michaeldhopkins

After paying so much money, they refused to spend a few thousand on bribes to stop the guy? That doesn't make much sense.

At least of a few of the teachers outraged about Forbes will be working Google Scholar into their curricula because of the article.

I really wish it was two-way Highrise contacts integration with Google Apps.

One way to practice is to DDOS your server until you figure out how to withstand it, then steadily increase the load. In fact, several services help you do this and provide some nice statistics too.

I've seen this response to the document before and it often turns out the author of the response had missed a page so mistakenly thought there was little math.

There are communities of people who would indeed consider this an easy test but they tend to delve even more deeply into classics than a typical contemporary of the test.

That's the point -- you don't understand it well enough to explain it.

Poor working memory is a motivation problem for some people who find it too difficult to do what they want to do.

Other people need to hack their principles, their health, their environment, etc. to do what they want. I believe all of those have a "gamified" way to increase them the way dual-n-back improves working memory, though they have not all been developed yet.

Somehow a person eating food can't control themselves but your desire to change their behavior is objective? Your preference for bad legislation that was transmitted to you contagiously from your environment. Perhaps you would like someone to change your environment so you take better political actions. And so on.

No, he did not. http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

Yes, it's acedic to measure the worth of oneself and peers by money alone. But given that men and women are both in it for money, competing for equality/inequality measured by sex, it's necessary for the runners up to aim for the leaders as moving targets.

I expected this to be downvoted because it's so awkward. It's hard to think about what will be the winning strategy five, ten, twenty years from now, a lot harder than complaining, but it's important for a group to do if they want to catch up with another group.

Skipping sounds great! I'd love to socially plan a whole evening out with my friends using a site like that, factoring in drive times and everything. In my opinion that's more interesting than review quality, although reviews are of course also important.

I wish it was a startup related to scotch. Anyway...

Wisdom isn't a metric I trust if it's just users voting each other up. Seems like something a few spammers could easily game, right? Also, what does skipping to something do?

It's always the perfect time to start and finish thinking about, then start and finish developing an idea to be successful whether or not YC exists.

I'd guess the YC application due date for Summer 2012 is April 2012.

This article is behind the times. By the time most professional women have learned to ask for raises like some men do in 2011, those men will have moved on to a more advanced strategy to make more. It's similar to how an expensive university degree is becoming less useful just as women are earning more than 50% of them.

My point is that these men are competitive and they have momentum and the current salary-negotiation-education strategy won't result in parity. I don't see any reason it has to be that way, of course.

For me it's not the app's cost so much as the decision to invest time into it (set it up, form new habits, etc.) A cup of coffee requires no time investment -- the equivalent of the app for me would be researching whether I should drink coffee at all or what brand of coffee I should regularly buy.

I wish all reviews on the app store showed how long the reviewer used the app and how many times for this reason.

H.P. Lovecraft. I aim for Hemingway but that's close so I'm happy.

A lifestyle business is one which growth founders will stop or slow once they've reached target income. At, say, $200,000 per year, a lifestyle business founder wants to do something else whereas a more fundable founder wants to add another zero to that income (then another, then another.)

On paper it's not a good idea to fund a lifestyle business because the risks are similar at the beginning but the reward is capped.

&! user here. Try it as a Fluid app if you have a Mac, then size the window to fit the app so it takes up the space of a slightly larger IM window. I actually zoom it out using Fluid so it takes up a little less space. &! sends Growl notifications for tasks and directed chat through Fluid which I like as it lets me background the app and still use it.

I'm using this with some projects and enjoying it. Overall I agree it's a very fast way to know what everyone's doing. It is suited for a desk environment since it is desktop-only. (It's closest to working on the iPad but has some bugs.) The price seems a bit much, but we haven't fully ramped up usage and we'd happily pay for anything working well for us.

My favorite example of the "workcation" is Andyet's month-long stay in a castle, partly because it's not pretending to be much more than an awesome idea: http://andyet.net/blog/2011/mar/3/devcastle/ http://andyet.net/blog/2011/jul/18/devcastle-the-movie/

After reading Code my hacking skills increased considerably. I am never comfortable relying on abstractions so understanding more of the programming stacks I use increased my willingness to experiment with then. It also helped me to better understand pointers and memory management as memory became a real thing to me.

Also, I had fun building my own simple computers in logic gate software.

Christianity has one way into heaven, baptism, but beyond that things diverge quickly. It's better (IMO) than believing different religions but acting the same in practice. As Chesterton put it:

"So in Christendom apparent accidents balanced. Becket wore a hair shirt under his gold and crimson, and there is much to be said for the combination; for Becket got the benefit of the hair shirt while the people in the street got the benefit of the crimson and gold. It is at least better than the manner of the modern millionaire, who has the black and the drab outwardly for others, and the gold next his heart. But the balance was not always in one man's body as in Becket's; the balance was often distributed over the whole body of Christendom. Because a man prayed and fasted on the Northern snows, flowers could be flung at his festival in the Southern cities; and because fanatics drank water on the sands of Syria, men could still drink cider in the orchards of England. This is what makes Christendom at once so much more perplexing and so much more interesting than the Pagan empire; just as Amiens Cathedral is not better but more interesting than the Parthenon. "

I meant the actual lemonade stands he encounters, but good point.

This is terribly sad and I'm sorry for your family and your neighbors. You have somehow trained yourself to see your locality through the abstractions used by organizations that reside elsewhere. Instead of seeing the child, the water, the table, the lemons and the sugar you see an indistinguishable member of a data set called "street vendors" or "foodservice" or "business establishments." Ironically the ability to use one's senses to observe one's surroundings helps one to create better laws, so your interest in regulating lemonade stands helps in a small way (as you only vote and talk to people) to create poorer regulation.

The behavior most consistent with Siri now would be "What would you like me to check you into?" "You want to check into ABC Business on Foursquare? Is that right?"

You are right. I misremembered his Stanford speech.

He had six months to live in 2003 so I doubt that 100% figure very much.

This is avoided by rendering each star/half star/empty star as an li or a div, defining common styles like width, height and positioning and then background images for each.

I used to fill out Chegg mturk requests for reviews while talking on the phone. They were way overpriced and nobody was paying attention to quality.