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Open Office is after many years of hard work still not up to snuff when compared with Microsofts suit.

In part that's still due to the document formats not being really open (so there will always be implementation issues, some of the docs literally say 'do this like word 3 did it' or something to that effect).

Another part is that it is simply a huge undertaking.

The biggest advantage MS has over OO is Excel vs the Open Office spreadsheet, it's not even close.

In spite of all that I don't use Microsoft stuff any more. The amount of features that I use in these packages is small enough that I can get by with a lesser program and not being locked in is an advantage as well, what sealed the deal is that microsoft does not sell a version for linux ;)

Personally I think that the microsoft office suite has more to fear from things like Google Docs than from Open Office in the longer term.
Bad IT also let them create these derivatives and have no idea how much risk was actually in them, hell, how much money was in them.

You sound like you think the bullshit derivatives etc were an accident? As if the people slicing & dicing bad mortgages into CDOs etc didn't know what they were doing?
Useless for anything except media exposure. Opera already has all the functionality you would need in a browser (as a regular user, at least). This is probably a move for bonus point with Firefox users who can't do sh*t without extensions - again, not the case in Opera.

Sorry, that's the harsh truth. Might be good news for advanced users that need to do some esoteric stuff but most people using Opera already have all they will ever need, out of the box.
I upgraded from 10.04 over the weekend. The upgrade process went smoothly, and so did the first boot up. This is the first time I've had no major problems after upgrading to a new version of Ubuntu.

I like the small changes to the UI and the improvements to wireless support. I'd always have problems with wifi connections in 10.04, which was mostly fixed by installing wicd. This is the first release for me that's just "worked". For reference, this is on a Dell Studio 14z.
Off topic:
I always wondered how to put a 'smiley' inside of brackets, I never considered making it face the other way around. Genius!
Our standard employment contract contains a clause saying that while IPRs of all software produced go to the company, the company will release all of it under OSI-approved open source license, and will maintain the developers in the authors list
Sorry to disappoint you, but here in the 3rd world, "$200 for professional services sets up unrealistic expectations." well... for U$ 100 an hour you can get world-class services here in Uruguay.

I get paid U$ 8/hour (I'm not that bad a developer, but probably below average and nowhere near world-class). For comparison, a good mechanic costs U$ 20/hour.

There are several companies here that thrive on the "too-low-margin-for-the-US" market, I should set up one too...
You need a webcam to fill out the application form. I assume they want to see how founders react to the questions first-hand, but it seems weird, like someone is spying on you.
This seems like a great method for ad hoc visualizations of multi-dimensional and graph-structured data. I could see building a tool that allows a user to pick a few dimensions and toggle between different orderings.

That said, I wish the authors had not used/brought up the notion of "visual analytics". Visualizations are great exploratory and illustrative tools, but I believe they leave much to be desired when it comes to doing the actual work of analysis. When looking for explanations --- particularly in large datasets --- is it not better to define some objective criteria which one can measure, rather than relying on easily tricked visual cues?
doh, I meant a steno pad ~~ ipad. They measure 6" x 9" - pythagorean says this is about a 10.8" screen. Ipad screen size is 9.7".

pic of steno pad: http://content.etilize.com/500/1010042931.jpg
This seemed to be the main excuse that people had for not trying out Opera in the past, but people already have their favorite browser by this point. Without a significant marketing campaign, I don't see Opera's browser share changing significantly with version 11.
Well you already deleted the first half of it, so why not the rest?
A good browser benchmark would also measure:

1. Browser boot time.

2. Browser shutdown time (on clicking Close).

3. Tab boot time.

4. Tab shutdown time.

5. LocalStorage boot time (on first call to LocalStorage API, some browsers load LocalStorage into memory at this point, blocking the UI).

6. IO performance of LocalStorage, WebSQLDatabase, IndexedDB for massive get/set operations (bandwidth) and many get/set operations (latency).

7. ApplicationCache update time (and update time after an interrupted update cycle).

8. Smoothness of moving a DOM element across the screen by adjusting absolute position (some browsers are choppy with this).

9. Javascript parse time.

10. Minimum setTimeout frequency (is it 1ms or 5ms?).

11. Hash change event propagation time.

12. Stack size limit.

13. Speed of Array.shift on massive arrays.

14. Vertical height of browser chrome at top of the window in pixels (less is better).

15. Vertical height of browser chrome at bottom of the window in pixels (less is better).

16. Number of colors used in browser chrome, including favicons in location and bookmark bars etc. (less is better).

17. Fullscreen support and switch to fullscreen time.

18. Developer Console boot and shutdown time.

19. Number of words, tabs, nested interfaces used across all Preferences pages (less is better).

20. Number of user actions (clicks, keypresses, mouse movement distances) required to clear LocalStorage, History, WebSQLDatabase, IndexedDB, Cache, ApplicationCache (less is better).

