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I'm a Mozilla user since before the Phoenix (later Firebird, later Firefox) came to existence, I began to use the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) since 2001, and I do remember how the small Phoenix team produced feature after feature in question of weeks compared to the much larger Mozilla Suite team, something that Mozilla lost after the 1.5 Firefox release, maybe this is the Microsoftification of the Mozilla Corporation, maybe this will come to happen to Chrome and the WebKit in the future, I just think Mozilla needs to divide development in subsystems with no set of desired features to be included in the next release, and them merge them when they are complete and stable, giving greater autonomy to developers of each subsystem, something like the Linux kernel and its various subsystems.

For the tl;dr folks: Mozilla is just too centralized these days.
I don't follow. If you need literal, unstructured data embedded in a structured format, then use whatever escape mechanism the format has.
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Perhaps these investors view Twitter as a useful service, that happens to help their own business in some way. Rather than see it as a direct investment, they see Twitter as a public utility they are willing to pay for.
This is neat, I'll have to check it out. My t-mobile coverage can be spotty in Brooklyn, which causes the official Android Foursquare client to time out when actual web pages are loading fine, so maybe this solves a problem I have.
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Hi.
We do not have all the projects yet, but they will be there soon.
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It has been a long time since college for me, but I vaguely remember this one.

Just like Wikipedia, encyclopedias are not generally original source research. Citing more specific original or closer-to-original sources gives the evaluator more tools in considering the relevance or validity of an argument.
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David can be a bit prolix, but his essays are well researched and often capture nuance that would otherwise be lost by most writers. Give it another shot.

He also makes shorter things that are a bit more immediately useful, like his F/OSS License Slide: http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html
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That's great creative thinking - thank you so much! ;-)

We've been thinking more conservatively (which might be a mistake). I've been thinking of doing consulting while I'm in california, which should help sufficiently. We will possibly visit a few well frequented Starbucks for the cool bits of conversation anyway - I particularly miss the one closest to the apple store on University Ave in Palo Alto.

Again, thanks for the great ideas!
Our startup was featured on Mashable last November. We didn't know anyone there, or have any connections that did. We just fell under the criteria, applied, and landed on the front page a week later.
Flash support is very useful. The other big news is the list of hardware vendors pledging support.
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I don't care if I get down voted to oblivion for this, but I can't take the assholery anymore. When Apple et. al. file such suits its strategic, when they arbitrarily try to kill stuff its also strategic and jobs being jesus.Microsoft so much as moves a muscle and Apple trolls that have infested todays 'new' media and companies such as the above swing into action. Fucking 37 signals, what a sad day indeed.
Body mass is relevant, but it's a crude proxy for the amount of "brain" used to control the body and sense the environment. Excluding those things (and perhaps some more) leaves you with the cognitive brain mass, which seems to be a proxy for what we're interested in.
And did it do anything for you?
I was a math TA for a while and I can tell you that people are just as bad when it comes to mathematical writing and reasoning. We don't expect everyone to have perfect pitch so why is it more reasonable to expect everyone to be a good writer? Sure, everything you mentioned seems obvious to you but you've had plenty of practice and expecting the same from college students who are just barely beginning to figure things out is a bit much.
Right, I've explained my opinion of speed reading techniques by describing my experience of having tried them. This is the actual, factual experience I've had attempting to use speed reading - on what basis can you say that this is "absolutely not true"?

Perhaps you're trying to make an implicit point regarding subjectivity vs. objectivity, but if this is the case, I'd point out that (a) the effectiveness of speed reading is an inherently subjective question, and (b) you responded to my anecdote with only your own anecdote, despite explicitly making an absolute claim.
Previum is like the old Shareware or Trial but taken to the net.
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OK, for reasons I won't go into I have a compiler that takes a bespoke language and compiles it into something else. I can't go into specifics - trust me that I'm doing something sensible.

I now need to produce Linux executables and was going to target C as an intermediate language, but there are probably better choices.

I know you can't give me detailed specific advice without knowing more, but it would be useful to have generic advice. What other target options are there?

I know there are things like C--, and I could even target Haskell or OCaml, say, and then compile from there. I know someone will say Lisp.

What other choices are there, and what are their primary advantages?

