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Good luck. I don't know that much about the (UK or otherwise) hosting scene, so I can't really help you, but I'm sure that there are people who can.

Incidentally, I've heard people who do follow hosting more closely talk about getting good deals from http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4. Since it's an advertising section (of an apparently fairly well-known "real" forum), it looks rather spammy, but apparently the deals are good and real.
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That is not correct. Did you actually read any of the links above? Apple, Google, Microsoft and others shift billions of dollars a year in profits ON SALES IN THE UNITED STATES out of the US and to low tax or no tax countries using clever internal sales agreements with their own subsidiaries over intellectual property licensing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
Oh, just because it hasn't happened yet, we should pretend it isn't possible? You remember the flash crash.

You mean the minor event precipitated by a fat fingered human and corrected in an hour or so by HFTs?

If you have a plausible disaster scenario involving HFT's, state it. So far, near as I can tell, your argument is merely "omfg finance stuff I don't understand it might destroy the world!"
Excellent PR work by Match.com. Anyone who has actually used Match.com knows that it is, from an engineering and design standpoint, utter crap. The algorithm being pumped here is probably nothing special, but hey, getting PR by hyping your "proprietary algorithm" is a time-tested tactic.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Similar article from 2008:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/29tier.html

Similar article from 2003:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
I can emapathize with that. I do believe that could be the case with my team. Some of the guys came from another startup where they were not equity holders.

Does this happen a lot in the industry. If it does happen frequently then it makes more sense for a honest founder to always recruit/ collaborate with younger programmers.
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Hey Hacker News!

I was hoping to get some advice on something crucial for the launch of our business.

We need to be ready to launch by Friday (small news article planned for then) and have not started cross-web-browser testing yet.

I did a little and already found major issues with I.E.

I was wondering if anyone had some good tools/methods to get our site working (mostly just CSS stuff) across different browsers, or if it would be a good idea to just detect I.E. and put a page that says "Please use Firefox/Safari/Chrome."

Thanks!

Wesley
What makes you think the government can run an economy?

Our economy, despite recent "deregulation" is the most regulated, especially when you count criminal and civil law as well, in the world. There are countless laws against selling known-bad products (lemon cars, toxic mortgages, etc) and we could have almost everyone involved in the recent collapse behind bars if we tried.

We pay through the nose for the regulation, especially in the collateral damage from false positives and economic friction, and it's totally worthless at catching the biggest criminals (in terms of dollars stolen) in world history.

If I want regulation I can use a regulated exchange. Or rather, if I felt like using beta-software I'd be doing it and would be thankful to be allowed even if I had just lost my test fund. Forced regulation would remove the choice.

And ultimately regulation implies that rules stop the bad guys and we know that's true. Thanks, but I'll wait until an open-source and audit-able exchange comes along, and then I'll listen to the experts I respect.
Interesting way to finish it off:

Now’s the time. Someone needs to start the ball rolling and just say no.

So really just about anyone but author, then?
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Since there isn't a crap browser like IE on a Mac, you don't need to "support it", things will work fine if you follow standards.

If you're targeting developers or technology/art/design/movie professionals Mac usage is way above 10%.
This is recycled spam.

If you want the reality of online dating, look for the OKCupid blog post about how you're statistically more likely to find a partner and get married by not using online dating. Takeaway: men outnumber women, women are overwhelmed, men get no responses and become increasingly desperate. Of course, after Match.com bought OKCupid, the blog post was removed.
1. They get credit for all the taxes they paid in other countries. They are essentially supposed to pay the difference between the US rate and the various foreign rates.

