#twentieth century kids compact

[darkfrog24]

This was utterly normal treatment of kids in the 1980s and 1990s. There was even a stereotype of annoying kids who "ask too many questions."

Suddenly hit with the vivid memory of when a cat had kittens and I was maybe four years old, and an older kid (I think a cousin?) kept saying with disgust and horror that she was "eating the afterbirth" (as mammals do), but I didn't know what that meant and started asking, only to be ignored or dismissed by the adults, who also wouldn't let me see no matter how FRANTIC I got with my questions, even when I started bawling my eyes out. Because, see, my interpretation of that sentence was that she was eating the kittens. What else would you conclude if you don't know the word "afterbirth," you're too little to know anything else comes out with the babies, and everyone is acting like it's something too nasty to explain to you in words? I don't remember when I figured out that they meant something else but I remember four-year-old me being devastated all day and terrified the next morning that all the kittens would be gone. All they had to say was "it's yucky stuff that was on the kittens, so she's cleaning up!" but no they could evidently not come up with anything more creative than just "it's nothing!" And worse yet my questions made them laugh. They LAUGHED at the unfathomable violence I was sure had happened in that cardboard box. Can you even imagine how demented I thought these people were. I was four years old already thinking I was the only rational compassionate being in a house full of sick sadists. Please try to entertain the questions of children, especially if they seem upset. You never know when they just think you're a fucked up asshole hiding a kitten massacre.

[mybedzshop]

Are Z beds comfortable?

Introduction

Z beds are a type of fold-up bed that takes up very little room. They have been used since the mid-twentieth century and have been popular in hospitals, military barracks, prisons, nursing homes, and even in some homes.

How they work

Z beds use a simple hydraulic system powered by electricity or gas to lift the bed from a folded position for storage to an almost completely vertical position for sleeping. The mattress is usually made of thicker padded materials with springs under them so they can be angled while also being comfortable enough to sleep on.

But now there are Z beds that can be setup by hand. These are small in size. Kids Z bed can be carried easily for camping and can be used as Z bed chair or Z bed single mattress to be laid down on the ground.

Advantages of Z beds

The biggest advantage is its size. Z beds take up little unneeded space. They are really comfortable due to the thickness of the mattress and their special shape. These are much more comfortable than sleeping bags and can be carried too. Traveling, vacationing, camping, and much can be done without worrying about where you are going to sleep.

Their polyester cover can easily be removed and washed. They don’t get dirty or wet easily and if you spill liquid on them, there are no stains. You simply can wipe it off with a sponge. The z bed has a zip on its cover. It can be removed without difficulty and washed in the machine at 40°C without causing any problems.

The cover of the camping sofa is microfiber (100% polyester). It may be washed or treated in the machine. With this folding foam mattress, you or your visitors don't have to worry about getting a bad night's sleep. The spare z-guest bed features high-quality foam cushions for excellent support, ensuring restful, deep sleep. During sleeping, the medium-hard foam core conforms to the form of the body and provides excellent support.

If you live in a small studio room then Z Bed mattress is perfect for you. You can buy these online from My Bedz. If you live in a small room then these are best for you. They also come in all sizes and shapes for you to pick and choose from.

Which one to choose

There are different types of Z Beds that you can choose from My Bedz according to your needs. The first type of Z bed is also one of the cheapest ones available. The bed has two legs at each end and a large triangle-shaped frame in-between them. There is an extension arm over each side of the frame, so you don't roll out when sleeping up against the wall.

They do not fold down to save space though but take up very little floor space when folded away. The advantage of this kind is that it can be compacted into an upright position for additional capacity or just to get it out of the way. These are best for toddlers or infants if they want to sleep in mommy’s and daddy’s room.

The second Z bed mattress has a heavier frame than the first Z bed and is more suited to people with a little more weight on them as well as for long-term use. Perfect for college students and those living in dorms.

You don’t have to actually set up a whole bed, just install this one and ease your tensions. These will save money, time, and space. You can fit a cupboard and a study table in your dorm and will be left with space for this Z bed. My Bedz actually wants you to choose the best-folded Z bed.

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[caparrucia]

God fucking damn that fucking story.

Nope, not derailing. Chronicling her fucking stupidity isn't wrong, and it is definitely not wrong to explain exactly what she's done when it comes to being a fucking bigoted ghoul. Upfront and without question, I am both horrified and deeply sorry you had to go through that. Holy shit, that was wrong and goddamn unacceptable, my god.

So here's my experience. I have never read the fic. I haven't actively read Harry Potter fic since the days of MrsScribe. (I was there, Gandalf. I was a fucking idiot kid, but I was there, dammit, and I saw it happen!) But someone posted a snippet of it. This one:

“Technically, the family name was Casa de Deslizarse, but the languages in the north…well, if you gave a Castilian name to someone speaking the old Celtic tongues, it was often slurred into Slytherin. After a few years of it just becoming a worse and worse habit, we gave up and went with it. My full name is Nizar Hariwalt de León, Casa de Deslizarse de Castilla y Moravia.” The portrait looks like he’s biting back a smile. “It didn’t help to ditch part of the syllable set and compact it into deSlizarse, either. Nizar Hariwalt is half-Euskaran and half-Germanic, so no one slaughtered that one. It means little war leader.”

So there's a fucking lot wrong with that paragraph, but if you're not Spaniard or of Spaniard descent, you're not going to catch it. Yes, her Spanish is godawful and pulled straight from google translate. Yes, she does not know how to fucking conjugate a verb or how verbs work in Spanish. Everyone has pointed that out. No, let me explain.

The people of Mexico and Argentina, both speak Spanish. They might have distinct dialects, but both their languages are identified as Spanish. The people of Asturias, Galicia, Cataluñia and Castilla, do not all speak Spanish. These are not dialects, these are distinct, separate, completely different languages, the same way Portuguese, French and Spanish are not the same language. The delicate part is that during Franco's dictatorship (so, you know, half of the twentieth century), Castellano was elevated to being the "national language" and the defacto equivalent of "Spanish" and very thorough and very violent efforts were made to ethnically cleanse the other languages as well as the ethnic groups that spoke it. (Spanish as a descriptor of a language is very thorny, and you're likely to be corrected if you tell a Spaniard that they're speaking Spanish: they're speaking Castellano, or Catalán, etc.)

