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A whole lot of FUD here.

1. Check out the CSS validation link; mostly there are rules included for CSS3 properties that are not yet standardized and Apple has provided vendor specific rules for many browsers that don't validate. So you're really nailing them here for adding cross-platform compatibility to their home page? Kinda weak "evidence."

2. One of the HTML5 validation errors is adding the X-UA-Compatible flag for IE. Again, Apple goes outside the spec (as TONS of sites do) to be cross platform.

3. You end your article by stating that, "For Apple, the showcase isn’t really about web standards; It’s about their own version of web standards." At the same time, the Apple website works diligently through the CSS3 and HTML5 markup to bring the best possible experience to a very wide range of browsers. Moreover, you state that the demos work in Chrome if you spoof the user agent. If that's the case, isn't that showing that Apple's using real web standards and not "their own version?"

4. You claim that, "Not only is user-agent detection the wrong way to determine the HTML5 capabilities of the current browser, one could easily spoof the browser’s user-agent to fool the websites." There is no defined specification for how a website should determine what browser a visitor is using EXCEPT to use the User Agent String. There are many who advocate using feature detection (and this is, in many cases, a better approach)--but your statement that using the user agent is "wrong" is categorically incorrect.

5. Those demos are being used as a marketing tool by Apple for the Safari browser--I'm not going to fault a company for building a marketing tool and then leveraging that tool.

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised I found the motivation to write this much about your poorly crafted article. You're basically taking a shot at Apple who's doing what basically everyone else is doing on their main site to ensure cross-platform compatibility (in fact, by the looks of that CSS validator output--they're doing MORE than most). Then you bash them for restricting their demos to their own browser which, while maybe not the most "open" thing in the world, certainly doesn't imply that they've somehow created their own "subset" of the standards.
Yeah. but even I don't use consumer hard drives in production. (Honestly, I don't know 100% that the 'enterprise' drives are that much better, but I'd guess they'd lie less... I switched because consumer drives tend to hang RAIDs when they fail, while 'enterprise' stuff fails clean)
That's the most casual walk through a Japanese park during an earthquake I can imagine.
Here, paper is still used en-masse to print documents for review meetings.

I agree that is pretty wasteful, especially if you have a lot of revisions of a large document, and many people are present. You print something to throw it away an hour later.

I wouldn't know the cost/benefit analysis though, it might be that the paper-based solution is simply cheaper than giving everyone a laptop. And many people prefer to read on paper (though e-paper would solve this, but that'd be even more expensive).
Reimagining the WordPress iPhone app
We started with one simple model under the assumption there's a "best" model. Now we're discovering there's more than one "ideal" model - different models work better on different sites (although some things work well consistently, and some things consistently don't). For example, on some sites providing an incentive for the referrer increases conversion (not surprising).. but on other sites, it hurts conversion - the social value of altruistically sharing a good deal outweighs to social cost of sharing something to your own benefit.

Now our product vision is to offer a small variety of simple models proven to work well, to get people started. But we also let hackers tweak stuff so it can work more seamlessly with their products.

Allan
It's not. But that doesn't make either of them right. I called Flickr on this 3 years ago before anyone actually visited my blog: http://morethanseven.net/2008/02/21/sorry-but-the-flickr-api...
I've updated my email footer as an experiment to see if it will be a good way to weed out the "bad" potential clients (just like telling potential clients that I used to work at a porn company seems to do).
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This article isn't wrong, but it's so unhelpful that I can't see anything to recommend it. It's just a rant. The description of a poseur designer is so vaudevillian that everyone, regardless of how much they suck, will look at it and say, "Gosh, I'm sure glad I'm not one of THOSE idiots." It's true that bad designers devalue the profession, but this article doesn't shed any light on the problem or bring us any closer to solving it.
Yeah I agree with you on the material bit. Since there's always a lot of talk about incubators etc. I just wasn't sure what a good alternative would have been to get this parody to this specific group.
Thanks for saving my time to rewrite each of those points!

FUD Indeed!
Popping potassium iodide already? Really bad idea
And Digg andTwitter are both brilliant platforms for totally different forms of engagement. If Zuckerberg (@finkd) were to get more active on Flickr or Twitter would one say that Facebook is not a great service anymore?
what kind of scale are you at? I mean, about how many 32GiB ram/8 core servers would you need if you were using real hardware?
SHORT COMMENT: Hey hackernews, I'm a teacher/hustler looking for a technical co-founder. Let's build something together. Apply for this program. And worst case scenario, we don't get in but we have a kick@ss product we can sell to school systems.

