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"Download and install the Edge Preview"

This is so pre internet.
you were 8 years old then IE6 came out. that makes me weep. i remember when ie6 was state of the art! king of the hill!
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It's not like the current system is not heavily gamed and exploited. This may be more, or less, robust.. who knows, only time can tell. In any case, this kind of experimentation is very important for taking governance into the 21th century.
Experience. Also, trying to sell it to them and seeing if people pay for your product.
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Summary: bind deactivated cholera proteins to cocaine in the blood. The resulting particle is too large to pass the blood-brain barrier and will be "eaten" by the immune system. Thus, cocaine doesn't do anything for people with these proteins in their bloodstream.

This is currently in phase II trial, with good results. The only issue is that some addicts react by taking huge amounts of coke in an attempt to overwhelm the proteins... so finding a big company to produce it and take it into phase III trials is proving difficult.
Simply doesnt work on android/SGS.
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This may be in the wrong section. My bad: I am not sure how to move this to the jobs subsection.

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Why do you think it is not JSON?
"the way I make money is opaque to people with no economics background"

"rabble rabble moralizing rabble rabble!"

you people do realize that normal people think the same thing about software developers right?
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I tried this on a whim a few months back by sticking a few empty water bottle cases under my table. I never want to go back...for precisely the same reasons as described in this article, the main one being that my afternoon "energy crash" at 3 pm simply stopped entirely if I was standing. That alone is worth the switch.
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I know they're completely different, but it still amuses me to think that not roo long ago you could have almost said the same thing about version control:

Real branches are not cheap, an apparently infinite supply is extremely ridiculous.

:-)
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I recently interviewed with a company in SF that likes me and wants to hire me for a marketing position.

After some research into visas though, it looks a bit pessimistic for people who aren't developers. I think my options are the H1B (which fills out fast) and the TN visa (for which I'm not sure I have a role that fits the approved list).

Any Canadians or otherwise have any experience with this?
Farming has benefited massively from automation and will continue to do so:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_p...
It's just a regular JS object. JSON !== JavaScript object notation. E.g. according to the JSON spec, you should always quote property names (`{"foo":123}`) but regular JS doesn't require this (`{foo:123}`).

More: http://benalman.com/news/2010/03/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-j...
I've had the experience of embedding Awesonium as a GUI system for an educational game/project I worked on back in college.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/learn-cnc-game/

The project is based on the Quest3D engine, so a wrapper had to be written to expose Awesonium in the engine. The whole thing is open-sourced, so feel free to use the wrapper for your own Quest3D projects.

The biggest advantages that we found when using Awesonium as a GUI rendering system are the following:

- Support for highly interactive Flash GUI components. In fact, we embedded Flash videos/lessons directly in the game and let Awesonium do the rendering through its Flash plug-in.

- Seamless migration of the GUI content from the game's lesson browser to the internet. All HTML/Flash lessons can be accessed in the game as well as just online through a regular browser with no changes in the code.
Lots of open source projects would be happy with an additional mirror. See http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html#layout for one project's policy. I'm sure that many other projects have similar pages.
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From what I gather, JRuby on pre-invokedynamic JVMs isn't substantially faster than MRI 1.9. Parallelism brings more cores to bear, but then they're all bogged down in expensive dispatch (to pay for the ability to change behavior for any message at any moment).
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Well, considering this influenced the fall of the Spanish from the leading country of the time, this might not be a 'cause' of the fall, in the same way that the fall of the Roman empire was complex. But I for one can see how that this might resonate though history to today. Maybe not as extreme as "YOU WOULD BE SPEAKING SPANISH NOW", but there should be definite influences.
This model doesn't sound that different from measles and schools. One kid brings it, then everyone gets to stay home for a week or two.
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As far as I know, webkit supports hardware acceleration for CSS transforms - so maybe that's the reason.
I've ported some 3D games, written in C++, to both iOS and Android .. and I don't get what the problem is? If you want to use OpenGL ES - just use it. Its quite feasible to have a full C++ - based game on Android and iOS, using the same codebase, with some environment-related (OS specific) glue code to get it working on the target platform.

I got my apps ported and basic iOS/Android shells set up, and I haven't had to go back to the code for the OS-specific stuff in 6 months - all the continued development work has been in C++ at the GL ES level.

So, I would say, if you do your work properly you can set up a very comfortable environment, as a games programmer, to support cross-platform development on these platforms with ease.
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For a preview version, this is a good start.
Try to extrapolate to when this might be in Adobe CS and include support for Actions macro recording and seamless roundtrip Illustrator asset embedding.

I believe the power of Adobe is in the Creative Suite integration and ecosystem. This is just a standalone technology preview...
> "When Hawking says 'rubbish,'" he said, "you've lost the argument."

I hope this is an exaggerated anecdote and not actually the case.
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I like canvas and tumblr. Not usually sources of deep insight, but they're fun.
How do they know if they got every instance of person-to-person spread? E-mail, IM (3 different ones), Google+, personal communication - that's how I get the jumping cats of the internet. Unless you monitor all of that, you'll get an anti-spread bias.

