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I'm not the OP and I can see the text in Chrome on Linux but one issue it does have is if the browser window is small enough that the title wraps the subtitle goes behind the buttons.

BTW, I would have subscribed to your RSS feed (a few times before even) if it was full content.
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/01/20/blocking-the-skype...
Can you sit against a wall? How long should one persevere before giving up if nothing interesting happens?
Maybe because ultimately doing a clone means you are fighting for a percentage in what is already a fixed pie?

Google as a company definitely has the smarts to create a new market.
On second glance, my post was a bit troll-ish.

It was more in reference to large enterprise apps, the one in mind combines 4 formerly separate, disparate apps, a mail server and a file manager into a single install, and doesn’t have any bearing at all to what an actual workflow is. Each Ext tab basically dumps the contents of a database out, or loads an iframe that contains a different install’s instance.
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Attachments.me makes the attachments in your email easy to search and share -- we're just moving into a private beta :)
I use Instapaper religiously (hah!). The bad thing is how it became a graveyard of oh-so-awesome-must-read articles and less a queue of stuff I do read. :)
As to the "emptying your mind", all I said was that if you're focused on "emptying" you might miss what goes on to "fill" it. If your focus is on what you're filling it with, you'll automatically start "emptying" it of what shouldn't be there. :)
Doesn't science appear to do this as well? It models what it observes, but it certainly doesn't nail everything down. And I wouldn't consider this approach misguided.
Better than zero.

As a former collegiate gymnast myself, I happen to know that you don't have a long time to meditate (in the gymnastics world, it's called visualizing your routine) before it's your turn to compete. Being able to get into a meditative state quickly can make or break your performance. Take to long, and you don't reach the state, and are more prone to errors. Almost all of the high level gymnasts visualize every routine they do, with varying degrees of success.

As you pointed out, Jason's goal does only average at about 5 minutes a day. But that's more time than a gymnast usually has (unless he wants to dismiss his teammate's routines, which is not exactly... nice). So for him, 5 minutes may be all he needs to reap the benefits, whereas someone who hasn't had the training to quickly get into that state may need more time.
I like this slick way cycle thru a range of numbers:

c = c < 4 ? c + 1 : 0;
This is great. I think a good payoff for all the work they've put in would come from acquisition by microsoft instead of selling this as a service to customers.

Probably that's exactly what is on their mind.
He's an interesting dark horse candidate, but I don't think they'd pick an outside candidate. Apple's like FC Barcelona--they're so successful doing it their way that it's better to promote from within than to teach an outsider how to do it their way.
You are welcome. Must stick up for print people; my design career technically began in middle school, on the yearbook staff. It is hard to forgot those basic fundamentals when they are drilled in so young. Even today I spend far more time pondering pixels, margin widths, font sizes, fonts, padding, etc than any normal person should.
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I don't know that the last part of that is accurate. Pretty much all successful products that Google has built have in some fashion (as loose as you are suggesting at least) been clones. Search, Adsense, Gmail, Reader, Maps, Chrome, ...
Totally! Before, during and after. Praying goes in tandem alongside meditation. :)
I could go on on why that is the whole reason for meditation, but that would be drifting away from the issue towards my beliefs (and I promised I wouldn't get "preachy"), but I do have an opinion. :)
Here are a few links that I've found helpful in learning about this strategy, number 4 is my favorite.

[1] Will that be on the Test?

[2] The Power of Testing Memory

[3] Practicing Information Retrieval is key to memory attention, study finds

[4] Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down

[1] http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/2006_R...

[2] http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/2006_R...

[3] http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11091.html

[4] http://chronicle.com/article/Close-the-Book-Recall-Write/318...
That's amazing. Is this real-time? Or fast-forwarded motion?
This seems like a pretty cool service for those of us who prefer .Net and want cool things like everyone else gets.
I'm curious, how would you imagine that working?
Argh… By "totally" I meant "part of the same activity". :p Not identical but not separate (hence my use of "in tandem"). :)
Ask HN: Review my ETA app
I made an iOS app that lets you let someone know when you'll arrive somewhere. I'm looking for feedback on whether or not it's useful, what features you think would be neat to add to it, etc.

