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It happens to me all the time when I use Review Board on a big commit (which spans multiple pages). Just had it happen now on the latest Chrome.

I have to move the mouse around and play dodge-the-tooltip and hope I get lucky.
Masked Identifier adds non-incrementing IDs to ActiveRecord objects
Why don't we have auto-correct on desktop operating systems?
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If this does happen, I see it mostly as important for XBMC-type setups on Linux.
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I don't use Firefox at all, but I just did some testing and the first time I started Firefox it took about 3 seconds to show its window. Subsequent starts got faster but always took at least a second and half. Chrome starts before I can say "one".
What a helpful screen grab. Will try. Thank you!
This would have been a lot more interesting if I could just punch in the url to my scripts and it spits out an optimized version with notes.

I'm kind of hesitant to make my site depend entirely on some shiney new site.
Perl's used more widely than Python, if you look at job trends -- but then again, you have to consider that Perl 5 was more popular earlier, so there's a lot of entrenched usage. Python may or may not have more new projects written in it; the statistics are difficult to interpret.

You can get by knowing one or the other well. Perl's advantages to me are the CPAN, the tooling culture, the testing culture, and a very pragmatic approach to getting things done without the language or ecosystem dictating how.

Python's advantages are slightly cleaner defaults in Python 3 and the fact that all code looks basically the same. (I'm not sure I see that as an advantage, but other people do.)
That's because you mistakenly think Chrome is a Windows app, a Mac app, and a Linux app. It's not. It's an operating system that runs on top of those. They aren't going to, and shouldn't, waste their time trying to mimic UI decisions for various OSes. They aren't trying to be like Seesmic or Evernote (meaning, they aren't trying to be an "app").
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And that is valid in what way? Seriously. I wikipedia'd him before posting and nothing stood out as something that would change my opinion of his prediction.

His identity has no bearing on his being right or wrong. My knowledge of him (or lack thereof) doesn't mean that my criticism is invalid.

I'm sorry I'm not a programmer?

EDIT: So apparently my criticism is invalid? Would anyone care to explain why?
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> 1. Exploration & Execution.

I found myself really liking this section. Unfortunately, I think it was because it helped validate my inner fears that manifest as procrastination.

Overall, I liked the article, but be wary of using those early stages as a excuse on which to continue doing nothing.
I understand the logic of the bigger back button, but I think it is a poor choice. It's rather awkward-looking, but more importantly it causes the entire toolbar to be several pixels taller. It's an amazing waste of space.
That's all well and good, and it's a fair question where to balance privacy with enabling someone to make a decision, but you can't seriously claim that a credit check doesn't impart useful information about someone.
yep, pretty much it.

The original idea of patents was along the lines: Person A develops a self propelled buggy moving with the speed faster than light. Without patent protection, there is a lot of incentive to keep the details of the technology secret. The patent protection would be awarded in exchange of him disclosing the details of the technology, thus enriching the human race's body of knowledge and furthering the technology advancement.

Modern day patent system - a Corporation A files a patent for the idea of a "self propelled buggy moving with the speed faster than light." Whoever comes with real implementation later, would be forced to pay license fee to the corporation or wouldn't be able to bring it to market. This is pretty much the innovation tax (though if a tax isn't extorted by a government then it is more correctly called extortion/racket).
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I've only used Excel and Google, but I need to make a "more informed" purchase at my job. What other products should I be considering?
I love that design, makes me really excited about the future of Firefox. They're finally started to catch up with Chrome in regards to speed of innovation.
Not exactly. But really worth to learn and will help you program in PHP better :).
The scripting languages are quite similar. IMHO, it is better to learn something different instead of another one of them.

Perl has an emphasis on libraries. CPAN is the gold standard for the scripting languages. (To see what I mean -- search for signatures, Moose and Acme::Bleach on search.cpan.org. (+) )

Another good thing is the community of smart and laid back people.

I personally prefer to do Perl because it is fun.

The main disadvantage with the Perl "everything and the kitchen sink" attitude is if you are in a group without good coding standards... Perl also gets a tougher learning curve in the beginning, just from there being more to learn.

(+) Joke modules on CPAN generally start with Acme.

