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The answer is yes, HTTP requests and caches at work, quite a lot is going on.
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It doesn't have to be a fancy CSS hack. It has to look nice. And it does. Simplest solutions are often good enough :).
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This wasn't posted in /r/programming, though; it's /r/reddit.com, a general purpose subreddit that new users are subscribed to by default, and that has double the subscribers compared to proggit. I imagine lots of new users unsubscribe from proggit but not from /r/reddit.com; anecdotally speaking, reddit's becoming very popular among my non-programmer but internet-familiar friends who like pictures of cats and rage comics.

That isn't to say to that proggit isn't pretty different to HN; going on there now (having not visited it in a while) only a handful of links show as having been visited due to my seeing them on HN. The content there is different and the level of discourse is acceptable, so I like it.
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Is it just me or did anyone else feel more relaxed after that? It's good to know that there is something out there that will make everything ok.
If reddit is the voice of the internet, then he must be the megaphone.
Usually when I tell people about reddit, I tell them to skip the front page and go straight to the reddits page and find topics that interest them.

The front page has too many cat pictures and crap for my taste these days. Hopefully they eventually have the time to implement one of the solutions I suggested to alleviate the problem.
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Scammers are like parasites. They take from their victims, but aside from that they want their victims to be well.
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This would have been so so so much better if it'd stuck at 99%
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I used PRWeb for my launch PR, and chose their $200 package. If I had it to do over again I'd just do the $80 package, because if you've got a great product and some traction, you'll get coverage no matter what PR package you choose. Basically, just host your PR yourself and use a service to do a half-hearted sharing with the world.

The more expensive package may have gotten my PR re-hosted in a couple places (in the San Jose Mercury News, for one), but no, it didn't make the launch any more successful or make TechCrunch bang down my door.
I understand it's hard to offer a free demo. But then a video is really essential. I think patio11 offers a free demo on his Appointment Reminder site, which also uses Twilio. Maybe you can ask him how much it costs to see if it's affordable?
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I'm seriously considering pointing people coming to me with a generic "it doesn't work" to this page to have it fixed.

Thanks for this post!
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Reddit has adopted its own culture and hive-mind—the bigger Subreddits are less focused on intellectual discussion and more on having fun (for better or for worse), but they still have a penchant for interesting articles.

(There was an image that hit Reddit's front page a few months ago that illustrated how the first level of comments were intellectual amd all subsequent were merely "herp-derpery"—have a look for your self.)
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A low price would be crucial for the play button to really take off and become something bigger, badder than an interesting artistic experiment.

$5 for a fully autonomous album anyone?
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That's actually a much higher ratio of female/male than I would have expected for an early-adopter scenario. Mozilla's beta-test program is over 90% self-reported male. http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/08/26/who-are-our-firef... On the other hand, all three winners of Google's science fair were girls, so I guess Google is doing something right with the make-tech-appealing-to-women department.
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Just pointed my boss - "Use this if something goes wrong". ;).

EDIT: And she replied that "everything is now OK" :). Yey, it works!
Interestingly, at least on Win7 & IE8 it is impossible to set Google as your default search. All you can do it set it up as an "Accelerator", but that doesn't make it work with the search box. The search box appears to specifically ban Google.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand why they should open-source their infrastructure.
I'll reprioritize the video higher on my roadmap and I think I've got some ideas now on how to let you demo it without signing up.

Thanks for your comments.
It's an interesting experiment.

But aren't we already spoiled with mp3 players that can play gigs of music? Having to carry tens of "badges" and swap them every time you want to change the album will become a nuisance, when the novelty wears out.
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> HTML5 History API

There is a bug with their API that I can't replicate on demand which absolutely messes with the history in latest Chrome. It happens sometimes when I go to someone's posts page, then about page, and then try to go back. It keeps switching between posts and about pages. When I click-hold on the back button, I see the wrong titles for many of the pages I visited previously but the links work. Pretty weird and annoying.
Whoa! It does finally pay attention to my resize bindings, even in Vista. Awesome!
You're falsely attributing this behavior to your iPhone/Mac. Keep a couple of things in mind:

* If you have a valid lease, there should be no conflicting IP addresses on the network

* Even if you do have a conflicting IP address, that conflict only exists until the DHCP server issues you a new one (iOS immediately performs the DHCP request after sniffing)

IP conflicts are not voodoo magic. Once the conflicting machine gets a new IP address, everything returns to normal. The network events shown in the article show that this occurs in about 1s; between the time that the interface comes up, 0.3s, and the time the interface is active, 1.3s. If this were a full negotiation, it would take around 5s.

