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I believe it, this type of corruption goes on all the time here.

Personally I wish it would stop, I thought Ycombinator was supposed to give a voice to the young and up and coming sites and not continuously allow the same already big sites to keep blog spamming their content in order to maintain their traffic.

I'm also SO BEYOND sick and tired of seeing one thousand tech crunch links per day while the more interesting and unique smaller blog articles are banished for being considered spam by the mods here.

Very disgusting policies indeed.
Similarly, to access music on my iPhone, I click an image of an iPod.

Another anecdote: I heard on some NPR show that most kids don't understand what the sound of a record being scratched to a halt actually is. (This sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6s1FE-yKQ) When asked, they describe it as the noise that is made on TV when you do a double-take.
I find that reading the Wikipedia page for the birth year is more complete and interesting.

This effort is interesting, but the black background is painful to read on for so long time. I know, years ago, pages had awful backgrounds too.
The general tone isn't really of my liking, being a bit condescending like "can you imagine this didn't exist!". Yes, I can, it didn't exist when I was younger either.

That's the kind of thing which would benefit from some good narrator reading the text at the same time, though. But waiting for it to scroll like this, over the black background, is tiring. I didn't wait for the end, because of that.
There's a difference between dropping a client and treating them disrespectfully. At the very least, the bad publicity isn't worth it.
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Like I say, I use Sparkleshare instead of Dropbox and also have a Drobo for central storage, this isn't something I want to do because I can already do it, I was just pointing out it could be a problem for some people
Looking for empirical research on education is difficult. Educationalists have decided that discovery learning is better, and they don't need to actually test it. Direct Instruction (the evil old-fashioned neo-colonial alternative) does tend to "win" in empirical studies, so they try to avoid doing anything remotely rigorous. Then they say that the studies weren't very good, because they didn't really test the higher level stuff - after all, you can't really test creativity.

Both approaches might have their place, but the education establishment would rather win the argument than be right. Typical arts wankers.

Here's one article. http://www.binder-riha.com/PT_DI.pdf

It took me ages to find much interesting - a google scholar search on "education" gets about 1.5 times the results as "education longitudinal", but if "direct instruction" gets about 10 times as many articles as "direct instruction longitudinal". Really, educationalists only pay lip service to empiricism. When they actually start comparing methodologies, they just use Sophistry as a methodology.
I don't know what they mean by "censored". Do they mean "not voted up" or "flagged to death"?

They don't give examples of links that were wrongly "censored", so we cannot tell whether they really were wrongly censored, or whether they were flagged for being off-topic or spam, or whether they merely weren't interesting enough to be upvoted.
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This is why I just STFU whenever I'm tempted to suggest "hey, why don't we use LO/OO?"

It's one thing to be able to open a foreign doc without an error/exception, be able to edit it, and then save it without an error/exception and even then be able to open it (without error/exception) with the foreign (Word) program. Etc, edit, back and forth, "look Ma, no exceptions."

It even looks really good, in isolation.

It's quite another thing to get exactly the same results from everyone using different programs (or versions of the same program) and then hope that everything matches up.

Above some size, it just doesn't happen, and I don't want to have to be the one that slinks away when the shouting starts.
It irked me that he didn't seem to care about lost customers

He doesn't sound like a good customer, I can understand why a company would want to ditch him. Companies shouldn't try to keep all customers all the time. Just read the blog http://notalwaysright.com/ which is full of anecdotes of stupid customers.
Did you get the Stop spamming us you're wasting your time. even though the content was not spam and relevant?

It's a well known fact ycombinator is a mainstream source to publicize and repromote day over day the same larger "in the in" blogs and to censor the smaller ones even though the majority of the readership is sick and tired of getting techcrunch articles shoved in their face 50 times per day.

Welcome to the corrupt world of moderation and shameless promotion that is hackernews.
The accounts of the OP and all critical comments were created some minutes ago. I wouldn't trust them too much.
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Cache the list pages. They are vey slow lately compared with the rest of HN (5 seconds for the leaders list).
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Not sure if it is already possible, but they should make it so that everybody can create skins for Android (some API extension, whatever). Then those annoying handset maker skins could just be optional plugins to Android that you could switch off the minute after buying the device.
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This has been stated a lot of times on HN, but anyways :)

1. I think you are mixing deals

2. GOOG accepting MS offer would have been dumb. Google wanted the patents to avoid lawsuits from MS-Apple. Teaming up with them would have meant that these patents are useless against them (I assume that Apple/MS would not have said - okay we team up for now, but you can sue us using these patents later).