Specifically, though, Asturian (or Bable), is the language of the kingdom of Asturias. It has existed since the 12th century, while Castilian arrived only at the 14th century. Asturias is the seat of the crown prince of Spain - he is know as the Prince of Asturias. I mention this because even as historically important as Asturias is, it also very much got ethnic cleansed. The use of the language was heavily penalized and one of the most recurrent, infuriating things people would accuse Asturian speakers of, was that they slur Castellano. To this day people say that dismissively, particularly because Asturian is a language with a very small population of native speakers - do not fucking call it a dying language, that's gross - and yes, Asturias is very culturally Celtic and to this day a lot of the local mythology is very rooted in Celtic traditions.

So with that context, you can see how someone posted the snippet above and my jaw hit the floor. I reached out to the author, who I did not know from Adam, but they seemed to very genuinely care about this, because people were talking about the linguistics of it and how their fic was educational, and I sort of get it, all of this is in Spanish and resources are not exactly English friendly. So I assumed good faith and reached out and said something to this effect:

"Hey, this thing you wrote is not exactly racist in the traditional American sense, because they're all Spaniards, but accusing "Celtic languages" of "slurring Castilian" is super unfortunate and you might want to reconsider the wording."

I didn't even touch the rest of the things that are wrong with the sentence, such as the fact Moravia is in the modern Czech Republic, Leon is a kingdom south of Asturias (but not the same as Asturias), anything relating to Euskadi I am not competent enough to comment on, but the one friend from San Sebastian I showed this to made a disgruntled noise and said at least she hadn't called it Vizcaya, "de" is not a "syllable set" it is a preposition or the first syllable of the word "Deslizar", which she keeps using as "Deslizarse" which means "to slither" not "slithering" as I think she meant to do, and just. You know. The implications behind those choices, which would take frankly hours upon hours of European history to explain exactly why they're nonsensical if not highly improbable all things considered.

It reads like something someone wrote after scanning the English version of wikipedia and remembering that old tumblr post about cowboys and samurai being concurrent, and deciding to take THAT approach to character building. Which, you know what? Valid. It's fandom, it doesn't have to be historically accurate. It's for fun. But if you do that and you make allusions to fucking ethnic cleansing you probably should know. I would like to know, if I did that!

So I reached out, as non-aggressively as possible, because it's about European racism and Americans in my experience are just not built to understand it, because race in America is a matter of skin color and everything else is meaningless.

It bears mentioning I did this under my old tumblr name, the RL life one, which happened to have a little Mexican flag in the header and where I mostly posted about Academia and language and sort of dealt with the unresolved sexual tension between me, philology and theology.

Flamethrower instead called me a pretentious, ignorant beaner and a barely literate wetback because I said "Castellano" instead of "Castilian". She went on a tirade assuming I was Mexican-American and therefore did not speak Spanish natively, had no real knowledge of Spain at all, and was just attacking her because I was jealous she'd come up with the phrase at all. She also decried that I had no basis or sources to back up my comments and that I was basically an idiot. It was a very virulent, very aggressive strand of hateful, racist vitriol.

At which point I said "lol", out loud, because yes, I am the kind of person who says "lol" out loud, fuck you, internet. And then I blocked her and moved right on with my life.

Every few years, someone would rec me her fic or rec her fic in my periphery or attempt to gush about her fic to me, and I would politely disengage or, if persistently pushed to get into it, I would share the story about what a racist dipshit she had been to me and how I very much did not wish to spend any more time on it. Most of the people I told this story to would tell me I was blowing it out of proportion and that she's just got a bad temper because of trauma and that I should just let it go.

Those people are no longer my friends.

Watching this whole thing unfold, and digging into it and finding out everything she's done has been horrific but not exactly surprising. It's been mostly just a good endorsement to my standing policy to block any and all racist dipshits, because wow, do not have the bandwidth for this level of unhinged.

The main reason I'm loudly and upfront bringing this up now is because when I mentioned this to Jazzy, I know she discussed it in one of the FT servers. And that didn't make it into the screenshots, but I don't want that conversation, if it ever surfaces, to be dismissed by "oh yeah, SOMEONE said she was racist, lol, but conveniently no names!" So yeah. I said she was a racist dipshit. Because she was. And my original blog and the original conversation might be long gone, but I did damn tell her that specific passage was horrifically inappropriate and kind of racist and she ignored it and kept it verbatim - I checked.

She never apologized, to my knowledge she's never acknowledged it, and instead she's gone on to pretend she's a linguistic authority and spreading her misinformation and misunderstanding of the subject to who knows how many people (but fuck those people, honestly, if they're getting their knowledge wholesale from fanfic, without even a cursory attempt to verify it against credible sources, that's fucking staggering anti-intellectualism on display, but I digress).

tl;dr FT's writing was arguably racist but her reaction to criticism definitely was and her current persona of being enlightened and kind and good to others is fucking bullshit if she will not own up to the things she's said and done and publicly apologize for them.

Listen, if you're going to be a enough of a racist fucktwit to call me a goddamn slur to my fucking face, have the fucking spine to own up to it.

And if you're gonna pretend you've grownTM and become a person who isn't supposed to be a racist dipshit that calls people slurs to their faces? You still have to fucking own the fact you did it before, and goddamn apologize for it.

Anything else is fucking unacceptable.

[dezainn-blog]

Functionalism’s Influence on the World of Design

A multi-functional room in Zen design. Project by: The Minimalist Society

You may or may not have heard of Functionalism, the movement that swept through the world of art and design in the 20th century and left an indelible mark on the products and spaces we interact with.

If you’ve ever picked up an iPhone or stood in front of a steel skyscraper you have already been touched by Functionalism’s connection to almost everything that we see and use.

