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IE just plain sucks, and they're lagging behind much and often. Suggestions about what they should do differently? Kill the whole IE project and make Chrome/FF default?
If you have no other options then that decreases your market value. The good news is: you now know of the problem and you know what is standing in the way of fixing it.

I've always heard that a degree is worth 5 years experience.
We believe Apple has learned much from having Netflix on the Apple TV ...

Typically I'm very strict on privacy, but on my Apple TV I explicitly enabled the "Send usage information to Apple"-feature.

I would really love to see some of those statistics.

Reboot-count, Podcast-count, % of screensave time, ...
Not having it there feels like the hole left by a tooth that just fell out; vaguely unsettling. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing.

Note that if you consider HN users as nodes in a bayesian network classifying comments as "good" or "bad," we should not be influenced by the score a comment already has. We should just give our own opinion on it.

I'd like to know how the variance in comment scores for the time since the feature was implemented compares with an equal period beforehand.
Please note I am not endorsing this site because I do not use it, but a few freelancers that I know do and claim the quality of gig is pretty good:

http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/

That being said, it has been a long time since I "looked" for work. But when I did I actively marketed for them and did not hit the freelance boards, So for me, I would most certainly post a "I am available please take a look at my skills if you are interested" here in HN.

I would throw some money into a LinkedIn, AdSense and Facebook advertising campaign and generally actively market myself. Reason being, when you are applying for gigs you are competing in a deep pool with a lot of variables, while the gig is real and you have less false leads, the chances of getting selected over someone just as qualified is lower.

With active marketing, you get more breadth or "surface area" if you will, you chase more false leads, but in the end you have more exposure and are competing in a smaller pool. They have contacted you and generally have only you or a few candidates in mind for a gig. The breadth also does not leave you heavily invested if you don't get the gig, because you have other coming in all the time.

Finally, I like active marketing because you generally enter the project in earlier phases than applying for a posted gig. When I did market, I entered most projects at the planing phase, which I like a lot more than at the build phase, as it gives me an opportunity to address items at that point instead of telling the client at the point that they are ready to build, that they need to go back and redesign stuff.

Now days, Euro and IBM take up all of my and my teams time, so we have not marketed for work in years, any specifics I would give would be rusty. Some of the marketing guru's on HN could probably give you specifics on where and how to maximize your return with a marketing campaign.
Good point about vendor prefixes. The problem is that once implemented, it takes very long time for them to go away.

I thought i wrote what i wanted in the headline. I want to see or hear about webGL and websockets. I'm quite sure others are disappointed because of the lack of CSS transitions. Maybe they should've waited a while before releasing if they couldn't implement more CSS3 features.
Startup or PHD, which is better option for computer science graduate?
i am a working in a datamining and information retrieval research project. I was thinking of applying for the PHD. Working couple of hours a day after office time for 2 months i was able to lunch a website and a Facebook application. This fun project motivates me to do similar projects, at the same time it confused me whether to go for full time project of my own or go for PHD.
I really dislike not having comment scores.
From my memories of Java ThreadLocals, these are still common/shared memory. The ThreadLocal property is a reference - a convenient way to scope access without locking - but the objects stored are still in shared memory.

For example, correct me if I'm wrong, but in Java if you do something like:

MyAwesomeClass myObject = new MyAwesomeClass();
myThreadLocal.set(myObject);
myOtherObject.someField = myObject;

Then the thread local and the field value are references to the same object, in the global heap. Any thread can get to "myOtherObject.someField" and change my thread's local copy.

This specific example is probably bad design, but the underlying difference is between a shared memory design and a message passing share-nothing design, where the latter doesn't let you make that kind of mistake.

In Erlang the paradigm is different enough that my bad example doesn't really translate[1], but even if two similar references were made equivalent, they're to _immutable_ objects not references - so from the programmer's point of view they're never shared at all.

In addition, if you want to share something then you send a message so the other process (aka thread) always has their own distinct copy.

[1] The process dictionary is kind of the same as thread local storage, but the kind of state you'd assign via a reference on a mutable field is dealt with differently.
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You might be interested in Lazarus:

http://lazarus.interclue.com/

It's a multi-browser plugin that allows you to recover lost form content.

Disclosure: I know the people behind the company.
"non-hearsay source"?

What do they do, let you see people's W-2's?

Remember, people can lie.

