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yes, a lot of this is inspired by what 37signals does, mainly because "it works" and why re-invent the wheel, especially since I'm not looking to innovate on this area.

thanks for the feedback on the video, if you have any ideas on how I can make it better, that'd be great
To everyone saying this is a non issue:

Like all dev teams firefox has a limited number of resources. It's not that there's anything particularly wrong about this (well there is but that's a different argument): it's that they could've been working on much more important shit. It's also another completely unnecessary moving part which, even though this one is probably relatively simple, adds unnecessary complication. From a UI dev perspective it's also a feature that isn't supported on OSX, and I assume it's also not supported on the linux versions. It's even more of a waste of a time to focus on a feature that pulls these three in different directions.

Logically: stupid. This is pretty small though, so mountains out of mole hills? Yes.
I'm not saying Firefox doesn't take cues from other browsers, but it had Personas for a while before Chrome had themes. The first Personas were uploaded in December 2008.
You're not engaging with the article, you're engaging with a straw man. Nobody is going to offer $1Tn, $1Bn, or even $100MM for 37signals in 2010. When they get to the point where someone might, the notion of them turning down $100MM won't seem so funny anymore.

Similarly, DHH isn't writing "don't sell your business if you burn out". If you burn out and you can't fix it, do right by your team. DHH is critiquing the notion that you should build to flip, and the notion that there's great honor in doing that repeatedly. It's undeniable that there is a mythology around "serial entrepeneurs" who repeatedly flip companies.

You know what would be incredibly boring? A DHH post that anticipated and acknowledged every special case and every objection. "What if someone offered you $1Tn" is an especially b o r i n g objection. One of the reasons people read DHH's articles and don't read ours is that we write things like "Of course, if someone offers you $100MM, you should blah blah b l a h b l a h", and he doesn't.

It is also OK for him to be wrong. Being wrong --- at least, when you're not writing about password hashing --- does not put a point on your blogging license. The bar is, "is it interesting and does it come from an honest place".
I don't think Mixergy is the answer. How many of Andrew's headlines are "How a XX year old made $X,XXX,XXX in XX months."

He doesn't help real people solve real problems. He's a hopester.
Which in turn is heavily based on "Space-Time Video Completion":

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/VideoCompletion.htm...
Why do I keep hearing it repeated that "Google failed in China?" They are second place but with a sizable market share, 43% to Baidu's 56% according to this link.

If your company's goal was to have 100% market share and you 'only' had 43%, would you call yourself a failure?

http://gs.statcounter.com/press
I think it's a little more complicated than that actually, it appears that the restaurant industry actually lobbied for the new regulation. (http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/22/conspicuous-calorie-counts...).

In this case, it seems to be less a case of the federal government vs personal responsibility, so much as industry pushing for the federal law to avoid having to deal with emerging individual state and local laws. I'm assuming the industry might also be planning to use the labeling to help defend against some of the lawsuits that are being brought against them by people with obesity related disorders.
This is a fascinating statement, and I have found it to be very true in the sample space I have seen. My hypothesis is that a large number of entrepreneurs tend to be highly analytical, and therefore focus on value and utility. Most people though tend to spend money due to an emotional response, and therefore are happy to make the purchase.
To say "pretty pays so function takes a back seat" is to horribly misunderstand the relationship between aesthetics and functionality.

as steve jobs says, the user has no fucking clue what they want. if they did they'd just do it. effective UI design is about providing blinders for people so that they get to what they want fastest. facebook could let us all change the color and layout of our profiles, but is that really a good idea (coughmyspace)?
I hate to get into a flamewar but 90% of the themes they are so proud of break basic usability guidelines: Too distracting, not enough contrast between read and unread items, ignoring color theory for the meaning of colors used in the interface, etc. Drives me crazy.

Edit:
And as I posted to my Tumblr (http://ajh.us/GmUI) just 5 days ago:

> Today I opened a Gmail window. At the top of the screen, I saw a yellow message beginning, “Hey, this is important! …” I never finished reading it because I had clicked something else (a message) and the supposedly important message disappeared, never to be seen again.

> So the Gmail team either

> 1. Lied about the importance of the message, or

> 2. Totally failed to make me actually read it.

> Not so impressive UI design.
I read your post, but not any previous ones where you may have addressed this: is the sun up at 5am where you live? I always find it much easier to wake up early if the sun is already up. If the sun is still down, do you do anything to trick your body into thinking the sun is up? Does it help?
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I'm applying for Capital Factory, a similar program, and the big recommendation everyone's making is "Tell a story".
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Out of curiosity, what do you define as the core of social media?
> Those who introspect and attempt to confront the demons within must have more courage than a soldier on the battle field.

