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That doesn't really make sense. Apple has the same access to GPU's as Android manufacturers have, so there really aren't any 'Android GPU's' they should have a look at.

Their problem with Android is that the hardware they're building for is inconsistent, and that will remain so until some kind of policy change happens with Android. It has nothing to do with the power of (future) hardware itself.
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Are you aware if they do the failover, then after it is successful perform maintenance? Or do they take the just stop the master server to do maintenance and let failover happen automatically?

The first method would eliminate downtime. The second method would have that up to 3 minute downtime.

Also, in my basic testing, I only had 1 out of 10 failovers be completed within 15 seconds. The rest took between 2 and 3 minutes. The longest one was slightly over 3 minutes.
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if you want to test willingness to pay you should try to recreate real conditions as much as possible to get usable test results. You would probably get a much better response if:

1) the page had SSL

2) you show what cards you accept (i.e. logos)

3) you require the buyer's name (sounds suspicious to not require it)

4) you show a paypal button as an alternative option*

It sounds like you're just doing an MVC for payments to see if people would pay. If you're pleased with the MVC conversion rate now, I bet you'd be ecstatic if you implemented the above. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 5~10% uptick in conversion.

*anecdotally speaking, I would have totally clicked through if you had a paypal button.
Maybe "cpc" for "copy cherry" then?
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I'm not sure if I'm in the minority or not (probably) but my philosophy behind paying for one of the invites isn't so much that I felt like I was getting an "honest to goodness" $10 worth of product or direct benefit out of it.

I paid the money because I really like your work, I loved the visual style you had going and how smooth it seemed to be, and I figured if I could help in someway to keep you being able to be doing what you're doing and making more awesome things, then it's worth it: a more tangible "like" button or a concrete confirmation that you're doing something right. It's the same reason why I'm a subscriber to Marco's fantastic Instapaper.
By "profiles" I meant user profiles, not project pages... as I have already said, this pages need to be improved, and the aim is not to supply the original page but to complement it.
I believe that MichaelApproved is reffering to the comments. You cannot flag comments below a certain karma threshold. Actually, I'm not sure if you can flag comments at all? Maybe someone with higher karma could shed some light on this?
pg's said in the past that it's okay. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Please, give me an invite!
do you think #1, #2 and #3 would really make a difference? I would have thought most users (including me) when it comes to payment are simply thinking "blah blah blah take my money"
On the page it says it'll probably be $4.99. So it is open source, but it may not be free.
i resisted switching to chrome for months because i thought the chrome inspector was inferior to firebug, but i got used to it after forcing myself to switch primarily to chrome. now i find it's actually superior in many ways.
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Let's not jump to conclusions...
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I don't think, I know :)

Worked in ecommerce, handled millions of credit card transactions, tested extensively.
As long as we aren't talking minutes and just seconds, I close my browser once every 24 hours typically.

I can deal with a 15 second startup time for a super-rich browsing and debugging environment.

Once loaded, new tabs/windows do not have the startup penalty.

That said, the worst plugins can probably modify themselves to lazy-load the bulk of their code once the browser is started in the background when idle is detected?
Thanks...some of the comments on here had me thinking people were being duped into paying for invites that didn't get them into anything...

This is kinda cool...
Regarding 1, it actually does post the payment over HTTPS via javascript directly to the payment processor from your browser.

I wasn't really trying to do a controlled experiment, otherwise I would have done the other things you describe.
Indeed. Little things like proper emacs keybindings in the JS terminal (Ctrl-P for previous line = lifesaver!) make Chrome's inspector preferable. Haven't needed to go back except for the YSlow/Firebug integration [probably a Chrome plugin for that as well].
I know pg said that it's ok, but as my own personal rule, I've decided to go against this. I'm using the downvote only when somebody is actually wrong about something, not simply because I disagree with him/her.

The reason for this is because, even though I might disagree with somebody regarding a certain topic, I may very well learn something new from this person, and, why not, even change my previous views on the subject. In that case, his comment was valuable and helpful, and in my opinion, should be displayed even more prominently instead of being downvoted.

