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True, agreed - they do not need to be mutually exclusive and its a wonderful thing if they do indeed align. Thanks for pointing that out.

Now maybe I'm trying too hard to make a connection here, but it is in our self-interest to not exploit people in non-industrialized nations for profit - I think America most definitely suffers from the ill treatment it inflicted on some nations in the past. Look at anti-Americanism in parts of the Middle East. Other examples include: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Salvador_Allende - the CIA overthrew him because he socialized some private assets, and installed a brutal dictator who was disastrous for Chile - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company], etc. [I think you get the idea]

I guess what I'm trying to say in this post we're sacrificing collectively as a people for the actions of some people who will do anything to profit. I know Cloudant isn't perpetrating those actions directly, but I truly wonder what the consequences of Monsanto's actions will be. Consider the farmer or person whose family will go hungry because of Monstanto - will they grow up to love America or hate it (and in turn, us, the citizens)? Will these nations breed terrorists or economic opportunities? TLDR; I think that actions like this are sacrificing long term benefits, including sustainable corporate profit for some quick short term gain.
that's why I didn't had an orgasm...
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I second arkitaip.
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> but why's it such a big deal?

Because people copy&paste URLs all the time, and without the http:// they dont work where pasted. Not having http:// when youre copy-pasting feels like a part of your URL is missing.

What I dont know is for whom they are hiding http://? I'd guess there are 2 types of users, those who need the URL, then they need it complete, including the http://, and those who dont need the URL to be visible at all (except maybe the domain name), like they dont need the current path in Explorer. But who exactly needs half an URL which is then only magically completed upon C&P-ing? And those who allegedly dont need http://, why do they need the part after the TLD? From their POV, the arguments part is even more useless than http://.
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Easy solution is to use a non-default browser, such as iCab.

The dedicated app you've got is somewhat clunky, but it could be made a lot cooler if it was purposed not to "access DDG", but use DDG to "make research easier" or "look up that term". That would entail caching some of the results, maybe formatting a-la Readability, sorting them, bookmarking (with the help of a third-party service, e.g. Pinboard.in).

I have the app on the first home screen on all of my devices, but I don't use it all that often, because it is slow, because there's not much I can do with the results, and because it's totally useless without a solid uplink. Ideally, I would prefer it to keep the results of old searches and allow me to open them in other apps or review them later from another device, cf. nahodki.yandex.ru & google.com/history.

> Unfortunately, there isn't an easy solution for iOS that I know of without jailbreaking.

Is there really an easy solution with jailbreaking?
This demo is also another indicator that HTML5 has come of age. It is by far the best desktop-like interface I've seen on the browser.
Really cool. I get that the Twitter usernames come in with the lyric "they're calling me" but it might be more sticky if the usernames show up sooner. Not sure everyone would want to keep flying around for so long.
Same here... I had domain expertise but wasn't technical so I just sucked it up and learned. It's taken me a few years, but it's well worth it.

Looking back, I think that's the only way to go. That, or at least learn enough to have a decent conversation with technical people so when you ask them to do something, you know how big of a pain in the ass you are being.
> Alchemy can be done.

Only by dishonestly redefining your terms.

Alchemy was always focused on chemical methods. Converting lead to gold that way is impossible.
One of the big issues we have (and have yet to solve) is that of SKUs - just because you have a T510' it doesn't guarantee that the components are 100% identical.

Suggestions (beside testing every possible combination, which simply doesn't scale) are welcome. :)
>His complaint is very valid in my opinion. Imagine Granny Smith being sent to that page and opening it on her 1024x768 notebook.

Why? What's the purpose of sending "Granny Smith" to that demo? She going to be really excited about the new OS and install it herself? Even if you do, she emails you and says it didn't work, so you...do what you did before. Live cd? Have a discussion with her? Let her try yours?

The online demo is not the only method of trying the OS. It's really not even a true method. It's a marketing tool. Not something you would send Granny Smith.
Haha I feel like recruiters do no research about the people they try to contact. Same thing keeps happening to @wycats.
Yes, my memory is a bit hazy but I think I had read (and followed) that advice when I bought my T510.
Informative in a nice visual way.

Bottom line #1 - the actual sale price of the startup can have very little to do with what the founders get to take home (especially after taxes).

