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I suppose it's an argument of semantics at this point, so I'll let it go, but the one thing I would make amendment to is that Circles IS the UI, mostly. All Circles is is the UI and the integration, and honestly, while the integration is the technical aspect, it's the fact that the UI is what it is, and that it's up front and center that makes it noteworthy.
Here's the killer app that I haven't seen yet (though I haven't exactly looked too hard) - defining reader agents that can tag items as 'Important' or 'Look at me first' based on specified keywords or regexps. There's such a flood of information that it'd be nice to have a way to be notified easily of things that fall into whatever your current interests are.
What happened to Firefox 6 and 7?
See these useful posts by Daniel Tenner:

http://swombat.com/2011/1/24/how-to-PR-firms-startups

http://swombat.com/2011/2/4/attention-seeking-for-startups
Do you have a particular chair you recommend? I've been looking for a lounge chair for exactly this purpose. Something comfortable, attractive, well-built, and under $1200.
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An interesting argument. However the financial crisis just hit as well. We may have been sailing ontop of a whale thinking we're in clear waters under Bush.
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I too have the small notebook and big notebook system (let's call it SNBN). The small notebook is a to-do list, the big notebook is for free-flowing ideas. Online I've tried a notebook in Google docs, a tasks spreadsheet, and workflowy, but nothing has jumped out as the clear winner.
My basic point is that the time scale and size scale of stars are so far, far outside human scales, that it's misleading to talk about a reactor somehow being like them, even if it uses fusion. It's really a completely different process. The comparison is used to put a gleam in the eyes of laymen, by making them think of "harnessing" something bright and limitless. You might as well talk about fission reactors harnessing the power of supernovas - it's kind of true (I think - I am not an astrophysicist), since supernovas produced heavy elements like uranium, and we are now using the energy that was stored in these atoms by the reactions in those stars. But it's misleading to use this fact in a policy article, since it has absolutely nothing to do with anything practical in relation to a fission reactor.

My secondary point is that people do not have an intuitive understanding of these scales, which is why I used my "chicken soup" examples. I stand by that - I think that people hear "fusion" and do not understand how much unlike a star the reactor would be.
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Andy Hertfeld is lead Designer

I believe his last name is Hertzfeld.
Looks like these guys have finally figured it out. This campaign is sure to make Waterloo and RIM look good. Oh wait, no, this is actually embarrassing.
Same goes for Linux. This build is quite stable and starts in a snap.
I did, it just wasn't something I was going to delete my account over. I was definitely interested when it was announced, so I set my lists up, but how to actually share to those lists is, in my opinion, unintuitive so I never stumbled on how to do it. I don't think it makes Google+ the Facebook killer, but if they can offer a few more ways to differentiate in positive ways I think it's a good start.
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The thing is though we don't what many of those people actually wanted, we assume. We assume since they are so good at that, they got to be loving it, but maybe Amy Winehouse would love to be a science fiction author yet she has no talent and picked the easy way out, we just don't know.

I don't want to pick on your particular example but Michael Jordan is known to be insanely practising. He didn't even made to high school ball team the first time around, he practiced that year and got in the next one. Granted he's talented but there's massive amount hard-work behind it. He clearly loved it otherwise presumably he wouldn't spend years on practising.

So following your dreams is not about having talent about something, that talent might not be related with what you love. It's about what your dream is (world domination?) and having background + talent + possibility + luck + determination and so many other stuff like that.

You can't always have what you want but you can get closer.
20% sounds good, but unless versions 5, 6 and 7 also had 20% improvements, it would still be slower than the current version of Chrome on canvas stuff.

For the relatively simple canvas rendering I'm doing, I can watch Firefox chugging along at 10fps struggling to render a few dozen filled rectangles, while Chrome is happily pegged at 60fps (via RequestAnimationFrame).

It's just night and day.
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This is similar (I think) to the kunstsupermarkt (art supermarket) projects in Germany and surrounding countries. Great to see more competition, and online too.
I'm not sure what your point is. If all you mean is that there might exist some conferences where nobody would notice then yes (also: sky is blue.) But what does it have to do with this discussion?
See this calendar for specific dates when new Firefox updates will be pushed to the Nightly, Aurora, Beta, and Release channels: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

(This should be very familiar to anyone who has seen Chrome's update schedule, which has three versions in flight at once, staggered by the same six-week intervals.)
FeedDemon Pro w/ Google Reader as the backend.

Missing features:
- Mothball feeds I'm not reading lately but might want to pick back up in the future.
- Topical aggregation of feeds/posts.
- De-duping.

