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Perhaps I'm missing the concept of "the fold" the author is trying to get across, but I think 37Signals is a really good example of putting things _above the fold. Looking at their site they even have a line at the fold separating the two sections. I think they've done used the concept of "the fold" really well, don't get me wrong, but it's absolutely there.

The black section at the bottom I always just assumed was a footer, not a call to action, and honestly never read that before.

Ironically it seems to me the news sites seem to have done away with the concept of the fold the best. http://www.bbc.co.uk/, http://www.nytimes.com/, http://seattletimes.com
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Did they release any kind of benchmarks? I'm curious how this stacks up to passenger and Ruby enterprise edition (faster i'm sure), but would be interesting to see a side by side comparison.
Jeez, just let the market sort it out ... if the demand is really that high, Apple will just suck it and add Flash to the iPad. Otherwise stop your bitching, you can't win them all.

The iPhone story is irrelevant in this context ... I don't think there are too many people wanting to play flash-games or to watch porn on that little screen ... especially since you need both hands to navigate its tiny browser ;)

Their strong response to the iPad does show one thing though ... they are getting desperate and they are really afraid of HTML5.

Open Access? That should be more like "convenient access". Open access is when the standard is open and has been implemented by third-parties. That's not Flash.
I do not believe that. Especially for the quick/stress/next-page/new-link people, what they first see must keep them around.
It's not a promise, it's a guess
I wonder when these traitors are put against the wall, probably never, the American corporations are the ones that gave china all these suppressing tools, but worse, they gave the vibrant economy to buy all these things while most of us warned against that, but no "When their economy is good then democracy will follow". We see now what is really happening, but probably nobody will learn from this.
I gave it a .js~ to see what would happen. And it said: "That file contains ASCII C++ program text"

It should probably say it's a javascript file. Or maybe:"The extension of the file is javascript the content appears to have ASCII C-style syntax...so it probably is indeed javascript." Although worded better. Like someone else said a lot depends on the market you're trying to reach.
I personally think that a perfectly normal Hobbes stuffed doll would be an incredible incitement to a child's imagination. Instead of a talking Dora the Explorer doll that can replay the voice of the actress from the cartoon, the child (or child at heart) would be compelled to imitate Calvin and use their imagination.

And as to killing the magic, I'd think it's safe to presume that anyone with the agency and means to obtain a Hobbes doll could also can handle the fact that Calvin lives inside a comic strip with his Hobbes, but the one you've got is different
"This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post."
Maybe that just implies I should aim it at people who don't know what "google the file extension" means? ;)
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I guess they transform complete PHP libraries to C++, they build them and then they "require" them from some other PHP code.
That's a good point (the files are immediately deleted btw).
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Google browsing Hacker News in their Chrome OS concept video.
I remember reading the Friedman piece several weeks ago and thinking to myself, "This guy drank the China kool-aid too." It's part of the whole American declinism notion that pops up every ten years or so and I've never believed it. We were there with Japan in the 80s, The Soviet Union, the EU, and now China (and India too). It's easy to believe China is going to be the next superpower if you look at its growth relative to the U.S over the last decade. But the thing that's always made me skeptical about any country replacing the U.S as the world's lone superpower any time soon isn't our resources. It's our sense of mission and purpose in the world. It's something that nobody else has. Only we have it because it's in our cultural fabric. It's not something you create on purpose. It grows organically out of a hapenstance of historical events. It informs everything else about us. You see it when you travel to other countries and come back. Americaness is optimism and hope. It's a source of our soft power, which is extremely attractive to the rest of the world. It's why everyone wants to be American but nobody secretly wishes they were Chinese or Nigerian or Brazilian. China or Russia or the EU or India don't have that sense of mission and purpose in their psyche. No amount of military hardware or GDP growth can compensate for that.Superpowerdom is unsustainable without it. So China could be a paper tiger.
I don't think jerf drew any distinction between intellectuals and ideologues at all, not even in an attempt to argue for causation -- it's generous of you to assume he did.

To rephrase the grandparent comment's line of reasoning in a more sarcastic way: "Wildfire kill Ogg family! All fire bad! Ogg anti-fire!"
Nice troll, but there are a ton of websites being developed in Ruby/Rails these days. I don't think it's nichified at all, and the number of job ads is going up, not down.

Ruby is being improved and sped up too, in case you hadn't noticed.

