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We often see calls that Firefox should block outside programs from installing addons. That would be nice, but as long as installers have write permission to the Firefox directory, there is no way to block them. Mozilla could try to make it difficult, but the toolbar installers would just use more hacky methods, which would break Firefox even more often than it does now.
I would love to see how performant lift is (or isn't) when compared to rails and django
And don't forget, that R&D is funded by RAM profits.

So, do your part, and upgrade soon. ;-)
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i don't know about the religion stuff, but the focus thing does sound very silly. it reminds me of a certain philosopher - Kant maybe - who described "the self" in a way that was obviously characteristic of his specific personality, but couldn't be applied in my case, nevermind all humans'
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What about The Difference Engine and Springboard?
Ask HN: How to price my startup's product?
My startup will provide a ticket shop for a band, an event organizer or a congress. Current competitors charge 7% (excl. PayPal fees) or at least 1$ provision per sold ticket. This is way to expensive for small clubs as the whole entertainment industry is broke at the moment.

So how do you think should I place my fee? Go for a dumping price? Hide my actual fee by adding it to the final ticket price or be offensive and clear what it will cost at the end?
Hm. Lift even works on Google App Engine. Pretty nice:

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

That would take the pain out of deploying an app.
It may also be that the struggle involved in recalling something helps reinforce it in our brains.

I think something happens here, it's like you send your mind a command: "You didn't memorize that thing, huh? Okay, be careful next time, this is needed for the test".

Notice that when you read the next time, it's kind of your mind is prepared to put that information somewhere, in a manner that it can be retrieved later by the exam.
Tell me more about those rules are surprisingly similar to Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.
jsfiddle is really good. I like the auto indenting feature it is doing pretty well. One small feature request :) it would be better if it shows error some box or some thing. So it would be easy to quickly rectify instead of going through the syntax check somewhere else.
To be fair, the expectation of how websites work is changing. Lots of small touches in applications aren't strictly necessary(animation, transparency), but they do make for an overall nicer experience. People have come to expect these things from modern websites.
That works well, along with teaching; however, it takes extensively huge time and is very tiring (needs lot of efforts and patience).
The text is rather vague but the sentiment is the most interesting part. They hint at something similar to YCombinator which if they can pull it off could change the way a lot of people think about startups and perhaps open up new opportunities for developers around Europe to take the plunge.
"Wiring is what ASP.NET has been doing for ages" - which is pretty much why I thought it looked horrible!

[NB I rather like ASP.Net MVC but I use StringTemplate rather than ASPX pages for views].
You should try uploading some stuff periodically to www.DeviantArt.com, one of the best sites for Artists around, very Tech addicts, with a huge crowd of users...

But don't shoot all your bullets at once, drop a new piece there once a day, and it should give some some users in some weeks.
I definitely do this. If I'm actually "watching" a repo, such as tenderlove's ARel repo, I'll put the RSS feed into my reader. Might be a little clunky to do it that way, but that's basically how I get all my other news.
Looks nice.
However I much prefer LOL (http://elder-gods.org/lol/) which brings up numbers next to all links. Pentadactyl does this too and much more.

Never got a hang of VIM but there's been a lot of writing about it lately. Perhaps I should give it a try soon.
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There is also http://hackfwd.com/
"XML was necessary for the first web APIs we had"

People were building systems that had APIs exposed via HTTP a long time before XML.
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Vimium for Chrome is great: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgn...
I would expect it to be faster than both because it's build in Scala, which is way faster than Ruby and Python.
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its 1.1.5.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
The web is a wonderful thing, but I don't envy the lot of browser makers. Every once in a while whenever I have to replicate some portion of the whole HTTP/HTML stack, like cookies or in this article content encoding detection, it becomes apparent what a disaster certain things on the web evolved into.
You right.

The idea is that there are some people (me included) that are forced to use a Windows machine a few hours a day. I have an iMac at home on which I test/compile my code from time to time. From my experience you can safely implement on Windows about 90% of an application, because I restrain myself to use only the functions that are compatible with both OpenGL ES and OpenGL I'm able to implement parts of the graphical components of my app too. This is an incremental process and I always check,in the evening, on my iMac.

Take a game of Tic Tac Toe for example, you can implement the computer movements (game AI) on GNUstep. You can also use Blender to create your graphical objects ... In the end only about 10% of the code actually needs a real Mac.
Note that I posted a new article summarizing the fact that yes, Node.js works with IPv6:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127325
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Không ít doanh nghiệp luôn cố gắng tạo ra một dịch vụ khách hàng chất lượng bằng cách yêu cầu nhân viên phải tuân theo những khuôn khổ, nguyên tắc về chăm sóc khách hàng. Tuy nhiên, những chương trình đào tạo, những nguyên tắc cứng nhắc về hành vi ứng xử đôi khi lại không mang lại hiệu quả bằng những yếu tố “bên trong” như tinh thần làm việc hay khả năng sáng
Given his track record, I highly doubt he'll be "doing nothing" if he leaves.
Oh, if only it was that easy!

