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I agree that there's little content here - but the key thing for me was that there is no signup process. I think the biggest single roadblock to a lot of startups is introducing a signup screen before they can start using the product.

Obviously some startups have to have a signup screen by the nature of what they do but a large number don't need one. If you're product is good enough then people will use it, hell even if it isn't good enough then people will still use it but never again. As soon as you put a signup screen in front of people using the product they will likely not signup and therefore not use the product.
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> World class athletes have few foot defects? Can you say selection effect?

Actually "foot defects" would appear more in world class athletes: the strain they put on their feet will expose any small defect that would normally go unnoticed by someone with a sedentary lifestyle. As long as the problem isn't too serious, their running career is not jeopardized.
(I was tempted to downvote you just for saying "I'm probably going to get downvoted for this")

That's a reason that is probably shared among a significant group of people. It doesn't address the failings in Firefox's need to keep up with the competition, though.
FPGAs are general purpose logic gates that you can reprogram on the fly to do whatever you want them to do. I suppose you could configure them to do matrix maths, but they are not going to rival a dedicated GPU. Most hardware that utilizes a FPGA does so to simplify circut design, allow for circut redesign after a board has been built, and to cut down the number of external logic parts needed.

A CPU / GPU also has many orders of magnitude more logic gates than an FPGA has.
The beauty of Firefox is the openness of the XUL platform. It's an amazing idea to make it possible for anyone who can hack HTML/CSS and javascript to be able to tweak the browser, bootstrapping web viewer with web tech. The webkit browsers doesn't have this, but most users doesn't care, and they don't care about the level of data google gets from chrome either.

But yeah, this firefox instance I am running now is pretty laggy. Something needs to be done about that.
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Honestly, who uses that?
Except it's not, because the iPad is a consumer device. It's not built to withstand a warehouse / factory environment.

Take a look at this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xBLxJyQsM

Think an iPad could withstand that? Symbol scanners already have this solved - rugged hardware + RFID module if you want it.

(And not many are doing RFID at the moment due to the insane cost)
JC did not out him..LF had other sources he used..as Sammy has a big damn mouth
Is anyone else suspicious that all these articles about barefoot running started appearing at the same time a bunch of companies came out with specialized "barefoot" shoes?
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Can't buy? Perhaps not actually barefoot, but my wife got a pair of these [1] and I'm planning on getting some soon myself.

(For those not interested in clicking, think toe-socks with +5 armor rating)

[1] http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/

edit: as to starkfist's comment, these and other "barefoot" shoes have been around for quite a while. Maybe if there were more correlation, but as-is I don't see any marketing stunt.
Another superb article from vanity fair. There was another one a week or so ago about a former sniper in Afghanistan.

Reading this reminded me of when I read about Jeff Greene about a year ago - another guy who made a mint from the housing/mortgage bubble collapse. See:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1006/266.html

I love these types of stories - an 'outcast' who spots a trend and is either ignored or heavily critised for their point of view, but ultimately proved right and met with a deafening slience.

It echoes a now infamous incident that happened in Ireland in 2007, when we were at the height of our own property boom. The then Prime Minister (or Taoiseach) Bertie Ahern, said that "that he did not know how people who engaged in moaning about the economy did not commit suicide".
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/economy.html
Since then, Bertie has left his office in controversial circumstances over alleged corruption, and those who his remarks have been aimed at, such as courageous economists David McWilliams and George Lee, are held up as visionaries who warned about the dangers of excess when everyone else was gorging at the trough. As a result, the Irish taxpayer is to become the single largest owner of real estate in the WORLD, to the tune of €55bn ($75bn), because of the generous nature of the Irish Government bailout of the greedy Irish banks. This is in a country of just 4.5m people, which makes it all the more staggering. The Irish Government has bet the future of our country on the recovery of the Irish real estate market, and the youngest generation currently will end up paying for this stupidity over the next 50 years.

p.s. For all those who reckon it's morally wrong to make a fortune from a slump or crash, how is that different from making money in the good times? People are always borrowing foolishly (when the banks allow them to) and get into trouble even when the economy is doing ok. It's just these stories dont receive a mention when the media, along with everyone else, gets caught up reporting how fabulously brilliant we all are when times are good.
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> Webkit is faster and thats what people care about mostly.

