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> Having good support from early adopters seems pretty important when you're a tech company...

It depends. Many of the things adopted by "early adopters" never catch on. And, fast followers often win, so if the tech crowd isn't your dominant market, their early adopters may not matter.
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I'll second that. It's politics, and unfortunately, you need a business case to push policy. Wait until the next production outage caused by nasty, ad-hoc changes and point at the version control system and say, "If we had this, we could just roll it back."

I'd almost say your build process has to accommodate version control first. Capistrano is pretty good at that.

If you have a developer with production access, you're bound to get stuff like this.
Speed is a pretty important reason, and users not caring is also a pretty important reason. Users do care about speed, and don't care about absolutely ideal line breaking; so why trade off something they do care about for something they don't?
The tradeoff is giving up durability to performance. MongoDB operates under the assumption that durability is not critical and so will not write your data to disk. That allows it to perform at the speed of say memcached.
For example CouchDB, which is another NoSQL solution in the same space of document stores, has durable writes (in fact it is ACID). You'll see a lot of benchmarks out there comparing these two (or MongoDB with MySQL) with the emphasize on the speed of MongoDB, while it would be more fair to benchmark MongoDB against memcached.
(b) is not correct. The time complexity of the total fit algorithm (as described in Knuth&Plass' paper) is almost the same as the simple (first-/best-fit) method. They use a technique called dynamic programming to divide the problem into pieces where the perfect line break of a sub paragraph is valid for optimal breaking of the whole paragraph.
Seems a bit harsh. I don't think they're out there looking for ideas to steal.
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Why are they using a PR agency?
I don't know how Opera is on other mobile platforms, but on Android the UI is absolutely rotten.
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That is a workaround but it has two major shortcomings. The first is that you aren't getting the other developers to use source control. The second is that you wind up with the challenge and the blame for breaking it in the case where someone fixed it in production, someone else checked a different fix into source control, and you are expected to merge them.

The simple rule, "You knew I was going to go from version control, your fault for not fixing it in there" is a proven technique for getting people to actually use version control. I've seen it done, and know people who did it at several other organizations and it works. (Though at this point my first impression of developers that don't know how to use version control is that they must be incompetent people I'd prefer not to work with. Not using version control a decade ago was somewhat more excusable than not know about it today.)
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I posted this to slashdot too, but thought that HN might come through for me first.

I just moved from a house with Cat5e wiring to a house with.. A whole bunch of coax cables. Like, my living room has five coax cables coming out of a hole in the wall. All of them go back up to my attic.

The house is big, (and I like it, thank you), but I have realized that our digital usage pattern (media server + squeezeboxes + remote time machine backups to a linux box) will not work without wiring. I am currently bridging some old Linksys WRT54Gs to the right places, but of course, that slows everything down.

This got me thinking: 100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables. What about a two coax-head -> ethernet jack setup? Has anyone done this before? Searching online only gives me $100+ coax<->ethernet transceiver type boxes. At that price, a HomePNY system would make more sense.

I'm willing to solder if I have to, but I first wanted to get holes shot in this, if there are any.
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Nokia uses WebKit in their S60 platform. WebKit's trac even has a branch for their old fork (which, afaik, has been merged into mainline by now).
Interesting, I did not know that Adobe gives Flash development tools for free. Where can I download my free copy?
Does anyone know if there's a way to monitor share prices on sites like SharesPost and SecondMarket without dealing with finding a Purchaser Representative up front?
Joe Damato's posts are always fascinating reminders of the benefit of understanding what's under the hood.

http://timetobleed.com/
If you used sub-pixel alignment, it might be worth it.

I just wish we could get 300dpi displays for our computers already, and stop worrying about the pixel grid. But, we're going to need some better techniques for resolution independent UIs before that happens. In particular, you will probably actually need better hinting for vector based UI graphics, so that the same vector graphics that can be used for high resolution displays can also be used for lower resolution displays while still looking good.
It depends on what you're using the data for, but in practice, it tends not to matter. Web Analytics is more concerned with trends over time and with comparisons between different areas (sections of the site, conversion funnels, traffic sources, etc). You're concerned with which areas are performing better or worse in order to optimize paths or allocate resources for improvements, and the absolute performance simply doesn't affect the relative performance. In situations like this, consistency is far more important than accuracy.

The one major thing that it bungles up is return visits. If people see your site while surfing at work, and it's intriguing enough to come back and give it a deeper look at home, you'll never see the connection.

