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Correct. You'll need Safari or Chrome to play.

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

Web SQL Database is supported by Google Chrome, Opera and Safari but will not be implemented by Mozilla(Firefox) which instead advocates Indexed Database API access.
> once Gcc got good enough, people stopped paying

People still pay for development tools. Lots of people paid for IntelliJ IDEA even with Eclipse around.

GCC is also a piss poor compiler by any standard, that's why many people have such high hopes for LLVM.

You also have to think about "complementary products" ... Apple is investing in the LLVM/GCC compilers because it helps them sell their hardware with their proprietary OS installed, which is by no means free.

The cost of replication or the lack of substitutes is irrelevant ... people don't use GIMP over Photoshop because a Photoshop substitute is fucking hard to develop ... it took 22 years to reach its current state.
Note that the company originally developing DNF has gone under, if I understand correctly. So I don't think it worked very well... ;-)
The puzzle question is an interesting one. I like solving puzzles, that's why I am an engineer. Based on this I used to think that puzzles are a good thing for posts and interviews.

In practice, it almost never works out very well. Puzzles are incompletely specified, impossible to answer unless you guess at assumptions that are sure to be wrong, or they take so much time to solve it's just not worth it.

Usually companies don't need complex puzzles for screening anyway. Something rather trivial and quick to answer like the fizz buzz problem eliminates 90% of the dud applicants anyway.
Just use IMAP instead. There's no remote wipe protocol in IMAP.
loewenskind wasn't talking about him personally, but his vision of a world of "open privacy". There are tons of ways I can share my personal life with people: I can call, e-mail, meet up for lunch, bring it up when we're "out", blog about it, etc. Fundamentally, the amount of information I honestly share with everyone I'd possibly run into is quite tiny.
I like it, it also works well on the iPad. Perhaps make it bigger for ipads screen.
Looks like they have taken a lot of lessons from modern FPS games, limited weapon carrying, regenerating health etc. While this may be good or bad it definitely won't be what a lot of people are looking for, I've just replayed Duke3D and it's pure old school glory and I hope they retain as much of this as possible.
If not then you can always count on the modding community to try.
Does "The Archives of General Psychiatry" count as one of the top journals?
Current college admissions concern themselves with various standardized tests... and then a plethora of other data. Making a decision on many, or even too many data points is always better than a decision made based on only 1 number. I don't see how that's debatable.
>Apple is one of the most old-world corporate minded corporation. and wants resurgence of old large corporate entities like newspapers

Exactly. That's why when they released the first iPhone it didn't even have native apps. They said the web is where your apps are! Oh wait... that's the opposite of what you're saying.
By doing so, of course, they make the whole system roughly 1/3 less useful[1] for everyone; that isn't my idea of "nice".

[1] log 3 / log 5 ~= 0.68.
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It's interesting to note that Diakatana took 3 years to develop (which is not considered extremely uncommon these days) and supposedly made enough money to cover its development costs.
I didn't and the article certainly didn't say anything about university entrance examsesque tests for five year olds.

They said frequent testing, and the more tests you have, the less important each individual test becomes. If you have a test every week in every subject, then at the end you won't need a gargantuan test that supposedly summarizes a couple of years of knowledge.

You have a ton more data to look at a student from.

I don't see why you would ever want NO testing. What you want is CONSTANT testing, like we have Google Analytics on all the time, not just for 2 hours to 'test' some situation.
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Great article, thanks! I agree about the libraries. While the internet probably levels the field, I've visited libraries in many countries and feel confident saying that public libraries are one of things that America does right.
I can't believe people are still voting this comment up when clearly he did not read the article and is making a strawman argument.
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Being the target of a hatchet job masquerading as a Hollywood movie has done what I thought impossible; made me feel sorry for Mark Zuckerberg.
One of the things I really like about this book is that it covers 'method_missing' really early on. This is criticised in the comments, but I don't think it's an especially difficult concept to understand.
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I believe you're right. But do you have any empirical evidence to support this claim?
I was taught to copy passages from newspaper articles or ideally a sample of writing from the same author as the final text you will be setting and not to use lorem ipsum by my typography tutors. Despite what’s often said, it isn’t as good as using real english for representing the “colour” of text on a page.

Though I was interested by a thread on HN the other day where people were using Google Scribe to generate sentences, that would make an interesting (American English? Or possibly “Globish”?) dummy copy generator. Now if only someone knew how to make such a script…
That sort of statement makes me think that even without Zuckerberg's involvement ConnectU would have sunk without a trace.
>> Additionally, we're talking about a lack of separation between two entities' data (personal & company-owned data).

