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This article is great, but it works on the premise that IE6 support is a purely rational discussion by two knowledgeable parties before a contract is signed.

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In reality, you may develop a website, then the client is visiting their uncle bob one weekend who has an old computer with IE6 lying around, client + uncle bob open up the website to have a look, and it is "broken".

Client then sends you a hate mail about broken contracts.

You reply saying that you discussed IE6 lameness before you started the work.

Client says you were talking jargon, client didn't understand, and you need to fix their website so it loads on their uncle bob's computer otherwise they are suing you for not delivering a working website.

Good luck with that :)
If we choose to make a website pixel-perfect in Internet Explorer 6 to 8, then we are doing up to 100% more work.

Every clients/users should check this once : http://www.ie6countdown.com
Don't you just love this quote:
"I mean Java I really don't care about. What a horrible language. What a horrible VM. So, I am like whatever, you are barking about all this crap, go away. I don't care."
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I would be very interested in knowing the open rate for these type of emails as well as the unsubscribe rate. I mean, are there really people interested in buying wine each and every single day? Seems like something you buy for a special occasion or once in awhile... If you buy once, you probably won't buy for a long time.. and if you get a lot of emails and don't buy, chances are you'll lose interest and unsubscribe
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Probably your votes do count, but you don't see the results immediately because the site uses caching extensively.
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I can't help you with the programming advice, but I would start looking in these three places:
1) Startuply.com - There are a decent number of jobs that teeter on the edge of corporate/startup here and you can probably find a few decent companies.

2) http://jobs.github.com/ - There is a small but nice selection of startup dev jobs here. Most of them seem to be ruby-ish but you should be alright.

3) http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ - You should find alot more Java jobs here. There are less startups but still a bunch of cool roles.

As for how to deal with companies asking you with other technologies, you have a chance RIGHT NOW to apply the whole iterative process to your interviews. Each time a company asks you about a tech in an interview, go google the crap out of it, play around with it, and learn a bit! Even if you spend 48 hours REALLY learning one tool, by the time you do 10 interviews you should be relatively prepared for the future interviews. As someone who hires alot of engineers, I would love to hear someone take this approach as it shows they really do care about the language, the community, and will learn all the new stuff we throw at them on the job.
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1. I am pretty bloody sure the pyramid builders used the most efficient technology of their time.

2. I don't connect it to basketball (or whichever game). I just don't see why that analogy works. Basketball players kill themselves for greater productivity...
When I was in college, Assembler was taught in IBM 360 Assembly on an IBM 370 using CMS as the OS. It was quite a bit different from programming a 6502 in HS. I still have the banana book somewhere. These were very interesting machines, but you could really suck up the shared time with a tight loop.
I'm a web developer, whenever a client asks me about IE6 support, i enthusiastically tell them i'll happily support it. I then show them usage statistics for IE6 and tell them IE6 support costs a flat fee of £10,000 and let them think about it. No client has ever taken very long to decide its not worth it and none have ever taken me up on it, although i'm sure 1 or 2 have asked a different developer to make them an IE6 version, but thats fine with me.
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Nice job Philip & company. lot18 has grown so much, its crazy.
I'm not sure why I got down voted. I made my points and wasn't a troll about it. I suppose down voting = difference of opinion on HN these days.......

yes, and they stand for open source software too. Open source is devaluing developers in the long run. With all of the free open source software being released, many companies don't need software engineers because all of the hard work is already completed. Many only really need software mechanics, which tinker with the already existing code and add features. As more and more owners realize this, salaries for developers will slowly drop.

I've already seen this at a few companies. Instead of hiring a team of developers to work on something, the company hired one developer and used an open source app. You don't really need a college education for this type of work.
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I don't know if that is the case, but if you vote on a post, refresh the page, and it is not up by one, then you are in trouble. Try again, as Hacker News is not eventual consistent, and sometimes it doesn't record upvotes.

For comments: you can see if your upvotes are being counted by looking into the user's karma. You can't give lots of karma to one user though. After a few upvotes to a single user, the system will stop recording them. I guess this is a way to prevent karma inflation, and a group of friends cheating themselves into lots of karma.
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So using your reasoning, we can still call piracy "theft"?
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Walmart pays faster, but they are just as aggressive at having their hooks into your financials as Apple and pressuring your margins down.