3. I am not sure, but a lot of people have quoted that Google has been vocal about the stupidity of patent system even before these deals. Also if I am involved in a deal, I will never speak of it (or the stupidity of it) in public. That again, would be a dumb move. So yes, Google's statement should have arrived after they lost the deal. Also, AFAIK they said that the patents might be useless to them technically, but they needed them for litigation wars.

4. Using Pi*1bil as a bid, is no different than 4bil (Other than the magnitude of course). Not to logical people at least. Yes, lawyers who are not aware of the digits of Pi or shareholders who bought shares of the company X because the saw it climbing a month ago, would feel that, but that's dumb stereotyping of numbers - I would say. In fact, 3.14Bil sounds a lot more cultural and sophisticated to me than 3.1 or 4. But that's probably the geek in me.

5. Yes they paid 3 times more. But they also got 3 times the patents (and these are not licensed to MS!) + 1x times patents in review. In addition they got a manufacturing line they can innovate on and a lot of talent.

Also, MM has 3.5Bil in cash reserves. That means that it's actually 12.5 - 3.5. So, still a better deal, I would say. Then again, that's just a CS student talking - I have no idea what these patents are worth.

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If you do that you might loose important information.

I tried to downgrade my bitbucket subscription to the free plan back before they sold the company, but when I did I just got some error back saying that paypal couldn't charge me 0 dollars.

So I filled a bug, tried again a month or so later and when I still couldn't unsubscribe (I wasn't the only one who had that problem, two others also commented on the bug) sent him a very nasty email, threatening to report him to paypal as a fraudster (impossible to end subscriptions would be a classic fraud technique).

If he had brushed me of rather than told me that I needed to turn of the subscription from paypal I might have ended it right there.

Instead I dragged two other people into it.
Refreshing, simple, to the point, and based on fact.

I am pleasantly surprised, like I just had an uncommonly good glass of iced tea.
Good question, why can techcrunch post unlimited amounts of articles and others get censored for only posting a couple.

I'm sick of seeing techcrunch articles on there it's ruining this site.
Firing customers/clients is fine, but not like this.
I wonder if a more explicit graphical flow-based programming system would be even easier than the implicit flow-based setup that's going on behind the scenes in Excel. For example, you have an object that represents an incoming stream of quotes. An output pin on that object connects to a "formula" object, which is wired to an output stream object. It's all based on ancient ideas (like Max/MSP, Pure Data, etc.), but maybe it could be useful.

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"I secretly chuckle at how I've never once met a Chinese citizen who has felt oppressed, in China."

A lot of people fail to realize during these "I've been there and asked around" situations is that there is a fear or reprisal, especially in regimes that prosecute dissident views, and especially in those persons you ask don't know/trust you.

How do the people know who you are and whether you have ties to the government to confide in you?
They know they and their families can be sent to jail and persecuted just for stating an opinion. What's the benefit of telling you about their beliefs? The downside is quite obvious.

Don't take for granted these "I've asked them and they said it's fine" encounters.

Put yourself in your shoes, living in that regime. Would you confide in someone looking like a traveller/stranger in such a regime?
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if search engine starts to produce self-moving cars and mobile phones its time to worry how fair and balanced their search results will soon be,

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It might not be so much censorship as it is competing with other articles that for whatever reason rise up the ranks quicker.

I don't know if it's corrupt or not but I advocated a no-vote tagged-based stream system whereby article of interest to you will be seen and not fall off the stream as quickly.
I'm also sick of seeing the same sites being allowed to spam as many links as they like while the smaller ones get banned for just posting a couple relevant articles.