EDIT: One more thing occured to me just now: The reason why upvoting/downvoting shouldn't be used to express agreement/disagreement is because it promotes writing comments that appeal to the general public, disregarding if they are actually right or not. This leads to writing comments that you know people will like, which makes commenting on some topic a sort of a popularity contest. In the end, we will have lots of comments that say what we want to hear, not what we (maybe) should hear.
Perhaps I didn't phrase this as best as I could right now but hopefully the message got through.
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So a bunch of print artists are upset that Maeda is turning their world upside down?

Why am I not surprised.

Since the OP seem so happy to worship the past here is a quote from Kirkegaard:

"People want progress, but fear change"

For those of you who don't know who Maeda is, perhaps you know two of his students. Casey Raes and Ben Fry who created the http://www.processing.org framework.
So the 9/11 terrorists were right? They couldn't find and prosecute every american who interfered with their lives, so they inflicted the maximum damage where they could, as a deterrent.

This isn't justice, it's war. And makes people feel even more justified in cheating, since the moral factor all but disappears.
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If there was anyone in the industry who could justifiably identify as a hacker AND a painter (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html) it's John Maeda. I'm a proud owner of some of his art work.

I don't know the ins and outs of what has been going on with Maeda at RISD but when I heard he was going to become President there I was very confused as to why he would want such an administrative orientated role.

It's the classic example of taking a skilled craftsman, visionary ideas person, guru programmer, etc and putting them in a manager's role. They no longer can ply their craft nor are they necessarily the best person to actually perform that management/administrative function.

Granted he chose to take the role but I'm left wondering whether it was out of ego or a feeling a need to pursue career progression.
A bit premature maybe, but it is a novel implementation.
All I have to say is "Thank You!" for demonstrating the obvious (no sarcasm intended.)
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>widespread expectation throughout the general population that Google is the Internet, and if the Internet sucks, it's Google's problem.

I was in agreement until this. I think this is an unfair characterization. The huge problem with Google's (lack of) customer service isn't because they wont fix bad sites on the Internet. It's that they provide incredibly bad service for their own stuff.
from a brief observation, the tests in the "audits" tab seem to follow rules very similar to yslow.
Well, complex addons like Firebug or iMacros will always be slower than addons that are essentially fancy bookmarks.

I do not care about start up time - I do care about page load time and general responsiveness once Firefox is running.
Those benchmarks don't look that hot when compared to the benchmarks Anandtech did with the iPad 2, even with its higher res. screen (more than 2x the pixels).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/apple-ipad-2-gpu-performa...
quite an excellent post.
But very early enough I developed deep contempt for many of our teachers and chose to educate myself on my own.
that would be true for most of us - self taught engineers we are.
Also unlike in the US where there are many universities of top repute, in India we have either the IITs or NITs [wrt engineering] - and actual quality of education their is also isnt great [ well i can say about NITs].
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I think it depends very much on what position you are hiring for. If you just need someone who can hack out RoR apps, then sure a Masters degree might be unnecessary, but if you need someone to do work on cutting edge engineering or science problems, and actually solve new problems, then a relevant Masters degree is a very valuable background to have.
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. What can people sell now they couldn't before?
I would probably choose startup too. The reason, I think, is that unless I succeed, I'm not going to be happy and would actually make my SO miserable. However, if I succeed, I would have the money and the time to be able to live happily with my SO.
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I don't find that information actionable, I was more interested in how they made that politically correct.
Oh, hmm, maybe the Sense player I have is different from the default.
> Is there a cultural issue here?

There is, but it's probably the same point that's been made over and over in the submission of the WSJ article to HN.

FWIW, what Sridhar says in his article is exactly what zwischenzug said too :)
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I'd like a master's degree because I enjoy learning and learning makes you better at the tasks you apply it to. I can earn good money with or without it, but taking the time to truly expand my CS knowledge (at an age where I can truly appreciate it, not the case when I got my degree) would be fulfilling.

A course like this would suit me while I continue with a job that pays the mortgage.

Edit: having read the course description it does seem geared towards career development. A more academic approach would appeal more.
dcurtis > yeah I figured the ajax post operation would be over HTTPS, but still - a user would want to see the little padlock sign on the browser regardless :)

the illusion of security is just as important as actual security!
I gladly take the hit that FireBug causes, same reason. The slightly longer startup time doesn't bother me (yet).

