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I never understand people who think that VS is the greatest IDE. Sure, when I first started using VS2003 having been doing all of my C coding on the command line prior to that point it felt revolutionary and the best thing since sliced bread. Having used every iteration since then for my day job programming C# applications, I actually cannot stand VS. My dev machine is a dual core 3GHz processor with 4GB of RAM. Yet, compiling a reasonably sized project takes an age.

Frequent recompilations which are unnecessary as no code has changed. I can't make a code change while the application is being debugged. The sliding panels really get on my nerves, it's slow to open projects and to close projects. It's difficult to get fine grained control over the build process within the IDE itself. Every single "visual" feature, such as ASPX designer is dog slow to switch into from code view, or back out of. This has been the case with every version of VS and every dev PC I've had for the last four years.

However there are some things which I like about it - it has a good plugin API (Resharper is awesome) and a nice integrated debugger. My biggest issue is that it is a resource hog and incredibly slow.

I've also coded in Xcode and before that Project Builder for even longer than I've been using VS. The lack of published plugin support is annoying in Xcode but that is probably my biggest gripe. I make no comments about the level of "polish" that an IDE allows a user to provide as I don't think the IDE makes a difference. I would however say that I find myself probably twice as productive coding in XCode than I am in VS.
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Watching the video, my first thought is that it's very anti-seo (because it looks like you're inserting the dynamic content via JS).

If that's the case, I'd never recommend this for pages/content where seo is critical.

So, as much as I hate WordPress—and I really do—I don't see this as a viable alternative. I need more convincing ...

BTW, I don't want to just pee in your cheerios, so I will admit the actual execution/tech aspect is impressive.
Can we flag this already? The last place I want to hear commenters praise supply-side economics is HN.
Code for America is a good project. I know that here in Philadelphia they are trying to make the city government more efficient/productive for citizens.
"Wasted" is totally the wrong attitude. Knowing the support cost is important, but whether it is a waste or a business investment can't be answered by engineers who are programmed to follow the latest shiny thing.

If 60% of my users are on IE6, it is in no way a "waste" for me to spend the money supporting it and calling it a waste highlights an engineers ignorance of the business side of things.
I do consulting and have been in many offices of large corporations in NYC, and I have not seen IE6 on a corporate PC in maybe 5 years. Macs on the other hand are practically neck-and-neck with PCs from what I have seen.

My image of an IE6 user is a 50 year old housewife with a spyware-invested eMachines they bought in 2002. I'm sure in other countries this could be very different but that has been my experience in the US.
Hah, looks like I touched a nerve here. -9 points and counting.
Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) can deliver long-polling with a pretty small amount of work as well, and I appreciate the simple, lightweight design of the framework itself.
Easy answer: Most people do not have an accurate idea of who has money.

http://steadfastfinances.com/blog/2010/10/09/behavioral-econ...

What's shocking about that chart is that the difference between what liberals and conservatives think the wealth spread should be is dwarfed several times over by the difference between the average of what they both want and what it actually is. We should be able to come together on bipartisan tax increases for the wealthiest quintile— but people just don't know the facts.
Wait 'till somebody encodes child porn in the block-chain... BitCoin will be illegal a week.

Pirated material works too, but that would probably be legislated against a bit more slowly.
I'm actually really digging Quora lately. I'm starting to follow/find some really intelligent people and insights, even in non-tech topics I like (e.g. restaurants and baseball).
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Yes, loanwords too.
Its not that there's no money. Its that there's no cost effective way for small organizations to negotiate the contract discovery, bidding, and award process
Combination of things. I'm originally from the Bay Area (Berkeley), so I always wanted to get back (I think I could've gotten into the Chicago winters if I'd picked up following hockey more, but was sort of too late by the time I realized this). The other thing is that pure technology companies really are a bit more exciting in some ways than financial firms, even if they make technology and algorithmic approaches to problem solving their primary focus. Long-term, the Bay Area seemed to make more sense. I sort of believe in the startup mentality more than the Chicago-, zero-sum trading world mentality (though as sort of hinting at, sometimes I miss a little bit of the rigorousness). But it's hard to generalize. Good people in both places.
Personally I find the "git isn't enough like SVN" argument to be basically the "I stick with Windows because Linux is scary" or "MacOS X sucks because I tried it once and none of my Windows shortcut keys worked."

