danieldon

    It's still way too Ruby heavy to be a good source of information.

Edit: it doesn't show up base64 encoded, either.

However, how do you deal with font licensing? You are using @font-face, but this is still not permitted for many commercial fonts, even if they allow embedding in PDF.

Also, your conception of "real users" sure sounds an awful lot like a minority group of users who use it heavily.

  It has essentially no effect on the end user

Nope. He had Gray Powell's information but didn't contact him. He took it from the bar and then didn't check back, despite that being the obvious first place it would be looked for. He didn't take it to the police, despite that being both common sense and the law.

Instead, he claims he tried calling a public apple number or two and then sold it.

Well put.

FYI: http://www.example.com (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt)

Also, "[x] is not art" statements are a tremendous bore.

http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/lost-and-found-californ...

It's not a secret that when you find lost property you either leave it with the establishment in case the owner comes back looking for it, contact the owner directly or, failing that, take it to the police. Instead of doing that, he took it home, took it apart and sold it to gizmodo.

Well, then apparently the beginning of the end was the beginning of journalism. This is done all the time.

That's the point. Although the relationship between psilocybin and psychosis is unclear, it's already very well established that alcohol aggravates mental disorders and causes psychosis. On top of that, all available evidence suggests that psilocybin is very physically safe, while all available evidence suggests that alcohol is very physically unsafe.

There is absolutely no rational reason to believe that psilocybin is anywhere near as dangerous as alcohol, and it's a gross disservice to even entertain the myth.

Furthermore, alcohol isn't the only legal substance that is connected with psychosis; a number of prescription drugs and even caffeine are linked to it.

"That's what I mean by "acidhead", "e-tard", etc. and that's a terrible road to go down"

But do these stereotypes really provide any value to this discussion? For just about any thing there is a subculture that indulges in that thing and people who hate that subculture. Should we ban plush animals because people find furries intolerable?

That anyone even entertains the notion that alcohol isn't significantly more dangerous than psilocybin demonstrates how extremely misguided the public is about the subject.

"but have also wrecked a lot of people ... becoming an acid-head is a terrible idea ... are exhaustingly boring people."

It's also interesting that many people can't help but view this issue through the prism of their own cultural biases, stereotypes and anecdotes.

Strange, considering there are always Rails jobs on craigslist in every major city and on all startup boards. Hell, I don't even actively seek out contract work and have offers on a weekly basis (in person, not even counting online) from people looking for Ruby/Python web development.

PHP, ASP.net or some of the many Java frameworks...

So? You put stock in argumentum ad populum? Hell, why not rip on Django while you're at it, considering there are far fewer Django jobs than Rails jobs? Nevermind the fact that despite Python and Ruby web frameworks being less widely used than PHP overall they are still very strongly represented among the most successful and innovative web projects of the past decade.

For many applications it doesn't make any sense to maximise them on a large screen. Very, very few web sites are wider than 1000px, so maximizing a browser on a large screen is pretty silly. Even if the site has a fluid layout, wide columns of text are horrible for reading.

Other applications don't even make any sense maximized, like a chat client like adium or a password manager. Apps like a terminal that could be used either maximized of windowed work perfectly fine either way.

And with software development the options are usually using emacs or vim full screen, which works perfectly well; using an IDE full screen, which works perfectly weel; or using a combination of smaller apps (eg, terminal, editor, SCM GUI, broswer, etc), which, despite being a different paradigm, also works perfectly well.

So, really, what are these scenarios when maximizing every window a) makes sense and b) is problematic on OS X?

The only ubiquitous US workplace social function is the holiday party.

    it is at least a plausible hypothesis

Racial views in the US are absolutely filled with (and arguably dominated by) gross misconceptions that seem plausible to many people despite being untrue.

    Coates is pointing out that there are good reasons
    to suspect strong sample bias.

    OkCupid didn't address this -- they just assumed an unbiased sample.

My statement was broader than intended. Obviously OKCupid's data is not necessarily reflective of all dating sites or interracial dating patterns overall, but Ta-Nehisi Coates is only presenting a hypothesis and some speculative claims, not data, and his speculation shouldn't be treated as anything more until someone presents data that supports it.