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If PETA's logic is correct, that doing something in a game increase the likelihood of doing it in real life, shouldn't they be far more concerned about the swelling of mafia ranks that the game should be causing?
Perhaps a keylogger's dream, but then I suppose you would have two problems. And regex would not be one of them.
additional notes:

- the phone's screen smudges horrendously compared to my blackberry 8900.

- The app store is awesome, with great apps that are easy to install. The app store seems to have been given tremendous thought.

- I have not really wanted/needed the physical keyboard. Without individual keys it's not really much better than the virtual one, and nowhere near as easy to feel with one's thumbs as the blackberry's.

- I really don't know why Google shipped these instead of Nexus One's... My guess is that these were somehow cheaper to give away... I can't imagine anyone would choose this phone over a Nexus One.
We did just fine without them for a good couple dozen million years.

It's just that we won't be able to do without them forever ;-)

In fact, I like to tall my son the dinosaurs only died because they had neither rockets nor nukes.
Most places? I rather doubt that. Maybe most Mac places. I think most Linux distros and other unixes tend to favor wget.
PCs are more secure, while Macs are safer.
You mean an apartment complex, not an apartment building (at least that's how it's called here).

A couple of square blocks? But still I'm sure there are roads in between the buildings. And you have to transport the couch in a car or truck at least to the general area don't you?

No one builds buildings that have no road access whatsoever, and the only travel is via subway or walking.
On the same vein as the post above, a little vertical spacing between the bullet points would go a long way toward improving readability:

li { margin:12px 0; }
Could you perhaps write some Javascript to check the check digit and submit just whether it was correct or not? Then you could have some stats on how many people are gullible vs. just curious.
So could it be that google doesn't have enough boffins, being from the west coast? From the article: founded in the mid-90s by boffins from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Except of course that the content is fair use and the company has no right to issue a take down.
Atleast let me know why are you downvoting me?
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Sounds more like a problem with the game rather than a lesson about cities having cars.
It's that 200,001st year that'll get ya.
Colin Powell very much eschews the command and control structure in his advice for leadership.

"Organizational Charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing"

http://www.blaisdell.com/powell/

Also, the modern business suit is heavily inspired by military command dress.
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If you can't figure out how to change the desktop background, you probably should not be using linux of any kind... :)
cURL ignores the filename header, but Wget actually gets it right by default.
Most of the time.
Awesome link. Thanks.
my kid's at least giving golf a shot. Even if you just play in college you travel to sick locations. 20th place at the 2009 Masters was $97,500.
Because Microsoft is by many definitions the largest tech company on the planet?

Also, I don't tend to use Microsoft products but they've shown more adaptability and outright hackerdom over the years and right through to the present day than any other company near their size except maybe Amazon. Credit where it's due.
I acknowledged that sometimes you can attribute success to luck. Studies have shown, however, that luck makes a difference between success and UBER success - not between success and failure.

And while yes, like Warren Buffet we can acknowledge that we are lucky to begin with to be born in the US, he was making that argument in terms of helping people in the third world- not in terms of excusing failure within the US.

I'm glad you brought up the example that you did - because quite frankly - Larry and Sergey situation was not unique. I had many friends whose parents were wealty, and even more whose parents were professors. I can assure you that does not equate to automatic success.

Now, I'm not gonna sit here and presume to know what these two figures were thinking, but it takes a driven person to put themselves in position to take advantage of opportunity when it arises. That is, it takes a driven individual to make it to Stanford grad school to begin with.

This is the same argument that is used to explain why people from shitty situations/backgrounds aren't absolved when they commit a heinous crime - because what then does it say of the people from the same background who avoid those mistakes?

And yes, I am such a person from the hood.

And no, I'm not a staunch republican that believes no one is at a disadvantage - I realize that some people really are playing catch up from the minute they exit the womb.
You see more stopped escalators because the escalator is the equivalent of combining the train and the track into the same thing. Tracks don't require the level of maintenance that trains do. Trains can be taken off of the tracks for maintenance, so you don't see the entire system break down when maintenance is done.

