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Out-of-process-plugins are slated for release soon. May not even require bumping the version number to 3.7 – instead we might see it shipped as 3.6.2. Here is the Mozilla project page for separate processes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
Ok. Then it seems like the number of my bookmarks just reached the threshold to trigger this bug. It is really frustrating experience.
Great bit from the article:

"If they decide to sue, they get to look through your email records (it's called "discovery"). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. You lose."

Weird. I submitted this article but my submission has now disappeared and it's now on front page under bhousel? Probably just a coincidence?
Same here. I use Firefox for development with Firebug at work, but I use Chrome at home.
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"Some journalists make good bloggers; most don’t."

Boy, is THAT true. It takes years to learn how to do either... and the inverse is also true. I hate that so many bloggers think they're as competent as "real" journalists when it comes to traditional reporting.
Having poked around the source as part of implementing full vim support, I believe that nodes.coffee [1] exercises every single coffeescript feature except splats and js escaping, so that might be interesting to people as well even if it is a less interesting part of the source.

[1] http://gr.ayre.st/s/nodes.coffee.html

Also, this isn't 0.5.5? Waiting for interpolation to settle?

* I'll put out my vim stuff when I write the indent script.
It works as long as you have a short list.

It can make it very hard to find stuff you know you posted for reference. Searchyc or google work better for this, sadly.

Or try again when the site is quiet, that definitely improves your chances.
I wonder if Obama is going to like the result. I also wonder whether Tufte will visually tell the truth. It's heady stuff getting called in by the president and I could see him not wanting to make Obama look bad. Either way the result will be interesting.
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Vancouverites in the tech industry and Canadians in general, in my experience, still have a fairly Neo-Marxist view of the employee – employer relationship: you sell me your labour for the negotiated price and, where surplus value is created, this is absorbed not by the company as a group but instead by its managers and investors. The labour is unsually neither ineffectual nor is it inspired, and the employee has no fundamental interest in the company’s success beyond remaining employed because the company continues to exist. If it fails nothing is lost by the employee, except for a few weeks of rest before they move on to sell their labour to the next buyer.
Thats not Internet: 2, Thats Internet: 4

1) Many refuse to buy the game ONLY because of the DRM.

2) DRM Servers Crash

3) Game cracked almost immediately after launch.

4) Legitimate users download the crack.

Point 4 is awesome. I think Ubi should be sued because a legit user HAD to crack the game to play it with a bad internet connection / servers down, and got a virus, and sue ubi for the damages.
This would be a much less interesting story if it began, "Last year 1000 new algorithmic trading firms began trading; the statistical distribution of their profits follows what you'd expect from a random process. We're picking one of those with the highest profit and profiling it in a story."
The only places I've ever seen certificates be an issue is government and government contractors. Maybe there are some big companies that also require them. But they are outsourcing there IT departments more and more so who has them isn't there problem anymore.

I do notice a dogfood pattern for places that require certificates they will pay for their employees to acquire them. One company I temped at wanted a bond to pay for you to get them (work for us for 3 years after getting your MCSE). A lot of the older guys were really excited about this (job security I guess), but the younger ones just shrugged at the offer. We were resume building so being tied to one company for 3 years was definitely not something to look forward to.
I think the recursion gets off the ground better than that. Notice that I said "if you make a thing using your property, that thing is your property." Property starts with your mind and body but it doesn't end there.

Certainly an infant produces spit, vomit, and poop. But it doesn't stop there. The infant also produces cuteness, affection, and love. In any case the parents give the infant food, shelter, education, and care for free. Those are gifts.

So the infant grows into a strong, healthy, and wise adult. He obtains that position largely through gifts from his parents, but he has also done some production and trade along the way, for example any jobs he did as a teenager.

Now he produces far more than spit, vomit, and poop. He uses his mind and body to produce all sorts of things other people value. He owns the products of his mind and body right up until the time he trades them for something else.

Simple example: he buys a set of tools using the money he earned as a teenager cutting grass and starts a small repair business. He is now using both the physical and intellectual capital he has accumulated over the years to produce even more goods and services. That capital is his property.

So my definition gets off the ground far better than you suggest. Spit and poop ... you so funny!
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Why not just, uh, not look at porn?

Is it really that hard?
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> This reminded me of a friend of mine in South Africa who once showed me photos of living organisms that they collected from rocks almost 2km deep - that owed their existence to uranium.

How? Did you they live off radiation?
I think this whole thing would have blown over if not for Jason's incredible ego and his "I can do whatever I want" response to the whole issue. Pissing off the geeks = bad idea.
To clarify, the grandparent's link refers to California, not Canada.