There are a few analytics tools that merge users across browsers. Unica's NetInsight, for example, can coalesce multiple cookied browsers into a single user if that user logs in with the same account on multiple browsers. The fact that it only works on authenticated users limits its applicability.
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The sad thing about the banker's bonuses is that if they honestly tried to mark to market all of the bad debt that is still on their books they actually lost money last year.

The only way they can justify the whole profit/bonus story is because they are lying to themselves about their real financial situation. And unfortunately their lies will impact the rest of us as that bad debt turns out to be the garbage that it is.
An unlawful search is illegal. Whether the cop go to jail depends on if they're convicted of a criminal law.

Usually an illegal search is brought up as a defense by the person who was searched and is now being charged with evidence obtained in the search. The issue in these cases is whether the fruits of the illegal search should be used against the person who was searched. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule)

An illegal search is in all cases a violation of a right and therefore the person who was searched has a legal remedy. This is the basis of the suit by the students against the school (see the pdf at the bottom of the article.)
you mean [non connected] search on a mobile device? I can certainly see that, but I'm not sure how big a market there is for it.
It's a proxy for Twitter. s/twitter\.com/7920074.appspot.com/ on any Twitter URL and the site will show you the same page as Twitter. It's probably a hack to access Twitter in an environment where Twitter is blocked or a phishing site.
I bought a Chumby One for my place and also as xmas gifts for my family. Everyone loves them. It's worth it for the music capabilities alone.
This should just link to the guys youtube channel, really neat stuff. http://www.youtube.com/user/web4deb
I remember how this very same negative attention (and threatening lawsuits) occurred when gmail was released and everyone realized that an algo would scan your email to serve ad's against it.

Unfortunately, Google's pompous behavior over Buzz is cold and calculated.
So expose that in a library. Most conf files are one of a few common formats, and it shouldn't really be a problem to reparse on change. The client app wouldn't have to know anything about the file, even, just get settings back in some standard format. That library seems like a weekend project for someone, with format plugins and other goodies to follow.
The only thing you lose by adding indexes is insert speed. Indexes in most document stores don't change anything apart from shifting the get/put time balance. They don't define anything and can be often created / dropped / recreated without affecting the whole application.

As mentioned before - I could put the "most popular" script on the server and request only the result if you wanted. TT can do that for sure and I remember reading about another solution that may (redis I think? I may be wrong here).

About the normalised or not data - you have to design your data storage to your solution and needs. If you made something hard to query, maybe it's time to redesign it, or add another denormalised storage, or keep aggregate copies, or use some other solutions... Same applies to rdbmses really.

You know how to run your queries on your DB efficiently (or you should start learning now). Sure - exploratory searching for patterns, custom reports, etc. - that's where SQL is great. If you need it, either you should have additional "archives" in some better data store (sql-capable column-based store?), or simply use rdbms for everything. Over-simplification is as bad as over-generalising ;) just use what you need, instead of what is popular.
It is definitely slower. The computational complexity of the Knuth-Plass algorithm might be of similar (or maybe even the same) order as just fitting as much as possible on each line, but it definitely at least has a different constant out front. I’m not exactly sure what the speed difference is, but it’s non-negligible.... though on modern hardware either way is absurdly fast, and there’s no reason the Knuth method couldn’t be done in real-time even for quite large documents.
Reasons that come to my mind for a ban:
So that HN readers will not be inconvenienced or frustrated by a link they cannot follow.
To prevent people making posts for the purpose of driving traffic to their own pay wall website.

A reason for allowing them might be that sometimes good stuff is behind a pay wall.
Unless you are logged in as root, most of the stuff in gconf should not be in /etc.

Actually, even then they'd be better in /root/.<whatever>.

I do dislike grouping unrelated application settings into ~/.gconf -- before, if you screwed up a setting you could always just rm -rf .<whatever>, without losing anything unrelated.
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Wow, that was quick:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134022
Could you point this blindness out to me?
Well, it was an important reason in 1990, maybe, or even 1995. But we’ve had a couple of orders of magnitude improvement in computing speed since then. There’s no reason to favor some marginal speed advantage (tenths or hundredths of a second) to better layout.
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It's not just developing countries. Yahoo! absolutely dominates in both Taiwan and Japan, where Google is a distant straggler.
"It does expose (by full name) any contact who comments on one of your Buzzes."

