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With apologies to Old Man Murray, that blog's Start to Readability time (StR) is about 0.5 seconds. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

[2] http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
There is a lot of money to be made in the lead generation business.
I actually heard of an auto repair lead generation company that went around to parking lots and took pictures of cars with damage. They uploaded these photos to their service and then put a flyer on the car with a web address where the person could retrieve the quotes for repairs.
What's wrong are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube… All centralized network-effecting black-holes which keep the logs.

The basic idea of qik (sharing or publishing from your phone computer) is awesome. Its realization (giving your data to Big Brother) is dreadful.
Or you could have the taxi pick you up at a nearby intersection or other non-home location. Bonus points for using a different location each time.
I'm too young to have used CVS, but I really hate SVN compared to Git :)
Predication: newspapers that move to new media subscriptions (iPad, web subscriptions, whatever) will have better loyalty and stronger relationships with their subscribers than current print papers subscription departments currently have.

At some point, papers will find a way to build a relationship with their customers predicated on assuming they are intelligent and want real news. Only a few print publications can do this (The Economist?) but the costs of publishing online and the strength of geographically-diverse online communities opens a huge opportunity for small, insightful, niche subscription publications.
His point still stands, Google Product is pretty much exactly what you described, so what would convince me to use your service instead?

As for frameworks, I don't think there's a ready-made package for what you need. You'll have to harvest the data and build the site yourself.
Even the top-end MacBook Pros have 6bit screens, don't they?
Given the known bugs [1] that reflect your svn merging experience, it seems the majority of svn users, myself admittedly included, just never do reflective merging in svn or else there would be more of a fuss over it.

As a good illustration for others of what you're talking about, the bug report points to this picture [2] in which commit 17 to trunk is what causes svn problems.

[1]: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2897

[2]: http://www.open.collab.net/branding/images/projects/merge/re...
Who is true creator of a software product Designer/Developer/Entrepreneur
Who do you think is most imp for a product ? Designer / Developer / Entrepreneur
> If you think of "git checkout" as "update the working copy", doing all those things with a single command makes a lot of sense.

The problem is that "update the working copy" isn't accurate.

When you 'git checkout my-feature-branch' you "update the working copy" AND "switch the current branch to my-feature-branch".

When you 'git checkout fa230bc -b new-branch' you "update the working copy" AND "create a new branch".

> The "create a new branch" functionality doesn't really belong in your list, since branches are created with "git branch". The -b switch is provided for checkout because _updating the working copy_ and creating a new branch is a very common sequence.

It absolutely does belong in the list. The problem is not simply that 'git checkout' can do a lot -- it's that the documentation is very hard to scan because it can do a lot. Adding the -b switch adds to the problem because now you have to mention how this option interacts with the others (and give examples of how to use it in the Examples section).

Sure, if I want to create a new branch at a specific revision then the -b switch saves me a few keystrokes -- but it also makes the documentation for 'git checkout' harder to quickly find what I'm looking for whenever I want to look up something, even if it's completely unrelated to branch creation.
I'm really glad someone on HN pointed me at the Readbility tool. I end up using it every day to make ugly pages easy to read.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
It is amazing to this that people need to go to google in order to pull up any site. No, don't type in google.com, type in facebook.com instead. Do you do a google search when logging in to online banking? Checking your email?

And seriously? How much time can one sepnd on facebook in the first place? I swear my uncles and aunts and parents play on it for hours.
In English, "information science" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science) is usually more closely associated with classification and resource collection management, such as archival work and library cataloging.

I like "informatics" though. It is used in "bioinformatics", at least.
I think the author misses the point at the end - it's not a choice between Adobe messing up and users not updating. The question is "why are so many users running outdated versions?" I believe one of biggest reasons is because Adobe makes it such a pain in the neck to update their products.
I agree with all of this.

You could also explain what you bring to the table. Past history is useful.

Think about how you would evaluate a software person - you wouldn't just bring a hacker onboard because he went on news.managersspecial.com and posted that he was looking for a business person, would you? You would want to know a lot more about what they were up to, what they've done; and most importantly, what they can bring to the table. Just having good ideas isn't really a qualifier any more - it's what you've done with them that's important.
Even with books, there exists a simpler solution: the library. Plus, it's free.

Most people's bookshelves just collect dust. It's no different than having a few cars sitting in your front yard.
Schools Out, Forever
Awesome linkbait / PR execution by these guys. This has mainstream media potential - it's easy to imagine a hysterical CNN headline.

