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I suspect I'm not alone in this:

I learned front-end web design after the box-model and modern CSS appeared. Being relatively new, I haven't suffered through all of the IE6 (and even 7/8) bugs. Though I'm proficient at CSS, and intimate with a lot of its quirks, I'm anxious to knock out my one achilles heel: confident IE support for relatively complex layouts.

Does anyone have any very readable, comprehensive guide to IE support for those fairly advanced in CSS?

Thanks!
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>> our premises are just around the corner from one of the biggest Apple Stores in the world, we can replace any of our servers literally within minutes if they fail

I sure hope you don't have a server failure outside of business hours :-)
Even then it's not streamlined. I can just use bit.ly to shorten a link to a file. No syncing, no need to share dropbox credentials.
Amazon's numbers might not compare right now, but they are very well positioned to elbow their way into Netflix's market.

I found an estimate[1] that Amazon has 121-131 million customers, of which about 5 million are Prime members. Those prime members pay less per year than a Netflix streaming customer, and they pay it mostly to get free 2-day shipping, so they're already deriving a lot of value from it even without the streaming. Amazon just dropped a big library (although not as big as netflix's...yet) of free streaming videos in their laps. Word will spread, plus they get to advertise this new service essentially for free to their other 120M+ customers. They also have tons of servers to handle all of this.

Amazon could also elbow in on netflix's DVD rental service pretty easily. They already have a worldwide rapid-shipping system in place, including handling plenty of returns. I'm sure they could add DVD rentals with two-day shipping each way if they wanted to. I'm guessing they don't want to, because they don't see a lot of profit in it, and maybe also because it could hurt their already-established business of selling DVDs.

[1]http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Amazon-subscribers-p...
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Maybe better neuter yourself? This is the most selfish statement in this thread.
> By far, my biggest complaint to Atlassian is upgrades, which are a huge PITA. There has to be an amazing new feature for me to go through that.

Just as a FYI - the latest version of JIRA (4.4) and the soon to be released (next week) version of Confluence (4.0) have had the install and upgrade process rewritten from the ground up.

If you've been bitten in the past, I'd strongly recommend taking another look.

A summary of the features here:
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Yeah, that's what I found too. I think you beat my edit by a few seconds. :-)

It looks like several versions have been written, but they're probably all based on the same basic concept. The "Javascript" version that people were referring to is probably the screenshot you posted, which would be trivial to launch with a few Ajax requests.

I will point my finger and laaaaaugh if this manages to take down any Wall Street websites.
Bought by hard and soft dollars, disloyal, incompetent, and wasteful interests have usurped our nation’s civil and military power, spawning a host of threats to liberty and national security

This is true. So If I were such interests, I would try to find a way to allow mainstream media to stigmatize anyone making such claims, such that anyone expressing these ideas can be sidelined.

A good, violent, riot in NYC should do it.
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Really great. One piece of feedback: Clicking on text works great but you can't use the browser back button to get back to the overview. That means you have to reload the page after every click on text.
Someone pointed out on the LEAPSECS list that this is similar to a proposal from Kuhn a while ago:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/utc-sls/
Why would the client think something was wrong with the server? This smear/fudge would be no different than any other clock adjustment from the clients perspective.

All of the client machines would be querying Lower stratum servers that all agreed on the smear factor. The clients do not query public ntp servers, they only query internal google servers that all agree on the time smear/fudge.
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Lots of Pud hitting the homepage lately. I'm not complaining, just noticing. I wonder if this portends the end of the boom ala fuckedcompany.com. Meh, probably not.
Your parents took that risk so you could have life. It seems extrodinarily arogant to belittle them for it.
I love them! It helps with scanning the front page. Due to the location/fact that it is text/text colour I never look at the URL of an article when looking at the front page on news.ycombinator.com.
> Dart will not be 2x (or more) faster than JS.

Why are you so sure of this? The people involved appear to be big believers that dynamic languages can be extremely performant provided they are designed with the VM in mind. LuaJit proves this out. A simple 1000x1000 matrix multiply in LuaJit is already 20x (not 2x!) faster than V8 and on par with C.

http://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/amazed-by-lu...