Nice rhetoric, but I don't buy it. Methinks the author of said quote has never been a soldier.
Just remembered another salient point: it's not only ExEx creating these bookmark-broken, sharing-broken Google-favoring pages. It's also the Wall Street Journal and other major media sites.

And rather than that becoming a selling point for Bing -- "we'll show you fewer results, but at least they'll still work in a week" -- the idea that's gotten more attention is that Bing should outbid Google to get such preferential access itself. (For example, the rumors that Fox/Murdoch was discussing such a deal with Microsoft, and Mark Cuban's enthusiastic promotion of the idea: <http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/22/bing-trying-to-get-exclus...)
Customer Voice - Why I run Tonido/TonidoPlug 24/7?
I've run into that problem occasionally with the upper-left corner when I'm just trying to go to the app's menu bar. I don't run into it with Spotlight because that's practically the only thing up there, and I just use command-space to open Spotlight.
IMHO, eliminating high fructose corn syrup would probably do more to combat obesity, but I don't see this new regulation as a negative. (BTW, for more on why high fructose corn syrup is bad, see here: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/)
To contrast with the current state of the, uh, State of New Hampshire, we are currently 83% covered in trees. And that's the way we like it :-)
This would be ruinous. Yes, it'd be great if we could compact and leave most of America pristine, but that's not what would happen. Leave all that open space and people will expand into it again, except likely as much more dense populations.

This would result in mind bogglingly large population growth, which Earth can't take right now. We need LESS dense populous, not more.
They didnt close Gitmo for no reason, its cost effective to outright eliminate people.
Can we work something about jquery-ui and "clear heels" into this bit, too?
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I'm sure they do. The not already having any issue is probably much less of a problem with a small team as it won't stand out as a red flag with only a few employees as it does with a larger team.
How the author needs to find a different language that runs on the JVM.

Seriously though, his suggestions boil down to "make breaking changes to the language so it looks nicer". Then it's a different language.
Except when it's Eric Schmidt doing the talking, for some reason.
Started off with some good points, but then went on to adopt a definition of "social media" that was so broad as to be useless. That too many Facebook "friendships" might devalue reasonable friendships is a reasonable point. Implying that Farmville, government censorship and trolls can all be blamed on social media is just silly.
My wife is Bulgarian, and through her, I'm exposed to a lot of folks who escaped from behind the iron curtain before it fell. These people are a breath of fresh air to me. They understand what freedom is and how precious it is.

While most westerners are trading their freedoms for the promises of security, and smiling foolishly while they do it, I find myself more at home with my wife's group of friends, who take this stuff seriously. I think I'd get along with Mr. Brin just fine.
Why in the world would anyone have a data center in Florida?
I tell mutt to automatically sign + encrypt outgoing email. Since I so rarely send mail to people who have PGP keys, mutt almost always asks me to pick a recipient key before it'll send.
Imagine trying to drive a truck load of food/supplies to the center of it. Driving a big rig (or would it be too small for the demand?) through 50 miles of Brooklyn sounds incredibly tedious.
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The game is only in alpha, and yet the developer has convinced (updated) 10,000 people to pay $13 for it. It's that good.
I'm going on hearsay here, but I've heard one of the problems is that, even though no one will admit to kicking people when they're down, a lot of VCs look at you as a second-class citizen if you haven't completed an exit yet.
You are right, the "money is your currency" line was inappropriate, I apologise.
More diverse and rapid flow of communication between people on the Internet.
> This is hardly the place for a political argument, but I believe a pragmatic approach is entirely compatible with robust debate.

Interestingly enough, your "pragmatic approach" involves chiding Repubs for not making proposals even though they actually did.

Why are you blaming Repubs for your ignorance of their proposals? (I'm not saying that it's necessarily wrong to blame them - I'm asking why you are doing so.)

btw - You do realize that the fellow with the pipe is a smug parasite, right? Snark, while "cool", isn't actually productive. It's a way to feel superior without actually doing anything that justifies the feeling.
Worst idea? Uh. I also thought that browser should look like everything else and so on, but then I simply tried some of these Chrome themes and some Firefox Personas, and hey, I liked it. Why not. Not all of them are ugly and makes everything in your browser illegible. It's just something nice to look at, something that looks a bit "artsy". I'm living in a rented shared flat with just gray wallpapers, some furniture, and the only decoration is an xkcd poster. I'm so glad that I can get at least this, no matter how desperate it may sound.

