skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems a good way to prevent backlash is to deploy over a period of weeks. Before I got newtwitter I mostly ignored what other people were saying about it. Now if I complain it's old news.
Have you tried odesk.com, elance.com, rent-a-coder.com?

You might find some good competition from East European, Russian and Asian Coders on these sites- some of them are terrific coders/developers, but you also have some inherent advantages.

From experience of working with contractors/programmers on odesk.com, in my opinion these would be your inherent advantages that you can use to market yourself:

1) working and being avalable to work with, during sane hours (for North Am.) - working with somebody from half way across the world, even if they are very good, can be tiring in the long run

2) Cultural acquaintance - Many programmers from the developing world have not been exposed to the day to day life here in the more developed western world. when websites are dealing with making the day to day life easier, dealing with those whose awareness of it is next to nothing could be a big challenge sometimes. (There are some who really good at understanding, though)

Other problem here is, from experience, even if they could speak english, not eveybody can catch the nuances and subtleties of langauge which does have a bearing in good comprehension/communication. (to be honest, even my english is not upto the mark of an equally educated American, though I have lived in the US for almost 1/3rd of my life)

3) The understanding of confidentiality is next to nothing in many countries. Even if the understanding is there, the enforceability of related laws is very poor or next to nothing. So, thats a big biz risk you can market yourself on to North American customers on these sites, especially when dealing with unique ideas.

Good luck.
Where are most pictures on the Internet? I would guess Facebook and Flickr, uploaded by users who haven't the skill or the time to bother touching up the pictures they took today.
Everything else they do is window dressing to make people forget that they are an advertising company

That's a bit disingenuous. In the same way, newspapers are also advertising companies. The journalism they do is 'window dressing'.
Well I didn't see you offering to pay me to write in anything else so excuse me if I don't take your advice, and going to php.net is just time wasting if your IDE provides that info right there and then. After that you didn't address the C++ case or the case coding in glib or C# with their overly verbose(though less ambigous) naming, C is even worse when you have to use multiple libraries or predominanly binding dependent languages like Vala or Lua.
Ugh, of course, there are work-arounds. But if you re-read my comment, I said it is hardcoded in Chrome. I was talking about Chrome.

Another point: Your method will disable all google updates (google toolbar, google talk etc) which is a good side effect imo but not necessarily desirable by all.
This is how Chrome has worked since forever, and it's a good thing. Asking the user for confirmation for security updates leads directly to users running known-insecure versions of software. If you don't want auto-updates, use Chromium.
I thought this as well. I think California has some child labor laws which limit the number of hours a child can work per day. So, television shows featuring young children as main characters have an incentive to cast identical twins for a single role. Let's say each child is allowed to "work" 6 hours per day -- that's a total of twelve hours/day during which production requiring that character may happen.

So, I had presumed when reading the title that adult stars might have gotten their start as children when there was a significant competitive advantage to being a twin.

However, given my limited knowledge of Hollywood stars, I don't think this effect plays out in practice.
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I really don't believe that Facebook's developers are incompetent. And it's quite easy to neglect work when there's a business case for leaving that work undone.
Basically, the users of Pidgin said "We want X" (I forget what X was).

The developers said, well we don't want X and we only really make Pidgin for ourselves. It's just because we were feeling nice that we released it for you guys to use in the first place, we don't owe you anything.
Same here. Everything is managed via Synaptic update manager and Chrome gets updated only after I hit the button 'Install updates'.
While I'm not familiar with which Firefox controls you are referencing, the following is a shot of the cookie+"X" and the impending modal for selecting 0..n cookies and site data to be allowed indefinitely or for this session alone:

http://i.imgur.com/va1xW.png
That's a very bad "feature". On some connections I pay for every MB downloaded.
Because YD in its "heyday" existed in a much smaller world with little SEO knowledge.
It would be fun if someone wrote a metapost implementation on top of SVG.
When most people are in the process of typing, let's face it, they're looking at the keyboard and hardly at the screen at all, let alone, scrolling down.
Errata: wouldn't open any incoming port.
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Yeah why buy a book with 4-Hour claims? It seems we could sit back and let the fireworks take off and figure out his system pretty quickly. Nothing that claims to succeed in four hours won't leak pretty quickly on the internet
Germany would not be the second biggest exporter in the world if it was a myth. German approach seems to work better than English one at least in older, more established industries (cars, etc).
> Google should be talking with Microsoft, Apple, and their hardware partners to look at next-generation technology they can put out, unencumbered by any patents

But Apple and Microsoft are not interested by formats unencumbered by patents. Google, xiph and the fsf have been pushing for such formats for decades and Apple and Microsoft have been doing the contrary, pushing hard for their patents encumbered wm9 and AAC.