The key thing to remember is that this shouldn't happen at all on healthy networks. So, if anyone chooses to remain opposed to this, they're saying that waiting 10s every time you wake a portable device from sleep and want to use the network connection is a worthwhile tradeoff to accommodate DHCP servers that don't respect leases and switches that can't adequately resolve an ARP entry conflict in a timely manner.

I've said it about ten times in this discussion already, but I'll keep the ten seconds (times 15-20 sleep/wake events per day) and buy decent network equipment.
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As someone on HN, I understand that. I was just being philosophical.

I guess, thinking whether anything happened depends on one's level of perception, and one's definition of what it means for something to "happen". (That is, whether you are looking only at the final result of a process, or at everything that happens during the process, irrespective of the final outcome).

If my Internet-newbie father clicked that button repeatedly, I'm sure he would think that "nothing is happening", and at his level of perception, that statement would be correct.

EDIT: Elaboration.
This is great, but the final sentence could be happier, more colorful or something.
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Wow, that's the first release from the project in nearly two years. Good to see.
Well gee, since you don't like it I guess the rest of us should stop enjoying it.
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The bad news is you'll have to out-SEO him for people to see you when Googling "Justin Briggs".
>info about who is behind the site:

Two names with a copyright are listed in an HTML comment in the source code at the end of the page. This information could be false of course.
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Are there anny similar projects for Python out there?
I think it could be worth more than $5, if the music is composed with this concept in mind. I agree that listening to a pop album this way would not be worth very much. But maybe a symphony would make more sense. Something ambient would be worth about as much either way.

If you can compose music that has "in-jokes" based on something you can guarantee the listener has heard earlier in the "album", that would be very useful from a composer's point of view.
And yet they must be able to talk about gender-unknown people...
Coffee does the opposite for me. A small quantity of alcohol and then right after consuming it gives a great stimulus. But best really seems to be doing something 'different' but also brain stimulating; after 1 hour of programming, I try to learn Spanish or get out any of the great formal method books, after 30 minutes of that, my brain is better at programming.
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Valuations are still quite speculative and difficulty can increase by an order of magnitude. Still, if you're not using the GPU but still using the computer, you may as well throw in a miner as a low priority process.
Funny. But I meant, I wonder if CSS3 can do the reflections instead of PHP, which looks possible...

http://stuntsnippets.com/css3-reflection/
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Its easy to do this when you have no strong competition, and don't care if you piss off your existing customers.

The irony is they want to ride the new wave of public cloud computing, going so far as to sponsor development of a memory database (Redis), and then go and do something regressive like slapping a 24GB-per-CPU memory limit on their core product without a price decrease.
TL;DR - Expensive cards run faster, ATI/AMD > Nvidia for mining, Radeon 5830 most efficient in their testing.

It's a pity this article didn't look at a few other cards which would have been very competitive, namely the Radeon 5850's and 5870's. I've found my 5850's do very well, especially considering the performance/watt ratio.
Absolutely true. In what way do you think Apple's business is in decline right now?
We started our current project using jQuery/jQuery UI and I found that it didn't feel up to the task. We're creating a complex single page application with many controls, etc. Things like menus, tree controls, etc, just don't exist in standard jQuery UI. And the plugins were mostly unsupported.

I got up and running with the Closure library, very quickly, and I'm still finding it nice to use.
I always hated having to copy/paste URLs from PuTTY, so I started using PuTTY Tray (http://haanstra.eu/putty/) It highlights URLs, reconnects on failure, and does a few other nice things
Here is the story of a girl who was raised to become a chess grandmaster by her dad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

Just saying - girls play chess, too.