The only way to be sure of the actual spread graph is to monitor an invite-only service, which of course might not be 100% representative of other kinds of services/products.
I think it's time for a name change... to AirB&E.
You will probably enjoy 'checkout -p' and 'reset -p' as well (revert and unstage changes hunk-by-hunk)
How can one breathe the word "viral" and claim to debunk the concept without looking at data from one of the many Facebook apps that actually, you know, went viral? [that's a rhetorical question, I fully realize that the answer is that they don't have any truly worthwhile data to look at]

The lone Facebook app in the study is one that the authors made themselves, and it's no surprise if you've never heard of it: while I wouldn't take AppData's stats as golden, they're usually in the ballpark, and they claim Friend Sense maxed out at 317 MAU (http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/7890187783-friend-sense) - to give you a sense of scale, the 2000th most popular app on Facebook had over 100,000 MAU (http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/apps?fanbase=0&metric...). Even under the assumption that it's hard to get solid data on such low traffic apps, it's easy to conclude that no, Friend Sense is not a representative example of a successful Facebook application, let alone a viral hit...

I can't give you numbers or anything, but I don't need to violate an NDA to tell you that if you're actually at a point where you're making real money off of Facebook apps, you're almost certainly seeing non-negligible virality, and you should be thinking about it, measuring it, and incorporating it into whatever business analysis you're doing. Your viral coefficient may not be greater than 1 (and if it is, God bless you and enjoy the ride, at least until you saturate!), but trying to increase it is nowhere near as futile as these authors claim - successful apps have network structures that can be very broad and very deep, and most would not have been successful at all without them.
Then what's the difference? You were talking about how you preferred uneditable histories, why does only rebase count?
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Instead of "long polling" (or a different way to have long polling) is to use the HTML5's server sent events (http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/) See here for examples: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/

I have implemented such a functionality for real time monitoring using gevent and works extremely well. This HTML5 feature is supported in recent versions of Chrome, Opera, and Safari and in the beta versions of Firefox, but not in any version of IE: http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource
For every book or album purchased because of a personal recommendation, however, how many were bought after simply browsing the stacks, reading a review, or seeing an advertisement?

This was never how I conceptualized the idea of "viral". I basically viewed it as "taking on a life of it's own" such that it took little initial effort to get a big effect. Yes, people spreading it is a factor, but if it weren't inherently interesting in some way, it wouldn't be "contagious".

Edit: Besides, supposedly the first 50 cases of AIDS in the US could all be traced back to one person. Even actual virii don't follow the path this piece seems to artificially be trying to impose on the term
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I'm sure someone out there benefited from driving around in their Corvair with Firestone tires and a trunkful of lawn darts, too.

They were also fatally flawed products.
LinkedIn are terrible. I have tried half-a-dozen times to stop getting their stupid "Top Headlines in Computer Software" emails (which I never subscribed to), but I can't find the "don't send me any more emails" option anywhere in my preferences.
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> I realized that a pointer was just an address. Then I finally understood them.

This is quite interesting. It seems to be a universal pattern. Has anybody understood pointers without first understanding memory addressing?
"Monster Coloring Book is like fingerpainting without the mess."

Mess is good! :D But it looks fun and the monsters are nice.

Tip: increase the contrast of your navigation items. My parents/grandparents can't read that too well.

Also: maybe aim your pitch at the user instead of the parent a bit more.
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A way I have used is to create a descriptive landing page with email capture, create google ads and/or post in relevant forums to direct to page and see how many signups you get. That should give you an idea of the rough conversion rate.
1. The 'kill marketers' puzzle was not funny.

2. There is no link to the paper it is talking about.

3. The blog post has many holes in the reasoning.

By the way I really liked the 'spreadable media' idea by Henry Jenkins and his arguments against using the word 'viral' (http://www.henryjenkins.org/2009/02/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_...).
Why not post the direct link to your blog? There's nothing on reddit ATM, so it's just another layer to click through without any added value.
The article makes a similar point; there are plenty of viruses, like Hep A, that propagate in a non-"viral" manner.
Same old set of excuses, covering gross negligence and incompetence that is going on in corporate IT departments. Its hard to train users and IT is against it - are two largest straw men arguments on this topic.

I was leading a development effort on this type of project and I took strong position that IE6 shall not be supported (due to some conflicting technical requirements in Request for tender). This specific IT department was delighted with our stance, since nowadays there are literally less than 5% of users who actually prefer their archaic IE6 solutions (which are usually people who don't actually use thy system, but are in position of "power"). This specific IT department also begged us to raise hardware requirements from 500Mhz Pentium III with 512Mb RAM (since that would enable them to push for an upgrade) - which we didn't.