2. If you read some of the links, you'll discover that they are minimizing the taxes they pay on US revenue -- sales made right here at your corner Apple store -- by use of clever licensing agreements with their own foreign subsidiaries. Look at the interactive graphic on the Bloomberg story about Google, for example http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
Past tense. They don't have that hiring problem posted any more, but it was for mathematicians/software developers in the R&D group. If you're asking because you have an approximate solution, let me know (email address in profile) and I can put you in touch with people there who would be very interested to see what you've come up with.
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This piece leaves me unconvinced that some products don't spread virally. It only shows that they didn't spread virally in the environments measured. I could list dozens of products and services that I know about and use only because of word of mouth (both on and off online). The problem for marketers is that identifying viral growth after the fact is easy, but trying to spark it is very difficult.
And dupe:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821065
For those concerned about the current debt issues, the last two Planet Money podcasts of were fantastic, and rather reassuring:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944...
Many of the items discussed in this pre-article seem way overkill for what the author seems to be trying to do. It doesn't take much to create an account with a reputable broker like Interactive Brokers that has a good live API for auto-trading (and support paper trading to test your code without using real cash). There are no upfront fees on many brokers and the commission is often minimal depending on the transaction. eTrade has similar APIs. Historical data is available at minimal cost through a sites like eoddata.com. Also, especially if you're just starting and experimenting with formulas, using your personal laptop/desktop with a live feed from IB is more than enough to act on live tick data for the symbols you're interested in.
Depends on what you want to do. Some mobile apps or small webapps might work, but anything more ambitous will suffer from the time tradeoffs you have to make.
What i learned from constantly doing things on the side: If you are really passionate about an idea, dedicate all your time to it.
"even if it's one in a million or one in a thousand"
The probability of being killed ( or at least hurt ) while driving to work is probably larger than 1 in a milion.
Companies already get to reduce their US tax by the amount of tax they paid a foreign government. The issue here is that that they've moved the profits to places where little or no taxes are paid at all. This is not about double taxation.
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Those five people got paid but I'm sure they appreciate your concern.
You could properly solve that problem by letting them sign up for the email in the first place and rather than say "we will send you and you will have to unsubscribe".
Another way to look at it is as an adapter to a "new" WSGI interface specification. The fact that it's backwards compatibile allows it to be used with existing WSGI tools, but future WSGI Lite-compatible software could implement the Lite API directly.

That being said, I've only briefly looked over the WSGI Lite code and neither advocate nor criticize its direction.
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Yes. We are based out of Mumbai. And the thing is we are offering everything mentioned on your list. I find the Indian developer to be more concerned about the salary.

The other issues you mentioned could be true in our case. We did give more responsibility to an inexperienced developer who has shown great initiative.

A good developer with commitment or a better developer who is all over the place?

Honestly development as a career is very hard, I have seen a lot of developers who cannot switch off, or focus on solving a specific problem. I think passion to solve a problem sometimes makes it easy for a developer to work on something for a decent amount of time and not try hacking the nxt shiny thing around.
Apple doesn't release updates where the window manager crashes and you have to do something like alt-f2, unity --replace to make it work again.
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From a design POV, I can't see what good will come from a focus group on steroids.
I think you missed my point. Saying that it doesn't relate at all - as unlikely as that would be - would at least be a response to the question.
I'm curious (not Israeli, but have toyed with the idea of Tzavah/Aliyah)
Obviously it would be the other way around, discontinuing IE6 support might lead to falling. Think of random niche industries with ancient old hardware and no-one who cares about software updates.
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Please go read the links. This is not about the sales happening in countries outside of the US. This is about the billions of dollars inprofits Apple, Microsoft, Google and others would otherwise be making on their US sales being shifted around to low-tax havens using clever internal licensing agreements. For example, see http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
It is not presumptuous. The very human is the one pondering about this 'truth': it very well relates to him as the 'nature' of the Universe contains man within it, does it not? So whatever nature the Universe follows, so does man.

If it were the case that there are multiple parallel futures, then we ask ourselves:

How do I navigate myself to the best-possible future for me and those who surround me?

It is your very actions day by day that determine where it is that you go.
>OP is the poster of the blog also

Cool, welcome to HN, Colby. It's a good first submission, have you been lurking long? Why not join the conversation?
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What exactly do you have issues with?

