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Argh! Someone really doesn’t understand Lorem Ipsum.

“When you are designing with Lorem Ipsum, you diminish the importance of the copy by lowering it to the same level as any other visual element. The text simply becomes another supporting role, serving to make other aspects more aesthetic. Instead of your design enhancing the meaning of the content, your content is enhancing your design.”

That’s just so wrong. Line heights, line lengths, fonts, font sizes and margins are vitally import visual properties of your website. If you want to make sure that you picked the correct values for those properties and if you don’t yet have copy, you should use Lorem Ipsum. Text is certainly not just a visual element but it is also a visual element.

You diminish the importance of copy if you insert some crappy boilerplate stuff which has really nothing to do with your client. Lorem Ipsum is a clear signal that the copy is not yet finished and needs to be finished.

“By adding Lorem Ipsum to the design you are essentially dressing your king before you know his size.”

You can decide which colors and fabrics to use before you know the king’s size.

There certainly are situations where the copy has to be known before you can start laying out elements (forms are a example), but in those cases you shouldn’t use boilerplate, you should use the real copy! You actually need to!

“The point I tried to make is that you and your clients need to be thinking, understanding and gathering content before the design. Using Lorem Ipsum is a way to half-heartedly go about the most important part of your site.”

And crappy boilerplate stuff will make that point … how exactly? At worst clients will just take the boilerplate, change a few words and leave it at that. Lorem Ipsum is a powerful reminder that text is important! Clients often don’t get that, that’s certainly true, but the best remedy for that is telling them – again and again – not changing the filler text.

(And, as was already said here, searching for Lorem Ipsum is hell of a lot easier than searching for crappy boilerplate stuff.)

The biggest problem with Lorem Ipsum is that it’s pseudo Latin and as such doesn’t have the same word lengths or letter frequencies as English. None of this nonsense, though.
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Although I think it might be hindered a little bit by the titles of some of the articles. Something about "5 Actions that Made Me Happier", "The Scariest Pricing Idea Ever", "Best Writing Advice for Engineers" etc. in a print magazine seems unbecoming. Perhaps it speaks of the desperation to grab attention that is necessary on the web but not in print. I'm not really sure but, for me, those titles seem to cheapen what is otherwise beautiful.
There's XAuth which helps with this issue so that opening a browser is not needed.
Beauty queen nabbed on drug charges
A Colombian beauty queen was finally arrested by the anti-narcotics agents after hiding for a long time because of drug trafficking.

31-year old Angie Sanclemente Valencia, has been hiding for five months, according to the authorities.

Reports says that the former beauty queen used little girls to transport cocaine from Argentina to Europe via Mexico.

It was also reported that she's being linked to a druglord in Mexico in 2005 and in 2009, she transfered to Argentina.

She was crowned 2000 Coffee Queen, but was stripped of her title because it was discovered that she is already married when she joined the contest. Valencia was arrested inside Youth Hostel in Buenos Aires.
I believe that the effort to understand something you or the general population does not, does make you smarter.
A measure of how quickly (and how well) you can gain Knowledge and Experience.
Editor :- "I know what will get us more eyeballs: Another article about the iPad"

Journalist :- "But there is nothing left to say"

Editor :- "sure there is - start small - say, how you no longer love it. In a day or two we can do 'how the ipad ruined' my marriage. In a couple of weeks we can have 'how the ipad made me homeless', and THEN we will be scraping the barrel..."
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It's sitting proudly in the coffee shop in the IT dept. of the national Uni. of Ireland, Galway as we speak :D

Looks great... i printed it out in b&w I'm afraid :(
Not exactly the way for a university to encourage a local "Silicon Valley" to develop around it.
Very nice. I'll subscribe when MagCloud ships to Germany.
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Even though I haven't heard of it, just from the 439 watchers and 96 forks on Github, I'd probably look to it as an example of at least decent code.

This is why I <3 Github - really great way to learn good coding conventions.
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Twitter have released a nice curl-like tool for using OAuth on the command line, it's called twurl:

http://github.com/marcel/twurl
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Tell HN: Programmer interview "test" status ...
In reference to this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383169

I've had 76 submissions from 73 people, and although there are a few stragglers still submitting, I'm in the process of commenting on the code and writing up a summary.

If you think you've submitted code you should have an email from me saying so, giving you a reference code, and quoting the code I've extracted and am testing.

If you think you've send me code but have not received an email, check your spam bin, and if it's not there, send me an email. Please use the details in my profile, including the anti-spam measure.