There are infinite possibilities for doing things in the world. If not building things, what about the kid who held a speech in front of the UN at age eleven and apparently moved lots of people to tears (don't remember - was it on HN recently?).

You could do some biology stuff, like EO Wilson who went on the trail of fire ants. Some biological drama is probably playing out right now in your backyard.

What I mean is: whatever interests your daughter, there is probably something useful/fun to do.
/r/truereddit is pretty thin on discussion, but usually good for an interesting read.

Edit: Also, having now read some of the thread under discussion, the top-level tree is garbage, but the subthreads after that are mostly pretty thoughtful.
i've done this for years, and it isn't entirely ideal, but i really really like it
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Hi - First HN post, but I hope I'm using this resource correctly?

My Craigslist competitor focuses on smaller groups and then aggregates those groups for critical mass (users subscribe to as many groups as they want). The idea is to let people trade within those communities, building those relationships.

Landing page:
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As I said... no traction, but here's a view with just a few ads:
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For the hackers:

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Backend: PostgreSQL / Sphinx Search on Linux

Thanks for any feedback at all!
And many more work with enabling people's social lives online. The truth of the matter is, while popular an useful, social apps are quite plain vanilla in terms of the science and technology behind them. The endorphic rewards one gets from creating social apps is derived mostly from popularity rather than some internal sense of achievement, beauty or genius.
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Wow, I never saw it that way. Brilliant move for the books though.

But I guess if your box needs 24GB then you probably have cash no?
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"Living among media-obsessed New Yorkers, including some who employ two computers, one for work and one for TweetDeck..."

Um.. second display? Second desktop? Spaces?
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> without a device that is open and able to run it, it may as well be closed

google doesn't make devices

> would you be right to suspect the motivations of a mining company conducting a review of environmental impacts

how is this a good analogy? they write software. its open source. you don't have to trust them.

> Except for of course, gingerbread.

this statement is actually false.
The patent office is already essentially under a DoS. The patent backlog is between 3-5 years.
An external site is always easier, but they tend to take a cut of your profits.

If you can handle some basic programming, PayPal has IPN (Instant Payment Notification) in which PayPal will load a specific file on your server passing it info about the completed/failed payment. You can very easily use data that to allow the buyer access to files.

Full details here - https://www.paypal.com/ipn
Companies design water pistols and patent the designs. Apple spends millions rethinking the design of the laptop and is promptly imitated (badly) by every other company in the business and gets no benefit.

I think that innovators feel they are entitled to protect their ideas from thieves. (Just as Nokia probably feels about all the GSM innovation it has done that Google and Apple take for granted.) Sometimes the law backs Apple up, sometimes not. But I don't think it's "panic" so much as an emotional, visceral response (insofar as corporations are capable of such) to doing brilliant work and having it simply copied or stolen.
Given that 84,000 businesses were registered in India in 2008 [1] I imagine there's considerably more than "a few" profitable indian startups out there.

1) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=new+businesses+register...
I agree - copy and paste on putty drove me crazy enough to switch to a Mac for development work. "copy all to clipboard"?? I'll have to check out putty tray.
We track the programming language that our customers are using on sign up. Our customers aren't particularly early-adopter-ish, so I assume it's a reasonable approximation (taken over a decently large sample of sites):

http://blog.directededge.com/2010/05/30/what-programming-lan...

See also:

http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=ruby+rails%2C...

Or even (this one surprises me, since I figured Python generally would come out on top when not selecting for web stuff):

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+python&l=
Yes, really. There was a class action lawsuit. Your anecdote isn't helpful except to prove that yes, there can be exceptions.
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Dive right in. Write the bare minimum that you need to demonstrate the uniqueness of your project and then get feedback on it immediately. It's good to have some high-level ideas of what it could be, but don't waste time with formal documents.

