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Well, this is bizarre. I was planning on upgrading my 3.6 to 4.0 shortly. I guess I won't. Better stick with 3.6 until the dust settles (?).

Can anyone point me to a concise-but-thorough explanation of just what I can expect from the new FF release plan?

I take it they're moving to something like the Ubuntu normal vs. LTS normal distinction. The thing is, Ubuntu explicitly labels some releases as LTS ("10.04 LTS" vs. "10.10"). FF doesn't even put version numbers in their press releases anymore. (What's the logic behind that?)
It's confusing, yeah. The reason is that the release schedule is completely changing between 3.X and 4.

4 and above will work like Chrome: When version N is released, N-1 is EOL and will not get further updates. There is no simple way to make the transition from 3.X to that, so it ends up being confusing.
Oracle Express actually has a free license. The Express version has most of the same functions as the expensive versions except the 5GB limit on database size. If your app doesn't require lots of data but needs all the SQL power, it's a good choice.
We're slowly working our way down that entire list for our game analytics, jut got Android to go!
Certainly you aren't the first person to postulate that and it's a very valid point, but what if you could get people to organize without coercion? Doesn't that at least sound appealing? Like something worth striving for?
Yep, but first you spend all the time you saved tracking it down.
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The USA is overpopulated. Most population centers are facing fresh water and also sewage infrastructure crises within the next 20 years. We are full up.

High productivity farm land is being destroyed by development at an alarming rate. The US is steadily becoming a food importer in category after category, where once we exported. This puts further pressure on our already abysmal trade deficit. This is also a national security issue.
Recently turned 26. I spent a bit too long in university switching degrees and all, starting in economics but eventually graduated in electrical engineering. I got a job right out of school working for a large engineering construction company. Quickly realized that wasn't for me, but stayed on for 2 years for the paycheck. Married the girl of my dreams, quit my job, and moved to Guatemala to study spanish for a few months. I'm writing this the night before I head back to the US. In a month I'm moving to the San Francisco, and we'll see what happens from there.

Seems like there is no right or wrong way to go. I'd say just make sure you're happy and always challenging yourself.
re color
- just wanted it to be lighter - when we implemented the design with the dark header it just didnt look that good in the browser

when altered the logo as it didnt look great on the lighter backgroud

re type
- in the blue sections we need to work on the spacing and type to make it as good as Jasons design

cheers

justin
I agree. If I had never used anything like Reddit or Digg, I probably wouldn't know what the arrows meant.
Aren't local variables scoped to be visible within the entire JavaScript function? I thought the recommendation to declare local variables at the top the function was a reminder (or to avoid accidental importing of global variables of the same name)?
A DC magnetic field like Earth's magnetic field is so different from a 2.4 GHz EM field, I honestly don't even know where to begin to explain the difference to you. If you didn't listen to your high school science teacher the first time s/he explained it, you probably won't listen to anyone here, either.
Would someone really buy a tablet just to be able to run exclusive games on it? A gaming tablet maybe, but a regular tablet?

Plus, with games like Bejeweled or Plants vs Zombies, it's not exactly hard to duplicate in a matter of weeks and get rid of that exclusive edge.
FYI there is a fork of Firefox 5 for PPC here http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ .
Q: Why can I access an out-of-scope C++ var? A: So you rent a hotel room...
To diverge a bit, I'd love to see what jack ma from alibaba could do with yahoo. Yahoo still has impressively valuable assets, even if their tech isnt cutting edge on many products, they have users and traffic up the wazoo.
Did I say I wanted him to suffer? No. I told him he has to wait his turn and that he ain't special. I think he should get a greencard. But after my wife does. And after everyone who's waited years legally for one - especially if they're paying taxes like us.
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4 and above will work like Chrome's release process: New stable release every 6-12 weeks. Releasing version N means N-1 is EOL and gets no further updates. No version numbers in press releases (they are meaningless, except as a convenient identifier for bug reports and such). Nightly, Autora (alpha, basically) and Beta channels to test unstable versions.

There is talk about having an LTS version, just like Ubuntu, yeah. I think it's a good idea. Don't know if it will happen, though, but I am guessing it or something similar to it will.
That's the most exciting thing anyone has ever said, ever.

FI needs love. :(
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A good part of your presentation should have been what your requirements are.

