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1. Yea, for Audio/Video you need to go to the browser (but the browser is IMHO better than Skype for A/V)

2 & 3. ICQ, AIM (I think), iChat, Trillian... Etc. I like all of them.

4. At least in the States everyone uses Gmail (most everyone in SV that is)

5. Skype is prevalent in the work environment, I just don't know why. It sucks pretty hard and everyone hates it.

Just my opinion, I have had great success with Gmail/Google Voice and iChat (for chat with my Gmail Jabber account)
slowloris is in no way a DDoS. It's going to take a competent sysadmin about a minute to find and block the attack. If you've got a gigabit attack, that's a lot harder to block then one person with a misbehaving client.
VIM is the Worst Text Editor Ever (sometimes)
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Write small chunks of code: a function over 50 lines is probably really hard to read. This is a rule of thumb, not a commandment, but I found it to be true in at least > 51% of cases.

Peter Seibel, in Practical Common Lisp, has a footnote about this:

"A friend of mine was once interviewing an engineer for a programming job and asked him a typical interview question: how do you know when a function or method is too big? Well, said the candidate, I don't like any method to be bigger than my head. You mean you can't keep all the details in your head? No, I mean I put my head up against my monitor, and the code shouldn't be bigger than my head."

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-simple-database....
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I get same.

Sometimes companies release minor updates that are reflected for fresh downloads but don't have the auto-update mechanisms in existing clients to download the update --- usually to save on bandwidth costs.

However, for a security patch that seems 'unfortunate'.
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My dad has a saying like that. "Tires are like insurance. When you need it, it is too late."
It may be that the exploit isn't previous version.

The current version appears to have been built by the most moronic team of developers ever who knows what crap made its way into the new client.
Continued success, Joe! Thanks for Firebug, and all your other work.
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I admire his entrepreneurial spirit.
I actually thought this post was going to be about the 'death' of the Product Manager role in general. It's something that is implied all the time on HN - that product management is everyone's job but not discussed enough.

(I was toying whether the above was insensitive as it is off-topic to the somber post - but given Cranky PM's post isn't about a specific person or recent event and is just a set of guidelines to follow in general I hope no one takes offense)
Delusional

God says...
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As a manager, you better be especially careful and sensitive if it was suicide or homicide. I am not sure about the grief councilor thing, I have my own experiences there and am still not sure about the value.
Yeah, you're probably right. Am not seeing any reasonable references to it in a quick search.

http://www.google.com/notaurl - is also served via sffe.

http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/11/user-agent-sniffing-... - as are the js libraries they serve.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2280319 - @dmaz seems to think it's google's static resource server.
Thanks for making firebug. Good luck on future projects.
Johnny Lee was working for Microsoft when he personally funded the $3000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers. I know we're all probably quite familiar with who he is at this point, but if you're not I'd suggest poking around his projects page on that site. Such a cool geek rags to youtube "riches" story there.

I know I was disappointed when he took the Microsoft job and suddenly all the cool Wiimote hacks stopped showing up. The fact that he had to resort to the means he did to get Microsoft to play nice with the hobbyist community probably partially explains why he left Microsoft, at least that seems to be implied from his posts about it.
How many Mac owners do you think run their admin account as the personal account. I bet more than a few don't bother with the distinction between user and admin.
And all before an official Kinect SDK. I can't wait to see how these projects continue to evolve.
It's always exciting to bump into, meet or find out about someone who can see interesting possibilities where others see nothing. I don't know Joe, but he seems like one of those people (Firebug, FTW!).

At the same time, I'm always kind of bummed when those people are snapped up by a large company because their ability to produce the mind-binding ideas seems diminished or, at least, less visible among the many large accomplishments/events of a large company. Good to see that one of the lateral thinkers is returning to where we can more easily see his ideas in practice.