Bottom line #2 - (obviously) increase the startup value by orders of magnitude if looking for FU money.
I love this quote:

“The Golden Rule of Platforms, “Eat Your Own Dogfood”, can be rephrased as “Start with a Platform, and Then Use it for Everything.”
Really nice. But whenever I see stuff like this I always wonder if it fits into less than 4k; some of that demo-scene stuff is amazing.
Remote Desktop Client from Google Chrome.
I needed 12 years of using only Linux to finally don't trust sentences like this without any need for debates or arguments. (I'm only using osx even if I would switch for ethical issues, but there is nothing similar IMHO).

EDIT: also even after the 12 years two years ago I tried again with a macbook, with very poor results.
Interesting - I saw the "Quicken Loans is an Intuit Trademark" scroll at the bottom of the screen during a commercial a few nights back and assumed there was an association past trademark. Wonder if other consumers jump to the same conclusion...
Is there a reason C11 doesn't include typeof? It's been a gcc extension for decades now, and I see no reason it can't be part of the official standard.
I would have to agree with DanBC. Additionally, I am slightly confused as to how the idea/solution you've presented is different than from a military watch that has the numbers (often including the military / 24 hour time) as hour markers. Additionally, some of these even have the minute numbers labeled as well. So, that solves that "problem" (although I tend to agree with DanBC that you are exaggerating the thought process behind telling time).

You also mentioned having a separate minute dial. That also exists. There are watches with multiple dials, some for the seconds, others have dials solely for stopwatch functionality (chronograph watches).

Ultimately, I sort of see what you are saying, but I think if you do some research, you'll see solutions do exist.

Also, part of what makes people love watches (including myself) is the engineering behind them and the beauty of their design. For accuracy and functionality, I'll take my G-Shock over any analog (and automatic/mechanical) watch. However, I don't wear a watch purely for accuracy and functionality. They provide a bit of both, but there is more to it.
Not at liberty to say. It does appear that Compete currently has a hole when it comes to divining mobile traffic.
> Perhaps they're finally starting to realize that nobody really loves them, so if they refuse to be nice to other children then they'll just get kicked out of the schoolyard.

I for one love Microsoft. There, I said it.
> At first I was like - oh shoot, how did they license the music but then I was "oh".

What does this mean?
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Do you mean the timbre of the instruments (obviously limited by the SNES chips), or the compositions themselves? I think the technical limitations of those consoles meant that catchy melodies were extremely important.

With modern audio, stock music can be thrown in easily, and it will sound decent and give the "epic" or cinematic feel the game designers want. But you often don't get memorable themes and relentless catchy melodies.

That said, there is some great composition in modern games. The Halo series is an obvious mention, with several memorable orchestral and piano pieces. Indie games often get closer to the composition style of the older video games you mentioned.
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Could you please post salary range instead "Competitive salary"?
I'm running Firefox 7.01 on a 4 year old machine with Ubuntu 11.04. I routinely have 30+ tabs open an never had a problem with speed. Maybe your friend's computer has other woes
Have you seen anything like what you describe that you can share?
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I'm curious about the part about no one liking dealing with VPNs. I have only used an OpenVPN network for my private use, not any entreprise-class system, but I don't have much to complain about. Once I got how it worked, it was pretty painless to use.

Is it due to the policies and the way they are applied in big companies ? The tools ?
"Let’s face it, most applications don’t need to be 64bit. How much ram does a calculator really need?"

This passage shocked me. This guy seems to think that 64bits is only useful for using more ram.
Who is using 4G of RAM on Linux, seriously?
Someone could take the software in the Mactel Support PPA and integrate it with the installation media. Unfortunately, the big problems are drivers that still need to be developed upstream (e.g. broadcom 4331 wireless).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
I think I miss the point. Do I control anything happening with the music or in the scene? This link reminds me of a Winamp visualization from 10 years ago, but now I can fly through it, in a web browser.
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You either pay for the product, or you ARE the product.
professional mathematicians, physicists and engineers need to know all this, but most citizens would be better served by studying how mortgages are priced, how computers are programmed and how the statistical results of a medical trial are to be understood.

This illustrates that authors have no idea what they are talking about. I worked at a clinical lab at one point, and it is downright scary that the people who interpret your medical trials do not know how to calculate a standard deviation without using a TI calculator. Basically these people were not very good at math or abstract reasoning, yet they were taught the procedure how to calculate some particular result after a clinical trial, so they would abide by this procedure as if it was a holy incantation, which shows that in reality had no idea what they were doing, which is completely scary.

You don't fix math education by teaching less math.
Even without experience, a very good sign is that they know and are passionate about the market they want to enter.

