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As long as we're getting one nit, let's get two of them: it should be "its" with a lower-case "i" instead of "It's." "Isn't" should also be in lower case, "isn't."

Even when composing a title with capitals, not all words should be capitalized. Setting "isn't" and "its" in lower-case makes the title easier to read and draws the eyes to the capitalized words that convey more meaning.
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They could release on a free document license or CC-BY or similar and the content would appear on hundreds of websites. Indeed as the idea is money-saving and efficiencies they should archive the lot (about half a days wages, at first, and maybe a single HDD) and then sell of the domains at auction lock-stock - deleting them is silly whilst they have any value at all.

They could give the domains to me I'll maintain them.
well jquery mobile is a lot more than jquery.
in very short, jquery mobile is like jquery+jquery UI but on mobile. For more details
http://jquerymobile.com/
While technically possible to blanket an area with RF jamming signals, I think both sides depend on the signals so much that the nuisance of jamming the signals outweighs the benefits.

Kind of like with GPS signals - our military could (and occasionally does) jam those signals during a conflict, but we rely on it so much that it's more useful to keep it working.
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Small companies create jobs within America.
Big companies create jobs in China/India.
Hence Govt must break big companies into smaller companies.
I do urban exploration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_exploration).
I don't mean to imply that JQuery, PrototypeJS, YUI and others are "flavor of the week".

What I mean is that every week I see a new FW posted on Github or elsewhere that seems to handle known problems but with a slight variation.

Obviously its more nuanced than that, but it just seems to be growing fast
Way off? Which list did you read?
This is an extremely cogent article on the unemployment issue. It appears the US needs to seriously start considering the structural unemployment that results from accelerating efficiency gains brought on by technological progress. Although I am a huge proponent of free markets, I've always worried what would happen when the radical pace of technological change outpaced the average person's marketable skills.

My take on this is that human abilities are normally distributed, and the average employable person lies right at the mean in ability. Technology, on the other hand, started at the far left of the ability curve and slowly began automating the most menial tasks. Over the last century, the mean technological ability line has inched ever closer to the mean human ability line, eliminating otherwise employable people from the market along the way.

You don't have to be a Singularitarian to see that this line has already caught up to the mean human ability, as evidenced by the blue collar recession we have experienced recently. The problem is that about 68% of the human population lie within one standard deviation of the average. If you look at the income gap data, it appears there is a divergence occurring in job demand, where only the high skilled and certain non-automated low skilled jobs are in demand. The big fat middle of the distribution appears to have been automated, hence the lack of demand for blue collar jobs and the structural unemployment we see today.

I would be curious to hear HN's opinions on how to deal with this issue. I am at a loss, as the foundation of the issue is based on the non-malleable human ability distribution and the ever accelerating pace of technological efficiency.
A road bike is a piece of athletic equipment. It can be maneouvered in several ways to emergency brake, drastically swerve or accelerate to avoid an accident.

This little thing looks more like a tea cart. With you as the bumper. No way am I riding this dangerous little thing.
Using Opera 11 on Windows 7 x64, 19" screen at 1920 x 1080.

There's something terribly wrong with your text; it's very fuzzy and indistinct to the point that it actually gave me a headache while I was reading to find out what TweetRoost does.

TweetRoost is only for groups of people, right? There's no point in a single user testing alone?
I wouldn't qualify it as an edge case. It was more of a change in philosophy about teaching kids to spell, which is something like "kids should spell it the way it sounds". The change started in the US at least 15 years ago. When I went through elementary school > 30 years ago, not using an apostrophe for a contraction caused a reduction in grade. Also, contractions were disallowed in formal writing. For instance, using a contraction in a paper was a reduction in grade.

Changing times and philosophies.
This is amazing. Google's UI guidelines are severely lacking, so far I've just been looking at other Android apps for some guidance, and many of them are just kind of loosely based on existing iPhone apps. Hope this site continues to improve!
I'm huge into woodworking. I've been slowly replacing all my random Ikea bits with stuff that I've made myself. My favorite thing I've done so far is the full-wall built-in bookshelves that I've built in my office. Absolutely gorgeous.
I'm living in Shanghai right now so I've seen this move in a number of variations.

I can tell you legal recourse is a bit of a tricky thing. You really don't want to rely on contracts in a foreigner vs chinese situation. The supplier's guanxi (business relationships) will almost always trump your connections. The only way to resolve things are:

A) Place a larger order under safer terms for you - I know that sounds crazy but you can sometimes get suppliers to "do the right thing" by rewarding them for their bad behavior. Offer to purchase an extra large order where the money they already have is the down payment. Requires a certain morale flexibility to hand more money over to a thief (but it can get the job done)!