Yes, but this lack of separation is caused by the employee choosing to sync their work email with their personal device.

Unless the employer requires this, then it's entirely the employees fault.
I had a question on my blog: http://rakkhi.blogspot.com/2010/09/3-million-reasons-to-encr...

Have you tried or are you aware of anyone sucessfully using a cold boot attack on Blackberry or other mobile phone memory to extract encryption keys?
That "and I'm all out of gum..." quote is actually stolen from John Carpenter's film "They live".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes?qt0479492
"it's a pretty strong assumption to think non technical users will use some sort of markup language"

Yeah!

Well, except all those who use some variety of bulletin board/forum with the random markup they entail.

Probably not more than a couple hundred million of those people though.
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What? Figs are not vegan? How about kosher?
Fully agree with the first post-it point, but I disagree with:

> The only real solution is to let people use the word "password" if they really want. It's still orders of magnitude safer than having them keep a file/email/post-it full of plain text passwords sitting around in plain view.

If I have "password" as password for my work webmail/remote login, it can be broken by any yokel on the internet with five minutes free time. If I have "ge.9u30!ey0" written on a post-it note on my desk, it can only be "cracked" people with physical access to my office.

Also note that people who have physical access to my office already have security privileges similar to mine own, mitigating the actual risk - they can't do much more damage with my password than they could without. And if they wanted my private stuff, they could just as well nab my harddisk.

Not that I'm justifying passwords on post-its in any means whatsoever, by the way. :-)
Pick a line from a song. Easy to remember, (neigh) impossible to brute force.
I left a high-paying job as a senior .NET developer at a company in LA. I was unhappy with the town and the situation I had put myself in, so I planned to take a year off to travel and develop my fledgling startup. I got rid of nearly all of my possessions, put a few boxes of keepsakes in storage, and left with only a small backpack. Now almost three years later, my startup is profitable enough to pay my rent and for the occasional beer, and I'm typing this from a country house in southern Belgium.

Leaving the high-paying job was the best decision I ever made. I make far less money now than I used to, and even less than almost all of my friends; but I work on what I want, when I want, and at my own pace, and I can take as many days off as I want. (Yesterday I spent the entire day exploring Waterloo in the sunshine, because I felt like it. Next week I go to Oktoberfest in Munich).

Basically, I went from rich and dangerously depressed to comparatively poor yet happier and more satisfied with my life. As long as you have enough cash flow to keep a roof over your head and some healthy food on the table, that's all you need.
> Live streams will only be available on YouTube proper (you can’t embed it in widgets yet), and YouTube won’t be archiving the footage, either.

Someone make an archiver of youtube live steams.
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> What happened to 'editors'?

The ad blockers killed them...
Anandtech seems to come out of the pack.

For example they are the only ones who seem to benchmark SandForce-based SSDs (from OCZ, Crucial, ADATA, etc) correctly by taking care of defeating the transparent compression and deduplication features of this controller. They did that by patching IOMeter to use blocks of random bytes instead of constant bytes.
Well, exactly that is the reason why we should adopt something like OpenID. Of course, if someone catches the password of your OpenID provider, you are also fucked. But all OpenID consumers (i.e. any random site) will not get it that way. Also, you can easily globally change your password for just everything if you know that your old one has become insecure.
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Here here! John Stewart does Glenn Beck was the BEST piece of satire TV we've had in a decade.

I'm ever thankful of Stewart and Colbert, always reminding us that frankly, life is too short to be so up-tight serious about everything.
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Ask HN: Will the Windows Phone 7 succeed? Why or why not?
Windows 7 phone goes gold recently and scheduled for October launch. Considering how underwhelming the Blackberry torch has been, would anyone seriously pay money for a Windows 7 phone unless they were forced to for work etc i.e. the current Blackberry situation.

