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Mides is awesome. I like it most for quick code sketches or hotfixes when i just need to tweak something.
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"But openness to new ideas has to be tuned just right. Switching to a new idea every week will be equally fatal. Is there some kind of external test you can use? One is to ask whether the ideas represent some kind of progression. If in each new idea you're able to re-use most of what you built for the previous ones, then you're probably in a process that converges. Whereas if you keep restarting from scratch, that's a bad sign."

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Because they copied Chrome...
There are some women whom I would watch hula hoop for an hour....
Wait so, why don't you write a cover letter again?

on right because...

its the first sign of arrogance and disregard to throw away the intellectual capital of time honored industry practice

cover letter is industry standard too, yo, but you disregarded it
I bet it is a variety of factors, all adding up:

1. with all the skyscrapers, there's a very high-density need for secretaries (and their variants), which are roles that are disproportionately historically filled by women (for whatever reason -- please nobody launch into PC gender flame fest here)

2. lots of rich and/or high "status" ambitious men in suits -- draws many kinds of women like flies (not all, but many)

3. maybe also the high-density concentration of art, dance, advertising, book publishing industries -- all of which seem to disproportionately attract women rather than men

... plus many other factors. I just doubt it's one thing.
Luckydave is doing what the parent commenter said, essentially--working somewhat part-time, and making enough money to do what he really cares about. And he's an excellent team member.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/fc10vbvsecurecode.pdf

(via Schneier http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/online_creditd... )
Except, 37signals articles are clearly not statements of facts.

If they were, your point would be awesome. But they are clearly opinion.

"Resumes are dumb" != "The earth revolves around the sun"
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Yeah, but if you open another tab for Reddit in Safari and have your mouse pointer overlapping both tabs, your bandwidth goes down.
The problem with this idea is that not every post from a friends blog is going to be suitable for your blog audience. People read your blog, probably because they like what you write about. Linking to other articles should be probably done only on a per article basis.
I upvoted you so you'd have more karma in order to make you a better co-founder in the future. In return, I expect equity.
Everything old is new again?

My high school ran on that well over a decade ago. I hope they have it right this time as it was pretty nasty back then. The biggest problem was when it broke none of the school IT staff could fix it so it would be down for a day or two while they waited on someone to come out and fix it.
and he will sell it for 40 million bucks, and then will send him a postcard from his "yaght". LOL.
I too thought it will mute the video. Just a line needs to be added on what it does.
"A sleep(1) is put into all SSL_read() and SSL_write() calls..."
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At first I wasn't sure if this submission was a joke or not.

I'd be quite interested in any argument in favor of installing webmin. I'd never willingly install that piece of software on a machine connected to the internet.
For the latter, lets hope they won't be seen on the news or mentioned in these kinds of articles.
Funny, but a dup of [dead]ed prior submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962280

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989448
Very interesting. Thanks!

I wrote too hastily when I said Hunsader was producing results at the time that others couldn't dream of; that was a sloppy exaggeration. But his work was very good.
See earlier discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438299
Buy a device for $200+ and fix it with duct tape.

Every man should be able to fix something with a hammer, a screwdriver, and some duct tape.

I kick my tower computer good and regular, it silences that pesky yammering fan, and keeps it from showing me attitude.

Occasionally i just glare at it menacingly, by now it learned.
But what if you're a very talented actor? I'd be surprised if, in that case, LA and NY don't provide a significant incremental advantage.
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I don't use firefox (uses up too much memory for my liking), however, it's good to know that it's a preference that's easily changed.

Of course, the people who download FF4, don't know about the change, and don't know how to change the preference (I.E. most older folks) will complain about how their firefox has changed.
On the other hand, most of these people who would react this way are using IE6, and not firefox.
Warning: I've read it is possible that A/B testing extreme differences might get wrongly diagnosed as cloaking by the search engines. My guess this is more likely to happen with a server-side A/B test as opposed to a javascript-implemented A/B test.
There are more downsides. Given their example of how new webapps will seamlessly integrate into the browser by having their own toolbars and such (the google maps part), it would be very easy to craft a picture-in-picture phishing attack.
http://code.google.com/p/diffable

clicky
a) Over a dozen

b) 7 paid, 1 ad-supported, the rest free

c) Very little

d) Total: large. Some do quite poorly, some do well.

These are on Cydia Store. I've also released a single App Store app that did alright.
It's hilarious, but of dubious origin. Simon Edhouse says it's fake[1]. I have no reason to trust him, but I also don't have any reason to trust David Thorne (and DT is known for pranks).