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-06/msg00071.html

I think far too much emphasis is being placed on whether Dart replaces JS in the browser. Google would gain a huge amount by having a performant server-side language that can be tooled and compiled to JS for the client.
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I'd be intereted to hear how it differs from Zepto (http://zeptojs.com/)
Really good work. Would love a blog post breaking down how you went on doing everything.
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This reminds me of this great article by Clayton Christensen to Harvard Business students about life balance: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1

Looking back over a short 7 year or so career I can't remember many projects where I can go: "Oh man, I'm so glad I spent all that time late at night on that project. It's really made a lasting difference in the world."

I'm sure there are some things that are worth spending a lot of overtime on; I'm sure there are ways to write software that will literally make a massive change in the way the world works. But most of the stuff that I see coming out of startups, most of the stuff that I've worked on in a wide variety of companies is stuff that ends up being rewritten soon, or changed or what have you.

One of my favorite CS professors was diagnosed with terminal cancer relatively early in life (late 50s, early 60s). He had another 10 or 15 years of teaching in him probably if he hadn't gotten sick. Towards the end of his fight with cancer, one of the other professors visited him and came back to us and said that he had been visiting the dying professor on a way to his daughter's flute recital. The dying professor looked at him when he mentioned the recital and said something like: "Good! More flute recitals! More ball games! Fewer papers! fewer conferences!"

I know that the time I spend away from work, particularly on my family -- my relationship with my spouse, with my kids -- ends up being the time that matters most in the long term.
Works great in the stock Android browser, but it's stuck on "Loading" in Opera on Android. Then again . . Opera on Android seems to mess up every other site.
1) I cannot verify that, all my tests are responding with a HTTP status 200.

2) Well of course I notices it with my IE9 first, but I thought that BrowserLab was a nicer way to show the results. Can you verify my findings with a IE-browser?

BTW I don't see any BrowserLab non-IE problems with that https+ url: http://i.imgur.com/fOeqZ.png
I can't stand reading literature electronically, there's just something about the experience of reading an actual book. Even with technical books, I like to read through sections before even trying any of the examples or exercises. I spend way too much time in front of a computer screen, and reading physical books is a nice break.
Impressive that it's not being overloaded.
I was going to post one concurrently -- but I thought it would be more interesting to see how the server-side cache held up under load. We're grabbing some screens while this is the top post and will include that information.

The client-side bit of the post will be interesting mostly in that it's not interesting. By keeping things basic, this was easy and performs well.
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Nice reply, sapiens.
How many people are in your group? Do you need private offices or are you ok working in an open environment with use of a conference room when necessary? How long do you need it for?

I'm personally at Nextspace (http://www.nextspace.us) and really love it. Its on 2nd and Market. There are a few other co-working spaces that are much better than Regus in the area:

- http://www.sandboxsuites.com/ (multiple locations in SF)

- http://www.rocket-space.com/

- http://wework.com/ (not sure if they're opened yet)

- http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/space__Hub%20SoMa.html

Also check out (http://www.loosecubes.com/) for companies renting out extra space in their office.

Email me if you have questions about NextSpace.
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Does the USPS have guidelines or a list for valid city names? Does Target ship to the US only?

If the answer to either of those is "no" then their City validation code is almost assuredly broken.
Gems like "gew the fasted" make me wonder if anybody proofreads anymore (surely the spellchecker should catch "gew").
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C# as a system language running on Mono is actually usable. But the thing is, I've never seen an IDE worse than MonoDevelop. Writing C# without Visual Studio, a large part of the benefit of the language just disappears.

I would only use C# for window jobs, although I sincerely think it's a beautiful language.
That's a great story.
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I think we're prepared for that too. First, we have a few currently unused previous generation Mac Minis lying around that could be used temporarily. Second, since everything we need (Apache and PostgreSQL, minus Mono) comes preinstalled with OS X Server, these machines can easily take over each other's tasks temporarily, e.g. the database server can become a web server too until we can get a replacement. It's not ideal but it'd do during off-peak hours. Fortunately, the Apple Store is open even on Sundays so even in the worst case scenario we could get a replacement within 12 hours max, which is not necessarily the case with, say for example, Dell servers.
I expect there will be touch trackpads akin to the Apple Magic trackpad for OS X
So they should just start rioting instead, like many are predicting will happen sometime next year?
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Completely agree.
I was in a very similar to the woman in the article. I started at a Boston Medical/Life-science research LLC as a statistical programmer. The intention was to bring me on as the head of stats/quant work since they had been farming it for the past few years. After 2 months they decided they didn't actually have enough work to justify paying me (can't blame them for that, it reached a point where I literally was walking up to fellow employees asking if there was anything I could do to pitch in since I had NOTHING to do and I also don't consider "killing time on facebook/youtube etc." acceptable when I'm on their dollar).

