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It's a nice tribute to Len. Len's indirectly the reason I live in San Francisco today, and why I moved here without a job after graduating college. Through Len I met people who are my close friends in the hacker community today. The last time I heard from Len was four days before his death, and sadly, there was no indication that there was anything amiss.

I'm not sure of the exact circumstances of Len's passing, and I'll probably never really know. Instead, I'll just say that for all of you reading this today -- if you suffer from depression or feel a deep darkness over you, please seek help. Depression is a disease, and it can be treated. So while it may seem hopeless, or that nobody knows of the deep burden you carry, give it a chance. There was a time you felt good, even if it's hard to remember right now, and there's a way to get back to that place.

RIP Len. ;-(
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Do not want.

Plus is growing on me. It does what it's supposed to do and stops there. I don't want a bunch of smurfberry crap added to it.
Me, I say that our apps can't work with IE (yes, IE, including 7 and 8), without a plugin : Google Chrome Frame.

Both the words "plugins" (reminds him of Flash I guess) and "Google" seems reassuring :p Might not work at every company ^^
Yea, you do. Sadly you've just gone 6 levels over the head of Sandy the PR person. And that's why it's still the default, because it works for everyone.
My problem with this whole incident is the crappy reporting like this statement from the article "Without an increase in the debt limit, the federal government will not be able to pay all its bills next month. President Barack Obama recently indicated he can't guarantee Social Security checks will be mailed out on time."

The key word in the first sentence is "all" and the second sentence is not exactly true. The US Gov would not of actually had to default, but would have had to cut spending in other areas. The modern press cannot actually claim to informing the electorate of anything but hyperbole and repeated, unexamined words of politicians.
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"The vast majority of the people who use [it] benefit from it" is true of many products that are correctly removed from the market because of the size of the minority that suffer and the scale of their injury -- weighed against the benefit to other users and society as a whole.

More importantly, though, the scope of the risk of airbnb is enormous and past performance is not a reliable indicator of future success. As these two examples of bad experiences have shown, the system can be gamed. As a larger and larger number of bad guys learn that this system can be gamed (and how) -- exploits as a percentage of use and percentage of value received (insofar as you can quantify that) will, it seems to me, almost certainly grow.
Very strange title; it implies that Apple is actively making it difficult for other companies to make a profit. Of course, what's really happening is that (a) Motorola, Nokia and Samsung in particular have big shares of the declining dumb phone market, and (b) Samsung in particular makes lots of zero-margin ultra-cheap (<100euro unsubsidised) Android and Bada smartphones for the prepaid market.
Plug: You're missing AppNexus, which has some insanely smart developers, and is hiring fast. http://www.appnexus.com
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Yep sorry for the misinformation, I hadn't read much about it recently. Seems whatever it does on amd64 (or in PNaCl at a guess) is also how it works on arm (7% slowdown from looking at the FAQ).
So Colby... does CSS still make you smile (as you say on http://colbyrabideau.com/)? :)
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> Pretty much nobody supports IE6 anymore.

That's just not true in my experience. We have two large corporate clients and one state agency that each require some level of IE6 support. I have a hard time believing these are the exception. I'd wager it's going to take a few more years to reach that point.
Haven't done it myself, but I know you can use haXe to make webOS apps/games. https://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=70&#...
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Colby needs to go back and challenge the requirement with his boss. Business isn't entirely a top-down process -- if it's not a good idea, it's his duty as an employee to express this. Lots of great ideas and insights come from the most junior people. It's easy to come off as difficult when voicing dissent, so it's important to be thoughtful and constructive.

In this case, it's easy -- just bring Microsoft's own data to the table. According to http://www.ie6countdown.com, only 2% of the US uses IE6, and it's clearly not 2% more work. In addition, big sites like Facebook and YouTube have abandoned IE6 support. The company's needs will differ from the averages, but it's a good starting point to start looking at the data.
I was confused for a few seconds when I checked the date and saw that it was currently July 2011.
Yeah, well if square is "disruptive", millions is not far away.
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The blog post talks about Facebook development. Has Facebook ever released browser share numbers? I bet their target audience is a lot less than 2% IE6.
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The method that Dan Kaminsky used is subject to a width constraint in Bitcoin.
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Opera has more market share. However, many sites don't support it. The iPad is already at 1% market share and should easily be at 2% within the next 12 months. It really depends on your target audience, of course, but which group of people would you guess has more extra cash to spend? I would target the iPad audience before the IE6 audience.
Let's face it, there will be times when you'll have to work without motivation and inspiration. It's in those situations where efficiency and giving yourself rewards and treating yourself well are extra important.