And many people feel it's in their interests to lie regarding salaries. How can you even be sure the people who are reporting some salary figure on glassdoor.com even ever had the job they claimed to have had, never mind reported an accurate salary?
I'm currently working on a clone of an SNES game from 1995: https://github.com/sharpobject/panel-attack

This probably isn't the kind of project you're looking for though ;(
quite true ;)
Multiple big projects on the go at once -> Dedicated effort to finish one before getting too distracted by the next

Valuing money more than time -> Valuing time more than money

Trusting only logical reasoning -> Trusting my gut instinct as well

Thinking it's wrong to turn down opportunities -> Happy to turn down opportunities if they don't appeal much or I've got too much on my plate already

Running all email through my own mail-server -> fastmail.fm

Keeping my email client open all day -> Opening it only every hour or two so I can focus on real work

Cleaning teeth straight after food -> Waiting 30 minutes or more first, to reduce enamel erosion

White rice -> Brown rice (~5 times the fibre)

Cooking rice in a saucepan -> Using a rice cooker
I'm almost done with a small web app I've been working on for the last couple of weeks. Nothing sucks more than using nice shiny markup that works great in Chrome and Firefox (rounded corners, drop shadows, or even a properly working display: inline-block;) and then going back and adding fallback support for all of these because each version of IE is incompetent to deal with them. Sigh.

And, as I just discovered, for this:

var odd = ['quick', 'brown', 'fox', ];

"odd.length" in IE will return 4, not 3, evidently because of that trailing comma.

I'm a Mac user, so this all requires firing up VirtualBox (free!) to run Windows XP.

At least, thanks, MS, for including a "compatibility mode" button in IE8 so that I can quickly switch to an older version of Trident[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)
Not really. I should have been more clear rather than try to be humorous. With a name like BostInnovation (and no url for your site?), it makes me wonder what kinds of innovations you're looking for?

Some of the people working on "projects" here on HN do it full time (in addition to doing other full time / paid work), and what they are doing is innovative. Some of the good stuff may not quite qualify as a "side project," well, at least it might not in the eyes of the people doing them.
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My latest side project is http://laserey.es, a webapp that you drag photo's onto, finds your eyes and draws lasers from them. There's an email and twitter on that site for contact :)
This is a sad fact. There are huge (irrational?) barriers for giving employees big raises or bonuses. Take Borland for example - they'd rather sue Microsoft for brain-drain (i.e. paying the employees more) than match the offers: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-279561.html
what's wrong with SDK buttons? or how does it matter on a calculator? Google uses "SDK" buttons and everything. Hacker news hardly makes an effort in the UI direction. yet its the best I know. If all things being equal, UI wins? if all things are equal between your product and someone else's then I think you have a serious problem on your hands.
Hi Kevin! You already know about this one since you're a subscriber :), but would love to have my side project Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) included. Also, I make a point of collecting the best side-projects each week in a specific section of the newsletter so if you look through the archives you will find a lot more.
I run an all volunteer, international response search and rescue team on the side. Http://www.1srg.org. Dkovar at gmail
This is the best take I have read on the "decline" of HN.
Hockey. I've been playing basketball every week for years, but it's not a very high-intensity game (with my group, at least!).

But I haven't played Hockey since I was 15, mostly because I didn't know where (Hockey is not very popular in Israel). But I finally found a group that plays, and joined them and had a very draining, but amazingly fun time playing. I've missed it.
Done and done! http://salaryshare.me

I also submitted it to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441888
Power-Line Telecoms (PLT) knocks out digital radio (DAB)
http://popify.me for creating coupons for websites and social networks. It's also a great tool for measuring users curiosity. We have some more in the oven, but focusing mostly on the main thingg.
I'm guessing that these are people who either want something more up to date than the data dump (which is monthly if if I recall) or who have scraping infrastructure set up and working and it's easier to use that than to work with the schema.
Wrong.

Irrational: "I'm working in a free market world but I should just take what ever the company offers me and be happy"

Rational: "I'm working in a free market, selling my time so my time is also subject to market rates. I just found out a guy who has, IMO, lower market value makes more than me. This means something is out of whack. I view my market value higher than it really is, his lower than it really is, or I'm not earning my market rate even though my company (and CEO!) are"

The only entitlement in this picture is you two giving proxy entitlement to the companies to make even more money by underpaying everyone.
Were you in the French Navy? My neighbors were the French exchange officers and their wives (two couples, serially), while I was on staff at Annapolis. If so, I'll dig up their last names (I can only remember first names right now).
Simply not having an interest in science or math already makes you a B student in those areas, since no matter how good you may be at them, eventually you'll hit a breaking point where the material is much harder than you can manage without having already practiced and honed all the previous material to a certain level of mastery.

