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> Citing the Ubiquiti ER-lite 'Tolly' results just shows that you don't understand what they did to get their cited "performance".

What did they do?
When you are considering how two things are alike, don't forget to also think about the ways in which they are not. Unlike with HTML, content producers who write Markdown, don't need their documents to be parsed correctly by many different engines. They only have to target the one they are using.
Whatever. I really respect Gruber for his original design of markdown, but am puzzled by his destructive behavior in this. While he was sitting on his hands, a lot of us have been annoyed at creating a markdown doc in one app and finding it looks funny in another client. This spec is long overdue.

He can still choose to be caustic and demand a rebrand, but it'll only delay the inevitable replacement of the original markdown.
I'm not quite sure why you'd need all those layers of misdirection, this eliminates all of the complexity. If the platform knows a region in space is tied to an origin - like a Target store is tied to target.com - you have everything you need to enable seamless push notifications directly from the beacons.

Here's how the system works:

1) User walks into the store and receives the first ping from a beacon (or other location-based trigger)

2) The platform/UA shows a bit of UI asking the user if they would like to receive LBT content from the entity - for example, Target.com.

3) There are 3 options: disallow, allow for this location (aka: "Just this Target store location"), or allow for all locations (as in: "Allow notifications from all Target store locations"

4) After selecting to see notifications for the location, or all the entity's locations, the user no longer needs to do anything, they just receive content directly from beacons within the location.

This eliminates the need for every app to listen for beacons, and beacons can now pass content URLs, which the platform/UA can open directly. This way, there is no vendor or walled garden dependencies. The system grows organically, and scales without micromanagement.

Do you understand how that works? I can try to answer any other questions you may have.
Technically true, there is an interesting book you might want to read titled, "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much" (http://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much/dp/0...). Its central theme is that scarcity changes the value calculus of our decision making process, and it isn't just about money, it can be making poor choices when you don't think you have enough time for example.

In order to choose not to speed, once speeding is inevitable because of a lack of time, the woman in the article has to accept the consequence of being late (forced) or the consequence of getting a ticket (probabilistic), and she (and most people) choose the risk choice rather than the 'forced' choice. The correct answer is to wind that transaction back to what she was doing before she was late, and finding the places where she ended up with not enough time, and those are then filled with a series of what appear to be inconsequential choices with respect to time vs time availability.

I found it a fascinating read, and it gave me quite a different perspective on problems like these where the 'obvious' answer seems to be "if it hurts, then stop doing that."
There is not one "football" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
In this context, the comma is as good as &.
Awesome! Top 3 learnings are hard to pull out, but roughly:

1. Most startups fail because they can't get traction, not because they can't build a product.

2. Many startups focus too exclusively on product and ignore traction until they launch. This leads to this situation where a startup will spend 3-6 months building something, launch, and then realize they need to start marketing in order to hit profitability or raise their next round of funding. However, they're starting from square one again and with half the money they started with gone.

We talk about companies that focus on traction and product in parallel. This leads to a dynamic where companies are testing acquisition channels early on and launch to a group of beta customers. Additionally, they have a better understanding of which acquisition channels are effective, which means they can scale those channels up as after they have a more fleshed out product.

3. We found that founders and marketers have a bias towards using channels they know. Many founders never consider channels outside those they have experience with - usually Facebook/Adwords/content marketing - which means they don't acquire customers in unique ways their competition isn't. Thinking holistically about each of the 19 channels is a much better approach, and allows you to potentially acquire customers in a more cost-effective way than your competitors.

Dropbox is a great example of this. There were many file storage companies around before Dropbox, but none that used referral marketing as their main acquisition channel.
Wow, I'm lucky to get 8 hours on a new code base before I have to ship a bugfix. << spotted your problem. If you're constantly working in completely unfamiliar code with at best an 8 hour lead time to get a fix in, you're being setup for failure. Yeah, sometimes you have to just get a fix fast, but spending your whole life coding like that is going to burn you out. I only have my own anecdotal evidence to go by, but I'm inclined to think your experience is not the only way.
NASA sunk itself with the space shuttle and politics.

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/good-riddance-t...
Actually - thanks a lot for your answer. I'm always glad to learn more about markets and/or an industry I don't know much about myself. Much appreciated!
1. meh, semantics. Unless they force them out by law, which is no longer a free market by definition. Also, for clarification, the dealers are the middle men. They were not forced out. Quite the opposite. They are now forced in.