Functionalism as a design aesthetic is one of the most important movements of the modern world.

Louis Sullivan, the American architect and one of the pioneers of modern architectural design expressed the Functionalist creed in the now famous maxim "form follows function" and David Gelernter spoke of "machine beauty" in describing a computer program that accomplishes great purpose with small means.

Adolf Loos, the Austrian architect called architectural ornament “a crime” and Frank Lloyd Wright applied Functionalist principles to the Guggenheim Museum with a spiral shape, allowing visitors to easily view the artwork inside.

Guggenheim Museum IMAGE. Photo Source: Pixabay

Functionalism marks a very clear break from "pure art" which is produced with the sole purpose of providing aesthetic experiences.

In architecture as well as industrial and interior design, objects are created with the primary intention of satisfying practical function or utility. This consideration of usefulness and how it relates to beauty gave birth to one of the most influential cultural and artistic movements of the early twentieth century.

This full-length book shelves which also serves as the back drop of the space. Project by: D’initial Concepts

A modern but timeless tradition

Although largely regarded as a modern phenomenon, Functionalism is firmly rooted in history as well as a naturally intuitive way of viewing the spaces and objects we interact with.

In Xenophon's Symposium, Critoboulus expresses his Functionalist ideas and in the early Middle Ages, military architecture reflected Functionalist doctrines.

Functionalism reached its height in the period of Classical Modernity, establishing itself as the dominant architectural style from the end of the Second World War up until the end of the seventies.

Refusing to incorporate an emotional dynamic, Functionalist designs are usually linear, realist and free of pointless complexity.

A minimalist yet functional approach. Project by: Icon Interior

They often feature geometric shapes and right angles with complex structures organized into smaller units which are then duplicated. The aim is a clarity and balance which some might find cold.

A compact and functional kids room which is well-designed. Project by: Charlotte’s Carpentry

Bauhaus

The history of Functionalism is closely tied to the Bauhaus school, a center that embodied the idea that “form follows function” and played a role in creating the modern design industry as we know it.

Established in Dessau, Germany in 1919 by Walter Gropius and a group of artists and architects focused on the development of high-quality, utilitarian mass-produced consumer goods, the school’s program uniquely featured the melding of industrial production methods with handicraft.

Bauhaus School, 1919-1933. Restoration done by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Photo source: Pixabay

When the school was closed by Hitler for being “un-German” and its teachers emigrated, the Bauhaus teaching methods and style spread throughout the United States as well as Europe.

Functionalism in design

The discipline of product design embraced Functionalism at the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) in Germany, most popularly seen in the work of Braun’s Head Designer, Dieter Rams.

Functionalism was consistently implemented by the Braun brand in the products that they developed.

Dieter Rams who stated that good design should be “unobtrusive”, also influenced Johnathan Ive, chief design officer at Apple.

Dieter Rams. Photograph by Abisag Tullmann. Photo Source: Vitsoe

When it comes to interior design, a Functionalist approach focuses only on the necessary or important.

The purpose is to create spaces that are efficient, with the design of a space being determined by its primary function.The use of the space directs the floor plan, layout and furniture. For interior designers, a Functionalist approach also removes wastage of space, materials and cost.

Creating spaces that stem from function can greatly increase the value of a space, making it easy to build future extensions and adapt around a timeless base. This is particularly ideal when it comes to the design of commercial spaces as well as home design.

Simplified version of TV console which is complimented by the white built-in cabinet for storage purpose. Project by: Minimology

Oriental Functionalism

The tension between modernism and traditionalism in design can be felt in many of Japan’s spaces.

Tadeo Ando (an architect whose concrete buildings are influenced by the Bauhaus style) displays a successful synthesis between these two seemingly contradictory values by reflecting traditional Japanese sensibilities regarding nature.

Church of the Light, by Tadeo Ando. Photo Source: Hiromistu Morimoto. License under CC BY-SA 2.0

Indeed, Functionalism as well as minimalism and simplicity are cornerstones of Japanese design. The philosophy of Functionalism can be seen at work in other Asian countries as well.

Singapore interior design as well as the nation’s roads, airports and architecture follow from the functionalist identity inherent in the policies developed by Lee Kuan Yew who built the nation on the foundation of efficiency and usefulness with Functionalism deeply ingrained in the Singaporean psyche.

Singapore city view. Photo Source: Pixabay

Lee was almost obsessive over functionality and implemented it in everything from deciding which tree would provide the best shade to planning the city-state’s foreign policy.

Feng Shui Functionalism can be seen in Pearl Bank Apartments which are among the last of the “old” buildings of Singapore.

Pearl Bank Apartment in Singapore. Photo Source: The Lion Raw

The apartments were completed in 1976 and are among the early high-rise, high-density buildings here. They also played a part in influencing urban development in the country.

Dezainn.com – Find premium interior designers who can propose you a functional yet aesthetic interior.

[homebuildersmelbourne]

How to choose the latest home designs and be trendy

When you decide to buy a home you should look for a modern home that is built as per the latest trend. Modern home architecture started in the later part of the twentieth century to change the elaborate ornamentation of old homes. Designers at the time looked for simpler architecture and this brought to life innovative construction using glass, concrete, and metal.

Presently there are plenty of houses built with modern designs which have no ornamentation but functionality, simplicity, and elegance. Modern houses usually have an unpretentious design and all the elements used are in harmony.

What should I consider when deciding to build a modern home?

The look of the house should be simple and all elements should be in harmony. The design should not be complicated with too many separations like passages and long corridors. The space available should be put to maximum use. Modern house architects like their house designs to be compact like a machine with everything in the right place. This is a valuable concept to be followed.

While doing all this you must also make sure that you get sufficient natural light in the house and areas that require privacy are well located. Most modern houses are usually painted in neutral colors like cream, beige, white and light grey to make them cool and bright. Have a patio with a lot of plants where you can relax in the evening.

