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You can actually use military techniques to analyze why this is. Anonymous operates inside the enemy ODA (Observe Decide Act) loop.

The ODA loop for a typical corporation is at least 5 people. Eg. from when someone observes something (anon is ddosing us) to when that information reaches someone who can act on it (the CEO) anonymous has already completed it's complete loop which is (post on IRC, have people read it and suggest action) the ODA loop for anonymous is on the order of 5 minutes, the ODA loop for a corporate CEO is probably more like 5 hours to 5 days.

Therefore anonymous will always be about 25 steps ahead of a corporate target. The primary advantage that comes from this is that anonymous appears to act 'randomly' which causes further stress on the enemy ODA loop and forces them to continually react which leaves the proactive party in control of the competitive landscape (battlefield)

If you study military genius you'll find that the most effective commanders were the ones that pushed command furthest down to the org chart.

We know that decentralized control is much more efficient than centralized control. Communism didn't lose because its a failed ideology or because its godless, it failed because it's command and control systems allocate resources poorly. They allocate resources poorly because of information asymmetry and the length of the ODA loop.

The important thing to take from this for software development is that your time from when you decide to implement a feature to when you deploy to production or get a product to market (AppStore,BestBuy,etc) is your ODA loop.

Also, for software watch what happens to your favorite webserver under intense load when you replace it's queue (FIFO) with a stack (LIFO). The LIFO drastically shortens the median response time.
This also works if you pickup a series halfway through, having read the first half in your native language, and then finishing it in the new language. I've done this with Harry Potter. Before moving to Canada at 14, I read the first 4 in Romanian and the 5th and/or 6th in English. Since many of the terms were found in previous books, or since i knew them from the movies (example quidditch which the translators decided to translate. Still not sure how they got with the Romanian term from quidditch)
You mean "browser skin", just like the IE skins of the early 2000s.
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It's interesting how many upvotes this is getting in a very short time. However, I don't think the average Twitter user cares about performance and URL elegance, so I doubt Twitter will change anything.
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> We're just lucky they didn't try to put a tiny version of DOS on PDAs and a pen driven version of DOS on tablets.

There were a number of pocket-size DOS computers, like the Atari Portfolio.
Q is probably a reference to Star Trek character's Q:

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Q
Can't it work both ways? Serve the #! links and provide canonical content located at the (almost) same uri sans #!.

If you visit http://mysicksite.com/article/1 javascript changes all the links to the #! format. Then when the user clicks the links they enter #! land.

Now the user copies a link from their address bar and puts it into the wild. Someone gets that link, http://mysicksite.com/#!/article/1, and visits it. Rewrite with htaccess or whatever method you employ to serve the content at http://mysicksite.com/article/1, using javascript to change all the links to the #! format.

I posted this in the reddit thread about the Gawker/lifehacker problems recently, but was too late for anyone to really give me a response. For those of you that have worked with these kind of systems before, would this solve the problem the original link was describing?

EDIT: Ahh I think I get the problem now, of course after I post it. Server doesn't get the data from the uri trailing the #! I think?
You can't get to 1 million pageviews with making a few enemies that figure out a way to game the system occasionally.

Not saying this is that, though. Just sayin'.
Google 2k11 is a radically better product than Google 2k:

1) Crawling is now continuous, and fast. You no longer have to wait months for an index update to see a new site on the Googles. Even pages well down the head of the importance distribution get crawled, indexed, and searchable in minutes.

2) Search in Japanese is ridiculously better. Just trust me on this. It has gone from being Hotbot2001 to (English) Google 2005 quality, which is impressive given the natural language problems Japanese throws at you, and the underdeveloped state of the link graph.

3) The Google symbiosis with particular sites on the Internet - most relevantly to my interests, Wiki and StackOverflow - has successfully incentivized the creation of sufficient basic and in-depth content that it is virtually inconceivable that you can come up with a generic English term and have a total failure on it. (e.g. the top ten for [manatees] will now exceed an eighth grade science report in informational content, which was a very hit or miss proposition in 2000.)

4) Google seems to have gotten over themselves in one critical respect: they used to vocally glorify non-intervention in the SERPs, as if G were the blind oracle of the net. This lead to truly stupid issues like a particular neoNazi group ranking at #1 for "Jew" and Google running an AdWords ad against "Jew" to explain that Google was content neutral between Jews and Nazis and in this case the Nazis just happened to be more loved by The Algorithm so there.