It basically comes down to:

1) You probably shouldn't just dive into git if you don't have someone that does know it to help you out (or unless you're willing to go seek out help from mailing lists, irc, etc).

2) You shouldn't assume that just because RCS/CVS/SVN are the only VCS's that you've ever used that it means that's what all VCS's should look/work like.
I think mentally ill people do see what others don't, sort of by definition. Question is if they see what really exists.

The article says something else, however. It first states that people with depression (and not "mentally ill people") apparently see the world more realistically, based on modern scientific research, which is indeed mentioned. Then it briefly extrapolates it to mental illnesses in general, this time based on Aristotle, which by modern standards is more fiction than science. Then it talks again, at length, about examples of successful leaders with depression.

The whole text is explained to be an excerpt from a book. Perhaps the title of the post (which is the subtitle of the article) would fit it better? Cannot be sure without having read the book.
But I suspect most of the time you see "manage preferences" is on transactional emails (such as those the OP lists).
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Hey callmeed,

That's right, I haven't found a method for content updated this way to be indexable by search engines.

While it's not going to replace server-side generated HTML, I think certain types of content that needs to be updated regularly aren't going to mean much for search engine rankings.

Announcements, promotions, product updates, statements verses of the week, are some I can think of offhand.
That is the most bizarre article I have ever read.

If Apple is taking a huge amount of profit off a relatively small percentage of the market, that would actually imply the opposite of what the article says, there is still the potential for large profits in the industry.

I'm really dumbfounded that that article could make it on cnn.com.
Please, no more family analogies. This metaphorical family can't increase their income by taxing better off families and most families don't have such a debilitating, unnecessary monthly payment like numerous wars to pay off.
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Why do people mark non-spam as spam? Why do they boast about it?
"These days, Craigslist has a lot of warnings about dangerous transactions, and for Airbnb to NOT have had similar warnings until last week suggests its lawyers weren't on the ball about what a reasonable standard of care is for being a third party arranging room rental transactions among strangers."

It's still not similar.

How many people are going to really find that safety page? Compare this with Craigslist which has safety links on the search results and on the post.

And Craigslist doesn't take commission from transactions, so it's not really the same boat at all.
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First, I think 2 clicks is ok. Second, I don't think it's admirable to mark non-spam as spam.
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Mailing lists that take more than one click to unsubscribe from __are__ unsolicited! I just don't always know if that's the case when I sign up.
As far as prescriptions, I have a couple cost effective choices: Compounding Pharmacy and Mexico. The compounding pharmacy that my doctor referred me is very reasonable and they can 'custom make' drugs. Mexico is a very good option (I live in San Diego) because I can go get a generic equivalent for 1/5 to 1/10 of the price in the US, and I can use my HSA card to pay for drugs in Mexico.
(I am a Chrome developer.)

As far as I know we've never heard from the Awesomium developers; they don't mention which version of Chrome they're based on which makes me suspect they're not staying in sync with trunk.

That suspicion comes from the fact that the Chromium Embedded developer does participate in Chrome development -- to the extent that he keeps his project working -- and occasionally pops up on our mailing list discussing API changes that would benefit embedding.

PS: wonder whether the Awesomium people are doing the right thing by WebKit's LGPL license, hmm...
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How many municipal ISPs are there? Municipal fiber companies?

Careful. I used to work for a municipal fiber company and they are FAR from being the best group to build the kind of Infrastructure we need. Don't even get me started on the problem of politicizing the communications infrastructure of a city.

The only path forward is for us to get some real competition between the cablecos and the telcos.
Ok, I see some complaints of drivers with license plates on there (http://complainator.com/complaints/ce267cd9-3a35-4a00-9785-7...)

This is gonna sound wacky, but I recently had an idea for a site/mobile app that only did that. Let people report bad/unsafe driving with a license plate & picture.

The humanitarian in me would hope it would guilt people into being better drivers.

