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At the time they back off of that, but I've been noticing of late that the secondary accounts aren't really working in an integrated manner. I used it to split the viewing habits of the kids and adults in my household. That split isn't supported by the streaming. And recently the secondary queues have been experiencing technical difficulties....

I've attended some technical presentations on Netflix's streaming infrastructure. It's very well executed. However, at the user interface to the queues, streaming, and dvd infrastructure, they seem to be having technical difficulty or are making some bad strategic decisions. It feels like the estimation is that it's too hard and they're backing away from supporting well integrated queues and/or they're underestimating the value of the integration they have provided to the user.

I think it's hard to integrate, but in the end worth the work. The harder you make a customer work to access programming, the easier it is to evaluate other competing services.
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Mastery through rigor is one interpretation.

For me being well-educated is about expanding one's scope of knowledge beyond a myopic mastery of a particular niche to an understanding of the power and potential of their craft, in the context of current society as well as history.

How can I use what I know to improve things, and what have others tried before? What knowledge can I borrow from other fields to be more effective?
We've been without cable TV for years. Any time I talk to people about cutting their cable TV the only objection is live sports.
Much like if you go back and look at Bill Watterson's work on Calvin and Hobbes.
My guess is a 'new device'. If the only difference between that and the iPhone 4S is a larger screen and designed exterior, then so be it.
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Qwikster was "Lean Startup" methodology in action:

Netflix did not develop anything for Qwikster, but got meaningful feedback [and reconsidered].
Define "old." 30? 75?
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OP here. After my previous two "solo" projects (ViEmu and Codekana), I started Mouin some time ago, now with a co-founder and with a great team of hackers. We hope to provide a great alternative to building native mobile apps without losing your sanity.

I'll be happy to hear your thoughts, we're trying to understand how we can best serve this market.
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And you click and hold to get Voice command. I've gotten that a couple times by mistake. So, I guess I've experienced the usability downside of this "complexity".

Still, one of the things I experienced in best buy was that the buttons at the bottom of the screen were pretty confusing.

The home button is really intuitive in comparison.
I think what he is trying to say is that some people would prefer what he's talking about, and that the iPhone isn't one size fits all.
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(I'm not a chemist, but):

1. They are not both fundamental, a mole is defined as the amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12. So the mole is defined in terms of the kg.

2. This is essentially Arnold Nicolaus' project (described in the article). He wants to define the kg as the mass of a certain number of atoms. But we don't yet have an accurate way of counting atoms, so if we pick a number (i.e. define Avogadro's number by fiat) today, then later when we count more carefully the mass of everything (denoted in kg) will fluctuate.
Do you know half of iPhone users never connect to computer once activated, that means iPhone works totally fine without iTunes for ordinary people. Not to mention iOS5 now support wifi sync and iCloud backup. You may don't care camera, but one of my friend have 12G pictures and videos on iPod touch, it's crucial to users.

Ordinary people don't need Linux connectivity, file copying, emulators, they need a Phone which just works.
"So, three cheers to Explorer for defeating Netscape and improving client-side development for everybody, right"

Abso-friggin-lutely! You should be thanking Microsoft and Internet Explorer for upping everyone's game. They're the ones who introduced XmlHttpRequest. You knoww, "ajax"?

It's their browser and they can do what they want with it. If you don't like it, don't use it. If everyone else likes it though, tough luck for you. Go build your own browser and language and drum up your own support for it. All of this political correctness is a bunch of bull.
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Nice how they've placed Hacker News in in the promo for "The Smart Bar" right on the homepage. That should earn some downloads right there. I'll give it a spin.
I know many HN readers subscribe to my JavaScript, Ruby, and HTML5 newsletters so a public service announcement.. http://dartweekly.com/ is up and will be publishing soon :-)
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He didn't say it was the best value on the smartphone market. He said it was (in his opinion) the best smartphone.

Not sure how price qualifies as a feature considering prices may change based on time, geography, carrier choice and other factors.

No matter how you look at it, a Lexus is a better car than a Honda Civic. You, as a customer, may not assign the same value to the actual features as a different customer may is the only difference.
The tax increase is not targeted as much at standard fundamental equity or even scientific equity as much as it is targeted at VC, other non-VC PE and probably the largest segment Real Estate.

I'm not endorsing the tax increase, rather I am stating that the approach you used to say it shouldn't exist really isn't proven by the market.