I don't know about internally, but on the basis of external evidence, Google is now willing in search quality on the behalf of users. This is a good thing. (Now if they were humble and cautious about wielding immense power, that would be a good thing, too. I get the persistent impression that they still think of themselves as the wee little underdogs, cuddly academics in the dorm room, rather than being Ma Bell.)
I think they did everything to get the price down to $499 - including removing camera and reducing RAM. I'm guessing they thought that the $499 price point was required to make iPad a hit.

$499 is a very symbolic price.
The point of mainstream sites indicating that the page has ajax with the URL path is to tell search engines. I have a feeling that what the author doesn't get is that it is very hard for search engines to tell the difference between ajax pages, static pages, and spammy keyword stuffed pages.

To me, it seems that Google recommends indicating ajax content in the path in the same way that our government issues concealed weapon permits. Yes it okay to have concealed content that can loads on the fly as long as you are very clear of your intentions. Once again this is a usability issue that wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for spammers.
Agreed.

While it is true that this kind of retirement savings is to some extent dependent upon good timing, what is clear is that if you have any ability to put compound interest to work - and I think that is relatively fair - it is much better to start early.

Even moderate rates of return will produce this kind of effect, and in that regard, I think it is a highly effective demonstration.
I think that's kind of the point. We, as adults, use e-mail, especially at work.
By the time these teens get to work, what will happen is a mix of 1) They adapt to using email 2) They'll use their way of communicating with their then-colleagues.

New technologies are adopted more slowly at work, but eventually they will be, because people will use what is efficient for them.
(For a good recent example, look at the adoption of wikis in companies)
Probably not, but that doesn't mean people who do care shouldn't discuss the implications, or that Twitter shouldn't think there is a problem.
That is, indeed, the crux of the problem. Anything after the hash is client-only.
To be honest, I didn't really understand what he was trying to say, but I am certain that the first two problems he mentions are not what DI is intended to solve.
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I think people are missing a huge benefit of the hashbang syntax: readable and copy/paste-able URLs. Without them, it's impossible to have an ajax application with a decent URL scheme.
HTML5 "AJAX History", also known as History.pushState, can solve this problem. It allows a website to update its contents with AJAX, but change the URL to a real URL that will actually retrieve the proper resource direct from the server, while maintaining proper back-forward navigation.

See <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#dom-history-pushs...; for spec details.

It's in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. While Opera and IE don't have it yet, it would be easy to use conditionally on browsers that support it. I'm a little surprised that more sites don't use it.

EDIT: This chart shows what browsers it will work in: http://caniuse.com/history
It is no longer too slow, but still not as fast as it could be. I must admit, my experience is filtered by the fact that I'm in Italy and I guess there are many hops between me and the HN servers, but still loading pages seems to take something in the order of one second.

Being the layout very simple to render, no graphics, there are all the prerequisites to make the HN experience "google alike" from the point of view of latency.
Yep, a lulz-driven notbot-net.
I think the real question here is whether the application should be loading the main content via AJAX in the first place. Tim argues here that it should not, for this use case.
Relevant, I guess:
http://onestepback.org/articles/depinj/index.html
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I have seen performance issues and outright broken behavior with Twitter's hashbang ajax loading scheme. In that respect, regular users will care (they just won't necessarily know what is causing the issue).
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Power law still applies. Most likely 90% of serious action is done by the same 0.1% contributors (same as it is on HN or reddit or anywhere else).

It may be a real difference if the 0.1% can be easily replaced, Stand Alone Complex style. Say they're all arrested one day, and a month after something happens (Julian Assange is extradited, there's a revolution in Iran, whatever piques Anonymous' interest). There's a good chance many people at the same time will think that something needs to be done, see that nothing is happening, and do it. Not as good as the "old guard" maybe, but they'll probably try.

We can't really know how well this replacement mechanism works...
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You don't need the hashbang for that. You never did. Hashbang only tells google "munge around this shit to get an actual page".
Anonymous describes themselves best when they describe a hive.
Yes, a hive has a queen but she lasts only as long as the workers feel she is productive.

When a hive reaches a certain size it will establish a new hive, it too will have it's own queen.