The greedy part of me would try and sell the data to the DMV or insurance companies.
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I think it is beyond IE6 now. I am seeing more and more projects that are "okay" with a degraded version of the site on a non-modern browser.

Web developers cringe at shadows, and "non-boxy" effects, because we know the hoops we need to jump through to get there. However, if the project is okay with a "degraded" version of the site, then you can use CSS3 and save time.

I think the mindset of "support" has to change. Sure, have your site work on older browsers, but the good stuff happens when you see it on a modern browser. Users who use shitty browsers, are used to sites looking shitty.
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The difference is that CouchSurfing has a giant button on the homepage that says, "is this safe?" that links to the safety page. It's also linked from the main nav.

Airbnb has the safety page linked from the footer.

Guess which one is going to get more clicks.
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From all the people saying they mark spam if there is not a one click unsubscribe.
if it's illegal (e.g. manage prefs thing) and you don't want it, then it counts as spam.

2 click is fine tho.
Sure, but now phones generate other revenue than just the service contract. You don't think phone manufacturers would want some of that?
There fact the Universe is probabilistic isn't what MWI is needed to explain. There's nothing even especially counterintuitive about the Universe being probabilistic. MWI is a (so-far) unavoidable implication of the laws that predict real, observable QM effects. When people crunched the numbers and saw that it predicted quantum decoherence that resembles so-called "splitting" Universes (in actuality it's not a discrete process) they said, "That can't be right," and circumscribed a mysterious and ill-specified boundary beyond which the empirically validated rules don't apply.

MWI requires you believe that physics is governed by the Schroedinger wave equation. Copenhagen requires you to believe that the Universe is governed by the Schroedinger wave equation, but only when we're not looking at it, and when we look at it reverts back to the classical world through some mechanism so far unexplained, and this collapse of the quantum world into the classical world somehow produces no testable predictions that would distinguish it from what we would expect the system to look like if the wave equation just kept on working.
There's a decent list on Quora for just San Francisco - http://www.quora.com/Startup-Recruiting/Which-startups-are-h...
Which company has this as a hiring problem?
Challenge responses are silly and unnecessary.
Those tweets read like someone who had a levelheaded view of Bitcoin, as compared to a minority of irrational Bitcoin fanboys. A Bitcoin bubble is a real issue. Volatility is a real issue. Anonymity is a real issue. Despite those issues, Bitcoin is still really cool.
>But at the same time, the renters have got to take on some responsibility for handing out their keys to strangers; yes that's what you're doing, is that a surprise?

It's a good point but if AirBnb can't take measures to mitigate these horror scenarios and all the onus is on renters, then they can kiss their stratospheric valuation goodbye. Who's going to want to participate in this service with even a 0.01% chance that they will sustain $1000s in damages? The risk wouldn't be worth it.

Much like Ebay took measures against cheaters, AirBnb should create measures in case of nightmare renters (valid ID, credit card, etc).
But the WSGI Lite protocol is actually backwards compatible with WSGI. You can write code to the WSGI Lite API, and transparently interoperate with existing WSGI servers, apps, and middleware.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that it's WSGI extra rather than WSGI lite? I mean, you don't generally consider the lite version of something to have the all the features of the full version and then some.
Another problem with market share percentages without having totals.

If the market has grown 200% (in dollars) and apple is taking 50% of those dollars, than the competitors are also growing, although not at the rate of apple.

Somebody with better math skills than I probably was able to work out the actual numbers without much thought.