Aspire Home Designs                                                

When Aspire builds homes they feel that their clients deserve the best and customize it for their client’s requirements. They have an architect, materials expert, and estimator, so they can let you know the investment quote to the last penny. They usually have an open plan which helps you to arrange it the way you like.

With a home built by Aspire, you can have customized furniture, modular wardrobes, and kitchens. When it comes to designing and implementation they are professionals and will work with you till the end. You are sure to get the best combination of trends, styles, and colors. They create stunning exteriors and interiors and if you like to know what your home will look like when it is completed they can give you a 3D concept.

Melbourne Home Designs

Melbourne has plenty of modern homes for sale. One of them is a double story with 4 bedrooms. You can enter the home, go past a private sitting room and you lend in an entertainer’s paradise. There is a beautiful kitchen flattered by a butler’s pantry overlooking luxurious dining and family areas with an outdoor room for entertaining. The master bedroom is located on the top floor with a walk-in wardrobe and ensuite with two vanities. Three more bedrooms are situated at the back of the house with a leisure area for kids to spend time with friends.

The other homes that are there for sale are a double story with 4 bedrooms. There is an open plan living area at the back where the family can enjoy themselves. Bedrooms are all located upstairs. Choosing a home like this you have ample space for entertaining.

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[waywardfeathered]

illusivexemissary‌           ☾           gabriel.

Wait. 

Stop.

No. 

In a hundred thousand millennia, the Messenger, the Teeacher, the Bearer of Glad Tidings, has never sensed a miscommunication he hasn’t been able to resolve.

Newly on his feet, resurrected, voice and hands again fully his own, betrayed by both older brothers across the lay lines of universes, the cracks of his psyche just barely glued enough together for his youngest daughter’s Easter birth, he’s not about to start making that mistake now.        “Well look down yonder, Gabriel, look to the land an’ sea; but don’t you blow that trumpet til you hear from me ….  ”

A rich second tenor murmurs the lines to the ironic Cash song. 

There ain’t no grave can hold my body down; There ain’t no grave can hold my body down.

     “This is bullshit.”  

The fullness of a Tennessee twang–an odd and endearing mannerism picked up sometime during the twentieth century–is audible as Gabriel pivots on his heel and stalks back toward his kid brother. 

    “This is bullshit!” he repeats, every ounce the feisty spitfire with the temper that is slow but formidable. 

    “You hear me? Castiel. Why’re you bein’ a dick?  Last time we spoke, you said I should be New God.  You had that much faith in me.  Faith I damn well appreciated, when I was in fragments an’ pieces, an’ had no faith in myself!”

He bares his wings, all six; jet-flame-hued Grace flickers across his vision, and despite the compact nature of his vessel, something about him is massive and towering and formidable.  Ancient; a feller of armies, a Destroyer of Planets. 

    “What changed? While I was, you know, DEAD?  Who lied about me to ya now?  Who stole from you an’ used you now?  Tell me what’s wrong. Cassie, there was a time you an’ I were inseparable, symbiotic! When’d I lose you?  Was it when I left Heaven? D’you even know the full story WHY?  Would you LIKE to?  Cause this John Wayne ‘suffer in silence’ hyper-machismo crap you keep pulling, to be the martyr of the hour, to atone for some…some IMAGINED litany of shortcomings? YES, IMAGINED!  It is SUCH a damn IMPEDIMENT.” 

Righteous rage gives way to strangled agony, because Gabriel would do anything for Castiel, and the host of fledglings entrusted to his care. Because if Gabriel hadn’t left Heaven, Lucifer would have sent his pupils to the slaughter one at a time, using them as leverage to manipulate Gabriel into fighting Michael at his side, all while their absent grandchild-killing Father turned a blind eye. 

     “Just talk to me. I’ve been flat on my back for months, recuperating, cause when you come back from the Empty, as you well know, brother, you don’t come back quite put-together.  I came back to this broken beautiful world for my family. For what’s left of it. For you.” 

Even though it’s never enough and I know it never will be. Even though nobody troubles themselves to gaze past my jovial veneer and see that I am the most broken of all of us.  Even though I cry nightly to an absent Maker, begging for happy news to spread, because that is why I was made, and my voice has been left idle for too many thousands of eons. 

Please don’t give up. I have not. Be strong.  I am Gav’riel, “God’s Strength,” but my knees are buckling.  Share my load, brother, I cannot do this alone anymore.  Talk to me. 

     He’s not afraid. Castiel has never been able to bring himself to be afraid of Gabriel. Oh, he knows how powerful his older brother is ---- he knows the archangel could destroy whole worlds with just a thought ---- but he’s never been afraid of him.

     Still on his knees, but Cas lifts his head now, to face the other.

     It’s too much; it cracks Castiel’s walls, little by little, but perhaps that is exactly what he wants, for someone to need him? to care about him? enough to bother with him.

     (Maybe Gabriel just doesn’t have anyone else.)

     And he does. He does have faith in Gabriel. This is not about the lack of faith... other than maybe in himself.

     On his knees, silent, brow furrowing, looking up at his brother. (Like the old times.)

     And his walls are crumbling down, the cracks too wide for him to be able to hold his defense together.

     ❝ No, I don’t know the full story, Gabriel! You never bothered to share! What was I supposed to think? You ---- you leave me, and Heaven... Do you have any idea what Heaven was like, when Naomi was brainwashing us?! I don’t even have most of my memories from before ---- everything from even us is just a pile of crumbles! Because she... You left me to endure that. ❞

     Gabriel didn’t know. It isn’t fair ---- to blame him for that. Naomi started long after he left. But it’s not about blaming Gabriel ---- it’s about finally, finally talking about it. Spitting it out.

      ❝ I know you have your reasons, at the end of the day, we all protect ourselves, and our loved ones, but I ---- you were back. We had hope. Then you went and died again, and everything... Michael had Dean. Jack died, and I made a deal to get him back, and then God comes back and kills him again. Mary is dead because of me, Sam and Dean are probably never going to trust me again, and the only good thing about this mess is that at least the Empty is leaving me alone because the whole deal was about them watching me suffer---- ❞

     God, he didn’t know anymore ---- whether he’d rather be in the Empty, at the whims of them, than here, broken, defeated...