If you update or replace your ERP system, your contracts with Walmart require you to integrate the new system with Walmart's. If you weren't paying attention upfront, the required changes can quickly make your ERP implementation explode over-budget.
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I don't think they pay billions of dollars in dues
QubesOS is Linux+Xen+Added Trickery on top. So calling that a research prototype may not be entirely correct. I have used QubesOS - besides hardware support and usability there are no real inadequacies as far as I could tell from a general purpose desktop OS standpoint - both of which can be fixed by Apple along with may be some more hardware integration.

[EDIT] Relevant Article (via /.) - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110311-xen-simon-crosb...
Between the donation lock-out from every major bank, the heavily biased media coverage, and the clearly false charges against Assange, this has become too painful to watch.

All of this for a guy trying to create a press outlet that tells the real truth, using anonymous and protected (but verified) sources, for free, to the whole world.
Flagged. Why is a wine store on the front page of "Hacker News" ?
On a related note, we are hiring: http://www.lot18.com/careers
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Well, “friction” is on ongoing cost but doesn’t result in some catastrophic event down the road, whereas debt may or may not have an ongoing cost but carries with it some non-trivial probability of disaster. Like real debt, the longer you wait to eliminate it, the more expensive it is to fix and the worse the catastrophe if you on’t fix it.

So... I tend to think of source control problems as being infrastructure debt, because you are definitely going to crash and burn eventually, and the longer you wait, the worse the problem will be. I am open to rethinking this, but I would classify automated deployment as being friction. If you can deploy by hand, and everybody knows how to deploy by hand... It seems that deploying by hand is probably friction while you are in development and then debt once the product is in “actual” production with end users. In development, you might make a mistake, forget a library, and fixing it is work but not catastrophic. But once you have actual users, making a deployment mistake could produce irrevocable disaster.

Anyways, just to be clear, I’m only bringing up the distinction for the sake of discussion. I like the post just the way it is.
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I have done research programming into new algorithms in a pretty exotic area. Those sorts of algorithms are not comprehensible without documentation, ie, comments.

OTOH, outside of that, I would agree that comments have a limited use.
Copyright is just a dirty hack to make capitalism work with information, a domain capitalism not at all good at dealing with.
Let's momentarily put aside the question of Asange's legal troubles, and concentrate only on WikiLeaks.

It is greatly disturbing that an informal impromptu collusion of financial companies and governments is successfully shutting down a while blower outlet.

Like seriously f-ing disturbing!
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I looked at the website, but it's difficult to tell what kind of game this is going to be if I scan the QR code. Perhaps adding some kind of incentive for me to actually pull my phone out, scan the code, and see would be nice. Potentially that could be a video or image showing gameplay to entice me. Just a suggestion.
If any client demands IE6.0 support then I demand 100% more. the reason is not just that involves near 100% more work but also the skills required to do that job will be worthless in future.
Possibly unpopular question: why is WikiLeaks so expensive?

I'm well aware that hosting costs money -- especially if you're trying to find a service that is resistant to pressure from companies and governments around the world -- but WL seems to have run out of funds every time I try to access the site.

I mean, if the goal is to freely distribute information, distributing leaks by torrent only would be a simple, insanely cheap option that would save WL money.

But as far as I can tell, WikiLeaks hasn't exactly been forthcoming with details of where their money goes. I could be wrong, but I think every query Cryptome made to Wau Holland has been ignored, and some promised funds from WL to Bradley Manning have come up consistently short...
Intellij, Eclipse and Netbeans, great software written in Java. Haddop, as well. Not to mention Minecraft, but this point I'll leave to Techcrunch[1]

Java is not a great language by all means, the VM does have it issues (it is very old, and has to deal with its legacy), but it is not on a really important piece of software, its quality is quite good.

