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It's a domain fad that (as far as I can tell) started with Writely becoming popular five years ago. Here's a rundown of recent domain fads as I recall them:

2003: del.icio.us con.fuses.us

2004: 37signals helps create 43 Things and Jay-Z has "99 Problems" -- coincidence? I think not.

2005: Flickr makes a splash and gets acquired, penultimate vowels no longr requird

2006: Writely, the superbly adverbly named webapp, goes Googly

2007: Xobni presses rewind (okay, this one never took off)

2008: Adverbs come on stronger with .ly

2009: URL shorteners go.to 6 characters or less

I can't actually think of a domain name fad that hit last year. Any suggestions?
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Of course! I actually do always use double-ampersand for chaining commands in bash, not sure what made me use a semicolon in that example. Thanks for the correction, a small but important distinction.
What will happen to Bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya?
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The day I converted my latex resume to pure HTML plus some embedded CSS, I was really pleased. At least I understand HTML layout while latex was this magic black box that I didn't understand at all. Plus if you pick a nice font like Georgia it will look a bit like latex.

http://jeanserge.com/resume.html
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Nice to see that others do it too! The real problem I have seen with resumes in PDF format is that most companies (actually mostly agencies) tend to ask for .doc files. In fact a lot of their online application process requires .doc files.

I have a very simple solution - avoid applying there! Often people who tend to write their resumes in LaTeX would find most of these jobs less than acceptable anyways.

When exceptions are required I extract a text version of the resume latex2 rtf/txt/html (or combination) tend to work ok. The rtf and text can easily be saved as .doc. Of course thing are never going to be as pretty as the PDF (but then again these job applications are rarely priorities)

Here is a sample derived from my resume:
http://ranchev.net/latex
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It's not necessarily as easy as that.

When Flickr was king of social media, they tacked on support for uploading video as a knee-jerk reaction to the surging popularity of then-nascent YouTube. It never recovered, and now YouTube is king of the pile. You'd get more views of your photography collection if you stitched it together in iPhoto and set it to Nickelback's whatever dumb hit song and uploaded that to YouTube.
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Right, all you have to do is choose between a number of incompatible GUI platforms which are not standardized and all of which have an uncertain future, including the possibility of eventually be swallowed up by HTML/CSS/JS whose progress and growth is inexorable due to its openness and ubiquity. Good luck!
Curious what their backup plan is for when Gaddafi takes control of bit.ly.
This is getting absurd.
Wait... this is originally from the Daily Mail. I'm not buying it. I've seen their photos on Photoshop Disasters and their stories aren't any better.
The fact that your three year old daughter loves watching Futurama already says a lot about her mental aptitude/attitude.

I'm sure she doesn't "get" a lot of it at this stage, but I bet she will learn a surprising amount from sticking with it.
Biten once twice shy. They have been burnt badly by ignoring internet for a long time even though they were made aware of its importance by numerous memos. GOOG and AAPL won't let them rest on the laurels of IE9.
It would be really nice if significant resources went into web development into functional languages. I think it's clear that the rigor enforced by Haskell's type system (for instance) solves a ton of real world problems; and if enough resources were dedicated to it that it could dramatically increase the quality of web software without paying a huge premium in development time.

But the opposing force is the need to ship quickly, and languages like Ruby are highly optimized to this goal, and thus they attract a lot of the best developers who spend time increasing the ability to ship quickly with Rails. This gives an ongoing advantage, where new startups have to look at the potential library and framework disadvantage when they're evaluating more powerful functional languages. The cost of the extra bugs is hard to factor in, partially because you never see all of them, and much of that code may be discarded before you have to pay the price of a bug anyway.

Due to this dynamic, as well as the fact that imperative programming requires less training and mental rigor, I think functional languages have an uphill battle. I hope I'm wrong, which may happen if enough Rails apps flame out spectacularly enough to bring down their companies, and people realize what a ticking time bomb you can create with loosely-typed languages if you're not careful.
The CEO said:

For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative all have to be offline, or responding with empty responses. Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherlands and two are in Libya.
really great effort, i will try it out, but why is it so large?
You could try asking on #latex on freenode. But, from what I remember, there aren't any. Or at least not any that do a passable job.

One sort of hackish thing you could try is simply printing out your resume and scanning it in. Then import the scanned pages as images directly in to the Word document.

