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I guess just about everything Google will classify as "bulk" I'll never need again. The Groupon deal that expired yesterday isn't something I'm going to need to access 2 years from now. Maybe those monit alerts I will, but in all likelihood not. Things like that. But they usually end up having just enough terms to throw off GMail's already terrible search making it hard to find content I really care about.
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I really liked this. Thanks! Could I get a download link to the presentation that doesn't require me to sign up?
or http://roll.io/ which turns txt files into YouTube playlists.
I think the idea of swearwords in general is to be derogatory. Would you be comfortable saying "shitface" in front of your mother?

I am not a native speaker, but I think "bitch" is actually just the word for a female dog. What makes it a swear word is in the imagination and value system of the receiver.

It would probably be wise to never use derogatory words for other people in general. But that doesn't seem the way the human psyche is set up.
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Still, if it stays good at what it does and maybe branches out a little, it might stay afloat. See: amazon.
I recommend you buy a decent pad and pen, I have a Moleskine one next to me... I'm almost afraid to write on it!
After actually looking at the numbers and the details regarding fusion technology, I've come to the conclusion that the advantages over fission are illusory.

I think people believe that fusion is somehow "way more powerful", because they know that fusion bombs are way more powerful than mere atom bombs. Actually, in many of the most powerful fusion bombs, the vast majority of the energy is produced by fission, with fusion serving as only an intermediate step to release neutrons and create more fission. A step you don't need in a reactor, which can control the fission rate itself.

My guess is that a lot of people who haven't looked at the numbers think that fusion is hundreds of times more powerful than fission. Well, let's look at those numbers: the fission of a uranium-235 atom produces 202.5 MeV. The fusion of D+T produces only 17.6 MeV. That's more energetic per unit mass of fuel, since D and T are just hydrogen isotopes, but if you do the math, it's only about 3.5 times more energetic even using this measure. And fuel mass is a tiny portion of the mass of the whole powerplant. To make it worse, hydrogen is far less dense than uranium (by a lot more than a factor than 3.5), so you actually end up with a lot more fuel volume and containment volume. There are other reactions than D+T, but none of them look as good as plain old fission. That's before we even get into the fact that for most fusion reactions, a lot of the energy goes into extremely dangerous neutrons.

The talk about "getting the fuel from seawater" is also misleading. It's technically true, but the process is very expensive, and, if we are going to talk about seawater, uranium can also be extracted from it.

Finally, the idea that the danger from proliferation would go away is also false - anything producing a neutron flux as strong as a fusion reactor can be used to produce isotopes suitable for a bomb. And even aneutronic fusion (which is technically even more difficult) can be made to produce neutrons with suitable additions to the fusion fuels.

EDIT: P.S. I am not an expert. I do think I can understand numbers and technical arguments, and I would love to hear expert analysis. But one thing: for every technology which you assume will help fusion (such as wonder-containments for the neutrons), please analyze how fission reactors would benefit from it, as well. Then let's see if we can make fusion come out "better" than fission in some meaningful sense.

EDIT: I can't resist adding that the talk of "harnessing the reaction that powers the Sun" is aimed at people who don't know the numbers, and is very annoying. The Sun is not a good model; it has a huge mass (duh), and a tiny surface-to-mass ratio, which is why the energy it produces makes it so bright. But pound-for-pound, the Sun produces a lot less energy than slightly warm chicken soup. Do the math yourself, and be surprised. We can not build a reactor that works like the Sun.
How does it record clicks? My CSS knowledge is not good enough... I know there is a property for clicked, but how do you unclick?
I was addressing a particular assertion in the article, namely:

>Frankly, if the word on that picture had been a racial slur, many of us there that day would have [walked out].

It attempts to draw an equivalence between the two. You have reinforced that with your post above. I dispute that, for much the same reason I dispute that 'moron' or even 'retard' is in the same category. Simply, 'bitch' can not be used in the same way as a racial epithet. This is not a fallacy, and while there certainly are worse things that's not at all what I was getting at, and finally none of this has anything to do with 'whatever-is-deemed-important-by-dudes' or such nonsense.
Some rather passive aggressive writing in there attempting to belittle Kagan (who I suspect couldn't care less). But this stood out to me as an indicator of the poster's disdain:

"Apparently, in the small but influential industry of high tech companies and service providers who cater to high tech startup companies (yes, I’m serious, there is such an industry), Noah Kagan is a bit of a rock star."