Official California Legislative Information

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/
The point is, to prove a point a DDoS attack can be initiated against Ubi's authentication servers thus making the game unplayable for extended periods of time for legitimate customers only.

Even if Ubi takes DDoS into account, the DDoS might slow the servers down just enough to keep kicking people out of their games.
The drop corresponds to December '08. We think this occured simply because of the holiday season. When the trial expired, people weren't working => didn't read the email => didn't convert.

Another point: our numbers are so low, in general, please keep that in mind. Every little fluctuation looks like a big deal. But isn't, really.
How much equity for a Super Advisor?
I'm in the process of starting a company dealing with social media and marketing. I've been working with a marketing advisor on a trial basis for several months. He has turned out to be an extraordinary asset to my efforts. Unfortunately he isn't available for hire, but he would like to continue in an advisory role giving me about 10 hours per month. Besides his advice and research, he will be able to make some key introductions to potential customers and investors.

How much equity should I offer him, presumably vested over 4 years?

More background: I am currently a single person operation, not yet incorporated (soon) or funded.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Errr ... if he publicly resigns in disgust there will be a downside.

Give that this "is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I'll learn something.", maybe he'll learn that he's doesn't like the ways of Washington vs. the task at hand, in which case it'll be an unforced error.

If he's not able to prevent the board that this panel is advising from publishing chartjunk or worse ... what can he do, especially in the light of the brand he's established? Hard to see how he could avoid explicitly or implicitly telling us the reason(s) he resigned and that they reflect badly on the administration.
Appcelerator launches Titanium v1.0
Maybe we both submitted, but yours had a slightly different URL?

I've noticed that when I click on links from a feed reader, it adds a bunch of params to the end of the URL. I always strip off the extra stuff and submit only the base URL.
Yes, but generally speaking, if you're writing FooIFace and FooImpl you should probably rethink what you're doing.
Similar article in New Scientist three weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1131401

Isn't interesting a subject will turn up in one "popular science" magazine, and then in succession in several of the others.
Most states limit the reach of IP agreements. In Illinois, for instance, I was once presented with an employment agreement that included an IP clause like that. I looked into the law and found out that it wasn't enforceable in IL. I quite the job because I thought the people who sprung that on us were fucking loons.

My current company (Condé Nast) has a shockingly fair IP agreement compared to other large corps.
Hey Julias, you should join http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com if you're looking to find a good group of people building the market through integrations. We'll be working on time tracking data standards later this year in fact.

P.S. You should integrate with FreshBooks. (Guess where I work :)
"In a nutshell, the Data Singularity is this: humans are being spliced out of the data-driven processes around us, and frequently we aren’t even at the terminal node of action. International cargo shipments, high-frequency stock trades, and genetic diagnoses are all made without us."

I rather think automating mundane tasks is a good thing, because it frees us up to focus on innovative and creative opportunities. Jack Bauer operates at the speed of thought, because his tools take care of details irrelevant to him. IMO the data singularity exists, but it will shepard in the age of the exceptional individual. Startups (with HLLs) foreshadow this outcome.
...but RWW get's the pricing/packages wrong, Jeff explains here: http://support.appcelerator.net/discussions/announcements/28...
Does anyone else have issues with text-selection being finnicky in Chrome, or is just my install (on Ubuntu 9.04)?
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I posted this chart in the other thread, based on the same data.

http://tinyurl.com/hnrank

Shows the fraction of #1 stories, by submission time.
"Booze and meat can be found in Bangalore, much the same way that vegetarian food can be found in Japan."

From what I understand from the article under discussion , purely vegetarian food hardly exists in japan. I have no idea if that is true, but the situation wrt meat is hardly the same in South India, so your comparison above is demonstrably false.

"The point was to illustrate that Southern India is a culture inclined to vegetarian food and not drinking."

Rubbish.

Your stay in Bangalore doesn't lead you to correct generalizations about South India. In Kerala for instance, (one of the four states in South India), practically everyone is a non vegetarian. Hyderabad(in Andhra Pradesh) is famous for its nonvegetarian food, specially Biriyani. You have no idea about the amount of liquor consumed either. Extremely large quantities of liquor are consumed in South India. There is a thriving illegal liquor mafia which would be very interested in your discuvery that South India is "not inclined" to liquor. The people you interacted with during your stay here may have been largely vegetarian, but South India is hardly "inclined" to either vegetarianism or abstinence from alcohol, the way the OP describes Japan as being "inclined to " non vegetarianism.Show me any locality in Bangalore and I'll find you a couple of dozen non vegetarian restaurants in a 5 km radius. And lots of liquor shops.

