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Males are very vision oriented when it comes to partners. I'm not going to lie -- I'm looking for someone attractive and deep -- and I've found it usually just isn't worth the time chatting with people who aren't comfortable with putting their picture online.

You're right that there are great people who don't put their pictures online, but I've tried it and the outcome isn't usually positive from my experience (and not only on the looks front). So, I no longer chat with people without a picture any more, unless we have a LOT of other stuff in common.

The OP is definitely correct that pictures can be misleading. I'm looking for a profile that accurately tells me what someone looks like so I'm not surprised when I meet them -- professional pictures (for example) don't do this. A non-posed picture of them outdoors with friends is usually best. Now I'm not saying that a picture is everything, but I am saying that if we meet up I hope that I meet with who I'm expecting :)
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The reversibility/irreversibility of evolution has been difficult to measure empirically. The researchers found a protein and its ancestral protein. They found key mutations that act like evolutionary ratchets. If the key mutations are left in place and the protein reversed to its ancestral form it became non-functioning (and would probably be a harmful mutation). Furthermore changes in the key mutation did not lead to any advantages in the ancestral protein. This means that there is a mechanism where a protein can mutate but is unlikely to mutate back, and this is a specific example of how evolution can be irreversible.
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1. Not sure about the animation... when I'm in the mood for studying, I really want to pound through things. The animation should either be really fast or not there at all.
2. Not sure if it fits in this model, but I find example sentences to be very helpful when learning vocab.
I am not sure if the point system changes my behavior or writing style. It definitely impacts my reading style. Let me think of a good experiment to verify.
The one point I'd like to make is that Microsoft has never threatened to sue anyone over Mono. They made an official agreement with Novell to appease Novell's corporate customers but that doesn't mean they'll sue anyone else. In fact, just the opposite. Scott Guthrie (VP of Development at Microsoft) regularly gives time on his popular blog to Mono projects (see one example: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/02/11/moonlight-...)

The whole "Microsoft Patent" issue is based on the Free Software Foundation stating a concern that Microsoft could someday sue. I don't dispute that concern but understand Mono is very much in Microsoft's best interest because it competes with Apache on Linux.

Finally, as the article points out, even if Microsoft asserts it's patents they'll only be taking away certain support functions like ADO.NET. The heart of Mono is the C# compiler which is an ECMA and ISO standard.
yeah, i was kind of hoping for more examples in the article since i probably won't buy the book
Simple: there are 3 basic technologies involved and each has a good and cheap flavors.

1. Color resolution. Pick 8bits instead of 6. This is the most important spec. Oftentimes it is not published precisely because it's important, but 8-bit displays are always marked as having 16.7 millions of colors, whereas 6-bit panels are often marked as simply "millions" (in reality they can display only 262K colors)

2. LCD pixel tech: pick IPS or PVA instead of cheaper TN. This very important spec is also intentionally left out of the official specsheet, but good IPS panels have 178/178 viewing angle, i.e. the same number vertically/horizontally. TN-based junk does not - you can tell even visually by tilting it left/right and up/down.

3. Backlight tech. Pick LED instead of CCFL. LEDs are brighter, they don't add yellowish cast and consume far less energy.

Bottom line, look for a panel which is advertised as 16.7 million colors LED LCD with 178/178 viewing angle.
Why do people keep suggesting this? There's so much value in having everyone see the same set of stuff in the same order.
Everything in life is reversible except death.

I'm indebted to my Econ 101 professor for teaching me that this is not the case. He was discussing the decision "You have a pristine prairie next to a Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart wants to pave it to make it a parking lot. What are the pros and cons of this?"

Someone pointed out that, if you turn it into a parking lot, you can never get the prairie back, but if it turns out you really need the parking lot you can make that transformation at a later date. My teacher said "Ah, but after it is Tuesday, you will forever lose the use of the parking lot on Monday if you haven't already built it. You can't ever get that day back."

This concept is widely applicable -- for example, many pro-life folks say the death penalty is irreversible and that this is a strike against it. I happen to be pro-life but am not persuaded by this, because prison is also irreversible. After you've locked someone up for ten years and discovered, whoops, he was innocent, you can free him but you can't free him ten years ago.

(This is a philosophical point with serious policy implications: if you buy it, you'd want to shift your resources from opposing the death penalty qua death penalty to ensuring fair trials generally.)
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You think Microsoft is going to sell the patents to it's core development technology to someone else so that they can bankrupt a company using Mono? That's a pretty far fetched scenario.