Make sure that you're using the right fonts, have all the paddings/margins done right and png fixes if you want to make it on IE6.

You can try to test it on browsershots and something like IEtester (where you have multiple IE's available).

"or if it would be a good idea to just detect I.E. and put a page that says "Please use Firefox/Safari/Chrome."" - depends on what do you want to achieve with this website. You might want to just stick a separate css sheet for IE.
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Two interesting things the articles blows right past:

- That they compare their algo to the ones used by Amazon and Netflix to recommend products, while ignoring that products have much better defined boundaries than people do. (And ignoring how both Amazon and Netflix suffered through some horribly bad recommendations in both their systems, early on).

- That they think Facebook (or any big social network) complements them, instead of rendering them irrelevant.

A dating service built on a matching you to real world friends-of-friends-of-friends has a much better chance at success than Match.com's "People who dated Alice also dated Mary, Jill, and Bertha. Sign up now for 1-Click Dating!"
Let me know some Amazon Affiliated stores that use Amazon Advertising APIs.
I am looking for some good amazon associate affiliate stores that use amazon advertising apis to show products.
I am planing to create one and need inspiration for design and features.
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I'm currently launching an exchange. Liquidity is EVERYTHING. Your hourly auction idea is one way to provide it of course, and some exchanges do just this at special times, or at start of trading.

There really isn't a 'current' system actually, at least not as you probably understand it. There are hundreds of markets, with different rules, many of them can place orders between them.

None of this shows for someone putting in a 'buy' at E*Trade, though.
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Thanks I'll get that taken care of as quickly as possible. Appreciate the feedback!
> But you will get it in the form that I would like you to have it, not as it happened.

And that's actually a very large part of why I don't use something that makes rebase easy. Because, fundamentally, I do not care how you "want" me to get it. I want to get it how it was put into the repository to begin with. I want to get it how it was committed--because how it was done matters to me, as a developer and as a person. This is an entirely emotional position and I don't care: show me how it was done. It matters to me, and given my personal axioms there is a decent argument, in my mind, that doing otherwise is disrespecting people who might want to see how you "put it all together."

You're certainly welcome to disagree. But because I use Hg for my projects and for any project I contribute to, and because my usual co-workers aren't going to go through the hassle of enabling Hg's rebase extension and using it just for the hell of it, I generally get what I want in the areas I care about. =)
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Very interesting to hear you say that. Why do you feel that way? I mean obviously users can't come up with a cohesive design, but they can certainly tell you when it's good or when it sucks...I mean I think...
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Thanks - I'll take a look.
A better argument than the figure today, is where it will be in a year.

From ie6countdown.com, click the line graph icon: http://www.ie6countdown.com/#chart

Extrapolate the line on its current trend and IE6 will not be even 1% in 13 months time.

Why invest a significant effort when the market share will evaporate within the year?

Further, if your project is going to take time to get traction, it may be a reality that by the time you're done the world no longer cares.
Fair enough, but I still don't think a business that is wildly successful would fail by discontinuing IE6 support -- even in a "random niche industry" where IE6 users make up more than 2% of their customer base. In fact, I doubt any of those businesses are currently wild successes. But I guess that all depends on how you define success.
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Ummm, he runs the commands in radically different configurations a grand total of three times each, and extrapolates a conclusion from that... I don't think so.

However, from experience, I would say that in a multi-core, multi-threaded world, you should be careful with your logging; inline logging should be sending a message to a logging component which serializes all the log messages, I've seen otherwise well written multi-threaded code suffer from huge lock contention in logging (I'm looking at you System.Console.WriteLine)
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We are mostly having issues with styling. Apparently words inside buttons cannot have an anchor tag with links in I.E. It is clickable for us on Chrome but not on I.E.

I will try IEtester - have already seen browsershots.

