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There are powerful new APIs available to developers that are only available on newer versions of OSX.

Post-WWII (and through 1964), the top marginal income tax rate in the United States was 91%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...

I love Workflowy too, and I hope they are able to sustain the business. I live in fear of the day they quit or shut down :/

If you really want to blow your mind, you should look at the automated spriting in Compass: http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/

I started using YNAB in May of this year, and I can say without exaggeration that is has changed my life. Great method, instruction, and support.

I have personally convinced several other people to start using it, and happily evangelize the product whenever the topic of personal finance or budgeting comes up.

Also, with all the focus on web apps, it is interesting to see (and use) software that is sold as a proper download.

If you're a Mac user, take a look at http://www.pixelmator.com or http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Is it possible that full-time workers would be more experienced and/or better motivated, resulting in increased productivity per worker?

You just described a Windows 8 feature: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/picture-passwor...

An unlocked HTC One costs $599

Shield's PC game streaming works by using the hardware H.264 encoder in Nvidia GTX 650 (or higher) graphics cards. They recommend a reasonably fast PC and a fast wireless network.

finiteloop: Can you talk about the UI at all?

Are you using any open frameworks/tools to emulate the iOS interface & animations, or is it all homegrown? Will you be updating the UI when Apple releases iOS 7 (and your UI suddenly looks out of place)?

link to the "Snow Fall" article: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

you want http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

Personally, I've found Workflowy [https://workflowy.com] to be indispensable not just for keeping track of ideas, but for then turning those ideas into something real.

Loads in any browser, has a (barebones) mobile app, and it's great for collaboration. I just hope their business model is enough to keep them afloat :/

I would hire the one with the most impressive GitHub account.

Maybe not perfectly, but it's not all that hard to guess: 00 through FF, with each pair representing red, green, and blue channels respectively.

I'd say that a lot of Johnson's strategy addressed many of your concerns.

Personally, I shopped more at JCP over the past 8 months than the previous 15 years. There was an appealing mix of brands, quality, and fair prices that struck a chord with me. Unfortunately, it clearly didn't work for the majority of the mall-shopping public that has been trained to only buy when there's a sale or coupon.

While I'd normally agree that shareholders can't be trusted to make sound long-term strategy decisions, in this case Johnson demolished JCP's financials over the past few quarters.

Do they not have [nearly] all that information already? How else can the IRS verify your filing is accurate without essentially doing your tax calculations automatically?

Most people's significant sources of income are already reported to the IRS.

In my experience, the issues w/ thin font weights tend to be worse on Windows & Linux. Worth keeping in mind if you're using these fonts (particularly if you're using some of the free fonts from Google Web Fonts that aren't necessarily well-hinted)

I wonder if there are a combination of factors at work here. Elderly target market + (mostly) elective procedure + low Medicare payments perhaps?

I think this is partly because dental insurance bears little resemblance to comprehensive medical insurance. In fact, for most people with a generally healthy dental history, it's often not worth paying for dental insurance, since it ends up simply being a pre-payment for services. Expensive procedures & oral surgery are often covered for only 50% of the final cost.

In the US at least, I think dental "insurance" is really just a simplified way for employers to offer an appealing benefit to employees.

Spot on. Luckily, most of us browsing HN probably don't have to deal with particularly draconian dress codes (and if you do, that sucks, but I hope you're sufficiently well compensated for it).

I just find the "I can't be happy happy hacker unless I'm wearing a hoodie a flip flops" and "you're not a real geek unless you've got the most lustrous scraggly neckbeard" attitude kind of odd.

I think some of that might be a backlash to working in a dress-code enforced environment for a period of time. I know when I left a job years ago to go independent/freelance, I spent a significant amount of time in sweatpants (on a good day) & hoodies. A few years later, I'm happy to put on an ironed shirt, dark jeans, and nice shoes to work at the office or to go meet a client.

For me, there is something to the ritual of grooming & dress that gets me ready to take on the day like nothing else. I just wish it weren't so vilified amongst the hacker set.

[Fun side-effects: people take you more seriously, women (and men) will smile at you, you'll be in a more powerful position when negotiating, service industry workers will (generally) be more accommodating, and you'll always be ready to meet people for dinner or drinks at the drop of a hat. Try it!]

Like it or not, personal appearance (including dress, grooming, etc.) speaks volumes about you. Just ask a potential employer (or mate!).

It's about signaling. Sure, some people are able to overcome those filters through outstanding performance elsewhere, but why not give yourself every advantage possible? Why not strive to be the best version of yourself?

In my case, I design things for a living. What does it say about me if I didn't care about my personal appearance? "I care deeply about how things work and look. Yeah, but I couldn't be bothered to put on pants or a clean shirt today"

But to your point, I do agree with you. Do what's comfortable for you. In my case, dressing better (something I've tried to do for the past year or so, after several years of hoodies and ill-fitting jeans) has made me a better, more confident person.

I've never really understood the fascination with dressing like you're still a sloppy college kid.

Some of us actually enjoy dressing like a grownup.

Thank for for making me feel even better about deleting my Facebook account over 2 years ago.

Edit: also, you may want to look into using Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com Many (most?) of these trackers are not blocked by the "third-party cookies" setting in your browser.

This episode was optioned by Robert Downey Jr. to be turned into a film.

Not mixins, but @extend: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...

It's selector inheritance -- rewriting selectors instead of repeating properties & values.

THIS. I think Bootstrap is great for prototyping & back-end admin UIs that a developer might slap together without a designer, but the sheer number of sites that take user-facing sites to production w/ Bootstrap is disconcerting.