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It's not a matter of clinging to the past.

I definitely want and wish for tools that can allow me to design websites without having to know what IE developers were thinking the day they decided to have some fun.

The reason vim, emacs and the likes are still used a lot isn't because of nostalgia but because it works great for the user.

The issue with all the WYSIWYG editors is they take the "a web site can be anything and everyone can be a designer"-approach which is completely make believe. Till they make some form of WYSIWYM editor aimed at the web designer to use, all other approaches are worthless because they are basically just Word that's fancied up.

Most graphic designer classes have a field trip to see how typographers worked for newspapers 60 years go, and learn why their job was important - and such a day will come for designers some day too when it comes to writing code in hand.

But till then, design and code still matters.
The windowing technique isn't ungainly when its done automatically for you a la SpriteMapper :)

http://yostudios.github.com/Spritemapper/
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Makes ColdFusion look efficient by comparison
is facebook censoring this? i tried to post the link to the thekeesh.com page to a friends 'wall' and everything in my comment after and including the link was elided. Or maybe facebook post entries are always that broken.
Won't help you since anyone with an antenna could receive your satellite's signal, and the government's got some big antennae. Also, your ping times will suck.
Interesting point - the "friend ranking" numbers are different when I checked Mozilla vs. Chrome.

In Mozilla, the first person ranked was at -6.2650374; on Chrome, it was -7.2581474 (I go back and forth with this person quite a bit). Also, the ranking of some of the people were different.

My guess is something to do with browser cookies or caching - any ideas why this might be the case?
DDG also has its own crawler which iirc they plant to eventually switch over to.
Yes, I also write all my programs in assembly for the same reason...
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Be careful of summing together reactions from different people as if they represented a single common or average reaction.

There are loud critics of each your examples... but very few people, other than the relentlessly negative, are likely to be sour on them all. The fact that there are enough naysayers to fill any given comment-thread or link-aggregator is just evidence of the breadth and opinion-diversity of the audience now commenting, and that our modern filtering systems especially promote dissent and controversy.

(I say this as someone who thinks Facebook has great prospects, Twitter has challenges but will probably figure something out to justify its recent valuations, Zynga may be questionable on social-value grounds but will likely remain a strong business... and yet there's something fishy about Groupon, from its top-level accounting to its street-level dealings with small-businesses and customers, that makes me think by 2013 Groupon could be considered Chicago's Enron.)
As the OP points out this shouldn't be an issue on production systems as display_errors shouldn't be turned on.

From the PHP docs [1]:

This is a feature to support your development and should never be used on production systems (e.g. systems connected to the internet).

Of course how many of the notoriously lazy/incompetent PHP developers we have all had to deal with in our lives have RTFM.

So could PHP perhaps HTML encode error messages? Would this break any error message use cases? For example are there times when error messages appear when they wouldn't be interpreted as HTML encoded? CLI? Browsers loading different text mime types?

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini...
In summary: lower & middle class people don't like it when those living in poverty are recipients of social welfare because it makes them feel as if they are socially equal to those welfare recipients.

This is an interesting hypothesis. I suppose this also goes along the lines of people getting mad when they had to work for something, but someone else didn't.
I'm also using Hakyll for my site (http://www.wunki.org). Used Jekyll before, but I didn't think the markdown libraries were up to par with Pandoc. You can browse the source code of my site here: https://github.com/wunki/www.wunki.org.

I also threw together a script (./publish) that first gzips the static files and then uploads them to S3 with the correct headers (gzip and cache-control). Finally, it invalidates the old files on Cloudfront. Combined I get a very fast site, while keeping the cost low. Again, you can find it all in the github repository.
I recommend reading this post by Zeldman from last year: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/07/05/an-indesign-for-html-and-c...

Says Nack:

As I noted the other day, “Almost no one would look
inside, say, an EPS file and harrumph, ‘Well, that’s not
how I’d write PostScript’–but they absolutely do that
with HTML.”
Muse (code name)
Design and publish unreadable HTML because you don't write code.
This.

And, not to mention no business owner want to get locked into a solution, they want their "data" transferable and standardized to at least some extend.

The code this produces is so horrible you've lost all the time spent with it. Muse dies out, and your time spent in it dies with it.
What's your point? We shouldn't be poking holes in faulty business models? I don't think that's a good idea. Groupon is quite embarrassing, the Pets.com of web 2.0 for sure. On top of that, the founders are greedy crooks.