Unfortunately, Google is alone on this one and will have to push webm and webp and any other open format on their own.
The $2 million would most likely be spent on salaries, therefore if they wanted to run it as a premium service they'd need to fire everyone but 2-3 people (developer, business, systems) and keep it going minimally like that.
I'm frankly surprised that 29% of tweets DO produce replies or retweets. This really changes my perception of how the average user uses Twitter - people are interacting with each other a lot more frequently than I thought.

I guess this might be a result of Twitter hiding replies to your followees' tweets if you don't also follow the repliers.
This is Microsoft trying to invalidate a patent they don't like, not them "trying to lend a hand". It just happens to overlap with our interests. Which is exactly what they should be doing, as a corporation.
This is pretty highly ranked for being unsound. If "premature" means a couple hours before the actual announcement then you sir are correct. Those various sights we're actually correct.
Where was that $500/day washing windows job? If i don't get funding, I might need something like that when I would quit my job and start working on my start up full time

Would hate to drain up my resources by not having any cash flow.
As a side note, the correct response for security is not using giant NAT routers. It's getting rid of Windows.

For an otherwise reasonable comment, I have to say: What a load of bull.

The only machine I have ever gotten hacked was a Linux machine, since practically all attacks flowing on the net are Linux attacks.

I run a mixed environment of Windows and Linux and have zero issues, despite my entire LAN being exposed to the internet via IPv6 (obviously firewalled though).

Windows itself isn't insecure. It's a very nice and secure platform. Locked down, there are no problems at all. Users aer insecure. They are the problem.

If Linux had near the same marketshare as Windows, they would require access to install whatever new and fancy thing which came around, would have to be locked up, and voila, Linux would be ridden with all the same problems Windows have now.
I'm with Jeff Atwood [1] on this one; we don't.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/url-shorteners-dest...
Also see: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/
That's fine, but the demo seems to only show one source? I think it's a nice mash-up, but it is nothing compared to the previous winners.

You can also download that voice from the internet or use Google.
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That's really helpful. Thanks!
I agree it's questionable from a money standpoint, but not updating your browser is questionable from a self-preservation standpoint, as well.

(But I also agree that should be your decision to make.)

The compression Chrome uses on the diffs is pretty hardcore:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...

So you can at least be reasonably certain that your browsing bandwidth dwarfs the Chrome updates, FWIW.
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click through statistics.

The same is done most other shorteners. I guess your point is that google is getting too much of information monopoly so using their shortener is worst than using, say tiny.cc.

Btw isn't google already tracking stats of clicks on the search results?

http://xkcd.com/792/

Anyone writing an anonymizing resolver for goo.gl (like a browser add-on or a jump site)?
I agree with your sentiment, I suppose the real question is how can they not only hold their position, but grow, and encourage great hackers to get excited about their platforms, and be more innovative with them.
The Journalist theme is quiet good - http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/journalist Clean, simple and suitable for a coding blog.
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I appreciate your points, thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'd be more than happy to hear more about the stories behind Epiphany and Empathy that you hinted about if you have some more time!
Northern Virginia, D.C. area. It's a seasonal job but you will do just fine if you do everything yourself.

I started doing individual private homes, then moved on to working with realtors and community organizations. Best bang for the buck is just going to few apartment buildings and dropping 200 pamphlets saying "Window cleaning on Saturday: Call 1-800-xxx-xxxx to schedule. $100 Cash/Check". If you're doing move outs, take cash up front. Don't ever ever have credit card on file; they will give you the card, then go shopping online. Don't be lazy and hire someone off the street: some homeowners are social parasites praying on these types of businesses, if they sense you're an amateur they will claim theft or broken property to get a free service, or worse, hustle you for money! The worst ones are middle-aged single men. If you see a lawyer don't bother serving them; scum of the earth, $0.10 is the price of their letterhead, and it's how much it costs them to ruin you. If you suspect someone is fussy, walk away, not worth the trouble. Be firm and do good job.