Also, I can't stand webbrowsing on an installation which doesn't have some form of adblocking. What a difference! I find ads horribly distracting, especially when they have flashing animations.
By that logic, all HN entries about Firefox, Ubuntu, Python, Node.js etc are "waste of space" because not everyone uses them.

There is an important security fix in this Rails version and for Rails devs, who have a huge presence on HN, it matters just like "the new Ubuntu version boots half a second faster" matters to many.
Yes, you can flag comments-- but you need to click on the "link" button for the comment to see the "flag" option.

I imagine there is a karma threshold that unlocks this, but I couldn't say what it is.
Two reasons: Apple's approval process and the paper trail.

The approval process, while not guaranteed to catch malware, serves as a deterrent to evildoers because they know that at least some review will be made of their app, functionally as well as on an API-level.

There is a paper trail from each app to the developer responsible for it. When your app gets caught, you get caught.

It'd take a remarkably stupid evildoer to develop malware and submit it for Apple approval. It's less of a hassle and much less risky to be evil using other traditional channels, with no oversight; like exploiting browser bugs, building native programs that don't require neither the paper trail or an approval process (maybe masking as a "driver" or a "plugin" you need to watch some shady porn or whatever), spam, fraud and other schemes, etc.

For these reasons, it doesn't surprise me that we've seen no malware on iOS.
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I submitted this because I found it an interesting and informative article about a topic that many developers neglect: Typography.

I am trying to learn as much about it as possible to make up for since in the past: using default font faces in web applications where better options are available so that it looks better and is more accessible. As seen here, even Apple is guilty of transgressions at times.

With Typekit, the free Google Font Directory and excellent browser support, there is no excuse anymore to use standard and/or ugly fonts. There are a lot of good articles and resources linked to from this article so I hope someone finds it useful.
I know, that's why I said jailbroken iOS and Android.

* Jailbroken users get their apps from third party sources and there are no more guarantees.

* Android Market doesn't do malware checks (yet), and there was an issue with malware recently.

Still, not even the AppStore is perfect: somone snuck in a tethering app disguised as a flashlight, if I remember correctly and there was a problem with a book vendor that was gaming the top lists.
Wasn't this video posted to Hacker News just a few weeks ago?
April fools was 5 days ago. This is way way way way too ahead of itself.

PayPal shuts down all similar attempts at mass payouts like these, then you are stuck.

Go talk to the tipjoy people.

Any business model that relies on PayPal and can't tell them to go #$@^! themselves when they suspend your account is not a viable model. They best start researching and implementing Amazon and other solutions.
I understand where you're coming from because I didn't get Blogger. Around that time, I had my own example.net/~jambo homepage that I updated with stories, probably using Pagemill & FTP. What made Blogger a big deal is that they (eventually) made what I was doing easy for anyone to do. Simplifying something can be a big deal. Gumroad could do this for publishers, and it has an obvious revenue model & incentives built in.
I could sell you a link to your own comment... I couldn't do that before, at least not easily ;-)
Programming is more about thinking in a certain way than algorithms or data structures (those are the tools). You should check out the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- I found it "enlightening"
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This brings to a head the interesting situation of the modern tech company. Unlike companies in almost all other industries, the average developer at Google (and a lot of other companies) needs to be much smarter to do the job than the manager.

So the skill pyramid is actually inverse compared the "military corporation" model. It's also true that many, perhaps even a majority, of the deveopers would be "even better" at management, marketing and strategy etc, than those normally filling these roles.

This situation really does beg for a solution beyond what the typical corporation/MBA paradigm has come up with so far. Kudos to Mr. Page for taking a shot at it.
FireQuery is the only thing in Firebug that I can't seem to get in Chrome.
I write a lot of ocaml code (for money, even!) and haven't touched haskell for about four years. I still find the haskell version here easier to read. I imagine what's tripping you up is the operator soup. Whilst ugly (one of the things that turned me off haskell) it is a lot easier to read once you are familiar with basic haskell typeclasses (applicative, functor etc). That said, the ocaml version could definitely be a lot nicer. Check out eg

Yojson (search for 'let positive_int') http://forge.ocamlcore.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=153

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This is trivially done in C++ with a private implementation. It doesn't matter that you can only allocate one class, that class can allocate whatever it wants to in turn.
The closest alternative is properly clickbank.com, but if you look at their site the signup process is horrible, the product you sell has to be approved and you have to set up a website.

