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spelling error in title, should be "counterfeit"
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I too am in the process of discovering the answers for Google App Engine mode, so that users like you - who work for non-profits and businesses - need not have to.

For now, the feature (Bulk emails using email-templates) is in preview mode :
http://blogs.ifreetools.com/2010/05/feature-preview-email-te...

iFreeTools Creator is free and ad-supported for low volumes. Custom deployments ($99/year or $9/month for up to 25 users) are also available - so that you can make use of Google's free quota (2000 emails/day) and buy more as required directly from Google. (my email in my HN profile, if you are interested)
Maybe this site helps with the fragmentation issues:

http://androidfragmentation.com/
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i love the j/k shortcuts in google reader. i'd use it on HN too if it was available.
AFAIK JVM byte code isn't guaranteed to be backwards compatible. They also introduced new byte codes that didn't exist in earlier versions. In that sense, there also are different versions of the JVM.
Did you just say that you found the book rather shallow, and that you hope the movie will be more in-depth than the book? I fear you are destined to be terribly disappointed.
I've seen it once or twice but it's only in Canada so unfortunately not even close to a PayPal alternative.
They'll come and get you for that. Eventually.
IIRC Java has removed features in the past by marking them as deprecated for several releases and then removing them.
Just install vimperator or conkeror.

It's called a user agent because the user controls it. Don't rely on site authors to care about your special needs!
Buick? That's half of your problem right there. I used to drive a Buick (inherited), and I got rid of it as soon as I could. The handling, visibility, and overall user experience seem to be designed to create bad drivers. The seat backs force the driver to hunch over. The steering wheel either blocks visibility of the speedometer, or interferes with pedal access. The side mirrors are tiny, covering only a small fraction of the car's enormous blind spots. The suspension is so squishy that dodging an obstacle, making a turn, and even changing lanes all feel unsafe. The side pillars are directly blocking the important peripheral vision area, and the widshield pillars obscure multiple degrees of the driver's field of vision. I could continue. The only good thing I can say is that I was able to fit all of my DJ equipment, speakers included, into the car.

Note: my experience was with a mid-90s model. Newer versions may have improved, but I'll stick to my 3 series, thanks.
That's pretty convincing. BS it is. Case closed.

(And thanks for taking the time to write that.)

Edit: with hindsight, it just occurred to me that if the original quote were true, they wouldn't need a $90M Series D in the first place. Filet mignon at the Ritz, on the other hand, adds up pretty quickly.
Funny! And the best humor usually has elements of truth to it as well.
I'm sorry but that makes you bit of a sucker. If his rate was a few hundred I could buy that the added cost was worth the convenience; but at over six times the going rate it isn't really worth it.
Because most of us don't know him and his online persona is pure asshole. It's that simple. I've read that he's a nice guy in person all over the place and that's great, good for him. He writes like a spoiled, attention-grabbing 15 year old, and he's very insulting and arrogant. Then we have to read about it on news.yc and reddit for a week after every rant. I mean look at this thread, one mention of the guy and all of us are talking about him instead of the topic at hand. Someone described him as poison and I agree 100% with that assessment.
Do you think it's better anywhere else in the world. Up until a year ago, the country I am in made it inconceivable to be an entrepreneur. And they invented the fking word! You think paying taxes at tax time is bad. How about paying taxes before you are allowed to start your company.

If people could do a startup elsewhere you don't think they would already. Taxes, liability, and health care are the least of the problems for a startup.

You might as well be saying people should emigrate to country other than the US. There are far easier entry ports, yet the US still manages to be #1 no matter how many hoops they make you jump through.

While this infograph is inconclusive it gives an accurate picture overall http://grasshopper.com/img/blog/entrepreneurism-us-europe.PN...
Btw this double post wasn't intentional.
Since charging for support is a common "business model" with OSS, you're implying that the incentives are wrong with OSS in general.

Counterpoint: You know and can use the code before you pay anything. If you decide to prefer a certain library over another, this decision is based on real-world experience with that library. This decision might imply that you pay for support later on -- where support sometimes means implementing requested features.
Zed, for example, is very much like that. In the other hand he produces lots if great code and ideas. That is why he earned respect.
"--- it's quite the accomplishment."

There is a severe technical misunderstanding here.
Semi-related:

Can anyone point me towards some up-to-date documentation on Compojure? I can't seem to find any anywhere.
Wow, I've been doing daily meditation all these years and didn't even know it!
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Ask HN: How to work with a designer?
Hi guys,

I'm sure this question is pretty naive. I'm a developer that has mostly done software. The web stuff I have done has been enterprise, where presentation and design has not mattered as much as the functionality.

I want to get started in producing some nice looking public websites as side projects and hiring a designer online when needed.