In my opinion, the best reason to oppose the tax increase would be to say that it may temporarily decrease real estate transaction volumes and may permanently decrease RE churn which will reduce a lot of income for fee based services like RE brokerage, bankers, title companies etc. Further putting pressure on an already depressed job market.
Thanks, I now think he was making both points (see emphasis on "per year"), the dollar one obscuring the streak one for me.

BTW: to be fair, Apple TV hasn't flopped yet (a media center aot a desktop computer still seems like a good idea... though the iPhone/iPad or something could yet displace it). It has low uptake but passionate users... like the first iPod. The iPod Hi-Fi flopped.
1)I'm not necessarily negating you, rottendoubt, but I'd be curious to know what the women who have applied to YC and those who have been accepted think of marriage and kids. There may be no correlation at all. I personally think a large part of the discrepancy is our culture and can easily be changed, especially in the minds of the kids who are currently growing up.

2) As for dynamics...yeah, I'll agree with you on that. Women can be catty. That doesn't mean we are catty, but we can be. Where does that leave us though? It actually appears that we have to prove ourselves above and beyond. "I won't be catty, I won't go after my co-founder and hopefully he won't come after me, and I'm sorry I'm not a dude so I can't create an all male cohort." Doesn't mean it will stop me but it does make it more difficult.

3) Call me biased because I'm an educator, but I think a big obstacle is our science education in this country. Or lack thereof. Tech information is geared towards males, not females and it is a poor show at that. If more females became involved at a younger age, I think YC would have a hard time keeping the women out. :)
As far as I can tell, they made double click launch the multitasker, and the mystery swipe left and right in it (without even any indicators this is possible), just to hide that stuff from novice users.
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Someone mentioned Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets as a good book to learn the C standards. Are there any other books that or resources one would recommend to learn this sort of material?
I think the 10x number is inflated, but one thing I realized more recently is it doesn't matter! If you can get a programmer that is 50% (1.5x) as productive for 2x as much, it's almost certainly worth it, since you are unlikely to get even 50% more productivity by hiring twice as many people (which is the alternative).
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> But 'regular' people are loving the Galaxy S 2

Did Galaxy S2 break iPhone 4's sale record?
We are piloting several hundred of them. The reactions are very mixed, but overall people like them. The TCO is pretty high if you buy into any of their enterprise management tools (which you will need to do if you're going to manage these in a corporate or education environment).

For the cost of the unit plus the enterprise management you could get a pretty nice Windows laptop, or even a decent Macbook.
IMHO, this is not a "break away" approach as originally indicated in the leaked memo.

One of the biggest pain point in web dev is the inconsistent DOM implementations. I was imagining some sort of DOM-less, HTML5 Canvas-based UI controls. And something about the "Web", Semantic Web/URIs or a new approach to programming on Web. This is NOT a break away language in any sense - its more re-packaging.
Speaking of weird streaming issues, they recently added a ton of Star Trek content, so I went back to watch Enterprise. About half the episodes in "HD" were 4:3 and the other half were 16:9. I know the show was filmed and broadcast in 16:9 HD, so why the hell did they encode some of the episodes in 4:3?

With all the effort it takes to encode original content, you'd think they'd have really strict policies on how the content is encoded and QC procedures to make sure it's done right.

Note: I canceled my streaming subscription in favor of Blu-Ray rentals.
Am I the only who said to myself that this could have been discovered easily with some data mining on MRI pictures of patients with this disorder.. ?
I'd say that just highlights Apple's 0th law, that one thing only they seem to get: form is function, what you want is what you need. If it doesn't do what you want, it's insufficient for your needs. Conversely, if it does more than you need, you don't really want it, you just think you do.
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That kind of comparison would flatter most comic artists :)
I don't understand this "lack of freedom" (or the "androids more open" mantra). I rarely use iTunes myself, and don't feel "restricted" to it. (unless you feel that using iTunes to sync is "restrictive"... and even if that's the case, syncing is now doable via iCloud.)

I guess if you want to do hardware hacking, you'll always be voiding your warranty. I don't see how you'd have to void it to use an iPhone how you see fit.

I run whatever software I want on mine, open source stuff, stuff that's never seen the appstore... and that's without jailbreaking it.

As I understand it, on android, you'd have to jailbreak it.

If the complaint is that apple doesn't allow malware on the AppStore, I think that's a good thing. Its not like Apple only allows software Apple thinks is good on the store. (though I do wish they would be more restrictive in that regard.)