Yeah, there is such an industry, but the faux incredulity only serves to weaken the other points made.
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A suggested improvement to circles. . .
Have 3 types - personal, group and owned group - defined by a simple editable property.

* Personal work as circles do currently - i.e. its your way of organising your own contacts; no one else knows what personal circles you have or who's in them (including the members).

* Group is a shared contact list - any member of that group has a copy of it, and has permissions to maintain it as if they'd created it. This would be useful if I wanted a group of people in my sport team / band, since when one of the band already in the group adds someone to this group, everyone in the band can then talk to them; and it's not up to me as the creator to do all the admin.

* Owned Group - essentially the same as Group, but with additional security / more like FB's groups. I specify who's in the group and what access they have - i.e. if they're just a member, or if they can also administrate the group. This is more useful for application fan pages, where you want a mailing list of people to contact, but only want a few of the people in the group to be able to add / approve new members. With this model, it would be OK to have an option for non members to request access; then be added once approved.

What do you guys think?

JB
So then Firefox will still be behind Chrome? Firefox 7 will be the one launched in the same time with Chrome 14.

Chrome 14 should be stable in about 8-10 weeks. Firefox 8 won't be stable until 14-16 weeks from now. That's around the time Chrome 15 will be out.
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This is actually quite good. Around slide 100, he started bringing in some very interesting numbers. Among them:

- using facial recognition, they determined the average number of unique people in your Facebook photos is 6.6, against an average friend count of 130.
- 80% of Skype calls are made to 2 friends

He makes a very strong point about caring about these "strong tie" relationships, both from the point of view of the user, and of Google (the company making use of the relationships you cultivate).

This has implications for how you analyze Plus's success. If Plus ends up with a couple hundred million users, but an average friend count of 30 or so, I suspect Google will be just as happy, or happier, than if they achieved Facebook's level of friend count.
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It could be that her awfulness has a female quality to it rather than a gender-neutral or male one, in which case a female-specific insult could be appropriate (to the extent any insult would be appropriate to the listener, that is - the tone of this discussion is quickly heading toward the case where it is not appropriate to insult people at all, ever).
I only need pen and paper when I'll have to draw anything (diagrams etc). For all other cases it's much faster and more convient to write it down in Workflowy. I've never really liked to write things by hand, so maybe that's the reason…
These aren't insults.
Every post on FB is a "shout it from the rooftops" post, that's the whole point of Google+.

Unless you meant 100% publicly available posts? That's the opposite of something Facebook ever would (or should) do. FB is a walled garden.
"it’s worth noting that Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome’s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox’s 2D performance is actually better than Chrome. JavaScript performance is also virtually identical."

Fx8 vs Chrome 15 might be very very similar...
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Mozilla needs to do something to de-dramatize what some people see as version inflation. A lot of people get anxious to see these very frequent bumps because major x releases are associated with add-ons not working, bloat, etc.
Curious, if the speaker were female, and had a slide where she had 'asshole' written over some guy's face (Let's use Noah's as an example), would there be a similar level of outrage?

As much as it was obviously distasteful no matter the context, I'd find having to listen to him for a half hour more offensive than the image -- worse, knowing I had paid to attend a conference to listen to said drivel.
The article said the "dev" channel of Chrome, which is equivalent to Firefox's nightly build, so they are about equal. It just happens that the current nightly channel of Chrome might be released earlier.
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Oh, it definitely has. You just decided that the case of discrimination based on religion or ethnicity is more important than discrimination based on gender.
Firefox 8? What happened to 6 and 7? I see 7's mentioned in the article, but there's not hide nor hair of Firefox 6.
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This is pretty crappy. What is the rendering difference of 5 to 8? How many versions am I as a web developer going to have to support. short dev cycles and fast releases like this are stupid.
Even if they don't take my credit card number, a service which only tells me on the second or third page that they will launch "soon" feels scammy to me. I'm annoyed rather than interested, at the thought of having spent time for something that's non-existing and thus worthless to me at the moment.
One other thought around circles. It would be cool if some kind of backwards circle functionality could be created. For example, I post a few links to my feed about tech stuff which only a handful of my friends are interested in, so I have two options:
1) post to just my "techies" circle so as not to spam my other friends
2) post to public so that anyone who's interested can see (including people who follow me but whom I haven't circled as I don't know them).
The first option excludes my followers, the second spams my friends. I could create another circle of followers and message them and the techies, but that doesn't sit comfortably, especially as I don't know which of my posts caused those people to follow me (perhaps a music video I favourites on youtube caught their eye and now they're getting spammed with HN links).
Having some way where I could create circles to publish stories to, but have others subscribe to those would be handy - I then publish to my "tech stuff" circle, and anyone who cares to subscribe to "JohnLBevan.TechStuff" sees it, whilst it's hidden from others (to prevent annoying them - not for security).
Again, I'd welcome your thoughts.
Cheers,
JB
>> using CSSLint for anything other than plain syntax checking.