Edit: Huh, why down votes? Just a reflex by language trollers? :-)
great point about the generation of articles down the chain. I will be more mindful of that in the future. thanks for reading
What's the green "tree" button to the right of the home button?
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I'm looking into revamping my iOS network/API code. Was thinking of writing most on my own using ASIHttpRequest and CoreData, but I stumbled upon Restkit. Do people have opinions on Restkit (http://restkit.org/)
> I generally like the way Google does advertising (disclaimer: I work for Google). It doesn't get in your way (except in some cases on Youtube).
> It pays for a lot of great services that are free to the end user (search, GMail) and Google clearly separates organic search results from paid promotion.

Got any links/reports to back that up? Which ads pay for what parts of what great services?

Cause it's a wonderful assumption, except the "great services" you quote hardly have any ads on them, but they are everywhere else, where they do (sort of, sometimes), get in your way.

I'm just saying. Google's advertising profits are quite mysterious. And possibly rightly so, they are a company, after all, and it's probably in their best interest not to share that data.

Except it refers statements about what great services their advertising crap exactly pays for to the realm of pure speculation.
I do not believe that, from my experience Opera is much more configurable, at least my current Opera setup suggests that. I have added buttons to my UI that I would have to install addons for in Firefox.
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I ask because it looks like Twilio is a pay service (and i though GV was free)
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er, I don't think they're worried about you. They might offer you a job.
on OS X lion we have.
It's a neat idea. Not sure how practical it is for making money. You need to aggregate a lot of jobs to get meaningful revenue from something like advertising.
The key point is that "first to file" doesn't actually honor the idea of invention. It honors the idea of filing the patent first. So, now it's a race to file instead of invent. Perhaps the patent system has behaved this way for some time, but it's codified now.

From wikipedia: "In a first-to-file system, also called "first inventor to file" system, the right to the grant of a patent for a given invention lies with the first person (the first inventor(s)) to file a patent application for protection of that invention, regardless of the date of actual invention."
Ask HN: Do I own the content I pay for (code/artwork) on freelance sites?
Some other questions that will come up:

Is it overkill to be concerned that a contractor may claim to have only licensed the use of the work and not allow resale?

How are 3rd party claims of content ownership handled?

What if these problems arise months or years down the line?
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Do you really think the other 40% are gamers? Because that would be my market. I'm guessing most gamers are already using Firefox, Chrome or both.
i'd also like to hear more from people who are in the same boat. my email is jeriko2011@gmail.com.
I'd like to go with an attorney that represents many of us.
15 € per user is the current plan. But we'll add it :) Thank you! How you don't see the trees if you live in a forrest.. (German saying)
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More people use multiple apps on one platform than use the same app on multiple platforms. That said,a browser is considered an app platform itself these days.

Also: you disagree with the poster. That doesn't mean he has been proven wrong. Your post comes off as unnecessarily rude.
As with most folks here I was struck by the wholesale adoption of the 'brilliance applied to clicks' meme. For those who aren't aware of it, its the 'pay the best and the brightest minds to figure out ways to get me to click on ads.'

It makes for a great sound bite, but it is completely and utterly wrong. To a first approximation, these internet services don't write ad copy or design ad banners, and that is where all the effort goes into figuring out how to get you to click. So don't work for an ad agency :-).

Now what the folks at Google do (I have no direct experience working at either Facebook or Twitter) is make it so that the system they have can reliably and efficiently serve advertisements into designated spots on the pages. This problem is a combination of bin packing and economic theory and systems design. Trust me when I say that the engineers working in ads (and they are a small fraction of the company) probably don't care at all whether or not you 'click' they care that they can see the query/page, do the auction, and provide an ordered set of results in under a few hundred milleseconds. But lets talk about clicking for a moment.

Ads are a 'tax'. They are a way to subsidize something so that it costs the consumers less. They do that by selling access to the consumer's eyeballs. Taxes, like prices, influence consumer behavior (just ask any town in California (8.75% sales tax) borders Oregon (0% sales tax)). So the upper limit on ads (as a tax) is when they start driving consumers away.