Beyond that, as the article points out, you can use Mono and not use Microsoft's patented technology. It just requires a little more work (again, C# is an International Standard which is not covered by any patent)
The question is a bit of an affront to one's intelligence, so it makes sense to pick the silly answer ;)
Wow, that's really bad. Never mind.
Live and learn. You've suffered a withering attack here, but you've continued to engage. I like that, upvoted for balls.

At the very least it was a popular and thought provoking article that warranted lots of passionate debate. Borderline trollish, but with enough elements of truth as to make for interesting forum fodder!

Email being sent if I can figure out this Internet thing with the education I received from a 2nd rate school ;)
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It would also have been free to run Github off of an old server out of their garage. Just not very functional.
Exactly, it is a version of "use it or lose it". Think of cave-dwelling fish who no longer use their eyes. They lose the capacity for sight. And once lost, it isn't coming back.

To give more detail, they were looking at an important protein which appears in many species. Since they know the protein for many modern species, and they know when different species branched off, they can reconstruct the likely form of the protein at each branching. Given modern computer modeling, they can figure out what each version of the protein will do. They demonstrated that it used to respond to 2 hormones. 40 million years later it responded to only 1 of those. They identified the responsible mutation and found that random mutations that happened after the first would cause it to respond to nothing if you undid the mutation.

In short, a significant mutation opens the door for further mutations that make the first irreversible.
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It's charming to see budding network engineers (re)discover L2/L3 differentiation issues. See "Interconnections" by Radia Perlman for the robust review of that story. It's a must read.
If it was rejected due to its "politically charged" content, what would be the difference between that and censorship?
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During the election another developer wrote an app that counted down the number of days until Bush was out of office, it was called Freedom Time. It was rejected and the developer emailed Steve Jobs.

He got a response: "Even though my personal political leanings are democratic, I think this app will be offensive to roughly half our customers. What’s the point?

Steve"

http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2008/09/steve-jobs-writes-bac...
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Actually had to look that one up only to find that it was by an American politician I'd barely heard about (Barry Goldwater).

It's a really good line, and it seems he turned into a figurehead for the Libertarians. It just strikes me as funny that there's no room in American politics for a 3rd party.
You think Microsoft is going to sell the patents to it's core development technology to someone else so that they can bankrupt a company using Mono? That's a pretty far fetched scenario.

Considering they funded SCO to try and kill Linux and called open source a cancer, yes, yes I do think that.
Might need a better specifed prior for that Bayesian calculation - prior expectation of 1% gets you the mean of the prior distribution of the success probability of each Bernoulli trial, but you also need a variance or other measure of the uncertainty of your belief.

Otherwise, if you have a degenerate prior based on a belief that the prob of sale is 1% - you just stay at that probability no matter how many successes and failures you observe.

Presumably you'd want a Beta distribution prior for the computational convenience of the conjugate property - unless you have reason to prefer something else. Then you take the mean and variance of the prior for p, or two ends of a confidence interval for p, and use them to find the alpha and beta parameters for the Beta distribution. Then you update those parameters for the 99 failure events, and read off the new expectation - that's the probability of the 100'th sale being a success.
FWIW, wikipedia defines censorship as "the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor". By that definition, just as Apple censors pornography from their app store, they seem to be censoring "politically charged" applications, as well.

So while it's (as far as I know) legal for Apple to decline "politically charged" applications, just as it would be legal for them to decline applications made by Jews, I don't think it's morally justifiable. While I agree with the cause of single-payer health insurance, I would be just as upset if Apple rejected the Druge Reader or Fox News app for being "politically charged".

Just as common carriers cannot discriminate against their users, once Apple provides a channel for businesses or people to sell things to customers, their power to decide what goes or doesn't go thought that channel should be limited.
Thanks for the overview. Seems like the price is roughly the same everywhere (as would be expected), but from a quick scan they don't seem to go beyond the easiest application. That means I should go worldwide with my additional services, after I've proved their worth here in Sweden!
Er, "but that's another story for another day" isn't an actual promise to spill the beans. Colloquially it means the speaker will likely never reveal the secret(s), and when made in passing the reference is intended to be lightly humorous. Time to roll up the Jump to Conclusions mat.
I am missing why this is important or unexpected.