I think the term "B-student" is just an effective way to identify to the reader students who wouldn't do well in math or science for any reason, whether environmental, motivational, or natural. That is, it brings about a connotation of someone who is smart enough to succeed at most things, but who can't compete head to head with students who specialize in a specific academic field.

It's hard to define, but the term's usefulness comes from its general connotation and the associated imagery, not its definition.

I think the takeaway here is that these individuals, whatever you call them, should focus more on learning skills that will allow them to compete laterally by creating opportunities for themselves and others rather than learning to be superficially cultured or trying compete for existing opportunities head to head with others who are more specialized and talented in their respective field.
salesman => college student => software engineer
Maybe from the perspective of Dropbox it's "an architectural design", but from the perspective of a user facing an RIAA lawsuit, it would be a flaw.
As somebody who is in the UK, looking to spend some time in the US working/living and then grow old in Ireland your "upgrade" from US to Ireland interests me. What made you move?
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The idea is that there is something very wrong with your design if you allow that to happen. In telco networks, once a message is accepted into a system, it is expected to be processed. You should throw away any messages you can't handle (because of overload) at the edge of the system. The same principle can be applied for any system which is serving any sort of network traffic.

If this unbounded message generation is happening within the system, again there is something wrong. You shouldn't be in a situation where a process is producing messages which other parts of the system cannot consume.
I wonder if they'll ever add WebGL. Microsoft's strategy seems to be to tie IE as much as possible to Windows (e.g. "native" HTML5 nonsense).
These bills/laws/what-have-you always seem to get "rushed" through. Something un-democratic happens on each and every one of them. UK's Digital Millenium act gets passed without debate in the last minutes of a session. France's Hadopi law gets mysteriously passed after being rejected. ACTA gets negotiated in secret.

Why?
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In my spare time, I'm working on a game library for Processing that I call Laser Sea Destruction ( http://abielinski.com/lsd ). It's got some fancy features I wish Processing had by default. It's still in development, so there's only 1 working demo, and you have to download the package to see it.

Email is in profile :)
I am actually looking for a good new project. I have been learning Python/Django and I love it.
When did all this whatever-Killer stuff start anyway? I'm not sure I've heard it in any other context than Apple's portable products e.g. iMac-killer, Wii-Killer, netbook-killer, Windows-killer, IE-killer, Ubuntu-killer, x86-killer or whatever don't seem to ring true to me even if they've dominated mindshare (in various markets, for various lengths of time). In general, why would you want to "kill" them, rather than say outsell them or offer better specs at a lower price? Seems very wierd and macho. Do any actual company representatives use this language, or is it just gadget blogs?

This is the oldest entry a quick google returns, was he copying an earlier snowclone?

"Creative unveils potential iPod killer"

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2002/10/1152.ars

To add further confusion, I wouldn't assume that a Register headline to be without snark, and similarly I've lately seen iPad-killer used as a sarcastic insult, with the implicit assumption that it will fail.
The GC in Erlang VM is also per-process which allows it to be soft real-time. An application can be using gigabytes of memory, but it it's split between thousands of processes, garbage collection can be very very fast because the GC only needs to work through a small heap at a time.
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Heh, I was wondering when someone would bring this up. For most cases, this also works. I will say that I've seen cases where this technique hasn't worked, but those were all far, far more complex than most any Obj-C programmer will ever need to worry about.
The brown eyes must certainly entertain suicidal thoughts. Their religion compels them to commit ritual suicide if they know their own eye color and they know that the odds their eyes are brown are 999 to 1 ;)
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Then show me the vote count after I vote.
Somewhat nitpicky, but I think sometimes UX matters more than UI, and there are elements of both in these examples.

From Wikipedia:
User Interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface)
- The aggregate of means by which users interact with the system (e.g., all the means of input and output)

User Experience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience) - The architecture and interaction models that impact a user's perception of a device or system ("all aspects of the user’s interaction with the product").

UI is the "how" of creating an interface (implementing shiny controls, that sort of thing) and UX is the "why" (creating a good experience for the user).

What's interesting is that there are many counter-examples... for example Craigslist. Terrible UI/UX, yet it is wildly more popular than it's closest competitors. For a while Plentyoffish was the most popular dating site, same thing there.
JPEG doesn't have to die for WebP to be a success, and it probably won't
* Working in a big R&D company in japan => Working for a small company in Japan => Working as a freelancer => Starting my own company (It's very exiting and a bit stressful, but working in japan is a good preparation for how to deal with stress and long hours)

* Windows => Debian => Gentoo => Mac at home, Gentoo on servers (I tried ubuntu on servers but I always end up having to compile and install from source too much stuff)

* HDD => SDD (Amazing the different it makes)

* Paperbooks => ereader (used to use a pocketbook 360 which was really great but it was stolen :-( currently looking for a new one)

* Backup on dvds => Tarsnap
http://mogade.com provides free services for game developers (leaderboard, achievements...) Wrote it largely because I believe in gaming, and I wanted something real to push my knowledge of Rails.