Don't use a squeegee by itself, squeegee then wipe. Thin roll paper is best, the kind that don't feel spongy like a toilet paper (but more like newspaper.) If you use cloth rags get the thinest hardest ones you can get; the padded ones with sponge or cotton inside wear and tear after wash and the cotton comes out, sticking to staticy glass.

No poles or extensions. Period. If you use a ladder watch where you lean it against, and watch where it stands (I had it sink into soft ground slowly throwing me 12 feet down.)

Try not to break anything. Repair will ruin you.

Lock all the doors and windows when you're done and instruct the homeowner to do a check around. Tell them it's their responsibility.

Ask me if you need further help.

Good luck!

[Edit:

I must add this. No intellectual conversations with clients. People don't like "well read, well traveled" types, and if you appear upwardly mobile at all, people will feel uneasy; they get self-conscious and they don't want to be seen by someone who might be critical of them intellectually or professionally. When you see a shelf of Dan Browns, the ever pretentious Hegel for Dummies, or those "Prague for Bachelors" books, keep a straight face.]
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I personally don't know how it feels when you know your colleagues salaries. In all the companies I worked it was forbidden to reveal one's salary. But I can't think of any rational reason why I would want to know it.
I don't understand why they're taking that decision away from me. They could just enable auto update by default so most users would always be up-to-date unless they have a reason for disabling it. There are some good reasons other than money as well, such as privacy and security. I don't want my computer updated in any shape or form when I'm on an airport or in an authoritarian country for instance.

I don't know whether a Chrome update is dwarfed by regular browsing. The link you posted shows the size of one particular diff update they did. That's a completely worthless measure. The worst case, no doubt, is that everything has to be replaced and that would be 10MB.
I second what boonez123 and aeden said, that was indeed wise advise.

In addition, I would say, as soon as you see a need (but, validated through market research, formal or informal) go after it. There are lots of intelligent people thinking out there, who are as capable as seeing market needs as you or me or the next person. The only thing that matters in these days of open source and low cost startups is execution - who comes first to the market with the better product.

A need that is not met can be a current $0 dollar idea but if developed well can be a future million dollar idea. If you hit on a million dollar idea when you are poor, thats how you would get rich!

Before/during/after college? - 'Now' would be best.
exactly. And even if the government is able to inflate away the horrific losses its trying to hide from us in the mortgage market, how much these paper profits will ultimately cost all of us is what matters.
1. Twitter. (Obviously)
2. Print magazine. (There was no possibly way to link to pages with long urls in print, now its bit.ly/fgyr )
3. Billboards (Eg. Find us on twittter, facebook, blah on witter with bit.ly/grwt )
tldr: Author is referring to the ability to enable the "ask me every time a site wants to set a cookie" prompt (a la Firefox). Looks like this has been disabled in the latest Chrome nightly. FUD, etc.

However: In general, cookie controls are still entirely there, so I'm positive that specific feature is what they're referring to. I use an extensive cookie domain blocklist and that's all there and functional. (I've never used said "ask me every time" feature in Chrome, but I went through a phase of using that on Firefox.)

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UPDATE:

Found the relevant checkin: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51375

Looks like the previous behavior can be re-enabled via the "--enable-cookie-prompt" command line argument.

Perhaps support for re-enabling that by default should go in that bug (or a new one that references it)?
That's exactly right. The users make the profits possible. If it wasn't for those "leachers" using the service for free, Facebook would be entirely worthless as a financial venture.
But there is a substantive difference between B/C and Social Security. There are many retired people today collecting Social Security (not scrambling for IOUs) who paid into the system from their first day of employment.
Your scenarios, while technically accurate, leave something out. Here's another version:

D) Your child spends his/her high-school years mowing lawns, doing part-time jobs, etc, in order to save some money to help pay their way through college. You encourage them to do so. The money earned is put in a jar. You take that money, replace it with an IOU, and use it to pay for household expenses along with more frivolous things. Now it's college time and you scramble to find the money to pay the IOUs.
The article is strangely written but full of very insightful observations.

I like this one best: "Customers buy outcomes, they don't buy attributes".