The only problem I have with Gumroad is that I can't pay with my paypal account (I am too lazy to dig out my credit card and actually enter the numbers).
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2) All of the finalists practiced solving ACM Archive Problemset day and night (unlike the rest of the students), and probably skipped a lot of the regular classes.

Both times I attended ICPC world finals our team had only practiced once a week for 3-6 hours, but we were much worse than many teams that did not qualify from more competitive regions. The people who are the best at these things really do spend a lot of time practicing, though. The kid who beat Neal Wu at IOI practices 3-4 hours a day.
I don't get all the whining about 99Designs. If you don't like it, don't use it. It's not like it's going to turn good designers into bad designers, or make companies that used to hire good designers hire bad designers instead.
Do people think these kinds of competitions provide a good correlation with what makes an good developer for a software company? I feel like solving a well-defined problem in a limited amount of time is a very different task than, say, architecting a system that will be worked on for years by a team of people, or refining a vague set of business requirements into something that can actually be built, or finding an unreproducible concurrency bug in 1000s of lines of someone else's undocumented code.
Ah yes, I see it now, thank you. I still believe that the 'flag' option should only be used for spam and completely offtopic comments. This is because it 'hurts' more (with regards to your karma) when your comment gets downvoted than when it gets flagged. AFAIK, flagging has no impact on karma, or am I wrong here? So, i see no reason why a person who merely has a different opinion than you should get punished more than the person who is actually breaking HN rules.
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It's fair to arrange spec work competitions as long as you don't give out false pretensions about the rewards going to the winner and you find the risk of inferior results acceptable.

The reverse version illustrated here is ok on the same grounds: as long as the author does not promise anything to the contenders she won't deliver, it is fair game.

But the difference is obvious. 99Designs works. The reverse doesn't.
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SICP is also available as a series of videos of the lectures at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... - very enlightening to this self-taught programmer
It looks like they're only using PayPal to pay money out to sellers. If PayPal shuts that down, they can probably find a way around it (in the worst case, send checks).
I admit that S&T was an oversight on my part in my OP. But MSN/Bing/Live, various attempts at tablets, phones and all sorts of other doodads and geegaws have been money sinks.
The last time I heard colleges like Harvard were built to impart education to anyone who wanted one and if they were capable enough to get it.

I don't think the founding motto of Harvard was to create any kind of elitism among the people who drank from it's fountain of knowledge but to spread the truth (as in an education).

Even if Harvard stopped handing out these extension degrees the knowledge they're opening up to anyone through their free content is unstoppable. Kudos to MIT, Harvard and countless other colleges for opening up the knowledge that was beyond the reach of a majority of the population all over the world!

Not everyone can attend elite colleges even if they deserved one!

edit: grammar correction.
Apple just has a headstart. They certainly won't be able to match Android pricing. It's mac vs pc all over again.

Check out what's on the table for 2012

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In a $300-$400 tablet that is going to be amazing.

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My vote goes to Django as well. I started hacking a reddit clone last year and there are many apps to get you started (comments, votes, private messaging etc). You may find that the apps don't exactly fit your needs and that's when you start learning even more, by looking their code.

One of the main problems I had was user permissions for each post and category (subreddit) and what that means for caching and memory management. At any point you will need to know if a user voted on a certain post and whether or not they are allowed to edit or delete it based on what permissions the user has and in which category it was posted. Threaded comments are also a bit of a pain when it comes to managing memory - I've read somewhere that Disqus uses a built-in PostreSQL function to build the tree but I haven't tried it.
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This page is responsible for a lot of FUD.

So many people take it to mean, in effect, "Firebug makes Firefox slower". When in fact it means "Firebug makes Firefox slower to start up".

This page says nothing about the performance impact once firefox has loaded. I think that would be a more useful metric, and hope to see it in the future.
I agree with you, this was discussed more thoroughly here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219734
This is just plain wrong. Before adobe released the "align to pixel grid" and the preview in pixels (since CS or before) there has always been any easy way to work on a pixel grid, and snap everything. If you dont know how.. thats one thing but its certainly not the case you are describing.
100 Karma seems to unlock it.