I use the rail system in Portland for transportation, and I can say that they fairly regularly have issues with trains on the tracks, or taking down sections of track for maintenance over a weekend.
The gratuitous eye-candy of the XP/Vista look-and-feel was already cliché when it first debuted. Hopefully Ubuntu will leapfrog it. Note that the black "Dust" ubuntu theme seen here was created by a user, not by a designer at Canonical. Compiz is extremely customizable/themeable (unlike Windows or OS X) so it's likely another talented user will go further with the UI design.
"Some of the campaigns have been controversial. Newkirk was criticized in 2003 when she sent a letter to PLO-leader Yasser Arafat asking him to keep animals out of the conflict after a donkey was laden with explosives during an attack in Jerusalem."

PETA isn't logical.
The Bullshit! episode on them (and animal rights advocacy in general) is very good.
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Thats a lot more than none. It's also an example.
That is almost exactly the Dust theme which is now default in ubuntu, with green icons instead of orange.
If number of clicks compared to number of votes is correlated with the extent to which the title is link bait than couldn't link bait be handled more efficiently by giving moderators access to the metric?
You might want to check your code. Since each title can be used at most once in the solution and there are 6589 movies, it would seem that there are at most 3294 possible solutions, no?
This demo dates back to 2005. And here's something from 2006 that's a little more doomish:

http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml

These days, people are working on Quake 2 with WebGL:

http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
I tried to find a way to pass the test and couldn't. Could someone explain to me how to pass?
I think you missed the point. Once Apple lets the device out into the public, it gives up any claim to trade secrets. It doesn't meet the requirements, and so misappropriation of trade secrets is a non-starter because it wasn't a trade secret to begin with.

If you were right, then every new product leak that Gizmodo, Engadget, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times report on would be a violation, which clearly isn't the case. As would every teardown article that's published by iFixit and the like.

Apple may have a case for theft against the "finder", and they may have a case for purchase of stolen goods against Gizmodo, but they don't have a trade secrets case against either.
How responsible is this if you allow the domain to expire someday - or your email gets hacked and a foreign party takes control over your domain name?
strange, it allowed me to vote you down to -5, so i voted your other comment to 8. I reload the page. You're at -4 again but the 8 remains 8.
I ended up missing out on the first shipment of iPads to Toledo, OH due to similar caginess by my local retailer. After finding out on the evening news that the device sold out here, I visited the store in person to complain. The store owner(?) was very apologetic to me, explaining that Apple gave them a very strict script they had to follow when fielding questions before the release. They couldn't even tell me that they were getting any at all on launch day, or that even putting down my name was pointless. (In retrospect, some of their choices of wording to me over the prior month should have tipped me off to wait before the store opened. Afterwards, the store guy confessed that they weren't even allowed to recommend that!)

Things finally did work out in the end...

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Sent from my iPad ;-)
Oooh, free karma :-p

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No it's not. It's more like a softer version of anti-slander than it is like they own your opinion. Are they going to send you a threatening letter if you don't like them?
I think it's a big step backwards. It just doesn't fit. The selling point of Linux, as a desktop OS, would be its stability, reliability, flexibility, etc. I don't think using these weird exotic colors in such inconsistent ways sells those points very well. It looks very amateurish. Of course the point is made you can change the colors/theme easily but let's face it -- lots of people are going to look at the screenshots and make huge irrational assumptions based on them. Something cleaner and more professional looking would capture the essence of desktop Linux better in my opinion. I've always liked the default CentOS theme:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Centos41-...
I doubt PETA gives two hoots about it, but yet again they win themselves some free media coverage. Whatever you think of them (me: not much) they are absolute geniuses when it comes to marketing/PR.
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What I don't understand is why control of window behavior, including hiding/minimizing, is up to the programmer and not the user. Goes for every OS/shell I've seen so far.
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Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees.
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Science is neither good nor evil in and of itself. It just increases the capacity for doing more of either.

Although it is as easy to brush the above post off as it is to say 'polio vaccine', it IS important to consider that a large portion of scientific research is funded directly for military applications. In the US FY2010 budget, military R&D spending is $20 billion greater than non-military R&D spending.
They are the norm in all kinds of office work in Denmark, or among hackers/the type of people who would read HN?

Very cool if they are widespread in all kinds of workplaces. Makes me a little jealous.
For you: http://rapidshare.com/files/379042067/kBO5dh9qrIQ.flv.html

(PS. Please don't download it unless you don't have another way to get it. rapidshare has a 10 download limit.)
Question for those with standing/adjustable desks: How long does it take to get used to standing for long periods of time?