Members of the hive will give off pheromones to signal the other members. Not all will follow, some will, however what's important is that the more pheromones of a certain signal propagate the larger the response. The workers are controlled by themselves to a large degree and the queen is in place with certain ceremonial roles. (laying eggs)

The only reason anonymous is a difficult concept to grasp is that from the day we are born we are taught to respect and obey a hierarchy of authority. This authority exists only in the minds of those that believe it. When the last person stops believing it, it will cease to exist.
... which uses a PowerPC chip, likely (and ironically) the reason Apple switched to Intel.
In case the rumors related to NOKIA using WP7 as the OS for some of their devices come true , I think the number of 20 million devices will happen sooner. Especially if they manage to launch WP7 devices within 2011 to China ,where Nokia has a very strong position.
Yet another annoying pontificating article about hashbangs. Why can't people accept that there are more than one way of doing things on the web.

Just because you don't like using hashbangs does not mean no-one else can.

Sure, use of hashbangs might make seo of your site harder. Yes, it might make it harder for hackers who want to do curls of your site's pages. But maybe this is not your aim with your site.

Maybe you want to give your users a slicker experience by not loading whole new pages but instead grabs bits of new content.

The web is a place for experimentation and we as hackers should encourage such experimentation, rather than condemning it because it does not fit with how we think things should be done.
>> Had Google stayed more focused on search instead of all these side businesses, search could be far more developed than it currently is today.

I agree. Basic text search could be better, but if Google would stay focused, they could develop other technologies to stay ahead, for example - searching for something in texts written in other languages (with machine translation), search in radio stations, search what was said in a video, etc...
it just decreases the eventual returns

That's exactly my fear.

But that variation in returns will be dwarfed by the variation caused by which startup you pick. Which means investing with no cap would be business as usual for angels.

Yes, I agree with the no cap thing. Yet I think smaller discounts mean that you'll get smaller returns whether you pick a "rocket" startup or a "tortoise" one.
Though I was facepalmed through the entire video... it does lend itself to one question:

If you could geek fight anyone in history who would it be? :)

I'm torn between 1960s Gordon Moore or RMS (any decade).
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Huh? Any capitalization of 'voice' in a headline reads 'Google Voice' to you?
This solves two problems: (1) the only visible/bookmarkable URLs are those without a #!; and (2) initial page loads can be fulfilled by a single request to the server. It doesn't solve the problem of URL discovery, but two out of three ain't bad.
"If you put your money in the stock market over the past decade, for example, your return would be zero."

Another reason to look into a more balanced approach than just stocks. If you, for instance, put 70% in stocks and 30% in long term US treasure bonds and rebalanced at the end of ever year (simplicity of calculations), you would be looking at about 1.5x the amount at the end of 2010 from the start of 2000. Such an approach is likely to worsen your overall returns a bit (see: the 90s), but it also noticeably reduces the volatility.
You can still avoid loading whole new pages. You simply attach Javascript events to your anchor tags and do whatever Ajax content trickery you want that way. The page content itself is maximally flexible and useful to all agents if the URLs inside of it are actual URLs.
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True, but the same non-reload could be accomplished with:

<a href="realurl.html" onclick="javascript_magic(); return false">

And wouldn't break spiders.
Uh, has anybody here ever racked up $60 worth of mobile calls in a single month? That pretty much describes my pay-as-you-go fees for an entire year.

So, sure, if you pay them for more phone calls than you could ever possibly make, they'll let you make as many phone calls as you like.

This reads less like news and more like a placement by whichever carrier is offering this plan.
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Based on http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html I suspect that pg will not answer.

It is worth pointing out that in my personal experience there is little to no correlation between intelligence and religious affiliation. John McCarthy is very intelligent and an atheist. Don Knuth is very intelligent and deeply religious. Martin Gardner was very intelligent, religious, and was very conscious of the fact that he could not logically justify his religious beliefs. I could give you more examples indefinitely.

Pointing to yet another intelligent person who is somewhere on this spectrum demonstrates absolutely nothing, and I believe that pg fully understands that. No matter what his religious beliefs are, for him to answer would only serve to potentially upset people who believe differently. Why go there?
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I have developed a concept and business plan that will revolutionize the travel industry. It may not, on first impression, appear to be internet related, but it is very consistent with today's internet activity. I presented my concept and business model to a member of McDonalds board of directors, who immediately recognized the future value of it and arranged for me to use their corporate financial and operational staff to implement the concept. Although I had shared architectural drawings and business model with them, I thought better of that relationship. Little me against THEM. My concept is much bigger than a relationship with a particular food provider. This concept has worldwide applicability, a completely unique lodging alternative for today's "connected" world. Monetizing, we are talking "billions" oh. I forgot the capital B.
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Well, it "solves" it - you still have to download and parse a ton of Javascript before you even begin downloading the data...
Is it ready for the mainstream?