Not really. It really depends on the end-user. I'm sure there are lots of people like me who prefer Firefox because of the addons.
i think I understand that, but I don't understand why it won't rival a dedicated GPU. A GPU is very much restricted to be SIMD, while it seems to me that you could program an FPGA in response to the data - either many SIMD processors or a a few SIMD plus some logic that combines results, or ...
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Nike has Free for 4-5 years. It had even added some cushioning to original Free over the years.
The worst part of this story is that it exposed me to the 1938media website. A 45 year old man making youtube puppet shows about bloggers? yikes.
CRC32 is bad way to hash anything, if you want secure hash of some obscure length, just truncate output of say SHA-256 (by the way, SHA-224 is exactly this: truncated output of SHA-256).
The problem with some of those measures (HDI, Legatum) is that they measure availability of what the index compilers believe people should want rather than what people actually want.

If I want porn and video games, it reduces my well being to give me education at the cost of Hustler/Halo, but it raises my HDI.
Do you know what she's working on now?

I'd always been (stupidly) dismissive of Head First until I saw her speak at FOWA in 2008. Since then I've become incredibly impressed with her understanding of how people relate to computers.
At least it'll be better to use Firefox with a majority WebKit share than it was to use Seamonkey with a majority IE6 share back in '0X!
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And if their running career is jeopardized, they're no longer a world-class athlete.
He has hardly been writing anything new lately anyhow. For the last year or two, the overwhelming bulk of the new content is links to Inc. columns.

Not that that's bad. Just saying.
I often wonder if the network effects in our profession leads to this desire for one product we use to win, or if our natural tribalism exacerbates the network effects.

I don't really care if one particular browser is going up or down, I just want a competitive market based on open standards so that I can use whatever the hell browser I like and not be locked out of anything.

At the moment that means I'm rooting for IE6 to die, and IE in total to fall to around a third or less globally so that they're forced to compete.

Chrome stealing alpha-geek users from Firefox doesn't matter to me as a) there's not that many of them, and b) it doesn't reduce IE usage (nor IE6 in particular).
They've been about for a while now.

It all started a couple of years ago when that research into how expensive/fancy trainers were actually not as good for athletes as bog standard "normal" ones.

And that progressed into bare footed is even more beneficial / less injury prone.

With that said I admit that I also remember seeing ads for a barefoot style "shoe" too. So you could well be right.

(as it stands I recall the science and research was pretty solid - especially the stuff about cheap trainers over expensive ones)
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To elaborate the Millennials are going to be the first generation that has to deal with losing jobs to technology

No, no they aren't, not by a long chalk. See also: Luddite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

As technology can do more we’ll eventually end up with a society where people can pursue what they love and let technology do most of the hard work we need people for now.

It didn't happen like that any of the previous times - the factory owners got richer, the poor lost their jobs. Why will it be different next time?
How many people are learning Django right now?
It's interesting that out of all the services Google offer you, the one you decide to turn down is their web browser. Is that an indication of the relative importance to you of these services?
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For me it's all about speed. Funny thing is that the same thing made me to switch from IE to Firefox.

Only things that may keep me with Firefox are now Firebug and FirePHP.
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What did you guys think of your mandatory school years?
I posted this comment earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159072

I got two answers, both about how two HN:ers viewed their mandatory school years. These things are really interesting, especially since I think most people here can identify with these people. I sure can.

I always felt that I didn't learn anything in school. But that is not true, I learned things when I had an intrinsical drive to learn those things. As a kid, I wanted to become an inventor, and I was really interested in science and watched the science program (it was on once a week here in Sweden) with my dad. When they aired the BBC documentary about dinosaurs I was really thrilled. My relatives taped them for me so I could watch them again, I watched them many times. I also liked tinkering with my computer (that had no internet connection, I used my mom's computer to go online). I started out learning how to modify your background and screensaver, then I quickly learned all the advanced features in the control panel and liked playing around with them. I picked up a (really crappy) book about HTML from the library and I was soon creating really crappy websites and hosting them on free hosting sites. I really impressed some people my age when I managed to modify the high score in a game we all enjoyed by finding the file it read the data from. Anyway, that is what I managed to do on my own, and I'm sure you guys have similar stories. At the same time I wasted time in school learning essentially nothing. In my Math classes in mandatory school I didn't even have book, a friend had lost his, so borrowed my book. I literally slept through my classes (I used to stay up late at night and sleep in the boring classes (ages 13-16), sometimes I slept in the school basement when I didn't have a class). I mean, I did NOTHING in my math class, and still passed it and even got a VG+ (B in the American System), I could've done better just spending my time at home. Do you guys have similar experiences? Please tell me about them.
Ultimately, I had to stop using FireFox because of these types of issues. I'd leave a few tabs open for a couple hours and find firefox at over a gig of memory use making everything run extremely slow. I don't have this problem with Chrome so I use Chrome.
Chrome was catching up.

