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>There are millions of websites, making very decent profits

Millions?

I highly doubt it.

Those that make a profit do it largely on the backs of ads, which isn't what is being discussed. We're talking about actually charging for a web property which remains shockingly rare.
it would help if microsoft allowed browser upgrading without checking for a valid installation of windows. i don't know if things changed, as i'm on a mac now, but when i had XP, i was stuck with an older version of IE cause i bought a computer with an invalid copy of the OS
The article* mentions at least 5 more people: Tom Hall, Sandy Petersen, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud and Gregor Punchatz.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29#Developme...
Say hello to the new super soldier. A tiny maneuverable information gathering robot backed up by field artillery.
If you're still alive read "The Tibetan Book of The Dead" (I'm not Buddhist but it will provide you with a deal of clarity if you can see past the metaphors). I'm not a fan of platitudes but I think taking responsibility for yourself and living on your own terms starts by ending self-pity; death is invariably linked to it--you must let it go out of scope before you do.
Their browser is too tied to the OS.

Why can't you have IE7+ on Windows 2000 or IE9 on Windows XP? the latest version of Firefox (3.6) works on both.

And, why can't you install multiple versions of IE on a computer?

I think these things are holding a number of the remaining people back from upgrading.
this is not true. if a team is "hiring" you can transfer in, but the popular ones are full up, and getting in is very competitive. plus many teams are only in a particular office and if are not willing to move to it, then you are out of luck.

that said, transfers are supported by management and there's a nice internal web app for browsing which teams have reqs and for requesting a transfer.
Now that is effective user education! Simple, amusing, to the point, and the text draws you right into understanding why upgrades are important. Somebody earned their money on that one.
Can someone describe this "socially engineered malware" test that IE8 performs so well on?
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Think of Github as a discoverable user interface for git. It has visible affordances. Github is to Git as OS X is to Unix.
Can you post a source of this information? I am installing wine as we speak to get it running on the Mac, so I'm very interested. Thanks!
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
In a study by NSS Labs, Internet Explorer 8 caught socially engineered malware 85% of the time compared to Firefox 3's 29%, Safari 4's 29% and Chrome's 17%1.

Does anyone know if this is true, or is Microsoft twisting the facts as usual?
What makes you think BP isn't the best organization to do this? It definitely has the motivation and experience, so I don't see what else you want from them.
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> That place has been a sewer for years and I hate that it was ruined.

That's a bit like saying Usenet is a waste of space or IRC is full of trolls. Reddit, like Usenet and IRC, is more of an enabling technology than a single community.

In each case, there are some really great communities where you can find a good signal to noise ratio. There are also some fairly pointless ones that are just rants or FUD or whatever. Fortunately, no-one makes you read every sub-reddit, any more than you are forced to read every Usenet group or follow every IRC channel. Just sign up to the ones that have discussions you find interesting and ignore the rest.
Precisely. Of course people don't plan an exodus from Facebook yet. Exodus to what? There are no prominent Facebook competitors with better privacy constraints. Nobody bothered to start one over the last few years, because that space was dominated by Facebook itself, before the company decided to abandon it! Nobody wants to pick a fight with Facebook on its own turf. And nature may abhor a vacuum, but a vacuum doesn't fill up instantly.

It will, of course, be harder to grow a privacy-enabled service than a promiscuous one. It's harder to establish the viral loop. But that doesn't mean it could not happen, and it is probably too soon to tell if or when it will.

Facebook will look fine for a while, but the damage to their brand is permanent. People don't jump ship without motive, means, and opportunity, but now the motive is firmly in place for a lot of users. Wait and see what happens if and when someone invents the means and offers the opportunity.
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A friend worked with a high end image manipulation program that had "pie" menus. You held the menu button down on your tablet, and after a pause a circular menu popped up at the mouse position. You dragged in the direction of your choice. If there were submenus for that choice, another circle popped up and so on.

Because of fitts' law, this was far more efficient than standard popup menus: the 'target' for any choice was larger and therefore much easier to hit.

The gestural part was this: If you held the menu button down and immediately started to move the mouse, it would select the choice without bothering to display the pie. Advanced users quickly learned the sequence of zigs and zags required for their most common menu operations and preferred using the pie menus to keyboard shortcuts or standard menus in the window panes.

As the OP points out, this system provided discoverability as well as consistency. The same gesture always produced the same result.
Something tells me this might not match admin@παράδειγμα.δοκιμή/Αρχική_σελίδα (a valid UTF-8 domain name).
My cousin has had a colostomy bag for the past four years. He is not attractive. He is not wealthy. He met a loving girl two years ago and they are now engaged.