Basketball star Kobe Bryant says (about basketball) that he "honors the craft". That's why he's so good at the game.

That's what you need to do. Take what your already good at and get better. Honor the craft. Don't wait for inspiration, go after it.
I was looking for a keyboard without an attached number pad that wasn't ridiculously expensive. I settled with the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile 6000. I don't need the external number pad, bluetooth, or curve but I don't mind these.

It's a solid feeling keyboard despite it's short keystrokes. I'm glad that Microsoft didn't mangle or rearrange the left control and alt keys. The home-cluster and arrow keys are squashed and partially relegated to functions, but I think this is a worthwhile trade-off. Between vim/emacs and the shell, there shouldn't be too many reasons to use these keys anyways:)

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I was responding to a specific comment which suggested 2% is nothing worth caring about, not to the original blog.

That said, I would think that Facebook is mainstream enough to get it's fair share of non-technical users.
Yes, he will. He will also be talking about it at Blackhat.
Sure, perhaps 2% of the US as measured by some collection of large, publically facing websites. Now try taking that measurement again within the walls of a set of large corporations. This becomes particularly relevant if you're developing an internal application for one of those corporations.
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I think this offers three things that googling up information doesn't.

#1 It's much more than just reading facts about an ailment. You're asking a health question about your personal situation and getting other peoples help, whether it's through their own experience, knowledge or whatever it may be. In some ways its even more reliable because you have other people to verify what worked for them and what didn't. You don't get that type of raw, personal information from referencing facts on a sheet of paper.

#2 You're not only getting raw information, but you get it targeted to your specific situation because you can ask questions. This means you can share different details and nuances about your situation and get answers that are directly related to that. Some people may have a paraticular health question and will resaearch online for hours and just find information that's not really targeted to their unique situation. Curenote lets you ask a specific question and get targeted answers.

#3 There are other health forums out there, but Curenote is designed to be easier to use and read, while looking beautiful and elegant. A lot of forums are badly designed with text that's hard to read, littered with ads all around, spam comments and hard to use navigations. Curenote strives to do better. It also only focuses on the key health topics that most people are inundated with everyday. These aren't just topics that affect the elderly, but teenagers and young adults as well.
Did they make it harder to find the prices for normal chartbeat? That starts at $10 a month.

News sites are a richer audience, I'm surprised they don't charge more.
Google dropped IE6 support for YouTube over a year ago. They are dropping Google Apps support for IE7 on Aug 1st (that's today for some people reading this).

For search results it's probably more worthwhile and not as hard to support the IE's but for their other apps they say they are only supporting that two most recent browsers.
I'm not affiliated with the organizers, but there is a link on that page where you can submit your company. I strongly recommend you do.

shortcut https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey...
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If you use Google Apps for Domains, it's in the management panel. There's probably something similar for most hosting accounts. It's basically just a "forward all uncaught email for example.com to admin@example.com" rule in the postfix/exim/etc setup.
A major reason in South Korea is that in the late 90s, the government mandated the use of ActiveX for online banking. This was only recently repealed, and the Korean government is now encouraging people to move on.

The government mandate encouraged many websites to also use ActiveX. South Korea is probably the only country where ActiveX is still in use. Internet Explorer has a browser share of 90-95% in Korea. IE6 is about 15-20% of this.
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It didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it. August is still six minutes away here.
IE6 usage has nothing to do with technical vs non-technical anymore. Most IE6 usage in the US is due to stupid corporate policies, home users long ago moved on, and of course the current widespread mobile browsers are all way past IE6.

