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Droid Bionic Release
Our company's Verizon Wireless Account Executive gave us some good news. The last he heard Droid Bionic was scheduled for release July 18th. He isn't sure if it's changed but it sounds promising. I'm sure Verizon will be holding off the new SuperPhone until after the tiered data pricing is in place and well before the Galaxy S 2 or iPhone 5 join the battle.
If a company really does need to perform extensive validation and verification of its software, perhaps using a browser to deliver that software just isn't appropriate.

First, any time you have software that is a key part of your line of business you have to do extensive validation and verification.

Second, rapidly upgrading browsers isn't something inherent in browsers. As enterprises have shown, you can stick with the same major version of a browser for years w/o any degredation in the core business.

At the end of the day for a lot businesses its just a runtime for deploying CRUD apps. The browser is a fine mechanism for that.
That's precisely what I do -- I have to -- needless to say deprioritized users feel fully "ignored".

That said, you can't please everyone... if you're the one left serving the lowest-IQ users with the lowest-or-no-budget, you just give others an easier time making good money off more savvy software users. Before you know it, you have to close down shop for good...
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Basically when one of their low level "packaging" people screws up the install script. It took me 3 months for an IT department to give me an updated Java VM, as they had marked it "incompatible."
Yeah, but the archiving plan only comes out to $2/month per user, which according to this article means I should shut down the site!

It's a shame, since I was enjoying the profits.
People should only have strong opinions because they have convincing evidence. The point of the statement is that despite the fact you have convincing evidence from your perspective, you need to consider the possibility that your perspective is biased and that your opinions maybe invalidated as the problem scope and externalities evolve.

It's very hard to work with people with strongly held opinions, especially when there are more than one such people in your group.
That is the way I use it, much better than the new one that requires javascript to do everything.
- Show HN.

- Show it to your local startup community.

- Show it to your potential paying customers.
Another good rule of thumb is not to speak in acronyms.
>The dock is at the bottom

The dock is very customizable. I have never used it at the bottom for years of using a mac.

You are correct that people do not properly cost in the mental load of having a non-clean interface infront of them.

I love the SketchBookPro interface for instance in how it disappears. I also like the new "Giant Bubble" MS products much more than the prior un-ribboned versions.

I am a developer (although iOS, so perhaps have a higher love of design than some devs).
Transparent load balancers exist and don't have the issues you are talking about.
There are many problems with copyright, but the ones a "constitutional originalist" should take issue with from that quote are that:

First, inventors and authors frequently aren't the ones who hold exclusive rights to their writings and discoveries under copyright law, as their rights are often signed over to others; and these rights are often continued to be held even after the authors and inventors die.

Second, there weren't any movies or videos or even recordings back when the US Constitution was written, so their writings couldn't possibly directly apply to these media.

It takes interpretation on the parts of these supposed "constitutional originalist" justices to decree that these new media do in fact fall under copyright law.
Exactly. This "new browser version will break everything" argument applies very much to Internet Explorer, but IMO not so much to better browsers like Firefox and Chrome. There might be minor quirks here and there, but those are never going to be serious enough to require more than a couple of days of testing if the app is standards-compliant to begin with.
That's just silly. On the other hand, base 2i would be very efficient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base
I strongly disagree that you need to pay anything to snag customers for an online service. Build a really good initial version, work your heart out to support it, and let word of mouth do the rest. It will be frustratingly slow to begin with but it ensures you are always in the black.
Here's what I would do. Get a [myfancyname]labs.com ... any new startup ideas goes under [myfancyname]labs.com/idea1, [myfancyname]labs.com/idea2, etc...

This is much more cost effective, when the idea take off, I will consider getting a proper domain with all its extensions.

Or if you know a few domainers, you could consider renting it from them for a x period of time. But it's not going to be cheap.
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Why the economy will take a long time to recover
[edit: i was wrong; it wasn't bradbury, i'm remembering the asimov work you mention - an excellent story, i agree]

but it ignores the existing power structure. everyone knows that banks screwed up - but who is in jail? same thing goes here: it won't be an equaliser; only the little people will be punished. most people won't be using their viewers to avoid a war, they will be watching infotainment on 3d tv.

