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But if the DNS is compromised or if this a MITM attack (in spite of being https) there is no guarantee that the checksum is any more trustworthy.

  Non Terminal Based UI Niceties: Use Gvim
  Cross Platform: So is vim/gvim. I use vim on Mac/Linux/Windows.

I love both vim and Sublime, so I would call 'Bodybagging' is flame-bait at best.

> It's the opposite of a meritocracy ... You seem to ignore the part where I mention that the two candidates are of equivalent if not equal skill set. If pure technical expertise was all that was expected from people, we wouldn't be singing songs about people-skills, entrepreneurial spirit and cultural _fitness_ like we do. Most of these values decide only how well the person is going to gel with the team.

Pardon me if I am wrong, because I believe I am more clueless than most, but the reasons VCs invest in their MBA buddies may not be because that is an easy (as in lazy) decision but because it is a safe decision. Traditional coaching does ensure that the candidate has at least his/her basics clear. Of course, the decision has to take into account the necessary skills as well, there is no denying that, but Ivy League should be guaranteeing some minimum competency.

> .. Silicon Valley is how much nepotism and old-boy-network

If I am ever in a position to hire (and affect through it entirely and only my own economic well being) I wouldn't mind having people I enjoy company of and can relate to. Genuinely awesome people are a plus point, but even in that category if I am able to find people who share the same background as mine, is it really that bad a decision?

> It was an absolute disaster but my own fault for taking this as proxy for being good on a startup

But there are bad apples in all baskets. I am sure there would be some evidence of great hackers without Ivy League credentials being poor matches for some startups. And I am not arguing that credential replace the need for a test of actual skills, interest and commitment; I am just arguing that the probability of the candidate possessing some minimum value for all three points is fairly high.

The OP himself is trying to sway the argument with 'Appeal to Adventure' (not really a defined fallacy but appeal to emotion). For instance the call to take the blue pill is a reference to what the Hero of a very popular movie didn't do. The OP equates post college life with an un-heroic life.

There is a visible disconnect with the views in the arguments. They are more open and accepting at the start and get more emotional at the end. To state an example, the author mentions that 'school is in no way a negative experience...' and later mentions that 'Sure, school might maximize one’s chances of living a stable, moderately successful life with two and a half kids, a modest house, and a job. But is that really what we want? Does our generation want to forego pursuing our passions in order to be part of a shrinking, mundane “middle” class?', which seems to point that schools leave you passionless.

The OP also uses arguments that cannot be proved or argued against. For instance "Not that dropping out of school ensures success, but had Bob or say, Mark Zuckerberg, stayed in school, we could all still be hanging out on Myspace." What this statement assumes, is that (1) School didn't help Mark Zuckerberg, (2) He wouldn't have been able to build FB if he had waited to finish school (3) No one else could have come up with an alternative to MySpace, university student or otherwise. I am not dissecting the argument just for the sake of it, but I am arguing that the OP is selective about his dataset. Yes there are Mark Zuckerbergs, but there are Larry Pages as well.

I am sorry but it seems really unfair to developers of other tech products when you say truly caring about products is rare. Opinionated and uncompromising - that I may agree to, yes that is rare. But when we see attempts in this direction, by anyone other than a few companies (don't want to name Apple because I fear I will be marked as a fanboy), the attempts are marked as anti-user, draconian and anti-competitive (may not be illegal yet). Examples: Twitter pulling off API (widespread criticism), Facebook and Google+ real name policies (I think Facebook doesn't really enforce it anymore and Google+ now supports pseudonyms), Windows secure boot, Chrome making it difficult to sideload extensions, Quora locking up its contents etc.

While we see all of these other attempts as largely evil, we consider Apple to be producing _pieces of art_ that are allows them to compromise on universal acceptability. We, however, don't give that leeway to virtually anything else.

Well, democratic governments are inherently mob driven. So we could think of effectiveness of the referred mob justice in terms of a legit and faster method of geting the government (or it's agencies) to take action than waiting for the next, different, government to get elected.

It is not actually their soil :) [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrito...

It is quite useful when you are not aware of the package names or if you want to make changes to configuration.