[1] http://www.naymz.com/simon_edhouse_864677
I know its off topic, but when you see this dedication to quality, and the aspirations that led the Voyager mission, you cannot but feel saddened and stupefied by the clusterfuck we are witnessing these past 2 months in the gulf of mexico.

{edited}
I'm picturing PG plopping into a shell, going into an old code repo, studying it a bit, whipping up a little script to exercise an exploit or do the protocol equivalent of knocking on a secret back door... bingo and then he posts, "Yes, they're still running it!"
Another reason for choosing sidebar like functionality is that the number of tabs is effectively unlimited. I never understand why developers chose to use tabs for grouping lists of things that can grow unbounded. Eventually you get to a point where you are forced to:

- shrink the tabs ever smaller
- implement scrolling of tabs(!)
- limit creation of new tabs
- auto close them

Sidebars have none of these problems. Tabs should only be used when the number of items you have is known, limited, and ideally a small number.
I was expecting to read this on Daring Fireball.
If it looks a little dusty it's because they've been remodelling it.

Since 1996. Almost done though.
When I saw the title of the blog I misread and was so excited-- thinking they finally came to their senses and were building in something like Tree-Style Tabs. It makes me so much more productive and able to coordinate so many different tabs.

I have 47 tabs open in Firefox currently, with trees of different research. That may seem like a lot, but it's really quite natural to manage that many with that extension. With tabs at the top, when you start getting to 15 tabs , you can't read titles and it becomes so much messier. You close stuff down just to make the current tasks simpler.

That extension is the primary reason I don't use Chrome for anything but a few Google services. It's so much more natural to coordinate them in FF until some other browser catches on and adds support.
You forgot about coupling their premium products to some best-in-class services: the iTunes Music Store and App Store.
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I use a 3G connection through Millenicom. It hasn't been awesome but it has supported what was a nomadic lifestyle for a time.

It's not always on. You have to turn it on. This has been a big timesaver for me. YMMV.
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This applies to anyone who is really passionate. I've pretty much always had the best luck with hiring people who do things for love, and just happened to also want to make a living, so over time it's evolved to the point where I don't even care about hiring full-time people, if I can get part-time from someone who is amazing.
they're aware of this problem, and they're supposedly addressing that with Firefox Account Manager (linking to aza's blogpost about it): http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attac...

Hell, I'm using a free version of AVG antivirus and it just detected bgattack.js as a threat!
Get some speakers that are properly shielded and have ferrite beads on the speaker connection.

My JBL Pro speakers never have interference from my iPhone.
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The shape of the antenna is the metal running on the outside of it :P

That is the problem.
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tl;dw summary:

0) this is the new default, but it's configurable
1) visually separates controls that affect the current tab (back, forward) from controls that affect the whole browser (close, minimize)
2) saves space and reduces clutter in tabs that don't need certain controls
3) FF is moving certain sidebars (like the bookmarks sidebar) inside of tabs, and tabs on top will look/feel more consistent with this
4) allows notification pop-ups to be attached directly to the address bar without covering up the tab area

downsides:
1) mouse distance increases
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> Aaaand we've come full circle again, where people start to realize that Apple is, like Microsoft, a gigantic company that doesn't care about anyone.

I hope nobody realizes this, since they're quite different. MS's primary market is OEMs and businesses, and they care about selling to them.

> Gee, it took a shiny user interface and a meticulously-engineered corporate image to sucker in that last batch, how low can be set the bar this time?

Would you prefer it if shiny interfaces actively drove people away?
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I don't follow golf so I don't understand what you are talking about. What's the relationship between golf and NASA missions?
> Apple has investors like any other company. This move is good for the investors.

Any move that is bad for the customers won't be good for investors.

There is no short term vs long term thinking once you reached profitability and have cash reserves. The short term will inevitably become the long term.

The _responsible_ thing to do for your investors is to solve problems before they get any more expensive to solve. i.e. solve your problems _now_

You have to simultaneously satisfy customers, investors, employees and the community you operate within. If you cannot wrap your head around that you cannot be trusted by anyone because you will always be sacrificing one for the other to save your incompetent ass.

Sheesh. This is not rocket science.
Are there apps available that show signal strength in real numbers (dBm) instead of "bars"?
I wonder if the keyboard in question is actually different at the hardware level -- in the sense of transmitting different scan codes -- from any of their other models, or if the difference is simply cosmetic (different keycaps).