if you don't explicitly challenge the existing power structure you implicitly strengthen it.
It's important to bill for multiple months of service at a time if you sell stuff at the $1/month level to avoid this problem. The transaction fees become prohibitive when you get below $5 or so.
I think it's just the flip from doing N.X.Y updates for so long to making a major increment every 3 months. If you were running 4.2.1 and three months later they were running 4.5.2, would you necessarily say "Hey, you're EOLing 4.2.1 too soon!", or just click the "Update" button without thinking about it?
Google's new Search Results screen rearranges URLs
Are you a price comparator or just a search engine? I would find that if you compared the available options against each other (ex is it cheaper for me to buy from iTunes or Amazon?) it may be more useful.
That's what Krafft says in _The Debian System_, actually - that it would be a real mess if new packages all had to edit the same crontab to install and deinstall themselves, but a directory-based system was very clean.
Platform Aware URL Shortener - different site for each device
Send a user to a different website based on the device their using - distribute it in a short URL.
Can't help but compare to Apple's recent Final Cut Pro update: screw one segment over (hard core niche users) for greater riches in others (larger prosumer market). Whether it turns out to be genius or the death of a great product, only time will tell for both FF and Final Cut Pro.

But when I considers how Ubuntu and Red Hat approach life cycle, I can't help but wonder why FF, also open source, couldn't find folks willing to support an enterprise long-life version. Perhaps that tells us something about how much the enterprises really value a stand-alone and open source browser vs. IE, Chrome, and Opera, all their whining aside.
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Ask HN: If you could pimp out your office what would you do?
We're looking to seriously upgrade our office as we can finally step out of the super scrappy mode we've been in for the last two years. I'd just like to hear what current and dream setups would be like to get some ideas! Not that we will go for the ideal fantasy setups, but it would be inspirational!
I think many designers do not know how to be really collaborative. They don't know how to bend their design to development realities and do cost-insensitive things all the time.

I do professional iOS development all the time, and have had the pleasure of working with some really good design teams while working, who are there the entire process, but I've also had the occasion when a design is handed down by "god" and they won't do a damn thing to adjust to what's actually possible or doable.

The communication style of designers also irks the hell out of developers. There is argument by emotion, argument by reputation and argument by logical reasoning. Most devs do the latter as a default thing. Many (I'd probably not say most) designers shoot at repuational argument overly quickly, relying on inchoate notions of things they can't really verbalize well.

The fact one side is saying "Trust me, look at all the stuff I've done" and the other is saying "But this is that way and that is this way" leads to a horrid clash of communication style. This is only exacerbated via email, which is how much OSS gets done, as email is exceedingly logic based.
There is a fire very close to Los Alamos National Laboratory. They have begun to evacuate the whole town. Here is some info from someone on the ground: Our main concern is that the Las Conchas fire is about 3 1/2 miles from Area G, the dumpsite that has been in operation since the late 1950s/early 1960s. There are 20,000 to 30,000 55-gallons drums of plutonium contaminated waste (containing solvents, chemicals and toxic materials) sitting in fabric tents above ground. These drums are destined for WIPP. We understand that LANL has been working since late last night to build a fire line in Water Canyon, between the fire and Area G. Over the last 26 hours the fire has grown from 0 acres to about 45,000 acres – about the size of the Cerro Grande fire in 2000.
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... Lotus Notes ... choice of tools is the problem ...

Yup.
You could look at these projects Hibernate, Spring Framework, ActiveMQ, Cassandra, etc they are not quite in the first phase.
Same for Firefox/Win.
What does that even mean? Is there some special law that says "Benford's Law is admissible"? I'm guessing not, and that all it means is that it's a piece of evidence that can be used, similarly to any other statistical evidence.

Wouldn't it be stranger (and actually interesting) if that evidence wasn't admissible?
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I don't think they appreciate just how screwy this can make things. A lot of embedded controllers use zero crossing detectors in their power supplies to provide the time signal.

Its been such a good thing for so long that I am not sure people really internalize the assumption they are making. I see this when I put things (like embedded controllers) on 'pure sine' UPSs (this is where the AC power charges the battery and the load always runs off the inverter). Since they do not accurately track 60 hz things like my NetApp filer lose and gain time sporadically (only kept sane by some NTP work which is poorly supported in the StoreVault series but that is another rant).
I haven't seen any commentary on the fact that Firefox's plugin system is completely based on browser version number when specifying compatibility in install.rdf.

Do they expect all developers to release a new version of their extensions every 6 weeks, or do they expect us to effectively say "my extension is compatible with every future version of firefox" which is impossible to guarantee?

There are very good reasons for the "major" version number to exist. Why would they ditch that? Just bump a minor number instead... I see no benefit to this approach.
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This new release policy just doesn't make any sense. Sure Chrome is flashy and their release cycle is fast but they're also consistent (also young). OSX and Ubuntu release like clockwork. People appreciate consistency.