It will technically be in Word format, and may even look nice when printed (assuming you've scanned your printouts in at a high enough resolution). Though, of course, the text won't be editable.
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i haven't seen any word from anyone distributing everything together. most conversation is around an app that would need python (and probably even SL4A) installed separately and manually by the end user.
a terminal emulator which has a session sasving feature built in to restore terminal tabs with their working directories is: termit
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lua scripting api included :)
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For me, a low-value numeric id has never been an impediment. Aesthetically you might lose a small amount, but many of us use surrogate indices in our databases and it fits well with that design pattern.

The backcountry example smacks of overzealous in-house SEO to me - the observation that Google (in particular) tend to favour the lower level of structure could lead to choosing that output, but ignores that the first three levels appear to hold comparable weights.

I'm not convinced it would offer much benefit. Matt Cutts has indicated in the past that 'natural' levels make sense, maybe 3-4. First level entries do have use (see the 'enhanced' results for some sites based on sitemap priorities), but having 100s of them will likely remove this useful trigger.

From a technical standpoint it's definitely creating obstacles. You create an additional layer of restrictions in the database index. They must have a table of unique level-1 indices. So if there is a brand that corresponds to a generic term (not great for trademarks, but it happens), you will get a uniqueness collision.

It seems well executed, and no doubt their CMS input will inform them of clashes, but for me this is genuinely not as useful as a 'breadcrumb' structure from a UX perspective. They've essentially introduced complexity for the sake of an assumed SEO advantage that my anecdotal evidence can't support, and in doing so have lowered the utility of their urls, per the principles (of which I agree) of the parent article.

That they're buying the term "smith phenom goggle" from adwords, and are stuck on page 2 of the SERPs might back this up.
There is latex 2 odt. Might be a starting point.
"...a lot of their online application process requires .doc files.

I have a very simple solution - avoid applying there!"

Amen to that.

If more people voted with their feet when companies pull this sort of crap, the world would be much better place.
actually there's a JSON library with the Android SDK ... check out this great document that describes a bare bones webview based android development path, sort of like phonegap but with thinner gloves: http://itp.nyu.edu/~sve204/mobilemedia_spring10/androidWebVi...
> Some ... luminaries ... argue

Mind pointing me to some specific examples of these arguments?
Anybody knows what the peak around 1977 means? Disco?
"For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative all have to be offline, or responding with empty responses. Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherlands and two are in Libya."

So that's the case if they return no or invalid responses. Would do you expect to happen if they just return wrong responses (as in the case of the DHS domain seizures)?
There's a good bookm that reiterates the point in the article. Brain Rules. Worth a read.

It also depends on how strong your kids are. There is no silver bullet
As this is turning into a "What do you use?" thread: I use Publisher. I can precisely position everything on my resume, align it to a grid, etc. And if an employer only accepts doc files, it's trivial to copy-paste the file contents to Word and reposition them correctly.
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Is this in regards to the Icesave bill?
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/02/16/iceland-parliamen...

It looks like something much different is happening than what is described in the article. I'm highly skeptical of the claims in this article. It seems light on facts and heavy on opinion.
Why do we care about the value of facebook stock on the play by play?

Facebook's value has not moved significantly. This is starting to sound like a stock ticker...
HTML is printer (output in general, be it screen, print or aural) agnostic. At least it should be.
I also have my CV as HTML with print CSS. Print to PDF, send, done.
Sure, LaTeX is much more powerful, but I am not sure how much does that matter for a simple text document, without any maths notation.
This is what I do (Markdown ftw). I don't know how it looks printed though, so I have a .doc version for that.
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Presentation logic requires logic. If a designer decides to display a bunch of items as three columns rather than two columns, or to switch the display for a single item vs a number of different items, that's presentation logic. Ideally it should go in the template, if that's where you've chosen to keep it.

With Django, I often find myself writing view logic to support specific presentation tasks (regrouping items in a manner more complicated than Django's {% regroup %} template tag allows, for example). This used to bother me, but then I decided that pragmatism beats purity if you actually want to ship anything.
Hello! I saw your resume when looking around a couple of months ago. I thought it looked great, and ended up using the general layout as, uh, inspiration:

http://robhoward.id.au/resume/
I am worried about the +identifier though because it is too easy to identify what the real address is. Hotmail apprently allows you to create random email addresses on the fly. That should help you keep your email address private if you wish.
I’d been passively hoping for a command-line image spriting tool for a while, so this is great.

