I'm one of the users that still use the old comment system, so for me you didn't change much in 2011. But since you implied that that won't be an option this time, users are not happy...
I would have expected you to make the beta feature complete before pushing it on 25% of the users. Then the feedback probably would not have been quite so negative.
If you wanted feedback on the design aspects I would have expected you to make a story about it, asking for feedback, like last time. But for a second round of feedback I would have expected a changelog, with details of what was done with the last feedback.
You can not get any other feedback from an incomplete site than on the design. If you want feedback on an incomplete site you have to give a big disclaimer before asking people for feedback, detailing which parts are still incomplete, and how they are planned to be changed. You can not just push something functionally broken like that on 25% of your users and expect anything useful.
The beta looks pretty much the same as the last time you asked for feedback on it. What feedback did you get back then, and what did you do with it? Because the general impression is that you did nothing with it, and that is why people are angry.
You should already have this information. You should be able to post, right now, what you did with the previous feedback and what you changed on the beta as a result, and which points you did not change, and why. This is data from months ago. Where is it? Why do you not publish it? Is it because you really didn't do anything with that feedback?
The main reason people in the real world value gold over bottle caps or fuel is that gold doesn't rust, doesn't evaporate and is reasonably easy to subdivide. If I buy gold I can be certain that in ten years that gold will still be exactly the same.
Bottle caps as currency is very unrealistic in a mad-max scenario.
Your partner would first have to find someone in the UK that changes BTC to GBP for an acceptable price. And you'd have to hope that the value doesn't change too much while in transfer.
If you're going 30MPH I'd advice you to wear a helmet too, but most people (http://www.verkeersnet.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amsterdam.jpg) are not going anywhere near 30 MPH, or even 20 KmPH.
The bike type has a huge impact on safety and I expect the chance of head injuries and thus the effect of wearing a helmet to also change significantly with bicycle type.
Bitcoins don't have an inherent value, they're just numbers. Gold has an inherent value because it can be used for stuff. Bitcoins don't.
If Bitcoin is meant to replace the US Dollar then the total value of all Bitcoins will have to equal the total value of all US Dollars. There was approximately $1.24 trillion in circulation as of December 25, 2013. There can be no more than 21 million bitcoins This puts the value that a bitcoin should have at the time it totally replaces the US Dollar at: 59047.6 US Dollar.
Of course there are issues with this simplification, but it's a nice place to start.
Even cooler, when you donate plasma, they hook you up to a machine, your blood goes through a filter, and when the vessel is full, it gets pumped back into you:D It usually takes about 6 or 7 of these passes and about 45 minutes.
Unfortunately, the USA has a broken electoral system that forces politics to a two-party system. In a two-party system the need for compromise is gone. In a 3+ party system a party can negotiate with several other parties, and form a coalition with the best match. That means parties have to compromise, or they end up outside of the coalition and thus with no power. In a two-party system you either have a majority or you don't. You either win or lose. There are no coalition negotiations, there is no compromising. If you lose you shift a bit more in the direction of the other party to win some of the votes back and try to win next time.
The fundamental problem is the broken electoral system.
Unless you don't assign a value at the time of definition, which is 90% of the cases. Or you assign the return value of a method call.
In most cases you can't visually determine the type from the value assignment, so you'd have to specify the type any way. And that makes the var keyword superfluous.
In this specific case, my guess as a biotechnologist would be Nitrogen starvation. Carnivorous plants live in nitrogen poor areas, they only get nitrogen from the insects they catch. DNA replication requires quite a bit of nitrogen, so less DNA means the plant needs less nitrogen to copy a cell.
I think Java is fun to program in for exactly those reasons. For me the fun in programming is getting cool results and Java allows one to create complex stuff without having to constantly worry about shooting oneself in the foot. It allows me to use my full brain capacity for the actual algorithms I want to create and doesn't add lots of cognitive load. Especially when using a powerful IDE, like Netbeans.
Exactly! I used to live 10 minuted by bike from work. I found that time too short, so I walked instead, which made it 30 minutes. Instead of sitting in the canteen for lunch, I (and several others) brought a packed lunch, and we walked around outside, in the park, for 30 to 45 minutes.
I can especially recommend walking or biking to work, it's great for clearing your mind, but I guess it depends on your local traffic situation and the availability of parks or green areas.
Yes, but due to comma weaselling, the perjury but only refers to whether they are allowed to speak on behalf of the copyright holder they claim to represent, NOT on whether the material infringes that holders rights.
So they could file a takedown notice claiming that the constitution of the USA infringes NASCAR's rights, as long as they are allowed to speak on behalf of NASCAR. They could not file a takedown notice claiming an actual NASCAR race recording infringes NASCAR rights, if they did not have the right to speak on behalf of NASCAR, even though that recording actually does infrige.
It actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people in the Netherlands work part-time, often 3 or 4 days a week. Working less hours generally means that the hours you do work are more productive. So a workforce that works less hours per person will usually have a higher per-hour productivity.
