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>> a browser with several tabs open

I almost never have "several" tabs open. It's usually ~15 tabs on my main browser (Chrome), and often more than 30. And also an additional 5 tabs in Firefox, Safari, and several versions of IE.

Right now, web browsers are using over 2GB of memory. This is fairly typical from the web developers that I work with. So perhaps it depends on what your software targets. But I would argue if you're building web apps, then 4GB RAM is by no means excessive.
For those interested, the reason the old google analytics snippet wasn't using this instead of document.write:

There is an edgecase bug in IE6 that causes a dialog to blow up… under some security settings (unsure if they are default) when requesting form the non-'ssl' subdomain

So looks as if it's fine to use if you're not supporting IE6.

The new GA snippet uses different domains for the two modes so it can't be used.
Microsoft does the same thing with Windows.

Tick: Windows 95, Tock: Windows 98

Tick: Windows 2000, Tock: Windows XP

Tick: Windows Vista, Tock: Windows 7
Where is it registered?

If GoDaddy, try to buy it out of tdnam.com. You can probably get it for $20.

Else, I'd make a direct offer to the owner once it expires. At that point the domain has entered the redemption period[1]. What that means is for 30 days only the previous owner can reregister, but it will cost an extra $75. After this period, the domain is released "into the wild."

That's your best position. They didn't want it for $10, so they don't want it for $85. But who would turn down $500 out of the sky for something they were "throwing way"?

[1] http://www.cyberindian.com/domain-registration/article.php?a...
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Chromebook's claim to fame (or primary selling point) of 8 second boot-up is very gimmicky to me. People never hard power off their tablets and never need to for most notebooks. If they are, that's a usability issue they're having with the OS, not a limitation.

A fairer comparison is time to resume from standby. But then, Chromebook will have to push their other selling points.
It's cool. But let's admit it wouldn't be impressive if it were written in Flash...because Flash makes it relatively trivial to write something like this.

So is it only impressive because it doesn't use Flash? And if so, what does that say about how wise a decision it is to start trying to replicate complex animation in Javascript, CSS3 and Canvas, just to keep Steve Jobs happy?

Arguably, Jobs chose to eliminate Flash from the iPhone specifically so that casual games would have to be written natively and sold in the App store, and couldn't be played on the open web. Since Javascript runs at about 20% the speed, the reasoning was that the only decent games would have to be written in Obj-C. And that still holds true, despite legions of hackers trying to ride this HTML5 pig as if it's a thoroughbred stallion. It'll just never be up to the task. I could write this thing in about 3 hours in HTML5/CSS, not including modeling and rendering time. But that's also because everything in it has a centered pivot point. If it didn't, it wouldn't work in IE 6, 7 or 8.

So, nice job, but was the only point really to show that you can do something Flash-like in HTML5? If so, what's the point again?
This is exactly what makes me sad about a possible takeover of T-Mo. I'm happy to bring my own phone and just buy service, and they give me a discount for that. I may have to switch to a lower quality pre-paid company in the future.
HN has become just another Slashdot
On Slashdot, it is impossible to get measurable attention unless you say something about a specific type of topic in a certain kind of way in a certain number of words. HN used to have the right amount of new topics so that it attracted people, yet not so many posts that you'd miss a new topic on the first page. Now that there are so many people here, you can't post anything without it being basically out of mass consideration within a short amount of time due to the high topic creation rate. HN is no longer either elitist or intellectual. Other than a tech-entrepreneurial bent, how is the "new" area any different than the Slashdot Firehose, except that it appears to be more popular?
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a preloader would be nice...
"Free," with a 2 year lock-in for voice service plus a mandatory data plan.
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Awesome job. It is similar to existing https://www.worldswithoutend.com/
i have had many apple products over the years and only bought one of them new.

apple products are in my experience built to work until they break and the cost of fixing them is more than a replacement. this happens much sooner in tech than in other spaces because it changes so quickly. the CPI has stayed relatively flat† because advances in technology have allowed more purchasing power (though for lower cost goods). the iphone is a technological marvel that was priceless ten years ago because it couldn't exist.

† year by year table of CPI since 1913 ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
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You can have a great high resolution grey scale monitor, as used in hospitals to view x-rays and other imaging data, but they cost something like $6,000USD. I'm guessing you could hack them to work well with text. You'd lose color syntax highlighting.