Maybe it's all the sitting I do, and maybe I've atrophied a few muscles, but I feel like I'd get tired pretty quickly..
> Are you left handed?

No. The reason it is more efficient is because the mouse pointer usually hovers more around the left and upper edges of the windows. That is where all the most frequent menus live are and most often used toolbar buttons. You can think of it as the logical origin of the window. For example the 'File->Save As..." menu, the "File->Close" menu, the "Back & Home" buttons on the browser and so on.

It would be an interesting HCI project to run a background statistics gatherer that would record mouse coordinates relative the window in focus.

The only time I usually move the mouse to right is to scroll (but I personally use the mouse wheel for scrolling) and resize the window. But most of the time it hovers on the left side.

Also, just because you hold the mouse in the right hand doesn't say anything where the cursor is on the screen. You would have to consider where the cursor already is when you want to close/minimize/maximize the window and how far you would have to "travel" with it.

Another 2 things to consider:

1) Mouse travel might seem like a very small change, but the action of closing a window is very frequent. So a small change multiplied many times can add to quite a bit.

2) This ends up working even better for laptops since a trackpad already offers a fairly small working surface compared to the surface available for a desktop mouse. The shorter the distance the cursor moves, the less trackpad "strokes" one has to perform.

EDIT: formatting & syntax
She points out that it is usually taboo, but for this project she wanted to limit herself to sounds available in the app store. Don't ask me why.
Yea, it's the Korg Electribe. Fun app.
For what it's worth, the cover of "Writing Secure Code 2" has a quote from Bill Gates "Required reading at Microsoft." On my very first day at MS I was handed a copy and told to read it (and I did). Our code also went under strict security reviews and just about any refactoring, bug fix, anything that potentially affected security had to be reviewed too.
> Have you ever met anyone who bought a dedicated computer just to use Adobe Creative Suite?

No, I've never heard of someone buying themselves a computer purely for Adobe-ware—but I've definitely heard of someone's boss buying them a desktop workstation and restricting it so that it only runs Adobe-ware.
I would enter but it would force me to choose between Startup Week and my honeymoon :(
Why are successful founding members of companies used as examples of non-job hoppers? If I remember correctly Bill Gates had always run his own company and the Google founders created the companies out of university...
A click is more honest than an upvote. It's like looking at sales data instead of asking a focus group.

An upvote is like my friends telling me whether or not a product was lousy after trying it out. Following a link is only the trying-out step.
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Sometimes the discussion is so good that I don't really care about how good or bad the article might have been anyways.
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This looks really cool, and will feed my stat-tracking addiction, but I couldn't get it to work in Chrome...

I think I should just do a stats panel with this like the panic board...
None that I've seen outright but it's dead simple to spoof, so I figured I'd whip this tool up.
How about being able to minimize ANY application and dragging it to the system tray. This way you wont have to wait for each app to implement this, reduce code bloat, and the rest of us wont have to wonder:

* Why isn't this app in the taskbar?

* What does close window do for this app?

* What does minimize do for this app?

* What does file quit do?
...and down it went (I did not mod you down, by the way :)
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What stool did you buy? I've been wanting to do that but can't find a nice one.
Dragging the bookmarklets has been disabled in the new chrome versions.

You have to add this to your bookmark bar manually: http://dmix.ca/ga.txt (right click toolbar + add page)
MP3 players were pretty boring until the iPod came into the scene. I've still yet to see the iPod Killer; the first iPod came on the market in 2001 and 9 years later, nobody has done anything better yet!
A link that you can click on...

http://wiki.burningbay.com/dns/rest-api
at last years startup school this became a bit of a topic, zappos talked about how they wanted employees to work there and feel valued for life.

mark zuckerberg talked about how he was happy creating a culture where great people should be able to come in, start being effective immediately, and move along after a year or so.

paul buckheit mentioned his reason for quitting google, it was basically, because you need to stir stuff up, he just went from a comfortable but awesome job to something completely different, a new challenge.

I couldnt help feel a bit depressed thinking about working for zappos for the rest of my life, no slight against zappos, they seem like an awesome company and I would love to have a chance to work there, just meant I could help felling depressed about working for any single company for the rest of my life.
I think the standard (and weak) joke about the uselessness of humanities degrees is to some extent a red herring. The real subject of satire here are technophilic power fantasies, such as _The Core_, _Impact_, _Asteroid_, etc., etc.
I tried that, and it didn't work... I click on the link and nothing popped up..