The code is interesting, especially in the spread of techniques. It's clear that not everyone codes in C anymore. Those who do produce similar code, those who don't have a clear accent, and speak with varying degrees of fluency.

I'm starting the write-up, even though some entries are still dribbling in. This is your last chance to be included.
It's interesting that Google hasn't incorporated some of these extensions into their devtools.
Here is the extensions page:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/featured/web_dev
Sorry - forgot ...

If you reply to me, please quote your submission reference to make my life easier.
> you're saying Google is going to sit there and review all of the source code, and all patches and new releases to that source code. Really? Do you actually believe this...

It's not crazy to pay someone on their security teams to review checkins to OSS apps they use. Saying 'OH MY GOD' loudly and repetitively doesn't consitute an argument and is rude to the parent poster. Be civil.
Don't tell him that story about the fox and the dog.
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I would argue that neither of you truly understand the problem with Lorem Ipsum. Content should drive the design of a website. All too often web designers create a proof while also deciding roughly what content goes where. The creative process should not only begin with fonts, colors, layout, etc but also with content. You should begin your website process with general questions like "What are we trying to say?" instead of "We need a website with a boilerplate feel".

Switching the copy from Lorem to boilderplate makes it even worse.
Ask HN: Tablet for kids How cheap and how should it be done?
Having seen my 7 month old son being seriously attracted to my iPad, I am beginning to believe there is quite some opportunity in creating a tablet for kids 2 years maybe 1 year and up.

I have done some preliminary research on pricing but it's all very vague as I am not a hardware expert.

How cheap could it get done and what would you like to see in such a tablet?
I completely agree with you but sometimes you have no other choice than to use filler. Lorem Ipsum should be rarely used but the proposed solution to the problem is a travesty.
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Spend a summer hacking in Slovenia.
Would be nice to have a smartphone-friendly version too. HTML content flows to the with of the screen on my Android, but PDF text does not. (Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?)
Take that with a grain of salt.

Linus is snug as a bug in a rug, having solved his own problem of dealing with e-mailed patches. This also works for many coders with similar work-flows.

But, for work-flows with binaries (documents, images, executables, etc.) Perforce looks better, if you read through the comments in the LWN piece. For instance:

[git, problems with binaries] this has been documented several times, but it seems to be in the category of 'interesting problem, we should do something about that someday, but not a priority' right now

P.S. a couple of months ago, in another HN discussion, stevelosh kindly contributed a link about the bfiles extension for Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BfilesExtension
> outside the cities - you know, the other 90% of Japan

So far as I can tell, more than half the population of Japan is in major metropolitan areas.
Just imagine all their machines were running debian linux with the wrongly patched openssl binary. About 1024 different private/public keys to rule them all :-)
Given any large group people, a large fraction of the people with advanced degrees will be engineers. This is independent of the group itself.
The more interesting question is, "does the fraction of engineers exceed the population fraction"?
Perhaps you do it to yourself? I doesn't appear to happen to everyone ;)
Suggest a way for us to indicate (maybe something in our profiles) agreement for you to use our comments and I suspect quite a few will support it.

In case I didnt say before: you're welcome to use any of mine with attribution (if you want to edit long ones a quick email would be appreciated).
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One easy example that is hinted at on the Wikipedia page is solving Sudoku problems. You can read more here: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jchu/publicportal/sudoku/sudoku...
why did they need the javascript void link in the first place anyway?
I could easily export it to EPUB format. If you want it I can send you a copy to see how it looks on your Android.
I've seen my daughter playing with iPhone and had the same idea... Here are my thoughts on the subject:

- should be cheap but if you have kids you know that people can spend a lot of money on toys.

- Should look "tough to break" - must be pretty robust when kid drops it shouldn't break easily.

- Should have text 2 speech built in for all the navigation

- initial set of apps must bring educational value (ABCs, initial math, games that you must count to win etc.).
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Did traffic return to the pre-spike baseline eventually, or have you seen a sustained increase?
Wow, it actually makes me somewhat wish HN didn't exist and instead I got this in the mail. If only there was someway to source great articles I hadn't already read...
> One way the major carriers can do this is by disallowing certain kinds of activities.

> Is that still 'net neutrality'?

If you disallow specific network activities, yes it's a network neutrality issue.

> users are not allowed to download files more than 10MB in size

I do not believe that is correct. The AppStore application is configured to not download applications over 20MB (up from 10MB since February) over 3G, and the iTunes application does the same thing for music or podcasts, but that's a setting at the application level. I don't think e.g. Safari refuses to download files more than 10 (or 20) MB, or that the connection cuts off with a corrupted file.

