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Hi from me too Rich,

I notice going back through your post that you say it was a weekend project - we've been coding the algorithm for more than six months, and we have an office set up specially for it, and we are old, qualified, workaholics. Maybe we're slow and dumb... but

Take an couple of examples, 'name toolkit' and 'new site'.
You return nothing for nametoolkit, http://nametoolkit.com/suggest?q=name+toolkit&sort=relev.... You return rawposition.com for new site. Hmmmm. Our interface's are almost similar, but our interface is not our product.

I like the way you present the results, but my biggest problem with our site is that we have to only return the top few results for each algorithm, or else we overwhelm the user. We are hoping to approach this by allowing the user to view results by algorithm, and perhaps paginating or adding infinite scroll. For example, our thesaurus has over 100 responses to 'new', and we then filter and rank these by context, using our filtering database that takes a day just to add an index.

We already have twenty hours on the clock for our domain hacks algorithm, and I will be hand-cleaning tables until 2am tonight again.

It's fun though, isn't it?
Whereabouts in the UK are you? I'm in York and in 2003 entry level PHP programmers were on around £18k, IT support was around £14k. Neither has moved much in the last few years.
Do they? Do you have data on that and also on other, comparable phones?
We should have a cow bell curve meme with these polls. Man, I miss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry
Apparently you've never shopped on amazon or new egg where you can find a plethora of nuanced user reviews on most products. If you just skip the 1 and 5 star reviews and read the rest, you can usually get a comprehensive picture of a product.
This was in London! Front-end web development if that makes any difference, though the company had a bunch of FTSE 100s as clients so it was a good ‘CV’ company. Only stayed 10 months: found the same job but paying £22.5k in Portsmouth.
Apple provides reassuring reinforcement that you have indeed bought the "best" (at least until they come out with new model in year or so. Apple products are widely hyped as the "best" while actually being rather poor in everything other than style, hipness, simplicity. These "Optimizers" don't make rational choices, they are fueled by emotion, desires to feel good about themselves and better than others. These are qualities Apple markets to.
Is a power user now someone who needs all their documents synced using some cloud service?

Aside from using Chrome, Quicksilver and Emacs, I find most of the other listed OS X defaults to be perfectly adequate for my needs. I'll handle my own replication and backups, thanks.
Come and join us. Read our post about opening our R&D office in Portugal. http://blog.webnographer.com/2010/10/an-rd-office-in-lisbon/

Portugal salaries maybe lower but if you have not lived in Portugal for 10 years you can apply for non-habitual status which means you pay a flat rate of tax of just 20%!

Also you have the sun!
Gmail only (for the time being), but Sparrow has become my new mail app of choice.

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"....though I don't know what more can be done to help that along"

Both my parents are secondary level teachers, yet I hold the controversial opinion that we should put a huge emphasis on teaching the basics of computing and programming to children at the primary school level. I remember doing some light programming in BASIC on a toy VTech "computer" when I was about ten, but I would have progressed far quicker and learned "skillz to pay teh bills" if there was someone who could've opened my eyes to the possibilities of programming at a younger age.
sorry, how is flash content save from being copied?
As soon as, I can display it on my screen I can record it. It can be even easily scripted (a
friend of mine did sth. like that for a streaming page a while back). Also flash or any proprietary plugin solution won't help you. As soon as it gains any traction, there will be "save video" plugins for firefox, chrome etc.

Is this really a problem? If you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;)
The most power user replacement would be to replace the OS X window manager with a custom tiling manager.
You say that as if living in a shared house was some sort of social stigma.

Most single young (under say 35) professionals in London share flats, and I'm including lawyers, investment bankers, doctors, etc.

One reason is that price drops disproportionately with the number of rooms, for example for a 1-bed flat you might pay £200/week but for a similar 2-bed you'd pay only £240/week. You could pay 1000/month for a "half-decent" 1-bed flat, or alternatively you could share a great 2-bed flat for the same price. And many people chose to make the second decision. Also it makes much more sense in terms of buying household products and makes "luxuries" such as hiring a cleaner much more affordable.

If you really want to live on your own it makes more sense to live in one of london commuter belt suburbs where you can get a flat for 600/month.
You don't like this? What are you, some sort of communist?

