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Seems like combined with this news from a couple weeks ago we might be able to wipe malaria out completely in the next decade or so?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44947187/ns/health-infectious_di...
Heaven forfend people discuss different ways to view a problem.
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Access to the OS clipboard would require the use of Flash. I would like to stay away from that. We'll see what our options are. Thanks for the feedback!
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I wish I had a CS teacher go that in-depth before covering loops. My first CS class was in c++ and the material came off as extremely unintuitive (like what the hell is int main()?!?!). Learning CS is definitely a slow process. Actually understanding CS took me as long as understanding music theory enough to be able to improv/solo on a musical instrument (piano and guitar in my case).
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This might have been asked before and I apologize if it has, I just couldn't find it. I've seen a few unofficial Hacker News APIs but why isn't there an official one that allows users to login, view their karma, submit, and browse articles with json?
I can't be the only one that likes the pixels, surely!
Peter Drucker said something along the lines of "there's no greater form of waste than doing that which shouldn't be done at all with great efficiency."

Google Circles is an elegant solution to the wrong problem.
Why stop at IE? How about the Win16 -> Win32S -> Win32 thing? Holy God, that was a waste of time and effort.

Although the 8086 was Intel's idea, how about suing MSFT for using whatever dopy CPU mode that used 20-bit "segment" registers? That has to have wasted pretty much all of the 80s, and part of the 90s, in terms of people-years of effort.
For those who aren’t using a compatible browser: right after the page loads, a screenshot of your view of the page rotates 360° as if in a barrel roll. The page is then a normal, functioning Google results page.
Yes, all the time. I pretty much never expect Google to search for what I asked the first time around now.
Even though #2 isn't the topic of the original article, I also find it interesting. And looking over the comments it seems that most people prefer touch to hardware buttons.

I use my android mostly for calling, texting, music and instapaper (actually instafetch). I hate how I can't easily feel my phone and push a button for things like mute, or pause, or end call, or next song. Sometimes I actually have to unlock the phone with the top button, then swipe to really unlock, navigate to the right app/activity if it's not forefront, then look at the phone to see where the appropriate touch button is located.

Am I one of the few that wants more hardware buttons? And not the capacitive (fixed touch buttons) but the real buttons that maggit mentions elsewhere in these comments; buttons you can feel with your fingers.
Ah, that definitely makes a lot more sense. Coming from Debian, I'm used to just saying "apt-get install <some window manager>" and switching to it immediately, so the Xubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu thing always tripped me up--but I guess the point isn't that you could do it the way I'm used to, but that you can more easily just grab an ISO to default the way you like it.

Me, I usually just install a very basic Debian and pile crap on top as I go :)
I dont understand what the point of this is? at all
You can upload a file in one step with Castle. No need to register. We're also making an awesome Mac OS X and Linux client to go along with our awesome service. :D
If at first you don't succeed... I worked for a guy who seemed to have a very understanding third wife.
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I've been using it for ~6 months and have never encountered any limits, file size or bandwidth.
It is open source too: https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks
Interesting mention of flat tax though...(9-9-9 anyone?) Though not the only reason for outsourcing talent. What about outsourcing from SV to the mid-west?
If you do it just right you can make them do the head-bobbing dance from "Night at the Roxbury". WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME.
Note the bug: "do a barrel roll" skyrocketed at the top of the suggestion lists for "do a ".

So if you have Google Instant enabled, just typing "do a " will instant-search "do a barrel roll" and trigger the effect.

I'm sure this wasn't intended.
"2. Merging/branching/comparing etc. of various versions.

For a single developer with a pre-MVP development, point two is really irrelevant. (I'm sure there are cases where it wouldn't be, but I'm generalizing)"

For me, most of the the strength of my chosen revision management toolkit comes down to its simple-to-invoke branch/merge alone. The ability to start a new branch for every idea and change request means I can manage and roll out changes far more effectively than with plain old versioning and backup.
I thought the advantage of having the +1 button in the browser is that you can then block all of those damn sharing widgets on websites so that these social networks don't know every website you visit because of the beacons.