Thanks.
This is absolutely not the case.
I love this Wolfram Alpha website. I think it's amazing. I would love to use their API to integration with our product but the price is crazy. If they open their API to a more accessible terms then the innovation around their products would be amazing.
I think we will all be safer when the pre-internet generation passes from power. I hope so, anyway.
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I don't care if you misspell a word, or make an error. But errors require extra time to process on the reader's part. Writing that's filled with spelling and grammar errors wastes the reader's time.

I don't like having my time wasted, and so I do care about spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Similarly, I assume other people care about their time, and I try my best to write well.

Of course, the amount of care needed varies based on what you're writing. I spend more time proofreading my blog posts than this comment, and much more time proofreading the books I've worked on.
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Thats like saying I chose to play it safe and not play the lottery rather than buy a lottery ticket every week. One week my numbers win and that shows I made the wrong choice?

There are so many variables that he doesn't have control over that if he took the bigger options he just would have been gambling. It is flawed logic to look at the outcome of an event that has so much variability and hidden factors and say that someone made the wrong choice. I would bet that if he was faced with the same situation now, knowing the outcome of this past event, he would still make the same choice because the smart choice is to not make wild gambles.
I joined Mozilla just a couple months ago (and honestly I personally was using Chrome a lot before that -- I'm not on the browser team). From what I've seen talking to people I feel like what the author promotes is what's already been happening.

The internal decision process for Firefox has been moving to the UI team, which has been identifying improvements they think are important or easy, and those improvements are getting priority. That's a clear user-centric decision process.

As for forking Firefox, it's not something being done explicitly and it's not a clear team, but people are playing around with ideas along those lines and the culture is very open to that process. Jetpack actually has some basis in a split like that (then being brought back to the mainline).

No fault to the author, these things are by no means obvious (and I myself can only claim to have a vague sense of what's going on)... but I feel more optimistic the more I know about how decisions and experimentation is done at Mozilla.

Sometimes Firefox people come off as very defensive... which I find a little off-putting, but I think it's also a matter of avoiding panic. It would be really stupid to make a long bet on some radical redesign of Firefox, but if you embrace a self-sense of impending irrelevance you can make some really stupid mistakes.
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The only part of an email you can trust are the headers you or your ISP add when it arrives, which is going to be something like :

Received: from farlep.net (unknown [89.105.247.162])
by mail.techiferous.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E30EC456E
for <info@techiferous.net>; Fri, 14 May 2010 10:24:22 +0100 (BST)

everything else - especially the RCPT TO, MAIL FROM, From: and To: cannot be trusted (unless the message is signed etc.).

I administer the mail for 10k domains, finding 1 spammer and doing something about it is hard work.

Spamassassin, SPF, DKIM are all good tools against SPAM, I can recommend using them all in combination; 90% of all our incoming mail is refused / tagged in this way.

I would review your assumptions too :

% host discokenny.com
Host discokenny.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

If they tried to send it to me, I'd never even know.
looks like the email you entered was too long. try a shorter one if you can. i'll put in a fix now for larger fields for email addresses.
All-in-One Gestures saves me a good bit of time. It's the one addon I find myself missing when I'm not on my computer.

Using the scroll wheel to switch between tabs in the bar = priceless.
Todoist is by far my favourite task manager, and has helped me complete countless projects over the last couple of years.

great stuff amix.
If you really want to see it, resetting your network settings will show it. It's not really worth it though, considering you can't do anything with the setting right now, and you'll have to re-enter your WiFi/VPN/etc. settings after the reset.
Sorry, I meant to upvote you but clicked the wrong arrow...
And here I thought in this country free speech was protected by the first amendment. But I guess this guy knows better, seeing as how he is the chief legal adviser for an entire state.

Why am I not surprised that this guy is a republican?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Corbett

Don't get me wrong I'm sure there are plenty of cases of democrats trying to silence the opposition, but it sure seems like this happens much more often with republicans.
What happened to freedom of speech? Does it really matter whether you know if I said it, or Joe Blow? We have the right to say it.
The lawsuit might be unusual, but it's not unusual for Microsoft to try to get companies to pay licensing for trivial patents in its portfolio. They've been engaged in aggressively pursuing licensing deals around their patents for a number of years: http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft--license-to-deal/2100-1012_3-...

Most of the time companies just pay up, as in the recent Amazon licensing deal. Salesforce apparently decided not to.

Both this situation and the one with Amazon also suggest that they are now specifically targeting online/SaaS companies.
They forgot: Optimize for security.
And don't post on HN saying "Rate my startup" when you have just made a website for fun. A startup is - or should be - a real business.
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Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news.

Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.
>a better idea to fork Chrome. ...an independent version that's regularily checked (and fixed) by persons outside of Google.

We already have this. It's called SRWare Iron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
I just put a post up here... no idea if it would help you or not... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361320
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They just announced the open-sourcing of VP8 under a royalty-free licence :)

http://www.webmproject.org
I second this! Please someone buy back Delicious, or make a new one:

+ Delicious is lagging behind in mobile support.

+ Delicious could be taking more advantage of the conversation that people are having in their Notes section.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of the links that are shared between users: help me find users that have similar but unique interests as I do. This would be true social networking on Delicious!

+ Delicious places priority on what is "Hot". This is not terribly useful since a lot of "Hot" links have already made the rounds on Twitter or in my Google Reader first.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of links that are not yet popular but have a strong interest in category niches.

+ Delicious could be taking advantage of a user's top 10 tags: it's not an accurate assessment of a user's interest, but it gives me a quick assessment if I want to subscribe to their feed.

(I wish I could make another Delicious, but I'm not a programmer!)
There's always LLVM if you really want control of the generated code.
well to be fair Yahoo is getting out of the search business(they'll be powered by bing)
No, you've got that backwards. Suppose you have:

Claim 1. A method for surviving, comprising: Cooking a meal.

Claim 2. A method as in claim 1, wherein the meal is breakfast.

Claim 3. A method as in claim 2, wherein the breakfast comprises sausages and bacon.

Claim 4. A method as in claim 3, wherein the sausages and bacon are fried.

and so on. A court might decide that there's some prior art for having meals, and toss out claim 1. But that prior art might only be for lunch and dinner, in which case claim 2 might survive. On the other hand, maybe someone else has had breakfast before (publicly enough to count as prior art). Then claim 2 goes too, but maybe claim 3 survives. Oh, too bad, it turns out that the court thinks having sausage and bacon for breakfast is obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art. Bye-bye to claim 3, but maybe frying them is an extraordinary new idea that no one else would have thought of.

Of course, similar things can happen during patent prosecution (i.e., filing; the terminology is silly), only now it's the patent office that keeps objecting to your claims and requiring you to fall back to weaker dependent claims.

It's absolutely standard for your first claim to be very broad, and subsequent ones to be narrower. It's absolutely not standard for claim 1 to be "best" in the sense of "least likely to be invalidated".
Mozilla has been working with Google on this for some time now, but we haven't been able to talk about it in public until now.* Some of the developers from the Theora project are also working with Mozilla and Google to implement and improve VP8. Firefox builds are available today:

http://nightly.mozilla.org/webm/

One of the most important parts here is that Google owns the patent rights to VP8, and is licensing them to the public under a royalty-free grant -- but the grant doesn't apply to anyone who files a patent suit against VP8, which means the patents are still useful for defensive purposes.

* This is, of course, part of the outcome Mozilla hoped for from not supporting the non-free H.264 format.
In the month following the post, we only received ~800 uniques directly from Mashable (it was posted on a late Friday afternoon). But, if you lump in Twitter and direct visits, it was probably closer to 4-5k. Plus the bounce rate on those visits was very low, and the post definitely impacted our Google search result positively.
The interesting question for me is whether existing mobile hardware can accelerate this in any way - i.e. through the ARM Neon extensions and similar. Otherwise we will have to wait for a whole new generation of hardware if this is going to make any dent in the mobile web.
Watching this from the audience in Google I/O. This is exciting news - good stuff, mbrubeck.
Sorry, I meant why would any other kind of speed matter?
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And just as important as the performance work (in my opinion) is the new theme work in Firefox 4:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups
Attorney General of the state that brought you the Lower Merion School District (laptop webcam spying case). I wonder what is Cobett's legal opinion of that case. I'd like to know if this subpoena is part of his general view of internet privacy.
Does it means something that I don't see Apple on this page?

http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/
It's a matter of credibility and reputation. When someone who has a track record of delivering value to a given organization makes a little error, it's not a big deal, because it's balanced against "karma" that they have already banked.

On the other hand, a cover letter and resume (aka "sales letter" for your services) is your first introduction to the organization. Same thing with a vendor proposal. Such a document probably arrives in a pile of several (perhaps even tens or hundreds) of others. In such a situation, and in the absence of personal connections to the decision makers, your credibility is pretty much zero. Your written word is your reputation.