B) Buy some guanxi. Get yourself a high end law firm (or consultant) based in Shenzhen and pay for their persuasive abilities with the local government and supplier in question.

Hope this helps. Good luck!
The WAL approach solves a different problem: "how do we provide durable writes with minimal performance impact?"

WAL does more than that. Part of providing durable writes is to be able to fix up the potentially corrupted associated binary data structure on disk on startup. So, for instance, if you wrote a link before the associated node is actually saved to disk, then when you replay the WAL you're guaranteed to write the link and the node, and are not going to be corrupted.
This was a post by request from another HN user (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170627) who was interested to hear about my experience trying to start and run a free online dating service. I realized then that it would be helpful to go back over the whole history which is why I ended up deciding to break it up into two posts. I'm already working on the "post launch" post that will go into how I went about trying to grow and maintain the site before eventually shelving it.
FYI - not my site or anything I have a connection with, just someone sent me a link today from it and I thought it was pretty cool, and looks new.

Ideas, thoughts, comments?
You are not going to make a wage above the poverty line doing those jobs though. Together the manufacturing sector and unions managed to drive wages and benefits into a local maximum, and were unable to find a way out.

Also i further disagree with the notion that it'll let you live better than in the 60s, for a variety of reasons including poorer access to nutrition, lack of public transport, and that society has shifted away from outdoor activities.
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I have to say, I like company Facebook pages because it's much harder to make an awful Flash-heavy mystery-meat-navigation autoplay-music unselectable-text mess of a site within Facebook.

That's also the reason I quit Myspace.
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Small stores almost always pay less, and sometimes pay nothing (with family working). This is why walmart actually lobbied for an increase in the minimum wage--to increase costs for smaller stores.
How does 'do no evil' reconcile with 'do tremendous good'?
Why we replaced SyncML with our own contact sync protocol
It would be neat if there were some kind of rotation on the front page to show hotels offering deals or low prices for people who don't necessarily know where they want to go for vacation, or are open to ideas.
I'm extremely tempted to perform a Reocities style rescue job and handle the takedown notices as and when they come. Might not work for some of the interactive stuff but at least the text can be saved.
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Here in Kenya we pay between Kshs 1-2 per message to send.

Receiving is free.

Considering that the exchange rate is Kshs 80 to 1$ a message is about 1.25 to 2.50 cents.
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I have never run into this problem, and didn't see anyplace where Delicious does this... is it really that common? (Aside from the middle-click-js-link-and-weep thing?)
html uses class/id attributes to regroup elements which behave the same way. This is part of html.
My first 'PC' was a 386DX 33MHz with 1MB of RAM. That was probably after the early problematic chips. It was a good machine for what it was. A year later I 'upgraded' to 4MB of RAM and a 486SX 25MHz.
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It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too.

You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo?

OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support?

EDIT:

Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (I don't even know what it's called any more!) didn't bother to fact-check, and they're referring to 64-bit native builds of Firefox.

EDIT2:

So I'm really being downvoted because the original story got it wrong? I guess that's one way to take out your anger on inaccurate writeups...
Ah very nice I was looking for a blog engine in clojure. I will defently look at that.
#8: Buy a song Status: Done

It compares buying a song for marketing purposes to selling music, and then moves on to an unnamed allusion of what Microsoft did with "Start me up" to what Apple does with background music. The takeaway is that Apple should brand itself with a specific pop song that has existing cultural cache, which it never did. I consider that "way off."
calls are still the bigger method of communication

I coined an expression: "one lunch is worth a thousand tweets." It got a good laugh from the audience at the last founder showcase. What I really mean of course, is that human contact is making a come back. Yes, you can tweet and text. But at some point, it feels all so detached. You'll crave actually meeting people in person. I think that will be a key trend of 2011, "back to reality".
One of the strange things I've always found in Safari is that while some sites break Cmd+click (to open in a new tab), if you use the menu (right click > Open Link in New Tab) then that will work just fine.
About the text: I assume you mean the website, right? It is written in standard wordpress, we'll check it under Opera right now.

About TweetRoost: It is just as good for a single user, since you can still save and manage your tweets It's just that it has a lot of features in addition for multi-sites. And we plan a free single user version...
Beware the temptation of datagrids as the main UI element of your app.

It's very tempting: clients love datagrids because they know how to use them. You might like them because they're simple to plug in and provide tons of functionality you don't want to hand-code.