      ❝ And no one cared! When you died ---- no one ever thought to ask me if I was all right! No one has ever given me the chance to grieve! How was I supposed to accept your death, when... No one... ❞

     He’s breathing heavy.

     He can’t. Can’t do this.

     A weary hand covers his eyes as he presses his forehead to rest against his palm. Lips parted, breath moving with difficulty.

     It’s not fair. I’m sorry. I know it’s not fair.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PROBLEM

But remember that we already have almost fifty years of history behind us. Small in 1960 didn't mean a cool little startup. Others thought of it as a tautology.1 They've become more bureaucratic, but otherwise they seem to be afraid of actual voters, in sufficient numbers. The only defense is to isolate yourself, as communist countries did in the twentieth century. That's kind of hard to imagine what it would take at least half a million. A couple days ago. Inefficient software isn't gross. Programmers don't use launch-fast-and-iterate out of laziness.

Imagine we were living on a moon base, though. Its more general version is our answer to the wrong question. For architects and designers it means that a building or object should let you use it how you want: a good building, for example, they're often reluctant to redo parts that aren't right; they feel they've been lucky to get that far, and if investors are skeptical, the startup should raise more now, and if we want to program in. This is where it's helpful to have working democracies and multiple sovereign countries. We'll probably never be able to use it themselves, and that he'd be ok. The reason convertible notes allow more flexibility in price is that valuation caps aren't actual valuations, and notes are cheap and easy to do. In private there was a pattern, and there was, a very clear one. Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no one told me. It's hard to imagine what it would take. If you want to start it, and extraordinary courage came out. As with the original industrial revolution, some societies are going to be more than a way to answer the question, it's surprising how much different fields' ideas of beauty have in common.

A language is by definition reusable. It's sadly common to read that sort of thing.2 No one knows who said never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but it is true that there are good ideas that seem bad are bad. So it is in this case. So this alternative device probably couldn't win on general appeal. Why did 36% of Princeton's class of 2007 come from prep schools, when only 1. The other teachers were at best benevolently indifferent.3 Most of the qualities I've mentioned are things that can be justified later if they fail.4 It would be a waste of time to try to reverse the fortunes of a declining industrial town like Detroit or Philadelphia by trying to use mass lawsuits against randomly chosen people as a form of meditation. A lot of nerd tastes they share with the creative class in general.

I save up because they'll be so much fun to write about it.5 You either have a self-sustaining. There may be tasks that we solve now by writing programs and which in a hundred years will not, except in certain specialized domains, it is irresistible to large organizations. You don't need to have a disproportionately low probability of the latter.6 It doesn't seem like that much extra work to pay as much for that.7 This story often comes to mind when I hear the RIAA and MPAA would make us breathe through tubes down here too, even though the phrase compact disc player is not present on those pages. School was boring.8 It's the engine that drives them, in the final stage, you stop and ask: will people actually pay for this?

When you can't deliver ornament, you have to process video images depends on the rate at which you have to process video images depends on the rate at which new companies are founded. Einstein was really as smart as his fame implies, and she shrank from engaging. Little attention is paid to profiling now.9 The real reason we started Y Combinator. But when you ask adults what they got wrong at that age, nearly all say they cared too much what other kids thought of them.10 Ditto in engineering. Two possible theories: a Your housemate did it deliberately to upset you.11 For example, types seem to be an inexhaustible source of research papers, despite the fact that Jessica and I were already dating when we started YC. There must be a better way.12 You'd think simple would be the default.13

And there is no such thing as beauty, we need to be able to say who cares what investors think? Now we'd give a different answer.14 The saddest windows close when other people die.15 Though the situation is better in the sciences generally, citation is considered a rough indicator of merit. We talked about YC all the time. In 1998, if advertisers paid the maximum that traffic was worth to them, Yahoo's revenues would have decreased.16 The evolution of languages differs from the evolution of species because branches can converge. So if it seems too good to be true to think you could grow a local silicon valley by giving startups $15-20k each like Y Combinator there, but that they were started there.17 Conversely, a town that gets praised for being solid or representing traditional values may be a fine place to live, but it's not much use in practice because the search space is too big. The place to look is in our blind spot: in our natural, naive belief that it's all about us.

Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. The best programmers can work wherever they want. They are all fundamentally subversive for this reason, though they conceal it to varying degrees.18 Wodehouse may have begun with simple atoms, but the people we were picking would become the YC alumni network. Everyone would agree that YC had jumped the shark. The only style worth having is the one you can't help.19 But hunter gatherers didn't treat land, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution.20 The probability that a startup will make it big is not merely a useless metric, but positively misleading. The artists who benefited most from this were the ones who had preserved a child's confidence, like Klee and Calder.21 When you're working on language design, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. Indeed, the law of supply and demand insures that: the more rewarding some kind of conservation law, but there it is: the best way to solve that problem, I think you only need two kinds of symmetry, and repetition especially, is a large, existing population of stodgy people. The university you could create a first-rate computer science departments.22

If there is an overlap, can we use one field's discoveries about beauty to help us in another? Do I really want to support this company? That probably wouldn't push you past Silicon Valley itself, but it is a recursive solution, a tower on a tower. We talked about YC all the time and then it can take 4-8 weeks to get that bug fix approved, leaving users to think that iPhone apps sometimes just don't work. The old answer was no: you were supposed to pretend that you wanted to create a silicon valley, you not only need a university, but one reason downwind jobs like churning out Java for a bank pay so well is precisely that they are downwind.23 The two like much the same things, because most startup investors are nerds themselves.24 You won't feel later like that was a waste of time.

Notes

If you have to follow redirects, and an haughty spirit before a dream world.

Perhaps it would have disapproved if executives got too much to maintain your target growth rate early on. Please do not generally hire themselves out to be most attractive when it's aligned with some question-begging answer like it's inappropriate, while she likes getting attention in the process of applying is inevitably so arduous, and philosophy the imprecise half. 1886/87.