I'm going to switch over to firefox and just use it in there. Thanks for a great widget!
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That's true for any non-https site. They could inject stuff into wellsfargo.com or whatever.
It’s definitely good to keep SVG in mind, despite <canvas>'s new popularity (as the author said). They each have their strengths.
Wow, really? Then I'll have to check it out, thanks!
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You have to load one of your analytics pages first, then click the "Todays Analytics" bookmark.

This way you can have one bookmark and use it on any GA page.
"Property", or "responsibility"?
"You’re probably disloyal. You don’t have staying power. You’re in it more for yourself than your company."

You mean, the company that would cut you loose in about three seconds flat if you became unproductive?

Employment is an economic transaction. If you pay me, I will do high-quality, honest work for you. That's fair. If I don't produce, you can stop paying me. That's fair. But if you don't pay me well, or mistreat me, I'm going to leave. That's also fair.
Wait, Facebook might not be selling data? I find that surprising.
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Impressive sounding titles are for resumes, not egos. Most people here recognize the importance of explaining a product in as few words as possible so the people who want what you're selling stay for more, but for some reason, the same effect in hiring is overlooked.

If you want future jobs that carry the kind of responsibilities that a VP of Engineering, for instance, would typically handle, those jobs will be easier to get if that title's already on your resume. Forcing people to accept the title of "Irreverence Engineer" is forcing them to leave money on the table, and it's not a necessary feature of a culture that deemphasizes hierarchy.
my thoughts exactly... it's probably why they killed the JERKER and replaced it with a Federic. Whenever I tell my friends about my favorite desk, I always get weird looks until I show them the instruction booklet for it.
"why would you ever need to do that" or "it works 'just fine' already"

This is why I've largely avoided getting into the F/OSS community. It's people who say those quotes or have that same attitude. Every time I hear it on places like #ruby or #rails I have to calm myself down and switch channels for a bit.
This is remarkably similar to the site my friend Leon set up, which he artfully called "Creditcardology" - see http://secretgeek.net/cco/CCO.HTM
The Long Now's museum/offices at Fort Mason in San Francisco are well worth the trip, if you ever get the chance. They have all sorts of models of the mechanisms for their 10,000 year clock, as well as copies of the Rosetta disc documenting the world's languages. After reading Anathem, getting to see the binary adder at quarter scale was... almost a religious experience. :)

Anyway, they raise an interesting question here--one that I never considered at such scope. Not sure if I agree with their conjecture about violence creating markets, yet.
I havent particularly been following it, but is there any real solution to phishing? with punycode domains and arbitrary tld's, along with characters that look the same in a lot of fonts, l and I, people need a cs degree to figure out if they are being phished.

I guess paypal and a small number of verified payment processors, (or real online banking) are about the only option.
The only reason Apple gets little increase in security is because they're running on top of a Unix-based operating system and they can take advantage of some of the things that have been done for them.

Am I misreading this, or is he saying these advantages Apple has don't count because they're playing on easy mode with their OS design?
Thanks for that. A project I contribute to recently had a discussion and policy change about what the right threshold is for adding someone to the official list of contributors (which also means a mention in the release notes and blog post accompanying a new release).

On advice from a Sage (sagemath.org) developer: anything. The core devs gain little by withholding the "contributor" merit badge, and simple recognition is usually the main thing that motivates a newcomer to follow through with a patch and stay with the community. So now, if a new developer helps us with any contribution -- one-line patch, test case, documentation -- we offer to add their name to the contributors list and news file.
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Until you reach a certain scale titles are for the benefit of external parties. How much this matters depends on industry.

I can remember people handing me cards with titles of "Tech Dude" and "Web Boy" during the dotcom boom (although I'm yet to notch up a "Mad Hatter"). Wiser to eschew titles entirely.
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You need to take everything off and use an allen key; it also requires two people unless you come up with a clever way to go about it.
That link deserved its own submission. Thanks and upvoted.
I think the ipad as a midi controller would be much more compelling. There wasn't much in the way of blending going on in the video which, for me at least, constitutes about half of what being an edm DJ is about (the other half being track selection).
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Luckily for you, there is no shortage of eeepc's. But if you ordered 10 Nintendo Wii's in December of 2006, you may have had a harder time (yes, even at Best Buy). Same applies here.