Also, when 5 was announced the state of extensions support was uncertain (I finally got the Delicious add-on back working again without compatibility fiddling and definitely didn't want to mess with it).

Having said that, the unrealistic and bureaucratic IT policies of backwards companies are their problem and not for open source to solve (are they donating?). If they're so concerned maybe they should hire someone to contribute to the project full-time so they can stay abreast of changes and maybe have a say in the direction of development.
Strange reason for being turned down. Any other good ones?
This is a pretty weird one, as I've been programming for a while and haven't heard it yet. I have been interviewing w/ a local Bay Area startup that I was introduced to via a friends recommendation. It's a bit of a strange situation as I had just spent the past year working as a co-founder on a startup, and I made it clear that there was a strong chance that I would be applying to a startup incubator over the winter to work on a problem that I find frustrating and would love to see solved, so it might not be a long-term thing. They were understanding, so we met, and after a few good face-to-face meetings we had talked about a reasonable short-term engagement. At this point I usually ask the other side to think it over a bit and send me an email with an offer to start really coalescing the process, and to open up some space for any questions that might not occur during an interview.

After a few days, I got an email, and while it was very positive on my technical/engineering abilities, ultimately they thought I was "too mature" for the team and might not be a good fit. I was somewhat disappointed, as I liked these guys and thought they had an idea that I could really dig deep into, but I can understand the need to make sure the team is clicking at close to optimal efficiency as possible. I just have never had the "too mature" reason used before. My thoughts at this point are that either:

A) They felt that was an easy way to say they weren't really interested. Strange, but that's ok.

B) They were not happy with the potential for me to leave after a few months. Very legitimate, but there's always some flexibility and we could have talked some more about it and changed plans.

C) I just was too serious during the interview process, and didn't seem like I could work comfortably with the team. I think this is very possible, but usually when interviewing it seems hard to get too comfortable. There's a lot of evaluation going on from both sides, and you want to put your best face forward. For me that usually means trying to look capable and professional.

Anyway, I think they're a great company and will blow up in the next few years, but this just struck me as a strange one, so I thought I would cheer myself up and see if anyone else had any funny or weird stories about interviews.
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What would be the point of this? Why send ab?
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web development mostly.
Big Japanese companies use perl for their backend and you can find many blog entries about perl in Japanese.
This functionality is actually built into Firefox and Chrome, and I'd be shocked if at least Opera didn't have it too. It's the "keyword" field in search engine settings.

I believe multiple parameters are also allowed, but not having used them, can't vouch.
AMO auto-bumps versions for addons that pass through automated checks.
CentOS/Redhat or you could go full Unix with FreeBSD. Lots of other options too.
In the section on memory management, I was surprised that there was no mention of providing a malloc/free method (or some other memory allocator) to the library to explicitly use. This is especially handy if you're working with limited memory environments prone to fragmentation, where you might want the library to call your custom allocator which is managing small memory pools.
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You can have a some much less malicious fun applying the same idea to old games controllers. People typically put flash drives in them with an emulator + roms. It would be fun to put a whole linux distro on there that boots straight into the emulator, with a special menu, but I've never seen that.

http://edshowtos.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-make-your-own-n... (NES)

http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?t=35526 (SNES)

You can find a bunch of other hacks like this on HaD:

http://hackaday.com/page/1/?s=%22usb+hub%22
FYI units on OS X doesn't recognize millilightseconds, but you can do this:

You have: 3 lightyears / 365 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 1000
You want: miles
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It is a hack using links.

It is formatted like this (IIRC):

[spoiler](/s"More goes here")

then in CSS there is a match for url[href=/s] that provides the onmouseover stuff.
On computers, mostly.
Hello! I work for Mozilla. To address the problems with our extension versioning system, we've begun running an automated suite of tests against addons that will automatically make them as compatible with the next version of Firefox. The system performed well for the 4 -> 5 update, and we expect to tune it better. Additionally, if developers use the new set of extension APIs as opposed to the older ones, compatibility is a much simpler affair.
How many is too many? Why is it important to respond to everyone? This seems like "cargo cult" style productivity, spending a lot of time on activities that look like work but don't actually generate much value.
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Facebook needs engineers, Myspace is on fire sale, so why doesn't Facebook buy Myspace?
Hardware or software? There's some hacks with TPROXY/HAproxy I've seen that would do the transparent proxy but the setup seems like more trouble than it's worth.
A lot of domain owners would happily lease you domains, but at the $10 range, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. What's your opposition to buying 50-100 domains versus renting? You'd save a fortune just buying them yourself.
cool, but if they were given a single IP to target why could they have the mouse on another machine? alternatively: if they could attack other machines, why not use another machine that was exposed via the network? something isn't consistent.
"laws against killing people have nothing to do with morality. You can't kill a person (or make CP) because it infringes upon a certain set of "natural rights" which are supposed to be universal and self evident."