And, well, I have quite a lot in common with a teenage girl, but don't know why I should be ashamed for that…

(You may not share my taste: http://imgur.com/5r2B2.png http://imgur.com/kuo4X.png)

But please. Don't call something that I like and use, while you don't have to, a "failure".
Seconded. The comments are a very big part of why I enjoy HN so much, and I wouldn't consider buying the app without support for them.
I agree with respect to the secrecy, there is no excuse for that in a democratic system. It is absurd that these things are being discussed without proper input from the public who elects these governments.
Well, Enter in normal mode in vi puts the cursor on the next line, at the first non-whitespace character. I would like enter in "normal mode bash" to do the same. I would also like to scroll up (j) and see the previous command as i left it (i.e. if modified, show them).
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke :)
Thanks, didnt have the time.
My biggest complaint about readline's vi mode is that there is no visual indicator of what mode you are in, and it seems there are quite a few actions that unexpectedly take you out of insert mode as compared to using Vim, and without some way of seeing this, it's an exercise in frustration.

I've been using Vim as my primary editor/IDE for three years now, and I still can't get used to vi mode on the command line, and keep going back to emacs mode because it functions exactly like you would expect it to.
No not yet, probing for now - given that it's hard to find the right people.
Craigslist is hiring frontend/backend hackers in
San Francisco with the following background:

machine learning (spam detection)

i18n/l10n

mysql, redis

UI / javascript

perl / some C

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It is unclear how they plan to do with the .cn domains that were registered on the godaddy.com.
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You missed "poorly-dressed, sex-obsessed, socially blunderous". If I choose to avoid people like that, it does not make me equivalent to a racist. It doesn't even make me intolerant. But perhaps you enjoy spending time surrounded by unattractive people who awkwardly hit on you?

In any case, I believe dkarl was trying to be funny, and you've twisted that into something fairly ugly.
Does "looking mainly to hire in the Bay Area" mean you are only considering current Bay Area residents? I'm willing to move away from my current location, so I was just curious.
ExtraHop Networks is hiring. We're a startup in Seattle with a high-end network analysis product that already demolishes our competition in many ways. Ideally we're looking for superb C programmers but if you're a great programmer and are looking to work on challenging problems then please send me an email: ben at extrahop dot com.

We have venture backing from Madrona and Andreessen Horowitz.
I relocated from Boston to the Bay Area when I joined SurveyMonkey. I just meant our preference is to expand our Menlo Park office.
When applying to Google, can you apply to specific teams, or do you get placed where they think you would be the best fit?
"Losing" and "winning" aren't terribly relevant in a market. "Profitable" and "not profitable" are much more important. That's not really an answer to your question, but I've never understood why people think it's such a big deal that Google's not the biggest search engine in China.
Andrew is definitely guilty of frequent link-bait headlines, but that doesn't mean the videos are low quality. There are a lot of real gems in that stuff, and it is mainly because Andrew pushes past the unsupported assertions that the grandparent is complaining about and pries for details.
Sorry I thought my email showed up - please email me on bahadir@l4dev.org. We're a small team building a hypervisor for the linux kernel. I am looking to find the people in advance to be ready as demand may arise quickly.
hammered? really?
'Cause Schmidt doesn't wear a t-shirt. Edit: better picture http://www.internetmarketing-news.de/wp-images/content/googl...
It is always a hard play if you think Google's action is some kind of sanction. But Google is still seeking a way to provide service to Chinese, just without restrictions.
The general formula is: this worked for me, therefore this will work for everybody. I value their experiences and opinions, but sometimes they overlook all the confounding factors that made their situation unique. Of course, if they didn't do that, nobody would read their stuff, people like to hear strong opinions with fiery delivery.
Is there a correlation between the availability of good information and informed decisions? We know that fast food is bad for us. Even stepping inside one to buy something means that you're going to get something not good for you. Availability of information at McDonald's does not help you buy and consume good food, because if you are at McDonald's it's already too late.

You are probably an exception because you were motivated to lose the weight in the first place. I suppose I'm one of the lucky skinny types that overweight people hate, but it seems to me that obesity is less about knowing what is in your food and simply eating less of it. If calories consumed are greater than calories burned, you gain weight.

While traveling around Europe, I happened to be at the same hostel as a Canadian doctor and he was more than happy to share lots of opinions with me -- especially about the U.S. health care system. So I asked him about weight and food. He said simply: People get fat because they eat too much. He also said, drink a lot of water and eat slower.

Later, I read an article that most people can't tell the difference between thirst and hunger. If you drink water when you feel hungry, often the hunger pangs go away. Of course that couldn't be true for me! So I tested it and sure enough, when I got hungry, I'd drink water and I wouldn't be hungry anymore.

Food is just like TV or cigarettes. It alleviates boredom. It gives us a good feeling to eat. We eat foods that are too dense with calories. Steak. Chicken. Twinkies. We are emotionally trained to think meat is better. In my rural area, vegetarians are weird. "You don't eat meat?? Why?!? OMG, I could never live without meat. What are you a sissy?"