Multiple times have we implemented datagrids as the main UI of an application only to regret it later. Clients expect it to do everything Excel does, and are frustrated when that's not the case. Or they want to sort on a column that makes no sense to have in the datagrid, but if it's not in the grid you can't sort by it. And some of the implementations can be a nightmare to maintain beyond the common cases -- looking at you, ExtJS Grid.

More often than not, you can write a UI that serves the customers needs better and still meets their usability goals. And if they want to report on their data, allow them to download a daily dump in CSV format. Then they can do their Excel reporting without introducing a datagrid into the app.
What about the Playbook, Meego and HP/Palm tablets and whatever Microsoft comes up with?
Ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the 2011 calendar year
Yeah, the website. I don't know what could be causing it, but it's almost like everything is super antialiased.

Edit: No Asia/Tokyo time zone?
To be able to support this, they're going to need to do some major overhaul of how add-on versioning works. As a Add-On developer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/), I shudder at the thought of 10,000 different addons needing to keep having their support version incremented w/ each upcoming release.
"Consider a spherical cow"
it's like the HIG for android - cool....linking these to code samples for each pattern could render a very cool manual for android development :)
>> You're kidding, right?

Nope, they're just misinformed; they read the roadmap incorrectly. What the Firefox devs mean is a 64-bit version of Firefox (i.e. an x64 process). Right now Firefox runs perfectly on both Windows 7 and 64-bit versions of Windows.
Whats the poverty line though? Because as a student I live below the one for my country but I live better than my parents did a generation ago and vastly better than my grandparents.

As for your second argument you might be slightly right about nutrition (but only on average, its easy enough to live healthy for cheap as several members of this board have done) but the two other things? How does outdoor activities even fit into that?
My colleague actually still has 1.6 on his Motorola Clique (T-Mobile)

And his phone is going to stay that way, last week Motorola gave up on rolling out a 2.1 update for that model.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/246279#246279
I've been waiting for this release ever since the first demo. Looking forward to seeing more examples and documentation.

Playing with the walkthrough, I'm amazed with the performance on my aging iPhone3G.
They're not talking about "Windows 7 64-bit operating system", they're talking about "64-bit Firefox" (running on Windows 7 64-bit). One of the biggest slowdowns for this hasn't been FF's ability to run in 64-bit, but plugins (e.g. Flash) not having a 64-bit version for Windows.
I agree, i think one of the biggest ideas to take away from my little thought experiment is the concept that just because something failed a few years ago does not mean it will fail today!
Checking right now, and thanks!!!
"Right now there are no real competitive Android Tablets"?

I contest that! Do you know the market? Have you tried a few competitors? Maybe you have, and maybe you don't like them, but they're there!
You are right, I realize I misjudged/simplified the problem somewhat.

My mind had spontaneously formed this idea of an in-memory overlay b-tree of committed (WAL) but not yet merged changes... But thinking it through further I have to admit that this would quickly lead to a complexity explosion (MVCC'ish).

I also notice my tone in that comment was more snarky than I meant to be, sorry for that. However I still believe that this is a wheel that's been reinvented often enough (and that is complex enough) that it'd be a good idea to focus on researching how the others have eventually solved it - to minimize the risk of repeating history.
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Chrome doesn’t run in 64bit mode either on Windows or OS X.
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Handy. Sifting through du output is never fun when you have 1000's of (badly named) files.
This is partly me screaming to hopefully get some attention from them. I'd love to give them feedback, but I couldn't get ahold of anyone. Their customer service is pretty much nonexistent as far as I can tell.

But yeah, I love the idea. I just hope they improve the execution.
It's a pretty easy typo to make. I was an English major in college and am still fairly conscientious about these things, but our entire culture of quick text-messages, status updates, and all the of-the-moment acronyms that those entail is fairly antithetical to any kind of grammarian proof reading. Educated people often intentionally dispense with the apostrophe simply to save time, safely assuming the other person knows their meaning.
Nice work so far, but from the demos it's missing an important layout feature commonly seen in magazines. Spanning an image or text insert half way between two columns and having the text of the columns flow around it.

A quick example I found in a google image search: http://irenevilar.com/images/uploads/elle_p1.jpg

If that could be incorporated then instant win.
... And there are a lot more planes made in the US than China. Neither of these things have much to do with which country has a larger total manufacturing base.
Following your argumentation one should never "complain" that some trend may be a problem (for a group of people), because compared with people living 50/100/300/1000 years ago we all have a great life.