The US Government has already sold the livelihood of most of its people (ie. industry) under the guise of the free market. Talk to someone who grew up in Buffalo, Cleveland or any number of places in Michigan and they'll tell you all about it.

Letting people make money off of betting on you getting blown up is just a more offensive way of getting rich on the backs of others.
It will only be so long before we all experience the same fate....
Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Software Last Quarter
You don't get to redefine the definition of "completely" just to make your argument sound better.
While I do think you were confused when you wrote this (although even relative to sales it's questionable: Apple came along and decimated the entire field of J2ME devices), I would actually agree that relative to best device it is true.

Why? Because there is intense, endless competition in the Android space, with dozens of companies kicking and screaming to get on top of the pile. The pace of change on the hardware side has been blistering (less so on the software side, though Google is the critical impediment there) because of that. It is an evolutionary ecosystem.

The iPhone side of course adapts to competition, but with just a single vendor and a single set of interests, it does so much more slowly.

When the 3GS came out it was, by far, the top of the herd. When the 4 came out it was tight, but it was a bit above the best of the Android pack. With the iPhone 5...I'm not so sure. I don't know what they could reasonably do to catch up to the ridiculously equipped devices coming out now.
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Hai nhà lãnh đạo xuất sắc được tác giả chọn làm dẫn chứng là Jack Welch- lãnh đạo Tập đoàn General Electric (GE) và Bob Young - người đồng sáng lập và cựu giám đốc điều hành (CEO) của Red Hat (Hãng phân phối phần mềm mã nguồn mở Linux).
And London VCs are still far more risk-averse than SV VCs.

This is the real problem. Most US startups pay considerably more than 40k GBP = $63k USD. $63k USD would be considered laughably low for anyone besides perhaps a middle-of-the-pack recent graduate.

So it seems that startups need to either generate revenue quickly move to where the money is (NY and SV, apparently).
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There are lots of examples of terrorist acts from the Chechen separatists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hospital_hostage_cr..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye_hostage_c... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings.

The lesson Russia is failing to learn is that if you keep killing civilians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War#Human_rights_...) and calling it a war, the civilians will organize, fight back and fight dirty.
I used to do all my backups locally to a NAS and various USB drives. Dropbox allowed me to sync between multiple computers running different OSes which is not an easy thing to do normally. I've found myself syncing .emacs, .ssh/config and other customizations across systems and it's so much easier.

Another bonus for Dropbox is the ability to share folders with other users. It makes sharing docs so easy because everyone sees the same version.
Something like 77% of iphone 4 owners were upgrades from previous iphones.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/25/77-of-iphone-4-sales-...

Since there's not much of an upgrade path for Android devices in quite the same way I suspect finding numbers to compare against will be hard. Besides, the platform didn't start to really become popular until 2009-ish, so most people are still on their first Android phone.
I think it comes down to personal preferences.

I've tried several times to switch to Chrome, but for me Safari is better. For example I like how I can access bookmarks from hotkeys.

Same for textedit and terminal, I can't think of any reason to switch, and I've tried several alternatives.
Furthermore, what’s with the recent hate on application-level switching? Just about ever “power user” I see nowadays wants Windows 98-esque window switching, despite the fact that the mac window manager is built around an application > window hierarchy.

Personally, it’s one of the most aggravating features I have to deal with on XP, so I can’t understand why anyone would want it on their mac.
A Power User that doesn't replace "Archive Utility.app" with The Unarchiver?

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Sharing or receiving?
I'm Brazilian and even though I don't have much to share, I'm here to grab some knowledge.
He obviously has a vested interest in lauding his backers. If the European ecosystem is actually so great then why did it take the author three years to raise $1.3m?
This topic comes up in a lot of his other blog posts. He cites both never-published-before authors, and already published authors using pen names being successful.

