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I would argue there's a difference between this example and the original.

With someone like McClure or Arrington, the people approaching them want something specific. Their businesses are on the line, and the unwritten protocol is that you walk up to one of these men, give them your elevator pitch, and they make or break you. (If you were desperate to keep the metaphor going- maybe they're prostitutes? By this, I mean that when you walk up to them, you know what you want and they know what you want: 5 minutes of their time. Sure, they may be a hot girl, but it doesn't matter because it's a business transaction.)

The CFO, on the other hand, is more like a girl you would potentially want a relationship with. Very little good will come from pitching the CFO (or a movie star, etc). An example for me is Tim Ferriss- a bunch of people were standing and watching him outside at a conference he spoke at. I walked up and introduced myself, and he was one of the nicest guys I've ever met. If Tim Ferriss could make or break peoples careers, he'd have been mobbed, too.
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The photo of the decor in the "Demonstration Center" is priceless. Almost straight out of Mad Men.
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Perhaps rewriting the database to use MongoDB? Their http://www.mongodb.org/ tutorial took about 10 minutes and is really easy to get to know.

As a DB they say it's designed for SPEED and SCALE. It might be worth looking at. (who's got the time right?) :)
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Kelley further noted that the prisoner was “cynical and filled with a mystic fatalism,” which explained why he would not take responsibility for such wartime conduct as his murder of political opponents and complicity in genocide.

I doubt that commanders on the Allied side had any feelings of guilt about slaughtering German or Japanese civilians. They may not have been motivated by racism in particular, but their actions still killed many innocent people, needlessly.
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A few screenshots might be useful. As it stands, I am reluctant to sign-up because I don't know what I am getting. Sounds interesting although I wonder what is the benefit of this over email.
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In theory, HTML5 (in the loose, HTML+CSS+JS sense) should reduce the need for outline:none. Before, it was necessary because any input using an image (for rounded corners, box shadows, etc) would look horrible with it.

Now, however, a majority of common input styles can be done using CSS- which is compatible with the browser's default outlining.
What personal private details could outweigh critical info about a huge news story? If they really are compromising their integrity as journalists to be good loyal friends, they can expect and deserve to be criticized as bad journalists.

And if they refuse to even explain themselves then nobody can be blamed for assuming the worst. And I can imagine scenarios worse than just protecting someone's privacy. The "we can't tell you why we can't tell you" excuse is as good as nothing.
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This is a perfectly valid strategy for a small business or a bootstrapped startup. For example, try to figure out how many different businesses 37signals is in. I'm aware of online software, books, training and advertising, and there's probably a couple of others. As they put it: "Sell your byproducts."

This strategy probably doesn't make sense for a funded startup, however.
The patent system needs an enema. Most of these are so broad it's like patenting water. Apple recently patented the 'slide to unlock' UI concept. If I'm not mistaken, the aliens in the Preditor movies had already established that as prior art and should probably go pay Apple's attorney's a visit.
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I know exactly how he feels. My 25-year friend died a year ago from a blood disorder nobody knew about and it was too late when they did.

The pain ebbs. That is about all I can say.
Youve been played. Its less about advocating anything but more about the page rank of the domains it links to. Lets not be naive. The content here is almost zero and could be summarized with one simple english sentence containing the word 'because'.
Yoggrt.com seems like a decent ad network if Fusion Ads and Deck Network won't bite.
This is why I love Opera's shift+arrow navigation. There's a large outline that's added by Opera regardless of the style, and it's much more visually intuitive than tabbing along.
"Seventy-five percent of Dutch women now work part time, compared to 41 percent in other European Union countries and 23 percent in the United States"

"Twenty-three percent of Dutch men have reduced hours, compared to 10 percent across the European Union and in the United States; another nine percent work a full week in four days."
If you are an end user of Microsoft software, this isn't for you. But you are encouraged to develop software that utilises Microsoft software, for end users.