Point being, I did not sign their boilerplate non-compete. They were actually fine with that as long I signed a confidentiality agreement... and that's only fair.
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>Please note:

> Return outstanding DVDs within 7 days of cancelling to avoid charges to your credit card.

> Cancellation will be effective immediately - no refunds for partial months.

> Instant streaming on your computer or via any Netflix ready device will no longer be available.

I also went to cancel but Netflix placed the "No partial months" stipulation as the second sentence on the page. They did not bury the terms and they did nothing underhanded as your post implies.
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The only thing missing is a back button placed somewhere inside the page (so it can be used as a full screen app on iPhone).
One aspect I'm interested in is the SEO angle. For instance, if I make cow food and call myself Cow Food Online, register a domain of cowfoodonline.com, would I stand to benefit from having lots of links with "Cow Food Online" pointing at my domain, since that'd be the name of my service?
Agreed. A former employer tried to implement something of the sort, just to keep the city names nice... They ended up giving up on it because the data just wasn't good enough.

They even tried just for the US, and not international, and it still wasn't good enough. It just changes too much and any inconvenience to the customer was not acceptable.
Sounds like he's made the right decision. It's important to have balance in your life. However, I don't want to hear him cry "ageism!" when that young kid that's doing 80hour weeks gets promoted ahead of him. It's important to make these kinds of sacrifices when you have a family, but you should also understand that they are your sacrifices.
Doesn't work on IE5 mobile. :-) (I did actually try though)
Great! Would you please make the Next Page button full width?
You forgot acquiring customers and being on call with nearly unlimited liability...
I also set up a git repository for this if you would like to improve upon it.
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On iPhone 4 all fonts are ok (please, don't size them down) except for the ones on sliding out, black panels - these are a bit too small.
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I like what the GPL is trying to achieve, but frankly I dislike the 'collateral damage'; blocking proprietary software from using it is fine, but it also blocks the non-copyleft licensed (MIT, BSD, Apache, etc) projects from benefiting from the code.

In the OSS/Free Software world, GPL takes and never "gives back". I'm not comfortable with that position.
Even if you can make an argument that it is not less secure I would still recommend being able to run the same binaries in production as you do in test. Having a staging system that is as close as feasible to your production system is wonderful for debugging. If I were you I'd recommend trying to get the two data centers to use the same images. If that's not possible and all the prod machines run the same image I'd build a package on one prod machine and install that on all of them. If not even all the prod machines are the same then building on each one might be the best you can do unless you want to statically link everything.

Getting back to your original question, I don't see how having compilers in production is bad for security except if the compilers have malicious code in them. However, my team's policies do not allow anything on our production boxes that didn't go through our build and deployment systems. If an attacker can run a compiler he can probably run arbitrary code anyway.
Sorry I don't get it. Isn't http://ihackernews.com already the mobile version of HN? The site where you get the API.
Very nice. I read HN from my iPhone a lot, and it's mobile version would be very handy.

However, using this, I quickly realised that original design has some advantages (though, maybe it is just habit issues). Usually I scan frontpage fast for new highrated entries to read first, and having 10 entries on screen in time is more suited for this. With 4 it's just another experience. I feel that I need more time to find something interesting.

Maybe you can improve this, for example, indicating rating with color or size of rating digits.
The tasks are primarily back-end oriented and focus mainly on areas of scaling. An understanding of Java is needed and it would be nice to know Groovy as well.

I'm the sole developer of this site which is not funded so it would be an equity position initially which is why I was mentioning partner. I know this is a big turn-off for most but it is what it is.
Update:

1) Seems / only has an internal error when authenticated. Otherwise it works fine.

2) I don't have an IE browser handy but BrowserLab started working fine with all the non IE browsers so it Looks like the site is having issues with IE.

I expect it is just a temporary issue though as there have been a number of other bugs that Google has been working through with the launch.
I'm on an EVO using Dolphin Browser.

...and you're totally right about jQuery Mobile causing suckage. I used it for a couple features and I'm now ripping it out in favor of a little handrolled solution I built. I even replaced the jQuery core library with XUI because it's even smaller has most of the goodies I use 99% of the time.