EXPANDED COMMENT:I'm a long time reader of hackernews and I have never left a comment. But this was the push over the edge.

I am a math teacher in an urban school. Before that I ran a (very non-tech) business, and before that I was a business analyst (read documentation nerd) for the mobile technology division in a very large bank.

I have been telling everyone that will listen that we can save public education and make a bunch of money through innovation. All of our technology, frankly, sucks when compared to similar wares that are sold directly to consumers.

I am bursting with ideas and some I have already tested. But I can no longer work in a vacuum.

So like dating ads of yesterday here is my pitch-

Me: Undaunted math teacher in an urban school with 2 years of experience. Using data driven instruction my students achieved the highest passing rate in my school system. While I can't hack (YET!) I can sell water to a whale and snow to an Eskimo. More importantly I can take complex systems and teach them to almost anyone. I have rewritten documentation for our 3 most popular programs in my systems and I hold monthly workshops for other teachers where I teach them how to use the technology in their classroom. Plus I understand teachers and I have experience in market research. And did I mention, I am a fearless hustler?

You: A) Want to change the face of education.
B) Build stuff.

So let's do like voltron. Team up. Build something amazing. And if ImagineK12 doesn't want us, lets keep moving forward and kick down our own doors.

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La Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale per l'Italia
Ieri, presso la Link Campus University, si è tenuto il convegno "Verso una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale per l'Italia", organizzato dal prof. Luigi Germani e dal Prof. Umberto Gori.

Questo interessante evento ha avuto il merito...
WSJ: Spam Network Shut Down
As I started to wonder what happend with my spam statistics...
You think this article is mean and I’m an idiot.

That is when I closed the tab.

[Disclaimer: I am a designer and I think this article lacks on 'n' number of levels]
New York Times paywall coming March 28
The New York Times announced "digital subscriptions" on Thursday, revealing the long-awaited details of its paywall plan. Starting March 28, non-subscribers will be able to read only 20 online articles for free each month.
I wish people'd stop using explicit URLs to describe what's REST an what isn't. “Pretty” URLs are incidental, at best.

I'm not certain DELETE is completely inappropriate here[1], but if you feel strongly about it, probably the best/REST way to “delete” a song from a playlist would be to PUT the playlist without the song included.

[1] It is just an ordered list of songs, after all.
Also this is the designer's aka Writer, Blogger, SEO & Ne'er-Do-Well. A small but sick following of a few Million readers.'s site:

http://speiderschneider.blogspot.com/ [ A generic WP template]
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Comparing every version of IE
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The next Fukushima in USA?
I am not a geologist, but I wonder how the infamous ring-of-fire will impact nuclear plants in California? And what of major fault-lines that are less well-known but have been incredibly destructive in the past (isn't there a myth about the mississippi river)?
Prelude> 5 `div` 2
2

Haskell's doing the right thing here by having a separate function for integer division. It makes no sense to overload / to mean both regular and integer division.
Right, that shares the design of my favorite blog, http://davidmarkfans.wordpress.com/
You should also stay in an underground bunker and never go outside, because dude do you have any idea how many asteroids are out there?? The entire surface of the Earth is an Asteroid Impact Zone!
Clickable:

http://www.japanconnect.org/

Keep up the good work.
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If you just want to rip 3 sentences from pg article, without adding anything, why bother linking to your page?
Speider Schneider doesn't appear to be a designer.
That's interesting. Installing New Relic makes your site dependent on New Relic's availability? That's kinda scary...

Of course its also possible that you just got lucky and Heroku came back up for you when you redeployed. Could be a coincidence.
Ask HN: Need help. What radio broadcasting solutions are available?
How can we do radio broadcasting? What technologies are available for doing this?
As he said in the video, IE1/2 don't send a hosts header with their request and thus can't access most sites, ACID included. You'll have to download the test and all necessary files to a local disk in order to run it.
or just stay off the viaduct. that seems far more straightforward :)
The mindset needs to change. The thought process should not be "let's replace paper with laptops or e-readers or iPads so workers can use e-paper". Paper as a concept needs to die. Not replaced with technology, but literally made extinct.

Paper is just a medium for information to exist. The medium doesn't need to be replaced. It should be bypassed. I think it's a habitual crutch workers have, to print information out, for it to be tangible.