As always, use the best tool for the job. For an awful lot of small business sites - where PHP got its start - that is now Rails, and it's slowly emerging in larger projects too. I think Ruby will definitely give PHP a run for its money in the fullness of time.
I think you've got a really good point here. Speaking from the syndicate's point of view, it's highly inefficient and a poor bargaining position if you have to get authorial approval for each and every item. Watterson probably never had a choice, it was either authorize BOTH the Hobbes doll AND the peein' Calvin doll, or neither at all.
Others have provided stuff they have done, so I'll point out that they didn't do CUPS. They started using it in Mac OS X 5 years after it started and 5 years after that hired the developer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS#History
"It has it's own built-in web server when you compile it, via libevent." from Ben Ramsey who attended the demo at FB Campus.
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Comments really are a hard problem. 90% of the thought I expend on HN is devoted to saving the site from bad comments. Spammers and overt trolls are easy. The really hard problems are fluff comments and subtle trolls (people who are fundamentally nasty, but who are sophisticated enough to stop short of name calling).
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The network effect only reinforces my point, I fail to see what you're getting at.
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easy to remember and triggers standards mode
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funny, i was thinking that auto-generated tag clouds for the day's hot topics might help reduce duplicate stories, too.
A good counterpoint to the title quote would also be "Never expect a good thing to last forever".

At some point growing investments gain a momentum all their own. I.E. everyone invests in China because of their double digit growth; and China has double digit growth because everyone invests in them.

The problem with a compounding growth curve is that it gets so steep that it shoots past the place where it should have found equilibrium.
I would imagine #1. You can control #2 on your own...
Yeah, just as long as the dev who caused the problem in the first place doesn't get rewarded for working so hard to fix it when it's a crisis.
Sounds like a good idea for an iPhone app. You could look up a cop by ID and get any tips on dealing with him/her.
Whats even worse is fog creek uses .net now, so it even makes less sense to have your own proprietary language.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps it could do both based on extension though, e.g. I doubt you'll find a "techie" not knowing what a .docx is so that info could be something like "This is a Document for Microsoft Word 2007+" Etc, while a rarer or more technical file e.g. .torrent (yes, I know that's not the most technical file extension) would have more specific info.
Horrible, but they look great in Netscape 2. Never forget that.
I think thats unfair. PHP sucks some hairy donkey's balls, but VBScript is significantly worse. Dim, Redim Preserve, ByRef, Arrays that are basicly C arrays (see also Redim), Ridiculous Object/Value dichotomy (for those that arent aware you need to use the Set keyword to assign an object to a variable, but not for a value. The distinction bleeds all over your code and makes things hurt) and friends are evil sons of bitches that don't belong in a scripting language.
I don't really get that idea from the code.google.com. It looks to me rather like microsoft, but with cleaner design. Both have the search bar at the top, navigation bar on left and news/announcements at the center and on the right. Neither of them looks very inviting to me (as someone who's just studying programming and not already involved in any open-source projects).

As for apple, I didn't actually have any idea what to do if I wanted info about open-source on mac.
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I did click on #1.. saw the 19 secs video, came back on HN. Read the first comments here.. than came back and scrolled.
Maybe so, but this unit has a trackpad!
Ditto for both Boston newspapers. It can literally ruin your day reading some of the comments below even mundane articles.

The NYT has a good approach: Approve only those comments which present reasoned arguments in a semi-intelligent way. There's a lag, but the comment threads are excellent reading.

Another approach: Force everyone to use real names when leaving a comment. I am not sure how that would work, but the trolling would drop away if real identities were tied to people's words.

Unfortunately, it might also inhibit people from commenting, too. Anonymity is a great way to say what you actually think.
Criticism is not inherently valuable. You offered nothing of substance, only the opinion that his site was a "cheap rip-off" and that his design skills were "sub-par at best".

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Teddy Roosevelt
g++ has a few optimizations http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
"in places like Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC, every other car seems to be a Toyota Prius"

Can't speak to LA and the Bay Area, but I live in Washington, and if I got a dollar for every Prius sighting, it wouldn't cover my bus fare at $2.50/day.
I know you are just kidding but this reminds me of the story of how the CEO of Southwest Airlines (Kelleher) challenged the CEO of Stevens Aviation to an arm wrestling match in 1992 to settle a dispute over the use of a tagline.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/hkelleher.h...
There are a few narrow cases where I'd choose to do a project in PHP, but very few.