I've lived here 35+ years. I should know.

I'll grant you that you may not get a steak done the way you want it, but hey I can't get a Masala Dosa in the average restaurant in Arizona. That hardly means Westerners don't "incline" to potatoes (the major filling in a Masala Dosa.

Most South Indian non vegetarians eat Chicken or Lamb (and not primarily Pork or Beef as in the United States). Beef is slightly rarer (but again not in Kerala). You need to distinguish "meat" from the "exact dish I eat in New York".
I was saying there was plenty of meat In Bangalore, not sausages made Chicago Style (or whatever). Meat does not dominate the menu as much as in the West, but it is easily available almost everywhere.

Some communities of people, e.g Brahmins or Jains or Buddhists are vegetarians. These are minorities. Large chunks of Hindus, Muslims and Christians are meat eaters (and alcohol drinkers). Apart from these minority communities, People who don't regularly eat meat do so because of economic reasons not any "inclination" to vegetarianism.
I don't know anything about these microbes in particular, but some bacteria can use metals, even uranium, as electron acceptors for growth. Two well-studied examples are Geobacter metallireducens and Shewanella oneidensis.
>> If the initial phases of the project don't need those sophisticated aspects, why would you design them in at the beginning?

Because history has taught me that it will be a definite requirement later on (as in when going live), and the amount of work involved with going back after the fact and incorporating it is insanely high versus designing it properly up front.

So that's not YAGNI, that's You Just Don't Know That You'll Need It.

That's where the experience comes in.

We're not talking about simple refactorings, etc., but major design decisons like technology stacks, architectures, etc.

For instance, the biggest issue I've run into is having a live MMO that had the "new" requirement to be able to troubleshoot and debug a single user among hundreds of thousands.

That is something best handled by a proper initial design, not a slight reworking later on in the process.

As far as I'm concerned, too many people take YAGNI too far. There's a compromise there, and that's where the experience comes into play.
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First: I highly recommend Aaron Wall's rank-checker tool:

http://tools.seobook.com/

Second: the idea is not to rank for every page. But the marginal cost of one more page is basically zero. So if even 1% of them rank on page one, the return on investment can be pretty high.

Calacanis is in a tough position, to be honest. He can dial down the quality and automatically get more revenue for no extra money. But he can't reduce the capital expenditure he made to create this system in the first place.

It's sort of like being a janitor, but having a great connection for huge quantities of black tar heroin. You could be a really stand-up guy, but after a while, all the easy money gets tempting...
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Yeah, maybe, but it's completely gone from my submissions list. No biggie. I think it's a great article and HN seems to agree.

allenbrunson: That's definitely it. I didn't know it behaved that way. I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't something more sinister... muhahaha muhahaha!! Oh well. Good info. Thanks!
That doesn't make any sense. I'm still trying to figure what in your positive and negative rights mean. Rights are what you can't take away, not what you can force on others. No one is required to pay for anyone elses internet or print anyones pamphlets.

I have the right to speak freely or remain silent. I can't be forced to speak nor can I be forced into silence. 4 out of 5 people agree no one should be denied access to the internet. If I paid for it, it's mine to use. If I use the free airport wifi it's mine to use. Gov'ts or individuals shouldn't be able to say I can't use the internet at all.
Consider finding an alternative that you can hire instead of offering equity.

Alternatively allow him to put his money on the table to buy in as a founder.

Just advice and contacts unless they're really extraordinary (which you're in a position to evaluate, you say they are but based on how large a sample is that ?), make-or-break is best hired.

If he's willing to become a co-founder that means he's in for the long haul, that changes things considerably.

Equity should be exchanged for funding or a very strong commitment. 10 hours per month puts him compared to a full-timer that brings money to the table in the much-less-than-1% bracket, and likely he won't be interested in that.
Splunk is very popular, although I think it's software that you have to host. I have no idea how fast it is, but with a recent-ish machine I wonder if you could have it process stuff in a weekly batch with minimum of frustration. They have a free trial that might be worth it to you -- www.splunk.com
Is this some kind of satire I don't get? I'm pretty sure an extremely high percentage of people looking at porn are not interested in or concerned with "finishing" to someone who looks like their "loved one".
Is it really that hard?

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SearchYC and Google are indeed the easiest ways to get back to items you posted as long as you remember some keywords from your submission.

