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I recommend using a free service called SpyPig to include an invisible image in the email that will notify you when the email is opened (if images are enabled). I usually wait about 10 minutes after the notification and call the client or lead and ask them if they had a minute to check my email. They usually say something like "Yeah you have perfect timing, I just took a look at it..." It's a pretty slick little trick http://www.spypig.com/ Good luck!
Ever since the first Palm PDA came out, it was obvious that the iPhone was going to happen. I was drooling for something like it back in '98 ... '99, or whenever it was that I bought my first Palm. I was like, "okay, now let's combine this with a cell phone, and add more CPU, and more memory, and a color screen, and..."

Alas, it was not to be, yet. But then it did happen.
Duplicate: Was already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789714

Mea culpa.
anonymousIRC and Lulzsec both tweeted it
Austin and the Fridge team are super sharp. I'd say this was a great move for Google+.

Congrats!
Why isn't everyone using Lua?
I came across the Lua programming language and started reading the first edition of 'Programming in Lua', which is available for free online (http://www.lua.org/pil).

I am incredibly impressed by the conciseness of the language and its syntax and really like it (there are only a handful of types, the 'table' data structure can be used to easily create any complex data structure), it is fast and is designed to be called as a script from c, and c functions can be easily called from it. Intuitively it appeals to me even more than Python does.

Its adoption seems to suggest it is not widely used outside game programming? Why? What is wrong with you people? ;)
This is why we can't have nice things online.
I hate getting emails that ask me for two or three time blocks that work for me. Be respectful of people's time and just pick a few times that work for you. If they don't work for them, they'll usually tell you what does pretty quick.
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Most of the items were slang or examples of common bad grammar usage, hardly limited to Americans.
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That those things are trivial is kind of the point.

Becoming disproportionately angry about arbitrary linguistic differences is a treasured national pastime in the UK. It's due to our very particularly neurotic class consciousness, and it's quite difficult to explain. UK english is a minefield of shibboleths which we use to pigeonhole each other with startling efficiency.

It's explained better than I ever could by comedian David Mitchell in this short video:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/jun/10/la...

And this one, which is more specifically about americanisms:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/may/20/la...
Certainly. I find my concentration collapses after 6-7 hours in one place. Shifting location gives me a fresh wind.

That is, I can productively work 14+ hour days, but only if I can flip between 2-3 locations. And even when I'm working shorter hours, I really benefit from being able to get up and walk away whenever my thinking is stuck in a rut
The sad fact is nothing in this can be believed. All this is strategically too complex.
Yeah phponpie.com has that :)

$u = new User();
$u->id = 69;
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something like that :)
Linked from Lulzsec's and AnonymousIRC's twitters which are held by respective members of the groups.
You cite MLK and Gandhi but we also have to acknowledge people like Malcolm X were effective and influential while advocating an 'any means necessary' stance.
For decades we as a species have been deciding to turn food into an industry. This decision has had disastrous consequences, but like CO2 in the atmosphere it can't be reversed overnight.

Cross-pollination can bring genetically modified strains into organic crops, making it hard to keep a crop organic even if you want to.

Run-off from industrial agriculture has damaged water and soil, which will impact whatever is planted, whether organic or not.

Soil depletion has also lead to decreased nutrient presence in fruits and vegetables.

Industrial agriculture has reduced the number of varieties of each species grown. Why does all broccoli look the same? Surely pre-industry, there were numerous varieties of broccoli.

Land is not divided in such a way to make local, small-scale, organic farms practical. Where are you going to put a farm in New York City or Los Angeles?

This is not to say the problem can't be fixed, but we are living in a non-ideal time for food, so there won't be any ideal choices. The only thing you can do is make better choices, and try to turn the direction of food production around so that eventually ideal choices will be possible.
I think google created a profile for him as a way to illustrate what profiles look like---they mention him in the blog post announcing the change:

http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2011/07/google-scholar-cit...
A fair number of these aren't even "American," they're just "incorrect." Claiming that mistakes like "I could care less" are American is like saying that the United States invented the failure to distinguish between "your" and "you're."