Pity such corruption exists it's ruining this site.
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None of which really matters, at all. It's a blog post not a journal paper or a research report. It would have been nice to see a link to a full account but perhaps they couldn't decide how to represent that.
Dropping them is one thing. Deleting their data is quite another.
Sour Grapes has a very specific meaning. It's not obvious to me that it's being used correctly here, or in the discussion of the Nortel Patents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_grapes
Its useful (try the preview 2.7.3 version). Can't set it as an option yet.
Presumably, if you are professional about it, you'd send them some boiler plate about changes to your service offering or some such, and then nicely hand them back all their files, etc. If you can't see that getting emotionally involved in client management is daft regardless of provocation, etc., then you are running the risk of serious reputational damage (as the web host at the center of this issue is currently finding out)
It is a well known practice ycombinator favors and has deals to make sure sites like techcrunch and company who i think it' safe to say we're all sick of getting bombarded with links from are allowed to post as many as they like while smaller potentially more relevant sites are banned after only a couple posts.

stop spamming us you're wasting your time
Sorry I meant can't set single window as the start up option as yet, you get the three windows then have to select single window from the Tools menu
I don't know, GNU Hurd was taken up for GSOC. We could see amazing things yet :)
We are probably in agreement with regards to your last statement.

I think one of the major themes of politics to come will be the separation of business and state (much like how America pioneered the separation of church and state).

This will require a shift in society though, most voters see it as the governments job to manage the economy and help it grow. But corporate welfare is as damaging to business as social welfare is to individuals.

This is unfortunately a very gray area, at what point do tax breaks stop "encouraging" business versus at what point do businesses become dependent on them?. The inequality is what bothers me most, small businesses paying a higher percentage of tax than big businesses, the percentage should be the same.

I don't believe we can get there by regulation alone, citizens have to care as well, although I do concede that regulation may be necessary to a certain extent.
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I have been using GIMP for 9 months and the UI is exasperating.

It's not just multi-window mode, things like the way the windows are rendered and designed, focus issues, shortcuts, missing features and a lot of other annoyances.

The most disappointing thing is that I'm not even doing intensive graphical work, just retouching some photos, moving things around, resizing, etc.
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I guess this means $35 tablet is only vaporware.
They do if selling phones is a means to a greater end, which it is for Google.
Google picks up nearly three times as many patents as AppleSoft got from Novell and Nortel...

And they paid… nearly three times as much...

and a phone company came free?
How many people do you think "we" is? Could the person that runs the twitter be an employee? They advertise 24/7 customer support. Even if it is an employee, and he is terminated because of this, would that allow you to trust the company again?

If it turns out to be the founder/CEO, then we have no hope for the company. But how devastating would it be for your startup if one of your employees did something like this, without your permission. We all know how difficult it is to recruit the right people, but should a mistake like this be un-recoverable?
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Considering that Samsung seems to like CyanogenMod sending them devices and all that, I wouldn't think it's impossible he'll be able to contribute to CM on company hours.
Interesting that I never seem to hear anyone complain about privatizing spaceflight. (Caveat: Our rockets, etc., were always built by defense/aerospace contractors, AFAIK.) Halliburton, Blackwater, etc., are bad privatizations, but SpaceX is good.

That said, SpaceX is doing exciting things more affordably than we did them before, so it’s hardly puzzling.
As many as the memory allows (and up to 1024, but was nowhere close that number), and I think that wasn't the problem here - but it seems that once the canvas has been drawn on for long enough, the new users just can't get the previous image. I'll have to refactor the initial loading code, at the moment it naively passes all the previous drawing operations to the client with no regards to the limits.

Sorry about this, hopefully I'll be able to fix these problems soon.
Did I pass through a portal into another reality where Apple has a "patent" for black keyboards onto a silver notebook? Let's take a break and remember that Uncle Steve used to quote Picasso: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
I'm sick of seeing 100 techcrunch articles spammed on here daily. I wish they wouldn't censor the smaller site in favor of the big ones but that's been a long established practice here for some time now. It's ruining this site in many ways.

Favoritism is corruption. I wonder if any money is changing hands?
The other big non sequitur in this argument is that Apple and Microsoft claim that Android steals their own hard-won inventions but they're buying up other companies' IP to bludgeon Android with.
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Seriously, this is like "Bug tracking? You've got high priced professionals, why can't they just use Excel or sticky notes?"
If I'd be looking for a job, I'd definitely want to apply to the company privatizing space flight and technologies. They have tons of openings, too.

http://www.spacex.com/careers.php
Is there also a YC Europe planned? Maybe in London or Berlin?
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Two new accounts. Both with John in the handle, both with the exact same, irrelevant comment: Stop spamming us you're wasting your time.

