science.
"Bad Samaratins" has lots of citations, but just look at our exports:

One of America's biggest exports is civilian aircraft. I think for a while it was the US's #1 export in terms of profit.

It was also one of the most state-subsidized industries.

Giant aircraft presses can run into the "natural monopoly" problem, there are defense concerns with having military production happen in America, etc., so there are lots of justifications we can make for it. But a subsidy is functionally a tariff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I'm using it to automatically watch for changes to CoffeeScript and SASS files and then run the appropriate preprocessor when they change and tell my browser to refresh via LiveReload.
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I think you're counting a vocal minority and discounting a large pop music buying populace.

Also his music is pretty derivative if you've heard the music he is 'biting' or 'paying homage to' or what have you. I'd hesitate to call it pushing boundries as much as it is introducing it into the pop music lexicon.

Also people like The Kardashians despite their antics does that make them good... What is it they do again?
HN is the closest thing I've found that addresses that -- I still have to wade through much of the startup stuff which is irrelevant in my case. When I already know what I'm looking for, using HN search will lead to me to what's out there 90% of the time.
Aside from the incredible usefulness of the data herein -- thanks, backblaze! -- this is also the kind of marketing that I don't mind.

Backblaze got egg on its face yesterday on HN when someone's critical report (rightly) got upvoted. Today they make up for it by giving us an interesting and useful data chart.

I know it sounds weird, but for whatever reason I read this as demonstrating a high level of corporate responsibility and attunement to customers. They could have compensated by instead, say, dropping a few grand on buying journalists and 'reviewers', like Microsoft does. But they didn't. Instead, they were cool. To me that signals that they'll also take care of whatever problems they've had recently. (Note: I have no affiliation with Backblaze.)

I'm currently not shopping for an online backup service but if that ever changes, I now have a good feeling about Backblaze, and I hope that other services take a similar approach to repairing customer relations when they are fraught.

Shit happens, even to backup providers. It's how you respond that matters most.
That's true. The same could be said of many of these software products. I think passive income is more about the goal of least ongoing direct effort to highest income than spending zero time.
London is not bigger than New York. According to the last estimates, NYC is slightly bigger. The number is so close, I would call them even. However, when it comes to the overall metro population, not just the population of the official cities, NYC is far bigger.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. The first three are pretty common French Canadian names. The last one isn't.

Francois Tremblay is the name of a goalie from Baie-Comeau.

Marc Gagnon is the name of an Olympic gold-medal winning speedskater from Chicoutimi.

There are a couple of dozen Diane Cotes from Canada on LinkedIn.
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Is this legal? Unless those faces are fictional drawings, using someone else's face for a fake profile seems way over the line.
Apple DOES have more specific model names for their computers, they just aren't advertised with them.

Otherwise, I thought all the different flavors of products were to make "price match guarantees" impossible to actually use.
I'm using it to automate testing/concatenating/minifying a front-end library I'm working on.
The biggest problem of London is that the only way to get a decent compensation is by working in financial sector.
There we go. I did that originally but the title was too long at first, so when it re-submitted it probably did something wacky.
I like the post but I don't care for the click baity headline. Please add a few more words to headline when posting to HN.
Sorry, I don't think you understood my comment. First of all, container isn't used like that (you don't want to wrap your entire content in one container -- maybe you want a different full-width background for your header vs your body, for example). Secondly, this technique is exactly what I was describing -- using mixins (or @extend) in your CSS to eliminate the redundant classes.

Still, your final output produces three levels of DOM, which was exactly what my point was. No matter how much you try to export your grid code into your CSS (and you should try!), you will always run into situations where you need that <div class="row"> and there will be no way to semantically handle that.

Furthermore, there are some limitations even when combining semantic elements that cause issues. For instance, I often write this code:

<div class="row well">

To find that the exact margin/padding values I want for my well interfere with the default padding/margin values provided by row defaults. In those cases, I almost always have to add an additional DOM level and separate my classes to achieve my effect.
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Yeah, but that's a discussion I didn't want to get into again. A simple, completely indisputable arithmetic error made the point better.
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no idea why I said pretty great multiple times, after reading several posts on american stereotypes, I think I just need to drive my truck to a restaurant and tip largely to complete my day.
They posted on their blog that they wouldn't get discount pricing until they hit something like a 10,000 drive order.
Hmm, pretty neat - will have to save this little tool for Game Jams.
They are pretty much exactly that. Every accusation of "well obv he has given everything to russia and china" is completely without evidence and has been vehemently denied by people with actual knowledge of the situation (such as Glenn Greenwald). It's really nothing more than yet another angle in the attempt to discredit the messenger.
Cryptography is not dead. Just because some motivated governments can theoretically attack your machine does not mean that cryptography is not useful, because for 99.9999999% of us, that outcome will never happen--and if it does happen, the information will not leak to those you want to keep it from (unless that's the government, of course). Cryptography still keeps us safe from all but three or four entities.