It is possible to write nice clean code in PHP, but few apps I've ever seen do so. Most use includes like function calls all over the place, so there is no notion of what variables will be used or defined inside the included code.

Ruby to some extent, and especially Python, are designed so that your code looks good and is easy to read. Admittedly some people can write highly obfuscated Ruby, but that (fortunately) went out of style a few years ago.
It seems to me that this solution also “doesn't scale”, though not necessarily in the sense of the grandparent: For there to be a sufficient supply of +4 posts that you can read, someone has to be going through, reading them, and promoting them above the dreck. Thus, only a limited number of people can pursue your strategy before it stops working.
Except for China. They actually have a very similar concept of destiny and mission.

I think the issues with China are going to be much more practical. They remind me a lot of the Soviet Union. A closed society that is very effective at giving the appearance of prosperity, while under the covers things are very different. They'll be able to keep it up for a decade or two, but over time the whole thing crumbles as the base was never truly well built.

Our biggest advantage lies in the risk taking aspects of our culture. We're a people that celebrates the type of risk that leads to true innovation. The cool thing: It's not just the U.S. anymore. Europe has caught on as well.

I do think the United States is going to weaken (relatively) in the coming decade. We'll still be a world power, but I think we'll be sharing that with a re-awakened Europe.
So Chanos may turn out to be wrong, but not for the reasons Friedman thinks he is. This is probably a reasonable view.

Professor Pettis is also correct in asserting that the role of central bank reserves is one of the most misunderstood concepts in economics. In fact, nowadays, almost any economic concept as it relates to governments or sovereign states are routinely misunderstood. Probably because that is precisely the part of the economy that the average person feels they understand so well.

For instance, many people worry, rightly by the way, about our USD1.4 Trillion deficit. They feel qualified to comment on its implications authoritatively since we can SORT OF understand the concept. Yet you see no publicly expressed concern at all over the USD500 Trillion house of cards that is the derivatives market. Very few people understand derivatives markets well enough to know the implications of this situation. I think this causes us not to think about it and to hope that someone else will deal with it before the bottom falls out.

Now understand that these guys are not average at all. I have attended Pettis' talks and he is definitely not average. But I think the same sort of intellectual dynamic goes on even in their circle.
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> It's our sense of mission and purpose in the world. It's something that nobody else has

Except China (also a number of other countries)
I've always rather enjoyed this piece of found internet art, having grown up with Calvin and Hobbes, and now having my own family on the way.

http://www.coffeeandcigarettes.com/2009/02/11/yea-verily-i-s...
Their file servers crashed before the Hip Hop announcement, and Hip Hop hasn't even been pushed to GitHub yet, according to this announcement.

http://twitter.com/github/status/8551643423
What version of Flash do you have? Right-click on the button and choose "About Flash".
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Ha, this caught me off guard too, but even though it's still listed after restarting Firefox, the permissions have been removed. If you select the cert and click edit, you can see the permission boxes are no longer checked where they were before. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173729 for details.

[Edit: At least this is the case on Windows. File a bug report as sandGorgon suggested if that's not the case.]
Office vacancy rates in Pudong are over 50%. Many of the signs of excess capacity are readily apparent in China: it is only the massive currency injections, in keeping the currency pegged to the dollar, that have allowed such expansion unjustified by demand.

One way or another, China has borrowed from the future and will have to pay for this excess expansion. It could be a crash, or it could be years of stagnation as the nation attempts to use up the excess capacity it has built.

This is a good piece written by someone who understands the underlying economics.

Chanos has been criticized as just recently beginning to study the Chinese economy, but sometimes being fresh to a subject helps distance an analyst from recent past--which can be a good thing.
They're almost universally total garbage on engadget anyway (and not just recently). I don't see any loss of value in leaving them off permanently.

To be clear, I like engadget just fine, but the comments never seem to provide any insight/value.
I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-source flash implementation written in Javascript and Gnash which is an open-source flash movie player [2].

[1] http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon

[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
I don't agree with you, but I find it sad that your comment has been voted down below 0. Is this what HN has come to? We just vote stuff we don't agree with down?
"[Adobe was] the strongest opponent of Theora becoming the official video-codec"

How did you come to that conclusion? The codecs were removed from the standards docs because browser vendors couldn't agree on a video format, not Adobe. Apple refused to include Theora support in Safari.
I noticed a while ago Jeff Atwood did this on codinghorror.com too (I believe citing a technical reason, although they have not yet come back). Also, Seth Godin does not have comments on his blog either.