21. Default storage limits for LocalStorage etc. (higher is better).

22. Data-URI size limits (higher is better).
Plain Writing Act of 2010: All Gov Docs must be easy to understand
This was a reminder to me that special effects weren't always done sitting in front of a computer.
Not at all -- hash-based URLs for Ajax applications are critical. They're just not something that you want to structure your entire application around, and Sammy is a framework that uses faux-URLs as the central abstraction.

All I'm saying is that you don't need to ape the server-side paradigm (one URL, one page) quite so closely. Use a module that gives you URL setting and tracking with "onhashchange", by all means, but you don't have to shoehorn your application into it.
Increased Conversions by 18.62% with a Simple Re-Design
And if you want something in the middle, get Ubuntu.
The "Canary Trap". I don't remember the original source, but there was a real world version that Bruce Schneier linked to some months ago.
Disagree: Technical and design execution matters a lot. Facebook was brilliant in both. While myspace pages were a mess and friendster was having trouble keeping the server up,
facebook out executed both.

If you don't have a good product marketing can't help you. Marketing can give you an edge over other equally good products but cannot guarantee success.

Dropbox / Tweetie (before it stagnated) / Minecraft etc succeeded because the product was good. Not because of marketing
I'm keeping track of my hours worked, so I have a rough idea of when it'll actually have properly paid for itself. I'm not kidding myself, don't worry :)
Open Question for any Opera users out there: Why should I go and use Opera? With Firefox for extensions and Chrome for performance; I'm not sure I need another browser. What benefit does Opera give you? Why do you use it?
School sucks (you know it does) and there’s a reason why
Guidelines on Writing a Global Warming Thesis
As global warming is a sensitive and much discussed topic these days, student majoring in environmental studies will be assigned the global warming thesis. Knowing the process of going about the task of writing a successful thesis will make it easier for students.
This is why I sit at the desk with a pen and paper and my computer. When I'm trying to work something out, I write stuff out and make sure that my plans (and the stuff I have to keep track of) gets down onto paper. Sometimes I even draw a picture. Makes it much easier to refocus after being distracted (I just read my freaking notes). I'm interruptible, very productive, and I can refocus pretty much instantly.

//file this under benefits of a liberal arts education...
> and it is extremely obvious that Microsoft invested mountains of cash in UX research

Story of the Ribbon.

http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX08/UX09
Firefox has everything I need in a Browser. As has Chrome. Or Safari. I don’t need all that stuff Opera can do.
It has been open for a while: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7911 (but looks like it may be fixed soon)

EDIT: there seems no need to download Create (at this point he is on 0), it was a fair point!
Yes, and the CoffeeScript version would probably perform marginally faster. But pragmatism comes first. Because this is a part of a grant-funded project, it needs to be available and accessible to the widest possible audience -- and that means JavaScript.
Known you since ooooooh 1.5 years so I've seen your development. Impressive.

How's your network with fashion events and conferences, magazines and newschannels - would be a strong driver of fresh talent.

What other sales channels than own webshop have you thought about?
Comparing things we understand to something we do not, like putting a little man next to the drawing of a dinosaur.

Aren’t you surprised how huge Africa is?
My T61 has both, and I use them about equally often.

My sister's Dell has a touchpad that's basically unusable.
Frequently, JavaScript-heavy applications are for individual use: think GMail, Basecamp, or Google Docs -- none of which need to be indexed by web crawlers.

But if you are doing something public facing, you can get it indexed by Google with a little elbow grease:

http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...

"New Twitter" takes this approach.
Not really. Most of it is lack of proper power management in the drivers, especially graphic drivers. Work is ongoing, things will improve. In a few years.

I have only about 2--2.5 hours of battery life in my T61 under Ubuntu (standard 6-cell battery, 3 years old). Luckily that's sufficient for my needs.
They do mention: "We are pragmatic enough to not choose a tool simply because it is written in Python, but we do see the usefulness in promoting tools that do use it when it is reasonable to do so as it is in this case."
This is a great set of shots. Having watched a ton of "Making of Star Wars" specials on PBS as a kid, I really thought I wasn't going to see anything new here. There were a couple of surprises:

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that until seeing the first photo just a few minutes ago, it never really occurred to me that they would have had to film the opening crawl that way.

Having seen the sequence where Luke falls from the catwalk a million times, it's quite jarring to see all those mattresses below him. Even though intuitively you're aware that they did not film that scene hanging above a thousand foot drop, the visual effects really do allow you to suspend disbelief.
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Stop Googling
ugh beat me to it... to me a good infographic is also one that compares something "unknown" to known quantities for the readers

In this case it's "well-known" or relevant countries for the Western world, compared to the "unknown" size of Africa.