Put another way--the FBI can sneak into my apartment any time they want by picking my lock, but I still lock my door.
Kanye is a really talented, honest, arrogant and immature man. That's why he's so fascinating. He's full of contradictions and he's cool with that, plus he puts that at the forefront of his art.

Some quotes that demostrate this wonderful side of him:

> Golly, more of that bullshit ice rap / I got to 'pologize to Mos and Kweli / But is it cool to rap about gold / If I told the world I copped it from Ghana and Mali?

> Always said if I rapped I'd say something significant / But now I'm rapping 'bout money, hoes, and rims again

> But I ain't even gonna act holier than thou / Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with twenty-five thou' / Before I had a house and I'd do it again / Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz

Shame that only the arrogant side seems to be displayed on the media, and not his child-like personality...
If only I could find the Hitachi Deskstars for cheap.
Sadly "I hope you die from cancer" (or "I hope your mum dies from cancer" etc.) is a message one sometimes gets when one beat a player online. Some kids/teens/twenteens are looking for the worst ways to hurt others with words just because they can't stand losing. If one wants to use video games as a therapy helper, one should avoid competitive online games.
Any chance you could integrate with the Sleep Cycle app?
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First wise step would be matching (and exceeding) HFs and IBs offerings.
Do those quotation marks mean "enterprise labelled", such as the WD RE4-series? Are there good data on how they perform vs the consumer series? By good I mean like the data your company provided, samples of thousands of drives.
This is simply false. Goals are incomplete realizations of the processes needed to accomplish them. You'll find a process whether or not you use your goals in full; the question is whether you do it intently and with awareness of the consequences.
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4K-ing hell Will your shiny new Ultra HD TV actually display HD telly?
Agreed. Did the same thing.

Would actually be neat though for that to be a quick demo of your software.
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Is this on quora or forbes ?
This is quite possibly the craziest article I've read all day (and that's saying something as I've spent the better part of the morning on Reddit)

Let's start with the iPad. First iPad was called the iPad. Awesome start. The second, the iPad 2 ... even better. The third was not the iPad 3 but rather the iPad ... or the "all new ipad" aka 3rd generation. Starting to lose it a bit here but let's trust Apple. The iPad 4 was not the iPad 4 but actually the iPad ... with retina display/4th generation. Ok so maybe we're starting a new naming scheme? Good then. The 5th generation iPad is/was called the iPad 5th Gen... oh wait no it's called the iPad Air.

To top it off, the 3rd and 4th generations are discontinued, leaving the iPad 2 and the iPad Air as the only available models. Try explaining that to a non-Apple following family member and watch their face contort.

Now I did RTFA and was amazed at how the author could spin the atrocious naming scheme for the iPad into something that matched his hypothesis. Kudos to him for sticking with it.

This snippet taken directly from the article could almost prove my point

"The original iPad hit store shelves in April of 2010, soon followed by the iPad 2, which was released in March of 2011. When the third-generation iPad was released in March of 2012, Apple by and large decided to forgo the numeric naming scheme and instead advertised the device simply as the all-new iPad.

Instead of a scenario with the original iPad, the iPad 2 and iPad 3 floating around, Apple kicked numerical suffixes to the side and started anew. When the fourth-gen iPad was released, Apple, again, didn't refer to it as the iPad 4. Rather, it often began referring to it as the iPad with Retina display."
Such kind of "lossy compression" was used sometimes to transfer secret messages. It's impossible to fully decipher it without knowing the text, but it serves as a reminder for those who know it, so they can reconstruct it in full form if needed. This way the information could be kept in oral form for a long time (even for generations), while being preserved in written form only in such way that strangers couldn't decipher it in full. But since common patterns can be discerned (if you at least know the subject approximately), one can reconstruct some parts of it with pretty good accuracy.
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Oregon (us-west-2) is a separate region. I don't know if the US Standard "Pacific Northwest" location actually is in Oregon, but even if it is, it's classified separately.

us-east-1 is the S3 "US Standard" meta-region. For all other services, us-east-1 is just good old "US East (N. Virginia)". For S3, the two names refer to the same thing. It uses the us-east-1 pricing, no matter where your data is physically located, since it is us-east-1.
Puns regarding programmers and sex aside, I'm a little less than half convinced about the idea.