It's important to note, however, that unless the buzz message was shared with only specific contacts, anyone can comment on it. Sure, it's likely that a commenter is a contact, but it is entirely possible that they aren't a contact and came to the buzz via some other means.

"It's far from being obvious when you are using Buzz for the first time that your comments will be seen not just by the Buzz author"

It's pretty much universal for comments to have the same visibility as the item to which they are attached.

I could see how someone who isn't at all internet savvy might not realize this, but it's hard to say what they expect. For instance, Facebook, filled with the non-internet savvy, is even more liberal with comments, adding to your feed comments made by friends on things posted by non-friends.

"it's not clear at all who is seeing what."

Definitely. It's easy to see why people believe their contacts are being shared when they aren't and it's no surprise that others have accidentally shared their contacts when setting up their buzz profiles.
Boy I'd like to open HN some day and see the headline "IE switching to open source WebKit"
Actually Matt Taibbi is, apparently, one of the very few members of the press to have the intelligence, motivation, and opportunity to attack Goldman repeatedly. Everyone else is on a 24-hour news cycle, and as far as I can tell, Blankfein taking the $9 million bonus effectively defused the situation, especially after it was leaked that his bonus could be $100 million. Setting this up and getting the press to report the relatively low bonus was a brilliant PR coup, and it appears to have worked.

That being said, I don't have any issue with his efforts at muckraking - I believe in freedom of the press after all.
FYI: Google does have a limited 'command line' tool for time zone differences. If you search for "London time", it will return the current time in London UK in bold, along with London, Ontario and London, Arkansas.

This obviously is only for the current time, and you'll find that it doesn't work for everywhere. Also I've encountered occasional 'outages' where the time results for reliable locations aren't posted in your search results. I guess the applet gets disengaged occasionally due to back-end business.
Rivers are killed naturally except for pathological edge cases when you (a) do proper hyphenation, and (b) do something like the TeX algorithm for paragraph layout, and (c) adjust inter-letter space as well as inter-word space.
My company, Intellectual Ventures, is misunderstood. We have been reviled as a patent troll—a renegade outfit that buys up patents and then uses them to hold up innocent companies. What we’re really trying to do is create a capital market for inventions akin to the venture capital market that supports start-ups and the private equity market that revitalizes inefficient companies.

Sorry Nathan, your company is not misunderstood. You really are patent trolls abusing a broken patent system that does more to hurt the software infrastructure than it does to help it. The best thing that could happen to our profession is that the Supreme Court could hand down a decision that renders all software patents invalid in the USA. The grievous harm that would inflict on your company and business model would just be icing on the cake. We need fewer parasites on useful work.

Of course you don't agree with me. I bet you still think that Hungarian notation is a great thing as well.
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This is such garbage. I love the part where they talk about how Google's email magically cannot be used to send Office files from one person to another. Google apps is more than sufficient for the majority of small businesses.
It crashed my BB, the only app to do so. Uninstalled.
They start making those machines? Or the machines that make the machines? Etc etc.
I don't know. Children's rights are a funny thing in this country...
A critical condition for employee enthusiasm is a clear, credible, and inspiring organizational purpose: in effect, a "reason for being" that translates for workers into a "reason for being there" that goes above and beyond money.

Every manager should be able to expressly state a strong purpose for his unit.

Out of all of these points, I'd say this is the most important. If you can't tell people why they're doing what they're doing, and convince them that it's important, then you've lost already.
Did you read the article? there is some information in there:
"Goldman and Morgan Stanley, applied for, and received, federal permission to become bank holding companies." Now they can borrow from the Fed for 0% interest. What did they do with the money - certainly not loan it to real businesses - they bought 10 year T bills that pay 3% to 4%.

That is the quickest scam to explain. But basically these "Investment Banks" are not investing any money in the real economy - they are just making bigger and bigger gambles with the explicit knowledge they are "too big to fail" and we will be on the hook for when their bets don't go the right way for them.
The idea is that, when the search took place, jurisprudence didn't make it clear such searches are illegal. If the legal system is not sure whether something is a crime or not, then it isn't. In theory, anyway.
Children's rights are one of those funny things... kids can't vote, and nobody's going to win against parents' frothing mouths about how they're not 'keeping kids safe' and other grandstanding shenanigans. I wouldn't expect much to change.
I noticed similar this morning for a mirror of my own twitter account at http://retwite.appspot.com/_rahim

Googling retwite I found this project on github: http://github.com/int/retwite and this discussion: https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thre...