I think Twitter is in a far better position...it has taken me a while to realize this, but the truth is that they don't need a business model, really, they can just sell their data to people who do have a business model (like Google). Twitter will sell when it can get a really good bidding war between FB and Google, and maybe MS too. Now, they may screw it up and only get a few million, but this is still going to be a huge success by non-silicon valley standards.
Piggybacking, my lowest score was a -7.8, with about 50 negatives, and about 900 friends in my friends list, 1200ish in this list. Heavy fb user, so i guess that makes sense...
You're prematurely optimizing.

Someone asked for activities good for computer people. You didn't answer "any activity", but "cycling". Now when I say cycling is actually bad for many computer people, you say I'm prematurely optimizing? Because I try to answer the actual question meaningfully?

Many programmers and other computer professionals sit inside at a desk all day and get no exercise. Almost anything at all that gets them moving is an improvement.

It's not. If you do an activity with a certain pattern of impact on the body for 8+ hours a day, doing another activity with the same pattern for additional 2 hours a day yet with increased intensity has the potential to cause serious health problems and discourage people from activity in general. If you're about to choose a sport and do not so much care about what will it be, why not make a choice that will be the most beneficial health-wise? I think that's was the whole point of the question asked.

Cycling with good posture uses your glutes and increases (or at least requires) hip flexor and hamstring flexibility.

I don't know why do you mention flexibility here, the posture problems come not from flexibility issues but from the muscle tone of opposing muscle groups. It is also simply not true what you are saying, just think about the main function of the hip flexors - pulling the knee up, and the function of the glutes - rotating the pelvis; then think which of those two actions is more common in cycling and to which degree. The hip flexors get contracted all the time and thus shortened, not flexed.

Uses much of the core muscles in the back that many programmers have problems with.

It's exactly the same as with hip flexors, the bend-over posture tends to stress the erector spinae that is already very tight and contracted from all the sitting, and does nothing to work out the abdominals which are too weak.

Post a better answer. If others agree it's better it'll get upvoted and go higher on the page.

I do not feel an expert on the topic, I am not a member of the fitness stackexchange community, and this is a four month old post. If I was to answer the question, I would recommend classic swimming, because it is beneficial to the posture even if your technique isn't perfect. There are other good choices, but they require more guidance. Yoga is great, because it actually teaches you to locate and be aware of the various tensions in your body accumulated during the day and helps relax those. Wisely selected exercises in the gym or callisthenics are good as well, but a lot of people have those posture problems and muscular imbalances, and when working out on their own they might not have enough knowledge to address them by an appropriate workout on their own (apart from the fact that most people don't know how to squat or deadlift in a way that is not detrimental to health in the long run). That's why in this case hiring a good personal trainer might be a good investment if you have the money and are serious about improving your health.
...It logs what YOU view, not who views you...
It absolutely is something you can work on. It takes a lot of time and very close attention, but it can be done.

I was the kid that nobody liked in middle school. I got beat up on a regular basis, everybody made fun of me, I had only a couple of friends and sometimes it seemed more like they tolerated me more than they enjoyed me, and I was basically in social hell. I was probably vaguely Aspergian - I fit basically all the symptoms - though the disease really wasn't all that well known back then.

When I switched to a new school, I decided that my only goal was to not be hated. I didn't care about being smart, I didn't care about passing my classes (we didn't have grades anyway), I didn't care about being popular...I just wanted the pain to stop. And so I basically shut up and observed. I watched how the other kids interacted with each other. I took note of what they were interested in, what got them excited. I purposefully tried to hide my intelligence, though my teachers basically shot that plan to hell when they pulled me out of algebra and told my classmates that the reason was because I scored a perfect score on the placement test.

When I did start interacting again, it was with "little" social interactions. Words of encouragement when they were struggling with a math problems. Questions about their favorite bands. Accepting their offers to come and hang out. In middle school, I had this hyper-competitive desire to be cool, and it resulted in a fair bit of self-aggrandizement that didn't exactly make me cool. In high school - at least early high school - I talked a lot less and listened a lot more.

And over time, it worked. I remember, about a month into high school, a classmate started making fun of me on the bus. Immediately, one of my other classmates piped up and said "Don't pick on Jon, he's cool." Problem solved, and I never really faced teasing after that.