Endless lists of features are pointless; features that work and are integrated into a predictable, enjoyable user experience are what customers want.

But of course the hard part is to build a credible promise; Apple's has been 30 years in the making. Microsoft has one for the enterprise market. I'm not sure Google still knows what it is doing.
Touché. I didn't figure the ads into my assessment.
I bought the first edition of Bugs In Writing (http://www.amazon.com/BUGS-Writing-Revised-Guide-Debugging/d...) years ago, and have found it an excellent reference.

It's aimed at technical writers and is a beautifully written book. Highly reccomended.

[Edit: I've just been reading the reviews on Amazon, and it seems a few people are put off by the 'cuteness' of the book, feeling it's not professional. The book has a strong personality (if a book can have such a thing) and lots of cat references/pics, so if you're likely to find that annoying it's not the book for you. Myself, I liked it]
But isn't having a sham appeal process worse than having no appeal process?
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You could say the same of pretty much everything. Just because something isn't perfect or provable doesn't mean it can't be useful. Just look at this as a guide to English grammar at the date it was written.
It's not the GNU/Linux desktop, it's GNOME. GNOME isn't restricted to GNU/Linux, nor is it the only desktop environment for GNU/Linux.

I know the author makes the distinction once, but he continued to use this incorrectly and he may as well have referred to a love hate relationship with the Mac OS Desktop, Cygwin Desktop or FreeBSD Desktop. Heaven forbid should he have used the term 'GNOME Desktop'.
What language do you think CPython's internal data structures are implemented in?

I know when I write an XS extension in Perl, though, that getting the C struct associated with my Perl object requires one C function call -- no overhead at all. Passing an object to Perl involves allocating memory and adjusting the pointers. All very fast. If this sort of thing is your bottleneck, it's time to step back and rethink what you are trying to achieve.
There is something to be said for this. The guy is clearly totally clueless about what this whole "Intertubes Thing" is and probably the Facebook rep could have examined the case, seen that, and directed him as such. But his reaction is still pretty ridiculous.
Anything that grows GDP faster than the interest on the debt reduces the debt burden. Considering the interest rate on Treasuries is not far from zero right now, that isn't hard in this environment.

Agree in the long-term about the need for sustainable fiscal policy.
Is there a setting to make it talk back to you in TeX. If so a really neat IDE could allow you to write an equation in TeX and then query Alpha and have it solve the equation in the IDE for you.
Imagine the howls if Microsoft had done this...
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Clearly you have no choice but to run for office.
And consider the pattern: WebObjects -> Apple Online Store -> iTunes store -> Apple TV -> App Store -> iBooks -> ?

If Apple invests in a new feature for their app/music/book stores, or in infrastructure, the costs and benefits will often be spread among various businesses.

By contrast, a phone competitor setting up an App Store probably doesn't have this. Investment in their App Store just benefits the App Store and whatever portion of their products is able to use the App Store.

I think if you look at Apple's business, you'll see several 'virtuous cycles' like this. OS X / iOS is similar. Investment in OS X may eventually be carried over to iOS when the iOS hardware can use it, and features developed for iOS, like Core Animation, can migrate to OS X.
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The only time you see an original photo on Flickr is by going to choose size and selecting original. Everything else has been re-encoded.
Firefox (3.6.11) default without plugin modification:

http://i.imgur.com/TUgZU.png

"accept third-party cookies"
(which no web developer should ever rely on)

and also available via an extension (but should be built in)

http://i.imgur.com/dZxFG.png

(hmm, why is imgur setting a 9-month long tracking cookie)
Rubygems adds the gem() method, which allows you to specify at runtime which version of a dependency you want, and does not rely on path munging.
The Internet makes a difference in that it removes consequences. It doesn't change their motivations -- they think being mean is fun either way.
Flickr, Picasa and such re-encodes the images to various sizes for display even if the untouched original is available. I believe that many phones offer to downsize before upload to save bandwidth in the other direction too.
Summary: "I noticed a bug in the latest Beta version of Chrome. I know Beta versions are 100% stable and never have bugs, though, so I assume this is some conspiracy by Google to ruin my life or something. Two more pages of whining about this."

I wish everyone contributed to open source projects, so they would know when to blog and when to file a bug report.