The h.264 idealism was the last straw.
+1

I have been a huge Opera fan since its early incarnations (even paid for it when it wasn't free). Also participate in beta testing, etc. But the release of 10.x left sour taste in my mouth as it was buggy too often for me. Suffering from countless "last few elements loading" issues, broken web sites and most important a beatdown in js and page-loading tests I have done (and seen elsewhere) from the more agile upstarts of Chrome and Firefox releases as they tried to one up each other. Even IE8 tested faster at times for me in loading pages I frequented.

But ever since they released the "teaser" of this new Opera right before Xmas 2009 I have been stoked and actively following its development and testing just about every new snapshot/beta they put out.

I've tried other browsers with extensions and such but none of them seem to feel as complete and as integrated as Opera. Hence why I still use it despite my ventures into Chrome/FF and even Safari (chrome is really nice as well and would be my default had Opera not gotten the hint).

Anyway, I am enthusiastically downloading the 10.5 release right now. A very large thanks to all the Opera developers for their efforts into this amazing release in short time. Everyone should try it.
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Yes, you can't normally do this --- as long as the license is valid. That's why you may need to defend it in court. (Eve may want the court to decide that the license never gave the right in the first place.)
I'd wait until FF 4, FF for Android, Weave, and a few of the other labs innovations are out before writing Firefox off yet.
Android app can recognize a person, pull up their status updates
You want iPad with multitasking? Chinese made one. Apple logo included
Isn't this a particular license in itself?
Why can't people grasp what they are letting the government do?
They wouldn't agree if the Gov't would want to bug all telephones and read your mail in order to find child pornography ...
Try listening to internet radio. If you hear a song you like, look up the artist and buy the album.

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If you like electronic music also try http://www.philosomatika.com.

Check out archive.org's live music archive: http://www.archive.org/details/etree.

For classical music: http://theclassicalstation.org
By definition this bill would exclude YC type startups. The legislation doesn't reflect the downward cost of launching a startup because of things like open source software, falling rents due to economic climate, cheaper bandwidth, remote web hosting etc. Most legislation in most countries is reactionary and out of date by the time it's passed into law, and unfortunately this seems to be the case here too. Still, credit must go to those involved for the effort made, it a step in the right direction.
This seems like too much work, to me. I'll stick with the "easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess" rule for making my passwords. I've never used password generators because I want to be able to log in away from home or work.
Sadly, I think a large percentage of the population WOULD let the government do that.
The tone in that post by Feldman makes my skin crawl. I hadn't heard of him before but I don't think I could ever read anything he's written now. Is he always like that? ICK.
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>given short ids (called ‘PIDs’), which use both letters and numbers [...] but don’t use vowels (to avoid accidentally spelling out rude words)

Good catch. I wonder if this was caught in a pre-release version or just designed in by a prescient programmer?

On the subject of the post, what about using a db lookup (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_rewrite.html#Rewr...) so that pages can have a unique identifier and present a human readable URI.
Well, I should say, it won't rival a dedicated GPU once you factor in cost.
That gets back to the question I was asking before: would your readers be interested in the content, even if they were not at all interested in your product? If so, it's a personal blog. If not, it's a marketing blog.
I guess there's a question of cause and effect in this: Intelligent people spend more time in academia, and in the US, academia is more liberal than the population at large. That would bias academics towards liberalism - it's always easier to share the politics of those you surround yourself with.

Also, there's a certain expectation that academics can design society, and thus advance us. This idea -- that society can be designed -- is opposed by conservatives while at least somewhat embraced by liberals, which again could explain why intelligent people tend to be liberals.