It can happen.
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Related to the larger theme is the story of Manna: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Super-intelligent machines working for the benefit of only those who can own.
http://nsslabs.com/browser-security

Full report (PDF): http://nsslabs.com/test-reports/NSSLabs_Q12010_GTRBrowserSEM...
Actually water starts to bubble around 70 C, and small bubbling vs heavy boiling makes a great difference in cooking time. But of course it doesn't matter whether you achieve this by turning up the heat or putting a lid on the pan.
I think they are ok, as long as the apps submitted meet some minimum criteria.

i.e. no things like "top 10 _______ images" apps
It looks like the source they show says that and IE8's other report on there is actually better than Firefox's results (for phishing). I'm not sure if there are other independent studies out there that suggest IE8 is less secure. (E.g. NSS Labs may only do two tests and those just so happen to make IE8 look good.)
I don't see why should any software company provide support and updates to illegal copies of their software.
Two months ago I hooked up jsmin from a build script for release configurations. It's been helpful to have all of the reader-friendly stuff stripped out automatically without having to store minified copies in source control.
I don't know for sure - I said that in the very first sentence of my post. I'm out of touch by my own admission.

To me, the simplest explanation is: a company that's already raised a SeriesC with VCs impatient about getting that grand return they'd dreamed of. The CEO left bc of it and the burden is now on Kevin. FWIW, I think he's absolutely capable of filling the void between our 'real' facebook friend networks and the vast twitter network for an optimal signal to noise ratio with serendipity.

I just don't think VCs care about that so deep into their investment.

But I hope it does make digg even stronger - or that Howl crushes everyone with a killer execution - bc we'd all benefit.

Also, my name is Alexis.
Here's the "socially engineered malware" test (PDF) from last year, too, with IE7:

http://nsslabs.com/test-reports/NSS%20Labs%20Browser%20Secur...
something like buysellsads?
No worries. I've done that a few times. Now I manually zoom almost every time...
They aren't really obligated to do anything, but I'm happier when the botnets are smaller.
As by a coincidence, I have the same opinion about IE7 and even IE8!
So sad that MS can only sell IE8 through 'security features' instead of standards compliance.
Because everyone is busy collecting "friends". By the way, did you guys know that whoever has most "friends" on Facebook when they die, wins?
"Gmail has become unusably slow"

If it's that bad, then it begs the question: why do you continue to use it? There's plenty of alternatives. Vote with your feet and let them know.
The beginning of skynet.
Well, it has a lot of uses.

For developers that are new to a largish code base, it can help them ensure they don't break important subsets (as would any good unit testing strategy). But also it proves to be quite handy when you have a really complex system that grows over time. When you go to refactor it to keep it evolving and working, the tests throughout (while costly to maintain) give you more reassurance that you didn't wreck the world.

TDD adds costs but reassurance that you don't break major things during a refactor. It can get a bit cumbersome at times, but it's hard for me to avoid seeing the value for long-lived code (i.e. non-prototypes) and/or shared code.

It's not for everyone or everything, but I think it's pretty reactionary for anyone to say it's not a useful process to have in your toolbox.

For example, I recommend TDD for cases where you're making a public API to unknown people. It's much more likely you'll break some unknown importance nuance in a refactor unless you have a good number of comprehensive unit tests. If you can generate those in some other fashion, awesome-- but TDD puts you ahead of the game there.

For me, I also don't have the best long-term memory on details given how many vastly different projects/technologies I work on, so TDD is basically encoding that memory for me so I don't make multi-tasking mistakes for problems I've already solved a month or few weeks ago and helps pass on that memory to people who inherit that code later. I'm an aggressive commenter for that reason, too, but nothing helps you keep cross-component issues solid than unit tests designed to be the canary in the coal mine when you break something in a refactor.
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I usually avoid to write stupid comments(Great,Awesome,Cool) on HN but this is relay brilliant!
considering its about impossible to buy a pc without paying for a windows license bundled, I would be surprised if the percentage of illegal copies was larger that 0.X%
Using IE6 is more like drinking 9-year-old antifreeze. It was never wholesome in the first place.
Ask HN: could we get an iPhone/iPad favicon for HN?
Simple to implement: http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2008/06/05/how-to-create-an-iphone-favicon-for-your-website/

It would make my HN bookmark look so much better on the iPhone and iPad. If there's a way to do this without pg having to change something please let me know how. Thanks!
Well, the target audience is people on IE6. Standards obviously mean nothing to these people, the majority probably wouldn't get it even if the whole thing was devoted to standards, hell, the average firefox user probably doesn't care about standards.

