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As someone who's had ACL reconstruction, I can tell you not getting the surgery can be worse for you long term.

Why? because without the ACL your knee is not as stable. You're more likely to do more damage to the cartilage with an unstable knee. While I was waiting for my surgery (in Canada, took about 6 months), my knee was highly unstable and lead to multiple close calls.

Of course, you need to make the surgery decision on a case by case basis. My knee was injured in such a way that I didn't suffer a large amount of meniscus damage, but definitely had the potential to wreck it if I didn't get the surgery.
But the idea that it’s doing something better, new or innovative is largely PR and faffery.

Facebook is incredibly innovative at growing its user base. No other social network has concentrated on and succeeded at this like Facebook.
That's what bookmark is for. `Google' is not easy to type either, at least compared to `bing'.

I put DuckDuckGo at position 3 of Safari's bookmark bar (position 1 being bookmarklet from instapaper and position 2 being bookmarklet for my posterious blog). Then I could just press command-3, and type `!w Al Franken' or `!w faithful place' or `!python tempfile'. Pretty sweet IMHO.
14-year old 1st LEGO League programmer sets off the Google Science Fair
I'm hoping getting some money out of PT would make them act faster on the things most in demand in their user feedback site. http://community.pivotaltracker.com/pivotal [It appears as though] they've not been doing anything at all on these fronts for many, many months:

* markdown (code blocks, anyone?)

* editing or deletion of comments

* grouping stories

* replying to comments by email

[Edit: list formatting]
This is like saying "The Titanic now lets you bring your own lawn chair." I wish I had never started using Google Voice. The Android app is so janky that it may as well not exist. It's been three years and I still can't receive picture messages. Text messages get dropped 20% of the time, and you have to choose between having them forwarded to your cell phone with contact names inexplicably prepended to every message (often resulting in long texts being split up into 3 or more parts that get delivered in the wrong order) or having them delivered via pull notification on the Android app, which might notify you of new texts within 24 hours. Sometimes, calls will instantly disconnect when I pick them up. There is no support. There is no hope. There is only Google, the Fortress of Customer Solitude.
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Chopper 2 was #2 on the Mac app store for a couple weeks and the developer says on his blog that it sold 100,000 copies (at 99 cents, mind you) in its first week[1]. So, We can guess #1 is roughly double that.

So, back of napkinning:

100,000 units sold / 7 days = 14,285 copies a day.

You can guess, then, that Angry birds is probably selling 20,000 copies a day at the very least, which at 5 a pop is US$100,000/day gross, 70k net.

Wow.

[1] http://majicjungle.com/blog/
Yep - if you don't want people seeing your bieberqueries, you should use SSL Google:

https://encrypted.google.com/

... or if you're super paranoid, disable sending referrer in your browser.
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So you want to keep your books, is that all? Because in fairness I wouldn't fiddle writing software myself. I'd rather use Xero or a POBKS* for something like that.

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I'm really surprised that mobile phone companies are not providing exact same features as GV ... GV features are nice but not impossible to implement...

so i wonder what will happen if to undermine competition from GV, Verizon gives away a phone number that will be ringed (or forwarded) to 'n' number of devices and sends you sms and email message if someone leaves you voice message... how difficult is this to implement for a company that spends millions of tech dollars on almost daily basis???
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I agree that businesses should be required to collect some sort of sales tax, although I'm not entirely sure how. It's one thing to say that businesses have to collect sales taxes for the state the product is shipped to but what about local sales taxes? In Illinois the state gets 5% but in downtown Chicago the total rate goes up to 11.5% That's still a significant difference and one could argue that Chicago/Cook County are still getting ripped off. If companies pay all of the local taxes then life get complicated quickly, especially for a larger company like Amazon. However I'm certain that someone would come out with a fairly automatic solution for this problem so I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea.

Another option is to charge the tax based on where the company is based, or better yet tax based on the district that the warehouse or store that the item is shipped from is located. I.E. if you buy something from amazon.com and they ship it from their warehouse in Madison WI (not sure if there is one there, just an example) then your purchase is taxed as if you drove to Madison and bought it. This is still relatively complicated but I believe that it is the best solution, especially since it's closest to what would happen if you drove to a store. However I haven't put much thought into it so please let me know about any problems you see or better ideas.
Some of their math seems a bit off?