Firebug: I remember the first time I left behind the edit-save-refresh-cry-because-my-padding-was-wrong cycle of HTML/CSS development for the Firebug-driven-tweaks flow. Excellent.
Love the About page. Nice personal connection.

http://leafsnap.com/about/

Ah memories of my 10th grade biology class (bug or leaf collection). The trusty Audubon Guide to North American Trees. It is really shocking that the HGTTG is coming true...
Hey HN, I made a PlayBook app that doesn't suck
An NES emulator, Javascript, HTML5 and Google Search walk into a bar...
For $25 a kit, there's no reason why you couldn't give one to each student (or have them buy it as part of their stationary requirements). I'm sure they're not going to destruct their own little project.
Wouldn't both proposals address that? One appears to want to repeal it entirely, while the other proposal would cap the tax at $750,000 annually, so both would remove the potential of owing $100m in taxes for an IPO.
you mean a service for 404 pages? like when reddit is down, they would redirect to a page in your server?
Run it in Chrome. All other browsers perform pretty horribly.
Read that and thought of Ashton Tate which made dBase. The original entrepreneur, George Tate, died of a heart attack. The new CEO, Ed Esber, famously told dBase inventor, Wayne Ratliff, that he wasn't any more important than the guy loading the trucks. Ratliff and a few key developers left. A few years later Esber didn't have a clue what happened to his company which self destructed.

Sad thing is Ratliff started his own database company with some fairly innovative technology for the time. But he was an engineer with no company building skills and it didn't go anywhere.
In case you weren't joking, it seems the bug only affected the new version:

> reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x

Of course, that doesn't rule out other security holes in 2.8.x.
Thanks for posting. I meant to go to this session but it was too early.
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We outsourced our PM function some years ago. After a couple of years working remotely with an excellent PM in Mumbai, we noticed that the spelling and grammar in his emails had changed radically. We asked through discrete channels whether our guy had had a stroke or something that impacted his writing. It turned out Habarjahn had actually died and been replaced, but they tried to sneak the new guy in on us without letting us know. Funny how you can form attachments with a co-worker you never even saw or spoke with. Now, though, we're equally fond of Narendra (assuming it's still him.)
>Working at Facebook was like having my own startup, but with a paycheck instead of ramen

Joe Hewitt hasn't worked for Facebook in years. This is old. Second, he wouldn't be eating ramen anyhow. Facebook bought his company for the employees (primarily him). He went on to make the iPhone facebook app, which has been wildly popular.
How does one get acquired
I have a semi successful startup that generates around $650k yearly in profit, I have lost ALL interest in running this business (think Tony Hsieh running Link exchange) I have been running it for 3 years. I have contacted (via email) most websites in similar industries for an acquistion, without much success.

Do you think I should contact a bank or contact VCs to see if they can find us someone that can sell this company for us?
Contact a investment banker. Where are you located?
Old? he tweeted it an hour ago.
Why can't people apply non-internet concepts to the internet/ISPs? Do utilities give you unlimited electricity, gas, and water? Of course not. Does everyone who goes to McDonald's pay a flat fee of $5 and get as much as they want? Resources are scarce and the people who voluntarily provide them shouldn't be required by law to provide it infinitely without charging more or capping usage.
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There is easily enough information in this post for a reasonably clever blackhat to rediscover the vulnerability. I'm reasonably certain I can guess what it is.

So don't use Skype on Mac if you can help it, and if you must use it turn off messages from sources not in your contact list.
I was under the impression that they do use a heavily customized version of WebCore.
Rhetorical, and if I could still edit to take the tone a step towards neutral, I would. But parent is an out-of-place and out-of-date criticism of w3c in my opinion. At minimum, they should explain why HTML5 is not a counter-example of their claim
They tried sneaking a new guy in... and you still trust these people?
Lost Sounds Orchestra: How the Web Has Allowed Us to Resurrect Ancient Music
When a language has a deficiency people make up for it with libraries. If you don't acknowledge the "class pattern" for object inheritance then you are dismissing an incredibly popular use of OO.

Whether or not code reuse via OO is a good thing or not is a whole other debate though. I don't try to warp every problem into a class hierarchy, but sometimes it's a useful conceptual tool.
also tapmates is quite nice
http://tapmates.com/blog/
People seem to assume that it's out of "greed" that they're doing this. Just look at how much the executives are making, and all that. They don't seem to buy scarcity as a legitimate argument.
Civility plays an important part in effective communication. You may feel that you are merely stating your opinion directly and with force. But an argument is only as strong as its ability to persuade. When you put people on the defensive--when you force an emotional rather than rational reaction--you rob an argument of its power.