However, I don't really see how an unknown name can become successful without self-promotion just by putting a book "out there". They would have to get insanely lucky and get a high profile review without soliciting it.
Well, one can hardly expect the OP to attend to that. After all his by-line is:

"SERGE JESPERS - Life as an Adobe platform evangelist"
Well, that doesn’t really tell you anything since you have nothing to compare it against.
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It sounds like your advice is for Apple to release more devices to compete at different levels of the platform.
So you are arguing that Google can't improve their service in any way because if there were any improvements to be made they would already have implemented them?
There are various reasons, but one of the big one is because the talent pool isn't large enough in most places.

It's hard to get someone to move to London for a job, but it's even harder to get someone to move to a smaller city, so you get much more restricted to the local talent pool.

You see hubs of companies around university towns with good CS programs (Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Edinburgh) as universities draw talent in from a wider area, but for most cities there simply aren't enough people in a concentrated area.
excellent..I'll get some ppls together and we'll be in, looks hoopsnakin dude :)
You would still think this would scale better online than doing the promotion in person. Also the publisher is there to make a profit so presumably an author can spend the same amount on promotion a publisher would have spent for them and still get a better return.

Maybe the answer is more akin to how bloggers gain a big following, writing shorter stuff regularly. Maybe if you started telling a story online in this format you could gain a following for your first full length novel.
Obviously it creates a problem with incentives, but I thought it was a pretty cool idea. If you could get the volume high enough I bet it would be really informative.
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It also can be for quasi religious reasons, similar to the American practice of having several people throw the switch in an execution, with only one of the switches being live.
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I use this Greasemonkey script to do this. It works in Chrome and Firefox:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430

It does the unread count thing, but it also toggles between it and the chat icon if you have unread chat messages. It's a must if you pin gmail tabs.
"Do they? Do you have data on that and also on other, comparable phones?"

Internet search is your friend

(try to avoid the word Google in connection with friend ;o)
Its easy to justify the fundamentals on why Facebook is worth $50bb or more. Zynga revenues alone ($800mm) with 30 of that going to Facebook ($240mm). Multiply that by 5 (assume Zynga has modest growth) and give it a 30x multiple and you start to hone in on $50bb. But the main reason Facebook is worth more than $50bb, I wrote about here:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/why-facebook-is-worth-5...
Thank you and of course also to the rest of people that answered. It seems I'll be sensibly better than now. Madrid accommodation is shockingly expensive (~900€ a decent flat half an hour from the centre, I live now much farther), considering the much lower salaries... I can't find anything above €30k right now, with 15 years experience!

A funny thing is that yesterday I was thinking of emailing (or should I say spamming) you to ask for advice. I have your address from some conversation we had long time ago over bpd.non-tech, and I don't know anybody in UK.
At that rate you're paying about .25 CPM and would need to be selling a product at $25 with a 1% conversion rate to break even.
I’m not the one making the claim, I don’t have to search for anything.
For this survey it would be nice if we had a finer granularity. It would be interesting to see where the most HN users sit in Europe. Western, eastern and "other" Europe for a population of 700+ million people is rather sub optimal.

Compare that to the amount of options for the US with its 220 mio population.

I'd propose a schema like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_...
So the next step in the approval process(after contacting support) is write a blog post about it? :)
duckduckgo is pretty good. http://donttrack.us/ is a decent piece of marketing. Overall they have a really good momentum, and are probably the most promising.

Blekko has some nice features too. It'll give you pretty good information about a site with the /seo search tag. I find it interesting to see that information. I know it can be obtained from other sources though.

I haven't heard of Stumpedia. I'll have to check it out sometime.
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From the headline I thought this was going to be about Operation Mincemeat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat) which is a pretty amazing story.
You are probably joking, but if not, murder requires intent.
Why do you say that doing this on the client would slow the site down? That's counter-intuitive to me. I'm trying to push everything I can off to the client (client machines seem pretty good) in order to keep things on the server speedy- but it's my first web app, so I'm new in this space. Thanks.
That's the biggest problem of all: although they may have improved in the past few years, Google's filters to keep out scam sites aren't even borderline adequate anyway.