"Choose a plan with annual billing on or before February 19, 2011, and receive an additional 20% discount for the first year. That’s 18 months of use for the price of 8."
As I understand it, the Firefox project was started explicitly to develop a better browser for Windows (as opposed to the main Mozilla project at the time, the cross-platform Mozilla Suite). The whole idea was to challenge Internet Explorer's hegemony, and Linux users were (obviously) incidental to that goal.

As far as I know, Windows is still the priority OS for Firefox. Certainly, for a long time Firefox's Javascript performance has been noticeably worse on Linux than on Windows. And the shiny new hardware-accelerated rendering in 4.0 is Windows-only. And let's not even start on Flash (not that the Firefox team can be blamed for that, but it's a part of the browser experience).
I would have put that billboard somewhere on the east coast instead.
Hello, I'm here now :)

I didn't post this, so thanks for posting it anigbrowl.
It looks like both the linked post and the quora post are complaining about problems with the qualification round. There is no mention of the fact that the following round was in fact suspended entirely after the submission server fell over. There were still confusing problem descriptions, incorrect examples and buggy submission pages.

It's a shame because it really had the potential to be a fun competition if it had just been pulled off more smoothly. The questions were interesting and the competition format allowed for the use of pretty much any method of solving problems. The 6 minute limit was annoying at first but I came to see it as part of the competition. It creates an interesting tradeoff between development speed and correctness and allows people to solve the problem in any way they like whilst still enforcing efficient solutions. The bounds on all the variables in the problem are given so it is possible to test your solution on the worst case scenario before downloading the input.
The difference between these and the internet is right of way and externalities. That is, the government is involved in roads and sewers because (1) you can't have a road network in most places without the ability to forcibly purchase small strips of land from lots of people and (2) until recently, there was no efficient way to charge usage fees in a reasonable way. The internet doesn't really have that problem: charging is quite simple and the flexibility of routing means we're not nearly so beholden to any one set of property owners.

Now, I think there might be a case made for making last mile internet either municipally run or a heavily regulated business in the same way that water/power/sewer service in cities is, but that's a very different argument.
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The expression "Road Train" is used in Australia and elsewhere to refer to very long trucks. In the Northern Territory (where I am), a truck can pull as many as 4 carriages.

Passing one on the highways is a test of endurance.

Having one go past at 130 kmh (80 mph) on the other side of the road is an exercise in gripping the daylights out of your steering wheel.
DuckDuckGo is pretty memorable. After he succeeds, he can probably shell out for ddg.com I guess.
You seem to be implying that the browser that first made window, tab, and plugin sandboxing into a big deal won't sandbox such systems from normal operation.

ie, it's likely to be exactly as vulnerable as your computer. If you open a vulnerability in your extension and someone exploits it, it's the same as a flawed program that allows input being attacked. If they eval JS from arbitrary sites, that has nothing to do with the security of the system, only the security of what you installed.
I would have cost advertising on a billboard in an area like that cost ten times as much.
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First time I had heard it.
Google Voice Is About To Take Off: Number Porting Coming Soon For $20
Probably meant 12 months for the price of 8.

$7/mo * 12 * 80% * 80% = $53.76 with the discounts. Price of 8 months without the discounts is $56.
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"Not knowing which keywords referred visitors would be terribly annoying to webmasters"

Why should I, as a user, care about that?
Thanks. I think I'll have to change it. The domain's blacklisted on facebook lol.
You could easily argue that about a hundred years of engineering have gone into computer science, and many, many more than that into mathematics and algorithms. And this is the stuff that Facebook is built off of.

Also, Audi is certainly not the only player in town when it comes to automobile makers. On the flip side, Facebook has hardly any serious competitors right now, and no one seems likely to catch up any time soon.

If we're using cars as an analogy, Facebook has basically created the Model T of online communications, and it will take a while before other car companies can come along and steal market share.

Wouldn't that sound like a sweet deal if you were an old and not-so-tech-savvy investor?
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Ah, yes. It's actually 2 months free so :

$7/mo * (12 - 2) * 80% = $56.00
How can I have my domain "unbanned" from Hacker News?
Originally, I had no idea how Hacker News works, since it's tough to navigate and find instructions. So I submitted many posts from my domain, and quite quickly. Soon enough I understood that wasn't allowed. I'm not sure if my account has any effect anymore.

