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^ is also a handy shortcut, and usually more useful for programmers than 0. It goes to the first non-whitespace character in a line.
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Attention to detail in one spot makes it more likely there's attention to detail elsewhere.
Absolutely. That line is critical to avoiding pain. Library authors don't have that option, unfortunately. :/

But even if we ignore the compat versions for now (and quirks mode (and almost-quirks mode)), we still end up with up to 10 IEs in play simultaneously.
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The physical button is pretty important for force-exiting a frozen app. I can't imagine it going touchscreen.
Yeah, but the point is X is better than X^2 + (1/2)X. The article makes a big deal of the 72 browsers thing.
> Ubuntu applications

This is something I've never understood. People always point out the Microsoft mono{poly,culture}, but somehow when Ubuntu does it, it's all good.
thanks for that..
If you look at some of stuff at SIGGRAPH in computational photography, you could add a couple of more 5mp sensors and create some truly amazing images given the iPhone's programability. A 4 sensor iPhone (5mp or the newer 8mp) would be amazing.
I have no car, a lot of my friends are several hours away by public transport (even here in San Francisco), my birth family lives on another continent, and my wife's extended family lives on a different continent again. I couldn't manage without the internet, but somehow I manage just fine without facebook. I've kept a FB as a sort of notebook in case I need to find someone, but I think I've only logged in once or twice this year. At this point, I think everyone I care about is on LinkedIn.

I'm not for or against FB; it's not my cup of tea, but I might not be like the typical user. What I don't understand is the 'forced to use facebook' meme that comes up every time someone is unhappy with some changes there.
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Good point about library authors... that's a headache!
I remember that article. It had two glaring ommissions:

1. Economists were not aware that there would be a major terrorist attack six months later

2. Economists did predict the recession that occurred in March 2001 due to the Bush administration's desire to weaken the dollar. When polled, a few economists were polled if there would be a double dip recession and 95% said no- a fact that changed six months later.
No, they really shouldn't. If you care, you already know about about:prefs.
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"If you feel like your SW has actual value and charge for it, but Google has you in their cross hairs, you either really need a great product (that can't easily be cloned) or very strong network effects."

Let's substitute the names of Netscape and Microsoft circa 1997 and see how this plays out.

I can't wait to hear all the reasons why the Google/Dropbox comparative scenario is so much different.
The Valley and the Alley aren't the same. They both have different strengths.

Personally, I think the difference is that you go to the Valley when you've already decided to become a part of the tech startup scene. People in NYC tend to discover the scene while they're doing something else- two of my housemates (banker and film-maker) have asked me to bring them to the next Startup Weekend event here in NYC because they've been hearing so much about it. That sort of cross-industry mashup is more difficult in the Valley, because it is world unto itself.
Bad title - really, really bad title. It's not what the article says at all.

Since 1929 astronomers have believed that the universe is expanding. Because of the influence of gravity it has always been believed that this rate of expansion is slowing. The big question was always would it eventually stop and then collapse, or would it keep going forever.

More recent observations have suggested that the rate of expansion is accelerating, which really doesn't seem to make sense. Various possible explanations have been offered such as "dark energy" and so on, but it's a hot area of research.

This chap is suggesting that everything is, in fact, as it was first believed, and that the rate of expansion is indeed slowing under the influence of gravity. He suggests that the apparent acceleration of the expansion is a local illusion. Read the article for more details.

What he is not saying is that the universe is not expanding.

Total link bait. Bad title. (no pizza for you)
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True, although you can install a plugin like csfire and block the off-site stalking.
I came here to say basically the EXACT same thing... even including the "my nephew can make websites" remark.

My method is to try to figure that out VERY early in my discussions with a potential client, and then quote them a "scare off price" whereby they'll likely say no, but IF they say yes, the extra money will make it worthwhile as I KNOW they'll be asking for tons of changes. (Can't you just open Dreamweaver and change the colors and pictures???)

I'm not advocating being difficult. I simply think if we'd size up our client BEFORE deciding "we need the money", there'd be a LOT less horror stories.
I always hoped that one day, technology would advance far enough to reward me for being a thought leader with a pretty picture.
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Thank you. As I'm not experienced user of Vim myself, this kind of feedback is valuable.
yes, most do -- that is what I alluded to in my original comment about all methods having their downsides. Most are not suitable for long term holding and you would end up with assymetric exposure (more downside than upside, over time, for a given move over time) due to compounding effect. I'm aware of that, you're absolutely correct. I have read their prospectus also.

I decided to buy an ETN which does not have this specific problem. But I am of course paying a fee for the trade, so I guess you could call that a decay. And, since it is an ETN, I am taking on credit risk from the issuer -- which is the more salient downside.

