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Well, sure, but personally if I'm dealing with someone who can say with a straight face that Sarah Palin would do a good job as president, I know to discount appropriately -- for that person, tribalism has surpassed ideas or truth as far as what they consider right.
Nice one. Bought it now before you listen to the guys here and put it up to $50. £1.79 is a bargain! Now only if I had a piano...
I once wrote a CPUid feature check program in assembly, it took surprisingly long to learn and write those 80 lines (including blank lines and comments)

The executable was 736 bytes:
http://rythie.com/labs/cpuid.php
Just a helpful tip to those without kids: Most parents prefer that you don't refer to their children as "it", even if you don't know the gender. Remember, you wouldn't refer to someone's partner or cofounder as "it". ;)
How many different version of CSS Gradients are out there now? It seems like they still just roll their own, but now they do it in an "accepted way" by using a prefix like "webkit" or "moz" on their new stuff. It doesn't do much good for the implementers though.
I find myself respecting Microsoft more and more of late (say the last year or so). It really is starting to feel as if they are reaching out from their closet and is realizing that they have to cooperate with the rest of the world. I guess you could argue that is a natural side-effect of not being the biggest bully on the block in every market are in (or enter).

An example of what I mean is the fact that on this Microsoft site you actually see images* of other browsers (gasp -- FF, Opera, Chrome all exist) in places where it's not necessary at all. This is something that caught me a bit by surprise.

(I guess I will now get all kinds of anecdotal evidence that they have been doing things like this all along or are downright evil. Point still stands: I am starting to get a bit more respect for the company, and not only the new IE team)

* http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/01FlyingImages...

Edit: When reading the other threads on the IE9 topic I realize I might be pretty alone in feeling this way :)
It's certainly fast, but the lack of <canvas> is disappointing.
Were you the only one developing it? How long did it take? Love the app and the video on the webpage, by the way.
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Fair question. I tried to edit the link but didn't seem to be able to edit the URL itself. I didn't realise I could delete and start again.

Sorry - I've not submitted many stories here before (and I've not submitted the wrong link when I have). My bad. :(
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This app really does look like it is a match for the iPad.

I would consider doing this:

A) Make the iphone app free or 1$, get as many users as possible
B) Approach whoever owns rights to sheet music, music lessons, etc
C) Allow them to sell premium content through your app and you take 50% of the profits
Anki, an online spaced repitition flashcard based learning app
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But it should support SVG. I'm not convinced canvas is the greatest in-browser rendering option for many of the things web devs want to do anyhow like click handlers and simple animations. There is a reason why many browser-based vis libraries are switching over to SVG (and VML in older IEs).
Somebody please kill this, I didn't see the other one.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196204
> presumably he'll address the rest in his

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iPad users could just double scale the iPhone app.
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What about using http://www.virtualbox.org/ to run windows in a VM?
On a scale of 1 to 10 I give that ad an Aleph_37. Well done.
does this auto scroll as you play? that would be the real killer feature! it looks great.
It seems like email encryption should be a pretty solvable problem tech-wise. Does anyone here actually regularly send and receive such mail? If all the emails saved on servers were encrypted, we wouldn't have this problem.
And the sequel:

http://www.thetechlabs.com/tutorials/xml/expanding-the-as3-v...
But he doesn't track down the source of the quote, only of a famous usage of it by JWZ. If you read to the end of the post, it's clear that no one knows who originated it, but it was in .sig files already in 1988.

Edit: simple googling reveals that David Tilbrook took credit for a variant of the line in 1989 (http://grosskurth.ca/bib/1989/tilbrook.pdf, search for "awk"). Since that's long before anyone would have had reason to misappropriate it, I'd say that's pretty convincing.

Friedl, as the author of a (the) book on regexes, is only interested in the regex version of the quote. But that one is obviously just a derivative.

Edit 2: I attempted to email Tilbrook to see if he wants to comment on the joke. If I get a reply I'll post it here. Silly, perhaps, but this kind of folklore is fun.

Edit 3: The email bounced. Is there an HNer with a premium LinkedIn account who wants to message him for us? I found his profile but it won't let me do that without paying (no way in hell). If so, email me (address in profile) and I'll send over what I wrote.
"Masala" is a Hindi work, which directly translated means "spice", like those that you would add when cooking. It can also refer to a mixture of various spices, with the mixture designed for a particular recipe in mind - like Tandoori Chicken masala. Here it's not one, but a mix of spices that make up the masala.

In this case, I think it applies in the same vein as the spice in "Spice Girls" does. Another way to look at it to look at it a an interesting mix that add flavor to something. For example, a common phrase you hear a lot in Bollywood movies is "masala film" which essentially translates to a film with a little of everything - humor, romance, musical.

