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If you gave birth, 16 weeks. If you didn't, 8.

Now there is an equal metric regardless of the sex. Happy?

my boss is in that email thread. I was talking to him last week because he was mentioned heavily in the Dive into HTML5 guide. He was talking about the real first WWW conference in Boston in 92/93 with about 25 people where he first met Marc Andreesen, Tim Berners-Lee and they collectively wrote the form tag.

There's a difference between a 4 color interface and a 4 hue interface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2.1.png

Buttons didn't have gradients or 3D effects or often even colors for nearly 10-15+ years on Macs and PCs and people were able to use them just fine. The did often have highlights and borders, however. A button in Classic Mac OS was unmistakably a button without most of those cues.

It's possible to have a nice, useable flat design. However, great care must be taken to use visual cues and be consistent in the UI. It's also possible to have high contrast. Low contrast is not flat design, it's a poor implementations of colors with a flat aesthetic.

Designmodo and the Flat-UI is pretty mediocre to poor at contrast. I forked the project and ended up ripping out a lot of the components which were low contrast and modifying the palette to have high contrast, then modifying the borders to my own inset/outset values to have a more muted level change on the buttons but still have them look somewhere between flat and and normal buttons. I did experiment with an inside white border on buttons for an Classic Mac OS feel (the original monochrome "Flat UI" )

Much of the flat aesthetic is rooted in swiss graphic poster design, however that doesn't translate so well to pages where dense text actually matters, especially with poor color choices. Much of designmodo's color scheme actually fails the contrast algorithm for small text, except at larger text it's generally okay. Bootstrap itself is pretty abysmal as far as this goes as well.

The flat aesthetic is nice, but those who continue on with it with disregard to contrast will not succeed. Accessibility and the flat aesthetic is possible, it takes more work and compromise, however.

Learn to embrace writing maven plugins.

I've written a few maven plugins that are just jython wrappers that import a few flags into the jython script (like the build directory) and then execute them. I've even written a generic python plugin that executes a script at a given path and imports any declared maven variables into it.

Sometimes it feels wrong, I know, but it's worth it.

I also wrote a new site plugin for myself that diffs between versions and throws all that up on a site for a auto changelog thing. It's useful for those rare "What the fuck did you do to the code in this release" occasions.

Then go adopt some.

Signs that you have a general pattern of curiosity and playfulness could also likely include a molecular biologist with a picture of Lil Jon on her wall.

Following a general pattern is still a pattern. Patterns aren't as interesting as anti-patterns.

Population taboo isn't the problem. The problem is pleading and attempting to dictate to a person what they should and shouldn't do with their personal life. Considering the USA has actually had the fertility rate drop below replacement levels recently, I think it's a bit silly to tell someone to actually have less babies, and at the same time suggest adoption as a (more costly) alternative.

I'd sincerely suggest you reconsider looking into adjusting the quality of life in countries where high birth rate is actually a problem before telling someone how many babies they should or shouldn't have in a country with a fertility rate below replacement levels.

> In regards to having 5 kids yourself - please reconsider this. If you do want a large family, rather consider adopting a few to round out your natural child birth. Society could do well with more good parents and a few less unwanted children.

I'm horribly offended you would say such a thing to someone directly. It's not your body, it's not your business, and it's silly to assume she hasn't already considered something like this.

That's some amazing performance out of the JVM.

I have a Hickok 580-A Tube Tester that I've been having a hell of a time trying to get calibrated correctly. Someday I'll figure it out (it doesn't help they used factory tubes for a lot of the calibration)

I love my Tektronix 2430A. I have some of the Tek 160 modules for the modular oscilloscope from the 50s, although I haven't really tried that. If you saw the guts, it's a point-to-point wiring masterpiece.

UUID v4 is, in fact, random and "alphanumeric" in the sense that it's hex.

That being said, I have a few other issues with their wording as well. They should just say "we have a custom HMAC-based authentication scheme for our REST API". Also, it took me about 3 days to realize HMAC over SSL/TLS is about as secure and easy as you can get for most any language -- If you can send HTTP requests, you can probably do HMAC. You can add further safety by making expiring private keys for HMAC and other things, although my use cases are based on long running (weeklong+) batch computations, and not end users. (i.e. initial distribution of an expiring private key for HMAC over SSL, reauthentication schemes, etc...

The tenderloin is 72,000 sq/mi.

The Geary and California lines have upwards of 80,000 riders a day. It's absolutely insane. There's a lot of plans for Geary BRT, but really it seems like they should have done something about a subway for Geary. Geary itself is the most ridden muni line, rail or bus, in SF.

If you captured most of those riders for a subway (which should have been done instead of this central subway mess) that patched into the current MUNI system, that line alone would be the 8th most ridden light rail system in the US, and put SF to the top of light rail usage in the US.

Personally, even though I have a BS in Physics, have done research for 4 years, and develop software exclusively with astrophysics experiments at a physics lab (I'm even on the most cited astronomy paper of 2012)... I have a hard time calling myself a physicist, or even an engineer for that matter.