Consider how long it took to get rid of phlogiston theory in physics, even when falsified by experiments. The physicists of the day were careful and rigorous, honest scientists, and their opponents did not have (initially) any alternative theory to replace it with.

And perhaps we are giving too much credit to most people involved in public debates for examination of empirical evidence. I can say honestly that I tried to read the whole IPCC report, but got barely 1/4th in (it is incredibly thick and dense with facts). Very few of my peers though even glanced as the cover, yet their opinions on it are not any less strong.
Tried to test:http://tzigla.com/boards/6

For me, it does not render correctly in Opera 11. Does not load correctly in IE8. Only loads right in Chrome.
It's a domain name generator - it's 'mildly' fun. Still in beta testing so not posting it up on forums or anything. We are getting approximately 15 visitors a day (since last week), all paid for using google adwords, and largely from Egypt. CPC is about 5cent, bid set at 20c or something like that.

If I set bing adcenter to decide my bids it goes to $14 - pretty insane. I think we might push a buck fifty margin once we make our first sale. Exciting stuff.
I can't wait for this to go live. It's a great idea and I'll be using it as soon as I get that invite code. When do we get it Lenny? Come on!
I suggest you start with vimtutor. It's a great introduction.
Actually its been on the downslope for at least 20 years. I remember when NT was announced people told me MS was dead.

And then with Turbo Pascal and Delphi and Borland C++ the MS tools stack was dead. And so with Java.

In circa 1999 I'd ask college grads about the VB type system... not a single one knew a thing about it.

In 2003 we built a distributed ap on .Net and we were told that it was foolish, we should use CORBA.

There was a time when the LAMP stack was going to kill MS.

There's always a circle that thinks MS is dead. And to them it is. Yet I think they'll be more than fine for the forseeable future -- at least as well as any other stack.
As a fellow Londoner I felt compelled to poke around the site a bit.

* It's officially related to TechStars in some way
* They're accepting 10 teams, 4 times per year, in different cities
* It's a 3 month, on-site program, with office space
* 4k euros per founder for 8% equity

It seems like the "first in europe" positioning is based entirely against Seedcamp while ignoring others like HackFwd and Springboard (and all those outside the UK), but that may not be entirely unreasonable given their relative visibility.

I think they've got a good mentor list put together, with a lot of practicing entrepreneurs. My biggest concern is that the first month is dedicated to "shaping" where you spend 2-4 hours a day meeting with and listening to mentors. I would find that highly distracting compared to YCs once-a-week plus meetings as needed. Unless all the companies are at exactly the same stage of development, it's only useful to a subset and damages the rest.
Hey Monsanto rep, how's it hanging? Glad you could create your new account an hour ago and post a single time using it.
It is - the way you enter passthrough mode for domains in Vimium vs. passkeys for Pentadactyl is what makes the difference for me. Being able to still use the plugin when I'd like to and when I don't is perfect.
The UI gimmicks are a bit much… It was just barely tolerable until I saw the woman's hand holding the card below every photo I hover over. Especially since if your screen is large enough you can see the arm cut off.

Just my opinion: people who want to create art don't want to notice their tools. You don't want to be aware of your UI. If it's a novelty, people will say it's awesome but they will only use it once.
The way Visual Studio builds (it's a Windows machine at the moment) and CPU.

It pegs a couple of cores but the others have relatively low load. I've followed the optimisation advice ( http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instruction... ) but can't manage to get it below 25 minutes.

The bottleneck certainly isn't disk or RAM.
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I first read it as "Start up (your Mac with) Bootcamp" :)
If you are using Pentadactyl on OS X, my pentadactyl-files (https://github.com/remiprev/pentadactyl-files) include a "feline" colorscheme which is more Mac-like.
How is that inconclusive?
Google and Decormyeyes
How about arresting the Google bosses? Many online businesses already went bankrupt because the Google management keeps on changing the search engine's algorithms. Let's not forget that Google is actually liable for these bankruptcies. And the company is also liable for not protecting searchers/consumers against bad businesses, a goal that can easily be achieved as you can read in http://best-inexpensive-web-hosting.com/bad-hosts-rank-high
The above link is a blog about <a href="http://best-inexpensive-web-hosting.com">inexpensive web hosting</a>, but the article on the blog is about Google's liability towards consumers and any companies in general and not only towards web hosting providers. The solution provided in the link above would benefit both reputable online businesses and consumers. I highly recommend to read the article, because it's a perfect solution that is much better than the dangerous new Google algorithm. Just wondering when will the right Internet lawyers start suing Google?
For me VS2008 was a dog and 2010 flies. I have had plugin perf issues though, but the core IDE has had good perf. At least for WPF and Silverlight apps.
There is a market for Windows VPSs - we already know that. We are just building a better mouse trap with Epic Win (which is what I think you are referencing).