If I were Microsoft, that would make sense to me.
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True...I must be getting old.
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awesome, on Techcrunch 10 min ago:http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/30/three-words/
"scientists, engineers and tech folk are able to abstract the description of a high-trauma event .. and describe it in such matter-of-fact terms."

Here is John Hamilton who made that remark:

http://web.jcsb.org/Trans/index.htm

What evidence do you have that he is a scientist, an engineer or a tech folk?
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Two years ago I switched to 30 hour week, and there is no way I'm going back. I'm happier, in better shape and get so much more done at home.

I do understand why people work like crazy, they have huge mortgages or other loans. I cut my hours before taking huge loan (I have smallish student loan to pay), so I just need to adjust my future house/apartment to my income. It's much more easier this way, than to first take huge loan and the trying to cut hours.

But for my friends who don't have that much debt, I always recommend them to work less. Here in Finland we have quite heavy progression in income tax. It makes the pay cut smaller, since your tax percentage goes down. And if you have small kids, kindergartner bills goes also down, since you can pick them up earlier.

It's amazing how big difference two hours a day can make. Nowadays I exercise at least three times a week (I lost 10 kilos this fall, yay!), I cook better and healthier food and do some programming as a hobby.

Before cutting my hours, I made more or less average pay, now my salary is pretty much the same as median salary.

And I don't think I get any less done at work than I used to. I'm quality assurance engineer and I don't believe that anyone can really be productive for 8 hours a day in non-trivial tasks.
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Pics as displayed are about 8k each, or 128 to the MB, so the drive would have been capable of holding over 82,000 of them. Of course jpg format didn't come about until 30 years later...

Full size images are 1600 x 1061, so with 16 bit colour and no compression you'd be looking at about 25MB per image, or about 25 per drive. As a jpg they're about 600k each
Seems like a good place to ask this:

are those 'sign in with Facebook' buttons trust-worthy?

I've only clicked one of them, and that was a 'sign-up' button for an event i will be physically attending

everytime i see one, I worry that

a) it's going to broadcast to my entire friendlist that i signed up for this service

b) it's not a REAL facebook button, but something to phish my account

c) this site will know my Facebook login

d) some other party will intercept the login...

tell me it's completely safe?
perhaps not spend my Thursday evening on HN? :)
That's a pretty poor title for an article.

It's a naive to blame it on the outline property. You can do whatever you want with the outline, just remember to make it do something else when it receives focus.

This applies both to input boxes as well as <a> tags.

I have a default styling when I code PSDs into HTML/CSS that makes all a:focus elements have an opacity of 0.8. It doesn't look as bad and insures that all <a> elements will have a focus behavior.
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I'm starting to regret leaving delicious.

For one the autocomplete on the bookmarklet will only suggest about half of my tags. Also the add a note feature doesn't save the text of the note. I haven't heard back from support.
thanks, I had no idea. I thought it was still text only
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I'm not sure who voted you up, but the second part of this comment looks trollish (apologies if it wasn't).

For a starter, this is a very small subset of computer science conferences (e.g., the main software engineering and programming language conferences are missing). I'm not sure in which field Yahoo! Research works (looks like data mining), but in SE and PL, they are inexistent.

Best paper awards are just one metric among many. Citations, venue impact factor, number of publications are other (imperfect) metrics. It's probably fair to say that MIT and other big universities and corporate labs (IBM and Microsoft) have high scores in all of these metrics, whereas Yahoo! Research is still too young and too small to compete with even smaller but dynamic universities w.r.t. these metrics.
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This is very interesting. Taken at face value, it looks like corporations are buying up all the best computer science researchers.

I wonder what long-term effects this will have on the computer field and on computer science research at universities.
I agree with the other comments; do what you are most passionate about. I found the following for you, not sure if its useful. There's a downloadable PDF but you have to supply some details. Looks pretty good though. http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/SalaryCenter
Maybe they're better looking than you?

