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In that case, wouldn't it be more effective to throw Mozilla's weight behind an open source mobile Operating System that actually has a chance of going mainstream ala MeeGo?
I don't really believe in the so-called war for tech talent, or at least companies don't act like that. I'm in a bad mood this morning, so let's name names:

Facebook: if you live in the bay area, even if you live in SF, they refuse to do a phone screen, instead demanding that you drive to Palo Alto one to two times for one hour interviews in lieu of phone screens. Between the hours of 10am and 4 pm. So basically they demand that you take 1-2 1/2 days off work before even interviewing for real. Even if you don't have a car and have a leg in a cast, they don't budge. Of course, when you tell the recruiter fine, you're withdrawing, then they're flexible about doing things over the phone. NB: for those of you not local to the bay area, while Palo Alto and SF are considered to be local to each other, in practical terms, particularly if you're not familiar with traffic on 101, it's a 75 minute drive each way to be sure you'll get there on time.

Twitter: sit on resumes for two weeks, even if you were referred by an employee.

A9: also sit on resumes referred by an employee for 2 weeks.

The point of this whining is companies certainly don't act like they're in a talent crunch : shrug :
well, maybe
Your resume is a marketing document and you should treat it as such. Text has the advantage that it's universally supported, but it has the downside that it lacks the formatting tools that allow you to design your CV to highlight key areas.

Remember that someone reading your CV isn't going to read every word of it, they're likely to scan quickly through it looking for key points. While in Doc/PDF format you can use typographical tools to aid this (font size, line width, layout, etc.) in plain text you have far fewer options.

This of course assumes that you can put together a well designed CV, obviously a plain-text CV is going to be better than a CV written in size 20 comic-sans (I've actually seen this).
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Paging to disk is pretty terrible if it's not strictly necessary. If your storage is an HDD, it can sometimes be faster to regenerate the paged information rather that read it back from disk. I don't know if Safari is actually causing memory contention here or if it's just aggressively caching while still playing nice. But if its cache is causing a lot of paging, that could very well be worse for performance than just reducing the cache size.
I've never had the slightest bit of trouble with opening my wedge-shaped Air - there's a large cutout of the bottom panel to allow your finger to fit underneath and get a grip on the lid...
I have to question if we should be supporting IE6 at all with these endeavours. I see it as encouraging people to continue using busted tools that are clear and present dangers to the web environment.

I get the counter-argument, but on the whole, I'd rather see IE6,7 and 8 just die. If corporations are too risk-averse to get rid of a clearly-broken tool, why should we help them out?
Agreed. At the startup I work for I went into a review asking for what I considered a bump to market level and the number I proposed, though not as high as 140 was still met with an "uhhh" type response. I was told most candidates coming in were asking for my salary range at the time or lower, and I believe them.
Given the exposure, I would expect AirBnB to have liability insurance up the wazoo. It seems likely they would lose a lawsuit in this case, and even with just partial liability it could be very expensive.
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Rental property insurance is not a brand new idea.

Probably not worth to be codified as a law, after all, some may choose to bypass it, but other than that there are plenty of companies selling it (vacation properties and rentals existed long before AirBnB), and AirBnB could benefit from linking to those vendors.
...however, I was seeing huge amounts of RAM usage even with only three or four tabs open. Four webpages shouldn't be consuming over a gigabyte of RAM.

I think it's a mistake to equate 4 tabs with 4 web pages worth of content. Each tab actually represents a list of web pages that corresponds to that tab's history, and each element in that list is actually the root of a tree of resources needed for each of those pages, and if the user uses the back button, they often do not want to merely return to the page as it would be fetched by the request, but they also want to return to the state of the DOM as it was when they were just there, such as the state of a form they were entering. With the swipe-to-go-back interface, the previous page needs to be available pretty fast to make the UI responsive to this gesture.

This smells more like a cache to me than a leak.
Sometimes I wish I was old enough to have experienced the early days of the internet, and then I remember that we are still in the early days of the internet.

Is it possible to get nostalgic for the present?
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My bad on the angrybirds.app and google.app ones. We had someone pre-register them and at the time the easiest thing to do was scoop them into the "community reserved domains" list.

Matt - The .app Project
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tl;dr - WYSIWYG fails to provide enough control for designers. Instead, we should use this specific jQuery library. It shows the markup instead of what it will look like to the end-user.