Focusing on how someone could come to financial loss by using a certain browser is a great angle. Money means something to everyone no matter how much they know about the internet.
> It's the OS X of Unixes.

Sorry, but I think you mean that OS X is the OS X of Unixes, and GitHub is the OS X of DVCSs.
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I thought the ipod touch and iphone were the ipad minis.
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Judging from the evidence of my browser, and every other common browser out there --including new IE's!-- I'm not so sure the S- vs. MDI debate is completely settled. I think that a lot of the text editors for the Mac --TextMate, maybe?-- have tabbed interfaces, too; vim and emacs certainly do.

(I don't know anything about mobile browsers, so the statement may well be false for them.)
California has piled every imaginable burden on businesses. Minimum-wage laws are among the highest in the country, and health and safety regulations are among the strictest; cities like San Francisco and San Jose require businesses to offer employees health insurance; labor laws are extremely union-friendly; environmental policies drive up energy costs—and on and on.

I have never heard anyone at justin.tv complain about the impact on our business of minimum-wage laws, health and safety regulations, mandatory health insurance, union-friendly labor laws or environmental policies. The article claims to be talking about things that hurt Silicon Valley startups, but I don't recognize anything that rings true in the above paragraph.
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I hope we see more of a campaign by MS to retire IE6. It's very difficult to get most people (and I'm not talking about people who post here) to switch browsers, except when they change machines. Anything MS does that gets people off of IE6 before that event is a public service.
I think he was talking about high tech manufacturing jobs, which can't be competitive with places like china given what must be offered to even employees undertaking basic manual labour.
Google does not offer SSL search to users in China
Being based in China I was eager to try out Google over SSL to find that no matter which Google site I go to (.co.uk, .ie, .com, and even .com.kh) I am redirected to Googles Hong Kong site without SSL.

So no SSL(and therefore no privacy for searches anyway).

So DuckDuckGo it is then.
See how a web-based discoverable text editor makes collaborative editing easy? :-)

Thanks!!!
She is saying that she shuns the idea of working for Google based on the lessons learned working at Microsoft.
How about just adding stars to the current one? Those look really bad for flying from a flagpole on a windy day.
Later in the same paragraph, he says "...the cost of state regulations in 2007 reached an average of $134,122 per small business—the equivalent of one job lost per company."

That doesn't seem to add-up if he's talking about minimum-wage manufacturing jobs.
There are already two posts about this on the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387043

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387312
I think it also happens in subtle ways with changing knowledge. I recently got done with "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford. Looking at the Mongol entries in Wikipedia, I wonder how much is sourced from European sources using Mongols as a political statement against their own rulers and how much is taken from documents that came available in the last 15 years.
The pages were actually cached locally for the chrome tests. The point of the test (besides being cool) was to show the rendering speed of the browser.
Just read the whole thing and I'm not at all impressed. It turns out socially engineered malware is just regular malware. The report is very low on content. The methodology isn't described at anywhere near the level of detail required to actually reproduce this. The report just throws around a few percentages and repeatedly refers to increases in protection from 8% to 17% as 9% improvement, one of my pet peeves. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but for some reason I expected more.
Somehow I just don't see the point in comparing an internet browser to consumer goods (which are bought to be consumed) such as milk - things which are fast one time purchases.

What was the marketing department thinking?
The key value of Facebook is mass-opt-in messaging, including photos/videos as a sort of message. So if I'm going to such and such a party, I don't need to seek people out, I just post it on Facebook and people will know what I'm up to if they want to join.

Until a service exists and I can migrate there with all of my friends, I need Facebook to fill that role. Yeah, I could just restrict myself to those who seek me out (or I seek out), but that would likely mean discarding some people who might have been great lifelong friends.
That is an incredibly good idea - it deserves to be widely copied.
It would simplify the tax code not to carve out special exemptions for venture capitalists.
As an aside, I was writing some Ruby code last night and realized that mojombo has written a ton of really awesome gems.
I looked at the video; was really impressed... then went outside; saw a dragon fly... simply amazing.
I for one am glad that Microsoft is marketing their browser a little more and I liked the little presentation. I hate IE as much as the next guy but IE8 is much better than IE6 and if it takes Microsoft to say that having a modern browser is important so that people believe it, then so be it.
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30s! That's neat. Is it one of those gadgets that cuts fries, and then you chop the fries into cubes?
This line of discussion needs to be seen far more often. I think the biggest problem that the anti-Facebook crowd has is that they've allowed the news narrative to be structured in terms of privacy, when it is far more about personal control of data and informed consent to how that data is used.
There was a time when MS used to say that IE6 is not the problem
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She's a very prolific crackpot, nobody that promotes so many different ideas would be likely to be uniformly bad.
"What was the marketing department thinking?"