Either way, you could do the same thing in software, but I suspect that learning the layout (which is even more foreign to most people than Dvorak) would be hard without the keys. Still, you could probably get a spare set of keycaps or just a cheap keyboard and write the glyphs on there with Sharpie for the time it took you to learn.

Still, it's kinda neat.

Also, opening saved APL files and displaying them correctly (with the modern Unicode equivalents) is probably a good test for anyone writing an editor these days. I assume it must have used its own high-ASCII codepage to store the uncommon characters.
The mouse distance issue doesn't really bother me. Something well over 90% of the time, I switch tabs using keyboard shortcuts (actually, most of what I do in the browser is now keyboard based, thanks to Vimperator http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/ ).

One thing I'm curious about for the mac is whether full titles on the very top will still be displayed if the tabs are on top. In Chrome, if I go to a page that has a long title (including this comment page), I have to hover over the tab to get the full title. Otherwise, it just shows up as "Hacker News | Why Tabs a...".
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Hee hee, look at those cute little down- and sideways-butt symbols on the W and E keys!

(seriously, though, I had no idea what this was about. Apparently, it's a keyboard with specific meta-keys for writing the programming language, which appears to use a lot of unusual symbols... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) )
Go program a microcontroller and you'll grow a grey beard all your own.

http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-...

The Voyager computers are of similar scale to microcontroller.
This is one of the reasons I prefer CDMA. It is really, really annoying to be in a public address setting (i.e. a church, auditorium, stadium) and hear peoples' phones in the sound system. Yes, it is a sign of a miswired installation, but in my experience it only happens with GSM phones.
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hey, that's not the project website, it's just where I checked out my version of the code from github. there's no official project website yet.
If you are just out of school, and not sure whether you would like working in a smaller upstart, or a larger company, then you judge on money.

People put a lot of stock in company life and such, but these things are hard to tell until you take the job and start working for a while.

Also, when you first start earning your own money, it can be all about the money. Maybe you should start looking at older candidates?
I hear you -- bottom-up as applied to functional, modular JS web apps.

Rereading what I said, I don't want to detract from the fact that what you built is _fucking awesome_.
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Erm. I'm not sure exactly what Apple hardware you think is incredibly simple, but having recently looked at Mac vs. Wintel laptops, I can assure you that the Mac laptops are incomparably better engineered.

Personally, I use computers for many, many hours per day, and the little things really add up. Maybe you don't care about that, and you just want the right CPU and hard drive. If that's the case, more power to you.

I hate Apple on principle (1st gen purchase, 'they' mean it when 'they' say not to buy 1st gen!), but I can't seem to find anything to compete with their hardware.
The radio on the phone uses the least power it can while still maintaining a good connection to the tower. A faulty antenna will make the radio increase its transmission power.
good lord thanks for telling me about tree-style tabs, it seems great for researching a bunch of code frameworks
Apple have created a phone

"Apple have?"

Isn't it ironic that the very people who are supposed to be the keepers of English can't even use proper grammar? Apple HAS created a phone. Apple is a company. Singular. Not plural. There is no earthly defense (er, "defence") for referring to Apple, a company, in the plural.
I'm not sure that it's users who write the reviews.
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The demo is amazingly smooth on the iPad.
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It's a nice video, with good mockups and sound reasoning. But alas, it's not exactly an innovation. So it kinda looks like an ex post facto justification why they're doing it like Chrome and Opera…

Let's see whether they keep their lead regarding extensions. There are some nice goodies for Firefox that I haven't yet seen in Chrome, Opera or Safari. Some of them even pertaining to tabs (forgot what that color-coded, collapsing mega-tab add-on is called). But the other browsers are catching up quickly, mostly because they make it easier to write extensions. For Chrome and Safari it's basically HTML5 and JavaScript, nobody's royally rogered by XUL.

A a slight tangent: For the last couple of months, I've been using Safari at home without tabs. Expose is great, and it forces me to single-task a bit more. I tend to factor out the "read that later" pages to Instapaper, Evernote and Delicious anyway. Jamie Zawinski ain't that wrong. (On dual screens or without Expose it doesn't work as well, which is why my Linux setup at work is Chrome.)
Another point I found important is the "App tabs" feature. They'll be letting you designate certain tabs as Apps, which will keep them permanently on the left of all the tabs, turn them into small icons (instead of normal sized tabs), and make them permanent (can't close or navigate away from them).