Apart from not being supported in IE - the browsers that do support it still have quirks e.g. your code has to manually track scroll state.
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It's really great that in a few years, browsers will support a new AJAX technology that solves this problem that we wouldn't even have with sane, traditional URL schemes.
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I give this same advice a lot, and it's always telling to watch people's reaction. Human nature is all about defending what you're currently doing, against all evidence that there's a better way.

So, yeah, it's impossible to get 5%? Are you sure about that? Over a 40-50 year period? You'd have to look pretty hard at old stock charts to find a spot where you could get overall returns that low.

And yes, inflation exists. It's probably still a good idea to save money for retirement though.

And yes, you're young and don't have as much money to spend. But you also are coming off a lifestyle where you shared a room with six guys and ate Costco ramen every meal for 4 years. As soon as anybody starts giving you money, it's money you didn't have before, so you absolutely can find a way to save it.

It's a lousy $1,000 per month. Figure out a way to stuff it into the market, and despite all your rationalizations, the 50 year old version of you will thank the 22 year old you.
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Check out the Hacker news contractors sheet

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As an iPhone developer, there is currently no shortage of projects so make sure you have done as much of the thinking/wireframing as possible to make the project short, unless you want to pay a high price!

Breaking the project down into its simplest form and delivering key milestones should assist both parties rather than paying hourly
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Not sure what you mean by URL discovery. Although link/hrefs should be the same/legacy. What you could do is progressively enhance normal links. Javascript could disable the default behavior of a link <a href="/about/team" data-remote="true">About Team</a> and check and see if browser supports History.pushState. If it does it would just request the appropriate content for /about/team and update it client side, then update the url. If pushState is no supported, it could just request that link /about/team normally. This would be the ideal way to support both regular and progressively/JS enhanced pages (for speed).
I'm in the UK, but yes I would rack up that bill easily in a month if I was on PAYG.
I'd be all for a CSS-less minimal page style except for the fact that it comes with no margins and produces unreadably long lines on my browser window that's full-screen most of the time.
I think you make a very good point. The iPhone 4 was released in June, but in Europe we didn't see any real availability for many months afterwards, even into October. If Apple had released an iPhone 4GS in September, it would have delayed many peoples plans to buy an iPhone, I would think.
WOW. Netflix makes up 20% of traffic from 8-10pm? That's kind of disturbing, and suddenly some political perspectives on the internet seem a little less insane.

(not that I suddenly support those perspectives)
I put a note in my calendar that <package> should have arrived by <date>, then chase it up if it hasn't.

But then, I don't buy that much stuff, so having to keep track of it all on a dedicated site would be overkill.
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I use one every day, mainly doing RoR development. I also have SQL Developer connected to oracle for most of the day; seems more responsive than my MBP tbh, I think it might be due to the SSD.

I also use it for image editing/gfx work.

The only time the performance has been noticeable has been installing apps via homebrew. Compilation is — obviously — slower than my MBP, but honestly it's not so slow that it'd worry anyone. Unless you're compiling a lot of stuff, all the time, you're not gonna notice.

It's my primary dev machine and I love it. I heartily recommend it.

And to reiterate some of the recommendations; get the 4gig of ram. I'd also recommend the 11" over the 13". I mean, if you're gonna get a small laptop, you should get the smallest one you can comfortably use.

I hook mine up to an external monitor + mouse + keyboard. It's sweeeeet.
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> I don't even find the story that compelling

Me neither. I think it's a rather weak analogy: shouldn't you first try to put out the fire? And if you're running away, jumping to a probable death to escape a certain death, how is that good or inspiring?

But the worst about this story is that you have to tell it.

I've never been on an offshore platform, much less a burning one, but I'm guessing if it were on fire I would notice. I wouldn't need to have the boss come behind me and pat me on the back saying: "hey, listen, I think we're on a burning platform, here's a list of reasons why".

But when it's used in a business context, it has to be backed up by evidence, which means either that the platform is not really burning, or that it's a matter of interpretation.
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I switched my primary from a macpro to the maxed 11" air back in december and have had no problems with it. I'm also a LAMP dev and designer with some slices for dev environments.

The screen res is workable with an external monitor and latency hasn't been an issue so far. I recommend upping the ram to 4gb though.