I don't think I've ever heard the phrase "That'll learn you" said in any seriousness outside of a Western movie.
« When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. »

Article 35 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793.
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Clicked expecting atopiary/sabu to be juvenile and Charles Arthur to be possibly clueless but professional, but it's actually hard to tell which side in those exchanges is more juvenile.
'cause the popular belief is that once Jobs retires, Apple will enjoy a free fall in _everything_.

Fascinating.
Fridge built a really amazing product - Social groupware for people outside of Facebook. I'll be sad to see it go.

I wonder if the team is going to be moved out to Mountain View or stay in NYC?
Buy a different brand. It's not like Sony is the only company producing tvs.
>There is a close button to dismiss the offer, but it’s quite small and not that obvious. So while you can get rid of the offer pop-up, you’ll spend a few seconds trying to find out how to do it.

It's a red X in the upper right corner. That's a pretty standard and obvious close button, and probably the first thing that people look for when they want to close a window.
Clearly the answer is:

Abnorm.
Where are you drawing the line exactly? Both Ghandi and MLK broke laws, and in many cases did so by disrespecting other people's property rights (sit ins, for one, are exactly this and often were against corporate entities as well as govt. ones).

Furthermore there was a fairly large segment of the civil rights movement that disagreed with MLK and thought the strategies he promoted would not lead to acceptance of "black culture" but instead the acceptance of blacks into "white culture" (ie: ok fine if you act and dress like us then we wont hate you). It's painfully clear that there are still massive inequalities in terms of the way people of different races are treated in the US, and I would argue MLK's limited success in getting rid of racism was at the cost of the introduction of even heavier, subtler and harder to eradicate classism (yes Obama is president, but we all remember the "is he black enough" debates).

So while I don't entirely disagree with you, let's not make it seem like there is obviously a right or wrong here, and that by simply "looking at history" we can we can see that. Usually I like your posts but this one really lacks nuance...at least it is appropriately tagged "rant."
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How does that get around a number of email clients flagging the warning that 'this email contains links to external images' or things of that nature? (Gmail does it, Thunderbird does it, I'm sure most modern email clients have that).

To me that would come across as, at best, annoying and at worst, suspicious.
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"knock off an existing system, only do it better"

"(their primary product is a visual source safe done right.)"

If I may quibble with this comparison, I would point out that we built Vault because SourceSafe is a deeply flawed product, whereas Git is not a deeply flawed product.

We built Veracity because we think DVCS is the future of our industry and we want to be a part of that. I don't think Git and Mercurial are the end of innovation in version control. I think the third generation of version control is just getting started.

We're not interested in trying to convince people from switching off Git or Mercurial onto Veracity. Why would we? Those people are already happy DVCS users.

But there are still millions of developers who have not yet made the switch from a centralized system to a DVCS. Git and Mercurial will get their share of those new users. We hope Veracity will be a viable option as well.
Personally, I find the syntax horrible. A good few years ago, I wrote reasonably complex stuff in Lua (a game addon, you wouldn't have guessed, right? :P), and it was quite painful to do that.

It doesn't help that it's embedded into larger applications most of the time, which do not allow easy debugging, if at all.
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These kids have become the subject of their own joke. But it's funny watching them and reading them on twitter though
To get elected you usually need a lot of money and to get the money you usually need to cooperate with people with bad intentions.
I'm making the assumption that this is USD only at this stage, just because my understanding is that moving up to more currencies (GDP, AUD, EUR) is an order of magnitude more difficult, followed again by moving up to any / most currencies. Am I correct?

Even if I am, I'm sure that's a future plan, and I look forward to it.
A list like this coming from that source just seems like latent resentment to me. I'm sorry you didn't get to keep all that land directly south of Canada. Get over it.

BTW: Your youtube link is kill.
Wait, British people don't say "train station"?
14. I caught myself saying "shopping cart" instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I've never lived nor been to the US either. Graham Nicholson, Glasgow

if that ruins your day, welcome to #firstworldproblems.
Unfortunately, there is nothing that will prevent Cisco from doing this again in the future. They didn't get the result they wanted, but in all likelihood they aren't going to see any further rebuke for this ridiculous perversion of justice.

At the end of the day, someone at Cisco made the decision to try and completely ruin this guy's life. My sense of justice tells me that person should face criminal liability for his actions.

