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I've been hoping for this for many years. Without requiring new buttons or keys, an interesting strategy would be to make the "history forward" gesture/key/button follow the "next" link. Assuming sane use of next and previous this works well for viewers that start at the beginning. What to do for the "back" function is ambiguous when previous doesn't match to history, as in a case where a viewer lePt Ito the middle of content via a search.
This is a useful observation, and I agree with the principle and application.

I'm wondering about the use of the word "will" as he defines it:

'The "Will" is your innate, inner tendency towards peace. It is the subconscious personality that thrives on warm fuzzy feelings, or gives you that incredibly serene sensation of unity that comes on a solo day in the mountains when you could care less about races and glory. The Will is a factor of the "you", if the rest of the world didn't exist.'

If we aren't limited to English words, I would call this the Tao.

As distinguished from the Ego, the Will to me speaks more of desire or inner motivation stripped of fear, and I'm not sure that the Will, in that sense, of necessity tends toward peace, serenity, or "warm fuzzy feelings".
Tumblr is more flexible in my opinion. There's something to Posterous which makes it powerful for what tumblr was designed to do but Tumblr seems better for longer form content.

Posterous = BYOC (Bring your own Community)
Tumblr = BYOC + Utilize Tumblr's user base and promotion tools.
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Where I work the organization matches up to 4% for retirement accounts (403b) and puts an additional 2% of your pay each year into a pension. If you work here for 3 or more years you get the pension when retiring.

Things could still happen, but if I was within a few years of retirement I would have taken most of it out of stocks.
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I'm supposedly in that age group, and I don't give a shit when people retire or don't retire.

I only worry about my mom's retirement because her job sucks.
Opera has that already — Forward button becomes "Fast Forward" and if you use Spacebar to scroll to the bottom, it will automatically follow "next" link.

Ironically, HTML5 recently dropped bunch of link relationships because of lack of browser and search engine support.
Open source was the rule rather than a choice in those days. Nobody would pay for source code that only ran on your hardware. It was only in the 80's that the closed source systems started to emerge.
As an interesting aside, JIRA is based on some of the code behind Apache's OFBiz: http://ofbiz.apache.org/
Let's not get into name-calling. I think HN usually agrees that despite his personality Arrington did definitely have the skills and contacts it took to "rise to the top" and carve out a niche for himself. If we choose to disagree with how he's using that advantage, we should come up with better and more constructive criticisms, perhaps discussions on how to ensure that publications like TC don't monopolize the tech journalism market at least in the Silicon Valley (people often forget how much of an echo chamber the Valley produces, even more so because of how closely everyone is connected through Twitter/Facebook/Google+ etc.).
That's why their new cloud runs Linux and Windows VMs.
"Profanity Sucks"

The only one that didn't "work", probably because the author and I have different definitions of profanity.
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Heck no. The worst advice would be far worse. [Insert evil Catbert-HR scenario here.] This is just not particularly useful advice.

More useful advice would be on the order of: Make sure you mention the specific software you are using, but don't rule out candidates with good experience in different software. A sysadmin with Debian and Red Hat under her belt can easily take on your CentOS and Mint servers. A developer with years of C++ and Perl experience will pick up Ruby fairly quickly. It's generally more important to find someone smart, clever and reliable than to find someone who already knows exactly what you're using.
That is an excellent point. The amount of money extracted by middlemen between the buyer and the author in a traditional publishing setup is astonishingly awful.
A non-compete should be accompanied by a commensurate severance package in order to be taken seriously by a prospective employee.
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think one reason might be because people are accessing IM via all sorts of wacky mobile apps, to keep them using their MSN accounts, need to make the protocol accessible - XMPP the obvious way to do that
The concept you want is "price elasticity".
Sometimes customers don't know what they want. Many times they do. It's rather arrogant to believe otherwise. Most of us aren't creating cars. Some of us think we are and we spit out Segways (should've heard all the dummies that wanted faster legs!). But most tech startups are providing incremental, not disruptive, improvements. And flat out ignoring feedback from people that are going to buy your product and doing so because "they don't know what they really want" is an odd approach to me.

What really kills me about all this is your customer almost certainly understand the competitive landscape, problem space, and industry better than you do. Maybe every other entry failed because they tried to read between the lines rather than delivering what people want.

