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I'd love to donate to an organization who's charter was ending the drug war, but I'm not sure I know of one specifically like that. I suppose NORML might be an obvious choice, but I don't feel like picking a specific drug for promotion is where my heart is. I don't really know much about organizations in this field. Anyone?

Human Rights Campaign http://www.hrc.org/

The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/

The American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/

Planned Parenthood http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

The Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/

Steve was good, but not magic. One thing counting against this deal is that people have seen what happened to the music companies and the phone carriers. Carriers still hate the iPhone, they don't make much money from it, but are in a position where they have to sell it to remain competitive due to consumer demand.

Melatonin does not directly induce nightmares, per say, just the vivid or lucid dreams you are familiar with. However, if just one of those incredibly vivid melatonin induced dreams goes awry and descends into nightmare territory, you will remember it for a long, long time.

We wrote Bloglines, the first and greatest RSS reader web app, in C. And by "we" I mean Mark Fletcher did, and the people he hired like me, continued it.

It wasn't bad. You just get used to keeping track of memory, arrays lengths and pointers like you do anything else. While I do prefer Python these days, I always enjoyed the looks of horror Java and PHP programmers greeted me with when I mentioned our language of choice for Bloglines.

> to allow management to feel like they're verifying that you're getting work done.

You hit the nail on the head for some offices. In some offices there's a clear ridiculous condescending paternal feeling as if punching a clock is going to affect the quality of the work in any way other than damaging morale.

Why don't you just grab the nearest person on IRC?

Also, the way your write it sounds like you and your teammates communicate so tersely as to be an impediment. Don't do that.

In every office I've ever been in, all the programmers type to each other all day long on IRC. In all the distributed workplaces I've ever been, they do the same exact thing, miles apart.

Talk to each other. All day long. Constantly. On IRC. Just like you do in an office.

There is a definition of "social class" I read in the last few years that separates income or wealth from social class. The definitive marker in this definition is the length of time you are able to plan for. Naturally wealth affects this, but is not the be all end all. This definition separates the spendy nouveau riche who blow millions on status markers as still being 'lower class', where thrifty thoughtful people of modest current means would be of a 'higher' social class.

Thoughtful thrifty people of great means are able to think in terms of what their grandchildren or foundation might be doing. The impoverished, disadvantaged of education (Like the SOB who stole my motorcycle only to crash it immediately) might be thinking minutes or hours into the future.

Having been in various economic conditions under varying amounts of stress, I find ritchiea's post dead on the money.

Glen Greenwald - With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

http://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp/...

Discusses the era from Watergate to early Obama shielding Bush officials and telecoms.

He was only granted that much good will because he was 1) Anyone But Bush 2) A very good orator with a brilliant 2008 campaign staff 3) Black

That none of the above contribute to satisfying governance should come as no surprise. I am (naively?) surprised that his administration turned out to so enthusiastically continue and expand the Bush era policies. It gives some credence to the idea that the administrations themselves are not primary drivers of policy. Or that power enjoys power and will forevermore.

FWIW a prominent member of Northern California's ACLU told me she believes that prioritization of healthcare is what has sidelined civil rights in this administration. I do not find her explanation entirely satisfying.

"You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9 (and the upcoming 1.10) on web sites that need to accommodate older browsers."

Google bought the technology that would facilitate your volume slider. It was called PostRank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostRank They even had a Chrome plugin for Google Reader that enabled just that on the client side.

I for instance, can't be bothered to read all of Hacker News. So I read only the posts that have 150 points or more, via http://hckrnews.com/ (a by-points curator) in the form of an RSS feed.

Feedly's first out of the gate already here.

You may be talking about people who confuse 'aggressive' with 'assertive', which would apply to either gender.

Every time someone posts one of those "world's most biased" libertarian political quizes, I tend to link to the New and Improved World's Greatest Political Quiz:

http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/politics/humor/quiz.h...

If you live in a decided state ( http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ ), vote third party. Most states are decided.

There's no reason to put humans out there. There are no aliens. There's nothing out there for us. That's why we send probes. Cheap probes. Unmanned probes.

If we happen to discover something amazing that would be interesting or beneficial to walk up next to at incredible risk and expense, then perhaps we would do a manned mission. But its far far too limiting to send people in every direction to do the exploratory probing. You can explore a 1000x more volume of space with robots than you can with manned missions. We can't even see anything worth sending humans to with telescopes.

We don't make manned space probes for roughly the same reason we don't make manned torpedos. There's no point to the expense and risk. Use the right tool for the right job and put down the science fiction.

One way is to have no character ability improvements, only player skill and player experience matters. Like say...tetris, q-bert, pacman or tekken. In this scenario, you skill and experience is always fully portable. I hope Subotai's CLANG is like this.

Another is to limit the communication to human terms. Maybe you occlude all knowledge like jcromartie says, or maybe you realize that nobody ever feels like they have 18.6 strength. They feel weak, strong, or very strong. They feel nimble, graceful, clumsy, dumb, quick, lethargic, injured, smart, etc. Color gradients might be a non numerical way to give fuzzy information about ability. Your character is not a precision machine (unless maybe you're playing mechwarrior)

at the very most, your unadorned smartphone costs $1000. That's hardly comparable to a watch.

This occurs with dietary reporting too. Deficiencies in a population are reported as if alleviating the deficiency is an unnatural enhancement. I'm glad you mentioned this.

Didn't Sequoia make a big YouTube investment suspiciously immediately before acquisition?

Automatic scaling doesn't work very well. You can find numerous design blogs showing you in great detail why it looks slightly shoddy if you scale from 512x512 down to 128x128 or 64x64, and how below 64x64 you just get into illegibility. For your app to look great you need hand tweaked assets for most resolutions. http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/708404794/ios-app-icon-sizes http://bjango.com/articles/designingforretina2/

its funny, patrick. grow a sense of humor.

on tumblr, 'via' tends to be how your found it and 'src' tends to be the original post.

One of the problems with Yelp is that burger king has 5 stars, because 'everyone' loves burger king. Ness runs a recommendation algorithm on my quick star ratings and knows what kind of food I like. Ness typically recommends high quality, good value yuppie food to me. Ness's algorithm isn't magic, it isn't great. Its just kind of okay to good. But good is immeasurably better than Yelp, which is useless. I'm not involved with the app in any way other than a happy user: http://www.likeness.com/