My sense of cynicism tells me he'll get promoted instead.
Ooh. That's actually cleverer. It reduces the space of possible wells quite substantially. It does make detecting a horizontal line more difficult, though. I will think about this.
Only of you believe myriad of attacks such as the Boston Tea Party were not well thought out.

In the short-term, they may have a negative impact on the general population. But the goal by many such actions is very longterm and seemingly worth the temporary raise in price etc. in the eyes of the protestors.
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I understand this bit very well, thankyouverymuch. What I find fascinating is how one-dimensional and downright stupid and emotion-filled the stock market actually is and the Apple stocks are one of many good examples for that in this case.
Well, I'm actually all for government regulation of this kind of thing. In fact, I would argue that this is a wonderful example of a case where government regulation is required for the free market to function: markets depend on a good flow of correct information to function.
I really do not understand why they cannot find someone to write for them who understands English grammatical rules. All I can think of when I'm reading that document are some troublemakers trying to justify malicious attacks. If they could write a decent press release, it might actually convince people that they are trying to do some some good in the world.
If you liked that, I would recommend Charlie Munger's book http://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/ . It is a good read, and one that you can refer to over and over again. One of the sections in the book is also posted on Ycombinator at http://ycombinator.com/munger.html if you want to see the sort of thing he talks about in the book.
We do. All the time. It's written on the signs and everything.

It is a well-worn running joke in the UK that the people who write in to the BBC are all eye-rollingly insane. I wouldn't take the list too seriously.
i dont think anonymous is bad i like them and i wonder if they would help me start a cyber war aganist jb liker
Some do (my parents for example), and I suspect even among those who recognise different brands, there's decreasing awareness of what MP3 is. It's not uncommon for a brand to become synonomous over time - Walkman was an earlier example in this thread, but others include Liquid Paper, Roller Blades, and even Biros. Dangerous territory, because in the instance where it does become generic your trademark protection disappears (see also the battle Xerox continues to wage in that regard).
This is pretty standard and typically is called "reactivation". You have a previously active user who you've lost for one reason or another, so you try to reactivate them with special offers. This doesn't just happen online, it happens everywhere.

The saying goes that it is far more expensive to gain a new customer then retain and old one, and offering 30% on virtual goods is a pittance compared to the real ad dollars they have to spend to get one new player, so it makes total sense.

The different price points are no mistake either. You anchor one high and one low and guide people to the middle. Our favorite sites do this to us all the time. Any subscription site worth it's salt has this type of guidance. Look at 37 Signals pricing as just one example.

It's not sneaky. Is it aggressive? Sure. But it's also smart marketing based on learning from a ton of customer data.
That's really interesting. Obviously, I've only started reading the docs and have no real-world experience with the language. I hadn't even thought about debugging. Do you know an alternative language that you would prefer to use in that context? Do you think the reason for its popularity in game programming is because there is not really any alternative?
Not many people did. It's a pretty stunning project that they just give away for free.
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The menu bar is part of a hierarchy of application > window, rather than window = application instance. Because of this, the self-contained application window is a bitch to deal with when using different windows across different applications. I have to use Dreamweaver due a bunch of pre-written macros. I can't ever, ever, ever take a tab out of Dreamweaver and pair it with a specific preview firefox window (at least under Windows).

That's not to say that the Mac's window model is without fault. But, it is much easier to patch to one's liking: http://manytricks.com/witch/
Not to mention it is hard to make a personal fortune doing it. Many Robin Hood-type figures around the world continue to rake in millions at the expense of the poor people they claim to rep. And yet, as a member of Lulz or Anon, the most you may gain is appreciation for your skill IF you put it on your resume. It would also get you arrested, effectively striking out one of the few ways to make a personal gain from this.
This works for me. What's read-only about the repositories that you get?
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It's just my theory, but after 12 years here I haven't found anything to replace it.

You see, the vast majority of homes use tankless gas water heaters. I'm not sure why, maybe it's the most efficient or most economic solution when your primary source of heating is gas.

Whatever the reason for, it's the reality and one consequence is that nobody likes to keep it turned on for longer than it's absolutely necessary, both for safety reasons and to avoid racking up the gas bill. So everyone is simply used to washing their hands with cold water at home. Since that's what they're used to at home, they don't expect anything different anywhere else.
how does this make people mad?