I hope they have a plan for how to put all this great buzz and inbound links to work on a real business.
Thanks so I guess nothing like this exists in its entirety but there are pieces that I might bring toegther and create such a site. Thanks.
Seriously! White on grey?
TFS is not that bad... the issue is that you have to pay through the teeth to have it and it is not that good.

When it comes out of the box as a bag of bits that you're going to have to configure, hack and code for hours to get what you want you sometimes wonder why you didn't just go SVN + Cruise Control.

For the record, I just wanted my test pass/fails to be emailed to us in a NUnit gui way (red + green). Maybe i'm stupid but that took way too long for a tool that costs so much.
Got it. Thanks for the clarification.

I totally agree with the beta api idea.
Even if CRU was full of evil. It's only one of three different sources of the same information. Which is only part of the weight of evidence towards AGW.

There are multiple sources for climate data, some of which are independent of the CRU data. This increases redundancy and the reliability of our conclusions.

However, much of the "weight of evidence towards AGW" has CRU/other historical climate data as a dependency. For example, climate models (which are a necessary component of the evidence for AGW) are calibrated against historical data.

These dependencies make the rest of the evidence potentially less reliable. Until we can sort out which CRU results are correct, which are not, and which external results depend on them, the reliability of many results has taken a serious hit.
Chrome uses the system certificate store. On Windows, that means it's the same one as IE, so you can probably Google for instructions. I'm not familiar with Mac. On Linux, it uses the system NSS library. NSS is built with a set of root CAs so you would have to see what your distribution chose to include.
The canvas API is vector graphics. The distinction is between retained (or "scene graph") and immediate mode APIs, not between vector and raster. And that's sort of an issue of taste. Some things are easier to code one way, some the other.
I'll agree on the first timer bias, VC's are probably less likely to invest in new entrepreneurs because the don't have a well known team and VC contacts. That's their prerogative though, it probably comes down to their appetite for risk.

Don't agree with the young part though, I've seen VC's say they prefer to fund younger founders.
"Going on trip. Please break into my house - my St. Bernard needs feeding."
Ask HN: Software Development Opportunities on Craigslist
What are your experiences with CL ads offering an idea in exchange for programming, especially iPhone and Android?
Who makes the final decision:

Ultimately it's the Director gets to decide

Huh? ONE person gets to decide the future of the web? Who is the director? Tim Berners-Lee. Whew. I highly doubt TBL is going to let Adobe ruin the web. I have a lot of faith in TBL.

But I'm starting to understand more how this works. Large corporations, like Adobe, who want to be a member of the W3C have to pay $68.500 every year. They aren't doing this for charity, they're doing it as an investment in their stake of the future web. Here's the full member list: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

It's a veritable cornucopia of corporate and university elites. With that kind of influence, it is no wonder that the process is taking so long and so held up by greedy corporate motives.

$70k/yr is also a very good explanation for why they keep it so secret. If it isn't secret, then what are these companies paying $70k for?
What, and be obvious?
Next up: PleaseArrestMe.com, highlighting all the illegal activity that people have put up on teh intarwebs for public consumption.
An analogy could be made to selling a house: What if we made home sellers liable for selling a house that didn't have "sufficient" security. What if a rapist breaks into a house that didn't have bars on the windows? Should we make the home seller liable for not putting bars on the window?
HBO puts it content online... kinda
Copying Y Combinator,MBA Dissertation/Other Resources 
I am collecting these and feel free to suggest your favorite resource. Thanks.
Some things probably don't need to be dumbed down. I've been reading the old fashioned way as long as I can remember and it seems to be working just fine :)
I expect $10 a month for my sharecropping, but none of these dern websites have paid me yet. I am going to take them to small claims court for they money they owe me!

That's kind of what you are saying right? Seriously, companies are supposed to behave the way you expect them to? The way the users want them to? No way.

These websites are creating "FREE" services for "users" who pay nothing and receive benefit. Many users go in, create an account just to squat and then do nothing but take up resources and potential for other users who actually want to use the service.