2. Doesn't matter in terms of morality, not in terms of best business practices.

3. The deal that said "buy our cars now in the recession or we won't sell anymore to you in the future." not the law that resulted: "manufacturers must by law sell to any official dealer and cannot sell directly"
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. The total isn't as important as the rate. Google has grown about 40% in the past four years. DDG has grown many times that.

It's very, very dangerous to extrapolate growth rates into the future. But I doubt Google's will grow faster, whereas DDG still has the potential to keep up high rates of growth.

If I did the math right (not certain), DDG has had 3096% average annual growth. Keeping that up for even four more years would make them large.

So it's not ridiculous to pay attention to DDG's progress. Unless things level off.
Right, but that literally has nothing to do with the article. People are also getting tickets for things like not having proof of insurance and expired registrations. Furthermore, the system is set up in such a way of encouraging the police to use predatory tactics to produce revenue. This includes giving tickets for things that most other departments consider not being worth enforcing by tickets. Boiling down the argument to "Don't speed if you can't afford" it adds nothing to conversation and completely misses the point of the article.
Can the same be achieved with a common core (spec) + 3rd party bolt-on extensions?
EPUB should be out in 2-3 weeks. Feel free to email me - justin@justinmares.com - and I can send you a PDF.
The Wikipedia article probably does a better job than I do, but the LCA is a company submitting what they plan to pay an employee when they hire them. As far as I am aware, if I get a pay rise the company does not need to resubmit an LCA.
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A couple of those fines were for speeding

That was Bolden’s second arrest. In 2009 she was arrested in the town of Bel-Ridge for a warrant on a speeding ticket.

The Foristell warrant stemmed from a speeding ticket in 2011

“These are people who make the same mistakes you or I do — speeding

Both were speeding tickets that he had neglected to pay.

a warrant stemming from a 20-year-old speeding ticket.

Speed seems to be a major factor throughout the entire article. Would removing the one thing solve the problem? No. Would it help some people? Undoubtedly.

It's not picking out one sentence. It's picking out one thing that the article said over and over again is a major factor in people going to jail over minor offenses.
Everyone is still free to implement their own version. But it seems like many of the people behind the biggest implementations would rather agree on a standard.
This reminds me of a thought experiment I read a while ago, I believe on the Atlantic. I'll paraphrase with a bit more math:

Suppose that acting ability and attractiveness are independently normally distributed with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. Further suppose that to be a successful movie star, an individual must have an acting ability plus attractiveness of 6.

Then among people with the necessary attributes to be movie stars, attractiveness and acting ability will be negatively correlated. In this example, we might expect to see movie stars with (intelligence, attractiveness) around (3,3) or (2,4) or (4,2), but it's much more unlikely that we see many people around (4,4).
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I don't think anyone wants to take credit away from Gruber. My understanding is that they want to move the language forward. More people than just Gruber use it now. I haven't been following him much recently, but for a long time his attitude was, basically, "You can't change anything without my approval but I'm not going to invest any time in this." The way he has handled Markdown's success over the last few years has not engendered my respect.
Just FYI: That tweet exchange is from two years ago.
If your company does that, I very much doubt they also do it for immigrant workers. I doubt the government would approve such an application.
Yeah, I'm going to just go ahead and say that Fletcher's MMD has been my "standard" for years. Yes, yes, Github flavored is fine. You can adapt it. But since Gruber doesn't want to set a more specific "spec," I default to what I grew up on. And in this case, the last 7 years of my life have been spent writing 95% of everything I publish (keep in mind, this is how I make my living) with MultiMarkdown.

A for effort though.
How a group (of whoever they are) claim they're the standard about something in nowadays without even caring about localization ?

2 years of 'complete specs' without a mention for RTL and how it should be supported/written in markdown....

A bit disappointed tbh... even though it's a nice initiative...
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No, the point of the article is people going to jail over minor offenses that snowball into major jail time. And one minor offense they call out repeatedly is speeding. Speeding is the beginning of the record for numerous people cited throughout the article.