Like I said in OP, all the methods of doing this have downsides. But I am comfortable with what I am doing, I believe the upside/downside risk is well in my favor.

Of course read the prospectus. As always, everyone should do their own research, and seek to find instruments they feel comfortable with, and they believe are suitable for whatever it is they are trying to do.
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The mass market already cares about voice-to-text, it's heavily used by Android users (according to the Google-provided data).
I didn't get why Dropbox was so popular when I was using it the same way you are right now. Okay, it's a convenient way to make backups, but so what?

Then I started using it for sharing. Man, it's magic - I've never had it be so painless to share things. I can put a folder in my dropbox, share it to a few emails, and then everyone just has it later in the day. Man, that's cool. I can also create unlimited of those folders easily to control who gets what documents/files. It's a bloody miracle, Dropbox is. The backup feature is really second fiddle to sharing, it's just to make it useful enough for you to try it before you need to share, so that you discover sharing and fall in love with the product.
Ask HN: Besides Delicious, what other company has dared to do a "Lean Reset"?
Looking at the new delicious.com it looks like they decided to throw the old bloated legacy system and create a new Minimal Viable Product from scratch.

This looks like a bold move, but taking into account that Delicious had a complex system to support a really simple set of features; it looks like the rewrite is worth just to get rid of all the code debt this Web App had.

Does anyone else have any other examples of other companies who have dared to do this?

The other only example I can think of the top of my mind that has dared to do this is Foursquare (Ditching PHP & MySQL for Scala & MongoDB), and it looks like they are doing ok.
Not true; arbitrageurs equalize prices across markets and add liquidity. Their profit is earned by guaranteeing you the lowest price on all the exchanges that the asset is traded.
I don't think the things you two are saying are mutually exclusive. Perl is ugly in inexperienced or rushed hands, and other languages do have flexibility and general purpose. I will say that I have found my muse in Perl, and that it allows me to express ideas succinctly and beautifully but that's not to the detriment of Python (with which I made a livelihood for a few years).

If you want beautiful Perl, pick up Kaufmann's "Higher-Order Perl." It has a number of functional design patterns and ideas which are useful and elegant. The author claims that where most people write C in Perl, his book is an attempt to convince you to write Lisp in Perl.
I'm certainly a proponent giving a different experience to different browsers: http://paulirish.com/2011/tiered-adaptive-front-end-experien...

If you're in a position where you can totally ignore IE8 users, that's fine with me; but that's not where most developers are at.

And I agree; the more time goes by, the more I want to provide a super simple version of each site to oldIE, like throwing the Universal IE6 Stylesheet to all of them.
I would call it a parasite, not a predator.
Save yourself the trouble and go with Speakerdeck directly. It's lovely — at least as a consumer of presentations — all my trips through Speakerdeck have been absolute pleasures so far.
"Is there any front where google managed to beat a good established product (except Android) ?"

Are you serious? Try WEB SEARCH.

Actually;
Web Search
Web Advertising
Web Based Email
Online Mapping

They're not exactly failing in the Browser market either.

If you stop thinking in terms of Buzz and Wave etc, Google, when entering an arena with an existing proven market to attack, have a record of becoming the big dog in the yard quite handily.
Thanks for your replies.

First of all, it would already be interesting to find a covering with all integers > 100. Obviously, as you point out, a computer program cannot be expected to prove this for every N.

However, it is not clear that the answer to either of my questions should be yes. It seems it should be possible (?) to come up with an impossibility proof by computer.

Certainly new insights are required as you say, and nobody expects a brute force search to work. I am wondering whether the important insights might come from people with serious CS background.
Since it's on October 4th and there are 4 icons on the invite, looks like we're not getting an iPhone 5.
the worst anyone can do is approaching this as easy.
Note that if you copy/paste the contents of the URL box, the pasted text includes http:// or https:// or whatever was relevant.
The tagging is really nice for organizing things, and having the date you bookmarked it associated is nice as well. I know I'll sometimes think, "What was that site I looked at last year that had that cool ____?" and it's pretty easy to find if you can just scroll through by date bookmarked.
For me, it's that muscle memory will take over while I'm typing fast and thinking about something else. It's a really annoying habit I've developed.