> That isn't a case of "what" a person can download, but instead an issue of "how much" a person can download in a small period of time.

No, because again you're disallowing specific activities (e.g. VOIP, P2P) not certain network behaviors (data streams of over 1MB for over 10mn for instance). Therefore your network management is about activities (traffic shaping) not resources (resources management) which makes it an NN issue. Because you're arbitrarily preventing the users of the network from performing specific activities even though the network itself can handle them.

> This is under the presupposition that the price increase was ATT's doing, and they're not doing it because it's taking away from their profits; but instead they're fearing that VOIP will cause an even greater tax on their already strained network.

I don't believe that for a second, but again if the issue is resources, then write policies in terms of resources, not activities.
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Central America hit by the Tropical Storm Agatha that killed at least 140 peoples and injuring hundreds yesterday. As result huge sinkhole that swallowed the intersection of the street along with several houses and building and a security guard in the city of the Guatemala, which worst the worst hit by the storm.
I'm using Mixpanel to track the crucial events such as downloads and purchase: http://mixpanel.com/api/docs/guides/integration#js

Not sure if there's a better way to do it.
When I go to tryhaskell.org, it still doesn't work. I believe the patch that you've mentioned only applies to when the user presses ALT+TAB, which won't help here.

I'd suggest you either do "if(e.altKey)return;" or "if(e.altKey && e.ctrlKey)return;". Both work for me.

EDIT: Hm, my suggested changes work in Opera, but they break Chrome... This is driving me crazy.
The article above talks about Google's work on the Linux kernel, something that is managed competently with Git outside of the company.

Granted, Linus's comment is a sweeping statement (as most snarky comments tend to be) but in this context, Perforce seems woefully inadequate for managing Google's kernel work.
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Thanks that was far more enlightening than the usual translated it directly into USD.

Still to fully compare the wage, how was it before the teen had the ability to work there? What kind of wage would he then be looking at?
Exactly!
Just keep it free but offer the possibility to donate for everybody not ordering the print version.
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Ah ok, I get redirected to a localised google site and there they think I mistyped...
There are Java enabled phones that are pretty cheap and reasonably robust. Ideally someone would take one of those and fish out all the actual telephony stuff (no accidental 911 calls or calls to random people). I think you could do it for 50 euros if they were mass produced...
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Looks like that's going to happen soon. Speed Tracer is likely to become a part of Chrome's inspector, for instance.
What should Google do here? Clearly, in this case users would be better served by the third party service. But overall, Google Maps results for these queries are probably a good thing. Is the answer that Google should index and present the information from Sushikartan in Google Maps? I don't know.
As far as my memory serves me, i seem to remember an interview with Gibson about writing about the future. It isn't so much that he lost interest but more that he doesn't feel like he can imagine the future anymore. I seem to remember him saying younger writers would be better.

Again not 100% sure it was him, but if it was that could explain his diminishing interest and the fact that his books seemed to move further towards now than the future.
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But Wouldn't you think the display would need to be bigger?
Which has precisely Zip to do with being honest. Honesty isn't a sliding scale, where you say one thing if its good for you, and another if it harms you.
Sure, the particular distributions used are a detail; but it still needs a very odd setup, right?
why wouldn't the official people already involved track fucking everything? It costs exactly zero over and above what they are doing now, so why exclude it?

I'm not really sure who are those "official people already involved", but what I would really like to know is how you're so sure that "it costs exactly zero and above what they are doing now" to track "fucking everything"?

First, let's go with the simple thing: how this tracking is supposed to be done. I'm just extrapolating here, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I've had no doctor follow my kid around after vaccination 24/7 to monitor whether he's suddenly developed a symptom, so I suppose it's not by direct observation. Therefore, it must depend on some doctor connecting the dots ("oh, so you vaccinated your kid 3 months ago and now he has X?") and reporting it to some tracking body.

Which leads me to the next issue. To put it like you did: how the fuck do you track "fucking everything"? I can understand that the doctors would be informed about a suspected link between A and B and would therefore report any cases of A and B happening "together", where "together" is defined as a parameter of this suspected link. But for that, you need to at least suspect that there's a link between A and B.

Maybe I'm too naive, but to me it stands to reason that tracking "fucking everything" does not cost "zero", because otherwise someone would have been doing it already. Whenever someone claims that it would be easy to do something someone's not doing already, I remember Yegge's post "Have you ever legalized marijuana?": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

Combine that with some weird stories I hear, and the fact that it is free for you to counter them with data, but you don't, and there you go, a conspiracy theory.