More straightforward to use the W3C's CSS validator for that: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_uri+with_opt...
Hmmm, as a chinese user behind a VPN (that i just checked was working), I'm amazed it pinpointed me down to my true city... Not sure if my vpn service passes my IP along or something else...
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it uses the :focus pseudo element,

interesting, but with css like that, i'd rather use javascript!
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This is exactly why I find using an IDE (MSCV / XCode) so attractive when working in C or C++, I'm sure others would agree too. It makes you lazy (ignorant?) about makefiles and the build process unfortunately, but increases productivity for me when I can easily view the whole project in terms of files OR classes/code constructs.

I'm also a fan of TextWrangler on the Mac for its basic file sidebar for quickly switching, but its still a bit tougher on big projects, having only a "flat" view of your files.
Could it be justified by a similar picture of opposite gender on the next slide?
I don't think the "Don't use too many floats" is meant to say anything about performance, but about maintenance.

I think the point is, that if you have to put "float" in lots of declaration, you're missing some abstractions in your css. Most likely a grid plus some classes for inline lists.

Again, CSS Lint is very opinionated, and some of it opinions are contrary to various best practices (especially the fundamentalist approach to not let any classes in the HTML have anything to do with presentation). But from the perspective of these opinions based on how to write maintainable CSS and HTML for large sites, the rules makes a lot of sense.
Reminds me an awful lot of the jump from DirectX 3.0 to 5.0.
My take is that the sole purpose for CSSLint existence is to promote OOCSS.
The optimizations highlighted in the article are going in to Firefox 8. What would they talk about 6 and 7?

6 and 7 will include other improvements and features which can be discussed elsewhere. Mozilla will release a new major version every 6 weeks.
I agree with the article, almost to the letter.

This hole "debacle" could have been avoided if Nicole Sullivan had simply called this tool "OO-CSS check" rather than "CSSLint". Then I'd have no problem with it at all. If you like and apply the OO-CSS method, then clearly this tool can be of some use.

If you, on the other hand, have never heard of OO-CSS, or just disagree with that method, then CSSLint becomes crazy talk, absolutely bat shit crazy talk.
Doing a search for Firefox 6 on Google finds this article: "Firefox 6 (And 7!) Are Right Around The Corner -- Here's What's New"... almost makes it sound like they were released concurrently ;P.

http://www.businessinsider.com/firefox-6-2011-7
That is exactly what would happen. Or we'd steal it. Either way the US is not on the cutting edge.
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6 is in beta now. Nightlies were 7.0a a few days ago, but if you update.... yep, 8.0a1

PS. Nightly has been incredibly stable on my Mac. I actually use it in production, for no other reason than I was testing it and have no reason to get an old release since it's never crashed and is incredibly fast.
Wait, "will"? We are talking about Firefox 8 in the present tense (with "is"), and yet talking about 6 and 7 in the future (with "will")?!
FF is now autoupdating, so once 5 was out 4 stopped being supported, and this will now continue.

So you only have to support the latest version.
Possibly so. Though if that is the case, it could be made more obvious, because OOCSS is mentioned absolutely nowhere on CSSLint.net.
I've read about this idea before. I think it's a good idea to have some public circles, and people can subscribe to those. This way Google+ also becomes a network not just around relationships, but also around topics.
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Female quality of the awfulness? You know, why it's mostly okay for you to decide against continuing a relationship if some physical quality of your partner disturbs you beyond the point when you can deal with it. It's sad but it happens. But I can't really imagine when such a situation would qualify someone as a horrible person.