Sometimes you can "cheat" the system by trying the link, letting it time out, and trying again in 30 seconds or so. iirc it loads the data off of disk and it may complete later - if you catch it while it's still in memory you might have some luck getting it.

The only other workaround that I can think of is to make a comment in your post and then find it via /threads.

I definitely agree about it being frustrating.
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I guess this is only tangentially related to each other Mock objects and interfaces. I stopped using interfaces in this manner. My rule if you only have one implementation of an interface you don't need an interface. Wait to create the interface when you get your second implementation, and we have great tools that make that easy.

Now for people who do lots of mock objects this rule doesn't help them out much, but my other rule is I don't overly separate my system for testing purposes. Sure there are times when you need a mock object for java mail or external services you need to mock out. But, doing it for every service you have is really a lot of work for questionable gain. This is predicated on practical experience rather than architecture theory. The reason you separate your system for testing is to find more bugs. I found that I wasn't finding anymore bugs by separating things than I was by testing it integrated. And, in fact I found more bugs in the integration of services than I would if I only tested them in separate form. Therefore, I stopped doing the extra work to separate them because the payoff was really too small to bother. It's been much more productive to think like this.
One reason I love working for my current employer is he really cares not a jot about what we do on the side (and even if it leaches into the day job at times).

Actually he'd even part funding a current pet project of mine :)

It's at the point where I dont even have a contract any more because of the limitations it actually put on our relationship (note: not generally recommended - before everyone sprays tea/coffee on the keyboard)

You just have to find out if your employer is going to be a douche or not - and if not then be open about what your up to.
Aaron is basically acting as their Ombudsman right now. Google will probably lose some serious revenue from that, because they get a big cut of what Mahalo generates. If Google lost that ad revenue for some other reason, the person responsible might well be fired for it.

When Aaron Wall hounds them over it, they'll be more likely to make the right decision.
No but they might want porn from someone who looks like a given person.
No, they're completely useless now.
sounds to me like you hit the dupe detector. if you submit a URL that has already been submitted, news.yc takes you to the previous submission and votes it up on your behalf.
Jacques, have you read "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis? Between this comment and the one where you mentioned using the equity on your house to buy out your partners from ww.com it seems like you hold a similar philosophy to his. Which is to say, "keep as much of the pie as possible".

If so, I'd be really interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
We're using Seam. It does DI/IoC using concrete classes, and does not require interface proliferation.
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Techmeme launches new vertical aggregator: Mediagazer
Touché. I think this would be the stealth modes in browsers to "shop for presents". Sure, everyone who makes it says it's for one thing, but everyone knows it's for another.
To be honest, if someone had a whole lot of certifications I'd be worried that they needed them to cover for their lack of talent.

Also if certifications play a meaningful role in your hiring process you're probably doing it wrong.
The article does give a link to the findings in detail, which includes the nation list:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/08_03_10_BBC_inte...
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when Google decides to apply it's rules.

Mahalo is a black hat SEO site, that's given preferential treatment by Google. Any other black hat SEO site would have gotten delisted a month after launching.
The focus is on IT certifications aimed at people who have responsibilities for networking, security, Cisco/Microsoft products, etc.
Please don't. Interfaces are one of the few redeeming aspects of the language. They give you a way to fake mixins, they're the only hook for dynamic proxies (for quick, simple, non-bloated aspect-oriented programming), and they let you swap in different implementations. Interfaces are good, use more.

What's the perceived downside of using interfaces? That you end up with more files? That you dead-end into bare method declarations when browsing your code? Any others?
Years ago people recommended that I acquire some MSCE qualifications. I'm so glad I didn't do them now. For me, it would have been a huge waste of time and money.

If you're going to take IT skills related courses (and here I don't mean degrees or PhDs) be careful about your choice and spend some time verifying whether employers really are looking for those qualifications in new recruits. My impression of most of the IT skills courses is that they're just money making mechanisms for a few training companies.
I haven't read that book, but I believe in partners that are 100% committed. Having a part-time commitment means that you have a partner that you will not be able to rely on when you really need them, and that's best reserved for people that bring a one-time effect, such as investors.

Their role is money + advice, someone that just gives advice can be hired or an alternative can be found.

I think plenty of people look at equity as a way to get off the ground without any costs at all, but long term that may turn out to be very expensive, it may in fact create trouble between other people that would like to commit full-time that you'll have to convince of the value this guy is bringing to the table.

Keeping as much of the pie as long as possible is probably closer to my philosophy, and buy back when you feel that commitment is flagging.
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Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs
Well, a lot of EU citizens have over the past few weeks. It'll be interesting to see where each browser's market share winds up in a couple months.