I normally catch them when I read back the comment and think "glad I caught that, I would have looked stupid" ... not this time apparently.
I believe the general consensus is that Mark were written around AD 70, making it closer to 40 years after Jesus.
Hmm...Yeah I guess I'd agree that you see less cross-industry mashups in the Valley. The Valley is home of the most superior engineering talent in the country - so it makes sense that its focus would be primarily in tech/web/mobile innovation.
Android users seem to like their voice recognition features. If Apple can deliver that kind of quality I don’t see a problem.
sorry.... but what a dick.
To be fair, there is a difference between saying that X demonstrates Y and saying that X proves Y. It is sometimes useful to say things like “Apple’s approach to ___ demonstrates how they approach product development.” It simply shows an example of something you believe carries over to their products.

The example that comes to my mind is how the original Macintosh was packaged. Someone at Apple had taken great care to design the “Opening the box and setting up your computer” experience such that the right booklet was the first thing you saw when you opened the box, the power cables, keyboard, and mouse were layered under the documents in the right order to set them up, and by the time you lifted the computer out and put it on your desk, it all seemed very natural to plug things together and turn it on. Their attention to the details of the unpacking experience demonstrated their approach to macintosh product development in the late eighties.

That being said, “X explains Y” normally suggests to me that X carries enough information that you can deduce the important things about Y from it. I wouldn’t personally suggest their marketing materials explain their products, so we agree on that.
Some points on the article:

The GUI was a combination of inventions and innovations, some of which pre-dated xerox and some of which were added by Apple.

The article fails to mention (near as I can tell) that Apple corp gave Xerox a large chunk of Apple stock in exchange for a license to build on the work that Xerox had done.

I've used an Alto and a Star (yes, I'm that old) and to call them a "GUI" isn't appropriate, given that they didn't' have real windows, etc.

"To this day, nothing sticks more deeply into he craw of Lisa and Macintosh designers than the suggestion that all their interface work simply consisted of making a copy of the work they saw at PARC[2]. This is simply not true. A look at the revolutionary design of the Lisa interface shows that much more was involved. Xerox never seriously intended to go to market. Apple was primarily in the business of selling personal computers and could not afford such a luxury. Apple had to design an interface intended for use by millions of people. It had to be intuitive and robust. The Lisa team built the Lisa OS from the ground up with the intention of making it friendlier to novice users. The Lisa's engineers realized that the PARC's ideas had to be stripped down and rebuilt to more demanding specifications[2]."

From: http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html
Well at least I hope they lower the super ridiculous high prices and make it more like $4 a year per 15 GB.

They seem greedy to me. They seem to want to be able to retire and not have to work anymore if they wanted after the dropbox startup.
Jobs is the one that negotiated the Lisa team's visit to Xerox's labs.

Here's an article on the development of the Lisa you might be interested in reading:
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html
It's not justifiable, it's just obtuse. The invite is being used as an example of the attention to detail and high quality that people like about Apple.
This actually is quite comforting. The vast majority of our universe, totally unseen, unknown and mysterious seems very odd. Totally understand that my comfort has nothing to do with reality, but I certainly am interested in this new hypothesis.
Hasn't exactly that feature already somehow failed with the iPod Shuffle, which has physical buttons again? I haven't bought or ever seen that device or the 4th gen successor to make a hands-on judgment. But it seemed like a step back from VoiceOver from the outside. (I loved my 2nd gen Shuffle!)
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Oh of course, in the end it's all about 'who you want to work with' and who's 'easy to talk to.' That's why so many extremely skilled engineers go unheard of.
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I am an international student(F1 visa) and I am working on an idea which will help generate funding for charitable organizations. I want to startup a non-profit organization which has the sole purpose generating funds for charitable organizations. My idea is unique and needs close to no investment. My question is, can I do this in my CPT/OPT? I am not concerned about H1 Visa/Greencard as of now. I just want to know if I can do this in CPT/OPT. Any advice/pointers will be really helpful.

Thanks in advance!
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That would indeed be huge, but I'd be a bit worried, as Google Maps has been the market leader for some time.

More likely, they've made improvements that distinguish the iPhone in an Apple-esque way, and probably increased the likelyhood that iOS maps could be switched to say, Bing in a more direct fashion.
Giving away a viable alternative to that which consumers are already paying for, however, is hard to imagine failing.

You can add Google Navigation and Google Voice to the list of successful products that match that description.
Yup:)
As IE6 has died, I think we've kinda lulled into some sort of complacency and I don't see heavy campaigning for browser upgrades currently.

I'd be happy to see it, and like I mention, prompting a IE7 user to upgrade to IE9 is currently just irresponsible.
One is always predictable and one requires you to check for new information before you display it. The concern was definitely battery life & update frequency, so they just left it as a static icon.

The weather widget in iOS 5 is a better compromise, it just quickly grabs the weather info when you start pulling down the notification drawer.
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If you wish to control who reads a message you've left on a someone else's quasi-public wall then Facebook certainly isn't the service for you.