Yes, but I hope that it didn't entice you to murder which was the intent behind the original post. :)

And yes the amount of violent activity in games far outweigh that in real life but there is another huge difference. Games are not real and even the most naive of us have a very clear differentiation: there is no respawn in real life.

> how is it acceptable? Because developers feel that it is and have done so in past. Because things that required and unavailable have been put down in libraries that developers can import and utilize. Because there are many libraries that compete against each other to provide better interfaces for their users. Because they are used very widely and very successfully. Because it's simplicity has made it usable among the masses who may not have otherwise participated in content creation on the web if CS101 was a requirement. Because its benefits have outweighed its faults. Because when people suggest alternatives (Dart?) they realize that they need to make them compatible with JS because it is not only popular but also quite efficient now.

Was the unrealistic acceleration during jumping intentional?

I also noticed that you have named it Brave Ball; is there is a story in the game as well?

Well actually Android widgets are not too different, and in fact richer in at least some ways. Bad analogies are like bad analogies :)

And even it doesn't matter if they are making a point that is too narrow to be interesting to you as they are not making false points as it is interesting to others and that is probably why it got upvoted.

>it's reasonable to use a method which tries to minimize 'friendly' casualties first and e'enemy' collateral damage second

That is a very broad statement. Would it apply to enemies using Chemical, Biological or Nuclear weapons?

> people (soldiers) were dying by the dozen daily

I don't think that you intend to, but it seems like you are counting only friendly casualties as people casualties.

> asymmetrical and unfair to a technological backward foe

Which would probably be all foes but one, if popular media is to be trusted with statistics. There is no country that spends asuch as US and that has been the case for a long long time I believe. So all foes are backward and hence a war, if the technology is the criteria of fairness, is going to be extremely unfair to them.

No they are not, at least not in the image you linked. Check for example, space between a and z in Londrina's Lazy.

Which is something I infered as well, and probably many others. The title is confusing and that is all the OP was pointing at, so you know, be nice - he wasn't trying to undermine the achievements, if any.

Working with Quora admins is just as bad. There are legitimate questions that are deleted/locked because some admin feels like it has to. Putting in requests to undelete/unlock requires incredible amount of effort and knowledge of the system which is weird because there are so many easy to use functionality for everything else. Same goes for actually getting something to be deleted, locked or marked for abuse. If you know a moderator and have experience with their boards, it's a piece of cake for you - else, you just wait in line for a long time.

I don't understand why the developers resort to an irritating method for getting things reviewed - find the right community, know the right people, go to their court and appeal to their higher order with wonderful pitches about what should be done. There has to be a better way of dealing with things.

I feel stupid that I absolutely love this story but have no idea what you are you referring to.

Or use chrome profiles, they are working well for me.

Thanks!

Actually South Asian toilets have water cleaning as well. For the squatting ones, which are becoming less and less common, people use mugs - for western toilets, there is a flexible faucet that you can use to spray. So no. This is not a fetish. At least not one that is restricted to just Japan.

Exactly, I am using Eclipse for Java and vim for Javascript - and it has been delightful. To each his own.

It does solve the issue of being strictly against a policy of one candidate and having no consolidated view for others.

Okay what if the story is that the current prices of their items includes some of the cost of piracy. And that it is very unfair to ask those who are being honest to pay for those who aren't.

No it's not. Take for example India where copyright enforcement is just not existent. People do not buy any software, unless it is Windows when you are buying the branded laptop and it is bundled.

Games, movies, TV Shows, Desktop Software and Market apps; everything that is available for pirating, will be pirated. Sure, some part of it is due to the fact that they cannot buy-watch-use this material either due to them being delay for years or because they require Credit Cards while most Indians have a Debit Card but that is a very small percentage of the entire sales loss.

And slow and really really buggy (and ugly, but that doesn't matter as much). I love Ubuntu but this is one thing that always require me to switch to Windows on a dual boot machine.

Well actually, they should have more data. The description and reviews should be available to them without an issue. More importantly, they could mine backlinks for more context.

And http://9gag.com/fast, Facebook modal albums and Google+ albums :)

You mean platform dependent results? If the person is accessing from Web then web apps, from Android then playstore results etc... Sounds nice actually!

Still down. India.