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I don't look at this site much.
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Most of our transportation is actually handled by local/state departments. The Federal govt just gives the states money to keep the interstates from falling apart.
Libertarianism is distributed computing applied to economics.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting. That includes more than hacking and
startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the
answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity.
The article isn't saying "we should do health care like ze germans cuz they got it rite hurrrr". It's saying, "Hey, look at this interesting effect of their policies, which everyone in the debate in the US seems to completely miss."
That being said, I don't want HN to be a source of American health care debates any more than you probably do. I'm bored by the pedantics of it all, and I actually live here.
I saw your comment had been downmodded, and I clicked the ^ to bump it back up. It's an edge-case, and not fair imo that you should lose karma over expressing that opinion. However, if you really feel it's off-topic, you should probably flag it instead of posting a one-liner complaint.
Good thing startup founders are usually a little bit better at math. Seems like it'd be about like this:
"Advance" your startup $1M (really, advanced to yourself,
since you're hanging onto the money)
Sell the startup dubious services at outrageous prices,
force them to make your dumb cousin an SVP
"Pay back" the loan with %10 of the *profits*
When the profits top $10M, the founders *start* seeing
10% of what comes in (after expenses, of course)
edit: As I read this, I'm realizing that there probably are termsheets out there that aren't far off from this.
If we keep going like this, we'll meta ourselves up a black hole or something.
iTerm and TextMate can't handle variable-width fonts, which makes me sad. At least I get my pointy serifs with CentSchBook Mono, though.
The font is way too small. Is there any way to make it case-insensitive? Or perhaps tell someone how close they were, or if they matched any of hte parts of the name?
1. What's your crush's full name?
2. What's your crush's first name?
3. What's your crush's screen name?
I got 3 guesses for her twitter handle, and 1 for her first name, and 2 for first and last name. I happen to know her middle name, and entered that, so it registered all of these as incorrect.
If your business model could be so easily undercut by competition, you're Doing It Wrong. People pay more for perceived status and soft values. And the people who are looking for knockoffs were probably never going to be your customers in the first place.
Validity of software patents goes on trial today at Supreme Court. I'm hoping for the death penalty.
Wait, what's the pun I'm excusing?
Personally, I'm with you. I like the simplicity of the one-app-per-extension model. When I want to edit something, it's easy enough to open it in TextMate.
Money has a funny way of ruining even the best of friendships.
Be careful. Do the right thing. Cover your bases to protect against either of you going crazy.
Code should be written so as to completely describe the program's functionality to human readers, and only incidentally to be interpreted by computers. We have a hard time remembering short names for a long time, and we have a hard time looking at long names over and over again in a row. Additionally, short names carry a higher likelihood of collisions (since the search space is smaller), but are easier to "hold onto" for short periods of reading.
Thus, our conventions for naming things should take into consideration the limitations of the human brain. The length of a variable's name should be proportional to the distance between its definition and its use, and inversely proportional to its frequency of use.
Global config setting that gets specified once and used in 4 places throughout the program? 10-20 characters is probably appropriate. Might wanna go with UPPER_SNAKE_CASE to make it stand out a bit more, even.
Iterator variable that you define in a 3-line for loop and then never see again outside of it? Call it "i".
Another way to look at this: The first time you meet someone, you learn their full name. When discussing them with someone else who knows them, you use just a single name. If they're standing right there, you don't bother using their name, but just make eye contact, and maybe a "Hey". Should be the same way with variables.
It's not clear of the OP knows what "anthropomorphic" means. It's not the same as "anthropic".
The anthropic principle is actually an explanation for the irrational amazement he's complaining about.
It's not clear if the OP knows what "anthropomorphic" means. It's not the same as "anthropic".
This guy's done some very interesting stuff on typophile.
Run-time works fine if you're loading all your JS and CSS from the same machine as your markup. But that's not an approach that scales quite as well.
Not quite killed by his invention, though.
"Awesome Male Coder" makes me think of Chuck Norris typing machine code by roundhouse kicking his keyboard…