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Yes, there is a limit to how much correction you can do to an eye with that method. I have a -8 correction and it seems that it's already too much.

Also heavier correction gives not as precise results as small corrections : it depends of the cicatrisation of the eye. You might end up having a better vision but still requiring to have glasses.

It seems there exists alternatives like putting a lens inside the eyes which gives really good results and is also reversible. The lens is visible if you look closely. I didn't try the method though.

You may try to contact zankyou or some other website that manage wedding list. I used them for my wedding and they also promote other products. I think they might be interested into your product. Their users are the perfect fit for you : engaged and with an inclination for technology.

I tried at home for a few month and couldn't adapt to it. It hurts my legs too much after a few hours. I'm really not athletic so that's part of the issue.

What annoyed me also was that I couldn't do creatives things while standing, only simple repetive tasks were ok. So I stopped.

Actually, I think that a bunch of startups failed because of not configuring their editor, not writing tests, not doing code reviews and refactoring, not automating anything and generally by not taking the time to clean up things.

I agree : it would be a better model to put ads in twitter feeds. Twitter needs his polymorphics clients : I wouldn't like to use anything else than tweetbot on iOS.

As an alternative option I would share ad revenues with platforms, that could boost the creation of twitter tools by providing them a revenue model. I probably wouldn't provide an ad less option but I'd discuss with google, linkedin, case by case, etc...

I launched Qatapult, a quicksilver like inspired launcher for windows http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult . It still needs polish and it still needs more users, but it's already my favorite launcher for windows. (change the default skin if you try, I set the default to the wrong one )

I did a presentation a few weeks ago and I found that it was awesome as a presenter to know what people think, and how they perceived my talk : I looked at hashtag after the talk.

I'm a total noobs at talking in public but that was very useful for me. It also made very easy to talk with people who expressed their interest or disinterest.

That doesn't seems very Apple like move, they don't like to mess with ugly systems and integrate their products with anyone.

They have a good place to do that, but I doubt that they'll go that way.

But Steve isn't there, and Apple moves might be unexpected.

I fully agree. For a lot of people facebook is their identity, linking their identity to paiement is a logical step.

They could first allow people to exchange any amount of money with friends for free, add it to their mobile app so that everyone has it anytime. Other apps are doing that, and that's very useful.

And they should buy Stripe, bind everything together, displace amex, visa and mastercard.

Or may be that's the plan, but it's best to be silent ?

Their strategy is smart and reasonable if people perceived HBO as delivering great shows that are worth paying extra useless channels to get, which I don't think it is (but I'm french and not very exposed to their marketing ).

I fear that HBO is living in the Bubble of their Brand like so many companies, thinking they are the best thing ever and that customers should be grateful whatever way they accept to provide stuff. There is a trend toward simpler deals now where you pay for what you want, not for 3, 4 goodies you never asked.

I'm probably the strongest coder at my startup and I agree that it can feel lonely when you have a hard issue and you know that nobody is going to help you.

Meetup group are totally awesome, I was scarred as well at going to a meeting alone with no connection at all. There was a lot of other geeky people doing awesome thing in other companies. It feel good and it's also a best investment in case of job loss.

I agree, the best questions taps in multiple domains and are more subject to be off-topic everywhere.

"The question was deemed to be offtopic for StackOverflow,"

I've stopped using stackoverflow as a contributor, the moderators are really overzealous. Legit questions are killed way too easily, without any real recourse to explain or rephrase. Meta doesn't help because the same people are moderating both, and quickly end discussion there too.

It's really sad because the platform is great.

Apple is doing a lot of undiscoverable things like that :

- focus to remove an app (people learn that from others )

- splitted keyboard left & right has invisible virtual keys

- double tab the button for process

- kill process by focusing on a process ( very useful when an app has crased, yet undiscoverable )

- double tab then slide left for volume

- screenshot with power + button

- take a photo with the volume button

Hidden features are very Apple-esque

It seems that git is the new regex. People are actively building things around instead of learning the rules. I suppose that came from writing being easier than reading.

I agree but it's still a bit sad to see such a giant gap between the value he brought to the world and the value he retired from it.

What I find annoying is that it's the incoming money that is taxed : if you give this money again it get taxed again, so this is actually 10%+9%+8.1% etc... It would be cleaner if the tax apply to withdrawed money or injected money or anything else not cumulative. Disclaimer : that's not my observation, I read it, but this is something that really kill the idea for me

That's interesting, there is a recruiting process in place but the easiest way to get the job is to get informal and skip the process. That's really inline with the article ihmo, the process is broken.

Is it true everywhere in the US that tried and failed is seen as a quality or is it something very special to SV ?

I think that the US really are the exception here, it seems that in most countries world wide, failing is not really seen as having benefits.

As a french, I get very strange feeling reading comments here. Germany is presented as an example by French gov for it's better industry (presidential elections are in May ).

Does that means that Germany is not better, or that France is even worse ?

You're probably past the point where this sentence is useful. Did you often thought about that ? Most people didn't.

I am almost sure that this is covered by the gpl. Servers source code is protected because it is not distributed to the end user, not because there is some kind of a bridge between gpl code & your code.

One way to include pandoc support would be to expose it via a webservice on your server.

These days, I'm worrying more about lobbies and gov trying to pass laws to give them larger inspection power about what citizens do, than about apps and services leaking random data. At worse companies will treat me as a product, gov can treat me as a criminal.

The copyright issue is at an edge of what allows the the market to work.

Until the internet, maximizing profit and maximizing value was more or less the same thing. That's not true anymore : when I copy something I'm actually creating value while destroying profit. The only way to do maintain profit is to create scarcity and define prices artificially as the most people would pay for it.

The ability to create copy of things at no cost is a kind of a miracle when you look at it. The issue is that the market doesn't seem to work well with limitless resources. Totally fixing piracy would require a market that can work for unlimited resources, but we have nothing of that kind yet ; it could be something like wuffies (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ). Read it if you want to experiment what a society with limitless resources could look like.

Not saying that this is the solution still.

So you're proposing that affiliate links should be reserved to shaddy, useless articles wereas actually well written, useful articles should avoid it ? I understand the conflict of interest of course...

At some point it should make sense for Mozilla to support Bing : Mozilla is here to bring a better internet, and there can only be a better internet with competition. MS is losing tons of money for operating Bing ; there is a risk that they decide to stop losses. If Bing was shut down Google would be the only lasting real player in the search space, and that would not bring a better internet. My 2c ;)

Corrolary : if piracy leads to anything above 1 sell for 3500 illegally downloaded songs, it is actually more beneficial to majors that Spotify is.

Iconfinder is great, I use it every times I need to get icons. Icons are very well picked. Do you manually select each one ?

> "So the big mistake I've always seen people make is being too "nervous" about exceptions and feeling that they have to do something about them as close as possible to the point where the exceptions were raised. They need to the exact opposite: feel relaxed about exceptions and let them bubble up."

While the principle seems to make sense, I find it unusable with GUI like apps. GUI have hundreds of entry point from various events. If I want to catch exceptions far from their raise I need to do it in each one of those event handler, so that they don't bubble through librairies, literally hundreds of times.

Every beautifully written code I've seen has always been CLI programs. Exceptions probably works for server code where you can crash your single process and/or redo it from your original request. GUI and frameworks apps can't really use crash as an acceptable behavior.