Wireframes are pretty useful for making any web page, not just a hobby web app. My process is to sketch out wireframes, make the HTML and UI, then build the backend.

Also, I try to come up with at least three ways to implement a UI for a new app. That way you don't get emotionally tied to the first one just because you thought of it first. Usually, I find that my first one is crap, and the second one is good enough that I never can think of a third one that's better than the second.
This guy thinks his kid is cute, because it's his kid, but I don't like the part where he deliberately irritates everyone in the hardware store. I don't think your kid is cute, so please keep it out of my way.
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But the new wave of public cloud computing is not generally running VMWare's product, as it is too expensive; eg EC2 runs on Xen... they are doing better from the private cloud people who are less concerned about using commodity open source software.
this is a huge deal for me. i've been waiting/hoping for these two changes:

"Windows 7 jump lists are now supported so you can launch saved sessions directly from the taskbar."

"Corruption of data transferred over port forwardings is _probably_ fixed "
This really brightened up my morning. A great story and surprisingly, a good twist. Much like his Dad, I had no idea what Guy was up to until the end. It really shows you how tuned in kids are. For any parent, this is a great lesson: let your kids lead the way. They may seems a bit crazy, but this is evidence that usually, they're not. Hands down, though, my favorite part of this whole story was imagining Guy running up to Home Depot employees by himself to ask for help. Adorable.
This will only work if they can cultivate collectors, either for their products specifically, or from the artists they work with. Because they take up so much space, they have to be something you'd want to show off. In other words, because they are obviously functionally deficient, there has to be some other mechanism to make them desirable. Obviously I can listen to an album all the way through on a small iPod, or better yet on the phone I'm already carrying.

They could also achieve this via exclusivity: get small acts to release a new album only via this format for the first week, so people have to experience the album in order before it's on iTunes and everyone just buys the popular song.
Okay, I should rephrase: when I see Hotmail so prominently featured on the Windows Live ID page, I worry because of Hotmail's spammy past.

Also, the only times I've encountered Windows Live ID are times when it was being forced on me. E.g., when I got my broadband, I was forced to use a Windows-only CD to install a lot of (to me: irrelevant, useless, copycat) consumer software (photo sharing etc.), then get a Windows Live ID, and then finally activate the broadband.

So I pulled a Windows machine from a dumpster, did the install, got the Live ID, activated the broadband and then installed Linux. It felt dirty (and not from the dumpster).

After activation, the Live ID was not required, nor the software, nor Windows. So the whole experience was dictated and had no value for me, the customer.
Huh, I'd never heard of puttycyg. I always just ran a cygwin sshd on a local port and used putty to connect to that.
What do you mean by more open? I'm guessing that you mean "open" in the sense that it can run more Windows applications, provides more access to the OS, and is generally a more "full blown" operating system of the type that we (geeks) are used to.

I get what you're saying. I really do. But we should talk. In order to understand the broader market (outside of geeks buying gadgets for themselves), you have to see past your own interests. There are plenty of people for whom hacking on their computer is a pastime. This can mean any number of things like building your own computer or building your own software. The key is, hacking on the computer is an end, not a means. In the broad market, the computer is a means, not an end. Full stop.

Most business users want to accomplish a goal. In the business space, it's about accessing, sharing, and manipulating business data. The reason everyone (outside of geeks) says they want a full blown OS on a computer is because they want access to the tools they're used to using for accomplishing these tasks (hello, Excel). As Henry Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." In essence, Microsoft is breeding faster horses while everyone else is designing cars.

I'm not sure what it means to be an "open platform advocate", but when I hear that term, I think open source software, and to use Windows in that same sentence really blows my mind. That's why I'm left to assume that you're talking about open in the other sense (open access to the system). For my part, I'm an advocate of open platforms in this sense, but I have a sense of scope. I realize that the tablet market for business managers doesn't overlap entirely with the tablet market for hackers.

I think that as the computing market continues to mature, devices for hackers will become a niche. This is a natural consequence of the fact that hackers are a small group. We are not in the majority. Be thankful for that, because the demand for hackers is high and the supply is limited.
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