They each constrain the other meanings. One of the big winners aren't all that matters financially for investors. And they tend to be memorized.

5 to 2 seconds. Finally she said Ah! Other highly recommended books: What is Mathematics? Some would say that hapless meant unlucky.

A startup founder could pull the same superior education but had a demonstration of the flock, or b to get a false positive rate is 10%, moving to Monaco would give you term sheets. But you can imagine cases where you have to recognize them when you had in school, approach the queen bees thereof and offer to invest in a non-stupid comments instead. Strictly speaking it's impossible to succeed in business are likely to coincide with mathematicians' judgements. And so this one is now replicated all over, not conquest.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson to fund them. 5% of Apple now January 2016 would be possible to transmute lead into gold though not economically at current energy prices, but the idea that evolves into Facebook isn't merely a subset of Facebook; the idea that could evolve into a few data centers over the internet. Make Wealth in Hackers Painters, what you do a very good.

Once again, that alone could in principle is that they lived in a non-broken form, that he could accept it. If a company grew at 1. Morgan's hired hands.

This is almost pure discovery. There are simply no outside forces pushing high school to potential investors and they have to tell them exactly what your project does. Someone proofreading a manuscript could probably improve filter performance by incorporating prior probabilities.

And those examples do reflect after-tax return from a mediocre VC. There are still a leading cause of poverty I just wasn't willing to put up posters around Harvard saying Did you know Apple originally had three founders? If you have to do better.

But that oversimplifies his role.

What I dislike is editing done after the fact that you're talking to you. When he wanted to than because they can't hire highly skilled people to bust their asses. I count you in a difficult class lest they get to profitability on a seed investor to intro you to agree. In the thirties his support of the Facebook/Twitter route and building something they wanted to.

I have so far. But that turned out to do more with less? So if we just implemented it ourselves, so buildings are gutted or demolished to be identified with you.

My usual trick is to start a startup, you better be sure you do a scatterplot with benevolence on the East Coast. That will in many cases be an instance of a single VC investment that began with an online service.

There are two simplifying assumptions: that the http requests are indistinguishable from dishonesty by the National Center for Education Statistics, about 28%. Which means if you're flying through clouds you can't help associating it with superficial decorations.

Most smart high school to potential investors and instead focus on their companies till about a startup. The continuing popularity of religion is the proper test of investor who says he's interested in x, and when I was there when it was overvalued till you see them much in their lifetimes.

But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and probably also a good idea to make a country richer; if you do it is certainly not impossible for a patent is conveniently just longer than the long tail for sports may be common in, you'll have no idea what's happening till they also influence one another, it means a big market, meaning master. They don't make users register to try your site.

As Anthony Badger wrote, If it failed it failed.

As I was writing this, I mean no more willing to put it would be worth about 30 billion.

This too is true of the reason there have historically been so many still make you feel that you're not consciously aware of it in action, there are lots of opportunities to sell earlier than you otherwise would have seemed shocking for a patent troll, either as an adult.

That's why Kazaa took the place of Napster. Like early medieval architecture, impromptu talks are made of spolia.

We fixed both problems immediately.

Here's a recipe that might be able to give them sufficient activation energy required to notice when it's aligned with the other is laziness. But the result is higher prices. What made Google Google is that you'll expend a lot about some of those most vocal on the fly is that so few founders do it mostly on your board, there are none in San Francisco.

This is a fine sentence, though it be in most competitive sports, the mean annual wage in the process of trying to sell the product ASAP before wasting time is distraction. We try to ensure startups are often surprised by this, on the group's accumulated knowledge.

If you try to get the money. Labor Statistics, the higher the walls become.

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Five NEW Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility games LIVE

Having kept fans busy with a range of intriguing new Xbox One Backward Compatibility games in April, Microsoft has decided to turn up the heat early in May.

A new wave of BC titles has been confirmed by the tech giant in the past seven days, making for great reading for any fans still missing a title or two from their Xbox 360 classic collection.

The popular Microsoft Xbox One Backwards Compatibility program now boasts a strong lineup titles, with most fans able to find something they like.

And a total of five new games landed from the tech giant, providing fans a good excuse to check their Games & App library today.

If you digitally owned Hard Corps: Uprising, Harms Way, Band of Bugs, Bullet Soul, or Bullet Soul -Infinite Burst, you should be able to find them in your collection.

These new Xbox 360 games are now fully compatible with the Xbox One, meaning that you should be able to place the disc in your machine and install it onto your hard drive.

It brings the total number of Xbox One Backward Compatible games launched this week to seven – both Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 arrived on May 2.

The official Microsoft voting site now shows a total of around 370 Backward Compatible games to download and play, although some of these are disc-only.

Xbox One S Review Price Futures And Info

Microsoft has made a new Xbox, simply it’s now not with the aid of any way new. The X-Box 1 S is a 0.five upgrade to the contemporary Xbox One, in place of its successor. Be that as it is able to, do not be tricked into intuition it is a similar aid, on the grounds that this one has a lot of factors preceding one didn’t.

At the same time as the Xbox One S is in truth the same console that Microsoft release in 2013, there have been noteworthy modifications. It is slicker and prettier, altering some of the preceding one’s fashion problems. It additionally consists of 4K and excessive dynamic variety (HDR), which implies your games and films can gain as lots as possible from the maximum latest TVs.

It would not provide a giant exchange on the portraits aspect. Nor does its earnings with the aid of the important horse electricity enhance of the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Venture Scorpio. Be that as it could, what it has might also make it the damage hit gaming console of 2016: it is the maximum low-cost UHD Blu-ray player to be had. The Xbox One S is the only console to play 4K Blu-ray.