It's in the app store (free download):

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crangle/id415138982?mt=8&ls=1

Source code available at github:

http://samlevine.github.com/crangle/

Thanks for your time everybody.
Why would Microsoft buy them? I'd imagine someone else in the space would be interested in adding MS support to what they offer.
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I really meant one-off as in it could only happen that way and only to you. There's nothing wrong with WRITING about those experiences, the problem as I see it is thinking that you have advice to give about any random topic or item you've experienced simply because you've experienced it.
Well just a little information about what Radish is would have been useful.
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Eric Schmidt is a programmer. He was one of the authors of lex.
What in the world. I expected something interesting, but this is some major fail by twitter. Not caching selectors just boggles my mind. How can a million dollar web company do this?
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Please review my startup, NextCoast. Essentially it's a full CMS
platform that does Social Networking--as in your own private social
network, an easy CMS, blogging, Mobile Web (in development) and online
collaboration

Right now our target market is small-medium businesses, giving them
tools to do everything from a small scale website through our CMS to
collaboration with the social piece of our application.In the future
we will be expanding to professional companies, offering a fully
integrated CMS with social, collaboration, and CRM.

What are your thoughts on our site, our approach and our software?

Thanks in advance for all your help!

Link: http://nextcoast.com/
Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.
Searching for things that people like you (or people you like) like. :-)
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Any plans on moving to the newer Google Maps?
That's awesome. Facebook seems to be trying to do what you did with their new messaging features. I'm sure it's totally different in some fundamental way but interesting that they went there.
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They didn't clone Facebook or Twitter?
We were a part of the io program as well and I would just like to stress a couple of things.

The amount of attention you get from these guys is huge. I can honestly say we have built a great relationship with the partners. From advice on handling interest from other companies, product vision, help with raising the round or even giving us a place to crash while we found one of our own; they were there all the way throuh.

I would like to stress the importance of their network as well. It was instrumental in helping us raise our round. Getting quality intros to 60 of the top angels in the valley is incredible.
Well that was easy - since I happened along this thread while sitting in my daughter's darkened room, surfing iPad just to pass time, making sure she doesn't get out of bed for the 6th time.
That looks amazing. This one starts at $52,000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoi-1g0IzI

That price is not at all crazy if it helps with skill development while saving you some real life track time, which costs on the order of $700 an hour and up.
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I tend to achieve that by making a few layers of access. I try really hard to make every chunk of re-usable code I write work with as few arguments as possible in the most common uses. Usually, this means one or two at most.

There are cases where HTTPEntityEnclosingRequest objects could be useful to be able to declare... but most of the time you just want port.listen(delegate). I boggle at how few systems have easy-use methods along those lines, and how so many things return 'void' instead of 'this'.
I don't know about the rest, but for:

1. Gmail - The history makes it seem like an internal project that became public. Wasn't started to beat some new hot startup earning the attention of the fawning public & investors; wasn't built to muscle into the territory of some startup earning bucketloads of cash.

2. Maps - Was about building a better way to distribute maps on the web. Again, not about muscling in onto a hot new space.
I enjoyed reading 'Concrete Abstractions', and it's usually very cheap if you buy it used on Amazon (I think I paid about $5.00 for a copy that was like new.)

I disagree with the recommendation for 'Simply Scheme', though. I didn't learn much from it, and I was disappointed with the amount of code in it that was non-standard stuff created by the authors purely for pedagogical purposes. I would personally recommend spending more time on HTDP or SICP instead of reading 'Simply Scheme.'
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That's exactly how I use it as well.

What I'd like to see is a "★/☆" for a repo, branch, or commit. Similar to the way you can ★ a question or answer on StackOverflow.
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They used to run Sun dumb terminals in the compsci lab at my university and they sucked when everyone was browsing netscape at once. How will this be any different if every kid in the computer lab is watching youtube?
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That made me smile :)

"Look at this brilliant technology. Just take a picture of this symbol and your phone automagically translates it into list of specials and prices!"

"Why don't they just put up the menu/specials?"

"oh..."
I never put two and two together, but I have long been amazed at how well I understand how the EU is put together, its history, etc, all just from having to write a 20 page paper on the topic once. This is true of other topics as well. More than once I've gone into it and came out the other side with the opposite opinion I started with.

But despite the clear efficacy of this method, it never occurred to me to do it on my own, just to learn something. It's a lot of work and somewhat painful, but I suppose a more complete mastery always is.
Imagine if all your circumstances sucked and all your mind could focus on was reality...