Since most mutations are no-ops, and behavior is frequently expressed through combinations, I'd have expected what they found. For every useful mutation, there were usually other random mutations that prevent simply flipping back the useful one.
I'm curious how "Java is actually already way behind Mono". What can the one do that the other struggles with?
Although this series is still a bit incomplete, it should get you started:
http://openbookproject.net//electricCircuits/

PS. Don't forget to send feedback and suggestions to the authors.
I've had the displeasure of maintaining code written by duct tape programmers in the past. We called them combat programmers, and some of them worked at places like Netscape with people like jwz (who was mentioned in this article).

A thousand lines of un-commented Perl script (with few, scattered functions) that looks like it was written in cat(1), for example, is the kind of duct tape that fails quickly and makes life miserable for whomever ends up needing to fix a bug or introduce a new feature.

In my experience, this is the sort of thing duct tape programming (almost always) produces, and I think it's worth at least a little bit of actual design and documentation time to create something far better and more maintainable.
So? I used Twitter in 2006. My tweets were like, "going to the store now." "In line at the movie theater." etc. Literally, what are you doing right now? And that's what other people used it for, too.

It was popular even in 2006 and 2007, by web app standards. Right now it's ridiculously, explosively popular.

"It must have been hard to stay motivated, keep investors happy, and innovate from 2006-2008ish."

Just because you didn't use Twitter in 2006 doesn't mean it was a wasteland.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
Well, and as fun as taking quotes and events out of context is, that really doesn't tell the story.

Point #1 (SCO): Microsoft paid SCO a relatively small sum ($16 million in a year where they made over $10 billion in profits) which they claim was to protect themselves from any legal action. Open Source advocates have always claimed the money (and the later introduction to Baystar which led to more funding) was to destroy Linux but if Microsoft had wanted to do that they could have easily bought out SCO and just asserted the patents themselves.

Point #2 (Linux is a Cancer): Ballmer made this quote in 2001 when referring to the GNU GPL. Put in context it isn't the smoking gun Open Software advocates represent it as. From the Register's article regarding the quote (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...)...

Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times Friday.

Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined, that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made open source.

"The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source," Ballmer explained to an excessively credulous, un-named Sun-Times reporter who, predictably, neglected to question this bold assertion.
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Thought the hacker world might be interested in this article
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Really?

If I tell you your wife cheated on you with someone else. Is that statement really reversible? You're either going to hate my guts for lying or hate hers for cheating. You may find peace with it, but you can't un-hear that statement.
I think it's a great, simple application. I think my vocabulary is a bit extensive for it (did a dozen or so, got them all), but it would still be useful.

My comments: a) The animation is distracting, b) I didn't know at first that I was supposed to click a definition (you should add a "click the right one" instruction), c) I wish there were keyboard shortcuts to pick an answer, d) When you mouseover the answers the background changes, yet you can't click the background [1].

As for monetization, you may have a market with students studying for spelling bees or standardized tests or whatever. Some parents would spend ridiculous amounts of money if they think it will help their children.

[1] EDIT: Ignore this one. I don't know why I said that you can't click the background.
One day Apple will realize the feeling of suffocation going through most iPhone developers.
The only other way that a person can get email on the internet is through a hosting/colo/vps service. Hosting services are notoriously quick to just turn over information at the sign of any trouble. If this user's email was hosted on a hosting service that he/she had paid for, chances are that his/her information would have been handed over to the bank as soon as the words 'lawyer' and/or 'court' were mentioned.

It's funny then that Google -- with their free service -- has shown more compassion for this user's privacy rights than a paid service would have. (Note that I realize this 'compassion' is out of need to protect a brand, yadda yadda yadda)

And in any case, since Google has no 'contractual obligations' to its email users, do you think that it would be right and proper for the judge to order Google to shut down all free gmail addresses in the hopes that it would prevent problems for this bank? Afterall, it's a free service right? All of those users are idiots, right?
And I can remember all the major news networks on twitter ramping up for the 2008 election.
Phew! I'm glad this doesn't apply to me.
> How should I select a desktop monitor?

Buy a used CRT, they all look good at whatever resolution you want and you keep something from ending up in the landfill and save a few bucks.
Practical Electronics for Inventors is pretty good.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S...
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There is some code in this link:

http://www.runrev.com/developers/tutorials/intermediate-hang...