On the plus side, I think the idea of seeing the action from your partner's point of view is as close as it gets to the movie idea of switching bodies, so that's the interesting part.

However, the novelty would set you $3000 behind from the start, would look nothing like those pictures most of the time (it would be shaky, for one, and with long shots of hair, walls and/or the mattress), and of course would be uploaded to the internet (and we know how that always ends).

Finally, there's the question regarding who would be interested in a service that provides videos of adult entertainment for only up to 5 hours immediately after having had said adult entertainment. I think it would be a better idea to remove the 5-hours thing and market it directly to the porn industry, but that's just me.
Interesting note on the WD 3TB Green.

I have one in my rig, and whenever I do any disk access, I always have to wait about 5-8 seconds for it to spin up every other half hour. It seems to aggressively turn off. I have my base system on an SSD, and my games and other things on this 3TB drive.

I guess such spin up times would be unacceptable in backblaze's environment.
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I used it to take a contact database for a series of seminars around the country and allocate participants to the geographically-appropriate venue.
Apple still has the exact same problem, they just hide it.

You may just buy an "iMac" from the store, but you could have purchased an A1224 (EMC 2210) or an A1224 (EMC 2266).

If anything, I prefer model numbers as the model name. This gives me easy strings to google, whereas with Apple products I have to type queries like "Late 2008 Macbook Pro" just to find the actual model number.

This is even worse with MBP's. The A1226 MBP had the same EMC code, but the order number denoted the 160GB vs the 120GB HDD. (MA895LL vs MA896LL)
I'm sorry, but how is the Windows naming scheme superior to OS X?

For the past decade+, OS X releases have been named after "big cats". Puma, Cheetah, Jaguar, etc. Consistent and distinct.

Windows on the other hand has had positively no common scheme.

Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1.

Worse still, the above "public-facing versions" actually mismatch their underlying versions. For example, Windows 7 is actually Windows Version 6.1.x, while Windows 8 is Windows Version 6.3.x.

I think the simple fact is that Windows releases have been substantially less frequent and have been met with much more fanfare and obviously have much wider adoption. But to say that the Windows version names are superior to that of Windows is laughable, imho.
> How do you share a file on the web or via mobile client with low friction without rendering that client-side encryption useless? (A: You don't.)

Exactly. Not all of us _need_ to share files, I just need a secure backup. And it is technically possible to access files on various clients using only client-side encryption and separate encrypted files from plain-text should you need to.
Your pricing page is not as clear as it could be.

When people read "$0.001 each" they sometimes understand it to be one thousandth of a cent rather than one thousandth of a dollar.

Even though you are completely correct/accurate, people find it confusing (1).

Wouldn't it be clearer to say "1 cent fore every ten uses" (or "10 calls for a cent" or "a tenth of a penny per call")?

Admittedly, your audience is semi-technical, and should parse it correctly, but why not simplify it?

[1] http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
Interesting, I bought my wife a Hitachi and it improved the relationship.
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I completely agree. I think the fact that we reject someone who is so honest with his flaws, and so honest in how he tries to deal with those flaws, says more about our society then it does about Kanye
It's even crazier/cooler than that: https://metacpan.org/pod/release/BOOK/perlsecret-1.005/lib/p... -- lots of (mostly harmless/golf-oriented) fun with combining perl operators.
I'd guess something may have got lost in (mental) translation:
in Portuguese, the same verb may be used to mean meeting people and finding things.
How about 10 factor authentication?
If the dean is suggesting that there are limits on the value of single-measure evaluation, I look forward to hearing about what she has in mind for student evaluations. I hope and expect that she will devote the same amount of energy to our long-outdated grading system as she devotes to hiding information about professor evaluations.
Are you kidding me? Let's see...Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate, etc...
People don't care about brown people living in the desert. They do care about Snowden.
Simulations are a great way of telling yourself what you already believe to be true. Since you build your assumptions into the inputs and into the simulation, you really need significant external validation.