In this regards, it would think it would be one or both of the above. Dunno if that helped you or not ;-)
No mention of WOFF? So we're stuck with EOT?
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I would be curious what is exactly in your freezer as agriculture is one of the US's leading exports?
I hate to be conspiracy-theory-guy, but deep down, I feel that the rate at which IE becomes compliant is tied to Silverlight's market penetration. The move to open standards on the web will only truly come when MS feels like it has sufficient control over a different proprietary technology.
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Browser competition is a good thing. If Microsoft released the fastest standards compliant browser and became the industry leader (from a standars perspective) tomorrow I would be happy. I don't care what OS you run on your computer or which browser you choose. All I care about is my bits are displayed as intended and I find that IE makes that task significantly harder to accomplish. If my life could be made easier by a new MS browser, and other's browsing experiences improved, I'm all for it.
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Engraved via GNU Lilypond. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192384
I haven't more than skimmed the first and last page, but if you want to really understand this issue you have to go back at least to the '70s, particularly:

The Church Commission.

The purge of James Jesus Angleton, and more importantly the effective end of the agency's counterintelligence function, which is very much a part of this particular screwup; it's never a popular thing, no one likes being told their informant is a double, but ignoring the possibility is lethally expensive. (See also Aldrich Ames, who's lifestyle should have been caught by counterintelligence as another example of a failure in this area.)

Jimmy Carter's DCI, Stansfield Turner, and e.g. how he riffed 800+ HUMINT operators in just one purge.
Slightly absurd comparison and not really favorable to the Droid.

74 days:

$200, Verizon, Droid - 1.05 million
$500-$600, AT&T, iPhone - 1.00 million

Also, it took just 3 days for both the iPhone 3G and 3Gs ($200) to reach 1 million.

The Nexus One, on the other hand, was just timed poorly behind the Droid (IMO).
It seems to me that perhaps it's more appropriate to do as a micro-format, and while common, perhaps not common enough to include in the base HTML spec.

The new tags in HTML 5 are semantic in terms of the structure of a document, (e.g. header, footer, article, nav) rather than the semantics of the document content. One could argue, I guess, that the disclosure is a valid part of the document structure rather than content (though it doesn't really seem so to me). In any case, it may be a bit too narrow in scope - the reason the new tags were put into HTML5 was that Opera analysed 3.5m web pages, to find what designers were using as class/id tags in actual use. If disclosure was such a common concern, it would have likely showed up in their sample.
The founder of Oneforty Laura Fitton was an individual female founder. I particularly enjoyed that interview on Mixergy. http://mixergy.com/oneforty-laura-fitton/
Except that the app scrolls the music along one staff. You'd still just get one staff, and it would be gigantic. An iPad version that could show a whole page would be much more useful.
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I would personally pay 20$ not to do that for this particular app.
I disagree with your disagreement. Rebasing/squashing can really help clean up the development history and actually make it a ton more useful as a historical reference.

Like all things in programming, discretion is key and obviously it can be overdone, but anecdotally, I've found that it makes the history so much more useful to lump related changesets together.

In short, categoricals like "don't do it, you'll lose history" don't really hold much water for me. Of course it can be over done. But done right, it really is a great feature of git and a god-send on larger projects (check out the actual git source log for an example).
Ditto on the recommendation. It's one of the few free pieces of software that does something that's important to me really well.
That was exactly what I was thinking. Lactose tolerance is a very recent biological evolution, so much so that there can be marked differences within an individual population. For instance, there's 30% more lactose intolerance in the South of France than in the North of France.

It seems to be a trend that in the Medetarranian areas where fishing is more readily available throughout the year that lactose intolerance is higher. Despite a very short geographical distance, the percentage differences are huge. Sicilians for example have ~70% intolerance, Italy on average has ~35% tolerance, while just over the border in Switzerland you're down to 10%.

The differences can also be seen within a very, very short geographical range. For instance the Basques, a Spanish population historically centred around the Pyrenees (mountains) have the lowest intolerance in the world at 0.3%, while the non-basque Spanish have 15% tolerance, literally from not living on the herding steppes.

The latest period at which Native Americans could have migrated is at 12,000 years ago. In this period of time they have acquired zero lactose tolerance. However in the same time period, the Siberian peoples who the Native Americans came from became lactose tolerant. Assuming the highest rate posted for Russians their lactose intolerance is ~60%, however this is a dubious figure considering population exchanges between the Mongolian and Siberian populations (they're a political divide on a single Eurasian Steppe, it seems highly doubtful that genes would have stopped their spread for our political niceties 2,000 years in the future). Assuming the Mongolian percentages, Siberians likely now have a lactose intolerance rate in the single digits. This compares to the non-steppe population in 'Inner Mongolia' (China) who hit at about 87% intolerance.