I agree that although horribly inefficient, paper is cheap (even with printing expenses), and thus attractive compared to buying everyone an iPad. That's unfortunate because I believe it handicaps workers by acting as an unnecessary bottleneck when it should be completely removed from the information workflow wherever possible.
Alan Louie (one of the founders of Imagine K12) has been advising us on Quizlet.com for awhile. What they're doing is terrific. I think it'll produce some great companies.

(see http://quizlet.com/about/team/)
It's not wannabe designers that is burdening the profession.

Blame the fact that they can't afford your prices and therefore go for the less expensive.

Blame many things, but don't blame the wannabe designer.
Ask HN: -book Social Networking domain name, will FB sue?
Facebook sued Teachbook[1] in August of last year for misappropriating the distinctive "book" portion of Facebook’s trademark. I don't know what the result of this was, but do Facebook really have the trademark of -book in any social networking context?

I want to start a site, say vegetablebook, that contains recipes but also has a social element. Should I not do this for fear of being sued?

[1] http://goo.gl/w9SAz
For me the Holocaust is just like God. People tell you to believe it just because they said so.

I neither deny nor confirm the existence of this so called 'Holocaust' because I wasn't there when it happened. And we all know history is written by the winners. I have witnessed first hand how much lies are contained within those history books, that's why I simply don't care and don't believe anything they say.

Also a lot of people died for stupid reasons not just the jews, I don't know what makes them more special than anybody else.

Downvoters: please elaborate before just downvoting because I hurt your beliefs.
That seems like a good way to catch personality conflicts early. If you have a client who doesn't get along with your personal style and way of doing things, they might become a clientzilla down the road.
As the founder and CEO of http://73primenumbers.com I couldn't disagree more. Here are some advantages of our time-tested Paper and Pencil application suite:

http://73primenumbers.com/pencilpaper.html

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One thing to keep in mind is that the Fukushima reactors are _old_.

Nobody is really talking about the Onagawa reactors, which are actually more modern, and closer, to the epicenter than Fukushima.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onagawa_Nuclear_Power_Plant
From a geological perspective, what is surprising about the Sendai Earthquake?
Rumor has it that's true, unless Google itself is lying:

http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html
MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury
Save electrons...and your time. Don't read the post.
T-Mobile (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845532&...) and Orange/SFR in France (though it never happened to me yet) have been sending the same type of messages after User Agent detection...

User Agent spoofing should be added to MyWi/PDANet to avoid this!
Like Reddit.
That's not how they got rid of telegraphs.
Something(s) tangibly better came along and telegraphs faded away.
Paper will die when people stop using it not when someone tells them to.
I had to read for a while before I realized that there was no product. I kept thinking "What is this guy actually selling?" Great site :-D
Really? I just tried in google and got a whole lot of maps of South (and North) America, many dated from the year 1836....
"Most importantly, I wouldn't let the staffing levels get this low."

How would you pay for that?
Haha. Not sure if you realized this, but you are talking to the person who built the next Facebook, aka Twitter.
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I guess it is normal in the Facebook age, but I think it is a pity that it seems to be impossible to see anything from the game without giving the app access to my Facebook network first. Somehow I can never bring myself to give apps access, as I am not sure what they will be doing. Must create another account just for testing apps...

Still, it used to be that you get to examine the merchandise before you buy it.
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What a land of contradictions - on the one hand you have world's best companies like Apple and Google and on the other, these awful, badly run, penny wise pound foolish crapfests like AT&T.

I actually just got back from a month in the US, mostly in LA, staying around west hollywood. The phone coverage was just bullshit and I'm not exaggerating. I was constantly amazed how I'd be standing outside, on Sunset Blvd, with 1 bar of coverage or nothing at all - I'd have to be deep in a basement or in an obscure train tunnel to get that in Sydney. I'm amazed that anyone can use this tethering at all, I was lucky to be able to check my e-mail.

Just one of those crazy things ..
Airbnb has definitely tapped into a latent market, but I wonder how such "rentals" may square with terms in lease agreements or condo association provisions. States and / or municipalities may quickly try to capture taxes, as Zipcar has discovered, or they may try to prevent or regulate such "rentals" on the basis of licensing, public health and safety, or other laws or ordinances. I wonder if the typical renter is properly reporting the income to the appropriate tax authorities.
if developers suddenly started acting as a cartel, all that would happen is non-developers would become developers to fill the demand in building new businesses

nobody is saying anything against lifestyle businesses or micro businesses or whatever you call it. the argument is about your claim that capital investment isn't required (although self-funding is still an investment) and that we would have the same world today without the capital markets or the media, just if developers went and got on with it

outside capital expedites growth and development. if you don't do it, the next guy will, that is how a free market works. our entire civilization has benefited from this - how would microprocessors have even been invented, designed and manufactured as a non-funded business, let alone kept up with moores law?
Wow, lots of interesting stuff in that conversation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
No, you mean "growth of the fittest".