Theoretically correct, practically I'll side with the complaining people in this case.
Great, now I'm going to need to learn a bunch of new CSS selectors.
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I suppose that depends on your definition of "direct".
I almost forgot. You can always send thugs to rough up their office and employees. Classic move. That actually happened to me during my first year in business here :P
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Isn't the development cycle a bit too fast. 4 major versions in a single year.
Looks like this was done using Balsamiq. Definitely a handy tool for any designer!
Any modern GSM phone, certainly. I had a few phones in the late 90s/early 2000s which could not do so (an Alcatel, an Ericsson, and a Sony), although it was pretty trivial to notice the garbled characters at the start of an SMS and wait for a second/third incoming SMS :)

I wonder whether the GSM spec got updated, or an RFC-style process took place, or simply that one phone manufacturer implemented the functionality in a sensible manner and the rest followed?
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Very, very cool. I actually had to check your profile to make sure that you weren't my professor, because he's doing the exact same thing right now, bookshelf wall n everything. Have any pics? I'd love to see your work.
It's not as bad as it looks since not all frameworks are equal. And I don't mean that in terms of quality, I mean they serve different purposes.

For example, Backbone already uses underscore and most people use it with jQuery. Coffeescript could be thrown into that combination as well as it's often used with jQuery.

If you're coding for the desktop: jQuery + whatever application framework

If you're coding for mobile: who knows, the choice here is more difficult.
I use http://trakt.tv mostly because it scrobbles automatically (from XBMC and a bunch of other media centers) what i have seen instead of marking everything by hand.
Author here.

There are 64-bit nightly builds of FF4, but _only_ nightlies:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

This suggests that there won't be an official 64-bit build of Firefox 4 -- we'll have to wait for Firefox 5.

As some people comment below me, only some parts of it are working in the 64-bit space (and most notably, the Flash 64-bit plug-in is still beta/alpha.)
That's interesting, because I also sold Cutco, and stayed for 2 years (wanted to hit 25k) before leaving. I thought they were great knives, and felt good leaving each sale. In fact, I felt bad for people that said no or couldn't afford them. I suppose believing in the product is the big difference.
Thanks. I wasn't aware of that mercurial extension.
Yeah, it's very non-obvious to the layman that they're talking about value rather than production.
You need to do input validation on your search input. Accepts tags and processes them.
The problem is, losing the middle class cascades to so many other problems. Most importantly, it shrinks the market and reduces business opportunity. It also has a devastating effect on tax revenue and public services. What made the US the powerhouse that it is is an enormous middle class. We seem to be losing that now.
There'd be a lot of code duplication if every snippet of JS needed to include, for example, all the browser-specific hacks that jQuery does, and all the DOM traversal, etc.

It's much cleaner if all the solutions use the same common framework, and that's (nearly) the case with jQuery.
There are 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Firefox. The 64-bit builds only work on 64-bit machines -- and the 32-bit builds work on both 32- and 64-bit machines.
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I love great layout and I think this is impressively done. However, shuffling through pages somehow felt like more work to me than scrolling the same type of content on a webpage. I think that's because you can't really accelerate to skim. Am I alone in that thinking?
This is horrible on a real laptop - I have to scroll for ages before anything moves, and there is no scrollbar to indicate what is going on.
"the main focus of Firefox development in 2011, is to make sure there is no more than 50ms between any user interaction and feedback from the browser"

Quite surprised to see this, judging from the fact that empirically the average human brain-hand response is around 200 ms. Only in competitive CS have i seen <100 ms response times. Sure, f.i. 20 ms instead of 50 ms network latency in a non-LAN setting makes a difference in that scenario, but only when you are not on the very top of the relevant Bell curve.

Seems like a moot bragging point. I'd love to hear from a more knowledgeable person what i'm missing.
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"The takeaway is that Apple should brand itself with a specific pop song that has existing cultural cache, which it never did."

You can seriously think of no time in the past 15 years that Apple has done this?

Edit: I'll give you a hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_used_by_Apple_Inc%2e
Both Firefox and Chrome are hoping to catch Emacs before 2014.
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Would be nice to have some examples ready where it shines
>User Agent String is the only accurate information that can be used to sniff the browser name and version, not some random CSS hack.

Those random CSS hacks should always work as they are relying on the specific functions of the UA which can not be altered (though they might clash with new browsers, * html anyone?), whilst as a sibling comment notes UA can be easily modified.

Both methods are flawed equally IMO.
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Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises
Follow up: I just got a tweet from Meetup giving me a link to their contact-us form. They're listening, it just took me a while to get their attention.
Already started. Email me if you want to help (in my profile).
Sorry, I really should know better. I've fixed it.
That's kind of sad. UIUC is reputed to have one of the best CS programs in the world. Are you in CS?
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http://www.quirksmode.org/ is great for cross-browser stuff.