With the vast divide between lactose tolerance on such an incredibly short scale of time and distances, I highly doubt we wouldn't have evolved some sort of gluten tolerance, especially considering the vastly higher percentages of lactose intolerance compared to gluten intolerance.

Let's put it this way, unless you're a Spanish Basque, your greatest concern for adverse health effects in a sustainable diet is dairy. The Dutch, Swedes and Mongolians of the Steppe are the next to be concerned. Anyone else, be concerned when your doctor diagnoses you, because otherwise you're as dumb as a dog chasing its tail.
Maybe Microsoft approached Sun about licensing for OpenOffice as a preemptive strike about the .NET patent infringement, and got exactly what they wanted.
In the past, the "other guys" were the driving force behind the standards movement, so they could essentially write the standards as they built their product. They also had reason not to like MS very much (since they were involved in anti-trust litigation at the time), so they did things that in hindsight appear to be simply out of spite.

An example of this would be the CSS Box Model, which had reference implementations in both IE and NN at the time the spec was written. The spec changed how width was calculated, leaving every existing browser incompatible, and leading to silly things like Netscape.com not rendering correctly in the first released version of Netscape 6.

Nowadays, it's a mystery why MS gets left out of the loop. The standards committees are still non-MS dominated, so conspiricy-theorists could conclude that there's still some collusion between the Mozilla & WebKit teams and the W3. Or it could simply be Microsoft not wanting to get burned yet again.
Seems quite US centric. I also really don’t know which problems the mere existence of a separate tag will solve.

Text fields for disclosures next to the article entry form in the CMS and a <p class="disclosure">-tag will do just fine, thank you. Plus you would still have to implement all that even if a <disclosure>-tag existed.
While low expenses are a good thing, I've learned the hard way I'd much rather pay higher rent to live somewhere I am happy, than to halve my expenses and live somewhere not as nice.

On the other hand, I think I'd appreciate almost any of the cities on this list.
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It seems...redundant? The goal of HTML5 is not to include every conceivable tag in its specification, but to provide a common platform that rendering clients can all agree that "yeah, this describes the content, so render This Semantic Content in This Uniform Way."

If you want a disclaimer, put it in a paragraph tag with the text "disclaimer" enclosed within an emphasis tag. I don't understand how enclosing a disclaimer inside of a special tag makes any difference to a search engine (which is really what "the semantic web" is intended for).

Cory Doctorow's short essay entitled Metacrap (http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm) cuts right to the heart of this idea, as he talks about the problems with semantic markup.
I would like that list!

I would expect that there are plenty of small US cities that are cheap for those who don't want to deal with a new country while they are trying to set up a startup, however....
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Awesome! Just purchased this without even thinking about it. Would love to see this app grow, supporting other instruments like saxophone, guitar, trumpet, etc.
... says former Sun exec who no longer works there.
Interesting. I'm not going to get into your reflexive, pointless argument of dueling anecdotes and half-assed statistics because I'm talking about something else is now trolling.
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You can't beat a Duracell AA made with real genuine corn products, it just wouldn't be the same if they replaced the cereal calories with beef drippings.
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Pretty sexist to make assumptions just because the dude's name is Jessica.
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I answered the question, it's not an opinion. My startup has no women founders. so why downvote?
Great points. There's definitely a grey area over whether it's structure or content. I'd say the same for the time tag, though.

I'd argue that disclosure has only really become important recently. The FTC rulings took effect only four months ago. I haven't heard of other governments taking similar measures yet, but I'm sure it will happen. I guess I'd rather see measures taken in preparation, rather than measures taken in reaction.
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The more I learn about the history of intelligence services post WWII in America, the more as a taxpayer it ticks me off. Not the agency trying to do loopy things like poison Castro's underwear, but the wholesale ripping apart of decades of work just because the politics change one way or another. Want to fund overthrows? I don't like it, but fine, if it's done according to process. Want to abolish funding overthrows? Fine, if it's done according to process. But tearing down entire structures? Effectively destroying all HUMINT in the 1970s? It's insanity. Completely crazy. The intelligence agencies never managed to stay above politics, which is a shame.
Also:

They don't market the N1 as hard as the Driod or iPhone.