The big aren't successful because they are big, they are big because they are successful.

Of course, you could argue that the incremental value of an added employee is positive for successful companies.

But there's an opportunity cost, if employees in companies are not developing, taking risks, and focused like they would be if they were working for themselves.
We had the same issue at the Seesmic Web launch 2 years ago and uninstalling new relic fixed the issue.

But the guys at New Relic helped us and fixed the issue, according to them it should not happen anymore.
I know it sound unhelpful, but it isn't. If you can avoid low-level, unsafe languages like C and C++, by all means do so.

Chose a high-level language like Python, Haskell, Lisp… Anything with closures and automatic memory management, provided it let you fall back to C when you really need it.

Outside maintenance, few project need to use C or C++ all the time.
Agree with everything here except point 4. Think what he was saying is sites should use feature detection and not browser sniffing to determine whether to serve content. Apart from that though, spot on. Apple have done just as much as Google, if not more, to push newer web standards onwards.
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some people don't care about money or being comfortable and just want to change the world

that is the difference between entrepreneurial pioneers and businessmen. for the former, it is never the money (see gates, zuck, sergey + larry, etc. etc.)
> it would be one of the principals of the small business cashing out

cashing out to who? another lifestyle business?
Your ironic typos really cut me up!!
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> Holocaust denial is inconsistent with critical thinking.

Wow, if I don't believe in the 'Holocaust', I'm not just an antisemitic, I'm also stupid.

> If the mountains of evidence (records, photos, films, testimony, artifacts) which converge to support the currently accepted interpretation are not sufficient grounds for belief in its reality, then what would be sufficient?

Since people who dare say that they have doubts about the 'Holocaust' are instantly labelled as antisemitic, I doubt that we will ever see evidence that does not support the 'Holocaust'.

What baffles me about this 'Holocaust' story is that it defies logic:

The Germans rounded up hundred thousands of Jewish people and killed them, while fighting both the Russians and the USA, just because they were evil.

You can conjure up mountains of evidence, but it still has plotholes.

Also in order to even begin understanding such a complex thing we require continuity. Why would the Germans do such a thing?

Example:

A killed B.

We should convict A.

But wait:

A killed B, because B wanted to murder A's wife C.

It's not the same.

You may have evidence that A killed B, but that's still not the full story.

So my conclusion is: the 'Holocaust' is not something you can easily prove or disprove of, it's too complex, we will never know what really happened because it's impossible to question the 'Holocaust', without being labelled as an antisemitic.
"a sombrero, and a huge clock"

Is this Chuck Norris wielding the camera?
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as an aside, 37signals raised money from Bezos Expeditions, so they are no less part of 'the system' as twitter, fb, etc. are
Nobody is building big companies to prevent the world to crumble. They are build because it's possible for their owner, because their market is big enough, because of money, and because of the fun building them.

If there were only lifestyle business, investors would simply change the way they invest. They'll begin seeking lifestyle business that could explode with extra investment. Entreprenors would be probably get better terms as they'd be in a better position to negociate, but there would still be big companies.
nope. we did this discussion further down:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339287

raised VC in '81, IPO in '86

why isn't an IPO considered an outside investment in this argument anyway? it is, afterall, raising money

the argument should be what is the largest software company that never raised external funding and is still private
Angry Birds creator Rovio to IPO in New York?
> The "if everyone did this" argument is such a poor way to argue a point.

the op used the same argument
Also if you are using something like the Ghostery Firefox add-on to block Firefox Connect you just get an empty page.
Yes it's cheap, even with printing expenses. But what if you factor in employee time over all employees?

- walking to the printer, then waiting (sometimes in line) for the document to be printed

- discovering that the document did not print and mysteriously disappeared in the print queue, walking back to seat, and send new print request, then go back to printer

- walking to a different floor when the printer is broken or stuck (happens quite a lot with busyly-used printers)

- if you find that something is wrong with the document, you can start the process over again

OK, most of these are merely annoyances that don't cost a lot of time. But you wouldn't hear me complain if all paper and printers were forbidden and removed :)