You'd probably do something to improve your reality rather than try and replace a miserable life with some form of escapism (not picking only on religion here, even World of Warcraft fits the bill).
I worked customer service for "a" major MMO for a while. People who got asked if they were robots were generally behaving like robots: using macros (pre-written responses) to respond to questions even when the answer didn't properly fit, sending responses (even proper responses) to questions faster than people generally type, or abusing the auto-name-fill-in shortcut to fill in the character name in every sentence.

In short, there's very likely to be an actual problem when your customers ask if you're a robot ... not a "cute" problem like you were too quick to answer their initial request.
Interesting. Wow, she's written over 1000 articles.

The problem I have with it is exactly what you're saying. Perhaps she is indoctrinated with the view that "tests are bad". Regardless, it is a popular view and a spicy topic. What bothers me is that this article seems to have a blanket "no, apparently tests are good" tint. Do you agree? The study seems to have absolutely nothing to do with that in particular, and the findings really don't either.

I do definitely agree that the writer sounds indoctrinated. The first sentence of the article shows signs:
"Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research."

This sentence makes me think that the purpose and end of tests is assessing, rather than a means to gather information to enable better learning in the future.
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Domain privacy is not just about email spam. First of all, you will also get letter spam and quite a few scammers that try to trick you into moving your domain to their services by claiming to be "The Domain Registry Of America" (a London-based company, which contacted me multiple times).

Second issue is privacy. Despite (rather useles) efforts by registrars and registries to prevent mass queries to Whois servers, there are _huge_ searchable databases of Whois data. This makes it possible for comptetitors to "spy" on your projects, for crooks to determine your wealth and location, for lunatics/stalkers to be always up to date on your location, etc.

I personally use nearlyfreespeech.net for domains and domain privacy.
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I think the strength comes from being forced to defend your positions. Any paper worth its salt anticipates and defuses most likely objections. It really does force away any areas where one might have hand-waved.

I think (as someone else mentioned too) teaching is generally good because one never knows where and when a challenge may present itself, but I'd suspect a paper gives deeper results, whereas teaching gives broader results, and both give more than study with neither.
I love padmapper. Best of the craigslist mapping sites.

When transitioning to finding furniture on cl, I was really missing the mapping option. "Padmapper" for the other categories?
“The current shipping version of the Skype Toolbar is one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, and was involved in almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox last week.” “This extension is bundled with the Skype application, and is installed into Firefox by default when Skype is installed or, in some circumstances, updated.” — Mozilla

It also busts certain designs. This sort of behavior from Skype is unacceptable.

Good on Mozilla, this is great for their users.
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Google Wave - under thought and over engineered? And this is coming from a screenwriter - NOT a designer. NOT an engineer.

I thought it was a great experiment. Shut down yes, but it's being open-sourced and I can see people will pick it up. Poor performance but I am sure the code and lessons can be used somewhere else.
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I'm not sure how small they can make the Kinect hardware - I doubt Steve would approve of an add-on more than 6 times the size of the Apple TV.
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Chris Zacharias worked at Youtube right? The hilarious thing about this article is that where he says Front-End Engineers he actually means web designers, and Google doesn't have them. It seems obvious to me that to have a good looking website you need good artists, and that #2 and #4 are such revelations speaks volumes to Google's overall lack of respect for that kind of thing.

Though Developer/Test Driven Design seems to be working out for them.
This is how I got through University. As I read my textbooks I wrote out every main point as a question. At the end of my reading I would have a huge list, and when I could answer them all I would finish studying.

Never failed a test, or was ever forced to stay up late "cramming" for an exam.
Ask HN: Where can I learn to make websites for cell phone browsers?
I live in Japan and do web development on the side occasionally; one of the things I'd really like to be able to do is make websites suited for cell phones here -- not for large touch-screen phones, which can usually use a normal site, but the standard Japanese phone that uses a mobile browser (for example, mine [Sharp SH003] uses Myriad).

I've noticed that some standard HTML tags don't work and that there are other, undocumented ones that allow you to do things like dial a phone number.

I've had a very hard time searching for this kind of information in the past, so if there are any keywords that stand out for this type of web programming, please let me know!
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Woops, accidentally used google's feedproxy link from Reader. Here is the original: http://blog.basho.com/2011/01/20/baseball-batting-average,-u...
Would you mind if I ask why? I'm honestly curious about whether you guys either (a) have a competitive advantage over the likes of Groupon (and Google too, apparently, after today), or (b) with the $6 billion offer, just want to get a slice of the pie. For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with either one -- just curious.
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That's the article from the first page. The link submitted starts on the second.
I tend to prefer c = (c + 1) % 4.