For example: MongoDB's schemaless feature has a downside that means more data as a key must be defined individually. Great if you constantly need to fix/change the schema. A structured schema solution obviously has a space saving.
openjsan.org, JQuery plugins catalog, and that's all AFAIK.

(Yes, CPAN is still unique after so many years)
I don't disagree with this, but I think there's something wrong when need another markup language to deal with the first markup language.
Same here, language fetishim gets old really fast. I think it comes mainly from the new generation of programmers who have not been programming for that long or have not worked on hard enough problems were the language makes very little difference. After having to work on a really hard problem it should hopefully become apparent that what really matters is the algorithm, not the language it is written on. Being obsessed with a language because it saves you a couple of seconds with its unique syntax is frankly quite silly. What takes most of the time is the actual design and figuring out of the algorithms involved. Also debugging takes quite some time. The actual programming shouldn't take that long. A couple of seconds saved because of some syntax will not make an iota of a difference.
I completely disagree. Once a platform hits a critical mass of app support (well below 300k, still well below 100k and even below 2k though that's in the right neighborhood), bigger numbers are a net negative, IMO. A hundred thousand more apps is just a ton more garbage you have to wade through to find the very few good ones.
Where does that 20-30$/month come from? Elastic IPs are free when attached to instances..
> horrible results with tribalism, meritocracy is best.

May I attempt to translate?: Throw my weaker countrymen under the bus. I have no human loyalties to those born in my nation who share my culture. Their welfare is of no consequence compared to potentially profitable foreigners.

I think your "tribalism vs meritocracy" line does get to the heart of the matter. Except I would substitute the term "nationalism" for tribalism. And the story of the 19th and 20th century is the absolute failure of systems of government not oriented around nationalism, and tribe. All over the world empires and larger nations repeatedly broke up into their tribal elements. This is inevitable human nature and fighting it is just stupid. This project of inviting the entire world into the borders of the USA will end in civil war eventually. Enoch Powell was right. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Riv...
Ask HN: Your experience with payment gateways in India
So, I was creating an small web application targeted towards Indian consumers. I came to the stage where I started to look into available payment options and was surprised to see how broken it is. There are no payment gateways which offer recurring payments, TDR is so high that it is almost impossible to do small payments, websites of all the payment gateways sucks badly.

This is my first experience with online payments. I am really still wondering why it is so much broken and probably this is the reason why small web applications are not coming out of India ? Or because there are not many developers who build such applications that these payment gateways don't care at all about them.

I really want to hear back from fellow hackers with similar experiences.
I've been working on a Doom/Build style game engine for the browser so I've been reading Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book[1] which has been very insightful. It covers key aspects of the development of Doom and Quake, and I highly recommend it.

[1] Full text: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:d-lFmnF...
Does Firefox support autoupdating? I feel like Chrome's aggressive update and EOL cycles only work because it updates in the background, so users never have to worry about what version they're running.
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If Valve bought PopCap then it would be like a Reese's Pieces. Two already great tastes coming together. PopCap is the perfect cultural infusion that could get Steam opened up to a larger (non asian 17 year old male) market.
if order does not matter:

var sum=0,i=list.length;
while(i--)
sum += list[i].amount;

if it does:
var sum=0,i=0,ln=list.length;
while (ln-- && (sum += list[i++].amount));

but the for in syntax is nicer indeed.
The goal is to autoupdate silently like Chrome. This is being implemented in stages, it isn't all there yet, but updates are already simpler than before.
If you can use SQLlite, you probably didn't need a real database. So the use cases overlap a bit with flat-files and JSON.
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It compromises performance in a similar way to using any byte code vs final machine code. It remains to see how much of a VM support will be required to make this work, as that's typically the large overhead cost of using non-machine code.

If anything the same exact FSAIL will run faster and faster on the same exact hardware as newer JITs come out.
The story was a moving one and I hope Vargas gets to stay.

With that said, I think illegal immigration creates all kinds of societal problems and is unfair to legal immigrants.

The problem it creates is that there's enormous stress on those that are illegal. They live in the shadows and can be taken advantage of. My own personal experience was driving in LA and being rear-ended by someone who then fled the scene (most likely illegal). They work for less than minimum wage and don't cooperate with law enforcement for fear of deportation.

I'm a child of legal immigrants so I'm naturally biased. There is a legal system and many people every year try to go through that system like my parents did. I see illegal immigrants as "cutting in line" and I see nothing fair about it.