Like many people I find that some advertising levels are intolerable. I used to regularly read some gaming web sites until the tax of dealing with all the advertising became too high. (even with Adblock for web sites, or arriving at the theatre 10 - 15 minutes post start time so that you can just see the movie, avoiding ads has a cost too). I wrote a local radio station and explained to them that a particular ad they played caused me literally to change the station when they played it, generally leaving me on their competitor's station. You can't tax your way into a successful business model, and if you can't afford to offer the service with a combination of upfront cost and tax then you just quit while you are ahead.

The original post reminded me of John Cuzack's line in "Say Anything" - 'I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.'
Excel is by far still the most powerful. A lot of the hosted versions are just less powerful/sophisticated and slower.

You should also check out EditGrid. They have some great ways to pull external data feeds, and you are able to manipulate data much better.

Thus, it just depends how much data you are parsing and the use case. If you are using it for basic financial models without macros, Google is fine. However, once you start working with large data sets , macros, or more sophisticated models, Excel is still the best.
Yeah, that queryset could be filtered. It's not really a security risk though -- the worst someone could do is make one of their own custom snippets not appear in their own library.
I've found that booting the emulator does take a minute or two (I don't know about "several", but that's besides the point), but you don't have to restart every time you make a change or anything. It's just a once-per-session thing unless you accidentally close it.
How about https://github.com/nex3/arc then?
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What is the state of patent law, especially regarding software patents, across the world? If patents really are going to be a murder on innovation, then the least broken system should enjoy an advantage, no?
Yeah, the Start Fund terms are IMO very smart, both for "classes" of startups, and in general as an early stage startup raising money (if it will soon raise more) and is too busy to come up with terms.

I'd also consider a fixed discount above Start (e.g. "we inherit terms and get an extra 5% discount") to be reasonable in some cases. For a class, I think discounts are less silly than fixed common caps; for individual financings, caps are more reasonable than discounts, but the cap is a lot more company-specific than the discount.
Had the same idea, I own the domain Groupcourse.com built the product and tested it out in a small area. I was profitable but couldn't retain teachers. How did you solve the retention problem? The experience taught me a lot but now I am repurposing the code for a different product.
I personally haven't, and I don't think anyone has because there isn't evidence that points to extra-terrestrials. There is evidence that points toward controlled demolition.

The real problem with discussions like this is that minority views are quickly dismissed on the basis of "conspiracy theories". It is impossible to have a real debate about these topics. But it is still frustrating to see so many people actively ignoring facts that are contrary to their pre-concieved views.
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This is undoubtedly true (with the flagrant exception of iCal and Address Book), but some of us old-timey Mac users remember a glorious past full of matte gray and a spatial Finder…
I'm not advocating whether or not the patent should be awarded. Instead, I was trying to indicate that I felt like in 1995, it may not have been straightforward simply because not many people would have thought to even ask the question.

I guess one way to ask it might be, "how does one find a straightforward path to an unknown destination?"
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Not just an overview but something where you pick the languages you know and it shows you side by side examples doing the same thing.

I know there's a site that does that (can't remember the name) but having it side by side with a great overview like this would be awesome.
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That is a very interesting observation. I wonder if it will make most people happier in the long term.
That's a fair point, but if your goal is to create something that people will pay for, targeting a popular platform with an infrastructure based around Java, what will having an opinion about Java buy you? Very little. You can like it, or you can not like it, but you'll have to use it anyway, so your time would be better spent thinking about something other than how much you like it or (as is probably more likely...) not.
What about the idea that it is still way too easy to mess up 'for' loops in pl/sql? You have to track your loop control variables manually and it is not uncommon to have nested loops that span several printed pages?

What about the fact that implementing a hash table is an advanced topic in pl/sql. You get dictionary style data tables that can only be indexed by binary integer?

Encapsulation is nice and everything ... but oh yea the entire database is visible to all the code all the time. What does data encapsulation even mean in that environment?

What about memory management? What do you do when your code is using too much ram? It seems much less clear than in java.

What about the fact that I have never been able to measure a significant runtime difference between pl/sql and raw jdbc code? Usually the cost of inserting rows into a heavily indexed table outweighs all other factors.