Here's just one example, but there are loads more:
(http://www.pnwx.com/Equipment/Digital/Displays/Barco/Nio/)

Blame stupid consumers for buying really poor quality monitors based almost only on price - forcing manufacturers to supply inferior product.
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You take the test and do your best. They're not testing how good your code looks, but to see how much effort you're will to make to solve a problem on the spot OR to see if you are someone who will look at the screen dumbfounded and will simply give up.

Being a programmer isn't about knowing a specific language, it's about having the ability to solve problems.
Thanks Nat - I fixed the like button. Turns out that you have to specify the href param when using the iframe, unlike twitter.
No, you won't have to repurchase the apps. On the new device tied to your old account, you'll see the apps you have already purchased available for download under "My Apps" in the Market.
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Explain to them that I'm unfamiliar with the language

Do my best to make heads or tails of the situation

If I feel i've done well, play up my ability to learn new things quickly.

If I feel i haven't done well? Smile, shake hands, and make sure I'm the one who tells him "You know, I just don't think this will be a good fit for me. You need someone with more expertise in this language", and go and find myself another interview.
You shouldn't be expecting a fundamental CPU architecture shift to stay backwards compatible 7 years later. Backwards compatibility costs something when you do major shifts such as these. Statistically, the amount of people who have PowerPCs have dwindled to mostly insignificant so the extra cost required to support them is not worth it. It's like asking website designers to stay compatible with IE6 or Netscape Navigator 4, it's not worth the extra work.

It's like your complaining about a countrywide shift from gasoline to ethanol and how your gas-only car engine is finding fewer and fewer gas stations to fill up with pure gasoline as the decades go by.

You'll find things that do not change fundamentally or lend themselves to relatively easy upgrades last for a very long time. Houses, simple tools, cars until they wear out, etc. Things that change and improve frequently like tech does.
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I have a Nexus One and I don't think I've ever used the trackball.
This depends on whether that language was consistent with my experience of other languages.

I've no problem learning a new language, and having TCL, PERL, C, C#, Java, Python and JavaScript in my arsenal I wouldn't be intimidated by having something new presented and being expected to pick it up.

The real issue for me would be the question: What motivated you to create a new language? What problem set did you feel that you have that isn't addressed by existing languages? And if this language is a domain-specific one, I would want to know what made your domain so special?

I would basically fear that a "Not Invented Here" mentality led to the creation of the language, and that would strongly discourage me from going further.

On a secondary point, it would also depend on the type of position it was. If it was a startup, language would not be an issue. But for a contract position the language may well limit future opportunities and so it would matter.
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Except your version doesn't work on Firefox because I lack "webkit". You may as well have written it in Flash, or VBScript.
It could be a reference to the screen size.
How many web designers are exclusive front or back end anymore?
Or as I like to call these posts YALK, yet another libertarian kiddie.
But when Siri was in app form, much (perhaps most) of the benefit that it has now wasn't possible.

Not only could app-Siri not do some of the things that people will most often do with iOS-Siri ("wake me up at 7 o'clock", "remind me to call my girlfriend when I get home", "note that I need to buy lettuce"), but you had to unlock your phone and navigate to the app icon before you could even do those things that you could do with it. If you're already using a touch/visual interface to do things, it's cognitively easier to just stick with touches to finish the job. If the interface is entirely spoken/audible, there are a whole other set of things that start to make sense to use voice for.
I am glad you were around to debunk the "hype" and steer us straight for all our social shopping website coding needs!
Well.. I'm in the process of building my first "for real" web app. If all goes well, I should be releasing a beta in a month or two. That's when I will need it.

IIRC, Google+ had a similar feature during the beta that allowed you to "select" a section of the page and send it as a screenshot. I found that pretty cool.
Except this "tick" (iPhone 4) was actually pretty good, whereas in your example all the "ticks" were abysmal failures.
Most reputable and higher end stores will allow you to take chairs home and try them for several days at a time. Do not make the decision on what chair feels the most comfortable to sit in at a store.

If you've been sitting in cheaper chairs and have bad posture then immediately changing to a chair which forces you to site correctly is going to feel uncomfortable for awhile and you might even experience more pain initially.

It's very important to try any given chair for at least several days before purchasing (even at that, sometimes days is not enough).
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I always loved those games where you guess how many M&M's there are in the jar.

I'm going to say 88,000 accounts.
Sounds like you spend way too much time on HN :D

Sir, close the tabs and walk away slowly!
Worse yet - the existing Siri app will stop working the day the 4S is in the stores. :(
Apple's shareholders would probably disagree with you. For that matter, so would HP's and Nokia's.
looks awesome! I wrote a similar site that aggregates the general fiction and non-fiction based on how many awards and lists they are on. http://thegreatestbooks.org

I built it on Rails as well
So with this your xbox360 becomes a cable set top box you own, yet still have to pay a monthly fee to have service on.