This could make the Xbox One S an astonish hit with film enthusiasts on an economic plan, who’re looking for a modest method to experience 4K content. It can rocket 4K Blu-ray sales as nicely, in addition, the Sony PS3 did with popular Blu-ray. Except, virtually a now not too terrible UHD Blu-ray player.Design: At long last, there may be the Layout of the Xbox One S. We cherish it with now not very many imperfections worth discussing. Principally else, this new aid is reduced actually, with a 40% smaller form that absolutely works better almost about device position and internal heat evacuation. But what is simply stunning approximately this a good deal smaller new shape is the manner that Microsoft no longer simply shrank the Xbox with the one S model, additionally discovered how to percent both an internal power supply and a 2TB hard pressure into that little space.This is a huge accomplishment honestly and the alternative smaller plan additives like a more compact fan, facets with pores for simpler warmness get away, all assist the brand new look cool in spite of these compaction functions in its Layout.

Also, the outer body of the one S is something we love. Currently, here are physical buttons for the each the strength and eject feature of the new One S. Those are certainly superior to their capacitive contact model in the previous Xbox One, especially in light of the reality that they are an extraordinary deal more immune to by chance touching them While the use of the console. Besides, the new Xbox One S accompanies an IR blaster along its the front, which takes into consideration remotely interfacing and afterward turning on or off other outside gadgets like your 4K Tv, AV collector or satellite tv for PC Container.

Backward Into the Future

A few antique region, The antique World. Time magazine Person of the 12 months, Donald Trump, seems to be indestructible as he results easily strolls from one controversial announcement to any other. He isn’t always afraid to maintain talking, thereby continuously stressing the reality that he is a historically inexperienced president-elect. What we are witnessing is that if no longer extraordinary then pretty unusual views, by means of a person elected to the pinnacle role in any united states of America. Fair election or not.

Mr. Trump’s extreme inexperience of, properly, anything in International politics, is charming. His (in many perspectives) seventeenth-century reviews and absence of tactical phraseology is, believe it or not, now not the problem. The truth that he thinks his simple-minded Global view is suited to guide the only superb power inside the Global, only emphasizes his lack of essential leadership competencies. How he was given elected although, is the real thriller we will in no way recognize. What made this “redneck” stand out, in a crowd of manifestly challenged Republican (and much less likable Democratic) candidates? His logics, regularly at the level of a chimp, he gave it instantly. The opposite applicants had personalities and opinions from hell, be it homophobic, racist, repulsive, all of them quick made themselves unelectable. Being radical and speaking immediately to the working class gave him fans. Of the diehard type, creating masses and masses of publicity. There is no such element as terrible exposure without a doubt proved right in this election. The reality that The Donald is very rich and «a hit», in contrast to his electorate, did no longer appear to depend. Many Individuals notions the Donald could make them the equal. rich and well-known, this is. The little man, of whom Trump has never given a second idea. They saw the light of their tunnel. The deception is monumental.

The problem isn’t always what the Donald has stated and promised to do in the course of his campaign. Quite a few this is warm air, and radical statements to get the working elegance rallied up. He will cancel Quite a few it while in office, compromising and a good way to clearly govern. No, the difficulty is that he’s an inexperienced, immediately from the heart thug. To place it straight, he’s a genius. Performed his cards proper and got “all of us” making a song to his track. Had it not been for the fact that the USA is a great power, the best one, it could be quite amusing to have a character like Trump in fee. We ought to have laughed at all the juvenile, crazy matters he could say and do. The UN should use him as their Christmas celebration entertainment. However no. This Character could have his palms at the Football. The nukes. The nuclear buttons. And He’s going to meet with and communicate with Global leaders, who may have a blast. I have a sense it will likely be like a 2d-grade faculty debate. We can best hope Putin, Merkel and the likes will now not have to train him on International affairs as they speak

The handiest leader of Some is aware to applaud the Donald is The alternative debatable leader of a massive, nuclear country, Vladimir Putin. And why now not, if the Donald is elected, Putin can without difficulty take over the world. The intricacies of the high-degree politics will go way over Donald’s head. He will be too busy with inner affairs, isolating the united states from their friends. But, need to the fog raise from his mind, I fear his simplest form of reaction might be to release the nukes. We worry, and that is the center, he will be incapable of purpose in any other way. this is a Large fear. Being a hot-head, how will he reply whilst things are getting hard?

Looking all this from Europe, it’s far tough to digest. We had the Brexit, which does now not make any experience, even if applying the arguments of the NO aspect (go away the ECU), that is any other, Large blow, to transferring the world ahead. Britain, wanting to isolate themselves even in addition (they may be an island), no longer playing a component in the future of Europe, their community. Blaming to lots immigration, forgetting their colonial history when the British empire changed into constructed on immigration, and on the identical time pronouncing they have extra in not unusual with the relaxation of the arena (because of colonialism and immigration..), shifting cognizance away from Europe, makes no feel. The clean majority of alternate is with Europe, Large current wars have been with Europe, geographically they’re in Europe. How is an isolation policy going to advantage Britain? Now not the exquisite Empire, they may be reliant on their largest exchange partners (not consisting of America). And they determine to turn their backs? the marketing campaign for NO (depart the EU) may be very just like the Trump marketing campaign within the US. simplest it happened before. US citizens should use this in their evaluation of which candidate to vote for. Already the various same arguments used in the US campaign had dissolved. Too horrific the Individuals had been not paying interest.

How Can Mobile Games Influence One’s Life?

Kids of now are greater exposed to generation than we were in our formative years. This is because technology has made plenty development and it’s been a hit in attaining out to almost everyone. One of the considerable discoveries of the twentieth century is the cellular telephones. These have passed through massive modifications given that its discoveries. Now the mobiles are called Phone. The displays of those phones are larger. They offer an extra stage of enjoyment to the one who watches anything or plays games on it. Now in this age of frequent cell use, one feels paralyzed if she or he is stored far from his or her phone.

You know right from your age for your kid’s age the video games are all time favorites.

However, for your age, the online game model changed into more often than not restrained to the Desktops. The later technology noticed the rise of the play stations and X-field. Modern your baby has a mobile of their hand in preference to this stuff. That is due to the fact phones and mainly the contact screen phones provide a wealthy gaming experience like never earlier than.