Having not worked alongside a designer before, I'm not really sure of the best process for doing so.

I'm used to working with web frameworks like ASP.NET MVC and just using the available controls then adding some images etc and presto!

What process do people use for working with designers to establish a pixel-perfect design early and then integrating that with your web framework of choice?

What things should I ask of a designer to ensure the process goes fairly smoothly?

Thanks!

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> cannot simply redefine "current"

Instead, authors of educational articles aimed at the public should stick to proper usage because it avoids misconceptions. "Flow of charge" is proper, "flow of current" is not. Unknown to most readers; I'm also using a further technique to reinforce certain concepts: always avoiding jargon (e.g. don't hide "charge flow" behind the word "current," instead don't define current at all. Remove the word entirely, and replace it with "charge flow.") Note that the intended audience here is little kids and grandmothers. In years of working with electricity misconceptions among the general public, I find that "flow of current" is one of the top learning barriers preventing easy grasp of electricity concepts. It connects to many other mistaken ideas.

Example: "batteries send out current," versus "batteries cause the conductors' charges to flow."
He of all people I would expect to just google for it.
Human colony on Mars?
No returns?
Does he know what average Mars temperature is?
Hint: Winter in Antarctica is a hot resort in comparison with Mars.
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For an interesting experience, ask a group of EEs if bipolars are inherently current-controlled devices. This tends to create long-running flamewars (similar effect to asking pilots how airfoils create lift.) The ones who know that bipolars are current-controlled will nearly come to blows with the ones who know that they're voltage controlled. Very strange, but not unexpected when considering the poor jobs textbooks do with the non-math intuitive explanations. See sci.electronics.design for multiple examples of such fights, also wikipedia discussion history.
There are a ton of these out there. Useful for building landing pages without much effort.

Look at:

http://www.weebly.com/
http://www.snappages.com/
I don't know, the comment at the end of the article is pretty funny.
My general mindset about programming languages is that it doesn't matter much what toolset you use as long as it is one you know in and out.

Still, for some reason I personally wouldn't consider using Java for any programming task, ever. And I'm very curious about where this sentiment comes from. Java was my main programming language in the nineties, but the last five years I've avoided it like the plague. Whenever I hear about Java (like when seeing this clip), my spontaneous reaction is "Do people still use Java?". And that is with my wife working at Ericsson using Java as one of their main environments in huge projects alongside with C++ and Erlang. Still, it is as if I've been burnt by it. I don't want anything to do with it.

All I can come up with is that I maybe never fully grasped the build tools. I've worked in fairly large Java projects. But always with a feeling of not being fully in control, of relying on trial and error in some situations. With other toolsets I feel fully in control.

It's not you Java, it's me. But I still don't trust you. You never let me in on your secrets.
The jQuery API docs have something similar with the up/down arrows. http://api.jquery.com/
I didn't say he was unethical. I said he did something that constitutes what I consider to be bad behavior. Publically announcing one's $1000/hr pay rate to the entire world, and writing a post using the particular language and attitude shown in it. That struck me as bad behavior, applying the same standards I'd expect out of anybody else. Is it like robbing a bank? Heck no. Obnoxious? In my book, yep. And look, I'm clearly not the only one who had the same reaction, as evidenced by what others have said in this article's discussion area.

As long as no bunnies were made to cry during the production of a Tesla Roadster, I'm confident I wouldn't feel conflicted about driving one. :)
See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277099>; -- the linked post doesn't seem to work for me, but the first link in the first comment does.
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No yourself :^P. Fergie doesn't use 'they' at all. I used 'they' meaning Blackberry.

'You' (their enemies) so two thousand and late. 'I'm' (meaning Fergie, or in this ad, the folks at Blackberry) is/are so 3008.

Ref: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/black-eyed-peas-lyrics/boom-bo...

God that was sad.
After all these years, he's still trying to make Michael Collins feel better about that whole moon-walking thing.
Yeah, I think he drew the wrong conclusion in this particular case. It's not that "this economy" is terrible but he succeeded due to his personal unique excellence, but probably more that the perception his friends/family had of a bad job market is not actually correct for tech. I mean he might be amazing too, but he nonetheless succeeded in a good job market.