But it isn't like that. Food is mostly emotional -- always has been. The reason all those women in the really old paintings are plump is because it was a sign of wealth. Rich kings could keep their women fat. Turns out they were the ones who could afford to pay painters as well, so we don't see all the skinny people who lived back then, but skinny is the norm, not the rule.

In the U.S., people think it is hard to be skinny, when the opposite is true -- it's hard to get fat.

Funny that your username is potatolicious and you're commenting on a food thread...
Are you listening to the interviews or just reading the headlines? There is a difference.
With this sort of density you can use more efficient distribution systems than driving a truck down the street -- dedicated transport tunnels/tubes and a handful of distribution centers would eliminate most surface shipping.
> In fact, given the depth of the obesity problem in America, I would think that this sort of education should be mandatory in the schooling system.

You're assuming that information availability is a problem yet your own example is different. In particular, you had information available while you were obese. You didn't stop being obese until you chose to act on the available information.

What makes you think that a significant number of other people are different?

Like you, most obese people know where to get the relevant information (if they don't have it already). How is making said information more available going to make them use it?
Geographical mobility in America has been declining for decades
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I think DHH on Jason's Twist show left an opening that could make him do an about-turn at any time.

First, he says he would never sell the company, not for 150 million dollars, because he's not in it for the money. So, ok, he won't sell the company.

However, he also said, you should always be working on your best idea. If you're not working on your best idea, then you're doing it wrong.

He says that 37 signals and its products are his best ideas.

Ok, following me? If one day, he came up with some idea out of the blue, out of inspiration, out of some life-changing event, out of...wherever.... and that turned out to be a better idea than 37 signals....ummmm then what?

Then he should sell his company to go work on that "best idea". No?
I went to UCSD and had good friends who went to every UC (except Merced). I spent a lot of time at each - I can tell you UCLA is the best school to go to in the entire system if you want a well-rounded college experience. The demographics, location, prestige, size, reputation, academics, are all "more perfect" than the rest of the UC's.
The Chinese government is the one trying to crack down. Google can choose to be complicit and stay, or fail to be complicit, and leave.

It is not Google's fault that the government is continuing to crack down. If the end result is lowered access to information, lay the blame at the feet of the proper people: the Party.

Incidentally, if China does decide to go culturally isolationist, that's the end of me worrying about them as an economic threat over the next thirty years. None of us is as strong as all of us. (No, not even having 1 billion people will count; the disadvantage of having one dominant closed culture will dominate in the information and idea era.)
Ask HN: Budding game programmer humbly requests code critique
Recently rejected from a few big Flash game companies because of my code samples. Would really appreciate some pointers or tips from a spare pair of programmer eyes!

http://willchou.com/asteroids1.1

http://willchou.com/symptom/

I've done a little prior reading on game architecture and I'm currently looking through the Flixel and FlashPunk libraries for models to follow.
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I agree. If you're getting sick of reading our overstated and undersupported crap, I suggest getting a puppy. During the first few months of his life you'll be too busy to surf the internet.

I barely have time for one or two HN stories a day, now, and I haven't been to Reddit since picking Taco up at the airport.
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I think it has more to do with the fact goog isn't making a significant amt of money, and growth has flatlined. Beyond that goog is STILL in Hong Kong, and mainland China still has access to the .hk site AFAIK
My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented. The fact that the Chinese government thinks this type of policy is a good idea makes me wonder if they know something I don't.

Do they really expect to be able to keep a lid on political speech within their country long-term? (From a practical perspective, won't this just drive .cn domainholders to switch to .com?)
For highly successful companies, it's expected that they will take dominant market share within a reasonable period of time, or else they are viewed as having failed.

More importantly, Google's market share in China is symbolic of its ability to repeat its success in the US elsewhere.... this is the foundation of much of Google's current stock price.

I asked a Google finance guy what percentage of revenue comes from non-US ads and he got all red and refused to say a word. This is a HOT topic at Google and the firm can't afford to show any weakness whatsoever.
Another book taking this kind of horizontal approach explains different programming paradigms rather than concrete languages: "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html). It is IMHO a deeply illuminating book.
Doesn't convince me. Any other legs to your argument?
Ah, what a cool page that CommandLineFu is... :)
Since this is GoDaddy, why do I just see this as publicity? If it were most other companies, I'd be impressed, but given that it's GoDaddy, I just can't take it seriously.

Even though they are talking about Congressional testimony from their general counsel regarding a very strict set of requirements (and personal information) for .cn registration, I just can't take it seriously.