We definitely thought about going the AppHarbor route - and I can't lie that we might not go there at some point - I just think the market opportunity there is much less in the .NET space then in the Ruby space. (which is why we are focusing on VPSs right now)
Wow, at least try to argue the points he puts forward, or go back to Youtube to post comment.
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How about arresting the Google bosses? Many online businesses already went bankrupt because the Google management keeps on changing the search engine's algorithms. Let's not forget that Google is actually liable for these bankruptcies. And the company is also liable for not protecting searchers/consumers against bad businesses, a goal that can easily be achieved as you can read in http://best-inexpensive-web-hosting.com/bad-hosts-rank-high
The above link is a blog about <a href="http://best-inexpensive-web-hosting.com">inexpensive web hosting</a>, but the article on the blog is about Google's liability towards consumers and any companies in general and not only towards web hosting providers. The solution provided in the link above would benefit both reputable online businesses and consumers. I highly recommend to read the article, because it's a perfect solution that is much better than the dangerous new Google algorithm. Just wondering when will the right Internet lawyers start suing Google?
Evidence based scheduling - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
UML diagrams have one redeeming quality: when they allow direct full-code generation. I always saw jaws dropping when demoing ArchGenXML for making Plone products.
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I believe non-english speaking countries are hard for startups. I would personally not choose a country other than UK or U.S. How do I handle company accounts in Spanish? How do I deal with government? In UK government is easy to deal with, you can file everything online.
I learn best by doing. In an academic sense that means going to class and:

* If math/science, then solving the homework or problem sets.

* If humanities, then writing about whatever it is you've been reading.

* If computer science, then coding up whatever you've been studying.

I rarely study for exams explicitly. Following the above and going to class seems usually to be sufficient. "Studying" for me is something active rather than passive, and it occurs over time, rather than in one night of desperate cramming.

Whenever I've deviated from these rules (it happens ;-) the results have not been to my liking.
Now, it's down.
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Farewell, Eric! As you slowly leave Google with your $5.5 billion, we'll always remember you for... for.... uh, those thingies you did so well.
How does this extension behave with Gmail shortcuts? I love keyboard navigation in Gmail and would hate to lose it.
But many interesting problems can't be solved by throwing more RAM at them, because RAM isn't the bottleneck.
If you read the post, I detail how to allow keyboard shortcuts per website to pass through the addon and go to the website.

Look for ":set passkeys"
9.0.597.67 beta. I can't pinpoint exactly, but the animations were just too quick, and sometimes just something moved on the screen, but it was not immediately obvious what has happened.
If only we could short Groupon and LivingSocial. I would prefer Google Offers to Groupon any day and I can see stores in less tech savvy areas preferring to offer deals with Google Offers versus Groupon (which they've probably never heard of) just because of the brand name.
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No one will be as excited on your idea as you are
It is a pretty great book. It moves fast and does require some extra study but it's well worth it. I like learning things on my own and the daily "homework" is great.
Maybe call them tile drawings or something? I too was expecting something like drawball when I read "collaborative drawing." Quilts, patchworks, lots of words to play off here.

Get the artists' permission to use their work in the design of the site. It'd be more interesting than the grey that's there now, and would also help to show what's going on. The first image would be great for getting visitors' attention.

The name's a bit tricky. You could rename it to whatever name you come up with to describe the whole process. (I don't think Tzigla is sticky enough to become that name on its own)

Prints of this stuff could be really popular with people who like psychedelic art (which is a lot of people). Maybe that's your market? Of course, giving the artists their share is gonna be tricky (not to mention how fast the money/art clash can ruin your community).

I'd say build up your community before worrying about monetizing it. (I have to run now, before an angry mob forms)
hey cool! i created my rc files primarily from yours just the other day!
Ask HN: Why was Eric Schmidt Hired to Run Google?
In light of recent news of Schmidt's departure, I did some wikipediaing of his bio, but there wasn't anything in his track record that made it seem immediately obvious that he should lead the biggest tech company around.

