hexis

What gives you the impression that the things you do and say in public are not in front of them?

Maybe it would be better to get rid of muggers instead of cash?

Taxes are often levied on residence and behavior, rather than citizenship.

In the meantime, any developer can make their own site more color-blind friendly without waiting for the drivers or the whole web to change. Why wait for someone else to solve a problem you can solve right now?

As it is at least partially a recruiting event, the closer the invites go out to the event, the better they can match the invitees to the jobs they're trying to fill.

You could also start a business and not hire employees. It's not right for every business idea, but if you can manage it, it's pretty amazing.

I would imagine that school districts could co-operate among themselves to begin a project like this without Federal leadership. That they do not is telling.

I almost wanted to bold it even in the quote. I actually missed it the first time I skimmed the post.

Key paragraph: "We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information. We also believe that actions speak louder than words. So, as a clear signal of our commitment to your privacy, we’ve deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from our servers. Your trust matters to us and we want you to feel completely in control of your information on Path."

Great save for a bad mistake.

The Facebook connect image is somewhat misleading. Sure, using FB connect can involve a screen like that, but you can also present a simple screen that only asks to "Access my basic information". Not nearly as confusing, doesn't raise questions about surreptitious posting. You can ask your customer for more access later, after you've earned trust in your relationship.

Further, some customer bases are perfectly happy using FB connect only. If you object to logging in with Facebook, maybe you're just realizing that you're not the target market for the product. No harm, no foul. If you end up offering lots of log-in options and your customer base only really wants FB, you waste development time and actually run the risk of confusing your customers.

Clearly, it was not to find out what it means to beg a question.

You can always interpret bad hiring practices as damage and route around them. My wife and I run our own tech business and I don't think any of our customers ever has or ever will care how old we are.

A bad one.

"it's just that the government isn't in the business of throwing money away"

In all seriousness, this is why they shouldn't be investing in startups. Early stage investing is all about "throwing away" a bunch of money and (hopefully) making even more back when a subset of your portfolio wins big. If you're micromanaging each dollar/transaction, then you're really, really doing it wrong.

Assuming one made it through the 5 month training in DC and was offered a job, would that job be based in DC or would it be remote-compatible?

"When O when will we get regulators with some distance from those they are regulating?"

Oh, that's an easy one.

"“It’s disappointing when an old friend releases such a terrible interface,” Lucas Charles, a linguistics major at Portland State University who has been using Ubuntu since 2001, told me. “It’s not inherently bad, just buggy.”"

Considering Ubuntu had its first release in 2004, this article should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

Here in Texas, it means someone from the Northern US. It sounds really funny in that context. :)

yankee?

She has a lot of experience in open source, to say the least. From the author's about page -

"I currently work as the Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, and IntraHealth Open, as well as founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization setting up computer labs in schools where kids have no other access to technology.

Previously I have worked as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, established OpenLogic‘s Expert Community and founded and ran HP’s Open Source Program Office."

"The Windows message is much more palatable to corporate buyers, committees, middlemen, and people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them..."

"[P]eople who don’t like to be told what’s best for them" sure ended up in some strange company there.

Further, I would have thought that "Think Different" would not have welcomed, and not (I guess) repelled, "people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them".

"Suppose you're working on a product that is time sensitive."

Pick another project. There's a lot of money to be made on the internet.

I agree with you, that was sloppy writing on my part.

If you need living expenses, save up. If you live somewhere too expensive, move. "If your idea is too expensive to start with a laptop and cheap hosting, think of another idea."

Sorry to be somewhat flip, but starting a tech company isn't complex, it's just difficult. These start-up costs are the easy part and if you can't solve them on your own, then a 10K infusion from the government isn't going to help you solve the actually difficult problems down the road.

Starting a tech company is so cheap that funding should never be the bottleneck. If your idea is too expensive to start with a laptop and cheap hosting, think of another idea.

Even better, teach your kids to code. Cut out the middleman.

DNT is like putting a note atop your plain text file asking unintended recipients to ignore the contents. What browsers need is something akin to encryption, where you're not asking for compliance, you're denying access.

Part of my original point was that currencies don't have "missions", people do. A person may or may not wish to own a bitcoin in order to facilitate transactions. A person might also wish to own one as a speculative investment. Neither "mission" is necessarily better than the other. Krugman just assumes otherwise.

No, I think I am correct. Currency exchange rates are prices and in that sense a currency is a good. The typical use of a currency is as a medium of exchange, but people use goods for different reasons. That was my point originally.

Currencies are goods like any other goods and the people who own them have divergent purposes. When Krugman writes "we want [a monetary system] to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich", he's assuming a lot. Obviously, some of the people who own bitcoins right now are not interested in facilitating financial transactions to the detriment of their net worth. So, for people who want that facilitation, bitcoin isn't getting the job done, but the people who are using bitcoin as an investment are getting just what they want. Those two conditions could flip fairly quickly down the line, but that's how these things go. But for Krugman to just assume that only one of these is an acceptable condition just begs the question.