I could try to put together a cribsheet of various social interaction rules I've learned if you're interested, but it may end up being rather long, so I'm not going to do it unless you think it'll help. Ask me for it if you want.
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I think the second point is that normally when people receive benefits, they are extracted by force from someone else.
That's why we have WordPress, Tumblr, etc., even things like launchrock, about.me, shopify, the list goes on.
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> So could PHP perhaps HTML encode error messages? Would this break any error message use cases? For example are there times when error messages appear when they wouldn't be interpreted as HTML encoded? CLI? Browsers loading different text mime types?

This is something PHP already gets right with warnings, fatal errors, etc. The issue is only with notices as far as I've seen (I haven't delved into the PHP source to see what the difference is).

A demonstration file:

[cmd]$ cat 147b9119e818c92f7f74bad71cc12255.php
<?php
echo file_get_contents('
test
');

Compare:

[cmd]$ php -f 147b9119e818c92f7f74bad71cc12255.php

Warning: file_get_contents(
test
): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nbsandbox/sandboxing.me/poc/147b9119e818c92f7f74bad71cc12255.php on line 2

to

http://sandboxing.me/poc/147b9119e818c92f7f74bad71cc12255.ph...

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: file_get_contents(&lt;s&gt;test&lt;/s&gt;) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/nbsandbox/sandboxing.me/poc/147b9119e818c92f7f74bad71cc12255.php</b> on line <b>2</b><br />
A New Kind of Patent Troll
Interactive Robotic Painting Machine: Art for art's sake, or for its master's?
23andme paper on self-reported phenotypic data
The other thing is that social skills can be learned... just like tech skills can be learned. No-one is born understanding Lisp, but you can learn to use it by applying effort. For techies, effort in learning a tech skill is "fun", so they forget that they had to work for it. But yes, all skills have to be learned.
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So with this I can XSS myself while in development mode on my development system? That's handy.

There are so many good reasons to turn off display_error during production use, one of which is to not have a broken page due to errors appearing all over the place which even the laziest PHP developer who only cares about "stuff working" would appreciate.

That it also leaks important internal information is another side-effect which generally isn't as appreciated though.

Also the article is showing this code:

// Undefined function
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo $_GET['funct']();

which they admit is a "rarely used pattern". I would certainly hope so as it is also only marginally better than

eval($_GET['data']);

or just

echo "the root password for this machine is: pAsswoRd";
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There are reasons to block the iOS5 users comment or review the applications.

1. iOS5 is beta , so chances are there that inclusion of new APIs , pre release iOS version can adversely affect the already approved application. But as the problem is not with the Application but with the Operating System , the review can be biased or completely irrelevant.

2. As a Developer I will welcome the step by Apple that, this will allow users to comment and review apps from the users who run most stable Operating system, so any bug on my application is because of me, not because of the iOS5.
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In this case it's a 78k download, of just text. That adds up over enough users. It adds to page load times, it adds to page rendering times, it adds to bandwidth costs.

And then there are the higher level issues. What happens when you get a bug report about how the page is rendered in a specific browser/OS? Do you want to wade through 1500 lines of html or 100 lines? Which do you think will be easier and faster to fix? Which do you think will be easier to inspect for correctness from the start? What happens when you need to figure out why your page is rendering too slowly? Which is easier to analyze, which is easier to speed up? What happens when you want to change the design? What happens when you want to take the design and use it as a UI for a web-app?

Using a tool that generates such crappy HTML may allow an inexperienced person to create a web page with a decent appearance, and it may even save an experienced designer a few minutes upfront. But over the lifecycle of a project it ends up being an enormous drain. If you're an enthusiastic teen putting up a web page for your mother's knitting circle, it's fantastic! But this is not in any sense a truly professional tool.
It's an interesting use case. However, if you have almost static content you can also make use of heavy caching. That is a low end dynamic site with a powerful caching/delivery layer. I guess this is also doable with Amazon Cloudfront. It is all about how comfortable it is to update your site.
It is additionally time consuming building work arounds for issues that might be altered by the time the OS makes it to gold master. Beta is beta, it might mean the OS does not work with your app not your app does not work in the OS.
> So with this I can XSS myself while in development mode on my development system? That's handy.

Or someone can send you a URL that points to your dev server and contains a payload. Or someone can send a URL to the developer across the street who uses shared hosting where display_errors is enabled by default.

I'm not arguing that this is a feasible attack to pull off against most applications: it most certainly is not. I'm arguing that it shouldn't be possible to pull it off at all, even in the small percentage of applications that might be affected. There is no good reason PHP should be displaying this information unsanitized.