About marketing. It's a metaphor that's hard to forget. And it makes the point that browsers can "go bad" after a time period because the rest of the industry has moved on. I think the goal was not to find a perfect metaphor but to get IE6 users to upgrade their browsers.
They don't offer it to UK-based people either.
I was completely taken off-guard by the time travel humor:

"Are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."
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I'm not sure if it would be even possible to collect analytics on this, but I think a real danger to Facebook could be that while people may not leave the site, the confusion over what shared information is shared with whom might cause users to use the site less and share less on it. As an example, most of the non-technical people I know, when prompted a few weeks ago to replace their 'About Me' page with a series of their fan pages, simply opted to make that page mostly blank.

Even though these people are not leaving Facebook, this still hurts them because their value is not only in how many people are on there, but what those people are actually doing and sharing. It's not just the nodes that make a network, but the connections between them.
I wonder why it seem that some of the world's biggest economies move faster to the brink of economic destruction?
lulz.

For argument's sake, what single founder (male, 20) sold their company (assuming it was a website) for $5m last month? Shouldn't that be publicized? Even if it's not, the guy is likely full of it.
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Isn't that the point of the milk analogy?
Milk is good when it's fresh, but not so much when it's old.
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If my memory serves me correctly, IE 6 was actually the fastest browser when it came out, and it correctly rendered more sites than Netscape since people often only tested their sites in IE. In 2001, running IE 6 was relatively pleasant.
From the first couple paragraphs, this sounds like it's mostly a complaint about the existence of bikeshed topics. Which exist in any discussion medium.
I think this won't hurt Facebook much on the short-term, but it will in the long-term.

* Short-term: Active users won't delete their accounts because the benefit they get from Facebook outweighs their annoyance at the privacy issues. Long-term: Once a viable competitor comes, active users will change.

* Short-term: A handful of users (including me) deleted their accounts. Long-term: A lot of would-be users that would have signed up, won't.

* Short-term: Revised privacy controls ease the pain. Long-term: Permanent brand damage has happened. No longer can we believe in the sincerity of Facebook's "oops, we made a mistake" since it's becoming a pattern for them to ask forgiveness rather than permission. Remember Beacon? It will take years for the "we don't care about users" branding of Facebook to go away, if ever.
IE 6 was deliberately non-standard so people would be locked into the MS platform.
A lot of companies developed internal apps and sites on this basis, so telling them that they have to spend money with MS again to upgrade it all because they were ripped off the first time - might be a tricky proposition.
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or, whoever has the most karmapoints on hacker news when he dies, wins. its the norm. a prefectly unsurprising social construct. its similar to the case right here on hacker news with the rampant downvoting action being practised by a small group of tinyminded people, who systematically downvote certain others comments regardless of how correct and how agreeable the content is, just to ''push them out'' indirectly thinking they themselves rise and gain from it. the downvoting of your comment illustrates it down to the letter and i would be willing to place a wager that there are even bandwagon type group action taking place between friends
Here, I cropped the icon 57x57 to make it easier for pg.
Don't worry about the gloss or round corners, iPhone takes care of that.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1226601/apple-touch-icon.png
IE Tester is significantly better than Multiple IE

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Runs IE 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and even 9.0 in tabs.

Plus Multiple IE is quite a bit broken these days.
Here's another one http://twitter.com/kmdiangelis/status/14775632198
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One can improve on NNTP, add verified identities etc. You can do so via GnuPG and some combination of software bits.

Usenet was built just for this, I don't understand why people don't use it widely. Forums are such POS for this kind of thing, they fragment the field make it impossible to search for a discussion in any sort of uniform way.

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Hey even Firefox 3 won't work on Windows ME (grandma uses it).

Firefox 2 is becoming too big of a security risk.
The original purpose of the race box was to count slaves as 3/5 of a person (for congressional representation). Since we no longer do this, why is the race box still there?
1) since when is justin.tv representative of the SV?

2) if you don't see how minimum-wage laws, health and safety regulations, mandatory health insurance, union-friendly labor laws or environmental policies can hurt businesses, then it's because you're not on the finance arm of such businesses.
I also wonder about this with AR platforms like Layar, Junaio. They want you to develop augmented reality content for the platform, which can then be shown in the Layar app. The advantage is not immediately clear to me - why not just take some open source framework (perhaps to be implemented yet) for overlaying stuff over the camera image, and create my own app directly?
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