... No. WYSIWYG is designed to let you preview your document as you go, instead of having to repeatedly preview it and fix things. It's not really for designers, it's for the common man who just want to put something in bold without a ton of extra garbage in his way. It's designed for the common man who doesn't know, or doesn't want to think about, markup.

There's nothing wrong with WYSIWIG editors. The problem is that you are trying to use them for the wrong thing.
You know you've been on the Internet too long when sites you visited a decade ago pop up here as news.
Redefine the idea and be more innovative than your competitor. Your new project will be much better.
A larger volume of code raises the probability of more bugs.
And by "market level" I mean what I've gleaned from posts like this.
I have always believed that a system which allows name collisions that result in a sort of "search results" listing being displayed in the browser is a better model than the current name system. Sprinkle with SSL/TLS as needed for authentication. Embed in a distributed (DHT) mesh for resiliency.

This idea of unique domains managed by a centralized bureaucracy is doomed. Initiatives like TBL's Linked Data foolishly rely on permanent URIs which state judges have proved are not permanent.
I like your breakdown of the DDoS vs the sit-in. The requirement of many people vs a few does make an important distinction when considering the effectiveness as a form of protest.

But I think the analogy to a bomb threat or breaking windows is a bad one, primarily because it's likely to be misunderstood. I'll agree that those are more similar in the sense of scale, but that's about the only similarity. Bombs and stones damage both property and individual human lives in ways that are likely to be traumatic and irrevocable. A DDoS is peaceful, causing only a temporary financial effect on a business.
iOS mainly: Sounds need to be triggered by touch events, which of course for gaming seriously restricts what you can do.

EG: No sound effect from an alien shooting at you.
Must be depressing to work at Apple and be the dev on the Photo Booth app.
There are alternatives like nochex, worldpay, etc. but none of them have a better track record than Paypal.
i always tought that it is other way around, that thoutgh shape language. maybe my language was not good enough.
It's very easy for younger smart people to be anarcho-capitalists (which I take it you are), but IMHO becomes progressively harder as you age.

The basic problem is that a "people know what's best for themselves" policy screws over dumb people for the simple reason that they don't.

Car insurance is a very interesting thing to legislate, because although the expected value of buying insurance is slightly negative, when you factor in the economies of scale on dealing with someone else's car getting repaired (figuring out if a bill is over market, handling multiple bills, tracking any medical expenses, etc), purchasing car insurance is strongly positive EV.

I think landlord insurance is similar.

>> Car insurance is different, because it also covers damages you inflict on others and other people's property.

Landlord insurance of course also covers this (if your property catches fire while you're renting it out, you may very well be legally responsible, if a previous renter breaks in and steals the new renters belongings you are probably legally responsible, etc).

Regardless, it seems based on what you said that you might be in favor of requiring renters to buy insurance. Is this correct?
That would also require the patent office to grant patents in well less than a year. It wouldn't help the little guys too much if you found out you were granted the patent 6 months or more after its expired.
There is no way those guys lived there for a week and left no fingerprints.
> If corporations are too risk-averse to get rid of a clearly-broken tool, why should we help them out?

Because we want their business. There's a simple equation here- if you don't support IE6, you lose business from people that use it. For some web sites (such as mine, fortunately) IE6 and IE7 usage is so low that it's a rounding error. A lot of other sites are not so fortunate.
Curious, it happens that Apple just recently phased out their last Macs that still used nVidia chips (and thus their only non-infringing models). Anyone know the reasoning for the switch?
Perhaps because they are an important source of customers? I agree with the sentiment of pushing things further along, but the cost/benefit tradeoffs can be radically different depending on individual business requirements.
It's in Safari 5.1. I'm running 10.6 still and Safari is indeed guzzling more memory, through that process, than it did in version 5.0.x.
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Been following this site past few weeks, SLICK new UI and layout now :)
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As others have stated, there are a ton of web apps that require IE. And once you have to install IE for them, why install others? So that your employees can surf all the web sites they want on company time? The inventive to provide that is not very high.
Assuming it's just cached content, Safari 5.1 is then caching _a lot_ more than 5.0.x did.
As a developer, I can't help but feel that this would be an ego boost and a really fun story! I know that's not what it's all about, just being honest. :)

It would NOT, however, increase my chances of working with that recruiter. It would probably diminish them because the recruiter would seem overbearing and desperate: neither traits I want in someone representing me to employers.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_in...

is a good article on how language can/does affect thought
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and beyond proposing an idea, and collecting emails, what does this submission contribute?
I hope you continue your blogging, as it seems like quite an interesting story. It sucks you've been betrayed so many times by those you trust, but I hope you don't lose faith in your fellow humans.