Thanks!
As opposed to no-one having access, a restricted access is a much better idea.
I was not aware that HFT algorithms are that 'personal', now that article makes even less sense! What seems extremely blasphemous is that this person outrightly denies the importance of creativity and innovation that goes into Product designing at (pardon my ignorance, and bias for real tech firms), say, Google.

What I do get from the port is this: HFT people are extremely smart - extremely closed circle. They know algorithms and optimization. Speed is of utmost importance. They know more ways to optimize than I will ever know (Actually I don't even need to. I can very well work on something more significant). And they earn a lot (Well I will earn enough for my satisfaction, so I don't give a flying SegFault).
Those browsers are not alike. If you follow standard advice - valid HTML, progressive enhancement, unobstrusive Javascript (or fallbacks where needed) - Lynx will render your snazzy 2011 page with the same fidelity as a 1995 Geocities page, and the result will be perfectly usable. IE6, though, will not only ignore your CSS3 stuff, but also completely misinterpret the things it does "understand".
It is still painfully slow, right?
They are wasting money by using IE6. Yes you can argue, that they pay for IE6 development and thus its their money and that we should not care.

However it is we who sell Win7 and IE6 support at the same time. And by supporting IE6 we lock our customers into stone age even more.

There are plenty of alternatives for any software that had to be done via ActiveX 7 years ago. It is completely our (industry) fault that banks and large corporates keep using IE6 - since we would rather milk them dry with our shitty solutions than to help them move on.

So what are you proposing... That banks and large corporates keep using Win XP for the next 10,20 years (????).

What about general productivity, usability, security, etc?

What these victims should (but will not) learn is that buying software on the cheap, with disregard to open standards is extremely costly and unwise.
Six months into it and I can't go back. Seriously, I can't.

After a few months I tried sitting again a couple of times but that was totally destructive for my neck and shoulders now that they've actually relaxed while I've been using the standing desk. Few hours later I had to revert back to standing which exhibits virtually no pain points. The only painful thing were my feet in the beginning but now I simply stand on a carpet, and further I've also folded the carpet these days. That helps me vary the position of my feet: I can use the folded carpet to tilt my feet forward, backward, or level and the same for both feet. I unconsciously keep changing my posture a few times a minute so I won't stick into bad positions.

Built the desk from an ordinary kitchen table by replacing the legs with longer ones, costing roughly 30€ or so at the hardware store. Here's a picture: http://yason.kapsi.fi/tmp/codingdesk.jpg
How is this different than craigslist, a dating site, meetup.com or really any site that allows random people on the internet to meet each other in person?

People need to have some smarts about who they meet with. The service can do some things, like integrating the Facebook graph, but ultimately the two parties to the transaction must be responsible for checking each other out before they meet.
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That isn't what I meant and I myself do read the docs. But: if YAGNI then YAGNI.
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I'd like to get some input on my project from the Hacker News community.

The Reddit thread can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/j5bl3/can_whoever_makes_browsers_please_consider_adding/

The extension itself is located here:
http://www.mutetab.com/

Basically, my project is a Chrome extension that attempts to provide browser-wide sound management to the extent possible within an extension. It helps a user find what is making sound by identifying what is possibly making sound, allows automatically muting background sounds, and provides a context menu with sound management commands that will use JavaScript where available and otherwise hides elements from the page.

It does not solve the more general "mute tab" problem -- if a plugin instance doesn't have a JavaScript API, then the only way I can mute it is by hiding it from the page (like Flashblock does). This is unideal because if it is a game or a video, hiding and reshowing it will restart it.

I'm most interested in getting technical feedback (please read the FAQ since I mention some ideas that I haven't heard anyone discuss) but am also interested in feedback about how I am presenting things (what I'm doing might be too complicated for many users to understand) and general feedback.
I love it when the "quirks" break the whole theory. This is what happened in the late 1800's; there were only minor flaws in Physics that needed to be ironed out.

Of course, when that started, the garment caught on fire.