Aside from that, there are two other reasons to be more civil. One is that it's just a nice thing to do to treat people respectfully even (or especially) when you're telling them they're wrong. But if that doesn't persuade you, it's worth remembering that civility is explicitly required in the HN Guidelines.
"I want desperately to be a web developer again, but if I have to wait until 2020 for browsers to do what Cocoa can do in 2010, I won’t wait." -Joe Hewitt [1]

I wonder if Joe Hewitt is not going to wait, and he will channel his energies into helping HTML5 catch the native app rocket ships. Go beyond Firebug.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/joe-hewitt-web-development/
It would be pretty neat if Django Canvas could either pull data from or work with Django Packages http://djangopackages.com/
Wow. Such a cool project and really, brilliant advertising.

I love how in the Making Of video, the second guy says, "The most difficult part of this project was to actually play through all the levels and get 3 stars." I don't feel so bad about my scores now.
As someone about to join Facebook for his first job in a few months, posts like these make me even more enthusiastic about starting work!

It would have been even more cool to work alongside the creator of firebug, though.
The Model T didn't compete with buggy-whip makers, but disrupted them all the same.
It means immediately. If the binary is available so the source should be available. Simple.
Perfect timing, as I just bought a Kinect the other day. (Fry's 30-day return policy; hard to beat!). It would just be nice to have links to more info (and code) for all these assorted projects.
I was hoping for a more numeric analysis of purchases and upgrades for IT/SysOps. The article is talking mostly about vague non/difficult to validate benefits that may or may not exist numerically.

Sure, "Pride", "Momentum", "Inspiration" are great benefits from making something 'awesome' but those metrics do not quantify well in a corporate, and even in a startup setting.

I think his second example "momentum" actually sums up the viewpoint about hardware purchases,
' IT tells them they can’t push it to production until a new server gets approved, ordered, setup, tested, and then deployed, they will get discouraged. Eventually, they won’t even think about new features. '
Is this a problem with IT's budget? or is it a problem with a dev who gets discouraged too easily? Why not simply the feature? why not nag at the IT?

It feels like the author was flippant about this issue, and in reality doesn't do any real cost-benefit analysis.
I find it interesting how the theorist says "The finding does not constitute a discovery of dark matter", the journalist titled the article "Signs of dark matter from Minnesota mine", and then to_jon posted this on Hacker News as "Evidence of Dark Matter Found in Minnesota mine".
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Armed.... Internet thugs?
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Updated design can be found here:

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If the project gets enough attention I'll put this design into effect.
I was not particularly thinking about the Russian Revolution. On the "scourge of humanity" side, there's always Hitler, who was popularly elected multiple times. On the scoundrel side, there are folks like Nixon. Every U.S. president since 1960 has also presided over a lot of death and misery, and propped up "friendly" dictators in various global locales, plus a huge proliferation in armaments, often as part of proxy battles in the Cold War.
It's not just one ISP. I've seen the behavior described by the parent from multiple ISPs in separate countries. It's been driving me nuts for so long that I started collecting information about the connections I've seen it from. Years ago, on 512kbit DSL, it was MUCH better.

PAETEC DS3 (45Mbit/s) in San Diego, CA

Time Warner cable modem in San Diego, CA (20Mbit/s)

Colocation at AmericanIS.net (1Gbit/s via Level3.net) in San Diego, CA

Videotron DSL in Montreal, QC (10Mbit/s)

Teksavvy DSL in Montreal, QC (10Mbit/s)

AT&T 3G in San Diego, Detroit, Atlanta (varies)

Verizon 3G in San Diego (varies)

Rogers 3G in Montreal, QC (varies)
A while ago he stopped working on the Facebook iOS app and the Three20 framework, not in Facebook itself.
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is this iOS or Mac? Sounds incredibly high to me if this is Mac App Store, but sounds about right for iOS (I've been #2 in sports on iOS)
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No one is saying caps, in principle, ought to be illegal, the argument you seem to be attacking.

The article is arguing that the caps are out of sync with the actual scarcity of the resource. Prices are rising and caps are dropping, even though bandwidth is becoming cheaper and more available. That suggests the caps aren't being used to make people pay for resources they use, but rather to trick people into spending money they didn't realize they'd be on the hook for. That's sneaky and skeezy.

It's like the banks that charge a $50 overdraft fee on each of six trivial transactions. No one is saying there shouldn't be a fee, but if it's turning into a significant profit stream, something's not right.
Awesome, do you plan developing Android version?
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I downloaded an app that seems to embed an FTP server in itself (comicbook lover), if that passes muster then HTTP might be OK?
One issue I've seen with Grubwithus is the fairly limited menu, which is generally not particularly vegetarian-friendly. Even when it comes to the meals that have vegetarian entres (~1/2, it seems like), sometimes they're things like "Vegan Plate: fresh veggies from local farmers cooked up with love!"