Governments kill people all the time, and do so quite legally.

Some governments do it more than others. But, as far as the US government is concerned, it happens to have the one of the world's largest contingent of hired killers. And they spend more money than all of the rest of the world combined to train them to kill and to facilitate killing and on giving them the means to do so.

And this doesn't even begin to cover the vast array of other people and situations in which killing is not only permitted, but considered a duty -- from police killing a some suspect trying to get away or resisting arrest to your average homeowner killing an intruder in their home, etc..

So when you talk about "laws against killing", you're really talking about "laws against certain kinds of killing in certain kinds of situations" and also "laws that specifically allow or even require killing in certain situations".

While most societies do have laws against "murder", what that usually boils down to is "certain kinds of illegal killing". Precisely what qualifies as "illegal killing" and what in which situations killing is allowed or even encouraged varies from society to society and certainly from individual to individual (take pacifists and believers in non-violence vs soldiers for example).
Ignifero it's not because it hits the people around you -- it's because the people around you pay for your care.

You don't grok socialized medicine. Smoking is illegal because it's a huge expense on tax money! Smoking is expensive because it causes higher rates of diseases. Make the behavior illegal and you move those funds to other governmental activities.

Using a ladder is risky, make ladders illegal.
Eating high fat foods is risky, make junk food illegal.
Ask HN: Does iBooks, Kindle, Nook, etc offer analytics 
On my drive home, this question popped in my mind and after a little GoogleFu I was unable to find an answer. So do they offer any analytics. I suspect as an author/publisher it would be great to know how many people actually read the book, where they drop out, where they bookmark, if they read it multiple times, etc. I think the textbook market could benefit from this as well
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How was the payload executed? I've been thinking of trying to write malware test cases using HID specs, but the article doesn't go into much detail.
There are a few big differences between virus def updates and browser updates:

1) virus def updates rarely cause any problems whatsoever. Whereas browser updates are actually just the opposite. At enterprises its not uncommon that even dot releases break some apps. So those apps need to get fixed, before wide rollout.

2) Virus def updates, when they do break people, break a LOT of people very visibly. That is, if you wait a day on a virus def update, you can pretty quickly see if it broke ppl just by doing an online search. Whereas with browser updates, its a lot more difficult to tell if any of your apps will be broken with a given update.

3) Virus def updates are often fixing issues that have the potential to directly effect your business. Whereas, except for security fixes in browsers, browser updates won't have any effect on the business. It's rare that you have an app waiting to be deployed, but you're waiting on the next version of FF for a new feature or bug fix. IOW, you're taking risk, with no upside.

It's really just not the same thing at all.
And many seem to have rolled their own frameworks long ago - and are reluctant to move on when things are working.
Prior Art: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/1996/March96/146.txt
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I agree with comments here that this is one of those 'these facts don't sound like the story in which they are presented' Given the timeline of his relationship with YouSendIt its possible he had a grudge against them, just speculation though.
Sounds like you guys need to talk. With the attitudes you've described it's not going anywhere.
If your app is running in Firefox, presumably it's actually written properly to standards

Unfortunately, as I learned in 10 years of corporate consulting work, that presumption isn't entirely true. The typical corporate webapp I've encountered was written to the corporate browser standard du jour, with very little attention paid to standards. It likely has poor unit test coverage and absolutely no automated testing of client-side markup or code. High profile apps are likely to be an exception - I recently worked on software that delivers market data to the people making billion-dollar trades. It's top notch and awe-inspiring in every respect. But for every one of these, there are 100 apps that let you change your insurance plan, submit new automated deposit instructions, request vacation time, check inventory levels, etc. All done on the absolute cheap by developers whose true skill set is usually integration with legacy ERP software.

The devops folks are right to be wary of a new browser deploys in such an environment.
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This looks to be a variation of an even cleaner SERP that they are/have been testing. I really liked the super clean look one, but this one may be easier to swallow by the masses.
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