It truly saddens me to know people don't believe in the innate goodness of fellow human beings.

Having said that, I have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance, and I do not trust the law to protect me suitably. I wish I were better at the approach taken by Gandhi, but I have not internalized his wisdom yet, though I recognize it (so that gives me hope).
How much of this is due to the separate process per tab model that is popular nowadays?
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Indeed not, but Erlang is Erlang, Hook.io is Hook.io, and Trolls are Trolls. More perspective on opinions would be helpful to evolving away from problems you see, and/or for the use of understanding your comment.
Normally I lurk and don't vote. But this is worth people's time to watch.
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Disagree with your tl;dr, it mischaracterises the post. Mine would be:

WYSIWYG provides distraction for editors, and fails to separate content from presentation for developers. Instead, we should use an abstracted formatting language that adds semantics, not styling. The problem is we need a good visual editor to work with that formatting language.
Until the supreme court rules on it themselves, I'm pretty positive other judges are still free to make their own judgments on the matter.
While I agree that the W3Fools list of mistakes on the W3Schools site is heavily diluted with nitpicks, I think W3Fools makes a valid point that W3Schools is inaccurate and out-of-date to the point of being misleading, because in my personal experience there have been more than one instance in which case something I had "learned" on W3Schools before I knew better lead to mistakes I didn't realize until I started regularly consulting other sites instead.

I also don't see what you mean that it's a "stupid site that exists sorely [sic] as a protest against the existence of another site". If a hypothetical site did exist that was as bad as W3Fools claims W3Schools is (setting aside that you don't seem to think W3Schools is that bad), don't you think it's nice, or at least not stupid, to have a site you can point people to that explains what's wrong with the hypothetical bad site and what alternatives there are?

Validating your HTML is like linting your JS, I agree that it'd be dumb to do it for it's own sake, and in fact I know HTML and JS well enough and have enough quirky personal preferences that I don't do it, but I believe it is in fact good practice, especially for beginners, because invalid HTML, like JS that doesn't pass lint, can be a sign of bad practices or mistakes.
Surely it was Steve Yegge's blog post that caused the loss.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/ebay-patents-10-clic...
Let's stop focusing on the fact that he quit. And focus on WHY he quit. I'm sure we all can relate with what he's saying at some level. He's talking about tackling hard problems and not just low hanging fruit that might (emphasis on might) make a buck. And most of all he's leading by example. I haven't seen this much bravado from anyone in our industry in a long time.
Yea, the problem was the original 4.0 release was buggy.
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I wrote a comment 2 days ago about some of the psychological barriers of this model that AirBnB would have to overcome--and I never even considered the traveler to be the one who's sketchy/troublesome.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802898

On that note though, it'll be really interesting to see how AirBnB tries to counter this problem--there's a reason why people are so secluded and things are so private and fenced.
Ah, the wasted hours of IRQ mole whacking to make the sound card AND the cdrom drive to both work at the same time ...
This is actually a pretty favorable outcome for HTC, as the reported industry average for invalidations during IP review is around 90 percent.

This is one of the biggest problems with the modern patent system.
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I believe this man went to brazil and then came back and presented the same idea fifty years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Chagnon
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Yes, this is a case where perhaps title editing would be beneficial. If a user sees the title on ketyov.com they won't be terribly misled. But on a link aggregation site like Hacker News, most people would assume as wccrawford did.
Does it bug anyone else that the Acorn Atom, Commodore Amiga et al are referred to as Consoles?

It's bad enough that the current crop of what I would call consoles have no keyboard, and you need to break the law to write code for them unless you have megabucks.
They care even less if you don't live in California. I get recruiter emails about once a week (usually from/for some HTML Canvas thing) and all it takes to scare them away is to mention that I don't plan on leaving New Hampshire in the near future.