I'd rather not pay $25 for a meal that has 0 protein.
I couldn't resist:

"They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.

On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed.

Except for one man armed with an AK-47, and a Honda full of silver"

I forgot the other great FC quote about the never ending housing bubble.
... helping HTML5 catch the native app rocket ships.

Can it? It feels like the browsers are slaves to their own success; what the web desperately needs to compete with native applications is the antithesis of what the web has become. To compete, the web would need:

- A runtime environment that can run complex applications -- including games -- with high performance on low-end mobile devices.

- Support for languages other than JavaScript, without having to compile to JavaScript (for why javascript is not an adequate compilation target, see above).

- A common, consistent, high-level application UI toolkit, with support for re-usable UI components. The seperation between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is the wrong one. We need 'native' widgets rendered in canvas, using a coherent hierarchical view-based design -- not the DOM. You can build this on top of HTML/JS/CSS (see Obj-J/Cappuccino), but that's like saying that all turing complete languages are equal because they can emulate each other.

Any progress that a particular vendor might make (such as WebSockets, NaCL) will be held back by the other vendors (looking at you, Mozilla).

If you help the web catch up to modern native apps, you'll have just re-created native apps -- sandboxed, native code execution speed, coherent application libraries, etc...
I think PG posted their financing documents:

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html

These were specifically designed for US C-corporations. The legalese obviously changes based on the company type [and may not be applicable -- for example, in the case of US LLCs]

You will need to start a legal entity, and based on the arrangement you give them a portion of the company ie shares, or some sort of convertible note. Honestly I dont know much about UK companies, so you should start investigating the possible corporate structures.
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http://www.phaxio.com

(next time please post a clickable link)

Out of curiosity: how does http://faxzero.com/ manage to subsidize cost of sending a free fax [one per day] via advertisements?
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Awesome app. I can't wait to use it on our next hike.

I really wish there were more apps like this (and Shazam). Just off of the top of my head, i'd pay a reasonable amount of money to identify: bugs, fish, seashells, animal footprints, mushrooms, and I'm sure a whole lot more.

Being part of a hiking family with two small kids, the questions are endless and even if it were crowdsourced in some way (e.g. please identify this bug for karma), it could be handy learning tool for kids, getting them more excited about science at an early age.
Just an idea: you could possibly find a VC interested in letting you cash out some money and hire a new CEO.

An investment banker is worth a shot, but for something this (relatively) small it might not be too attractive for the best firms.
That's the GPLv3; Apple ships no code licensed under the GPLv3.

The GPLv2 reads: You may copy and distribute the Program ... provided that you ... Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange.

Apple does provide access to the code upon request, though it's often not very timely ...
I'm sorry, but does anyone see the unintentional sarcasm of this article. Sarah lacy - tech tw*t.
The ISPs also don't treat it as a proper utility. If I don't use it for a month, I still have to pay my full monthly rate.
I guess it was seen first time here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131692
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Less corporate/company crap, more independent ideas please. Things like Freenet, GNUNet, etc. have the right idea for decentralization, same with more specific projects like Appleseed, StatusNet, etc.
Can't wait to see what Joe comes out with next. But do take some time off first
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Re 'Firebug-driven-tweaks flow' [Sorry if this is OT]

With Stylebot when you make these kinds of tweaks it builds up a supplementary ruleset in a single location that you can afterwards copy and transfer to your CSS file. With Firebug it's relatively tricky to make sure you transfer all the tweaks you just did. Feature request. :)
My point is also to counter the outrage over usage-based pricing. What is so unfair about the idea of ISPs charging per/KB similar to how an electric utility charges per/KWh?

Prices are rising for services and commodities in almost every industry. For instance, cotton has hit record highs this year, food is more expensive, gas is higher, etc. We're in an inflationary economy right now, so I don't think ISPs should be singled out for raising prices as their costs increase (e.g. they have to pay rising utility costs, salaries/benefits/health coverage, property taxes, etc). Perhaps what should be examined is change in net profit margins for ISPs that cap usage, but even if that rises, it is hard to know with certainty if the "sneaky and skeezy" "tricks" were the factor. One could argue if their tactics are indeed so "sneaky and skeezy" that they would loose business in the long run and negatively impact their profit margin.
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