It also sent me hunting for resources on infographics, I found:

"The Anatomy of an infographic" (not too much in-depth but a nice starting point)

http://spyrestudios.com/the-anatomy-of-an-infographic-5-step...

and blogs on infographics:

http://www.coolinfographics.com/

and

http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/40-useful-and-creati...

which show good examples
Some other one's which were published in Maxim, http://www.starwars.com/fans/media_news/maxim_esb/index.html
Some wild ideas, totally not based on anything:

* FaceTime on iTunes, for Mac and Windows

* App Store for OSX
If you're talking about the Android email app, there actually is a fork, called K-9, and it's significantly better.
I call bullshit. Which stuff are you referring to, exactly? How long have you used Opera for, and what features can you name/describe off the top of your head?
Wrong thread reply.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790566

And, not to get too deep, this might point out why my not-so-wonky friends get confused when I abruptly thread cut and bring up a new topic in conversation. They're usually like 'Huh?'
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I love this. Some of the ideas are, frankly, junk. But there are a few gems (and a few which I'm stealing and putting on my own todo list), but more importantly I love the openness of just sharing ideas instead of doing what I do and keeping them tight close to my chest.

And what I think is junk, someone else might see gold, or have just the right connections to create a decent product.

This is what being a hacker is all about - open sharing of ideas. And this blog post is just that, in its rawest form. Awesome.

Here's another page which I like for the same reason: http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html
Reason #5: You're not at all sure what exactly the idea of the final product will be. You've got ideas bouncing around in your head and you want to try them to get a feel for what might be a real product.
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China was technologically more advanced once.

This doesn't work as a counterexample, because they are once again one of the world's largest economies.

As was the Middle East.

I wonder how (the absolute lack of) natural resources figures into this. Also, Easterly notes the terrible impact that bad leadership can have (indeed, I think that was a major sub-point of the article). And considering all the wars there, I'm guessing that a real infrastructure based on that technology can't accrete very deeply.

About the Mayans, I don't know enough...
I am delighted. From a technical stand point, I have no qualms whatsoever with being able to handle the specifics. What I am not so sure about is the whole being a grown up and shooting the shit with the CEO and whatnot.

I have never thought about being in management. My long term goals definitely revolve around residual income and freedom more than success within a company.
Poor scientists. Their conclusions are correct, but a significant portion of the reasoning which would allow them to get there is politically off limits.

That's ok, I'm politically incorrect. I'll stick to the comparison between the US and Japan, since numbers are easy to come by[1]. On the face of it, it looks as if Japan has us beat: 82.6 years to 78.4 years.

Now lets break things down by subgroup:

People of Japanese descent: 84.5 years in the US, 82.6 years in Japan. This long lived group makes up <5% of the US (too lazy to look up exact #, but east Asians in total are about 5% of the US), and about 99.4% of Japan.

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2...

People of European descent: 78 in the US, unknown (but irrelevant) in Japan. This group makes up about 80% of the US, and < 0.6% of Japan.

People of African descent: 72 in the US, unknown/irrelevant in Japan. This short lived group makes up about 12% of the US, and as far as I'm aware Japan only knows about this group via video games.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_15.pdf

So if the US had the same demographics as Japan, our life expectancy would be 2 years longer.

[1] Japan is the only industrialized nation with the property that the (possibly great great) grandchildren of Japanese immigrants is classified by the census a "Japanese American".
> but people already have their favorite browser by this point

I disagree. People were saying that in 2009 before Google Chrome really became popular. Now people are switching from FF to chrome all the time for a number of reasons.

If Opera brings new things to the table, people very well may switch. The browser wars are not over.
Funny, I heard somewhere that an american operator was responsible for the successful drill and thought it was kinda silly that no one mentioned in the live coverage (Brazil)
The nth dealer to join often thinks that s/he has a worse chance of winning the deal because other dealers got there first

Maybe you do this, but would it work better if you told them that you wouldn't provide the customer with the offers before some time (day or two?)?
SteamBirds Postmortem: A New Take on the Flash Game Industry
looks nice, somehow simliar to airdropper.
what raises concern right now is, that dropittome gets full r/w access to my dropbox. I don't want that and for sure it's not needed. using a sandbox like airdropper does, would be enough.
Can you think of a person who has been advertising vaporware that you would not listen to? I don't think that I can.

A similar claim is that people won't give a bad product a second chance, even after many years. But the point is, unless you launch like Cuil, you won't have many users in the beginning. So if some percentage of those few hundred people lose faith, it could be a small price to pay for the knowledge you will gain.