Always I see the claim that android is "open" or the assertion that the iPhone causes a "lack of freedom".... but rarely are there any specifics. This forces me to guess what you're talking about in order to argue a different point. You're now in a position to say that all of my examples were not what you were talking about... which is the rhetorical value of vague complaints.
Does anyone know if o2 in the UK support the higher speeds? Google's giving me nothing.
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this is so sad because that item was on my list... and I felt the same way when I removed it.
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Sorry for being slightly flippant, but I would think that panic is a good idea if one is dependent on Java.
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On Anders - you're not giving him enough credit.

C# had a hard constraint to start with - it was supposed to be an easy replacement for Java, it actually started from Microsoft's own Java implementation and it had to ship as fast as possible.

Even so, the language evolved nicely as they left room for improvement in a forward-thinking manner.

Also, C# 1.1 did have 5 things which I terribly miss from Java - delegates, P/Invoke, stack-allocated types without "special" exceptions, object properties and the GAC. From a theory-standpoint, none of them are groundbreaking, but we are talking about a language that's supposed to be grounded in real-world constraints.
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The only problem I have with this sort of development effort is that it fails to recognize that Javascript is an awesome language unto itself and has no need of "fixing" by introducing a completely new language that is completely different.

Sure, it needs a few refinements here and there, but by and large Javascript is an incredible, flexible, and battle tested language. As a web developer with 11 years of experience, who has worked professionally with RoR, Java, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL, my feedback is just stop.

The world doesn't need another tool that obviates the need for engineers to learn Javascript to program on the web. Seriously, Javascript isn't that difficult. Just learn it, buckle down and spend a couple months writing Javascript and you'll be just fine.

If half the time spent writing Dart had been spent learning Javascript instead, then you would think in prototypes instead of classes, anonymous functions instead of one off objects, callbacks instead of um... not having callbacks, and dynamic variables instead of casting, casting, casting.

I'm not claiming Javascript is better then your language of choice, I'm just saying that as a language, it's awesome. It's not broke, and as a web developer I'm not looking for something to replace it.
Yeah, but with significant whitespace you create problems like "spaces vs tabs". I like semi-colons for the same reason that I prefer statically typed languages - exactness.
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Canvas is stateless. The entire canvas has to be redrawn after every refresh. It will never make a good UI.
The Galaxy S2 sold 10 million phones worldwide even before it went on sale in the US. It's pretty much the bestselling Android phone. So this is a pretty silly comment, although fairly typical for iPhone users who aren't up to date on Android phones.
Tell HN: I wish there was a specific section or thread for feedback
I made a post around 11pm PST last night to get feedback on my landing page. Unlike the posts that I submit to HN during the mornings, I get a lot less feedback/views. I'll be adjusting the time when I submit the posts but I'm hoping for a specific section or thread for feedback submissions. With a feature like that, a lot of worthy posts that don't do well in HN will get a lot more exposure.

As someone who's bootstrapping their own product, I'm genuinely interested in the creations of others for motivation and ideas. It's not really ideal sometimes to have to navigate beyond the first 300 posts to start finding posts people have made when asking for feedback.

The search does work, but 'feedback', 'feedback startup' 'feedback landing page' and likewise terms don't populate very relevant search results.
Indeed, that one comment changed the whole piece from a "look how stupide some candidates are" to an involuntary "we are even more stupid than our worst candidate." The code is full of security nightmares, and he bases the decision on naming issues...
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I have kids who watched the streaming service every now and then, but still canceled it and went Blu-Ray/DVD only because, in my opinion, 99% of the streaming content is awful. It's like the old cheap-rentals section at Hastings.

The selection for kids was just a bunch of the same cartoons the networks re-run all day long every day on cable that we don't like them watching, so it didn't seem to make sense to pay extra so they could re-watch more of the same junk more often.
And if you were in a folder before launching your app, it takes you back to the open folder. I never understood that part and it throws me off every time even with 1+ year of experience with it...
You'd think it wouldn't be that hard or hard on the UX/UI to add a button or filter of some sort.
I just see value as one of the features. Even reviewers who get the device for free will probably have an idea on what it would cost and thus have correspondingly higher expectations of it.

To continue with my stupid exampel, if I am asked to review a Lexus, I will end up reviewing it differently perhaps because I expect more. Heated seats not working well enough -- taking points off. Even in a comparison review some of this bias will leak in.
You can't even read the paper, talk about publicly-funded research ...
I lose data all the time. Maybe I'm stupid.
I wish I could switch to Sonic after reading the reviews here. Despite FIOS being amazing, the second you need Verizon customer service you're screwed.
NEVER EVER send a password as clear text.

EVER.

If that was a requirement, then the submitter should have said something.
I'm not sure if you meant "hide" it so that they'd never use it or hide it so they wouldn't see it before they were ready. I think the intention on Apple's part was the latter.