I optimistically hypothesize that users are less likely to access Facebook (or most other non-internal webapps) from a locked-down corporate desktop, and even if not, that those users also access Facebook from non-corporate systems, making the loss of access from the corporate system partly illusory -- if the posited loss is "2%", I think the actual loss is probably as low as 1%.
I'm happy we finally dropped IE 6 support at work, but I don't like the line of reasoning in this article. Having to tackle unsavory but necessary problems is what makes this a job; the ability to do so effectively is what makes you a professional. Two days doing IE6 compliance is not a big deal.
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A large number of (non-technical) users associate "Mark as spam" with "I don't want to receive this anymore." In some cases, bad experiences with unsubscribe links may have nothing to do with it.
1. Internationali[sz]ation. Never hardcode strings in code that is part of a real system that will be maintained and has any chance at all of moving forward. In the US, Spanish support is the obvious one. Globally, good programmers should get in the habit of always coding in a way that adequately supports Chinese, Arabic (right to left), etc. If you don't know how to do this, figure it out now and charge extra at your next gig: it's in demand, trust me.

2. Cherry-picked example factor. Hardcoding date strings is doubly bad, as they are usually provided by any modern system. Good libraries will also provide abbreviations (Monday = Mon = M), different calendar systems, etc. this problem is nearly as old as computing and elegantly solved many times over. Anyone who does not realise this is simply not experienced. Any team that allows such code past reviews and/or group reading is incompetent.
Your system might be more fair, but not one would use it. Traders want an exchange where they can buy/sell as soon as they receive new information, not in the future when everyone else has same information.
One wonders how the creators intend to scale a system where every user needs the entire past state of every coin..
It's a lovely tribute to Len. It's perhaps worth pointing out that he was not a fan of Bitcoin. Here are some of his Bitcoin-related Tweets over the last few weeks of his life:

@glynmoody I wasn't happy with EFF's original acceptance of bitcoin, but I agree with you that their reasons for reversing course are "eh."

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/83095852104695809

@znmeb Ah, then you'd be missing the people advising their mothers to put their life savings into Bitcoin while they still can get in on it.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/82850601876205568

@mentalguy The question is, though, just how much of Bitcoin's success is due to irrational exuberance? I think most of it.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/82754572958961664

mentalguy

RT @mentalguy Also, if I had a significant BTC balance, I'd have kept it in PDF417 in a safe deposit box, not on someone's servers.
Retweeted by lensassaman

https://twitter.com/mentalguy/status/82552784876089344

In reply to Mary Gardiner wishing the damn "kids would get off her lawn":

@hypatiadotca As a cypherpunk entering middle age, I have one word in response to that: Bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/82638700185530368

@jonmatonis has your opinion of bitcoin's anonymity (or rather, lack off) finally changed?

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/84184691892166656

Ugh, another stupid article claiming "anonymity is inherent in Bitcoin." Dear reporters: please stop sucking. | http://j.mp/iU2paU

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/81431725510635521

@dredeyedick That only works if you want to leave the inflated value of Bitcoin on the table; otherwise you must cash out before the crash.

https://twitter.com/lensassaman/status/81121594373709825
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This just reads like pathologising outliers to me.
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Props to you that you have done so much in your early life. It takes tremendeous effort to do what you have achieve. :)

To be motivated, one need to know his/her goal towards it. I read your post here, but I don't see yoru goal. Your friend has a goal of growing a community around a new programming language. That's why he beats you on stuff. :)

If you want to be motivated, relax, think for a while (take as much time as you need), and decide what you want to do out of it.

For example, if you have hobby of restoring cars, your motivation is the goal of having the restored car in running condition with pristine condition. THat's how car restorer stays motivated because they know what they want to achieve.

Think about what you want to achieve, what goal you want to set...

Come back here with that in mind, and we might be able to help you set up steps to ensure that you can stay motivated.
Nice. I underquote for <i>sea side</i> jobs because I feel guilty about it, but you are raising my confidence :) Developing world living, first world salary, FTW.
I am in West End Dallas and there is one on my hotel. Different text but same website.
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If it costs a large enough amount of money, they would. More precisely, they should. Why stop at IE6? There's still a combined large number of users using IE5 and IE5.5 and Lynx and NS4 and Amaya, etc.

In some cases, it may cost quite a large amount to continue to maintain and patch sites to also support IE6, and that money needs to be deducted from the 'profit' had from IE6 users. And more to the point, that same money being spent supporting those IE6 users could be being spent on bolstering mobile device work, newer browsers, assistive technologies, and what not.