That's not to say your product should be built as an amalgamation of every feature request thrown your way. Balance is key. But thinking you know better than your customer might not be a great strategy.
I didnt down vote, but at least parts of the OP's post is wrong. Microsoft keeps improving its Python / IronPython support, it hasn't been abandoned.
In fact, the GPL is a legal enforcement of the concept. Unlike the common misconception, you're not obliged to give back your modifications to the original dev - you're obliged to pay it forward by giving your users the same rights you got.

(Whether this should be enforced legally is a different discussion, of course)
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I think jonpaul is exactly right with his response to the famous Ford quote. Perhaps the customer's imagination is limited, but they know the pain points well. If you're listening carefully, you could figure out the solution. Unfortunately, too many companies use this quote as an excuse to think they're smarter than the customer and develop in a vacuum.

RIM did this. I was a Blackberry to iPhone convert, and I bet a company that was willing to listen to me could eventually figure it out. I would have asked for a browser that actually worked, a larger screen, and thin enough to fit in my pocket (rather than the ridiculous belt clip I had to wear). I had no idea we were capable of the iPhone when it came out, but sounds like my checklist doesn't it?
Rising (and then dramatically falling) housing prices destroyed the wealth a large portion of established families. If they bought a house in say 2005, they lost money and are saddled with a huge mortgage. Even families who own their own home now have less money as people often viewed their home as a major investment.
Sweet Olark (http://www.olark.com) for Windows Live Beta on it's way :-) -- I bet we could release it in a week.
Interestingly, this seems to converge towards traditional ways of mass transit, like trains. Except for two crucial differences with regards to the US: Insane connectivity, seeing how good the highway system is in the US, and of course the fact that once you get off the freeway, you still have a car to navigate through the vast suburbia (even if you have to do it manually). I wonder if this will be the replacement for good mass transit in the US, at least for now.
There's not much here, basically a pointer to Indeed.com - a site I happen to like - but why do we need to go to AVC to see it?
We think we've got a really innovative UI and we're looking for some feedback.
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I recently had to write a one-page letter on my iPhone and email it to somebody to print out, sign and hand to a third-party. It wasn't by choice, it was just an urgent request and I had nothing else with me.

Surprisingly, it wasn't nearly as painful as I expected. It didn't take me long to write the letter (the default templates helped a lot), making edits was fairly easy and I had no trouble being able to read over what I had written.

So for small edits to existing files and quick docs it's usable, though clearly not as good an experience as using the same suite on an iPad.
You nailed it. The other thing is that .NET devs generally aren't framework devs. They're app devs.

With that said, there are some nice frameworks that exist, but competing against the top framework vendor, Microsoft, is tough. And while most on HN won't understand this, most .NET devs are actually quite happy with what MS is doing -- and most generally feel like MS actually does listen to the dev community.
If you don't want anything fancy from wordpress, then running it securely is very easy: there is an autoupdate button which will update it for you with one click, the easier will be finding a hosted solution which will update wordpress for you (sometimes it might not work if you customized it).
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Yup. Game theory exists for a reason, people doing public policy should think about its predictions.
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ok, so indeed.com is great and was a good investment. How does that help create jobs?
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They're very different concepts, but for the sake of the example it doesn't matter which you are measuring, you could equally be measuring the number of atoms in each one if you happen to know it.
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The volume of information is growing, but sometimes we lack the means to save it. This is when file hosting and file sharing services are useful. By using these services you can not only save information, but also share it with others by giving links to download it. At the moment the most popular service of this kind is DropBox. Although there are other options, like 72dpi.cc for example.
This site has all of the standard features for information sharing. Registration will only take you 5 seconds after which you will be able to login, upload a file and create a link to share it – its that easy and you will not be bothered with any advertising. Files are saved with no time limit, but there is a file size limit – 2 gb per file. And, of course, you cannot upload files that are illegal – these are deleted as soon as the service receives a notification.
With two clicks you can upload images, documents, zip files, etc and generate short links that you can share with other people. They will be able to view your files in browser or download it.
This startup is planning to offer paid accounts with more features this year, although the pricing has not been announced yet. Meanwhile, the service is absolutely free and has a simple interface and nice design.
Those that are on the receiving end are not under any obligation, other than a moral one