It's a controllable factor which costs literally nothing, unlike registration and insurance. So why does speeding claim so many?
wich tech will you plan to use ? if i have some spare time i would like to work on some part :)

Github + mailing liste ?
The Library of Congress has a special page for this info:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

"Most photographs in this collection are considered to be in the public domain"
i don't know but it has matched up with friends' salaries at smaller companies so i trust its data
It's not wise to run a tor exit node from an internet connection of a house. The risks outweigh by far any kind of benefits.

EDIT: I see you need some kind of elaboration..

TOR is mainly used by activists and rogue parties to do things like scan the web, attack websites, launder money and so forth. At any given time, if a crime is committed by your exit node, which given the fact that is on fiber will handle a lot of traffic, the police could enter at your place and seize every equipment they believe it's worthwhile ... given some history, the police is not exactly tech-savvy, which means that they'll take everything (even the printer...). They can keep all the evidents until the investigation is done and so forth. Trying to explain to an office what TOR is, is hard in real life. Trying to explain why you choose to run such a thing at your home, is even harder (if you knew that you're getting into) and a little bit suspicious.

If you want to support TOR, you can donate[1], set up a node (but not exit node)[2], or rent a VPS and setup a tor server at a VPS provider which allows tor.

[1] https://www.torservers.net/donate.html

[2] TOR is getting faster and faster. If your node is fast enough (which should be) then fine, otherwise you'll only slow down the network.
It does happen. However, as the article you linked notes, they hold the reins a lot tighter when it does. I speak from personal experience, since I ran a startup located in Florida which was funded by DFJ. I can say that it was a different experience than the typical Valley startup; we didn't benefit as much from networking as much as we possibly could have. After the first year, we would have a new funding round every few months, and we had to meet benchmarks to show progress. Even though Tim is a really nice guy and was great to work with, it was very stressful to operate with such a short but continually lengthened (until it wasn't) runway. I wouldn't recommend it to the weak of constitution. However, I can understand why they did it - without eyes on the scene on a frequent basis, they were putting much more trust in us than they were in other startups which they could more easily monitor and guide.
I'm referring specifically to the act of quoting and responding to a single sentence. The representativeness of that sentence doesn't come into it. I'm not saying the act itself is inherently wrong, I'm saying that in my experience it's a reliable indicator that someone is no longer saying anything useful.

Again, who are you talking to? These people aren't reading your comment. You wouldn't be telling them anything new anyway. They already know that they shouldn't break traffic rules if they can't afford the fines. I'm certain it's not a problem with lack of knowledge in that area. None of us are under any illusions that it's OK to speed if you can't pay the ticket. So what's the point of saying what you said? All I can come up with is that it makes you feel superior.
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That is a problem, yes, but I didn't see anything in the article citing obscure laws that no one knows about. The closest I saw was not subscribing to the only approved trash service.
GPS need not be always on, the platform can minimize activation of GPS in a variety of ways. All current systems for location-based triggering are non-starters - they each fail in one or more of the following ways:

- Forces apps to be the trust layer, which prevents wide-scale, predictable content delivery

- Eliminates the ability to do seamless, proactive push content from LBTs

- Requires the existence of walled gardens and vendor-dictated management layers that encumber the system and creates gatekeepers

This system solves all of these things for locations that can be tied to their owning origins.

Please continue the debate, I want to hear everyone's feedback.
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"It turns out that gunshots are highly distinctive events when viewed from the perspective of the human wrist," - one of those things that you probably don't need a research grant to figure out...

Interesting approach regardless.
My apologies; I took the title from the name/tagline of the repo. It won't let me edit the title now, but if a mod wanted to do me the favor and make it say "git/mercurial"...
One of the best perks my small employer gives me is the flexibility to take as much unpaid time off as I want (within reason I guess is implied).

As a developer, this gives me flexibility to go to conferences, hackathons and networking events that definitely improves my skillset and ultimately makes me a better and more resourceful employer.

Even though I don't make nearly as much as my colleagues, I'm extremely grateful I can take time off when I need to. I've got way too many close friends tied tightly to an inflexible 9-5.
Most companies do give software engineers weekends and at least 2 weeks paid vacation a year. I don't know your circumstances, but you might consider switching jobs.
Speeding claims so many because the extraneous police departments in STL. Furthermore, poor are being targeted by speeding tickets at an even higher rate than average because police expect to get more ticket possibilities. The bottom line is police departments need to get revenue to sustain themselves and instead of looking elsewhere, they are using predatory tactics that disproportionately hurt the poor.