But the +1 button extension will send every page you visit back to Google, with your unique user id as part of the information sent back.

This is just insane. There is absolutely no reason for this information to be sent back, and it is completely identifiable and all in plain text. The installer says that it can access all your website data, not that it does access it and sends it back to Google.

I removed the extension immediately.
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I guess the idealized picture depends on the point of view. The point of the article is for startups to think about options other than fighting for the same group of developers in Silicon Valley.
As with any field there are capable people and then there are those that just get by. Finding the right fit for your company is not easy but also not imposible.
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As a closer comparison, DropBox doesn't either; it just dumps a file named "yourfilename (Other Person's conflicted copy 2011-11-03)" in the directory.
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If your company can not created enough work for you. Then you create enough work for yourself. You need to justify your pay check to the company somehow.
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Sorry for being anecdotal, but I've often seen people buy something after failing to pirate it. But whether somebody has uploaded a font for illegal downloading or not should not be able change its fair market value IMHO.

In reality it does, and that is why the market's reaction may be just as unfair as up-front payments. (And I think your initial reply was related to fairness, correct me if I'm wrong.)
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Nice, but I wonder how much money Google are losing delivering the animation code for this easteregg with every results page, on the off-chance that someone types this query.
I couldn’t find any sign of dynamic code loading in a cursory glance in the web inspector.
Google Search’s source code is otherwise ruthlessly optimised for bandwidth savings.
Cute.

Having the arrow keys move the woman in reverse puts an odd male perspective on it though. This could be fixed by making the arrow keys move in the direction of whichever character is currently right-side-up.

Edit: Having the viewport follow the guy also contributes to this on scrolling levels, and I don't know how to fix it, aside from just having a character select at start.
And wasn't there just a post about easter eggs being a thing of the past? Thanks Google for adding a little bit of fun to your product!
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What I dislike the most from recent updates is the preview feature. I find it completely gets in my way, and it's very easy to unintentionally make it preview something, when I just want to scan the results. Does anyone else find that feature useful?
It makes sense that the sports genre was chosen. With scores, winners, teams, tournaments and the like all being mentioned in pretty much every article out there, it stands to reason that it would be fairly easy to parse them all and get good data. I'd imagine tech and celebrity writing would also work well.

Political stories have such a wide range of views, this approach would produce gibberish until you sort out all the articles on a left-right scale.
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I like talking with doers. I like sharing with doers. I like learning from doers.

Helping people want to become doers is where I find some of this friction happens. How that comes across can be another point of hurt feelings.

There's a big difference between thinking less about yourself and thinking less of yourself.

There's a big difference between having a quiet confidence in what you do and just doing it, vs having to strut around like a rockstar CEO.

I'm not cocky, or a jerk. I'm not a doormat or a pushover either. I know my shit. I'm just focussed on goals. I constantly read, learn and try. I also know what I don't know and dont' hesitate for a second to say so. I don't believe in faking it until I make it.

I believe in keeping kindness and goodness fashionable and am not opposed to making people cry if they continually make other people cry and can't think beyond themselves.

Either way if you're truly busy doing things and improving, you're busy not celebrating yourself.

Entrepreneurs/Startups are like the new Rockband, everyone wants to be one including the self-promoting posers who often don't have a track record. Ideas are cheap for entrepreneurs, execution is the limited resource.

Those who have succeeded in small ways know to shut up because listening is always an opportunity to learn and get better, and sharing is an opportunity.

When you come across people who talk more than they do, it's not selfish to say I will give everything I can, but knowing what I get back might be limited to help take something off my plate, I have to go take care of my sh*t because no one else will.
Happy to find that there's still a little humor left in the corporate world :)

It's probably a good publicity/user-karma boost that this has come out at this timing, right after the recent debacles with Gmail, Google Reader, and the iOS Gmail app. Definitely leaves me feeling warm and fuzzy inside!
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Yes. It is incredibly frustrating.

There's a fine line between being helpful and taking control from the user. Google used to be safely on the helpful side of the line. Now more and more SERPs are wasting my time by making me refine my search with qualifiers to ensure I actually get what I want.
The point is you can hire devs with 10 years of experience in varying programing languages. Maybe I wasn't really clear on that. Also programing for iPhone is done in objective-c and android devs work with Java. Both of these have been around long before iOS and Android.
You need to have a product to branch from in order to make branching practical.