The "well, we don't want to lose the profit from our users" has been thrown at me in the past, with the charge that "well, techies just care about gadgets/technology". No... in reality, many of us in the trenches (not all, but many) end up being better positioned to see the real business effects of these decisions. I'd much rather be working for a company that was spending its money wisely and being forward thinking rather than reactionary and wasteful. That's not a tech issue - it's a business issue.
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Does anyone have a similar hacker house in Manhattan? I am looking for a place and would love to be a part of such a culture.
"The deal includes no tax increases"

This might be a good thing, it could force the government to be creative with their budgeting (and maybe even produce better results)
If I have to choose between joining a start-up populated with 20yos vs 30+yos, it's no contest.

For me, it's been the difference between shipping and being stuck in development hell forever.

The older crowd wins hands-down.
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Hey All, I am the creator of Group/as, a site that was made to try to be the central place for all of these 'circle' lists being made on Google+.

As far as I know it is the only community driven site of its kind. It has gained a bit of traction these last couple of weeks and has just been updated to allow visitors to create custom groups.

It is still a little rough and has some way to go but I would love some feedback and would appreciate any suggestions.
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I seriously doubt IE6 support can be the difference between "wildly profitable and failing" for any business. Can you name one example of a failing company that started supporting IE6 and then became wildly profitable?
A clarification on Korea's ActiveX problem: Korea mandated 128 bit encryption via the use of an ActiveX control or plugin, but when Netscape bit the dust, there was no reason to update that plugin anymore.

The sordid history is here! -> http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/02/27/the-cost-of-monocultu...
Have you considered going straight for the paid option
( ie. no free content ) and seeing how much demand you have? I think the app looks a lot better than most of the stuff already out there, and the price point would reassure parents that they are getting a high-quality product for their kids.
It isn't, but since the primary thing to do with Bitcoin is to speculate it, keeping it on your PC is problematic.
A user's bitcoin "wallet" is really their private key. It seems they didn't lose their database, so they still have a record of how many bitcoins each user should have, but they don't have access to those coins.
What's with the financially illiterate assumption that profit is a zero-sum game? It's not. I'm sure that chart would look very different (and more meaningful) if it wasn't mashed into percentages.

Even if you used this faulty logic, the chart to me says "Apple stealing Nokia's share of profits", not the entire phone market. Were Nokia and Apple placed together in the chart, this would be clearer.
And a further reason is that the Windows XP is still the most common operating system in use.

People don't feel any need to upgrade, as everything works with their current browser/OS.

I've used the internet at my Sister in law's (in Korea) - lightning fast internet speeds, with a creaking slow operating system full of bloatware.
Yes. In fact the whole 'many worlds' thing from QM is just an interpretation of what the equations appear to be stating. For example, in general the equations tell us with retardedly awesome precision the probability of events occurring. This is hard science. The many worlds interpretation (ie something along the lines that the universe branches at every possible 'coin toss') is one attempt at reconciling this 'non-intuitive' behavoir (that the universe is inherently probabilistic) with our intuition.

Much of the 'far off' musings in the many worlds interpretation is the result of physicists being bored and wanting to have some fun, or some popsci gone horribly wrong.

Edit: Also, if we did live in a holographic universe, there may be experimental proof of it (the ars article left it out). Ironically linking to a popsci article... (says that we probably aren't)

link: http://news.discovery.com/space/we-might-not-live-in-a-holog...
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Valid point. Considering two of those three copies are electronic, I have increasingly few excuses.... Going to move it up in the rotation.
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FWIW: Had no discomfort when I started standing up. I think my Vibram Five Fingers are to thank for that; About a month after I started using them, I noticed that knee aches that have been there for years have virtually disappeared, that my calf muscles are much stronger, and that the weight distribution on my feet is much different (balls instead of heel).
How else are you going to guarantee the irreversibility and proof in such a system? The block chain was very much a careful design consideration.

Every user doesn't even need the full set of transactions. I buy and sell bitcoins and have only run the desktop client for a few minutes to see what it looked like.
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TechCrunch has always smelled slightly of yellow journalism, but I would say that, on average, they've given Airbnb fair treatment. Arrington and the TC crew have written very enthusiastically about Airbnb in the past, perhaps excessively so, and now they are fulminating about the users who have been mistreated by Airbnb renters, again perhaps excessively so. Still, I would rather that these cases reach a public forum than that Airbnb have carte blanche to whitewash them for the sake of investor happiness.