You arguing in a similar way to the people that say if Mike Brown didn't want to get shot, he shouldn't have been walking down the middle of the street. The problem is that all of those poor people getting tickets at a higher rate is symbolic of a larger, societal problem (poverty), in much the same way that Mike Brown's death was symbolic of racism (and also poverty too, of course).
Thanks for the hint. Our neuro suggested to halve the dose during weekends and holidays to avoid potential withdrawal symptoms
There's nothing stopping you doing that already, it just might not pretty print the output.

Most of us who syntax highlight code that is supplied in Markdown use Mike Samuel's work: https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README...

Ruby isn't one of the languages presently supported, but if you add it then a lot of sites will start syntax highlighting Ruby.
Dude, just rebrand. You're obsessing over a name that your fans probably aren't as crazy about.
It would seem they're neglecting the elephant in the room:

The average millennial doesn't have much disposable income.

Sure, it's not all of them. But many of them are struggling financially, and a new car, no matter how "cool", "hip", or whatever the current terms is, just isn't something they can afford. So they drive old cars, and drive them less. Or they live places they don't need cars.

You can stick $10k worth of the latest and greatest gadgets into the new car, and all it will do, at best, is end up as their phone background (the equivalent of my generation's poster on the wall), and move that car $10k+ farther away from what they can afford.
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I live in St. Louis and see cars blow by me everyday going 20+ MPH over the speed limit and weaving in and out of traffic. I am personally glad the cops are there to act as a deterrent.
That's what Elon Musks are for :)
They're all vice presidents there? American Psycho is becoming truer every day.

the ruling gives Goldman an incentive to keep the ambiguous language in place so it can reserve the right to make “unpredictable post hoc determinations about which former employees should be advanced attorney’s fees and which shouldn’t,” Fuentes wrote.

Maybe there's some selection bias going, or I'm a contrarian, but somehow dissents usually make more sense than rulings.
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Who is any of us talking to? There are many comments here on this very thread that are talking to no one (including the top voted one about Finland. We don't make the traffic laws, who cares what Finland does?).

The point of Internet forums is to have a discussion. It would appear we are having a discussion. ChuckMcM even linked me to an interesting-looking book. That's the point of Internet forums.
It's a bit inverted, but a good chunk of the article centered on the common misconception that if you show up to court for a ticket and can't pay the fine, you'll go to jail. This is causing a lot of people to fail to appear in court, getting them in much more trouble than they were originally.
Asciidoc (and the myriad of other markup languages that are supported in their file rendering) is not supported in comments/issues/pull requests, only "GitHub Flavored Markdown".
It already costs the city 70k per person per year to go through a recovery program, this reduced it to 40k the first year then 0 the second year -- netting large municipal and state savings.
> "ambiguity is a feature" is not an opinion I can get behind

You clearly don't like his position.

Be he has explicitly chosen not to make a specification, he's had years and numerous requests. From what I've seen/heard John Gruber likes that it isn't formalized with a spec.

So if a group of people, especially a large group with 10s of millions of users (at a minimum) decides to write a spec and name it "Markdown" over Gruber's wishes it sounds like trying to take ownership from him.

My phrase was glib, but I don't think it's that far off from many of the comments expressed here.
Doesn't that imply that the deterrent isn't working?
Yeah, honestly, I think more verbose formatting is much easier to remember than a bunch of punctuation.
How does such process work? What determines the market rate for the adjustments?
Sorry if I'm missing it, but is there any additional info/source on their stationary implementation? I'd love to implement a smaller, cheaper version with one of Telit's embedded chips.
put a donate button on the site, seriously - for those one to two times a year!
"... poor are being targeted by speeding tickets at an even higher rate than average because police expect to get more ticket possibilities"

Can someone explain this? Are the poor really being targeted? Why are there more ticket possibilities? (Because you could get someone for expired registration, too?)

Is this a correlation ≠ causation thing? (I.e., police are more likely to pull over a speeder with multiple violations? That doesn't mean you're targeting the poor.)
And now we have this: http://xkcd.com/927/
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Why is it important that the new thing have the old name?

Reducing user confusion is one possible answer, but I expect if you are going to argue that, you end up with the name not mattering because most of the users aren't even aware of it.
I would think some aspects of 3d printing would work better in space? Less worry about sagging without support structures, etc...