Breaking it down:

Design - maybe, I do like the sharp edges and blocky shapes

Performance - don't know yet.. if it is like the Torch it will fail

OS - I have serious doubts without a complete fresh sheet of paper whether Windows 7 will work on this form factor

Apps - serious doubts here on MS ability to excite develpers and present a critical mass of apps especially on launch

Disruptive awesome features - I didn't see anything here: http://bit.ly/95Yus9 . Social media etc is so parse. XBOX live ... are you really going to play XBOX games on your phone? Zume for music.... it plays music so does everything else, last.fm app....Office.. I have Documents to go app... Mail.. Gmail and native mail apps with Exchange via activesync

Price - maybe - depends on whether MS views this like the XBOX and are willing to loose millions for a number of years just to beat Apple and Android. Also will depend on carriers

Battery life - maybe... depends on hardware

Screen resoultion - again hardware

Security - maybe again

Enterprise ready - iPhone / Android have activesync, security via Junos Pulse / Sybase Aferia, documents to go is fine

I though it was a bit early to say the war is over:
http://bit.ly/9frnyy

Lets see if I am proved wrong but I am betting on a massive flop
Can you imagine an ERP running on a non-relational database? The complexity of the ERP SQL database does not reflect a failure of the relational model more than the insanely complicated nature of the problem being solved.

Interestingly, I started my career on NoSQL databases in the 80's. We just didn't call them that at the time.
No time to make some search right now, but I remember a few people pretend having known and spoken about the CDO dangers a few years before the crisis. Roubini is one them, but there is still a discussion going on whether he really foresaw it.

If you look at economic research in Europe, you'll see many other opinions, like about the importance of the state, or alternative economic models. You'll probably find studies against HFT also.
Funny, I read this and found myself intrigued and wanting to know more about what makes Mark Zuckerberg tick. Having witnessed Facebook's rise, reading Accidental Billionaires, hearing about the various lawsuits, seeing the instant messages, waiting in anticipation for the Sorkin movie, and now learning that Mark is a Classics nut... well, this guy is nothing if not interesting. It's a shame the article didn't dig a little deeper. On that note, does anyone recommend David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect for a credible portrait of the story behind Facebook?
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Was that tongue in cheek or serious? If they have got my hopes up again .... I can't belive I fell for it again
Figs prefer a bit of constraint in their roots, so they should be planted out in a buried pot.
I upvoted to cancel you out.
One guy's password getting out, in the grand scheme of things, is perhaps not an "epic failure". I mean, it's a screwup all right, but perhaps some perspective is in order...
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One of the more interesting consequences of this line of thought (of course depending on definitions of the words at hand) is that you can make a reasonable statement that man is utterly incapable of doing anything unnatural - since by definition, since man is a part of nature, everything man does is also what nature does.

Personally, I find this set of words (artificial, unnatural, etc) to have way, way too much baggage, so I prefer to just define them as nonsensical (i.e. it's impossible to do anything unnatural) rather than assume that they are useful tools for communication like other words (since most people will have varying definitions of what is unnatural, which aren't rationally guessable).

Holding this line of thought also allows to instantly come across as an annoying smart-arse in parties (and online too, I suppose).
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One thing is having markup in a place where usually you don't write more than a few lines, another is having it in a big document.

One thing is having it a free forum, another is having it in a product you pay for. One thing is having to use it, another is to actually like it.

And, as far as my experience goes, most of the posts in forums and the like are plain text. Not to mention that a lot of these forums are targeted at already somewhat technical people.

EDIT: And, on a personal note, markup even annoys me, even if I'm a developer.
That page has been deleted - you need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_day

<GrumpyOldManMode> <rant> Do people not check that their submission actually works? What testing do you people do when you deploy software? </rant> </GrumpyOldManMode>
Makes me want to get a an EPOC. Good luck with the project!
Looks like a high-resolution timestamp (the first 32 bits make up a time_t for last Saturday).
I don't see why not - ERP concepts probably predate relational databases. The biggest problem would probably be reporting - but you could have a NoSQL database for operational entities and a link to either a relational or dedicated OLAP database for reporting.
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The point is more towards developers/sysadmins. Outputting error handling is an epic failure in any production environment.
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I'm not sure if NoSQL will be any better, but they can't really be much worse that the reality of most relational designs that I have seen (especially for apps that have evolved over many years).
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If that's "epic", what about those companies that lost tons of credit card numbers? Or the Therac that killed people? You'll run out of superlatives if "epic" is putting some debug information on the screen in a production environment.
This is a recent update. When I posted the link, there was no such info that the page has been redirected.
Haha, yeah, as a vegan, this is interesting!