It may have been constructed as a dumb mirror initially, but variants could be trivially reworked in to phishing sites.
A question to ask yourself. If you were a "scheduling, project management, and facility management person or working for a recording, film, or production studio" where would your eyeballs be?

Are there magazines that would be interested in featuring your product, rather than just putting an ad in it? Who are the movers and shakers that all of your potential clients look towards for advice? Can you get an interview with one of them, post the interview on your websites' blog. Looks like your product targets music studios...so go out and talk to them, ask what they're currently using, and see how you would be capable of solving their problems...use this opportunity to gain users and possibly evangelists.
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The only problem with sites like these is that there is an inherent incentive to boost the theoretical price of a private company beyond all reasonable valuations because

(1) They get ridiculous press like the one above that plays off their sensationalist valuations.

and

(2) Companies are more willing to use their sites as guidelines if they overshoot their own internal realistic models. Which is ultimately their business model.
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That makes him a fanatic, but it doesn't say anything about his correctness.

The other thing is that, though I'm sure Goldman's decision was partially PR-motivated, it's what they should be doing anyway.
I agree that programming in lower language like C (and Objective C to some extent) makes you a better programmer, since you are figuring out the nuts and bolts of a computer.

But the other part about only C# programs being CPU/memory hogs is all wrong. Though I have not coded in C#, I do know that a bad programmer can have memory leaks all over a C/Objective C program. Similarly a good C# programmer would write a robust program.
If you don't know the constant, how can you say that it is non-negligible? I doubt that one can measure the difference in speed rendering an average webpage with either algorithm.

And your remark about real time: Even the old (and slow!) TeX can do linkebreaking for several hundred pages of text in a second. Including writing pdf. So you are probably right about real-time h&j even for quite large documents.
I would definitely use such a board for contract gigs. Full time gigs if I happened to lose my full time job or see a great startup.
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Have you ever had to send email to hotmail, or live.com? Its horrible, they reject (not put in the spam box) perfectly legit emails that all other web servers accept. Would i call that better? No.
Obligatory mention of having to use Readability for light-on-dark text...

EDIT: Some of us are on the other side of 30 and won't waste our eyesight on a blog by someone who thought white-on-black was kewl. Those under 30 shouldn't, either.
I work in the industry, and I heard about the bank holding thing the hour it was announced. I don't think investment banks should have access to Fed money, but the argument for this is a bit more subtle than Taibbi's article.

Furthermore, the idea of investment banks as giant casinos is wrong. A bank like Goldman does not make a large number of directional bets, and when they do, they win on average. (They've certainly been winning throughout the crisis.) That a large number of banks lost a lot of money because of a government-fueled housing bubble is not Goldman's fault.
They don't give away the IDE, but the SDK and command line compiler is available here:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3sd...

There are also a few open source editor/IDE options here:

http://osflash.org/projects

Particularly http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Pa...
Holy cow, Gut feel says it should work but it might be better to try using the coax to pull some top grade Cat5 cable through the runs - that way you know what you have in place and you can be sure of the quality end to end.
You've restated exactly the part that I do understand. What I don't understand is where you see a connection between your previous purchases and what Apple charges for what they produce. You specifically said that Apple would charge you for what you already have, but it isn't clear where that occurs.
The registry's implementation is bad, sure. However, a global key/value store is extremely useful. I changed the default background color in Windows from 'White' to 'Light Gray,' and it works for almost every application I use. Visual Studio, Explorer, even some webpages! For years, I turned the brightness of my monitor down, but that severely hinders readability of some color schemes.

How would global shared settings look without a registry? Like Unix configuration files. This is a step backwards, as there is no unified way to read Unix configurations. Some things are stored in environment variables, some things are stored in XML files, some things are represented as special files, and some things are stored in INI-style files. Something like window color would be handled by the display manager, but other configuration settings would need to be hunted down at runtime.

What's really better, "read system.window.background.default_color.[rgb] as ints," or "parse /etc/x/conf/x.conf as an .ini file, look for the variable background_color. It is stored in the format (r,g,b). If it is not present, the default is (255,255,255)."?
Yes, Taibbi writes screeds and polemics. But he's also a hard-nosed investigative journalist, and while his writing is often darkly entertaining (I will always treasure his image of Goldman as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity"), his contribution to public awareness of kleptocracy is invaluable.
Often, even "good enough" but open is desirable.
> It's not irresponsible to do your democratic duty.

It goes beyond democracy. It's about the rule of law and making sure law gets enforced.
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