Been a little sidetracked with work on mongly.com lately and a few other things, but I still consider mogade.com my main project.

email in profile
I think it's telling that many of the comments point out the functionality of these items is limited or impaired. The Apple puck mouse is a good example of being so caught up in your own design aesthetic that you forget that these things have to be usable as well.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Roy Schestowitz does seem to have a point. He just beats it to death.
Good job covering the changes through IE generations of its supposedly future-proof versions.

The only reason in my opinion that IE will continue to be strong in the market is its proprietary ties to the operating system. Which will also remain its most vulnerable point.
I'm currently working on a custom written Photoblog hashed out in PHP using the Codeigniter framework. Photography is a just a hobby of mine and I refuse to use services like Flickr to share photos; for some reason it just don't sit right with me.

I've also been working on a website that indexes and categorizes usenet NZB files.

Both projects haven't been launched and are currently at a standstill because of wedding planning. :)

Sorry I couldn't have been more help.
It may be better to not hide the button, but to disable it.

Hiding buttons in response to application state confuses the user.

(Imagine the user searching the screen for the "Clear" button which he or she knows should be there ...)
Well, chances are you'll have a better tan & more vitamin D. Yet I can't imagine that you can get a masters in Celtic Literature of any period without studying something other than Celtic Literature. You will have a bachelors degree as well, with more to it than quite a few of the degrees out there.
According to Moore (Chasm guy), new technologies tend to get standardized on by big organizations. Adopting it in the first place was hard enough, and they want to put off doing it again for as long as possible. The infrastructure and dependencies (those huge piles) are a big part of why it's hard to change. Some are important and necessary dependencies that are expensive to change no matter what. I think this is characteristic of the enterprise.

Back-compatibility facilitates this postponement of change.

I daren't be an apologist for that webapp (esp since I don't know anything about it and I agree with you anyway), but my inner contrarian pipes up with Joel's essay on rewrites
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html). Though it sounds like there isn't even a grain of truth with respect to the architectural decision.
Read this very early HN submission (note the ID #):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227

And then you might want to talk to andres of octopart.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andres
As with everything, no one really likes change, even when it is hands down an improvement. So you have to give it some time I think. I didn't like it at first, but I know it has changed how I vote/use comments now and I have a feeling in another week or so I will love it just like I did the old way.

I do think that scores should show after a 24-48 hour window though, but I pretty sure PG just made this change the simplest way possible and will fix that in the future if he ends up thinking this improves things.
From what I understand, X-killer is just another vapid advertising expression. So far I haven't seen any X-killer kill.
I am starting a UX newsletter at http://www.uxready.com/ . Currently, I am collecting feedback from friends on what kind of news they'd like to receive. Once the subscribed number reaches 100 I will start sending it.
2. To allow users to self-segment themselves to keep the content they see tailored to their interests

Please elaborate. This sounds interesting and has potential.
My main point is that the JVM manages memory better than ruby. Its dead easy to benchmark it yourself by writing a pair of tiny programs. As I said, the JVM will use up all the memory it can. You can probably tweak davmail's runtime flags to use less. There is typically a CPU tradeoff if you cut back on the memory a program can use, and usually a happy middle-ground.

In my personal experience, I've re-written a few ruby utils in Java for an order of magnitude speed improvement. I've seen a ruby site crater under load because of memory issues that its java replacement easily manages (which is sorta what the OP is about). The JVM is especially well suited for handling "stateless" http requests because it's ability to quickly create and destroy small objects.
I'm sorry but this is an utterly ridiculous, borderline offensive comment. Companies want to outsource because they want to keep more money themselves. Executive salaries have risen practically exponentially. Why is it that only the workers have to suck in their belt? If we should be happy living on $50k/yr then what the ever loving fuck do they need with MILLIONS per year?

If companies want to try and outsource then let them. They've tried and yet we're still all employed. Why? Because the market has spoken. This is what it costs to develop, full stop. People getting paid less than this are just an arbitrage situation in the company's favor.

It has nothing to do with entitlement, it has to do with those who have some understanding of how the market works and those who are utterly ignorant of it.
* Car => Bicycle

* Management Consultant => Startup
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I just wish he'd tried this on an actual sport.

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