Anyway, I love the content on Hacker News and I want to participate. I also want to be able to submit things (not just from my domain) but I don't think I'm able to.

Is there any way for that too happened?
a) Voting rights etc.
b) "Unban" my domain
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For me, the beauty of Google Voice is having an additional number through which I can route texts and calls so that I can filter them how I see fit.
Lol ... am I the only one that remembers a test back in 1st grade that said the same thing and everyone in the room failed.

Rule 1: Read all the directions first.
Rule 2: Jump up and down on your head
Rule 3: Generate a proof which demonstrates that [insert random equation here]
...
...
...
Rule 50: See rule #1 ... hand this paper in to complete the assignment within the first X minutes and you get an A. (or something to that extent)

While I gotta agree that the communication wasn't clear, part of me wants to be the grouchy teacher which says "the lesson is this: read the dang directions". This guy just forgot the 1st part which was: read the directions first!
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Interesting timing, as my team was about to start using Pivotal Tracker for our project. Hopefully this encourages them, and the fact that they'll have to pay $50/month after July doesn't scare them away. Not really a big price tag, but any money over free is the hurdle.
Arch pushing Python 3 (or, as it calls it, just "python") definitely made me start porting Python 2 code to Python 3.
And then they're probably adding the 6 free months that they're giving everyone into that.

If you pay for 8 months today, you'll be good for the next 18 months. It's a stretch, but not really wrong.
And ye shall receive:

"An Indian man is facing five years in jail for making an "offensive" comment [against Sonya Ghandi] after Google handed his personal data to local police."

http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2217063/google-handing-user-...

Yahoo taken to task over China

http://www.boycottyahoo.com/yahoo_taken_to_task_over_china.h...
i would appreciate courtesy if you explain your reasoning for downvoting me .... do you really think as a hacker that its impossible to provide those features???
I disagree. I believe you should only have to collect sales tax in and for the jurisdiction where you do business (i.e., the city/county/state combo). Washington state changed how they require sales tax a couple years ago and now charges sales tax based on where you _ship_ the end product. Out-of-state is zero as in every other state, but in-state is where it gets miserable. The table the department of revenue publishes has something like 150000 rows where, to get an accurate sales tax jurisdiction code and rate, you have to look up by the full Zip+4. Remittance monthly/quarterly/annually requires YOU to do all the work of breaking it out by jurisdiction. With any volume at all it's absolutely miserable.
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Did you see how many different applications have to be installed just to make this work? Unless you have no clue what is happening and don't pay attention to what you are installing, this won't be an issue.

The only way they could install all those applications without the user not being prompted, they would have to run on a rooted phone and be given root permissions.
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Don't forget that changing out algorithms is a time-consuming process. It's not a 10 second fix, it's a technical challenge and a bureaucratic nightmare. I mean, it takes a week's worth of meetings to restock the condiments in the mess hall in some of these places. So you wind up in a situation where it takes a year or more to implement this stuff once you have the ideal solution selected, and selecting the replacement solution takes another year or more. So even if it's not projected to be an issue for 5 years, you have to start the replacement process right away.
Turning off HTTP_REFERER doesn't sound like a very good idea. How would you be able to tell how people found you? Knowing what link someone came in from is a great way to see where your site fits into this world wide web of ours.

It sounds to me as if the only issue is 3rd party ad networks. The antidote to this seems to me to be more reasonably the web browser's jurisdiction, ie. making the cookie policy more restrictive by default.
Someone with a Wikipedia page where the only thing in the "See also" section is "List of convicted computer criminals."

Diagnosis: Badass.
Ideally, the last mile fiber would be divorced from the IP connectivity to the rest of the world, so that a residence would pay the same money to use that last mile fiber whether they're running 1 megabit or 1 gigabit. If you then had real competition for options from your central office to the rest of the world, you'd see performance for a given price increase dramatically.
That's where the uncertainty lies right now. We've made venue acquisition as smooth and easy as possible, but we still need to sell them on the idea.

We're experimenting with some ideas (various geographic markets, adwords, referral program) but haven't found the ideal solution yet. This is our biggest challenge right now.
Maybe not "when it all started" but we envisioned massive data gathering and analyzing pretty early on.
> Edit: why downvoting?