Once you have that product, sure. If you're "branching ideas and changes" before you even have an MVP, you're doing it wrong. (In the sense that you should probably be focusing on getting that MVP out the door)
Apple just introduced a new monospaced typeface in 10.6, Menlo. (It's the default in Terminal and Xcode.) Seems unlikely they'd want to bother changing it again so soon.
To make it more difficult for people to not to just visit the actual site. This site is not just a service, it is a way to draw in entrepreneurs that might be worth investing/capitalizing in. Detracting from that by allowing others to use the info in the site for other purposes does not forward that vision.
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I'd like to see this broken down by manufacturer and model. Without that, all this tells us is "some Android phones are cheaply made", which is to be expected for an OS designed to be cheap and easy to put on hardware.
FWIW, I think this is entirely the wrong direction to integrate. I've been loving the "auto-sync photos and videos" feature of the Android G+ app, as it elminates a tedious manual step and as a result I get to show off more videos of my cute toddler.

... or I could, if my family is on G+. And of course they're not: they're on facebook. So what I want is the ability to simply move the G+ videos over to my youtube account. But I can't.
It's not a screenshot, it's the actual page that rotates - you can click the links during the roll.
Compared to the barrel roll, perhaps less funny and more annoying.

However, equally nerd-heart-warming :)
I hope this works. Searches for error messages and the like are often cluttered with results from 2009 or earlier, describing troubleshooting steps that are out of date or unnecessary. At this point I add the current year to the end of any given troubleshooting search – and even that isn't always enough.
I asked them several times through email, no response.
I also hope that the effect that "freshness" has on the total ranking of a result is not high. There are huge swaths of the internet and subjects in which "freshness" would not improve quality.

Changes of this blanket nature are a result of some form of the "Valley Effect" or new is always better. IMO.

The example used, the Olympics, is an outlyer comparison in which this specific change is overly relevant.
Yes, in the end either Apple will draw users into its "ecosystem" via iCloud, or it will remain a handy option for Mac-only users. Dropbox has filled a need for me (synching across multiple Apple devices) that Apple could easily expand to new areas by leverage the native OS.

Then it becomes an issue of trust – who is putting more skin in the game to protect my assets? Dropbox has always had a problem establishing trust for users like me who absolutely cannot afford any negligent gaffes like leaving my account open to accept any password for a few hours. On the other hand, Apple has a very short track-record as a manager of a big, shared data repository open to the general public.
Oh this is just silly. Thankfully the patented algorithm is ridiculously simple, so someone can write an open source patch to use the better stencil algorithm. No doubt whatever derivatives will spring from the D3 source will use the single pass method.

While being at it, it shouldn't be too hard to use geometry shaders for the shadow volume extraction in the D3 engine. Hmm, maybe I should do it :)
Just was listening to classical music while i came across this... directing them to the music was incredibly entertaining.
No, at least not on the iPad, and even if it did most businesses would see that as pretty backwards. every second counts, in restaurants especially, and essentially maintaining two sets of books always leads to trouble.
Cool concept and fun to play. Good job.
HTML5 drag and drop? Great front end.
I'm 100% sure you can cancel whatever you accidentally ordered on Amazon.com.

Just like One-click ordering, the point is to make a purchase easy and let only the people who don't want to go through with it cancel, not to bilk people out of money via misclicks.
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> The software itself (and this applies to Kindle and Nook) is rather ugly and it feels slow to react. Both need Apple to come in and make them work.

Yeah, and I'd lose the ability to side-load books, and would have to void the warranty on the device to be able to read books from non-approved sources.

As someone who's never bought an e-book from Amazon for my Kindle, no thank you.
That's not flame-tastic. It's just inaccurate.
>There's no reason that Google couldn't have used a hash of the URL.