It's shorter (which matters for client-side code), and makes it more explicit what you're attempting to accomplish.
You say "Nothing interesting happens" like it's a bad thing. You're unclenching your mind, not being sprinkled with pixie dust. :) Expect to feel bored, then continually noticing how much you distract yourself (a song popped in my head...do I have e-mail?...what time is it?), then wondering if your knees will forgive you, then (maybe eventually, if you quit shifting), calm.

If you want to think about it as some sort of "deliberate sensory deprivation to stop the signals that would normally reinforce habitual fight or flight stimuli" thing, ok. It doesn't need to be a religious thing. Either way: You sit. It's boring. Deep breath. It just is.

I'm not the author of the parent comment, but in my experience, sitting for 15-20 minutes seems about right. Rather than trying to be all hardcore and meditating for 2+ hours a day, just try sticking with it a couple days a week. Doing it for shorter periods regularly adds up. It's not magic, though - it's more like consistently getting enough sleep. But it really does help, like emptying the lint trap in your mind.

Also, sitting against a wall is ok (if you get used to seiza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiza)), but you'll probably be happier with a "zafu" (small sitting cushion) so your back and knees are at an angle >90 degrees. You can also use a couch cushion, tree trunk programming book, or whatever.
The wonderful and terrible thing about front end development is that it's hacks built on hacks. Really pushing what browsers can do requires the acceptance of this and the willingness to put in even more hacks so you can package a relatively leak-free abstraction. It's that creation of abstraction that marks front end engineering and what we should be striving for. I work at a web shop of 30 where we have a dozen people who fit the criteria in your article more or less exactly...and they're our designers. What separates our front end developers is bringing algorithmic efficiency, knowledge of browser internals, separation of concerns, development methodologies, testability, etc. to the code our designers write. It's accepting and working with the instability while knowing and building towards the stable that makes front end engineering what it is. That and the intricicacies of how browsers interact with the standards and a working knowledge of the design disciplines.

I think the point where we can meet is that it's easier to teach a good web designer+beginning programmer enough software engineering to be useful than it is to teach an expert developer browser quirks and design.

I think a big part of the reason hiring for the front end is difficult on top of the wide skillset is the discipline didn't even have a name three years ago. I spent years ('03-'06) trying to figure out a job categorization for myself that wouldn't have me doing graphic design or writing stored procedures (I can do both competently but not well). For a couple years, just the fact that I knew "Ajax" opened doors and it took quite a bit of work to wrangle through the various browser quirks but as tools advance the discipline--and people expand their skillset--a much wider set of people have the page scripting skills that were cutting edge in 2005. Similarly, the rise of the second level of javascript libraries (KVO, MVC, MVVM, Modules, etc) will allow more people to build more stable solutions and the general practice will be what's cutting edge today. I expect this second stage will make it easier for the back end developers to transition over, though I suspect the dedicated static language people will continue to have trouble.
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Sure, that all depends on what you want out of the business.
Well, it is a gentle giant compared to many other big companies out there.
I probably could pass this easily, because I used to frequent a Buddhist group, and could easily meditate for 50 minutes or more. Unfortunately I'm also a parent, and kiddo came over and read the screen, and moved the mouse to amuse us both. Fail.
If you're talking to a person who can't deviate from the script, you're not really talking to a person -- you're talking to the script. It's like an AI, but clunkier.
i don't think anything is supposed to happen... (someone please, correct me if i'm wrong.)
c = c < 4 ? c + 1 : 0;

What is this line of code saying exactly.. ?
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I totally agree, I disabled the Skype Toolbar for Chrome a long time ago because it seems like it constantly crashes.
Web designer != Front-End Developer. For me the distinction is in the use of graphical tools. If you spend your day working in Photoshop for part of the time and you're not just slicing - you're a designer.

The front-end developer takes the design and builds it in code. All of it - code, styles, interaction, etc. There are web designers who are also front-end developers and vice versa, but the roles are not equivalent and they require different skillsets.
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Too late to edit - works fine with the previous rosetta client -just not with the beta.
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Hmm, among the native English speakers I've encountered here, the most common term used is "texting," perhaps because there IS no SMS function on the phones, so there's no distinction to be made.
I disable any add-on for any browser I currently have that I did not expressedly install myself. That being said I've expected this kind of behavior and malpractice from Microsoft not Skype. Terrible shame, too.