Sure, it will be a bigger risk if that person has no startup experience, but if they've been working in the X-industry for years, are passionate about said industry and believe they've identified a major (and preferably disruptive) opportunity, that significantly improves the odds.
The NUL terminator is an extraordinary hack, in the best sense of that word, but it is not elegant. Strings that have to be expensively interrogated to discover their length have cost the industry billions and billions of dollars due to the inevitable software faults they cause.
It's the music artist's website - I didn't realize it at first.
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This reads as a very ignorant article and doesn't even come close to addressing the issues that are faced by enterprise IT teams. As soon as you let users bring their own devices (whatever they are) onto your corporate network your security concerns now include those devices. Who knows what Bob in accounting is letting his kid do with his laptop when he gets home at night. All the sudden your entire network is compromised or infected because using a VPN or employer provided devices is "hard".

The bandwidth argument is really not valid anymore. Just about everyone can get broadband at home and most sensible organizations will allow split tunneling so your non-work related traffic can go out whatever local connection you're on.
>Most people assume mutable state and incremental updates when building data systems. This is in fact the approach that almost all databases take. These are the assumptions I challenged.

it isn't assumptions. It is requirements for some systems. You drop requirements - you get a breathing room and can build a different system.
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I ran Ubuntu 11.04 on a netbook and performance was terrible. Switching to Unity 2D helped a bit but it was still struggling. Any indication 11.10 will work better?

Of course I'm gonna give this a try regardless but I'd like to hear from netbook owners if they've noticed better performance.
Like I said, I was going to break your assumptions on data systems.

Treating data as mutable (whether you use MVCC or append logs or any other approach) leads to major complexity problems, as I detailed in the post.
sure, SSH to your iOS device and add/edit a .plist entry in your editor of choice
Medicine is definitely has to be more of a calling than lawyer or accountant, since the investment/payoff ratio is so much worse. You have to work much harder, in much more stressful conditions, elbows deep in someone's guts, for similar pay to a lawyer, so you have to derive a lot of benefit from the fact that you are a doctor healing people.

Similarly, investment banking doesn't have to be a calling at all because the investment/payoff ratio is so good, and things like being an astronaut or a opera singer need to be "vocational" for anyone to choose them.
> OP adds confusion by calling data immutable. Data has a well accepted common usage of being updatable.

I find this point to be generally contentious. Certainly in the realm of programming languages, data is often held immutable. I think mutable vs. immutable data is an important distinction with wide-ranging implications, so I find being explicit here adds clarity rather than confusion.
I have roughly a dozen sites I go to. Most of them happen to have different first characters, so I type "f" and Chrome autocompletes http://fark.com/ and off I go. No bookmarks other than the shared history Google keeps for me.
Sounds like he needs to fix Linux.

Good Luck!
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Lack of a superfluous http:// is one of the things that I love about Chrome. And, for the record, it is included when you copy from the URL bar in every version I've seen on Windows.
Funny how I on the other hand think that it just started sucking lately. I kinda liked Gnome 2, Unity just felt weird and awkward.
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Mutability and incremental updates are never requirements. Requirements have to do with performance and resource usage: X amount of space, Y amount of memory, Z amount of latency, etc.

Mutability and incremental updates are approaches. I showed a different approach with immutability at the core which leads to a system with some amazing properties.
Now that AdBlock Plus is fully functional in Chrome/Chromium, we've been moving all of our clients -- a few hundred individuals and businesses -- off of Firefox. So far, everybody's been a lot happier with that.

Firefox is terrible. It's embarrassing. And, I've completely lost interest in arguing over it anymore. The responses from Mozilla, Asa especially, have either been, "We don't think that's a problem", or sometimes, "go piss up a rope". Other people constantly chime in and say, "But I don't have that problem!", as if that somehow makes it better for the many many people who do have problems with Firefox.

Fortunately, this isn't quite Netscape versus Internet Explorer all over again; this time, we have a well-supported third option, too.
Firefox after 3 ran like a crippled dog.

I switched to Phoenix, because it was a relief from the bloat of Netscape 6. It's been a long time since then, and running a modern Firefox tends to seem like Netscape 6 bloat.

So I use Chrome. I am agnostic about my browsers. I like speed, speed, speed.
Another warning sign I've found: They start doing other things, like checking their phone, while you're answering their question.

Even if you disregard that it's a disrespectful and rude thing to do during a conversation, this person is trying to sign you up for a major role in their future and already he can't focus on the task at hand.