They don't sell the N1 at brick and mortar stores.
The argument I’ve heard¹ is that industrial-scale farming is very labor-efficient and organic permaculture techniques are very acreage-efficient. The techniques I’ve read about are a little more involved than “take the existing garden and add chickens”.

¹I haven’t researched this issue thoroughly enough to form my own judgement. Given what my children do to our back yard, experimenting with permaculture there would be an act of cruelty to the plants.
If you have a site-wide disclosure policy, why not simply utilize the rel attribute of the anchor element? e.g.,

<a href="domain.com/disclosure.html" rel="disclosure">Our Disclosure Policy</a>
A lot of people rate iPhone apps when deleting them, so I think a low price can really hurt your ratings.
If an app is too cheap a lot of people, who aren't that interested will download it. After, however, they realize they never use it, they will delete it, and while they're at it, they might give it 2 or 3 stars. I think selling your iPhone app at a higher price could be beneficial, as mostly passionate people will buy your app, who will probably give it a 5 star.

I have not released an iPhone app (yet), but this is how I think of app prices; tell me if you have other experiences.
Luckily, I have a precise answer to this because I have this weird habit of tracking every minute of my time on my own projects. Here's the breakdown on Etude in hh:mm

Actual iPhone app: 210:11

Song converter: 72:52

Store (UI + server side): 82:23

Building site and designing marketing materials: 44:52

I did most of the work, but I did contract some of the graphics I had trouble with to a designer, and I've taken someone awesome on board to work with music companies and other "strategic" stuff for the future.
Patents are just ICBMs in the cold war between large corporations. Each corporation stockpiles enough of them that any legal threat will end in mutually assured destruction of all parties involved.

The Inquirer is a terrible rag, as well. They not only copy Schwartz's blog post, they interpret it in cringeworthy ways. Sorry, Steve Jobs had not been "using concurrence so long he forgot what it was called." Concurrence just had graphical effects similar to Keynote, and Schwartz was reminding Jobs that Apple's products had infringed on Sun's patents as well.
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ok, I will respectfully disagree with most of you here, as there is nothing "comical" about it.

This made me officially sick, although so far had high opinion of them. I didn't get the joke of "french" font, and "hard working americans." I feel...insulted, as this is a way how to promote stupidity and national hatred. The guy wrote a book, and just because it is one position higher, he is a subject of an attack like this. Did they even read his book? No, it was easier to search the internet of a guy who didn't like it and quote it.

Maybe tomorrow it is >you< there, with your book, or your product. Or me?

Wasn't the content that mattered? I've seen excerpts from Rework and feel this is a toilet book. Inarticulate and arrogant, I know it all style, but I don't go making a video comparing their book with e.g. Re-Imagine by Tom Peters.

Tom has an attitude, but not an insulting one, but of a creative energy, an innovative arrogance that he wishes to spread.

Again, it could be just me. I would never smack Americans with "All European/Asian/African" labels. Nationality, religion and all other kinds of divide are elements of mediocrity. Real hackers should know that.
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People in that group are least likely to be discriminated against, and therefore have the least to hide online. Poor black lesbians have more reason to be defensive.
Very nice. Great initial selection, too. I grabbed the Art of the Fugue scores, and I'll give them a shot later today. I've always had a lot of trouble with reading the score and figuring out the fingering on 3+ voices in counterpoint at the same time, and let's see if your app will help.

Minor nitpick: the composition labels are a little hard to keep organized. For example: "Fugue 1". It does say BWV 846 underneath in the store interface, but when scrolling around, it isn't entirely obvious that it's actually from the Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1.
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Reading the entire article would be a good first step in practicing his ideas. :) Interesting read...
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I think it would make an interesting addition to Garageband.
I suspect the lack of context in your reply made it sound like you were saying that there were zero women founders anywhere, rather than zero women founders in your company.
That's not overly off-topic, but yes, write a post about it. There's a subtle point in there.
IIRC lactose tolerance is only believed to have become endemic since about 8000 years ago, incidentally right around when agriculture hit the big time.

I wonder if the control of pasture lands necessitated the higher calorific quantity an animal provides when it is milked. Less herd land means a farmer would need to extract more calories per animal to survive. Similarly less migration also means less danger and higher populations, which again require more calories per animal to sustain.
We've always been in that place. As Mark Pilgrim put it: "Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction." -- http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/11/02/why-do-we-have-a...
I'd say the mere presence of it as a separate tag is the most important point.

You're reading an article. It has a disclosure associated with it. Wouldn't you like to know that?

I mentioned the possibilities of the situation arising in other countries in the third sentence. It's only US-centric because the US (as far as I know) is the only one who has implemented such a policy. I think it's safe to assume the same will happen in other countries.