Anyways - end users (yes those "computer illiterate" old ladies, everybody keeps on patronizing) were delighted by added usability that got enabled by using modern browsers. We were able to fulfill all the requirements a lot cheaper than dragging IE6 for that knucklehead department head would allow us to.

The fault of outside vendors is that they don't tell/show their users what they are missing on. The fault of outside vendors is that they don't explain security risks they are being exposed to, by using archaic software. The fault of outside vendors is that they don't help their customers to not pile even more opportunity costs related to stone age software.
Any company still on IE6 has enough inertia that they aren't going to change for an external vendor, no matter how much that vendor hates IE6 support.
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Square is great for the small guys who don't want monthly fees. If you do anything over $2000 a month, intuits gopayment is a full 1% lower with a $20 monthly fee. I even like gopayments app a little better. But the free cardswiper they give out is quite rubbish.
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oh man...

Recently, while telling you about check of another project

What did you try to say? Was that anything like 'Recently when I told you how we checked some project...'?

it is a very quality code

should be 'high-quality'

you just not only see a puddle, but

'not only do you see a puddle, but...'

etc etc etc

It's nice to see an English-language technical blog from Russia, but man, PLEASE, improve your English.
I do almost the same thing. Any fixes I have to do that are IE6 specific has a 3x hourly rate and i tell my clients so. It pushes the clients to really consider if it's worth it or not. Especially since these fixes usually take a lot of time too.

I'm thinking whether it's time to do the same with IE7 yet, at least maybe 2x rate.
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Html and css were not designed to be an arcane programming language, but a simple layout markup. If well designed then copy paste should work fine. Arguably we didnt quite make that simplicity, but I think your Python PHP comment is way off as far as html css is concerned...
What do you mean, you don’t like IE6? Really?
I personally believe that bombing would be safer, much the same way a loyalist in the the Revolutionary war is "safer". Sure, the other way turned out to be correct, but it was a hard decision to make.
Like most procrastinators, 90% is done in the last night. A good way to give you this boost is to tell someone about your X you are building and you will show them tomorrow or next week or whatevers. Now you have to get it up and at least decent so you don't look like a fool. It will probably put you on overdrive.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Oh dear lord no. This is a bad move.
I think that's pretty much the best solution. For old browsers in general, have a legacy HTML-only fallback site. This makes IE6 and Lynx users happy alike :-) It doesn't need to be pretty but it needs to be functional enough to do all the stuff your customers need to do.
I have some experience living close-offshore of a larger country for legal related reasons :) (Sealand/HavenCo, around 2000)

I'm glad they picked something relatively inoffensive to governments (visa regulations for people who would otherwise be H1B/O1 or not local at all, supporting local popular high-tech businesses). There has been a lot of talk about offshore drugs and other things which would have been really quickly shut down.

If they're smart, they'll regulate everything ELSE more strictly than the US/California, and just focus on one very PR friendly "one thing" -- the visa/immigration rules, which they'd be 100% in compliance with by being offshore. You absolutely do NOT want to put that at risk by fighting drug laws, environmental laws, underaged sex laws, prostitution laws, etc. all at the same time.
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WTF?
I'd believe it more if an existing cruise ship organization were running it, actually -- they have vastly more operational experience.
Feels good advocating conformism while reaping benefits of thousands of years of nonconformist struggle?
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I'm disappointed that the title of this submission got changed. I deliberately chose a title that kept the original flavor, but which tried to show why this might be relevant to this specific audience.

The title I chose was something like "Getting Feedback - Throwing dice get to the truth about killing leopards" or something similar. I don't remember exactly - I'll have to go and look it up.

I understand why the mods don't want titles changed radically, but I spent significant time and effort getting something that retained the essence of the original, but which also tied it explicitly to the HN audience without editorializing or sensationalizing.

Very disappointed.

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If you're doing one-click unsubscribe, a smart practice is showing a message with other ways to stay engaged, e.g. Twitter ... and providing a one-click undo (ie re-subscribe).
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This is immaturely and badly argued. So it took a massive two days for an intern to add IE6 support to a web app. This is actually a good argument for keeping IE6 support for the several percent of users who still have it. I am not saying there aren't good arguments for dropping IE6, but this just isn't it.

Some of the supporting arguments are even worse - does he really expect a course called "Legacy Browser Support 301" to be taught at his college? And why would he need that course, seeing as how he managed fine all by himself? He could now teach that course better than any of the profs, who probably don't hack on IE6 conditional code.

There is also this refusal to look at things from a business perspective - he is working for a company which earns revenue from that web app that he worked on. If the revenue from IE6 users is greater than the value of 2 days of an intern's work, which seems likely, then the right decision is to throw in IE6 support. Now, if you have a massive stable of web apps (like Google) and it takes immense developer resources to support IE6 which will go away in a few years anyway, that's a different story. Change the inputs and you change the answer.

He seems like a good prog and a good guy, but he needs to mature some more.
Was it only in my browser the train was going faster on the inclines than on declines?