But that's the point. To pay first, you are operating under faith that this is the right thing to do. To pay back after you have received is more like settling a moral debt. For some people taking that leap of faith- doing good before being guaranteed that there is something in it for them- is really hard. They have what I consider to be a narrow and limited view of their self-interest, and don't believe or understand that making the world better is in their self interest, if not obviously and directly so.
Agreed. In the finance industry this is the norm in my experience - 100% salary for duration of the non-compete and a severance package.
Am I the only person who thinks most grammatical rules are complete crap? Everyone has their own writing style, which is what makes reading works by different authors so enjoyable. The one rule I especially dislike is the 'never end sentences with a preposition' rule, which if always abided by, will dramatically overcomplicate many sentences.
Could you put 'how this site works' on the side, so I don't have to click on anything to get this info?
Despite how poorly this guy describes price elasticity, I do think he has one decent point: that if the "customary" ebook price becomes $1, that is too low for most authors to make it. Based on just a gut feeling, I think the sweet spot would probably be $3-6 for ebooks.
Several days and counting and I still have not heard from Posterous when they decided to rebrand my blogs and why. Amazing!
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What happens if driving becomes painless. Won't you have more drivers on the road?
Ctrl-c is not always equivalent to <Esc>. For example, if you hit q: to get the command history editor, Ctrl-c will close that buffer, but <Esc> won't.
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As someone who has an interest in this kind of thing, but very little in the way of formal education on it (my last formal maths education was my 'A' levels around 25 years ago), I'm possibly the exact target audience for this article.

Given that, I thought it was very helpful. I've read a whole host of attempts to explain it before, and they rapidly descend into 1000 other mathematical concepts that I don't fully understand and end up reading about instead of the actual P v NP issue.

The one bit that I think is missing is a better explanation of what's meant by "easy" in this context. Clearly a problem that takes more than the life of the universe to solve is likely to classify as hard. But what about if it was solvable in a year, or a minute, or a second? My vague understanding is that there's not really a "less than 5 seconds to solve"-type cutoff, and that it's actually to do with "nondeterministic polynomial time". But at that point I disappear into one of the mathematical things that I don't really grasp.
The point of Washington DC talking about it is that, at the margin, more or fewer entrepreneurs will be able to "do something about it" depending on a whole range of things like health care, taxes, regulations, infrastructure, etc... But Mr. Wilson is smart enough to know this - he's just boosting his portfolio's startup.
Yes, and "if Captain Sully had been flying an Airbus he would have crashed because they don't allow manual control". The objective is to reduce the total number of crashes, even if that means that you feel like you have less control of when you do crash.
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That's really the only fair way to do it: if you don't want me working for someone else, pay me for that [non-]work.
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What the C# designers don't seem to have noticed is that async/await is very closely related to LINQ and could have been built as a new syntax on top of LINQ.

Considering the C# designers include Erik Meijer and work closely with Don Syme, I find it hard to believe that they didn't notice this. But you're right, it's not as powerful or general as what is in F# (which I really need to learn better, as every time I look at it, I want to code in it).

I suspect the C# designers looked at what one of the biggest problems they have is, and it is asynchronous computation (especially w/ respect to the UI thread) and said that F# async workflows solve this problem. But too generally. What do I mean by that. With the current C# solution the syntatic changes are minimal to a completely sequential program. It's not as general, but easier to write and understand.

I wouldn't be surprised if C# added async workflows full on in a future version, when they'll point to async/await and say "you've been doing it for years -- it's not hard at all!"
I hate it when people insinuate that jobs are some sort of magical commodity that there are only so many of and once they're gone that's it.
I'm curious if the speed difference between counting how many times to repeat a command versus using movement/visual block/etc. is big enough?

I find the "repeat-n-times" modifiers require a lot of thought before I know what number to put before the command. I do consider myself very fast with Vim, but the repeat commands haven't done much for me.
“But it is easy, especially for trained theologians, to get to whatever conclusion they want from some dogmatic starting point.”

Wow, never was the uselessness of theologians more succinctly described.
I thought the article was just saying that the cars will broadcast their speed. In this way cars will know if they are slowing down ahead of them, and it will be built in, so it won't be easily hackable like you described.

Things like this could possibly save Millons of hours a year. Quite powerful.
People here don't quite understand Fred's point.

His point is that just as some technology is replacing jobs, other technology is helping the unemployed become employed by reducing the information and timing gap between the employer and the potential employee.
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So I just tried to re-register with your site and got an Application Error. Tried to log in again, then it worked.

I did indeed have more than 1000 search terms, and you have indeed fixed it.

Nice job :)
It would be more accurate to say that Atlassian wrote some of the code behind OFBiz (and a lot of other open source Java projects) back in the early-mid 2000's.
What's to stop someone from spoofing your bank site while you're on the free wifi at Starbucks? I can imagine an aftermarket module designed to do just that, so free wifi is clearly not viable.