Finally, the articles' assertion that liberalism is defined by "weird ideas about, say, helping genetically unrelated strangers" is one that every single conservative thinker, way back to Burke, would oppose.
I will get scared of Google when I see a Microsoft style "strategy tax" -- e.g. when it gets hard to use GMail from non-Google web browsers.
It's pretty obvious the role they played. They're expected to be the arbiters of what the risk is. They were setting the risk value for things they had no clue about. It was simply incompetent negligence and no one should be trusting them anymore.
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The fact that it is in 100 lines really doesn't matter. The particular way that python made his implementation small is interesting though.
I was going to mention it, but then he specifically asked for things outside his current tastes, which preclude putting something that he likes in Pandora and expecting something really different. It is true that Pandora sometimes comes out of left field with a track that's nothing like what I've been listening to, but I think they consider that a bug rather than a feature. :)
ah, ok. thanks.
The benefits of barefoot running can be obtained without going totally shoeless.

I haven't started running barefoot yet, but my beefy New Balance running shoes have been relegated to mucking about in the yard. I now run in a well-worn pair of Chuck Taylor hightops. Just going to a much more minimal shoe forced me to concentrate more on forefoot/mid-foot striking, a light, quick stride, and proper posture.

What many people overlook is that running is a skill that must often be relearned as we get older and run again for fitness (ever see any nine-year-olds with shin splints, runner's knee or ITB syndrome?). Cross-country skiing, cycling, and swimming all have skill components, why not running? Going minimal on footwear forces that attention to form.
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I find it ironic that by going around and routinely downvoting anything jasonmcalacanis posts in these comments it makes them much easier to spot; I simply scrolled down and read everything in light grey.
It's worth pointing out that almost all of Chrome's share has come at IE's expense, not FF's.
I actually liked the personal life stuff a lot - I can describe myself as someone "happy in my own head" and with few friends too (but with far less money :P ).

I find it fascinating that he married twice, too. Maybe I should move to the US :) .

Of course the personal stuff has been novelized and simplified a bit, but that's to be expected :)
Grab an old PC and go with PfSense, or you can use Vyatta. Both are open source. What would be awesome is if we could all just get rid of NAT completely with IPV6, and never have to worry about port forwarding or anything like that again!
Irony: extorting someone into talking about how they were extorted.

Also, Loren just posted another piece on the matter. But I won't link to it because it's total trash. It's one giant attack on Sam's character without saying anything at all interesting.

And if you do go look at the post, be a good citizen and use adblock =]
A couple of weeks ago I launched Pitchforked, which creates a random playlist of tracks from Pitchfork.com's Best New Music section. http://www.pitchforked.com.
Is relying on blogging really the reason Fog Creek hasn't crossed over or is it because they write tools that only 5-10% of the programmer audience are interested in?
for floating point computations , GPU's beat FPGA. but if your calculation is fixed point(dsp for example) , FPGA can be better/cheaper.
"Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are impacted by the bug, said Microsoft, and any supported versions of Internet Explorer (IE) on those operating systems -- including IE6 on Windows XP -- could be leveraged by attackers."

Bit of a linkbait title, I think; should be something like "Don't press F1 key in IE in Windows XP".
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I think the article addresses this directly: his company has grown so much that he barely has time for this sort of thing anymore.
The audience was so precisely defined that products we tried to make that weren't specifically for programmers pretty much flopped.

Any idea what products he is referring to? CityDesk or Aadvark (or something else)?
I should also note that an FPGA will not perform as well as a custom ASIC (such as a GPU) in terms of speed, power, or price (in significantly large quantities). An FPGA can be a very good options for moderate to low volume applications. You are correct with your description of a potential FPGA application. I would say it could rival or exceed the performance of the GPU solution.
Sorry - I was indeed mistaken about the "charging money" aspect of it. However, the GPL has been successfully defended in court:

http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-judgement_fran...
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On the default skin if you select show tab bar when needed the entire freaking top disappears, the window controls and the big red menu button. and it can't be dragged around. It's not a big deal but how did they not notice that in beta.
The address bar in Chrome works so much better than the separate address and search fields in Firefox. This is the main reason that I switched to Chrome.
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We often click for no reasons, hidden user web session recordings show
Alas, we are the 5-10% of programmers he talks about :-)
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>We’re going to preside over the difficult transition between what I’d deem a “Star Trek” world order where people work because they want to and no one goes hungry and the world we have now.

sorry, but what exactly will be difficult about this? do people who suddenly inherit enough money never to have to work have a difficult time with that transition?
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