Calling myself a "computerist" or even a "computer scientist" would feel a lot like I'd be furthering the dilution of titles with the inclusion of mediocrity, akin to the "technical support engineer".

Prior art for this predates the World Wide Web. The physics arxiv and SPIRES database were doing this in the 80s.

> And Comcast was actually cheaper.

At least for the first 6/12 months. Then you get to haggle and threaten disconnection for a day, then you are good for another 6/12 months.

The oil change thing was much easier when I had a garage/driveway/flat street and I had a lifted jeep cherokee (which broke a lot, but was easy as hell to fix and change oil). With my car now, I can't even find ramps that are appropriate for it. Luckily I bought my (Subaru) new in 2009, so I just take it in for maintenance when required.

Also, living in an apartment is weird because it's not your house. I want to replace the kitchen cabinets, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to. I'd love to be able to just own my own house, I even dream of just getting an old house and redoing the electrical, fixing it, getting a 203k loan, but that's not very easy in the bay area.

I don't have any trouble letting other people do stuff for me, but I usually want to be right there talking to the person the whole time, usually learning whatever new things I can.

The joke, while violating the terms of the python convention, was PG-13 at best. It was the equivalent of a "that's what she said joke". It's a joke a 12 year old would make. It wasn't violent, it wasn't oppressive, it was just off-color. It wasn't a reason for anyone to get fired over.

Yes, it was immature. It was no reason to get up in arms over. Her blog post, with the "Think of the Children" aspect was equally immature in a different way.

The reason I'm sure Adria was fired was because she continued to handle the situation poorly and unprofessionally.

I think both parties should have been reprimanded, and apologized, and that should have been that. Instead there's a few people without jobs and a public disgrace.

Comparing basic calculus to number theory is like comparing long division to calculus. Saying "oh I know how to take the derivative" is a bit different than knowing how to take the derivative of a complex expression by applying a taylor expansion to estimate the rate of change within .01%.

For number theory, there's a few things you could pick up fairly easily, like understanding what 1 and 3 mod 4 primes are, but there's no way you could do the homework in 1 weekend unless you've aced real analysis, and then maybe you could finish 10-20% of the homework (proofs) in a book in a weekend or so.

Many engineers I've met can't even handle using proof by induction to solve a proof.

Josef Müller-Brockmann (from the 60s): http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2716/4415331726_e98dd8f7c1.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2790/4414564409_974b828fbc.jpg

Coming from a linux and programming background, I find neither Finder nor Explorer nor Nautilus terribly useful.

You need to qualify your question a bit more. People with ADHD experience it differently than people without ADHD generally.

For me, withdrawals after long term use (continuously taking it for 2-3 weeks or more) are generally over a three day period. The end of the first day you really start feeling it. The second day you will be dragging, all day. The third day is similar to the first. After that, you're back to yourself, more or less.

Short term (day to day) withdrawals are a bit different. The "zombie" effect doesn't really occur until later in the day. It goes down with long term use. Often times, the zombie effect is actually due to a bad sleep schedule versus the drug, at least in my experience. Short term withdrawals are more pronounced in the first 2-3 weeks of taking it.

The apetite thing is true and false. Long term, it goes away a bit. I lost weight the first 5 months, gained it back slowly. It took about a year and a bit of consciousness to normalize.

Withdrawal symptoms are similar if using Adderall XR, except they are over a longer period of time. Adderall XR is much harder to dose right, and leads to much worse sleeping habits IMO.

For it to be effective with my ADHD, I had to take large doses. 40mg/day (instant release) was the minimum, 60 mg the usual. I've taken over 160mg in a two day period more than a few times.

Adderrall gave me headaches though at useful dosages. At first, I realized part of this was because of a decreased apetite, but even after mitigation of that (remembering to eat), I still had them.

I took Adderall over a 4 year period. Experiments with purely non-stimulant medicinces was over about 6 months. The latest combination I've been using for about a year.

They have a mobile app version. I've been using it for years. You get yellow arrows instead of buses, and it's route specific. Sometimes busses disappear.

I don't think you've looked into the research regarding MEG and EEG, especially regarding noise. It's possible you are right, but without a room temperature superconductor and/or implantation, it's going to be hard.

If we get a body temperature superconductor, a whole lot of other things are going to change and a SQUID patch on your brain is going to be one of the more boring advances from that technology.

It sounds like your company ripped off the public schools, and that's why you are anti-government?

I think it's more likely that you are underestimating the violence, vengeance, and warfare of ancient Mesopotamia than human history got more violent, especially given the art we have available for Mesopotamia (vs. literature) for that period.

I'd argue it's to keep developers locked in to Objective-C and iOS. Facebook tried going the HTML5 route in the native iOS app, but everything was too slow (it was comical how much faster facebook.com was in Safari vs running the app) until they ultimately switched back to Objective-C.