And, I think that it's okay to insult people, for example it's okay to call someone who assigns "femininity" to character flaws a male chauvinistic pig.
I tried building pypy on my macbook pro w/4 4gb of ram and 2.4 GHz i5. After over an hour I had to give up and cancel it. It took another fifteen minutes for the system to recover enough to where I could start using it again.

I don't know what it was doing but there was a python process that was using every bit of CPU available and a ton of swap.

This same machine can build ruby 1.9.2 in under 10 minutes. It took less time to download and refresh all of my installed macports (including postgresql 9.0) than it took to attempt to build pypy.
Conservation of energy would still favour the latter strategy. It's less work to walk up to some distance from a mammoth and hurl a spear at it than to run right up to the thing.
True, but on the other hand people will get used to it, just like they did with Chrome. The version number doesn't matter, all that matters is that it works.

I like to see Mozilla responding. I don't know if development has speeded up, but it seems to have done. If they can keep this up without letting security slip I'll be impressed.
Are you seriously going to over-analyze specific tenses of words? Each major version will include different features. Stop just trying to distract the conversation.
It's a shame that the first comment was for a typo. Can't people get over these things?
The only thing they need to do is to continue to release versions. Then people will get used to it and will not notice it anymore.
Dick jokes are for Reddit. It's funny, but not for HN.
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and then you'll get asked by the client to "just embed images".
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Can echo that Nightly (8) is very stable on Windows, too.
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What. "Abusive" is not an insult to you?

Or is your problem based on the fact that "abusive" relates to an actual character trait, and not the gender of your ex?
And that is why I don't like bcrypt -- it is far too easily to screw something up in non-obvious ways.
Mozilla has moved away from the typical versioning system to one where major x.0 releases are shipped much more frequently per their rapid release development cycle [1] [2]. So even if there are no "major" changes you will see a new x.0 release. This shouldn't cause developers any major problems. Well, unless, for example, someone is using shoddy user agent detection scripts, the consequences which Opera experienced when it released version 10; turns out some scripts aren't designed to handle two-digit version numbers [3] ಠ_ಠ

[1] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-fir...

[2] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new...

[3] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/
Yes but the second comment on the blog was great, truly an education in encryption for me.
I find it amazing that when people launch their 'coming soon' pages they don't include a short description of the service.

"WordPress in the Cloud" gives very little information about what you actually offer..
re: 6 -- there were very few performance tweaks in FF6. Mostly CSS3 and HTML5 additions. FF7 is the 'performance' build (Azure, first round of start-up, smaller memory footprint). FF8 seems to have some performance bits -- and presumably it will have some feature additions, too (but I need to investigate).
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I was expecting a parody of version number inflation, but it seems to be a real article. So FF really jumps to version 8?
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I thought I could port the number to Google Voice but this seems to work only for mobile numbers.
Does anybody know about a cheap service that allows me to port the number and forward calls to a new number?
That's a little bit unfair. The reason 'hogeschool' studies aren't as good as a proper CS degree has very little to do with vocational studies being inherently inferior to a more theoretically grounded education, it has to do with the fact that these vocational schools are known for being easier than their university counterparts, which attracts a certain audience, which leads to the courses getting dumbed down. Probably similar to how community colleges work in the United States.

The core problem is that vocational studies are considered to be inferior, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's like how, in Belgium, to get the best language education in high school, you'd choose advanced classes in maths, not language, because pupils who pick a maths focus are considered to be better students all-round and thus get tougher material in anything from geography to French.
Yeah, at least by using md5 one can easily screw everything up in an obvious way.
> also things like creating project estimates by splitting it in subtasks, writing a list of features & ideas to consider etc - basically creative induction of lists

While I agree with you overall with regards to pen & paper's magical properties, I'd disagree with you on this particular point solely because I created a web-based app last year to solve this exact problem for myself. I cannot do problem-solving on a computer and have to write out variables and formulas on paper but I find making lists on paper a chore, especially since I have bad handwriting. My text app helps address that because it is just like a text-editor with tabs and code-folding. Workflowy.com is another alternative and it offers a lot more features.

I love pen and paper for hashing out ideas and concepts but I will never go back when it comes to lists.
Thanks to Unrevoked, Clockworkmod and Cyanogenmod folks for forcing HTC to do it.