Not too revolutionary as you still have to deal with the cable company and continue feeding their deep pockets.
V for Victor Niederhoffer?
Should we put this video and other reviews like this one on our site? Can videos like this be damaging to a site as some users tend to put their own spin on what they feel a site is good for which may be different from it was actually intended to do?
excellent. I will use this.
Two items about your video: (1) you didn't discuss how to add friends/how to broadcast this fund request, and (2) the video loops.

A++ on design and simplicity.

Does the site take a % of the funds - this should be clearly stated. Local sales tax are not included in total cost of the item(s).

note: I logged in via Twitter, added xbox and checked out - got a generic error. Guess some bugs still there?
This is currently on the front page, with a lot of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075221
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I have to agree. Would anyone be impressed if I did this in ObjC / CoreAnimation? It would be simple enough.

Posts like this remind me of the old "year of the Linux desktop" crowd: People demonstrating how Linux can (often poorly) do the baseline simple things that other operating systems have been doing for years or decades.

Meanwhile, those other desktop operating systems were leapfrogging ahead.
Apple's internal design was a mess pre-OSX though. Still kind of is. Apple's praised for end-user interface design.
Sure, but Apple is betting that once they have an iOS phone in their hands, and judging just by repeat customer shopping patterns, they have a pretty good chance of upgrading that customer to a 4s, if not at least a 4. All they have to do is get that phone in their hands.
I can tell you that any opportunity I have to dump that piece of garbage Motorola DVR sitting in my entertainment center is a welcome change, and I already have an XB360. I don't think the level of frustration we (our household) feels with the cable provided DVR can be underestimated. We bought a PS3 for the livingroom for two reasons: Netflix and Blu-ray.

I'm not sure if you've used it, but HBO released an excellent app for the iPad called HBO GO. I can watch my shows on demand by supplying my Xfinity login and password. This is another example of a game changing piece of software that relies on an Xfinity account.

Right now you're wondering, "How is this a game changer? I still need a cable subscription!"

It's a game changer if you assume that the success of Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc are a foregone conclusion, and that the cable networks were going to take this lying down. This represents a pretty major shift for cable companies.

Historically, the cable business model was to buy channels from content providers and resell them to a customer subscriber base at a mark-up, along with revenue from local advertising stuffed in to their line up. The cable companies had a lot of leverage in this scenario, because they were responsible for delivering the 'last mile' to the customer. That copper coax coming in to your house was like a ball and chain preventing customers from going anywhere. Satellite companies are in the same spot. They have multi-billion dollar satellites in geostationary orbits. Not easy to replace.

The internet is the first big challenger to this model. With an internet connection, anyone can stream content in to your home, and they don't have to pay for the last mile. This is the crux of the net neutrality debate. Cable companies and content providers don't like this new world order, because they can't protect their high prices.

Back to this whole XBox partnership. Remember that cable providers don't have to offer the best product, they just need to make customers' lives comfortable enough that they don't cut the cord. I was delighted to see that the HBO GO app worked easily. Likewise with the Xfinity TV app. They recently added On Demand streaming capability. Two very large incentives for moving to a service like Netflix just went out the window. I can get the content on my iPad now and keep paying the same thing, where as before, I couldn't get it at all.

I'm not saying it's a better deal, but I am saying that the better deal isn't everything. There's a high level of uncertainty in non-tech-savvy users. "Will I be able to use this thing?" "Will it work like my TV used to?" These are important questions for consumers. Xfinity is in a good position, because they can roll these services out to consumers and let them try them along side their traditional television safety blanket.
"After this next deadline in a week, I'm renewing..."

Only in a week?

I guess you didn't really learn your lesson yet.

Exercise improves your productivity immediately (same day). There is no point to wait for another week.
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We plan to enable a few annotation abilities on the screenshot. Would request you to give us a try once you are ready.
I know :/

It's written only for webkit because I don't have the time to cross-browser check experiments. Can't wait until we don't need browser prefixes.
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So what do we learn out of this?
Move your buttocks and bring in your skills and time:

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(that's Marina Weisband, Member of the Board, Piratenpartei Deutschland)
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> Plan9 keeps being mentioned, but do regular users understand it? (Is there a "this is why we do things, and this is why that's good" written for people who haven't written their own compiler?)