Not sure if I'd pay extra or switch readers for any of those features, however.
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Going one step further, when a user goes to your site for the first time, create an account for them behind the scenes. This will enable them to track beers immediately.

Later on, you can prompt them for an email address or password. For example, if a new user adds X beers, open a lightbox that says "Mmmm, beer. To make sure you don't lose your list, type in your email address and a password."

This is beneficial because by the time they've added X beers, they have more of a connection with the site, and likely to not want to lose the info they've plugged in.
Have you read "In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives"? How does this book compare?

I don't mean to sound like a pg fanboy, but it sounds like he really liked it

https://twitter.com/#!/paulg/status/55382084155482113
I never really write down text much, it is always diagrams, squigles, a graph, a formula.

There is always a stack of legal size papers (about 20 or so) on my desk right in front of my keyboard. I write on it as a sort of a quick scratchbook of what I am thinking or to organize things and concept that don't fit in my brain. Looking back at the used pages, I see a bunch of circles connected with lines for example, as I was trying to figure out a good topology for process dependencies, stuff like that. I could not find anything digital that approximates the pen+paper responsiveness, ease of use and resolution.

Also looking back 3 days ago, I actually cannot even figure out what my squigles mean, they had their purpose at the time, but it was a very short term purpose. For me it is more of a swap-device-like system than a permanent storage.
I prefer GIT, so I recommend GIT. I see no need to turn this into a SVN vs GIT discussion.
I'd like to second this request, I would be more than happy to write code in a slightly more restricted way if it meant that I could generate C-fast modules from Python code. In my opinion, RPython is an even bigger deal than PyPy, as it's a very easy way to get C speed with Python syntax.

I have no idea why they haven't given the compiler some love so we can use it for our own projects. It sounds like it would become ubiquitous very, very fast.
So it looks like the problem was that you updated your DNS but forgot about TTLs. Your new cert has the correct name on it, but you didn't setup the cert chain properly (SSLCACertificateFile under Apache)

https://www.wormly.com/test_ssl/h/50.16.245.9/i/50.16.245.9/...
>I called GoDaddy Support this Sunday afternoon. While it was a long distance call, I only had to wait about a minute to reach a person in their Billing Department. They were happy to refund me the $49.99 after I deleted the cert and sent me the instructions to disable auto-renewals I linked to above.

This times 1000

I experienced this exact same issue. I was pretty pissed to say the least but I called, got a human in about 60 seconds, and they refunded me as well as told me how to disable auto renew. I see no problem here.
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Users take cues on how something should be used. Since lists are not central to how Facebook works, it's reasonable that many people don't use it. It's possible that Facebook made a conscious choice not to make it a central feature. They may want the standard behavior to be that everyone can see everything.

Personally, I think of Facebook as a broadcast-to-everyone-I-know medium, and as a result, I don't say much on it.
It was meant as an example of "scam"; your question is irrelevant to the discussion.
I know very little about Full Sail's programming degrees, but I have a very good friend who graduated salutatorian from one of their film programs a couple of years ago. He directed shorts, music videos, etc. so he has something of a portfolio, yet Full Sail wasn't able to offer him any help once he graduated and stopped paying tuition. He lives in NYC, and yet according to him they weren't even able to set him up with informational interviews with contacts in the film industry. Some of that is the economy (he graduated in '09 when nobody was hiring), but he didn't even get any contact information for alumni once he got out. All he got was a second bachelor's degree and the debt to go with it.

He believes, and I agree with him, that Full Sail's industry contacts are limited because of their location in Orlando, and that since they are aggressively "for profit", their incentives to fix that are limited. They cater primarily to young people who don't know any better and who won't ask too many probing ?'s about job placement, etc. I don't see these problems as unique to film.

As I said, I know nothing of their programming offerings, but from what I've seen of their film offerings, I think your son should pass on Full Sail. I'd highly recommend that you tell your son to enroll somewhere accredited get a real CS degree. A CS degree offers at least a minimal credential towards other work in the field. A game programming degree isn't going to get you very far at all outside of game programming.
The photosphere does not produce power, so attempts to calculate volumetric energy densities there are nonsensical.