But I'm also human. People like Vargas had no choice (sent here as a kid) and has made a life here. I also sympathize those that flee poverty, crime and even wanting a brighter future. I also grew up in LA and know that many illegal immigrants live decent lives.. heck some of my friends are probably undocumented.

But completely opening the borders is not feasible. Creating systems that encourage illegal immigration only make the problem worse (and exacerbate the problems mentioned above).
The big theoretical disadvantage is that consulting doesn't scale as well.

If people pay for your time then the three ways you can grow the business are:

1) Charge more (which has an upper limit. This limit is higher than you think though - eg: lawyers are effectively a very specialized form of consultants)

2) Work more hours (which has an upper limit)

3) Hire people (which increases your costs along with your revenue)

If you sell software though, you can sell the same piece of work an infinite number of times. Maybe you need to spend more on marketing to increase your revenue, but marketing budget scales much better than paying full time employees as other consultants.

However this advantage is often theoretical. The risk/reward ratio of consulting vs startup makes consulting more attractive to many. It's pretty simple (and not very risky) to jump from an employee to a consultant: sign up for a medium term engagement, then quit your job. Provided the engagement is long enough and you set your rate correctly you don't even need any savings to do it.
Ask HN: How can my website use Tumblr to reach 18 year olds?
A few websites such as Mint and OkCupid are known (in part) for their popular and informative blogs. I've created a website geared towards students entering college and recently created a blog on Tumblr to help promote it. However, instead of writing about the product, I'm giving daily college advice.

I've been following some tags and following users that post about graduation. That's brought me around 220 followers in a couple of days.

From what I've seen, a lot of content on Tumblr tends to go viral. What are some tips to make my blog popular on Tumblr?
Video about the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJH1IKqF8PA
Investors would over-invest, but business would not get enough revenue to pay them back.

We shall see, but just for the fact their product and technology improves a previous experience in such an obvious way, I have much less of a problem seeing this company receiving a lot of hype and funding than say Color, for example.
There's also EveryJS: http://www.everyjs.com/
I'm more interested in which databases people are using.
Fork or follow on github?
Looks awesome, what version of jQuery is required?
I think to should explain it better on the site. I only knew what you were talking about after reading the "What are Fake Buttons?" blurb at the bottom right.
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Why doesn't Netflix buy Hulu? They seem complementary to each other--Netflix has movies, Hulu has tv. Unless this wouldn't be allowed for legal reasons.
For everything you've said about Riak re: stability and happy scalability, that's exactly why I was excited to include it in this test. I would like to prevent myself/my team from acquiring too many of those scars, so please elaborate on what caused them ;) Especially if those scars came from Cassandra or HBase!

The test hasn't been a "concocted scenario", it's measuring the performance[1] of a prototype implementations for what will be an essential piece of our infrastructure and process (bulk loads of large numbers of small records, very read heavy after the initial load). Riak's write performance was completely adequate, just nowhere near what we got out-of-the-box with the bulk insert operations available in Cassandra and HBase. I asked on #riak channel on freenode and got told to use protocol buffers (which we already were), I'd really appreciate advice beyond this.

> Also, realize that really small values aren't a great fit for Riak in some ways b/c the overhead per value is at least a few hundred bytes.

This is pretty much what I've chalked it up to. It's unfortunate because that is the use case for which we currently need to provide a solution for right now, and once we've got some of our data in one distributed data store, it's convenient (and considered less risky) to use that same technology for the next project. (This is really a culture thing though, it's taking us months to get the necessary buy-in and approval for a postgres 8.2 -> 9.0 upgrade rolled out for a different product, where we know it would solve a specific issue we have).

[1] We've been running our tests on a 4 node cluster, each node has an 8 core 2.8ghz xeon, 32gb of ram, and a woefully inadequate disk: the machines were repurposed from a system that required them to have redundancy and didn't require write performance, so the drives are RAID1. We also need to make recommendations to IT for their hardware purchase plan after our testing.
Keep in mind that json2.js' JSON.parse() ultimately uses eval() after a few sanity checks. Definitely better than a blind eval(), but not quite the panacea it's often purported to be.
> Ethnic nationalism has a bad track record

Pre 1940s Europe is a transnational jumble of overlapping ethnic groups. Result: war after war after war.