As for Duke Nukem Forever, if it came out today there would be plenty of interest. It might be considered a joke but that is only really a threat someones ego. Of course, it is a financial threat as well but that is because of the massive development costs, not marketing that back-fired.
Well instead of using two browsers (Fx and Chrome), mail/rss/chat client, a (very simple) torrent client and a note tracker (and some other software), you can simply use the unified package - Opera.

Firefox is dead slow if you add all the needed functionality build in Opera and Chrome doesn't have much going for it (speed-wise check the benchmarks; and Opera is very responsive when I keep my 50+ tabs open, whereas Chrome cannot handle the load, freezes the computer and uses a huge amount of memory).

Oh, by the way, the Opera default is "restore previous session" and it does not close all your tabs when you close the browser so you are encouraged to have one continuous browsing experience; I've been keeping some tabs open for years.

Just a sneak peek.
Chrome was new and shiny; the Opera brand is anything but. There was also a massive marketing push from Google (on the Tube in London, for example).
You're misinformed about Perl's philosophy. "There is more than one way to do it" doesn't mean they're all good, and all well respected by the community. There is always more than one way to do it and I have yet to see a single production-grade programming language where that isn't the case. If it were as you said, there wouldn't be a Modern Perl movement, there wouldn't be tons of syntax extensions, and extensions to the core to allow better and more powerful syntax extensions.
I know of a very well known company that runs complex visualisation software on Linux workstations because it performs better but dual boots Windows only for Microsoft Office (and nothing else)
I went to a Microsoft Roadshow recently where they were demoing Office Web Apps - he specifically said it was being targetted towards home users, because "people don't buy Microsoft Office for home use. They use Open Office or they pirate Microsoft Office."

If they're saying that in a promotional event, then it really shows the threat MS see from OO. They own the corporate market, but they have trouble capturing the home market, especially with Google Docs
At least someone got it :)

The other day there was a thread about someone asking what their idea should be valued at, without any background on the idea or their own capacity to execute (or even their skills).

I really strongly believe that an idea has no value at all, simply a big fat '0'. And chances are that if you have a particular idea that 10 other guys have it too.

By throwing these out there (the good with the bad and the ugly) I'm hoping for two things: That people will not 'hoard' their ideas and feel free to discuss them and that you get an idea of how bad the ratio between 'good' and 'bad' is. Take in to account the 900 or so that didn't even make the cut of being listed here and you have an idea how bad most of the others are ;)

The worst possible idea is one that you hoard and spend a ton of time on when someone could shoot it down in 30 seconds by pointing out a fatal flaw, those ideas can actually develop a negative valuation because you'll keep sinking more time in to the zombie.

Usually a week or so after having an idea I go 'what on earth was I thinking that that would be a good idea', some last a little longer, even fewer actually get implemented and a small fraction of those develop traction. It's like a distillation column.

Thanks.

And please do share your own list(s) of ideas!
For me, it's mouse gestures. Last time I tried getting them in FF with a plugin, it just wasn't as well done (forces you to make distinctions between tabs and windows, for example, that you aren't used to having to think about). Mouse gestures get to be very addictive, and they really are a faster and better way to work.

I'm also a big fan of the developer tools. While similar to Firebug etc, I prefer some of the minor differences in Opera.

I also think built-in support for torrent files is a really nice feature (don't know if any other browsers have caught up with this yet).
Google invests $1M in pedal-powered monorail pods
Wonderful Human Beings
Often a diagram like this can help spot problem areas or patterns that otherwise could go unnoticed. I would say a visualization like this would/could be the first step in analysis of a complex problem, followed up by a detailed analyisis of objective criteria...
Ask HN: Who needs Twitter?
Twitter. A platform that, in essence, enables its users to exchange 140-word long messages. No more, no less.

There is no denying Twitter's popularity. Users do use it.

But time and again the question arises -
Why do we even need such a platform?
What is the added value that users get from Twitter?
Has Twitter become yet another tool to satisfy our very basic narcissistic desires?

What's your take on Twitter's success? Specifically, what is the need for such a platform?
I'm happy running Hardy 8.04 with LXDE on my laptop.
"Only for networks? No"

That's because it looks like he reinvented Parallel Coordinates:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ParallelCoord.html
Can we call this what it is?

Need help with an iOS project? Let's talk, I'm great with both UX and code.
If I can help you out with a project you’re working on, let’s talk.

I think it's great that companies are finally starting to recognize the value of their workforce (eg Zappos, 37signals, Groupon, JetBlue, Google). If the original job post didn't have YC associated with it, would any of you have taken it seriously?

Danilo, I hope you get the chance to work with these guys, but stop speaking bullshit.