The best founders I've had the pleasure of meeting are usually the most respectful and attentive people. Not only do they completely focus on what you're saying but they make you feel like there's no one more important right now than you.
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Sure, the impact of any specific bug is limited--but the gestalt of Firefox is of a development process that values press and feature creep over performance and correctness.

I haven't looked back since switching to Chrome. FF ignored obvious bugs for years. X pixmap freeing? Open since 2004. [1] I waited for six years, having to restart my browser every few hours, because it would leak over 2 GB from having a network graphs page open. Startup time? Last time I opened it, six months ago, FF took over 10 seconds to start, cold. Chromium snaps open in under a quarter second.

Then there's developer friendliness. Writing extensions is a complete mess, especially compared to Chrome. Configuration structure is haphazard at best. Profile corruption is a thing. I don't understand how a multi-million dollar foundation can tolerate this kind of experience.

Don't get me started on the rendering bugs. :-/

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259672
t-values above 2 typically correspond to p<0.05. Employees are an important factor: p(t=2.98, df=62)=0.004, raised capital is not: p(t=0.27, df=62)=0.78. Standard errors of the estimates are also reported.
yes: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/cross-domain-webgl-textures...

unless you mean something else...
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gnome-about says 2.32.1, but I suspect that the Ubuntu version is vanilla
Actually, many people have tried to build refactoring and editing tools for JS and they always hit the same limitations. The language is just not conducive to tooling. Without a great refactoring tool, big projects become difficult.
To be honest I don't think you really understood what I wanted to say with in that post. I don't believe the analog watch has that long because it's that great usability wise but because it's (relatively speaking) simple to make.

This simpleness is what appeals to most in analog watches - there are no chips involved (at least in mechanical analog watches). You can "get" an analog watch, understand it. There is nothing to get about computer chips. Those things are black boxes of electronic magic to most.

Furthermore just because you are fast at using something doesn't say anything about the quality of the thing you are using. You can learn to live with pretty much any level of pain. And that's why you don't have to actively think about reading a watch. It's a learned thing - just like catching a ball. And still people invented the baseball glove.
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At my previous gig, I had recruiters from MY OWN COMPANY contact me with "opportunities". I moved on shortly after that.
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Ask HN: Trying to transfer off dead-end project in big corp. What to do?
After spending most of my time in small and medium-sized companies, I joined a large software shop last spring. I ended up being staffed on the maintenance of a hopeless legacy module on which real, visible accomplishment isn't possible: many of the APIs aren't documented, the architecture is incomprehensible, and simple changes take weeks. The code's in such a damaged state that I'm lucky to commit 40 lines of code per week. (I'm used to 100 LoC/day being an "off day", and I prefer the green field pace.)

I've spent the past 3 months looking for something else within the company, even though transfers before 18 months are frowned upon. First, I talked to my boss and told him that maintenance coding isn't what I'm good at and that while I'm willing to do it, I shouldn't be evaluated based on it, as I won't be great in my job until I can get some green-field new-invention work. Second, I started looking for transfer opportunities, especially in machine learning and AI (which are what I did before this). That process is ongoing. Third, if all that fails... then it's time to look for another job, as much as I hate the thought of leaving an otherwise great company at 5 months.

What I'm doing right now does not tap any of my talents; it's matched almost exactly to my weaknesses. I know it was unintentional and random, but I feel like I've been set up to fail.

Performance reviews came in recently. I knew my performance was mediocre and didn't expect great reviews, but I expected my boss to take care of things and give me a good enough rating that I could transfer when the time comes. It turns out I got shat on. A certain percentage of people had to get smacked and I guess I fell under the bar. I thought my boss would give me a high enough rating to keep things intact, but apparently not.

I know I can do great things at this company if I get to a greener field, but now my position's really damaged. I got a bad review, and this company (despite its virtues) has the mean-spirited practice of making performance reviews visible in the transfer process, plus I'm on a dead-end maintenance project where real accomplishment isn't possible so whether I "recover" is merely a matter of whether I appear to be making enough "effort", and I'd rather not bet my career on someone's opinion (I prefer actually accomplishing things).

I'm not especially bitter or resentful. Mistaken allocations happen all the time. I just don't want to waste any more time being a square peg in a round hole. I'll work on a dead-end, boring legacy project for a year, but to work on a dead-end project and get shitty reviews is too much.

Should I (a) spend 12 hours in the office as a way of sucking up, thereby establishing "good attitude" and then ask for an upgrade in project allocation as a favor, (b) aggressively begin networking internally in the hope of finding someone with the courage to overlook my damaged track record and "early" transfer, or (c) just get another job as soon as I can?