Please stop, you do understand.
I would like to switch our land line telephone number to Google Voice. My wife and I use our cellphones 95% of the time, but old acquaintances still sometimes call our old landline number. Looks like there is no support for this?
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I was wondering why the new interface got sluggish after a while, I just figured it was at the expense of loading so much data at once, but even then it seemed odd. Glad Twitter is active in trying to keep it's interface fast, though I wonder how much faster it would be with something like Websockets.
Yeah, unless the federal government manages the coordination of maintaining an easily accessible nationwide database of these varying tax rates, or there's a mandate that the state tax code and collection be vastly simplified for online stores, I think this is likely to smother small e-commerce companies and discourage new ones from starting up.
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Citation for Facebook revenues? Recent rumours have it at ~$2 billion.
Excellent work.

Out of curiosity, what prevents a user from cheating this system? (eg. taking a picture of the QR and punching at home or with others).
Pedophilia is illegal in most countries, I'd be happy if ad networks gather data about your interest on young boys and pass it to the feds! Beasts!

Edit: judging by the downvotes, I guess a good bunch of hackers like to live in atrocity!
http://www.romhacking.net/ is an amazing resource if you want to find documents on the inner workings of older game consoles.

The SO post already links to bsnes, which does an excellent job of balancing readability and accuracy. It's still a little hard to grok the code, but leagues easier than tackling something like SNES9x.

I would also recommend glancing through the vNES source code; it's much simpler than bsnes and is very easy to understand for the most part: http://www.thatsanderskid.com/programming/vnes/index.html
Are the QR codes unique for every purchase? If so, I would imagine that it integrates with the POS.
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> Google could do a lot of things to make this easier.

And so could Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and Opera.

As others have mentioned, this is a good marketing move, but it's not clear to me that you actually care that much about this issue.
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Trying to find a relatively low-overhead way to track schema changes made in development and ensure they get installed on test and prod without blowing away the data on test (and obviously) prod.
You are using multi-cores, it doesn't count (and please stop showing off with your mythical LISP, it doesn't even have hygiene, au contraire Haskell & Javascript).
Sorry, accidental downvote while highlighting your question.

> Turning off HTTP_REFERER doesn't sound like a very good idea. How would you be able to tell how people found you?

And what if people in general, by default, don't want you to know that and we just got it wrong by default in the browser?
I was just wondering :) I am probably completely off target.

Here is a screenie of what I get every morning. Chrome 9 now (same for 8). 1st col is pvt bytes, 2nd is working set:

http://imageupload.org/?di=13129549812715

Edit: Interestingly after some usage, the memory gets freed, and it seems to return to normal again, ~50MB per tab.

Edit 2: Now I seem to get some Flash not responding dialogs. Sorry, it seems more likely a Flash issue, although I dont even have any Flash open on any tab.

Edit 3: Chrome stats: http://imageupload.org/?di=212954996318. Seems there is a problem with GC being a 'tad' conservative.
What's to prevent building a network with fiber to the home, with ethernet switches with 100 megabit ports for each home, and a 10 gigabit uplink on each switch going directly to a Netflix server? And is there any reason the per port cost of this ethernet switch should be any more than ten times the typical home ethernet switch?
I'm a huge fan of Pivotal Tracker and I'm delighted they are going to be charing a reasonable rate for this valuable service. Also delighted they are keeping it free for open-source, non-profit and individual use.

However I read that they are going to require you to pay for the upper tiers to use JIRA sync and other such features... wasn't JIRA support built into Pivotal Tracker by the community/3rd party or is this now their own implementation?

It would be wrong, imo, if they were charging a higher tier to use a community built plugin.

(why anyone would want to use JIRA is another matter, however)
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She is doing everything right. Absolutely.

If you want to be closer to Chinese people it's essential that you use their "stuff". First thing I did when I lived there was signup for QQ.

For a Japanese person to be making any effort to learn anything Chinese is really huge. She might not realize it, but she is giving her country great PR. The Japanese government should sponsor her and make her into an ambassador of sorts (if not her, then put together a band of publicly acceptable "youths".)

However, it's not that hard to get 1M followers in China, specially for an entertainer. If China has anything in abundance, it's easily excitable and bored young men (it really boggles the mind when one takes the bus after school and sees millions upon millions of uniformed teens just within 30 minutes)