It seems to be a relatively verbose language so it's really not for me. The GUI builder may be a big plus though.
The flash uploader provides a much better user experience: better designed controls (usually), multiple-file upload, upload progress.

But graceful degredation is always appreciated.
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Very well done. If this was a game, I'd like to have the ability to select two answers: if one of them is right I'd get half a point instead of a full point.
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Buy the 200-in-1 Electronics kit sold (at least at one time) by Radioshack. The book is great (though aimed at a young crowd) and is the reason I am now an Electrical Engineer.
You can charge differently based on how far the data travels, but not whom it travels between. Hence, the weird "kickbacks" for sex hotlines. If I dial 1-900-SEX-TALK, the long distance carrier can't demand a cut of the $2.99/minute I'll pay for that call.
Sharp drop in WSJ subscriptions bodes ill for this news item.
Put the www.tempimages.com/ outside the red box.

Make it so when I select images it says something so I know it is responsive. I kept on selecting the same image, then thinking... well it still says 0/50 maybe it didn't work. So now there are 3 of the same image.

Otherwise, I like it.
As someone who navigates roads without a steel cage around myself, I wish red light cameras were replaced with Red Alert-style Tesla coils. Running red lights is dumb. Cameras make the roads safer.
Very nice interface. I tried it out and had the following problems:

1) In 17 words, "arboretum" and "impetus" came up twice. 17 words is way too soon to start repeating.
2) The words appear to be of uniform difficulty. They aren't very hard and you don't progress as you go along. It may be better to start off with easy words and progressively get harder as the user keeps going.

Overall, I thought it was a cute idea. All the best.
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Thanks.

Yes, the words you answer correct repeat progressively after 15 words, then 150 words and then 500 words (just to be sure it doesn't slip off your memory).

Perhaps I need to way to determine if a word is already known versus if a person has just learnt it.
what innovation?
1) Where is the legal stuff that says what happens to embarrassing photos of grandma?

2) Asking users to select their own url may have some issues. What happens if two people go on a vacation to Hawaii? :-)

3) I would really like to password-protect my slideshow.
This is pretty cool. It's like in that movie, I forget the title, with the liquid sentient creatures that decide to kill everyone with a massive tidal wave but then change their minds.
You know what would really capture people's imaginations? Space piracy. With frikkin' laser beams. Once there are bad guys in space stealing our shit, you can be sure the public will rally around the idea of sending good guys into space.
The third type is right. Though it can be learn to discover what is right without failing a lot, by working hard. Opportunity is key.
I've also just noticed in the past few weeks: every search for a health condition now has a Google Health result first.

And as if the first position wasn't enough, these results also have a click-attracting graphic. (Few other results, also mostly from Google sites, have such graphics.)

Organiz^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAssimilating the world's information?
And 1/3rd of their revenue comes from the Content Network, which has little if anything to do with search per se. (Realistically speaking the Content Network is a second bite at the apple from someone coming off a search result to a page which doesn't address their need, but it is in approximately no one's interest to admit that.)
For those of us who don't want to use RealPlayer, I've found that DownloadHelper does a fine job of downloading flash videos. It supports most of the video sites out there, and has a bunch of features in case you need them.

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

Again, a Firefox add-on.
Yeah, The Abyss.
I started my business in 2006, too.

Put it this way: if Twitter and I swapped sales numbers, we'd both be failures.

Me: Dang, I lost a salary roughly equivalent to my day job. That means I have to scale back plans for Christmas this year.

Twitter: AWW "#$& we have revenue! NOOOOO!

Me: ???

Twitter: Now our valuation will be in reference to the revenue instead of in reference to the effectiveness of our PR machine!

Me: ???

Twitter: By the simple expedient of paying us real money you have wiped out BILLIONS in imaginary wealth!

Me: ?????
I don't get it. People are signing personal guarantees on business loans, and then say that they didn't realize that their personal assets are at risk? What did they think "personal guarantee" meant -- or did they just sign blindly without even trying to understand what they were signing?
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Great ideas! Added "choose the right answer" and removed the distracting animation. Does it look better now?
Try http://cssbeauty.com for some examples, you should find a few
But the point was not to give details about a specific case and analyze it, it was to show the fallacy that some people seem to consider 1% to be "conservative estimate" no matter what. Guy Kawasaki says something similar and I think it is because he has heard that a lot, being a VC..