It's actually not really a bad job market for most white-collar professionals. If you look at the job losses and the unemployment rates, the people who are having a tough time in the current economy are mostly blue-collar workers without college degrees. A strange exception seems to be law, which has somehow ended up with an unexpected oversupply of new grads.
Probably he's read Dr. Robert Zubrin. Check him out.
Good feedback! Rereading it I realize it may not have been clear I was referring to Brad Pitt. Too late for me to edit it though. My bad, actually. :)
Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.
It's worth hitting the link just for the three Paul Samuelson quotes at the beginning. And this from a man awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Fair enough then. I only came across the post through this site & couldn't see anything to substantiate his claims, but I guess they're a given.
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Great performance comparison of Slicehost/Linode/Prgmr/Rackspace/Amazon - http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison

Previous HN thread (10 days ago) on a similar subject - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432386
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"The designers of the Phelps farm tractor in 1901 based their interface on a metaphor with the interface for the familiar horse: farmers used reins to control the tractor. The tractor was steered by pulling on the appropriate rein, both reins were loosened to go forward and pulled back to stop, and pulling back harder on the reins caused the tractor to back up"
I just hope they don't start caching and displaying obfuscated links, since JavaScript obfuscation is how I currently manage to display a working mailto: link on my personal web page while simultaneously giving myself nominal protection from address harvesters. Is this no longer a viable strategy for protecting one's email address on the web?
A chef might not like another chef's take on a dish, but unlike an engineer, you do actually have to prepare a dish each time someone wants to eat it. This alone is enough to make it worth looking at in further detail.
Of course it's more relaxing. You don't have to worry about researching your insurance options because the choice has already made for you. I don't think "more relaxing" is a very compelling reason to choose a policy on its own, especially when the cost of that relaxation is a slowed pace of advancement in medicine.

If the U.S. government stops incentivizing the connection between employment and insurance, starting a company wouldn't need to have any effect on your health care. No single-payer system required.
Are you comparing ubuntu running in vmware to native win7/osx? Then yes, you might come to this conclusion.

Try comparing native/native or virtualized/virtualized. The vmware and virtualbox drivers lack many functions that are used in native-running ubuntu or windows, for that matter.
Most celebrities would immediately take their business somewhere else, why would you have to pay if others decide to follow you? That's as unreasonable as having to pay for incoming text messages (luckily I don't live in the US). I have about 10K followers and there is no way I would pay a monthly fee to use the service.
Agreed but by the same token your company/software from 1990 would probably not be around in 2000.

I get the impression "Maserati problems" (not quibbling about the definition, but from a "should I care about this" stance) are those for which the cost of focusing on them now is greater in impact terms than leaving it until later.

Y2K was probably a Maserati problem at the time because if your software was going to be around for 10 years, the profits from it should easily cover the maintenance task of resolving the bug.
What's many?
At least in germany it's open for paid apps for a year or more.
Didn't think there are still countries.. that's frustrating indeed.
At least there are other markets (slideme)
> Take 60% of the 100k and invest in Apple

Quite possibly at the top of the market right now. Or maybe not. But if you're good enough to run the analysis on the market for smartphones and high end consumer electronics to be reasonably sure Apple is a good buy right now, then you're good enough to find better buys. Maybe some of Apple's suppliers or manufacturers, for instance - I don't know personally, I don't have the skills to evaluate on those things. But I do know buying a stock just because it's cool, fashionable, and has gone up a lot recently is a pretty good way to lose your shirt.
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I think most importantly:

* I spend far less time involved in the simple act of transportation. On the bus? Read, watch a movie, catch up with the news, chat with someone, or just grab some shut-eye and rest. When one is driving, they are actively engaged in transportation only, to the near exclusion of just about everything else.
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Great post!

Some more good ones:

- You don't have to pay for gas.

- You don't have to pay car registration fees every other year.

- Traffic jams afford you opportunities to walk across the street, rather than to sit and wait.

- You don't have to pay interest on car payments for a financed or leased car.

- You don't have to pay $100-$200/mo to park your car off the street.

- You don't have to move your street-parked car every so often to avoid violating one of many types of ordinances, such as for street sweeping, snow plows, etc.

- You don't have to "pay" for depreciation even when you don't drive your car, or especially when you do put mileage on it.

- You don't have to maintain your monthly transportation pass for those months when you're not in town/not using it, while you do with insurance.

- In many cities, you can scale up/down your transportation costs, between $0 (walk everywhere in the summer) to about $50 (maximum) per month, as you wish. Hard to do that with car insurance.

- You don't have to take time to run to the meter every so often.

- You don't have to remember to keep a supply of quarters in your car.

- You can change plans without worrying about what to do with your car, or how to get back to it.

- You don't have to ride alone, which is what most drivers do. You can take a bus and interact with passengers.

- You can read a book, surf the internet, watch videos, or sleep in public transportation, which you can't as a driver.

- Although you might get to a gym faster by car, you can jog to the gym and be warmed-up for classes, weight lifting, sports, etc, by the time you step inside.