The power radiated from 1 square meter of the sun's surface (63 megawatts) comes from a cross section of the core, far below, that is 250,000 kilometers deep!
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The point of the hotsauce was that Noah was rewarding people who asked good questions. She didnt warn anyone that she was throwing it back, i just heard a big thud and saw hotsauce everywhere. As was said earlier, it was more an error in trajectory and force than malice.
Wow, that's not what I've experienced at all. Please post links to your example.
Yes, circles could horribly magnify the ever embarrassing 'your mother rehashing the details of your childbirth in a Facebook post' problem.
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MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. It's a term coined by Eric Ries to describe the most minimal version of your product that will provide useful feedback. What constitutes an MVP depends on your marketing and business strategy. For a product like Patio11's, it's probably a landing page with a 'buy' button. For a social network, it's probably a rudimentary prototype. The job of an MVP is to help you find out as cheaply as possible whether people actually want your idea.
I like minimalism. If there's a lot of stuff in the room, it can become quite distracting.

@blazzar's suggestion of a small couch is spot on. You'll probably feel like moving around. When I'm working at home, I stand at my desk, sit at my desk, move to the couch, or sit on my balcony. It feels good to change location.
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If you are uncomfortable with push back against your choice of words, your best bet is to avoid using controversial expressions in public.

Regardless of what you think you mean, it's a statistical certainty that someone, somewhere is going to regard words like "bitch" as inappropriate, or will feel uncomfortable, or will think poorly of you for making that choice.

It's not like I'm this lone, eccentric weirdo suggesting that it is not necessary to use the word "bitch" to describe a person whose behavior displeases you.
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It's about how much you love it, right? If you love it more than life style, that's good enough. If you love your life style more than you love philosophy, then that's another story.

I understand that there might be other complications like family, people dependant on you etc. But it all boils down to what you love and how much you love.
> which are probably backed up by some psychology

Don't have actual research references, but I always remember notes I write by hand better than the ones I type. I suspect it is a neuro-motor function of some sort. When things are recalled the brain perhaps recalls the movement of the fingers and that aids. It is like smell perhaps for emotional things -- very effective.
This is worth a read for anyone presenting: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Incidents

I won't go so far as to condone the OPs actions, but I can understand why women in tech might be at a breaking point.
The author seems really angry at Google and clearly wants to demonstrate how much smarter he is in comparison to the rest of the organization. Nearly every sentence is drenched with this sort of stuff:

"It hits all the notes that a facebook clone merits, and adds a few points of distinctiveness that are genuinely compelling, sure--but I don't find it all that interesting, personally."

". I listened politely, all the while rolling-my-eyes in secret at their seemingly implausible naivete."

"I laughed, disbelieving. Facebook has a hacker culture, they're only a handful of engineers, and they develop with quick, adaptable tools like PHP."

This post isn't about Google+ or Facebook. This post is about "Look at me, I'm so much smarter than my old bosses"

Something clearly upset him pretty significantly at Google. I'm not sure he's got a clear point of view on this.
I shouldn't but I can. And that, is what freedom of speech is all about.

If she didn't like it, she should have left. She didn't leave, she had a temper tantrum. To save face, she then made that blog post. She wanted to share her side of the story, irrespective of its merits. And she knew, just as well as we all do, that the internet White Knights will assemble to her cause, also irrespective of its merits. And they have. Now let us not waste anymore time discussing this triviality.
In case anyone else is having a hard time reading this cause the site is bogged down:

The Google+ launch has been very positive for Google so far. I think it’s interesting from a UI standpoint for several reasons:

1. It puts Google on the design map.
2. Part of a bigger redesign.
3. Andy Hertfeld is lead Designer.
4. Increasing rivalry with Facebook.
5. Strong win for UX Research
The point was that the rule might not be useful everywhere. Sorry for adding a pointless point to a pointless discussion. I figured at this comment depth it might be OK to insert some humor.

I guess my bigger point was really that this discussion is pointless on such a general level.
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Just wanted to tell everyone about my Android App: Text Actions. I think it's awesome and I'd like to see it reach a wider audience. You can think of it as Alfred or LaunchBar for Android. I challenge anyone to show me an app that allows you to make a call to any contact on your phone faster than this app. You can launch the app by long pressing your phone's search button, so you can easily reach all your phone's toggles from anywhere, quite useful. Not to mention, I have an add-on that let's you use the app from the web.

Here's the link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.carrythezero.textactions
Complain all you like but it seems at any given time I'm working for at least one organization that is running an expired SSL certificate on a server I need to use. More of these organizations should be using auto-renew.
"Your drive was never about money"

I think this is an increasingly popular viewpoint these days, and is being recognized by lots of startups taking funding and taking some money off the table. Money makes you comfortable, yes, but you need the rest of your environment to be comfortable (relatively) to focus on your business and put your effort into that.

And I, for one, am very glad that founders these days have this option, do to what they love and want to do without having to worry about financial security (well, in some cases anyways).
>Replace "bitch" with an ethnic slur. Do you still feel the same way?