A Nissan Leaf goes 73 miles on its 24KWh battery pack
Lets say it does that distance in two hours AND uses power perfectly distributed over that time (both best-case assumptions). That would give it a power consumption of 12KW. The fuel cell can have a 2.5W maximum draw. 12000/2.5 = 4800
So you don't just need 150 of those to generate enough power, you need 5 thousand!
It's not the same. When you drive up the costs of using fossil fuels, commodity agriculture products get more expensive, and people in the third world starve and riot, creating misery.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite where true. Small-scale farming as happens in the third world is not nearly as dependant on fossil fuels as our first-world large-scale farming. That means a higher oil price will make local farming more competitive, and local farmers can actually compete with the imported western produce. This in turn means more locally produced food, and less dependence on imported stuff, which is good for the local economy.
Losing weight is math. You have to eat less than you burn. That's the bottom line. There's no way around it. The math is simple, but acting on it takes willpower.
If your gut microbes compensate for you eating less then you will have to compensate for your gut microbes by eating less again.
There are countless tricks to try to make it easier, but in the end it really comes down to counting calories. For the rest of your life.
It's perfectly possible to have private insurers. You just have to:
Mandate a minimum, standard base package.
Mandate that all insurers have to accept anyone for that base package.
Like in the Netherlands. Insurers can then compete on price for that base package and any extras and everyone can get insurance for basic health care.
Vote?
Showing that once again the root of the problem is in the retarded electoral system of the USA, that gravitates towards having only two parties, which means that politicians don't have to care about the people.
I think that campaign finances are the root of the problem that we should attack...
Actually, it's the "winner takes all" setup that causes the two-party system. There is only 1 presidential position to distribute, meaning people will only vote for one of the two candidates that actually stand a chance of winning.
Everybody in the Dutch talks as if the man is convicted already. He's not. The case is not solved until a judge has had the last word, and given the inaccuracies in DNA matching I'm very interested in what a judge has to say about this.
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I'm one of the users that still use the old comment system, so for me you didn't change much in 2011. But since you implied that that won't be an option this time, users are not happy...
I would have expected you to make the beta feature complete before pushing it on 25% of the users. Then the feedback probably would not have been quite so negative.
If you wanted feedback on the design aspects I would have expected you to make a story about it, asking for feedback, like last time. But for a second round of feedback I would have expected a changelog, with details of what was done with the last feedback.
You can not get any other feedback from an incomplete site than on the design. If you want feedback on an incomplete site you have to give a big disclaimer before asking people for feedback, detailing which parts are still incomplete, and how they are planned to be changed. You can not just push something functionally broken like that on 25% of your users and expect anything useful.
Sound like minor tweaks to me, but I'm looking forward to the full list. Two questions:
What percentage of active users is still using the Classic Discussion System (D1)?
What kind of response where you expecting when you decided to push a broken, incomplete beta upon 25% of your users?
The beta looks pretty much the same as the last time you asked for feedback on it.
What feedback did you get back then, and what did you do with it? Because the general impression is that you did nothing with it, and that is why people are angry.
You should already have this information. You should be able to post, right now, what you did with the previous feedback and what you changed on the beta as a result, and which points you did not change, and why. This is data from months ago. Where is it? Why do you not publish it? Is it because you really didn't do anything with that feedback?
The main reason people in the real world value gold over bottle caps or fuel is that gold doesn't rust, doesn't evaporate and is reasonably easy to subdivide. If I buy gold I can be certain that in ten years that gold will still be exactly the same.
Bottle caps as currency is very unrealistic in a mad-max scenario.
Your partner would first have to find someone in the UK that changes BTC to GBP for an acceptable price.
And you'd have to hope that the value doesn't change too much while in transfer.
You mean one basement... With his mother still living upstairs.
I'd pass, I find my electronically-height-adjustable desk much more valuable ;)
If you're going 30MPH I'd advice you to wear a helmet too, but most people (http://www.verkeersnet.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amsterdam.jpg) are not going anywhere near 30 MPH, or even 20 KmPH.
If you're going 30MPH you're probably also doing it on a bike like this: http://www.online-fahrrad.de/Bilder/Mountainbike-Cube-Reaction.jpg or this: http://www.bikester.nl/fileadmin/mediapool/bknl/racefiets.jpg and not a nice classic city bike like this: http://static.batavus.com/bikes/HT140021/batavus/Blockbuster-7.jpg
The bike type has a huge impact on safety and I expect the chance of head injuries and thus the effect of wearing a helmet to also change significantly with bicycle type.
Bitcoins don't have an inherent value, they're just numbers. Gold has an inherent value because it can be used for stuff. Bitcoins don't.
If Bitcoin is meant to replace the US Dollar then the total value of all Bitcoins will have to equal the total value of all US Dollars.
There was approximately $1.24 trillion in circulation as of December 25, 2013.