For everything XUI doesn't have, I really like XUI.extends in its simplicity better than the jQuery plugin architecture. Super easy to add whatever else you need.

Performance is night and day better now.
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Ask HN: Is your business a company or a product?
When I read the stories on HN of people promoting their new product, I see many people starting businesses whose names are the same as the product they're selling. This is different than some traditional notions of companies where their name is different from their product, and they have diversified into one or more product categories.

My feeling is that if the company's name is different than the product that they're selling, the company can create any number of potential products without having to reincorporate or shut down operations (under the previous business name).

There no 'one right way' of doing it, but is there an advantage (revenue, tax, buy out, etc) between having a company whose name is the same as their product (e.g. MobileWorks), or one whose name is different from their product (e.g.: 37Signals)? If there's no advantage, why do people name their company after their product?
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When buying and selling is regulated, regulators are the first thing to be bought and sold.

The only way to stop govt from giving money to the politically powerful is to not let govt have money.

Regulatory capture is like conservation of momentum; if the situation satisfies the constraints, the results will happen, no matter how much one might like otherwise, no matter how much better things would be if those results didn't happen.
Nice. I created something like this that was text-only back in my Blackberry days, but when I switched to Android and jQueryMobile came out I enhanced my site to its current state: http://webbindustries.com/cgi-bin/myfeeds.cgi

It's old school: perl mirroring the RSS feed and writing out simple html markup for jQueryMobile to format. It supports a bunch of other feeds too (I used to read more than just HN this way) and it switches to a nice multi-column format on larger devices.
In many places that kind of blanket restraint is illegal, as restraint of trade, eg in UK... Specific ones can hold, although enforcement is hard.
I hope the guy working 80 hour weeks was not promoted into a management job. He doesn't sound particularly efficient.
I believe the studios will push people back to using streams that are 'free' and see their revenue go down to zero. I hope that eventually they will learn that the 'economic' cost of getting their content is limited by the 'opportunity' cost.
Made up numbers are not interesting.
>ugly, long lists of movies with no way to search or skip through the list

Eh? No, they do have a search screen.

Though I agree a Netflix-style queue would be nice.
How do you resolve favicons? Browsers are very resilient at finding favicons. Websites can use meta refreshes, variants on <link rel="..."> tags, domain.com/favicon.{ico,png}, gzipped images, and inserting icon elements with javascript. You could also use parent domains if you don't have a favicon for a subdomain.

Writing your own favicon-getter is by contrast... kind of annoying.
I can't help but think the content producers are overplaying their hand here. If they make legal streaming too expensive people who might not have bothered will start using bittorent instead.
Sounds like you're measuring input rather than output, an all too common failure of software development management. There's a rather good chance the experienced pro with a life is several more times efficient than the "young kid"; I certainly know that e.g. after 20+ years of programming my skill at debugging became almost frightening. Or after 15 years how low my error rate became and how good my designs were (best metric: accommodating totally unanticipated requirements).
Reminds me of a quote I saw recently: "what if we train our workers and they leave?" "what if we don't and they don't?"
IANAL, of course, but I read that non-competes can be enforced in California if they were valid where they were signed. In other words, you can't nullify a non-compete by moving to California.

Sorry about the no cite on that, I think it was from a Time magazine article a few years ago.
I'm just refreshed to see something is happening, a date, feet hitting the pavement. I hope it's a success with a huge turn out, and I hope people notice.

Even if the message isn't super clear, the feeling is, and if demonstrations like this gain momentum maybe people with a more clear message will realize action isn't impossible.
experience can do in 40 hours what younger, inexperienced can do in 80. As you build your tool chest, things become faster and less mistake prone.
IANAL but I think the clause totally flies in the face of free-agency. Existing IP protections already should cover a former employers concerns; if I rip off a trade secret for a competitor from a former employer, then I am already breaking an existing law and can be taken to court regardless of a no-compete clause. The no compete clause is an onerous restriction placed on all parties; innocence regardless.

When I walk out the door, I would assume the contract is over and I'm at liberty to use my freedom of contract to go elsewhere.
You completely missed one of the points of the story:

By doing this I’ve actually discovered that I can be more productive when I get away from the code for a while

I wish more people in IT would realise that software isn't like digging ditches. Another hour of work, after a certain point, does not necessarily translate into an hour of productivity.
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