But I don’t need it anymore. I’ve discovered @chriseppstein’s fabulous Compass. Now you don’t even need a command line — you can sprite directly in your (s)css!

http://beta.compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/spri...

(This version isn’t stable yet, so install with `gem install compass --pre`. Actually, not sure if this feature is stable yet or not, but the beta version of Compass rocks.)
I was always skeptical about using a .ly domain. They can start to feed wrong IPs over DNS replication and effectively shut down all servers.
Man kills someone because of being called a "nutter". To me, that's the very definition of a nutter.
Why is your Facebook profile private?
it's in my profile on HN without obfuscating, public on facebook, public on my website and so on.
I've found that printing to PDF on OS X produces documents that look great.

(Unlike, say, Firefox on Linux, it doesn't add header or footers, the text looks great, and in general doesn't look terrible at all.)
I always use http://j.mp/ because it's shorter. =)
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Now this will bring me back to native apps for Android!

Sadly, thought, this still won't make apps easier to sell on the Android Market, but that's for another discussion.
I'm UK/EU, but I've travelled around the EU with both my wife, and with friends, all USian (and all white, which I presume is still relevant in some places). The consensus has always been that the most difficult parts of their trip is getting back into the US.

We seem to have a 50/50 rate of whether they'll actually open your passport or not. Higher chances when flying in from the UK/US, lower chances when you're flying in/out of a city which isn't in the 'top 3' for each country.

The only question my wife has ever been asked, was leaving Italy; the chap wanted to know why she didn't have a stamp showing her date of entry. We had flown in from Zaragoza, Spain, and simply hadn't met any passport control. Deplane, baggage, and out the front door. We showed him a ticket stub showing that we'd entered the country less than 2 weeks ago, and got waved away.

The only noticable difference we've had between her (american) passport and mine (british), is that it is (or was?) difficult, verging on impossible to do an online check-in with RYR.

(to the original post; I don't travel to the US. ever. Mostly because I've put my 'status' in a gray area by walking out on a residency permit. You think it's bad when you're routine. hah!)
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You may not have too much control over the positioning of the sprite parts, but that's minor.

Can't wait to use this!
Unity games without a plugin would impress a lot of people. And it would have geek appeal as they currently don't have a linux implementation of the plugin.

I don't know what the progress is with this, but they were talking it up last year:

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/05/19/google-android-and-the-f...

Is Lego Star Wars in the browser enough to make people sit up and pay attention? I think it might be.
I'll say it's depending on what a brand's goal on FB page is. If it's about increasing brand's visibility or engaging conversations with fans, FB should do the job. However, the most important part of the marketing is to convert people to become customers, whether they are fan or not. We are currently building a website called ProsBank.com which provides an easy way for professionals to convert fans or non-fans into customers. The gap from being fans/non-fnas to becoming customers really needs to be filled.
Here is my take on your scenario:

Think about your potential user Joe, when he first hits your home page, with distinctive UI.

Will he think 'Oh... this looks cool! Let me mess with this, even though I'm not really sure how this is going to work' ?

Probably not, unless you have a really compelling value proposition to offer that would be instantly obvious to him. If your site does have such characteristics, go ahead and 'roll your own', by all means.

Otherwise, I'd suggest you go with a commonly prevailing/understood/acceptable design/UI to begin with, as it should facilitate higher rates of user acquisition (i.e. conversion) in relatively shorter time-frames.

There's nothing to stop you from re-branding (gently, gradually?) once you have achieved critical mass or a sizeable user base.

HTH

[Not really a designer here, but someone (who likes to think of myself as) having a good eye for designs/branding and UI engineering, with a good bit of experience at getting such things done.]
Pulls the same crap on Android. "Use desktop user agent" ftw.
All of this reminds me of Daemon.
This feels hardly readable. Anyone else having a lot of difficulty with the English here?
Has anybody killed anybody or threatened to kill anybody?

No?