I'm not opposed to running code in the db but in practice everything feels like it is 10 years behind the state of the art.
Damn I was hoping to hire him for that price range.
You should be asking yourself not about disruption, but what would happen if GOOG can't figure out how to keep AdWords revenue increasing. Like other commenters note: nobody has ended up disrupting Windows on the desktop, but Microsoft never figured out a new stream of growth to fuel growth in their share price.

If your primary concern is share price growth, look at a smaller cap stock - or try to convince yourself that Android or one of their other projects will ever move the revenue needle.
[shakes his head in disgust]

If I wanted to use Google Chrome, I'd install Google Chrome.
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My first 2 thoughts were:
"Why is so much of the description on this page?" - I like that I see more than just the job title, but the description seems rather long...

and then i thought "no it's great that the descriptions are long, it's just a bummer that more than 10 job listings don't 'fit' on a page all at once now. I have to click 'next page' a bunch to see many job listings."

There are a rather small total number of jobs available, and the descriptions on findedjobs.com are all in plain text--why not just list all of the jobs in each category (or combination of categories) on one page?

just 2 thoughts.
turned out the marketing section of themeforest wasn't included, now it is
It's hard to have a lot of hope for the United States.
One thing I've always wanted to do is cross reference the data structures/containers for various languages. In Python a dictionary is what Perl calls a hash and what C++ calls a map. Three different names for the same data structure (key value based).

I don't think Perl has a set container by default, but they can be added from CPAN, Python does, it's called a set ;) as does c++ where it, too, is called a set. Again, a key value based data structure, but in this case, the key is the value.
Some people don't want to be reached.
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I should note... currently Netflix is rerouting to a landing page if you try to stream via Chrome OS, even with this plugin enabled. I imagine that will change very soon, and when it does, you should be able to use almost this same exact method to enable it.

Files from Chrome OS were:
netflix.info
netflixplugin.so
libnetflixidd.so

All of them were put in /opt/google/chrome
Diversification is usually a huge waste of money. It is hard for one company/culture to make money doing lots of things. Be glad they know their niche is ads and that they are doing everything they can to protect their castle (as a shareholder).

Relentlessness will enable them to hold on to their position for longer than other companies would. However, all companies will eventually fall to competitors as t approaches inf.
You either need a search/textual filter or have a "show all" link. Being forced to click through 13 pages of results just to curiously see if any jobs match my skills isn't a great design.
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Now if they would combine expiration date with file date we'd be done.

The reasoning is fairly simple, patents expire and the idea becomes public domain, that is why, starting in 2015 as the great patent binge of late 90's starts expiring, through 2025, all of that 'crap' that you see as being patented will become public domain. Unlike copyright there will be no restriction on you using it. (like you can write your own RSA encryption code now without fear of being sued)

Also during that time there has been some progress made on getting better examiners into the office since we're starting to see examiners who actually used computers in high school versus the ones in 1995 who had just heard about them and never actually used one.

So you file as soon as you can, and if its a spurious filing you have exactly 20 years (if we could have them expire on file+20) to make the product work and to ship it with patent protection. Alternatively, we go back to a requirement that the invention must have an exemplar which the PTO can examine with the application. That however was originally eliminated because it was slowing everything down. (although some of the model work is simply stunning, check out the museum some time).

In the mean time I'm gonna watch all my old Star Trek episodes and file patents on all that stuff :-)
I'll admit I am not a good pick when it comes to computer semantics, so I might be mistaken.

Trying to be an "app" or not: For me, it is about the courtesy of respecting my main OS settings. It is about introducing accessibility concerns by overriding system settings such as demonstrated in this active bug report from 2008: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=92

> They aren't going to, and shouldn't, waste their time

It looks like they are going to, and really should fix this bug report. Improving the usability, interoperability and accessibility of your "app" or "operating system" is not a waste of time. You'd have a hard time backing that up.
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That's true about iCal and Address Book. I don't use either of those, so I'd forgotten what they'd done to them.

I'm not an "old-timey" Mac user by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't help wondering when Macs were "full of matte gray". Are you referring to pre-OSX days, because it seems that OSX is more gray now than ever before?
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