- Your feet get used to running and walking on harder surfaces, rather than just a treadmill.
For anyone who doesn't know - vimperator is amazing and I couldn't imagine using the Web without it.
I hate peanut butter, does that make the analogy wrong?
I think its case by case. Some find it faster after the upgrade. I suspect its cause by some data or apps during the upgrade. Some find it running alright after doing a clean install. Or maybe its specific to certain batches of iPhone 3G hardware we will never know. Apple is rumored to release 4.0.1 pretty soon, so hopefully it will solve this slow issue on 3G hardware. iOS 3.x code base is Leopard base. iOS 4 is Snow Leopard. So by right iOS 4 should run faster if not smoother on same hardware base on Leopard/Snow Leopard upgrade experience.

Lifehacker has a guide: http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3...
If your app requires a particular hardware feature, you can list that in the app's manifest file, and it won't be installable (or even visible in the Market) on devices that don't have that hardware feature.

And the Android NDK lets you write native code for the stuff that needs it.
That makes sense. When I checked the Agile Manifesto, I expected to find something about a 40 hour workweek. What I found instead was something watered-down about "sustainability", which effectively means next to nothing.

"Self-organizing" also is near-meaningless; it maybe means that teams won't be micromanaged (not that many managers want to deal with the most tedious issues of a team anyway), but working hours are treated as a macro issue. ("I don't know what you're doing, but you'd better do a lot of it!")
The multitouch issues on the N1 are actually because the touch screen on the N1 is (when compared to the Droid) crap. Google has acknowledged this (sorta) but say they can't do anything about it. There's actually an app called "Multitouch Vis Test" that you can download and play with that easily demonstrates how easily the touch screen gets confused when you have two fingers on it.
It's tricky politically, because there's a big difference in interest: rural areas and states who are net recipients of the subsidies are generally strongly in favor, whereas urban areas who are the net payers are generally indifferent. You might lose a primary or election in Iowa over farm subsidies, but it's never in the top 10 issues on anyone's mind in an election in NYC, Atlanta, or SF.

That and the coalitions line up weirdly. The Republicans are usually the initators of cut-government-spending types of bills, but there are a lot of rural and farm-state "heartland" Republicans who support the programs, so it tends to be a nonstarter within the caucus. Democrats tilt more heavily urban, but the rural Democrats wield fairly strong influence, partly because Democrats feel it's important to keep their relatively meagre rural inroads (so folks like Kent Conrad in ND and Ben Nelson in NE get outsized influence). And the urban Democrats usually have other things they want to spend their political capital on: "I successfully cut farm subsidies" is going to get you a disinterested yawn in most urban Democratic districts.
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question 2 of 6 for duck:
Write code to trap these exceptions and return 1 if a FineException is thrown and return 0 if a CoarseException is thrown.

int exceptionTrap(int a) {
try {
exceptionThrower(a);
} catch (FineException fe) {
return 1;
} catch (CoarseException ce) {
return 0;
}
return -1;
}

You're saying the above is invalid? Tests out perfectly fine on my system...are you trying to say there shouldn't be the last return because you say "You may assume that an exception is always thrown"? If a function returns a type of int, all codepaths then need to return a type of int, programming 101.

Others indeed do have some errors as I quickly typed them up (off by 1, forgetting that java array length isn't the same as C++ std::vector.size). Number 3 could definitely use a better example, such as a = 12 (so the result would be {12, 11, 10}.

I admit, I checked number 2 closely, saw a horribly invalid failure reported and only glanced over the rest. Independent of the other failures, you cannot have incorrectly graded questions, and the rest of the points still stand, the requester has nothing to compare against, leaving the judgement up to your pass/fail (which is clearly not 100%) and the random assignment of questions to different test takers results in no real comparison ability between skills.
Every company I know of that blocks unauthorized websites ... happens to be .NET

But the reverse is not true - not every company on .Net blocks websites. I don't actually know of any that block.

Blocking digg or facebook is one thing, but If you block Stackoverflow, there's no hope for your development practices.
Then replace Chef with Architect, Composer, Writer, Director and etc.: a building is made once, once a piece is published it's done (except for revisions, i.e. updates in the software world) or releasing a film. The point is still correct -- there are a lot careers this post could be interchanged with.
YOu can run Asp.net MVC on Mono. What's sucky about that?
I wonder what was Apple's Macbook Pro doing in that .net fanboi/freak house. They should be using windows on some dell/hp machine.
Putting it in robots.txt is like advertising to bad bots exactly where to go.

Exactly. Right to your special page that earns a 24 hour ip ban.

It doesn't take that long to code and should keep any bot away.
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Little known thing that shocked me when I read it: credible reports (including that of the external investigator) concluded that Bhopal was sabotage, not negligence. A disgruntled employee backed up a tanker and dumped water into a chamber without realizing the consequences. This individual obviously couldn't pay damages an it is more convenient to have the evil corp bad guy.

It is interesting that one never even HEARS the other side of this story.