Post 40s and 50s after millions of people relocate to their linguistic and ethnic homelands and coalesce into new nations carved out of empires: lasting peace. Last major war was in former Yugoslavia, which failed to get with the ethnic nationalist program.

Hell, even Belgium is falling apart now. You are dead wrong on this. Ethnic nationalism is the only system that works, long term.
I'm pretty new here (about a week I think). While the voting/karma system isn't readily apparent, like you, I figured it out about a day after registering. I think the FAQ could possibly benefit from a more thorough explanation, but I do think people figure it out eventually once they start participating.
You're framing the argument in a way that makes your position stronger and his weaker. But, in your framing, I think you miss some basic points.

For me, it comes down to what he said here:
>Meanwhile, though, I have no sympathy for people who are trying to shortcut the established processes. The "hope for a better life" just doesn't justify bypassing all the other people that wait in line.

The thing is that everyone else who is in the line is also hoping for a better life. So what justifies someone cutting?

In this specific case, he had no choice in the matter (put on a plane as a kid) so I think he should be allowed to stay. But every other adult is, in my opinion, cutting in line.
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Yeah, I just discovered this today, and it's great. YouTube videos actually play smoothly on my 1.5GHz G4, for the first time in at least 3 years. Everything else feels smooth and snappy again. Whatever this guy is doing, he's doing it better than the Mozilla team has in a long time.
The first generation came standard with a very slow spinning hard disk.
The part that seems still-to-come: how did you change your marketing & product communication after adopting Sinek's theory? Did it work out better for you?

I'd be very interested to see that post if/when you make it - comparing the before & after videos & pages, and some stats on how well the change worked.
Why should awesome devlopers, however defined, want to work at your startup?

When you have a good answer to that question, then it's just a matter of making it known to awesome developers. That task will be a lot easier if you actually have a good answer to that question.

Reminder - every startup promises to change the world, cool technology, lots of resources, great people to work with so if you're different ....
getting rid of karma points on comments has certainly hurt here... it's harder to ascertain what they are for when they don't increase.
I'd keep in mind that this is the bay area which tends to be pretty gay friendly.
Better at rioting due to hockey losses! ;D
....aaaaand, didn't read it. Why? Cause I was confronted by a stupid countdown advert. At least when it's a movie or a tv show I file a "remember to go steal that" ticket in my brain.. but in the case of a magazine article, I'm certainly not gonna go torrent the thing. Just stupid.
For considerably more bang for your buck, rather than implement a mixed bag of "this and that" gimmicks to "find awesome developers", companies should focus on eliminating all the things they are doing to drive away awesome developers.
Title is a bit misleading... but still a great answer.
> I would love if everyone could look up the Rawlsian "Veil of Ignorance"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
It should work great with jQuery 1.5.1 and later. We've heard reports that it doesn't work well with jQuery 1.4.x but that is probably a bug we can fix since it doesn't rely on any new jQuery features as far as I know.
That'll certainly be on the agenda. I've only just started this journey myself really so still doing lots of learning and figuring out the best ways to gather data and store it for later comparison.

When I have more info I'll definitely be following up (so ahem http://workingsoftware.com.au/rss/ ;)
That's not even wrong. Please decide what you want to say, and them say it, at which point I will be happy to engage with you.
I think Mozilla has seriously mis-predicted what this is going to do to their adoption in the very large user base of people who were convinced to move from IE to Firefox by some well-meaning computer tech.

Considering that the majority of our clients really dislike it when software changes without their specifically asking it to, we can no longer recommend Firefox to our clients. ...which is unfortunate, because AB+ made a really nice first line of defense against malicious ads on websites.
None. I recently re-designed my project to use pre-generated static files.
As many people have said the challenge is everyone's 10 apps are a bit different and that's why you need a big software catalog. This is especially true of games. You can only play Angry Birds so many times. There are hundreds of other really great iOS games out there. The author says he can live without playing Civilization but when the price tag for the phone and service is basically the same that's a tough sell. We also cannot underestimate the simple joy of consumption people get from buying/sampling different apps. A device that lacks this experience is always going to feel limited even if you spend 95% of your time in the same 10 apps it does provide.
I'm not in the same boat, but I'm in the next one over - I too am an undocumented alien. You are not alone.
Great analogy and well written. We often see attempts at this style of explanation, but we usually fail at one or both of those qualities.

While I wish I saw more of this style of teaching in technical publications, it's admittedly rarely done well enough to convey the point.