Google "HYIP" and click on one of the ads if you want to find a website to help you give your money to criminals operating Ponzi schemes. Now granted, a lot of people searching for implausibly high yield investment plans are aware of the rules of the shady game they're getting into, but they really ought to be triggering more filters and failing more manual reviews than bingo card creation.
Wow! People like the newest phones over a phone that's 6 months old? I don't believe it.
No, you aren't. Social is just a buzzword meaning "meeting strangers by means of web technology."
Agreed: if you can watch it, you can save it. Also, as a point of interest:

Last I checked, Netflix (Silverlight based streaming) serves up its videos in a series of tiny chunks (you can look at this with e.g. Safari's Activity window). I don't know if this is done with security in mind or just for practical/bandwidth reasons, but it seems like it would at least add a little hassle to the task of saving the video.
Scotland would probably be one of the worst places to try living in a cardboard box - cold enough to be dangerous if you are outdoors but not cold enough to be dry. Combine that with rather unpredictable weather and rapid temperature changes (we've had temperatures changing 20C in a few days recently) and you would have a pretty miserable time in a cardboard box.
Poindexter and others pushing Total Information Awareness did a horrible job of marketing. The logo even had an eye in a pyramid, all the better to feed conspiracy theorists' concerns about the Illuminati! So in a rare victory for civil libertarians that Congress wound up defunding TIA.

Many of the individual projects continued forward or have since resurfaced. They just have better logos and acronyms now.
The Russian (government) is responsible for a fair share of civilian slaughter. This does not excuse terrorism, just shows that there is no righteous side in this war.

As a side note, the airport attack could not have been prevented by the nude scanners.
The search space is small enough that the only "hard" part is telling if the message is properly decoded. They might not have used predictable messages but simply testing for the number of German words / phrases in a given output should work just as well. Assuming the actual messages are not overly cryptic.
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What do you hate about it? I like the idea, but I find it to be buggy and incomplete. Not all of the Google services work with it yet, mobile versions of their sites don't seem to support it at all, etc. If/when that's solved, I think it'll be an improvement over having multiple browsers open.
There is a lot going on in Copenhagen, Denmark is also often ranked as the best country to start a business as the costs of starting one are low (living there is not) see http://www.prosperity.com/entrepreneurship.aspx.

In my country, Holland, many people mention Amsterdam, I don't agree with that in the sense that it is a hub. The up and coming region here is Utrecht, it has a province and university backed business incubator Utrecht Inc. and a government backed gaming incubator, which both enabled some startups with national or global impact. The startup scene is still behind that of other countries and the numbers of 'me too', 'Y for X', 'X for social media' or 'X which doesn't suck' ideas are huge.
Yeah, now try to fetch records from a particular hour.

Seriously, it is better to get rid of timestamp indexing altogether instead of having an index that is basically useless for anything but fetching an exact timestamp.
I can’t tell who this comment is directed to, but I assume it’s me (the submitter). I am a big fan of prediction markets, and have no scruples as to their subject. I don’t see it as being ‘offensive’ in any way.

The suggestion that I am ‘some sort of communist’ does make me chuckle though :)
Really? You think all these women founders are lying to me?
Wasn't the whole point of Collossus that it was brute-forcing the messages on the more complex Naval keys until it found a candidate match? That's certainly what I remember from visiting Bletchley Park.

In any case, there are now (finally!) software implementations that are significantly faster than the reproduced hardware Collossus, so even if I'm not fully right brute-forcing messages should be viable.
Or consider alternate compensation, such as alternating remote work. London is a cheap hour flight away from most countries in Europe. Most big companies in London simply don't allow, say, a week remote and a week on-site. Be flexible and you might find a much bigger talent pool.
For a moment I though this was an unusual attack that changes the system time.
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These are taxes covering unemployment, social security, retirement, work accidents, and child benefits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat should also be noted. Not only an amazing story/execution, but its successful outcome did have; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat#Impact_on_l...

Well worth reading the book by the same name.
Any downvoters want to explain here? I don't understand what's wrong with the question. Please explain more fully why "open source" should be synonymous with "free software", or, if you downvoted for another reason, please tell me where I went wrong. Thanks.
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Chrome keep tabs in separate processes (not threads).
On mobile browsers, the speed at which the javascript interprets your data may actually be slower than sending the pre-interpreted data over the wire. Even on 3G.
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So? The web grew to the size it is partly because people could look at how other people were doing things and, well, learn from it.
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