22. Train station. My teeth are on edge every time I hear it. Who started it? Have they been punished? Chris Capewell, Queens Park, London

i mean, it's a station, for trains, hence train station. i don't get why this makes him angry.
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But isn't the issue that what makes a law "unjust" might not be obvious when it's broken?
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Actually, if you could find a person directly responsible, it would probably be best if that person were killed. This is not an isolated incident for the US government, where due process has broken down completely, and if naked power is the only law left it would be better if it cut both ways.
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And then there’s iCal and Address Book …

I’m mostly just happy that Apple’s apps I use most (Finder, Safari, Mail) have adopted a spartan look.
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yes, listening is not the strength of governments. Especially about things they do not understand and are made to fear. There are many computer privacy/copyright/net-neutrality bills that have been signed into law where I was wondering whether the people supporting the bill actually knew what it was about or its implications. We should instate a test on the content and application of each bill, if you pass you can support it and fail your vote doesnt count
lulzsec and anonymous have already had effects on how companies and governments act. Who exactly acted 'peacefully' and 'within the law' so far against these companies and managed to get anything done lately?
I went through your links to understand the SEO issue, and I am having a hard time finding more than one technical reason to make URLs friendlier. The only thing that stood out to me was along the lines of including searchable keywords in your URL, so indeed, rather than just an ID, having the word "walkman" in Sony's URL would raise their URL score in the search engine.

The rest was pure speculation on what "users" do with URLs -- aka some engineer's personal opinion on what's pretty. Can anybody provide links to usability studies regarding what users actually do with URLs? This would be of far more value than some company's personal standard, be it Google or someone else.

My experience is unfortunately anecdotal, but all my users just bookmark or copy-paste whatever they see. They are more concerned that the site has good navigation than that they can alter the URL or type it in directly. They use a starting point and then move on from there. So I have a hard time believing statements in these documents like "users may remove a part of the URL, thinking it is not important". The one exception is that I have seen newer users type "www." before URLs that do not need it.
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> Why does all broccoli look the same? Surely pre-industry, there were numerous varieties of broccoli.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here or not. If you are sincere then you are mistaken beyond your wildest dreams. All cultivars of the broccoli species look magnificently different.

Broccoli, kale, collard greens, Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, Romanesco broccoli and broccoflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi are all different cultivars within the same species: Brassica oleracea.
That's an utterly nonsensical argument. People aren't allowed to do whatever they want either. Less sniping, more thinking, please.
Thanks for the background and links, which I wish I would have seen before posting my comment.

I still think there is a bit of, not necessarily resentment, but a bit of annoyance at the upstart US, which comes across to most other countries as "unrefined." I think the major difference between Americans and Brits is that the US doesn't have centuries of history behind it. It's still very much a "young" nation in the overall scheme of things and shows its age quite often. (See also: the other comment I made.)
I agree with you, and so does Lawrence Lessig[1]. If more people got behind the cause he started called Fix Congress First[2], that might be a bit more effective than the approach of 'anonymous'. Or, perhaps, the combination of the two would be best.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#Constitutional_...
[2]http://fixcongressfirst.org
Sustainability and local product seem to be a big movement in the restaurant industry. Problem is, its only high-end or smaller restaurants. So as long as there's a dollar menu at McDonalds, industrial farms and bio-engineered pesticide-ridden fruits and veggies will be prevalent.
I wish they really did focus on search. Google's simplicity works great for simple informational queries. But, search quality on anything else is still laughable. Site-specific search sucks. Shopping search sucks. Why? No filters and no sorting of results.
Is there any proof that @google_plus is an official account? It isn't a Twitter verified account, whereas @googleplus which has no tweets is a verified account.
I agree with this. This is especially true if you have small children. Working at home is great since you can help your wife now and then, but you can't do it 5 days a week. You need to get out of the house, even for just a little bit.
Why is this the top, this is plain wrong. The context of activism throughout history has always led to some form of change, usually for the better. The reason is simple, drama, publicity and media bring about awareness.

Get you head out of your ass, nothing you said makes any sense.
This is still pretty depressing coming from the BBC, even when you ignore the comments.
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