It isn't that hard to accidentally double-click the home button and get to the other running Apps. This is a natural effect that good UI depends on. Rather than filling the screen with a control for every possible option, you get this "hidden" functionality that users discover by mistake.

Once there, swiping left and right is an obvious thing to do, but even if you don't think about it, you again can do it by mistake.

I found the voice command functionality by mistake when I held the home button down while thinking about what I wanted to do next (And have occasionally accidentally invoked it in this way since.)
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Didn't get very deep into this slide deck, but I did notice that both of those candidates neglected to complain about using smart-quotes in source code. Sloppy, wouldn't hire either.
There are warning flags that aren't even usable unless you're compiling with optimization on, such as -Wuninitialized.

As the gcc man page says, "These warnings are possible only in optimizing compilation, because they require data flow information that is computed only when optimizing." (emphasis mine)
As an experienced programmer, the comments on the original post to me are a great microcosm of what annoy me about a lot of other programmers.

Why not at least point out some useful resources instead of using a public forum to bash somebody who is trying to get a job? Whether it's bad code or not, just jumping in and bashing somebody doesn't do anybody any good.
40+ is old? I still feel like a kid!

I'm 47 and generally code six days a week. I've done' the management ascendancy a couple times and have worked for (or co-founded) four start-ups and I worked for one large company. I've kept my skills up-to-date and now command a very high salary.

So with my mini-bio out of the way, I'll caveat my answer a bit ... I think a true programmer loves what they do and wouldn't be satisfied with any other role. So I've pushed my way back into development and I'll stay here until I die (I can't imagine retiring). I think the other class of programmers are people that got into the craft because they heard it was a well-paid gig, and thought that their college provided all the education they'll ever need ... they're generally gone in under ten years. Either into management or other careers altogether.
Yeah, I'm just saying if you get into the hardcore community, you can probably identify people who would be happy to curate the list for you, even if just to have their names be the chosen few on an about page.

Just build them a bookmarklet tool, or give them admin auth to the creation page. I think the cool thing that you have going for you is the concentration of cool shit you've found. You definitely want to keep products somewhat scarce so that they're still compelling once you've discovered them for users.

There's probably an efficient number here...maybe people only expect 1 new product a day / every 2 days. Your challenge will become hitting enough niche sites to find the coolest stuff, but you dont want too much crap so I think opening it up publicly might be a mistake.
I'd suggest not typing out IL by hand then.
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A lot of people use GWT for large web applications instead of JS, precisely for the reasons Dart was created, we just don't go brag about it.
The biggest problem with GWT was how slow the toolchain was, and this is adressed with Dart by having a native VM in Chrome.
Reed made a $100MM shorting the stock via a proxy and will make another $50MM+ as it rebounds. This in fact was the only way to save the company.

IF it doesn't make sense, it is a conspiracy by default.
The most convincing explanation of their actions I read was essentially:

1. they made streaming a free add on to DVDs to get people using the service, which resulted in streaming becoming popular.

2. The media owners started to (or perhaps always had) cut their deals with Netflix on a per subscriber basis rather than per view. So Netflix was paying the networks for everyone who subscribed, including evyone who only watched DVDs. This became unsustainable.

3. So, they needed to separate these people, thus the split.

I honestly don't see how they could have handled this differently, they needed to tack the service on to DVDs to get people on board, and they needed the services to be separate to actually make money on streaming long term. It might have worked if they had been able to pay for videos on a per view basis, but I'm not sure they have the clout to make that happen.
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You should send him a link to my blog post. :-)
I think downloading when you click the "download" button is reasonable.
Actually there are many of these languages[1], including Coffeescript and Clojurescript.

You now even have options!

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
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I'll stress that it's early days for Dart. Go was announced in 2007 and only this year is going to a version 1.0.

I don't know what the timeline is for Dart but I will say this:

1. If anyone is capable of the long sort of time frame that something like this can benefit from--event requires--it's Google;

2. If there is anyone who's qualified as a domain expert in Javascript generation it is, by virtue of GWT, Google; and

3. If there is anyone who's qualified to speak to the limits of what you can do with Javascript it is, by virtue of Chrome and V8, Google.

If anything, I believe the error here (if you can call it that) is failing to properly set expectations and communicate the goals of the language (as witnessed by all the comments on this thread from people who were expecting something more and/or different).
Just curious, how would you go about not sending out the password in cleartext? I understand WHY but I've never really figured out how to avoid doing so*

*yeah, I realize I'm asking for trouble with this :)
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