Yes, you can start with the main Plan 9 paper: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9

And follow up with The Organization of Networks in Plan 9: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/

And The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names

This will give you a good overview of the basic design decisions in the system and their rationale, for further details on how Plan 9 deal with issues from toolchain design to authentication and security see the rest of the papers: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/

They are a wonderful read even if you never touch Plan 9, they are full of insights, ideas and criticisms of existing approaches, and many even include discussion on how to apply them to existing nix systems (sadly most of this has gone almost completely ignored by the nix community).
Ugh. To put this advice in context, social capitalists raise money based on reputation, hackers raise capital based on results of their startup / product. Pragmatically, success needs to be a mix.

To me - this is very clear distinction in Bay Area. The guys I know that are most impressive (and build the best startups) shut their doors, code like crazy and don't waste time with what other people other than their customers think of them. The product speaks for itself.

Then you have another set of entrepreneurs leveraging credentials, friendships and their previous successes to 'hack' the fundraising process, it detracts from delivering user experience.

Don't fall into this fundraising mindset - "if you want to raise money, there’s no substitute for working hard on your reputation". There is a substitute - its delivering measurable benefit to customers. Work hard on delivering value to the rest of the world. Its an important distinction because thinking about what investors think of you detracts from a maniacal focus on product.

Its pre-mature reputation optimization. You want to build your rep after you've proven delivering value to customers.. the product should speak for itself.

I consider social capitalism an evil because it creates conflicts of interest, and detracts from goal-oriented thinking. However, like politics and bureaucracy - it is an evil that startups have to confront at some point, or be confronted with. I balance this with a maniacal focus on delivering value while staying at low profile - its tough to create a professional persona in line with your startup before you have accomplished measurable customer value. Without this kind of timing, its very easy to detract from your startup goals because you personally have to conform to a misinformed notion of a professional persona. I'd be curious if others have had challenges along this line..

One last thought, social capitalism gets multiplied by orders of magnitude when you leverage the hub. ie, relationships for finance, advertising are going to be much more valuable in NYC. In optimizing reputation, spend cycles where they have the highest return.
I'd love to know if HN is run on a single machine somewhere. If so, I definitely need to give Arc a try.
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An analogous discussion goes on in image processing and computer vision about Matlab and C++, one easy to use but slow and a memory hog, the other is hard to quickly develop and play with ideas.

On a different note, I didn't know about rcpp, sounds great.
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I'm not sure if you'd call it cheap but in most countries you can buy the iPhone without contract at full price. In the US you can do this too:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC555LL/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

There was an iPhone 4 link too. Can't find it now. Maybe it's down until October 7.

Does that qualify as cheap? If not, I'm not sure what you want other than more for less. But the fact is, you can buy iPhones contract free.

The real problem the US has is that cell phone service is, by OECD standards, stupidly expensive and incredibly bad. In Australia I paid $300 for the iPhone 4 32GB and then $50/month for 2-3GB/month and all the calls and texts that I can possibly use ("cap" plans are very popular in Australia where you get a certain amount of credit that you can use for various things at set rates).

What's more this is on Telstra, which puts the coverage of any US carrier to shame.

So $50 x 24 + $300 - $100 (discount I got) = $1400. The phone cost A$1000 contract free so really I was paying $400 for 2 years of service.

With AT&T you pay $300 for the phone and a minimum of about $65/month (or $85/month if you want not to pay 25 cents for each text), which is almost double the price.
At the large sizes they're using, SRAM would be slower than DRAM because of the longer wire delays that its lower storage density causes.
I don't know if I agree with the reasoning of the "4" being like the "4S" as the reason for buying. I'd look at it instead as on the surface, looking at someone using an iPhone, you wouldn't be able to tell if it was a 4 or a 4S.

The 4S will sell to early adopters and power users, and the 4 will sell to more price conscious late adopters. Either way, Apple wins. They're already doing good with iPhone 4 production, probably have decent amount stocked, and production costs between the two don't change too much.
you are conflating many different people into one. so here's me: i like apple products. i like HTC's variations on a theme. i was disappointed by the 4S because i like new things, even if only on the outside. (though the 4S has an S on it, like superman, heh)

apple has its reasons for not changing the design and they are sound as ever—evolutionary, not revolutionary. and it makes so much sense for the 2-year upgrade cycle. considering too that apple is trying to make as many devices as possible, the same old design really helps them to that end. i am disappointed. but the product is by no means a disappointment.

(i really wanted an ipod touch 3g with upgraded internals that could go month by month like the ipad and do facetime/skype over wifi/3g)