Yeah, I wouldn't count on the media paying much attention.
j.mp resolves to bit.ly -- same difference.
Something tells me it won't come to that. Bit.ly will probably be fine
They could have done that when IE6 stagnated, but they didn't. Not in anything like large enough numbers anyway.
Yeah I didn't understand much the article as well...
Ctrl-r is what I use too. Usually requires fewer keystrokes than other methods discussed here. And it works for all commands in shell history.
In my experience, a superior algorithm is almost always more elegant.
LNK files can point to DLLs that get loaded by Explorer when it draws the icon for the link target.

I only know this because I watched an excellent video explaining the 0-day vulnerabilities that stuxnet used by Microsoft leet hax0r Bruce Dang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI#t=13m49s
Funny, I think they feel the same way about you if they even knew you existed. ^_~
The photo sharing and now video sharing market is still very young. I would not assume that any one of these companies has won. There is still plenty of room for innovation.
Sure, it certainly helps to pay attention to trends and write on what people care about, but when your entire operation is centered around writing articles with the sole intention of attracting page views, you know there's something wrong. While I agree that you can take pride in your work even under someone else's direction, AOL's plan seems to involve mindless "slave-driven" writing - something I'm sure Paul is sick of and that I would be sick of as well.
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Because it's .NET, therefore has to include the .NET library (to be of any use at all aside from a virtual machine). Or in this case, the Mono version of the .NET library. It's a big library.
It's in a series of really good articles on this story. Thank you Ars.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

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What a fantastic example of author bias.

Just because a large amount of the population takes to the streets, and just because the government resigns, it's not a revolution. A revolution means that the people are trying to change the form of government, which is absolutely not what happened. An overwhelming majority of the Icelandic are perfectly happy with their current form of a liberal, western, parliamentary republic.

The result of the protests was that the government resigned, held a re-election, and put the icesave bill to a referendum. There's absolutely nothing revolutionary about this, this is exactly how our liberal democracies are supposed to work.

But if you're from a region where there aren't any liberal democracies, I can understand why a reporter would write this funnily biased piece, drawing parallells between the actual protests and revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and the protests in Iceland.
Absolutely - Chrome 7 wasn't far off a bug fix release (also contained some improvements to HTML5 support but little in the way of new end user features) but it's clearly not the same order as the IE releases which aren't far off ground up rewrites with new UIs and so on.
This does point to at least a small downside to "wrap-around" urls like Bit.ly: you can ignore the semantics but who guarantees the semantics will ignore you.
The main problem I have is links. The printing to PDF doesn't care about <a> links. It will linkify anything that looks like a URL or an email address, but that means that I have to have JS put the url in, plus it's ugly to have the urls there at all.
Is it weird that I was very surprised that anybody writes anything important in anything other than LaTeX??
Why you shouldn’t wait to go to Silicon Valley?
On the other hand we have had a couple of friends move to silicon valley to work for amazing companies. So we go around with the idealogy of he can do it, I can do it. So the plan is: I will send out resumes to silicon valley start ups and apply to the giants like Facebook and Google. Umm I don’t think so.
I keep beating the Compass drum too. This approach seems like so much work and rather primitive in comparison. Compass will manage all this automatically, on the fly.
* it has taken a long time to get to this stage.

* the first version "the people" rejected, imagine that in UK.

* they ultimately have to pay (not by choice)

* notice how they plan on forcing the banks to pay for it (yes most owned by the government) not by taxing their people who have already suffered.
Best of the Week - 19 febbraio 2011
Ecco la mia "Best of the Week" di questa settimana. Una settimana ricca e interessante di spunti.

Se volete segnalarmi qualche risorsa sarò ben lieto di pubblicarla.

Saluti a tutti e... buona lettura!
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I use ASCII. Everyone can read it, I can paste it into emails, and I waste no time fiddling around with formatting on a document that will just be scanned for a few keywords and discarded.
As a great fan of latex, I would LOVE to use it to format my CV. But here in Britain there are far too many HR departments and agencies who will look at your pdf and say "I'm sorry, could you send the original Word doc?"

Not that recruiters are always the best way to get a job, but it would be silly to write them out of my searches
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Haskell is usually great at both convenience and speed, without having to add annotations, even, most of the time
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Exactly. OP is doing gymnastics to solve a non-problem.
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Despite asking me for a .doc, Microsoft didn't complain when I sent them a PDF (of my LaTeX-typeset résumé, of course).
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