Okay. Here's how that reads: "I hear stories from people and nobody seems to counter that with data, so I choose to believe in a conspiracy. Especially because I believe it would be 'free' to come up with data."

...in case you actually are interested in the truth.

In case you are, here's a dose of it:
http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html
Text to speech seems like a brilliant suggestion. Perhaps even speech 2 text. It could even be used to teach kids to speak faster since it could react when they started speaking their first words. Love it!
So then sites like this: cupidtino.com are really bad for Mac owners. Gotcha! :)
Can you please describe your workflow and the tools used to create the magazine.
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Has anyone created a "clone" for any other platforms?
Sure. A blog post is coming up about this.
Thank you for doing the job of compiling(pun intended) the entries. :)

I, for one, am looking forward to the summary.
I asked Rich Hickey, and this is what he had to say - "they differ from Haskell's type classes (from which they draw partial inspiration) in that the dispatch map isn't an independent entity passed around by the type system, and thus can't do return-type based method selection, and generally in that they are not static-type-system-based."
I asked Rich Hickey and this is what he had to say - "they differ from Go interfaces in that Go just uses method conformance to determine interface support (vs explicit declaration of 'I implement this protocol'), and Go's interfaces, last time I checked, were only 'open' within a module."
You've also debunked GC! Pure genius!
I think you make a point that I was blind to because it's hard for me to look at the app purely from a first time visitor's perspective.

The reason we've kept our description on HN very matter-of-fact is: we feel most readers on HN will likely want to know the concept for what it is rather than have it sugar coated. I'm not sure I want to turn that into a sales pitch. Should I?

Yes, we do plan to tie up the APIs and build a game on top them. We look at it as a universal game that you can play irrespective of the check-in service you use (Your Yelp check-ins will fetch you points that will let you lock horns with Gowalla and Foursquare users). I guess being more loud about 'universal' might help. And we hope to see some very interesting conversations around purchases that should help users discover new stuff (think hollrr.com meets location). If it does get traction, we'll be able to offer users some pretty sweet deals from the locations they check-in to / shop at.

That being said, I recognize that we haven't answered the "what's in it for me if I sign up now?" question convincingly. Since this value will become apparent in the future, do you think its alright to beat a drum about how cool it will be and make promises we might (possibly) not be able to keep?
Please make it available in Europe so I can quit buying Wired!
I saw this here earlier.
Definitely, especially if going touchscreen(which is the way to go - imagine how often a stylus would go missing). The resolution needn't be massive, so I would hope this wouldn't be costly.
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It's probably not enough to play an instrument. Being passionate about and engaged in music to the extent that one analyses the experience and actively experiments -- that level of engagement might help. I know plenty of musicians whose approach to playing an actual instrument isn't much deeper than playing Guitar Hero.
>>which platform the major, semi-automated botnets (Storm, Zeus) are running.

Let me guess - not Windows 7.
Sales. Google is an ad-company after all.
There was little interest in Gmail until contextual ads were brought into the picture.
What better way to comment than to quote Rider himself:

Those who do produce similar code, those who don't have a clear accent, and speak with varying degrees of fluency.
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The idea here is to take the best bits of services like e-junkie and foxycart (simple integration, quick and cheap enough for tiny businesses), and then apply constant, rigorous improvement to the purchase process. I'm using nprefinery.com for a really quick and dirty teaser page... What do you think?
I'm sure i'm missing something obvious, but how do you see Ajax requests and responses using the chrome debugging tools?
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They wouldn't really need to maintain the OS stuff, the HTML is not changing for it really.

In contrast the HTML on the web is changing very quickly and therefore the browser needs frequent updates to keep up.
Risks should not be ignored. Doing so promotes risky behaviour and misallocation of resources.

If a supplier of a company agrees on limiting liability on the corporation, as they do now by obligation, that's ok. But if you commit an agression, as this oil spill is, there should not be any limit on the liability.
I find that using more realistic content is a great help in web design and development since it's easier to understand and "feel" the final web experience. A site filled with Lorem Ipsum to me is like a portrait of a person where the pupils are missing, it's lifeless.

What I typically do is that when I work on a site about music, I'll just find some similar sites and take images and text from there that is a close match to what will eventually be used in the project. Especially for bigger projects and content-driven sites, where the client will later add the final stuff via their CMS, this works great (especially when you have otherwise only cat pictures and "this is a test" text that some dev added).

Seems like people have different experience, but I find using more realistic content a great help for everybody involved, since it simply makes the site more real and therefore it's easier to make it better.