There can be no more than 21 million bitcoins
This puts the value that a bitcoin should have at the time it totally replaces the US Dollar at: 59047.6 US Dollar.
Of course there are issues with this simplification, but it's a nice place to start.
If everybody on the planet consumes 1 hundredths of a percent more power... then we'll globally use 0.0001% more power.
If something is insignificant on an individual level, then even if you scale it up to everybody it's still insignificant.
Even cooler, when you donate plasma, they hook you up to a machine, your blood goes through a filter, and when the vessel is full, it gets pumped back into you :D
It usually takes about 6 or 7 of these passes and about 45 minutes.
Compromise is the basis of any proper democracy.
Unfortunately, the USA has a broken electoral system that forces politics to a two-party system. In a two-party system the need for compromise is gone. In a 3+ party system a party can negotiate with several other parties, and form a coalition with the best match. That means parties have to compromise, or they end up outside of the coalition and thus with no power. In a two-party system you either have a majority or you don't. You either win or lose. There are no coalition negotiations, there is no compromising. If you lose you shift a bit more in the direction of the other party to win some of the votes back and try to win next time.
The fundamental problem is the broken electoral system.
Unless you don't assign a value at the time of definition, which is 90% of the cases.
Or you assign the return value of a method call.
In most cases you can't visually determine the type from the value assignment, so you'd have to specify the type any way. And that makes the var keyword superfluous.
HashMap intNames = new FancyDoodle();
You can't express that with just the var keyword, but it is a very important distinction.
In this specific case, my guess as a biotechnologist would be Nitrogen starvation. Carnivorous plants live in nitrogen poor areas, they only get nitrogen from the insects they catch. DNA replication requires quite a bit of nitrogen, so less DNA means the plant needs less nitrogen to copy a cell.
I think Java is fun to program in for exactly those reasons. For me the fun in programming is getting cool results and Java allows one to create complex stuff without having to constantly worry about shooting oneself in the foot. It allows me to use my full brain capacity for the actual algorithms I want to create and doesn't add lots of cognitive load. Especially when using a powerful IDE, like Netbeans.
Exactly!
I used to live 10 minuted by bike from work. I found that time too short, so I walked instead, which made it 30 minutes.
Instead of sitting in the canteen for lunch, I (and several others) brought a packed lunch, and we walked around outside, in the park, for 30 to 45 minutes.
I can especially recommend walking or biking to work, it's great for clearing your mind, but I guess it depends on your local traffic situation and the availability of parks or green areas.
Yes, but due to comma weaselling, the perjury but only refers to whether they are allowed to speak on behalf of the copyright holder they claim to represent, NOT on whether the material infringes that holders rights.
So they could file a takedown notice claiming that the constitution of the USA infringes NASCAR's rights, as long as they are allowed to speak on behalf of NASCAR.
They could not file a takedown notice claiming an actual NASCAR race recording infringes NASCAR rights, if they did not have the right to speak on behalf of NASCAR, even though that recording actually does infrige.
But IANAL, so I might be wrong.
It actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people in the Netherlands work part-time, often 3 or 4 days a week. Working less hours generally means that the hours you do work are more productive. So a workforce that works less hours per person will usually have a higher per-hour productivity.
And in the table right below the one you referred to, France is four places above the USA.
Lets continue with your numbers:
Lets say it does that distance in two hours AND uses power perfectly distributed over that time (both best-case assumptions).
That would give it a power consumption of 12KW.
The fuel cell can have a 2.5W maximum draw.
12000/2.5 = 4800
So you don't just need 150 of those to generate enough power, you need 5 thousand!
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite where true.
Small-scale farming as happens in the third world is not nearly as dependant on fossil fuels as our first-world large-scale farming. That means a higher oil price will make local farming more competitive, and local farmers can actually compete with the imported western produce. This in turn means more locally produced food, and less dependence on imported stuff, which is good for the local economy.
Losing weight is math. You have to eat less than you burn. That's the bottom line. There's no way around it. The math is simple, but acting on it takes willpower.
If your gut microbes compensate for you eating less then you will have to compensate for your gut microbes by eating less again.
There are countless tricks to try to make it easier, but in the end it really comes down to counting calories. For the rest of your life.
It's perfectly possible to have private insurers. You just have to:
Like in the Netherlands. Insurers can then compete on price for that base package and any extras and everyone can get insurance for basic health care.
Showing that once again the root of the problem is in the retarded electoral system of the USA, that gravitates towards having only two parties, which means that politicians don't have to care about the people.
Actually, it's the "winner takes all" setup that causes the two-party system. There is only 1 presidential position to distribute, meaning people will only vote for one of the two candidates that actually stand a chance of winning.
Everybody in the Dutch talks as if the man is convicted already. He's not. The case is not solved until a judge has had the last word, and given the inaccuracies in DNA matching I'm very interested in what a judge has to say about this.