While I understand what you're trying to say and agree with that, I think that the issue people have is that Facebook is giving them a mechanism to exert that control and then that mechanism doesn't work.
I agree with that thought completely - but sometimes even with people and IP in mind valuations get a little crazy (such as Google trying to acquire Path for $100 million, which they admitted was mostly based on acquiring the team).
I personally like this in some... aesthetic?... sense. I mean, I like names that mean something more than just who started the company.
Ask HN: How to fake a quiet work environment to oneself? 
I work around people who talk to one another at length. I can’t focus when someone is talking right next to me. Putting on headphones distracts me too because I start paying attention to the music/lyrics etc so that isn’t an option. I like deep focus, and can focus deeply for length and often, however I need it to be quiet for me to do so.

Apart from sticking buds in my ears (and seeming uninterested or weird), what can I do or listen to? I have heard that when people go boar hunting, they use tractors whose constant engine noise is phased out by the animal, could I wild-boar myself?
Megapixels != quality. Lens and sensor are far more important.

Can you show me a review that honestly shows new Androids beating an iPhone4 in actual results despite the megapixels?
Don't forget to place mouse over cheese.
The iPod shuffle has nothing whatsoever to do with voice control.

Edit: That is actually factually true. Not sure why some seem to think otherwise.
Content changes could require new CSS styles (which would require a new round of cross browser testing), image editing, and cleaning up mal-formed text from an email or Word doc. You also need to factor in how much you should charge to make it worth your time to come up with an estimate, fire off an invoice, etc.
You tell the clients that you have been working with that due to an increase in demand for your time, you have had to raise your rates. Simple economics.

If they decide they don't want to work with you anymore, well, that's ok. You don't have any sort of obligation to continue to offer your services at the same rate.
Except that most parties don't include live streaming to strangers. Nowadays it's a lot easier to have something you said or did exposed to the whole world.
That's a good idea. My advice: forget the MBA. Just learn to code and start making contacts in the field you want to go into. Why pay grad schools? YC is the new grad school, and they pay you.
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But every time there is a large scale intervention like this . . .

We could try scaling slower. Say, eradicating mosquitos one 100 square mile block at a time, over the course of a century.
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Pretty unlikely, we probably would have seen some slip-ups in the iOS 5 beta if that was the case. As it stands they are still steadily improving the existing Maps with Google services, adding alternate routes and whatnot.
If you tap the Alt key, the regular old menu comes up. It's transparent.
Show HN: My first iPhone app - Air Controller
Hi guys,this is my first app ever. It turns your iDevices into a wireless game controller, mouse. There are many apps like this on the App Store already, but the purpose I create this app is because of another project.

A year ago, I was working on my graduation project as a undergraduate major in CS / embedded system. My project is to simulate a virtual device driver on Linux and Windows platform to share devices (especially HID devices like mouse, keyboard, gamepad..) between computers.

It turned out that I can create a virtual device that act as either mouse or gamepad (full functional gamepad, not just up/down arrow on keyboard). Therefore I decided to create an mobile app that help people to control computers via Wi-Fi.

Unlike most other remote control apps on App Store, which only simulate keyboard/mouse signal, and fake to be a gamepad/joystick, Air Controller is detected on Windows as a USB game controller, which means you can connect more than one iDevices to the same computer and the control signal is more precise (especially in Steering Wheel mode).

I’d love to hear your feedbacks and thoughts on this app. Anyone here major in Human-Computer Interaction, what else can I do to make this app more interactive, more fun ?
lol...yes! out of all the degrees out there...I don't understand the MBA. Want to start a business? Start it! If you get the MBA you'll be stuck paying off a $100k debt.
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The nightly channel was on 9 last time I checked and it had a much better OS X UI, the first time some put effort into cleaning it up since FF4. I really wish they would get that into the release channel.
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I used to work with at least a couple dozen MBA's from 1 school, they gave me this advice for bus school:

1) don't lose your coding skills (I was good at perl/awk, APL, C and Fortran). This I did

2) concentrate on linear algebra, stats/prob, calculus (this i didn't)

3) take law school classes (this i did, they were gnarly)

tl;dr your 2nd year you can do pretty much whatever you want. You can make it a profoundly intellectual experience, or start your business, or whatever
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this is a good step in the right direction for getting a quick glance. also, it would be nice if they added attachment support (if just images) to issue comments, too.

on a related note, my team is working on http://inboxissues.com/ - a browser extension that bridges customer support emails with issues in github. it helps you easily triage issues without leaving your inbox. and once a bug fix or feature gets committed, you can effortlessly notify customers who were waiting on that feature.