There never has been and never will be a free lunch folks. Get over it. Build your own website if you don't want some jerks at these "free" websites doing things with data that essentially -- they own -- because you gave it to them.
Slow for me: FF 3.6 / Ubuntu
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglarize

Hmm. Which dictionary do you work for?
I think it's a slightly self deprecating jab at what is really a good idea. The Drools rule engine mentioned is, without a doubt, aimed at an enterprise audience. http://www.jboss.org/drools

Drools 5 introduces the Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing. It's been designed from the ground up so that each aspect is a first class citizen, with no compromises.
Page Rank is not a particularly impressive algorithm. The technical leap that Google made was the idea of having outgoing links be a proxy for authority, and it was an innovative and useful observation. Page Rank is about the second-simplest implementation of that concept (the first-simplest would not have the dampening factor). It's just a glorified eigenvector problem. Page Rank is not impressive for being a significant technical breakthrough. In fact, I think Page Rank is more impressive for not being a technical breakthrough. Google came up with a single good idea, and even a very very simple application of that idea had significant practical benefit.
The title is supposed to be a jab at enterprise software. It's a joke :)

DISCLAIMER: I'm the author of that post, I didn't submit it to Hacker News though!
Wow, would have never thought! Take that optimization!
His posts are becoming smaller and smaller, but I like them because they make me think. Don't agree with this one fully though.
Firebug FTW
BTRFS: the new shiny, more potential, but definitely not suitable for use in production.

ZFS: uses older ideas (because they didn't think COW B-tree was possible) but is suitable for production use.

It'd be nice to have both pushed forward, so there's something for now and something for later.
.mil can and should create their own Certificate Authority and install their own root cert on .mil computers. Just don't install their root cert on mine. I'm going to be checking mine now and removing DoD from there.

If any other government's military got a root cert installed, you better believe we'd be hearing about it.
I don't mean to single the author out- and maybe I'm just off to a rough morning - but, while good, that article is unnecessarily verbose. As much time as I spend reading nowadays, I've grown an appreciation for straight-to-the-point articles that use flowery language sparingly and only when it adds meaning to the article itself.
Skills Hiding Behind the Veil of Years Experience
Was it a false premise to rein in toxic waste dumping, rather than just concentrating on clean-up technologies?

There's that old adage about 'an ounce of prevention', which I think is even more apt in cases such as this, where the 'pound of cure' is an as-yet-undeveloped technology.

Mathematically, yes, you could focus on sequestration. But policy-wise, it's inviting disaster to defer today's problems as something to be solved with tomorrow's advancements.

And even if a suitable 'pound of cure' is found, it will almost certainly be dramatically more expensive to fix the problem, to say nothing of fixing the collateral damage caused in the interim.
"Enterprise software needs to be at least $1,000 per seat per year"

Enterprise software needs to be at least $1,000 per alien per shot.

FTFY.

Edit: Other reasons why its not enterprisie enough:

1) It does not run in a server cluster.

2) It does not run using a oracle tripple-redundant database.

3) It does not have a recovery plan in case the city is nuked to ensure that the game can continue playing from just where you left off by restoring from backups.

4) It does not have an audit trail so that any time the spaceship shoots an alien we can point to which accountant did it.
Having done some work for a local credit union, I can tell you that yes people do actually do a google search for their bank to get to their online banking.

One item to consider is that a large portion of these people probably have google as their homepage, so they don't "go" to google, it's just he most conspicuous box when they fire up their browser.
Google itself isn't helping to distinguish URLs vs. Search when they make the address bar in Chrome do both.

FWIW, If I type "facebook", it sends me straight to facebook.com, "twitter" takes me to search results.
No, I'm not one of those EJB guys, I'm not a fan of shoehorning technologies that don't belong to software that doesn't need it. I went to rule engines because I thought it really provided some value. I elaborate on this on a comment back at the blog http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2010/02/space-invaders-enterprise-e....

DISCLAIMER: I'm the author of that post.
Can you BELIEVE that there are people out there that are so stupid to use white on grey for their blog posts? </tongue in cheek>
4. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

5. Widespread adoption of apps apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

6. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves?

7. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences widespread adoption of apps apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

8. Rinse, repeat.
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NEC works out how to triple USB 3.0 speed
I'm not sure I get the complaint. It's Apple's operating system, it's never been free software, and clearly they're going to exert some control over what apps get installed. That's clearly within Apple's power and rights to do, and it doesn't hurt anyone but competing app vendors who want to use Apple's (!) operating system.