In practice, they'll implement encryption and authentication, then make it a federal crime to mess with it.
... continue to indoctrinate children with rubbish like Intelligent Design/Creationism when they have been presented, repeatedly, with hard evidence for the reality of evolution and the fact that it does not require a guiding force.

Thinking about this used to make me angry, but I am glad it doesn't anymore since anger is a negative emotion and is not productive. What I realized is that people who "willfully indoctrinate" their children into a religion often do so not out of hubris ("I am smarter than those godless atheists") and not out of ignorance ("I don't care what others have to say"), but out of the following: "I have no idea how to raise children properly, therefore I will raise them to be religious because from among the people I know, most 'good, proper' people are religious, and because if you follow the ten commandments/whatever you cannot really be bad".

So ultimately the indoctrination of children into a religion is no so much something particularly malicious (hubris/ignorance), but more an admission of defeat (i.e. "I have no idea how to teach children morals if I don't tell them the story of Jesus"). People are scared that their children will turn into anti-social monsters if they are not indoctrinated. They see sensational stories on TV of parents being murdered by their own children and they think that if they raise the children to be religious, something similar will never happen. Fear is a powerful force.

Perhaps someone should come up with a popular atheist's guide to how to raise children, and a part of that religious indoctrination will go away. Unfortunately, if you look around, most of the people publishing such books are religious zealots and most of the outspoken atheists are busy attacking the zealots instead of being occupied with something more productive.
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That review jives with my own experience. I sincerely hope that they make the metro "Start" optional before the final build.

Also, you can move past the lock screen by hitting enter or by hitting control (in case you habitually use ctrl-alt-del).
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Linux? DOSbox and Wine can be less hassle in many cases.
I agree, advances in technology simply shift and grow jobs in different areas not just make them irrelevant.
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You would think that Business Week would know better than to perpetuate the Lump of Labor fallacy.
It may be a serious problem for Google+ that Google Apps users cannot sign up. They are alienating their most loyal customers.

I still check G+ every day, and there's a core of active users in my circles. But it would be more useful if I could connect with my colleagues who are Apps users.
Quite possibly. Someone noticed that the actual speed of traffic in London is always 9 miles per hour. If traffic improves, more people drive until it gets down to 9 mph. If traffic gets worse, people decide driving is too much trouble and traffic improves to 9 mph :)
I think the final piece of this puzzle is going to have electrified highways so you can travel long distances without the need for large battery packs. It would still be more efficient to uses busses/trains but we already have a lot of roads and cars which make retrofitting seem like the best option.
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Outside CA, large tech companies tend to interpret a "competing company" to mean "another tech company", or at least they try to advance that interpretation (courts don't always accept it). For example, IBM's position is that a non-compete prohibits you from working in any field of endeavor that IBM works in, not only the specific one you previously worked in at IBM--- and IBM works in quite a lot of technology areas.
Those gradients on the background sides of the linked website are horrific. They remind me of wallpaper you'd expect to see at the Twin Peaks Lodge, and I fully expect some evil gnome to appear and devour my soul.

Please kill that ironic design website with fire.
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I'd love to use bitbucket instead of github (since they allow free privste repos), but they need to have an online editor. I think they should just run through more of the feature requests.
Thanks so much! I was planning to switch to Jekyll, but was confused by the apparent lack of a default template to get me started. Octopress seems to be the missing piece.
Seriously, I think Vim is more dangerous than Emacs for RSI in some respects. Emacs forces you to change your hands' positions as you alternate modifiers. This means that your hands do move more, but they on the balance do given actions less.

At least that's my impression. Obviously there's a lot of posture issues, and you can mitigate RSI to some degree simply by getting up and stretching your hands every 30 minutes. But it's not a simple matter of moving less -> less RSI. If you don't dramatically reduce the number of actions, moving less can be a problem.
I usually enjoy the posts on avc a lot, but I don't know whether this is just shameless promotion or a mistaken belief that recent unemployment trends are simply due to people and jobs not finding each other.

Regardless of political leaning, I think most people would agree that those who became unemployed in the last 1-2 years are not remaining so due to a lack of looking.
If they have a LUG and a Perl Mongers meeting listed somewhere in their resume, i'd say they're a lot more interested in Linux and Perl than the average schmo that just wants a paycheck.
in my opinion it is far more important to guard against the actions of the stupid and helpless than the malicious. there are far more stupid people on the road than malicious people, so ...
After using it extensively, I hate it with a passion. I don't believe they are conducive to development workflow at all, but they are built for middle managers.
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