---

You're 100% correct about the example you're pointing out. If you're allowing arbitrary functions called from the user, you're in much bigger trouble. ;-)

I originally noticed and reported the issue with the first example, which triggers a simple, common undefined index notice:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$array = array();
echo $array[$_GET['index']];

I only included the others for the sake of completeness. I've updated the code sample to note that.
My list is all random. The first entry is my girlfriend, the next though is a random girl from college whose profile I have hardly visited more than say 4-5 times ever on Facebook.
Same for others down the list.

So is it something were people are apparently assuming that it is onto something because they can see those 2 names they do not want anyone to know about among the 10 being in the top or is the result for everyone actually correct?

In the case of the latter how is it so random for me? I have Michael Arrington on the top 15 and I swear I do not stalk his profile.
Simulating a steam engine in your head doesn't actually pump water out of coal mines. However, "simulating" checking an IP address against a list produces exactly the same thing as the claimed invention: information. If your patent produces information then you're pretty much fucked. And rightly so.
Even if Youtube is not profitable, Google has gained a lot of power over the online video format (see also Webm), justifying the buy.

Google aims to organize all the information in the world. Video is a large part of that and that should only grow.

The same take I have on the $6B offer. Controlling a large space of the growing local/group buying market is valuable to Google.

And just imagine Groupon coupled with Google Adwords (Adwords could upsell their clientele a Groupon offer) or Google Adsense (temporary offers could show on the entire content network). Or Groupon coupled with Google Base/Google Merchant Center. Or Groupon coupled with Google Maps. The true power would come from the collaborations and the future growth where Google would have secured a place.

No matter the hard business model, social buying/local offer sites are clearly here to stay.
Ask HN: Why there is so many Google lovers on Hacker News?
I found it interesting that Hacker News is full of Google lovers: if you say anything against Google you will be downvoted.

I'm not saying that is bad or anything but just it is interesting. Could it be that a lot Google employees lurk on Hacker News? Could it because young engineers are generally impressed by Google technology and because of that anything else Google does must be good?
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I read this in my "Enterprise problem of the week" voice.
> I'm glad there's a place for us, just like I'm glad there's a place for people who are short, black, or ugly

Am I reading this correctly? Do you believe you have as little control over your behavior towards other people as a person has over their race, height, or facial structure? Even then, your analogy fails because short, black, or ugly people do not harm those around them merely by having those attributes, whereas if you behave like an asshole . . . ahem, a social retard . . . you do. I'm afraid that most people around you will feel differently about this issue than you do.
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This must solve for one of those "first world problems" I keep reading about.
If modern compilers were as inefficient and horrid as html design tools were a lot of people would code directly in ASM.

Also, HTML is not ASM, it's a very high level language. The ability to code a scant few hundred lines and nevertheless have that become a full-featured, rich, beautiful, and complete layout for a web page or a web app UI is tremendously powerful, and it's no wonder that high end web devs and designers take advantage of that. Until web design "compilers" approach anywhere within spitting distance (even within a factor of 2) of hand coded designs in terms of maintainability, cross-browser compatability, performance, and code size that's not going to change.
For layman person wanting to create a website with static page it is ok. But I am talking about professional web designers who creates templates for dynamic web page. Why the hell they would prefer generator like this? In the long-term it will turn into maintenance hell.
I get why the parent was downvoted; it's not relevant to the topic. That said, when you open a page and all you see is the header and the article title? I think it's perfectly valid to comment on the design, or lack thereof, of the page.

Seriously, the article was a worthwhile read, but I don't see how you can NOT comment on the design.
IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain
That's not a privacy issue, its a security issue. If you can't be bothered to log out your account on shared computers, people are going to get access to your account, and a malicious person will be able to do anything they please. Search type-aheads are the smallest of your problems.
There is company that makes a Photoshop plugin that converts to HTML/CSS/Images too

http://www.medialab.com/

I don't know what the output is like, though.
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Fitwow.com offers $1k "health fund" to get people exercise smarter and more
Isn't amazing how many people are really bad at their jobs? I spent 3 years feeling that anytime I made a mistake I was a failure, and there should be no reason I should be there anymore. Everything is relative!
This graph lists people that I do not have "friended" on Facebook, but whose mail address I probably have uploaded via the friend finder in the past.

However, I've removed all imported friend finder contacts on https://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php some weeks ago.

I guess this implies that Facebook does not really remove the imported information, but that it keeps this information and just hides those contacts from you in the friend finder interface.
This is a great article! I really think this can be an exciting frontier for computer tech and for human tech. I want these integrated into my brain one day!

Good Reading!