You'd think an article from a financial brand would do better than this.
As product manager, one of the best things I've done for my teams is to fight to leave IE6 out of the spec whenever possible. Sometimes they appreciate it, and many times they don't know it, but I believe we've always shipped better products because of it.
Beta is a good way to make users less annoyed when something goes wrong though. If you are Google sure I agree it's not really meaningful but if you are a small startup or one man operation just launching things are bound to go wrong early on.
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I agree most B2C sites need to take IE6 out of the game.
Personally, I work for a company that helps American old folks with their healthcare choices. 30% of them still use IE6. You guys need to teach your grandparents to upgrade their browsers so I can stop supporting IE6. D:
How is this different from remote CMS systems like cushycms and pagelime?
You don't necessarily need vision or hands either, there are blind C programmers who can use foot based interfaces. (I heard this on slashdot years ago, so I don't have sources, but they supposedly exist!)
I usually add IE6 support to my sites. I've done it enough that I know what to avoid from the beginning. I can usually make it IE6-compliant without much extra effort, if any. I sympathize with younger devs who don't have that experience and know it must feel like pointless effort for such a small percentage of people.
In what sense is an unsolicited and unwanted marketing email not spam?
I think it just adds the boilerplate back in there for you :)
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That isn't exactly accurate either. Given our current policies spending will be X. This deal reduces spending below X.
I think you're conflating wages for "comfortable living" with "sustenance" wages.
I doubt you're going to get an unbiased answer to the question of New York being as good as the Bay Area, so instead, I will say that it is entirely possible to found a startup in New York and be successful.
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You can't make that statement in a vacuum. Spending cuts now would be worse for the economy than tax increases now. So which do you choose, or do you choose to make changes once the economy improves?
Expose is gone in Lion? has it been replaced by something similar?
If you're going to try to convince someone that our universe has multiple parallel futures, you should be ready to explain how that relates to our lives.

Isn't it a bit presumptuous to demand that any theoretical truth about the nature of the entire universe should be relatable to the life of a human?
Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool
There's a thread over on reddit tracking Portland sightings now.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/j58hl/anyone_else_...

I've also heard from someone in Spokane.
Where do you find the folks to do the review? Is this Amazon Turk arbitrage?
Online business in China is growing even faster than the offline sort
True, but there are real families that incease their income by robbing better off families, and there are many families who use all sorts of justifications to avoid paying for things, including all of their taxes, so they can afford other things. Just because a family can't pass a law to sanction that behavior, doesn't mean the behavior isn't comparable to the government's.
Apologies all, replace key size with block size in the 2nd point. Not sure why I was thinking this is key related.
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I'll have to look into lattice-based crypto some time, I know essentially nothing about how it works. Thanks for the corrections!
That's fair, saying there's no money was an exaggeration. Maybe no new money for new companies would have been more accurate, not to mention the issues you mentioned (which were dead on).
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Yes indeed. Let me know if you have any more questions!
Google Search dropped mainstream support for IE6 last fall. IE6 users are served a degraded experience that is roughly on-par feature-wise with Google Search as it existed in May 2010, and new features are no longer rolled out to IE6.
It works on an iPod touch or an iPad with wifi.
Ironically the size of this deal is only about half of what S&P said that they need to see to avoid a credit downgrade for the USA from AAA to AA.

Such a credit downgrade is likely to cause our interest rates to arise. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that the increased interest costs could cost us in the neighborhood of $2 trillion over the next decade. (See https://plus.google.com/u/0/114613808538621741268/posts/b7uw... for a line of reasoning suggesting that it could cost us that much.)

So the end result over the next decade is that we cut government by $2 trillion, raise the debt ceiling by $2 trillion, and pay $2 trillion more in interest. Thus leaving our actual deficit about the same, but causing our government to deliver $2 trillion less.

I hope the tea party is proud. Unfortunately the general public doesn't understand the numbers well enough to see how stupid this whole exercise was.
Only if it's worth it to them to do so. Could be altruism, could be money, but the mere lack of a good product doesn't guarantee someone to step in.
Good article, well written. If we are to start using distributed version control then I guess it might as well be git since it seems to have the most traction in the press.
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There's a way to skew the representation of data in just about any way imaginable. You can change sample sizes, adjust test criteria, and even replace tests when they don't generate the desired result.

I think it's obvious that you don't need to be an ivy league drop out to run a successful start up. However, representing data this way portrays the image that this stereotype actually hurts the start up model - which I doubt is true. I'm not speaking quantitatively - just from my sense of logic.

If the goal of the article is to promote non ivy league drop outs to found companies, then I'm all for it. If it's trying to convince us that ivy league drop outs perform worse, then I don't buy it. People tend to drop out to start a company for a reason - and that reason is usually boredom.