No, because it's not the same thing. Saying a woman is a bitch is a far cry from saying all women are (though granted, his choice of having a generic woman with a blanked out face was bad).

>I think reasonable people should not use it with so little context in a professional presentation.

I never said the presenter was reasonable, in fact I said the opposite. But that's a problem with him and the proper response is to assume he's not very mature. A random woman in the audience getting offended is silly and useless. He wasn't talking to or about her specifically.
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I didn't get hot sauce on me and I wasn't at MicroConf — but I will defend Noah. I've met him on several occasions and he's been friendly and helpful. He also gives time and energy to many people and projects without wanting anything in return.

I'm not defending his presentation; that slide offends me too. But I know that he deserves better than to wake up seeing this on the front page of Hacker News.

The author could have used the slide as a jumping off point for greater issues like gender equality in tech, or the pros and cons of being offensive in a presentation, or even a discussion about the word "bitch". Any of those topics would have forwarded the point more than writing a long ad hominem attack on someone who surely didn't intend to hurt or offend anyone personally.
Went to your site. It's absolutely NOT clear what you're selling and why I should care. You need a much better landing page.
I did bother to look; I do care; but I found the tool to be unusable. One accidental share with the wrong people is enough to dissuade me from ever trying again.

It is often asserted that users don't care about the privacy of their communications. I don't know what rock these people are living under, but it seems pretty damn essential to human existence to me. If you've run a different service where people didn't seem to care, it might be because in order to do more private sharing, they simply created a separate account. In this new era of "real name" social networks where it's harder to have multiple accounts, custom privacy settings are even more essential.

And it's simply false that it's too complex for users. Flickr does this, with prefab and nonce user group sharing, and it works pretty well. Well enough that swingers trading naughty pictures can coexist with holiday snaps.

LiveJournal had features like this since 2002 and nearly every frequent user had custom friend groups. Enough for terabytes of teen angst to be shielded from the whole school learning about it.

I think customizing sharing is a matter of getting the UI right; there's no lack of demand for this feature. Google+ takes it one step beyond, and makes it fun to sort people into circles. Furthermore they have a help/tip system that gradually teaches you how to use it. I feel sure that their implementation will be a success, and that people will be making at least as many private/restricted sharing posts as public.
Others have pointed out that Mozilla is releasing 6.0 / 7.0 very soon, so my above comment is moot...
Yes, changing the meaning of the version numbers without changing the version numbering scheme seems to have been a big mistake.
Do you think that Android in its current incarnation as quasi-open-source, free to adopt, would survive? Or do you think it would be death by a thousand forks, where Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc. all grabbed their own copy of the repository and made TouchWiz, Sense, and Blur respectively a core part of the UI? I just can't see how Android as a device-agnostic OS would survive without a relatively neutral curator.
I'm all for speed improvements, feature parity, etc., but my question is why has it taken a (somewhat) radical change to versioning/release-schedules to realize these performance improvements?

If these latest benchmarks hold up, then Mozilla will have noticeably reduced the memory footprint in FF7 and then again noticeably sped up the browser itself in FF8 (all of this coming within a matter of weeks). Can it really be that these two (suddenly important) features went largely unaddressed in Firefox 3 and 4 because of a different release cycle?

I'm very happy to see the competition, but if Mozilla has been able to address these two long-standing gripes in a matter of weeks, then I find it somewhat implausible that it was ever a technical issue.
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I don't really see the problem here. GoDaddy products can be had very cheaply, they are so cheap with coupon codes the probably potentially make very little per sale.

All insurance companies work the same way, try hard to get a new customer, milk them dry on the tail end because they are too lazy to search out a better deal.
They can change course faster but once the course is known you can get a long way by simply throwing more people at it. Big corps can do this, one man shows cannot.
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Surprisingly, that strip of land they're standing on is actually Waterloo city property. It's a strange stunt for a service that looks pretty crappy but it sure did attract a lot of attention from bemused RIM employees milling about this morning.
The author claims that you don't need to pay attention to advice about portability because it isn't that hard. And then makes the article look bad from my OS X notebook because he couldn't use single quote characters in a font that that, you know, actually renders.
Plants are fantastic, by the way. They make the room feel much more natural and alive, and less institutional and synthetic.

My favourite plant is Pachira Aquatica. It's more commonly known as the Money Tree. They're hearty, improve oxygen levels, inexpensive, look great, and are low-maintenance.

I have three small ones like this:

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and one huge one that's about 5 feet tall:

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I found the huge one at Ikea for $40.