I love this, since I already do this with a lot of applications (I have Gmail, Google Calendar, Wave and Facebook always open).
You are right, but I would like to have a good rtm app for example. But the best app on the n900 is xterm :)
Exactly my thought! Remember this one? http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/06/attack-of-the-cosmic-rays/
Is Apple's new iPhone antenna design defective? Probably, not.
Oh, they're still here, (un)fortunately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIEE4dU07G0

For mechanical hamsters of some sort.
Mouse targeting / Fitt's law is even improved with tabs-on-top in certain situations. Run Chrome or Firefox 4 maximized on Windows (or in a tiling window manager like XMonad on X11, with no border) and you can just run the mouse along the top of the screen to reach your tabs. They have "infinite" vertical target size, just like the Mac menubar.
A lot of the video was great and very insightful. But it was pretty funny hearing him talk about the possible problems with putting tabs on top, like your mouse having to travel more, etc. It kinda sounded like they're ignoring the fact that it's been a feature of other browsers for a few years now, and people seem to enjoy it (I do at least).
Yeah sure. Thanks to Opera it has a great browser too.
With the maemo-update battery live is also great. Still the coolest phone on the market - when is came out it was by far the most advanced phone.
In my opinion Chrome did Firefox a big favor here.

[Note: I work for Mozilla but I am not on the Firefox UX team and was not involved in this change; these are just my own thoughts.]

If Mozilla 1.0 or even Firefox 1.0 had tabs above the address bar from the beginning, we wouldn't have this problem. But we've spent the last eight years training half a billion people (literally) to use tabs below the address bar. Now most of them have internalized that model and think of as natural, or (much more likely) don't think about it at all but are used to it anyways and will be annoyed if it changes.

(Remember the story about Stuart Feldman in the 1970s when someone asked him to fix annoyances with Makefile parsing? He said it was too late to change the syntax, because Make already had more than a dozen users!)

Mozilla has been debating this for so long because there are good reasons not to change an existing product. Upgrading is more hassle for users when more has changed. Changes to the main UI are the worst.

But users are much more forgiving when adopting a new product like Chrome (not least because the change is less likely to be forced on them). And now that Chrome is so popular, we can point to it as strong evidence that tabs-on-top is a reasonable default that people will be happy to use.

Of course, Firefox still couldn't get away with it without the option to switch back to the old style...
I see a lot of hate towards this article, but there are definitely nuggets of truth here. Yes his tone might be a bit defensive, and yes he might sound like an "mba-type" with a "chip on his shoulder". However, the basic point that we should consider all available information when looking for a new hire is a good one. The resume contains many useful data points, and it is ludicrous not to take it into account. Should I base me entire decision on it, or even a large part of it? Maybe not. But to completely disregard it? That makes little sense.

While "Stanford vs. State School" might not be the best argument, the point still holds. It is useful information, and all else being equal the Stanford kid probably has a track record of a harder work ethic. Make a decision solely based upon it? Absolutely not. But it would be poor business sense not to take it into account.
Pushing the limits, eh?
> FP is just one programming paradigm. ...

Right, but this article was bashing people for not knowing, specifically, about functional programming. My entire point has been that it is ridiculous and petty to do this. Let's say you know A, B, C, and E. Aha! What about D, I ask. You're clearly an idiot, I can't believe you don't know about D. And here you get F, which is related to D, and you act like it's something new to the world. Pssh!

See?

> I'd be very surprised if your employer has a blanket edict against higher-order functions

Er, every employer I've ever had has been very strict about the introduction of any new technology, library, language, etc. This is because every employer I've had is concerned with maximizing productivity and shipping product. Tinkering with new stuff on the job can be rather dangerous to one's employment.

Again, I'm not promoting ignorance, what I'm doing is speaking out against this alpha-nerd judgment of others.
I wonder how intentional this controversy is — Posterous sure seem to have gotten quite a bit of coverage out of it.
Isn't it always like this with Apple launches? I'm not saying it's justified, but I don't most people didn't know.
I'm just happy tabs use the title space in Chrome on Win7. I never ever understood why all that space was wasted by title bars. (It still wastes a lot of space in OS X, though not as bad)
ok when I click PLAY, it goes to the END of the video. I try to place the cursor in the middle, i click PLAY, it goes to the END. I repeated this a few time, then came back here to rage comment on this.
genius, i need something like this for NYT, WSJ articles

noise free reading
Or another genuine issue which I had today - if you install Safari 5 it will cause your Netgear DGN2000 router to crash and need rebooting every time you open a big page.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2454916...
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