I posted three vaguely HN related posts from my own blog within a two week period and they all made it through and even made it to the top of the front page with all three. I've never posted a techcruch link and I've seen dozens of small, independent blogs and article sites reach the front page.

Until some evidence is posted I'll assume your trolling along with your other fake accounts.
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People only believe that to be true because Asymco keeps repeating it and getting quoted widely by people like Gruber in the Apple echo-chamber (and because they desperately want it to be true).

A key diversionary tactic Asymco uses is to combine dumbphone and smartphone sales, so companies like Samsung that are transitioning customers from genuinely low-margin, low-cost, end-of-lifecycle products onto relatively much higher margin Android phones are presented as if they are not doing very well, when in fact they have two seperate business: a rapidly growing and profitable Android business, and a break-even or loss-making dumbphone business that they're winding down.

Notice how much "better" HTC is doing in his stats (despite regular doom'n'gloom predictions from him about them in the last year) because they don't have a dumbphone business.
Some aspects of Gimp are a little bit annoying (especially on a Mac), but you can do pretty cool things with it once you get used to it. I do some artwork for some web sites I created and Gimp is a good tool for this. Photoshop probably would be better, but for as little as I do me it is way too expensive.
Wouldn't the reason be that `ls` tries to sort and stat the results?

Perhaps

ls -f1 # (one) disables sorting and just prints filenames

would be fast enough?
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Wait, how do you know that you have a "strong" platform if you're only starting to find your first set of users?
using gimp all the time. Nowadays Photoshops UI seems strange to me but I remember at first GIMP was kind of weird because of the multi windows. Anyways, looks good!
I posted this 12 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888735

Thunderous silence met it - I wonder if this will fare better.
that's true. BeOS never got to the point of being a product.

After they noticed they had no money for the bebox they just pampered the OS for a sale. that's the main reason it looks so much like os7... or 8. it was being tweaked for an apple purchase.

printing was just a matter of paying the rights for the 'standards', again, they were steps before that point.

Also, linux didn't have decent print for the same reason. nobody paid pantone et al for color stuff licenses. heck, gimp didn't have CMKY until... does it have already? honestly, i gave up following it up.
I did some looking. The Twitter account appears to have been used by their "Technical Director" Jules. Jules is the same person who replied to the tickets. I then got ahold of their company documents, Jules is not listed as a company owner (or Director) whereas 3 others are. Therefore I am making the assumption that he is indeed only an employee and not someone associated with the higher up management.
The UI works quite well with a focus-follows-mouse policy - as it has been standard in Unix for decades. With today's click-to-focus window managers the UI is just horrible (but that's not Gimp's fault).
thiswebhost.com appears to be hosted on LiquidWeb's servers, which makes me think it might be a reseller account for Sonet7 (reseller hosting owned by LiquidWeb).

I know a couple of people who resell white-label cPanel hosting, and it's definitely not a full-time job, so I would guess it's probably just one guy (the WHOIS will tell you who).

I know from experience that it's nigh-impossible to stop yourself from using the Royal 'We' as a lone entrepreneur.
Outsourcing is already reasonably well establihed in biology. There are a number of companies, notably from South Korea, that offer sequencing, probe library creation and a host of other services that take the grunt work out of a lot of lab work. The services are cheap and the results are very reliable. The real benefit of all this is that is opens up the field to a lot more people that could otherwise not afford the infrastructure in equipment and lab staff.
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Jules is also listed as the company owner on the reviews:

http://www.webhostingreviews.com/thiswebhost-reviews.htm

And is the registrant of the domain name (and the only contact).
Of course their experiment would show that.

It's a widely misunderstood claim that there exist some sort of universally objective way to visualize various features.

Intuition around interfaces is learned through using the interface not by some universally understood metaphors.

Most user don't understand what they are doing conceptually.

The original link (blue color underlined) is the most understood version of a link yet the concept in itself brings no clarity of it's purpose.

The experiment is more or less a self-full-filled prophesy.
Yes, you could easily name it YC Europe. I'd definitely fly in for a YC event.
I haven't been tracking GIMP development for quite a while and couldn't find the information online.

Does the current version of GIMP finally support non-destructive editing (adjustment layers)?

Is GIMP still too slow for photo retouching?
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