If its a war for talent, even niche stuff like Canvas, they're not trying all too hard.
Sorry for the sparse link ... I couldn't find a better source this early.
Civil Disobedience is (by definition) illegal, so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make much sense for there to be any rules or requirements around it.
I see so many articles like this, particularly ones about academia. No-one ever seems to suggest a better system.
And to decide what to study, let's put it together here:

http://digitalauteur.wikispaces.com
no Facebook will do phone screens at least that was what I was offered several weeks ago..but maybe it depends on the dev area..my specialty is mobile dev client native..
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Is it still a sign of a broken system even if it means the guy I wanted to lose actually loses?

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Signs point to yes.
Shameless Plug. My site http://jobs.usethesource.com/ is a HN-like board for technical jobs that's entirely recruiter free. From the site's "House Rules":

"Recruiters, agencies and other paid intermediaries are not welcome here. This is a peer-to-peer job site and any posting by recruiters or agencies will be killed and accounts used deleted. I have nothing personally against you, but this is not the site for you. Equally, jobs posted here are to be read and responded to by job seekers, not you."

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I have a very hard time believing that licensing blu-ray would be anywhere near as complex as the content and patent negotiations that Apple is involved with on a daily basis.
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Let's just stop the import of all computers and phones over Patent rulings. HTC and Apple should stick to their guns and deny imports of their products.

Once nobody can buy computers or phones in the U.S. anymore THEN, just MAYBE, Congress will decide to fix this Patent mess.
It is on the front page now :)
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Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5
Ever been to a food court? They all essentially sell food and more or less all of them make a success of it. You need to get to the core of the idea and breed a USP around it.
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I took a look into Hacker News hotness algorithm a month or two ago, and it is way more complicated than just points and time. Youtube videos probably don't rank that high compared to other websites. People could be colluding, but I think it is more likely there is more to ranking than we can understand from what we see.

[Edit: This was in response to someone asking why it wasn't on the front page.]
Um, then the anti-socials can just get a temporary/secondary card with a $500 or $1000 limit. Damage here sounds like it goes over $10000, it's not like you can put that kind of holds on people's cards for every rental you arrange.
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The word innocent also refers to childlike innocence, or an innocent mistake just as "loss of innocence" doesn't mean "becoming guilty" (at least not in a legal sense).
For an alternative anecdote see this 2008 BBC article: "'World peace' hitcher is murdered". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7344381.stm

A woman hitchhiked through the middle east dressed as a bride to promote world peace and was murdered and raped.

Are either of these anecdotes indicative of people's experiences when travelling? No. Is there potential danger in relying heavily on stranger's good intentions? Perhaps.
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Paradoxically, the ideal result seems to be only the lawyers coming out ahead.
> "Producing quality news content is expensive and people seem largely unwilling to pay for it."

Most news organizations produce news content for average people, for whom "the news" has little practical day-to-day value. Thus, their "users" are generally unwilling to pay for the content (and are therefore sold to advertisers as products). STRATFOR [0] takes the approach of producing very high quality news content that is of legitimate value to businesses, who are willing to pay decent money for that level of insight. (I don't know if they're doing well financially, just putting them out there because of their different approach.)

Patio11 is fond of pointing out that you should target the right customers, and avoid the pathological ones. This seems to me like a good example -- target the businesses that actually need to know about geopolitical shifts in Indonesia, rather than the average Joe who finds it interesting but not impactful.

[0] http://www.stratfor.com/ -- "Strategic Forecasting"
Just business as usual. Two giant corporations using the courts (or in this case the ITC) to set the price of a cross-license patent agreement.

These sorts of cases aren't usually very interesting. They almost always get settled with no disclosure of the final settlement.
I was targeted by them as well. Not sure how to contact you?
That patent office really doesn't have enough resources to do their job. Congress determines their budget and the fees they charge, and actually hasn't even seen fit to allow them to keep all the money they collect in fees.

In the 1980s (IIRC) this has previously resulted in long delays before patents were issued, but then Congress ordered to USPTO to clear its backlog, which means they now _have_ to grant most patents quickly, because if they don't the applicant will just make a few small changes and send the patent in again, but if they grant the patent its out of their hair.
Could Apple do anything about this? It seems to be an AMD and Intel problem
Let's organize this: http://digitalauteur.wikispaces.com

- We will work on projects that make the world better, not to get rich.

- We will study different subjects to better tackle existing, important problems.

- We will work as a community, sharing our findings, learning from each other
> they will still continue to have a hard drive slot.

Not gonna happen. Even if they decide to save the current form-factor, they will fill the empty space with something actually useful, like battery.
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