(but seriously, I don't think making sacrifices is particularly good for your character)
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Once you reach a certain level (around 300 points I think) you will be able to downvote comments and the comments are arranged so that those with higher points overall (not just for specific responses) rank higher than others. I believe this is so that a long term contributor to HN can have their opinion heard ahead of some fresher faces.
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If you don't like what you're doing 5 days a week, you won't like it more 4 days a week.
1. This is a very limited subset of conferences/fields.
2. Google Research is younger than Microsoft Research.
3. Google Research is really mixed with their product development whereas Microsoft (and IBM) Research are more isolated so they can focus on fundamental research and publications (there is some transfer...). A Google representative once said in a software engineering conference: "Come work at Google Research, you'll work on real and interesting research problems like GMail". Gmail==Research? Really?
Slavery wasn't about pure economics. In fact, it is not that obvious that slave labour is more efficient from the purely economical point. There're problems with incentives, with hiring staff willing to manage the slaves, controlling abuse etc. Such critique was known at least since Adam Smith.

To take a more modern example, the same is true about compulsory military service. Many people once believed and many still believe that conscription is simply way cheaper than voluntary military service. However, the people that are drafted into the military service could instead have been involved in the productive work in the regular economy, and paying taxes that may be used to pay volunteers.

In short, "pure economics" doesn't automatically go in favour of slavery.

Slavery was a sustainable institution not just because it was perceived as cost-efficient. It required general acceptance of the idea that it's OK to deny certain classes of people -- e.g., according to their origin -- their basic rights. And that is pretty much about racism.
Love how everything had color back then. Bright red Minicomputer, Aquamarine phones, blue typewriter. My cube consists of varying shades of grey...
> the tools are well documented, and everything works as expected. Their stack is predictable, consistent, and dependable. If you want to be able to focus on your product instead of the tools you're using[4], then the Microsoft stack is great. Note: It's cheaper to have your tools work than to hire someone on salary to maintain and debug them.

I don't doubt all you say is true. But consider someone (like me for example) with a Unixy skill-set. I know PHP, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, Python, Django, Unix text processing tools, etc, and while the MS equivalents may well be very good, when you factor in my time learning to use them, I'm not going to be as productive.

One of the reasons I know all these tools is that getting started is simply sudo apt-get install whatever and I'm off. If MS want a higher uptake of their developer tools, they might make them as easy to get at as that.

I understand that with BizSpark I can use Microsoft's tools without paying much money. But there's a bureaucratic process to getting on the BizSpark program, which I'm guessing takes days or weeks to achieve. By comparison, sudo apt-get install takes seconds.

And that's why I'm using Unix-based tools in my startup.
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The winner, pehaps, for longest one-word domain name?

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Your first easy installation procedure fails, and asks me to use this:
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I used this with wget and it works. I hope this is okay. Thanks a lot.
Wow, thats an actually enlightening article from msn.com! I've been thinking in recent years about school bus seat belts and until now I hadn't understood why the state didn't require them. Now I feel a little better informed about the trade-offs.

I have a feeling that my thinking on the topic is tainted by the ever-present "Click it or ticket" billboards. This is something I feel despite having lived through the dawn of airbags, which were instituted in such a way to hype passive restraints. An example of that hype was that cars without airbags had to have automatic seat belts. Wouldn't that be just the ticket for those pesky non-seatbelt-wearing kids!

I wonder if in the future:

* adding seat belts will cause manufacturers/school districts to skimp on passive restraints

* the push to fuel efficiency will lead to lighter buses in the school district fleets, necessitating a move to seat belts anyway

Next up: why don't city buses have seat belts?
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Is it possible to remove your content from YouTube once it's uploaded?