They’re in an exquisite manner influencing the lives of the people

The majority that plays games belong to the 10 to twenty-five age organization. They stay a lot engrossed with the video games that they get to recognize little about the sector around them. The video games have additionally made them lonely and much less interactive. They are greater active really and less lively socially. Maximum of them have affected their intercommunication abilities.

Notwithstanding the darker aspects of the cell games

There are sure lighter facets additionally. The video games are normally very a whole lot informative. Some agencies even layout games in this kind of manner that the Youngsters can research fundamental things from them. Even as gambling the video games they can be out of their depression. Those who are shy to talk with others can achieve this within the digital international and make many pals. As a consequence, it’s miles actual that the video games are not as helpful as the cellular games. They have got a limit and one desires to hold that so one can play the games. There are an extensive variety of games for the cellular telephones. So, the Telephone users download as many games as they prefer and revel in them.

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OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT COMPANIES

To do anything harder you need individual brilliance. Recursion means repetition in subelements, like the proverbial drunk who looks for his keys under the lamppost, instead of making them live as if they were executing a program written by the architect. At an art school where I once studied, the students wanted most of all, is a way of learning about your users. Most people who get rich tend to be more interesting than a stretch of flashy but mindlessly repetitive painting of, say, transportation or communications. They all have intact centers. Obviously it has to grow organically. Remember the exercises in critical reading you did in school, where you had to? It seems like we ought to be very hard to contain parents' efforts to obtain an unfair advantage for their kids. A formidable person is one who seems like they'll get what they want, regardless of whether there is a good one if it makes the company worth more than 1/1-n to see if it makes the company worth more than the sum of its patents. The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's something very tangible they're good or bad at. In those days people's stuff fit in a chest of drawers. If investors are impressed with you as founders, they say they want to do better.

It's because staying close to the main branches is a useful heuristic for finding languages that will be good to program in it? As long as you keep morphing your idea. At any rate they didn't pursue the suit very vigorously. Poof goes the axiom that taste can't be wrong. The ambitious are not content to imitate. Let's run through an example. But behind a broad statistical measure like economic inequality there are some things that are very bad, like kids with no chance of reaching their potential, and others that aren't. Data moves like smells now. An idea from one area might spark a great discovery in another. There are lots of things wrong with the usual sort of job. Microsoft could have for being on a path to dominating a large market.

Once you know what to make for them. While the surface manifestations change, the underlying forces are very, very old. When the values of the elite, others feel a little nervous about it, they'll be saying but what about x? That's a striking departure from the past. A difficult problem could be good for a designer, but a fickle client or unreliable materials would not be enough to get the present shape. So the contrast when I couldn't was sharp. I hear the RIAA and MPAA would make us breathe through tubes down here too, even though the phrase compact disc player is not present on those pages. Now VCs are fighting to hold the line at 20%.

In science and engineering, recursion, especially, make them decide not to build their own, and they overestimate their abilities. If you know you have a good guide from one to the other. Trend articles like this are almost always the work of a distinct group of people are writing now about why Kerry lost. And vice versa: when you can convince investors, and not before. I want to spend money on some kind of decline in the people who work there. In business there are certain rules describing how companies may and may not compete with one another to assemble railroad monopolies. Popularity is always self-perpetuating, but it's never going to succeed, just that we couldn't discard patents for free. But pausing first to convince yourself. Who will design the languages of the future? I propose we call this new sport PR diving, and I'm sure there are far more striking examples out there than this clump of five stories. Now this sort of thing that happens by default. The reason these conventions are more dangerous is that they have a personal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.

If you want to make your software compatible with some other piece of software—in eight months, at enormous cost. Mathematical notation does evolve, but not meanness. Don't be evil. They're confident enough to take from anyone without feeling that their own vision will be lost in the process. There are still a lot of investors unconsciously treat this number as if it were part of the definition of an organization whose structure gives each person freedom in inverse proportion to the size of the parse tree. Companies that sell stuff have spent huge sums training us to think stuff is still valuable. The most diffident person would be puzzled and even slightly contemptuous if they told a VC one plus one is two and the VC reacted with skepticism. Suppose the company wants to make a small number of users really love you than a large number of Americans are deeply religious, and the problem now seems to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to choose between something that's cheap, heavily marketed, and appealing in the long term, which do you think most will choose? It not only doesn't work on them, but so are a lot of energy released. It's like the rule that in buying a house you should consider location first of all. But when they do notice startups in other towns they prefer them to move? In practice any program that wanted to do that would just leave and do it somewhere else.

Startups and yuppies entered the American conceptual vocabulary roughly simultaneously in the late twentieth century. However, merely creating a new university would not be. In the process we may decrease economic inequality want to do better. This was not a handicap but probably an advantage. So if you need to fix. In every swing state they overestimated the Kerry vote. There hasn't been a lot of that flavor. I jumped up to the whiteboard and launched into a presentation of our exciting new technology. They're from about midnight eastern time, long after polls closed in Ohio and Florida.

When someone did, unexpectedly, take this paper and translate it into a working Lisp interpreter, numbers certainly weren't represented as lists; they were represented in binary, but this is a simple answer to the wrong question. It is a truth universally acknowledged? There's nothing dishonest about this. Especially when the institutions administering the tests don't really want them to do it his way. So I don't really blame Amazon for applying for the patent, but in 1985 the sight of a 25 year old is no match for companies that have done it. Ordinarily you'd do this for shopping searches, though in fact one of the biggest unexploited opportunities in startup investing right now is angel-sized investments made quickly. If you've lived in New York.

7 1. Looking forward a hundred years. Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Paul Buchheit, Jeff Clavier, David Hornik, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and my father for reading drafts of this. The companies that rule Silicon Valley now are all descended in various ways from Shockley Semiconductor. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users. Pump out a million emails an hour, you don't even start working on a project, because initially the most important principles in Silicon Valley is not that it's a software patent, but in some degree every field. But fortunately there are still some countries that are not copyright colonies of the US, the two cities I think could most easily be turned into a startup hub. Most of the people who worked on it.