Is this a trend going forward? I'm not against it...
The thing is that it's in the context of someone at Google saying they can work on anything they want, meaning pretty much anything.
This is the comment where I say something about how the blog post relates to my own life, which no one cares about.
Just a question from a non-Sun/non-Java developer: what is Kenai?
hands down one of my favorite apis on the web
Was just thinking the same thing. "Man, I guess it works, but isn't it weird that they're generating what's probably hard to read C++ just to get fast machine code? Eventually they should make a language just for the purpose of optimizing. Oh wait."
In retrospect, my choice of words was pretty harsh. A few people posted similar observations on the thread without attacking. Thanks for pointing that out and I will try to add some substance if/when I critique in the future.
So it converts PHP into C++?!? Woaw.

Joey Lawrence?!
Well, good point, but I can't imagine it would be that hard, and they'd have to do it anyway for HTML5, which does indeed support svg inside text/html.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#svg-0
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I doubt he was somehow ignorant of the fact that g++ optimizes its generated code. I believe his point was that great work has already been done on optimizing compilers for dynamic languages targeting LLVM (c.f., Unladen Swallow and Rubinius).
They might be less likely to post lots of other stuff too, though. Do you really want any potential future casual acquaintance, boss, or what have you, to have instant, easy access to a transcript of every conversation you've had?
the other reason is that this community started out as extremely self-selected - people who got through a pg essay or applied to yc, and appreciated the quality that was here already w/o being turned off by the sparse visuals. As more people have joined, that quality is getting diluted, but there's a long way down before it reaches current reddit levels.
Open Laszlo (http://www.openlaszlo.org/) a pre-cursor to Adobe's FLEX, can generate rich web UI front ends with or without Flash. Devs can use an IDE for it (I believe an Eclipse plugin).

This open source project is getting more interesting now.
From wikipedia:

Project Kenai is Sun Microsystems' collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects. The service will be discontinued for public use as part of Oracle Corporation's restructuring of Sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Kenai
That's a good test when viewing these arguments for the "next superpower". I'd always ask the author; what do you feel made the USA successful in the past? Why has that changed?

Most of the American declinism supporters still cite WWII as the only reason for American economic ascendancy. I'm skeptical that markets take 65 years to correct.
The biggest determining factor in my experience has been whether something has a community around it or not. Newspaper comment sections and YouTube video comments don't have a community--- they're drive-by comments by whoever shows up. Smaller forums, mailing lists, and IRC channels where everyone knows everyone else are sort of the best-case. As it scales up, it gets harder to keep quality high.
Here are several places to check:

www.djangogigs.com

http://python.org/community/jobs/

http://www.resumebucket.com/jobs/?x=0&y=0&keywords=p...
That's the point of the karma system.
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It seems every new open web community tries desperately to stave off its own Endless September. I think a scalable answer will probably look more like multiple layers of authentication. Only some actions can be completely public; you have to be respected before you are allowed progressively more reign. That is what our society does with kids and things like drivers licenses, college degrees, etc.
subversion hosting with bug tracking and wikis and the like. nicely integrated into netbeans too.
To clarify: This is not a cost-cutting measure--and it wasn't introduced by managers. (I, humble writer that I am, proposed it.) It's a month-long editorial experiment that I will be writing about in the April issue of Inc. magazine. But yes, we will have to face all of these issues you describe. Hopefully that's what will make the story interesting. Would love to hear your thoughts on what you think will be the pain points. (I'm at mchafkin at Inc dot com).
I know the 'wow' factor is greatly lessened but I wonder if two sets of in-ear headphones wouldn't solve this problem easily. 20dB+ of noise isolation is not uncommon and the addition of bluetooth (or even a physical tether) to pipe sound between people would make conversation simple.

If I could get over the feeling that it would look incredibly out of place at a bar or restaurant I would pursue the matter further.
It would be nice if Firefox kept track of certs and notified you of changes (like ssh) regardless of them being signed by a CA or not. Especially if servers made their certs continuous (ie, signing the new one with the old one), in which case it would only warn on discontinuous cert changes.
Except for the part where Facebook runs this in a production environment to serve hundreds of millions of requests and Wasabi is a toy.