How does that compare to banning a WebOS app from the accessing the Google Voice service, which while also within Google's power and rights, is clearly harming consumers who don't get to use the service?
What happened to personal responsibility? If you don't like my software, don't buy it, don't agree to the terms, and don't use it.
It's a one file install. You can easily run it behind firewalls. It has built-in wiki and issue tracking. You can run it from a jailed host; it requires no access to apache config, it has its own server. You can give users accounts on it. You can run it in autosync mode, where everyone's changes are sync'd through a central repo, or you can use manual merge for disconnected use. It uses the battle-tested sqlite as its transactional local store. It is designed to optimize the author's preferred workflow, so if you agree with him in principle, you'll like its ui. Like, e.g., git, it uses SHAs for "artifact" tracking; the sqlite db can be rebuilt from the canonical artifacts. I haven't looked for any comparisons, but it's extremely efficient space- and bandwidth-wise. It's written in SQL, which is semantically efficient, so it's easy to understand how it works.
My middle school got bitten by this. The roof collapsed on a burglar and he successfully sued the school. At the time he was not doing anything illegal (as he was outside a public school). The roof was unsafe and we have laws against that to protect HVAC technicians and the like.

That he was up to no good was irrelevant.
Great, I wouldn't hire you. I don't care how smart you are. Just on the basis of effort you're willing to put forward on tasks you deem unimportant to you means that I can't trust you to perform tasks that I deem important to me. I need someone willing to work through "bullshit" tasks just as much as I need someone to work on "gee-whiz-wow" tasks.
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I went to an OpenSolaris users group a few months ago just to see what was new in the OS. They had a nice dinner provided by Sun, and then proceeded to tell me all about their new network stack, and some of the features it offers.

My impression was that they are playing an extreme game of catch up to Linux. They were announcing features planned for release in 2010 that had been in the Linux kernel for years now. They're really trying to catch up to the virtualization offerings made by Xen and others in the Linux space.

Granted, they have ZFS, and one other killer feature that I wish would make it into Linux: CacheFS - use an SSD or other fast storage device to front-end a large slow back-end disk based device.

But Solaris and OpenSolaris are clearly operating systems that are in decline. It's apparent that the brain-drain from Sun over the years towards open source has left them with little innovation, which is sad. Layoffs throughout the last decade combined with good engineers that could get jobs elsewhere has probably left them with a staff of disgruntled, underpaid, underqualified, and mostly overseas developers.

My big question is whether Oracle will continue with Solaris at all, or push towards Oracle Enterprise Linux. I know they say they will support Solaris, but to be honest, it makes more sense to just repackage Red Hat's code like they're doing now. You get all of the benefits of the open source community with very little software development budget.
The auction says they have 100 paying customers.
There is a huge distinction between being "responsible" for errors and "legally liable".

Responsibility is just good practice - own the problems and provide resolutions. But legally liable? No way.

Even the most mature products still have flaws. I cannot imagine trying to do a startup if "legally liable." -- "Release Early, release often, but carry a huge insurance premium."
No. No, I don't think so.
So.. you did nothing in school to approach the paltry standards you were given in school.. but yet this is the secret to your success?

Really?
Ctrl-A and it's actually pretty nice.
Humans are evil. The CRU is full of humans. The CRU is full of evil. QED.

It's not just the CRU. Any large organization like the CRU should be held with extreme skepticism. Members make lots of money off grants to study climatological effects on the planet. There are billions of dollars involved and people are extremely greedy.

I think the question the OP of this thread raised is this: There have been times in the past without lots of CO2 where extreme climate change has occurred. Is it possible, that the same causes of those changes are the causes of the current changes? If not, why not? It could be possible that those factors are contributing -- even more dramatically -- to the rise of CO2, than man.

No one has answered that question yet as far as I know, but there is a correlation between the same causes of past warmings the current physical space in this environment, so why aren't the same things then doing the same things now?
The TV everywhere strategy from the cable companies seems to be: put TV online, but only available to cable subscribers, so people won't cancel their cable subscriptions.

It seems really strange. Why not just have a pure-play online business? Then you can even sell content to people who are getting their internet access from other providers.
From the article:
Q: "Where do you think the future of Automated Trading is headed?"

A: "Distributing computations across many systems with side-effect free languages like Erlang and Haskell. High-frequency strategies asymptotically approaching the speed at which the exchange itself can cross orders. Machine-learning inference from huge amounts of unstructured, ugly, textual and visual data."
The address bar in the browser is totally broken from a usability standpoint.

If you change it, it doesn't reflect the page you are looking at. This means for example that you can get into a screwed up situation where:

- you are looking at page a

- page b is being loaded

- page c is displayed in the address bar

Which is not only highly confusing in itself, it also looks identical to page c being loaded.

There is just no conceivable mental model that non-nerds can build that can predict the behavior of the address bar. When that's the case, people fall back on scripts, in this case "go to google.com; type in what you are looking for; hit return;"

In fact, I've sometimes wondered if you could make a competitor to the web that would be much easier to use.
This type is not the get-hired type. It's the do-things-different-and-change-the-world type.