While I agree with you, I have to constantly remind myself of Google's core business and that everything they do, directly or indirectly, needs to feed that. Advertising is king.
It's done with CSS:

body {
-moz-animation-name: roll;
-moz-animation-duration: 4s;
-moz-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-o-animation-name: roll;
-o-animation-duration: 4s;
-o-animation-iteration-count: 1;
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It's meaningless to say "Android" hardware fails more often v. Apple iPhones and RIM Blackberrys; such a statement is like saying sedans fail more often v. BMW M3s and Toyota RAV4s. Apple and RIM are single companies, Android phones are produced by dozens. "LG hardware [or even "LG Android phones"] fails more often than iPhone, Blackberry", for instance, would be a far more useful study.
How does that make any sense? It's been my experience that most people who call other people racists are, themselves, racists.

The theory behind it is pretty simple. Often A will say something like "you're a racist because you did X" but B never had any idea that X could have racist motivations. B, not being a racist, doesn't think that way. Racists do. So chances are (and this isn't 100%, which is why I said this was my initial assumption) A is a racist since they think this way. It could be that they were directly affected by such an occurrence and that's why X occurred to them.

But as I said, this little game works more than it doesn't in my experience.
I did this once on a personal project I was experimenting with. Then I started working on a change that turned out to be a lot bigger than I thought it was, and it ended up breaking everything. Trying to get it back to where it even worked again turned out to be so much effort that it totally killed any momentum I had.

So now I do everything in version control. Even minor little things I'm just playing around with. And I still use Dropbox as an extra failsafe against something happening to my version control repository.
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Lets compare Apples to Amazons here. Apple is reliant on its own products and their continued success. Amazon has a longer-term strategy that involves it selling any products that others come up with. In that context, who wins the battle? For now, it is even, but I don't see it staying that way.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL#chart2:symbol=aapl;r...
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Whatever money they're losing on this, they're probably regaining in terms of PR (which is much needed after their bad-karma with users lately with reader/gmail), and hence long term revenue.
Are you inferring it's not possible to read material from a non-approved source on the iPad or iPhone? Because that's not the case. Neither is it the case with videos or music for that matter.
well, i'd agree it's "entertaining"! had fun reading that, thanks.
It's a CSS3 transform. Code to the client is no more than a few bytes.
The only time I'm going to feel concerned about the sandboxing on Mac OS apps is if it's forced onto all applications.

If that happens, I shall leave Mac just like I did Windows and be forced to use Linux... I can't say I particularly like the new layout of Ubuntu so maybe I should just quite computing completely :'(
Lower cost is just one part of the equation.

Perhaps the biggest benefit is not having your talent constantly exposed to being poached in the Silicon Valley.

That is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg was talking about when he said he'd rather start a company in Boston.

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You are right -- there are some neat aspects to this model.

However, it also tends to devalue the work invested by the analysts. They are doing the work for essentially a lottery ticket -- winner take all. That's the reason that it can be so cost effective to the company running the competition -- they don't absorb the costs of the failures (or less optimal approaches).

Those costs have to be absorbed by someone. In this model, they are eaten by the analysts, who (generally) don't have enough resources to cover those costs. Due to that, I don't think this model is sustainable or will really catch on.

OTOH, in some (ideal) academic endeavors, having multiple groups compete for more funding or for a prize has certainly benefitted the sciences. In that case, however, the competition was more friendly than zero sum. Also, I believe the different sides tend to share information more than hoard it, yielding lessons learned to the entire group from one team's failures.
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As someone who would like to start experimenting with Hadoop in near future, I would appreciate it a lot if you could elaborate on that or point me in the direction of a better comparison.
I do the same thing. I use the left-sidebar time range selection and set it to "past year" for about 50% of my searches.
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Clearly, to most intelligent humans, Apple is trying to push certain software off of the App Store. Like Anti-virus programs, or programs that require plugins.

That's their choice. If you want to sell those apps, you can't use the App Store.

There is no problem... quit whining kids!
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At least until UEFI Secure Boot becomes mandatory.
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"Android" is a brand. Phones of this brand fail more often. Why is that a meaningless statement?
So he's trying to sell his font for a certain price to recoup some of those lost sales. We'll see whether the market responds. What's wrong with that?