In such a case, people are looking for reasons to filter, and being perfectionistic about grammar is a reasonably inoffensive axis to use for a preliminary cut.
$60/hour is one dollar a minute. I don't know if Starbucks even has that many customers on a sustained basis, let alone customers who aren't working on their own software prototypes on their own shoestring budgets. So I agree with your "crazy" disclaimer. Cute, though.
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I appreciate the feedback! I didn't take any offense to what you said. :)

I'm not entirely certain I'm qualified to write a Clojure tutorial anyway, which is why I hope Michael is interested.
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So the new iPhone Twitter client is being rolled out through iTunes at the moment, but is not yet available in the UK app store.

If you're the impatient type like me you can circumvent this by creating an iTunes account with your country set to New Zealand and login to find the app available for download :)
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I suspect they've concluded that virtualization is a complement to databases.
I think it partly depends on what your input language is like. A nice aspect of targeting C is that it's portable to pretty much everywhere, has multiple good compilers, and is low-level enough that you can compile a lot of different constructs to it efficiently (though not everything). But you'll end up reimplementing nontrivial infrastructure and a runtime if you're compiling a high-level language; e.g., does your source language have garbage collection? Any sort of dynamic features? If yes, are they similar enough to the semantics of any existing language that if you targeted that language you might be able to piggyback on its features, e.g. use the target language's GC to do your GC? (The latter idea has some of the same pitfalls/advantages of internal DSLs.)
The way I like to think about it: http://grab.by/grabs/059cadd141f45b9a5d417ee6a34139d6.png
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From the article:

> "Can Android sales catch up to the iPhone?"

Yes, of course it will. We're talking about a free OS that all the major manufacturers have jumped behind - no way Apple can beat that.

The better question is: will the dominance of Android actually change anything for the consumer, or will things be the same as they are currently (i.e., fractured UIs, no consistent experience, poor compatibility even within a single manufacturer, etc)

Google IMHO has done a poor job so far keeping Android as a single unified platform - it seems more and more like it's just a marketing word for Motorola, HTC, et al to latch onto.
That's not the case.

Think of your quotation as a claim, that describes the set of all possible inventions that meet that claim. Within that set are all kinds of mappings, between different kinds of logical data and kinds of physical data, in different situations, and using different methods for doing so. Subsequent claims restrict that set, until (the inventor hopes) you get one that is novel and inventive etc enough.

Perhaps you're thinking of the term "dependent claims", which describes claims 2-9 in your example. They're not dependent in that way.
The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
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TryHaskell is powered by Chris Done's jquery-console. So is TryClojure. Bugs in TryHaskell transfer to TryClojure by default.
As an analogy (USA-centric), look at people who were born and raised after the so-called Summer of Love and have grown up to take office or run for sheriff or become judges.

While there have been improvements in laws and attitudes regarding drugs and sexuality, we've a long way to go.
Both Mozilla and Google funded work to implement hardware-accelerated Theora on mobile devices[1][2]. While I don't know of any similar efforts for VP8 yet, I'd guess that it is inevitable.

[1]: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/04/interesting-ti...

[2]: http://blog.mjg.im/2010/04/16/theora-on-n900.html
Opera supports the WebM (VP8) video format
While this will probably not get read, I made the move from TextMate to Vim (well, MacVim) and the efficient movement between files was the one thing I really missed - until I got fuzzyfinder-textmate set up.
http://github.com/jamis/fuzzyfinder_textmate

Give it a go, it was first started by Jamis Buck and while the install can be a bit funky and is barely maintained, once you have it going it provides super efficient movement between files.
Interesting. With both Chrome, Firefox and Opera supporting it, there will still be plenty of options for viewing WebM on OS X though. I wonder what will happen to Safari if WebM gets popular?
Hmm. I'm an Apps Premier customer and I don't see it in the control panel yet...

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-wave-lab...
Probably hasn't gotten rolled to your particular server yet.
What, you mean hashes don't won't like compression?
If YouTube goes WebM, it's hard to imagine that Apple won't be forced to cave in on this one. And it's hard to imagine that Google wouldn't re-encode the whole of YouTube (geez, the CPU cycles!!!) But I would expect legacy support of H.264 by YouTube for some years to come. So even if Apple does switch their preference, it could be quite some time.
Haha. Good luck finding a starbucks with a startup crowd in the bay area.
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> On the other hand, sometimes what seems on the face of it to be a ridiculous patent really is ridiculous.

I hope we can agree that this is one of those.

How did we ever get this far?