Were I the author, I would certainly not want Google continuing to profit from my labors if they ceased paying me.
I don't think it is good idea to use alternative styling for focus outlines. People who prefer navigating with their keyboards rely on their browser's native outline style for feedback. If you really must remove the outline, do it for hover and active states only, and leave the focus styling to the browser:

a:hover, a:active { outline: none; } /* Requires IE > 6 */

See Patrick Lauke's article for more tests and reading: http://people.opera.com/patrickl/experiments/keyboard/test
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You can add he submitted a post for me to HN that got 20k views to that list. I know you are being sarcastic, but I can confirm that he at least done that one thing, and for me that is amazing.
The title (and article) are a little sensationalistic. It is unfortunate that CNN (and Oprah and Dr. Gupta) are giving this story so much airtime, but Dr. Gupta doesn't really "fall" for it, he's just being journalistic and refusing to openly give his opinion. I have no idea whether he gets to choose the stories he presents. The part of this that I find most-disappointing, however, is that Obama tapped this guy to be surgeon general. I don't expect much from a random MD or a news anchor (or a combination) but I'd hope that anyone under consideration for surgeon general would have enough backbone to be more dismissive of a story like this. Anyway he wasn't chosen for surgeon general... maybe this is why.
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The sheer suckiness of US networks never ceases to amaze. For a supposed 'technology' country it's amazing how backward they are, and just how much they have customers by the balls. And the customers don't seem to mind.
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>the fact that women are great judges of men

I'm assuming that by great you mean better than men are of women. What evidence do you have for this, apart from the dubious[1] field of evolutionary psychology? Also, could you define your terms better? What aspects of men are women great at judging? They are, after all, not psychic.

[1] http://www.badscience.net/category/evolutionary-psychology/
I've found the same thing with my 4/40 schedule. By Thursday night, I'm wiped out, and I can't imagine having to go to work on Friday. But it is nice having 3 day weekends. I may switch back to a 5/40 schedule when DST begins. As it is now, I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.
We mind. Some of us at least. (Which is why I ponied up for a Canadian iPhone 4, do not have a cellphone contract, and use a 4G mobile hotspot.)
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We're usually pretty quick with support, although it has been a bit of a crush lately. Feel free to email again (or simply email, if you tweeted, it's really easy to miss a tweet).

The way notes work is a little odd for historical reasons and needs cleaning up, you can search the dev list for a more detailed explanation. It does save the text of the note, though.

Either way, sorry for the delay and drop us a line with your questions.
The predominance of women in the pictures is very striking. Was that common at the time? If so, I wonder what happened to change the demographics so heavily.
I think this poll is too one-dimensional. It embodies an implicit model of productivity (basically, "you are productive when you wake up and then you work steadily at a constant task of constant difficulty for N hours during which your productivity falls as some function of time") which isn't very realistic.

I definitely get tireder after 12 hours (not all of which are ever spent continuously working, so does that really count as "12"?) but does that make me less productive? It depends on what I am trying to do, and it is very dependent on context. If midnight is the only hour when you can focus, you may be relatively productive at midnight, especially if (e.g.) you're grinding through some less creative but tedious stuff that you can manage while a third of your brain is asleep.

If the secret to productivity was simply to divide the day evenly between sleeping and waking at the right ratio, maximizing productivity would be easy. Alas, it is not.
Oh no it's fine on the lateness. I'm 31 and have only recently (~1 year) started coding with vigor. I am debating whether to leave my career in PR completely or use my expanded skills to move into a related field, vice completely moving to software development.
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I'm sure the author means well, but I doubt this passive approach (where everyone else has to fix the problem) combined with the irritating, holier-than-thou tone will get much traction.

A little greasemonkey script to add outline, along with some visual examples of would be far more effective way to advocate the issue.
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Maybe “computer operator” was considered a secretarial role?

Note that once upon a time a “computer” was a person who did computations, often a woman with a BA in math. ENIAC’s programmers were women (http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/eniac.html).
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I just can't find a place where they tell me what IT events will be around me. Paul Graham has visited London, Joel Spolsky is coming in January, but what about all the other talks/conferences? Is there a website with a list? How do you keep informed?
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"he's just being journalistic and refusing to openly give his opinion."

This approach, "Earth revolves around Sun? Opinions differ", isn't good journalism. If something's blatant nonsense on stilts, it should be called out. ESPECIALLY if you're covering health and are a physician. "First do no harm", etc.