I don't think this makes figs unvegan though. At least, eating figs is just as vegan as building a house out of limestone.
Microsoft already has one, on a non-SSL page:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/protect/yourself/password/checke...
There's a lot of FUD surrounding the topic of high frequency trading (lowercase). Much more important to stability and sanctity of markets is transparency and effective regulation. Traders by design are trained to find inefficiencies to exploit -- that's how they make money. If some traders have discovered that by having computers trade really quickly, they can get an edge - well, that's kind of the point of trading. I think this paper is right to point out that high frequency trading has little to no impact on the overall marketplace.
And how do you suspect those credit cards were lost? Bad practices? This would be one of them. The semantics behind the the title doesn't really matter. At the end of the day, its just a bad idea.
PasswordSafe on a dropbox shared folder works great: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Really?

> This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log
> for the page are provided below for reference.
>
> * 02:31, 21 September 2006 Kylu (talk | contribs)
> deleted "Programmers Day" ‎ (content was
> : '{{db-r1}}#REDIRECT: Programmer's day')

Looks like it was deleted in 2006. If not, my bad and my apologies.

But let me ask - you cut and pasted the link - did you check it worked by clicking on it from your submission? The reason I ask is because most people don't know that HN strips the apostrophes from links. If the page you saw on WikiPedia had the apostrophe, and you cut-n-pasted it, it won't have worked, but you will have thought it did.
Doesn't google docs support OAuth? That password should never have been in the code to begin with.
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"This is a philosophical battle. Zuckerberg thinks the world would be a better place and more honest, you’ll hear that word over and over again, if people were more open and transparent. My feeling is, it’s not worth the cost for a lot of individuals."
The top-rated comments have a lot of good info, but I'm going to boil it down for what I look for:

40 hour workweek. Overtime only happens during an emergency. That means you NEVER schedule overtime.

Accurate requirements and bonus skills. Don't ask for 7 years in a language that has existed for 4 years. Make it clear if experience in other languages is acceptable, and the candidate can get up to speed on a relatively new language on the job. For a good programmer, this isn't hard.

No fancy language. No 'rockstar' or 'code ninja' talk. Anyone who is realistic about their skillset will not call themselves that.

Flexibility in interviewing. Good programmers already have a busy life. If you want them, you have to work with them. Especially if they live any distance from your office. Be willing to interview via internet/telephone first, and have them travel only if necessary. (I once had a guy 3 hours from me ask me to a lunch interview. I declined because I figured he was just milking the company for lunch and had no intention of hiring me.)

Adequate pay. Benefits are nice, but they don't put food on the table. And with enough pay, employees can buy all the benefits I want. As someone said earlier, your foosball table isn't on my list of requirements.

Unit testing. Without unit testing, life is a LOT harder.

Don't play games. If you say you'll call someone back, do it. Don't wait for the candidate to call and 'ask for the job'. That means they're desperate, not that they're good or loyal. If an interviewer tells me that they'll call me, I hold them to their word.

The above are the absolute necessities. Below are things I like to see:

Languages/environments that I enjoy. If you deploy on Linux and run Ruby, those things interest me. Showing that you are on top of the newest technologies or methodologies means you are open to improvement. This is also good.

"Challenging". I hate boredom. I never want to be bored. I would much rather go home exhausted from all the thinking than have enough energy that I feel like coding at home. And I do code at home when I'm bored at work.

Telecommuting. I find that I don't choose to do this, but companies that trust their employees enough to do this are better to work for. It also probably means they have a way to measure whether someone is working or not that doesn't involve a rat. That means things are a little more fair.
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You are sort of right. However people are not encouraged to drink petrol, whereas we are bombarded with advertising messages about the glamour and sophistication of alcohol.

I was sort of going off on a tangent, and playing devil's advocate really. The drugs legalisation debate is picking up steam in the US and Mexico (I wish it would in the UK) and I was just having a bit of a rant - I think it's incredibly hypocritical that alcohol is legal, whilst pot - demonstrably less damaging - is outlawed.
Cute, and it seems to work well, but it's not something that I'd play for more than 30 seconds.
John Stewart’s show is probably the worst show that someone could create. He does not even attempt to be objective. A large part of 20 somethings use this as their main news source. It is sad when people are not willing to watch news for news’ sake (instead of having it mixed with comedy – like a child gets medicine mixed with syrup).

And whilst the Daily Show serves as the main news source for many of 20 somethings, it does not even try to be objective. It often cuts video tapes completely (usually making fun of someone whose ideology differs from that of the viewers), uses video out of context, have interviews under false pretences and does not give fair coverage. Yet the excuse for that is that “it is a comedy show and not a news show”. It must choose, either one or the other – either it is a news show (and should subscribe to journalistic ethics) or it should be a comedy show (and try and involve itself in politics).