He did a pretty good job at the helm IMO, but I'd like some insight into why he was chosen.
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OOP may be everything _you_ do, but it is not everything I do, and there are large vibrant software development communities using paradigms and tools that are not particularly object-oriented. Beware of making over-generalizations like this.
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up until 3 days ago, i would have agreed. but after using pentadactyl since then, there pretty much is no comparison. the whole browser is pretty much accessible and configurable. it feels a hella lot more liberating.

being able to search your bookmarks, history, and even your files on you hard drive QUICKLY and from within the browser is just a completely different world.

and that's just one example....
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SOOOOOO much fun to build this :)
I think that the author is coming from the Java world, in which case the comparison he likely had in mind is not Rails or django, but the plethora of Java web frameworks.

Personally, for Java Web Frameworks there are two I like, for quite different reasons.

The first is Spring MVC. the rest of Spring can go die in a fire for all I care, but the Spring MVC part is quite nice. Used properly it allows you to very quickly write a 'low ceremony but high fidelity' server based system. If you make some simplifying assumptions you can have all the Ajax you want too.

The other is GWT. The authors continually harp on about saving us from Javascript inconsistencies and cross browser compatibility. And, to be honest, I think they have a very good point. Anyone who has done serious web work would have run into cross browser problems. There are some other benefits to GWT, such as moving client state down to the client, where it well and truly belongs. Also the ability to pass real, proper Java objects (or at least pretend that is what you're doing) means GWT would never even notice most of the 'heavy lifting' that other frameworks keep rupturing their disks over - such as parsing form parameters, or having to post forms to the server to get them validated only to have to go back to the client and recreate the failed form... (save yourself the round trip and a square headache).

Now, obviously I'm clueless, but to my untrained eye as a programmer the bits I'd need to put into a Lift app look similar in some respects to the JSP tag libraries. E.g. they are trying to get you to do the programming in the html or xml. The problem is that xml (or any of its bastard love-children) is absolutely awful for doing logic in, which makes it deeply unsuited for that task. The only JSP tag library that I remember being worth mucking around with was some sort of super-duper-table-thingy.

Oh sure, you might not need to use weird variants on tags like <h:form> or <f:u:form> or <z:button> or whatever it was, but is moving the weirdness from the tag into the style/class really that big of an improvement? It is still doing the programming in the wrong place, that is, in the html.
This is a great alternative to vimperator, just switched to pentadactyl and really like numbered hinting.
Smalltalk is now a "visual" language...

And, BTW, VB.NET is, according to Wikipedia, the only language about 60% of the .NET programmers use.
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Whoops. Read right over it. Thanks for clarifying.
Some of the stupidest code I've ever seen was auto-generated from UML. People get all excited by seeing code generated from a picture and forget to check if the code produced is actually sensible or not - in most cases I've seen the code produced is abominable.
I agree with what you say, and I also don't want to play down Google's achievement. I just wanted to say that imho currently Google doesn't own any technology that would be truly indispensable - for any of their product, I can use competitor product without losing that much value.

Yes, 10 years ago they were "still just search," because that was the indispensable way to navigate the internet, it was a core technology. During the last five years, the focus has shifted so "just search" is not that important anymore, but Google somehow didn't evolve, but instead has been developing new and new products. And while some of them are very good, in the future they all can be replaced by the competition. Google is just not essential for the Internet anymore, or at least that's my feeling.
Here's something built with it: http://onlineqrlab.com
Completely JavaScript based.
vimperator/pentadactyl is what taught me vim.

also, vimgolf.com is apparently good too.
Even people with the most superficial interest in Lisp will love to see screenshots, especially if they are described as awesome.

If they can.
You are suggesting that he give screenshots of copyrighted software a CC license? ....Right.
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IE is not supported at all. IE9 might work through some divine intervention, but we didn't test it.

Opera 11 should work fine and it actually does works fine for us, just tested it right now. But, thanks for the report, we'll look into it a bit more.
I recently used a regexp library in Scheme for lexing. The result was O(n^2) on the number of tokens in the input stream. I searched for ages to find where I had gone wrong and finally realised it was the regexp library itself. I switched to Common Lisp, which has a greater choice of regexp libraries. The same library exists there too, with the same problems, but switching to the cl-ppcre library made the problem disappear instantly.

One problem with Scheme itself appears to be that there is no way to examine a portion of a string. The substring function actually makes a whole new copy of the part you want to examine (which may be the remainder of the input string after the token you just lexed, as it was in my case).

Most of the string functions in Common Lisp are set up so that you can specify a starting index in a string so that it is possible to examine portions of a string without making a whole new copy.
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I also expect as such but would like to see some numbers rather than rely on my assumptions