At the very least, it is, ironically, responsible for LISP's renewed interest through Clojure.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/15/a-brief-explanation-of-why-...
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Actually, iCloud does support sideloaded books. In addition to some iBooks, I have a good number of DRM-free ePub and PDF books that are taking up a good portion of my free 5GB in iCloud.
I'm pretty sure Foxconn paid their workers the whole time Apple has been involved with them.
As long as the contract clearly mentions that you are not supporting IE6 I wont mind client suing me.
I recall long ago (~1987) seeing a virtual IBM 360 program in two pages of APL. I was delighted; alas, I don't have a copy - anyone recall that?
If you're a regular, aren't loyalty cards - you know, hole-punch-tracked rewards, etc. - enough? How much web connectivity do you need from a place that you actually frequent?
As large and powerful as Google is, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the combined punching weight of everyone else involved in the Chamber. A lot of the companies may be old-school, and some of their industries may be dying, but in terms of collective political influence, they're a serious 800-pound gorilla.
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To me the more interesting part is how Google has managed to maintain a sense of fun and a corporate attitude that allows fun hacks to make it to the world.

Too bad that (to me at least) Google is now firmly on the side of extremely non-fun companies. Mostly I'm referring to their no nick names on G+ stubborn dickishnes.
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Sorry, but the copying is not by 'force'. The force part comes in where the government tries to enFORCE copyright. There is no loss when something is copied. There may be no gain, which is different.
This point of view stands so long as the client hasn't heard something else from another vendor. New clients (the ones you'd have to explain this to) are often trying to avoid Caveat emptor situations. These IE development conversations are rarely one-way, regardless of how you sell it.
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It would also be interesting to see a service which uses the same expertise to pin online speech to closeted gays, closeted conservative academics, occupiers who work on wall st and redditors with gimmick accounts (e.g. steamingpileofpoo).

And lets not forget, a service which pins anti-Islamic Republic speech to Iranians.
It shouldn't because the original possessor of the copy still has access to his copy. In principle they are different. Copying is no different morally than speeding.
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I feel a little silly submitting this via Ask, but I don't see any other way to ask this.

Yesterday, I was no longer able to reach HN via my work wifi. I can ping HN and get responses, but the web server explicitly sends nothing back:

% curl http://news.ycombinator.com
curl: (52) Empty reply from server

I can still see HN through other networks (I'm doing this currently through my wifi hotspot), and apparently am still active.

Has a block been placed on my work network? I have captured the work network's root IP address if it's needed.
It's highly respected by people who are willing to use JVM based software. Frankly, typical JVM startup times alone is enough of a pain that I avoid anything-JVM if I can.
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By who's definition? Some common skeuomorphs are shutter sounds on cameras without physical shutters and page turn animations in e-books. These are both skeuomorphs because they reference functionality in an earlier object, and they are largely ornamental. However, these are also functional. The shutter sound tells the user that the picture has been taken, and the page turn animation provides a visual transition between two pages. Both of these could be accomplished other ways (such as a chime and cut-through-white respectively), but that doesn't make them entirely non-functional.
It's quite clear that WikiLeaks doesn't want to distribute via BitTorrent because they want control. Just look at how they handled the cables: they worked with media partners to analyze and release some of them. Later they totally screwed up and released everything unfiltered.

Since they want to maintain control they need people and bandwidth/hosting. Even if the the latter were free, people tend to cost money.
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"My respect for Linus just grew 10-fold!"

Why? He just bashes Java using strong language and not providing any arguments. This could get my respect if Java were some kind of sacred cow that nobody dares criticize. This is not the case AFAIK.
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A lot of people cook at home and drink wine with their food. It's not reserved for special occasions for many people.
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The article mentioned "graceful degradation" but what is really described should coming from the the other direction as "progressive enhancement". As the author mentions, only enable each version of scripts and styles to browsers that support them. For those that don't, the content remains.

Here's an old article that gets the message across in a client-friendly way:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/understandingprogressivee...
This is also one of the tricks Amazon uses to keep pricing low.
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That's not unreasonable but the key thing is to break that out in the quote. They need to understand what that support is costing them to allow them to make the choice as to how much they need it.
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"It appears to have few negative consequences..."

I invoke the law of unintended consequences. A fine example would be "so sorry it killed test subject 1337, apparently that particular genetic mutation in his DNA looked like a disease."
I agree with the message. We don't need Yet Another Social Network, for the only purpose of sharing with your friends.

Reminds me of this comic: http://xkcd.com/927/
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The science was previously posted here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847675 (extensive relevant discussion included).

I think the biographical info here is fascinating though!
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Here's one I just came across.. The search term: where to buy ties in boston

The 4th & 5th results are about car "tires"
Thank you. Sometimes I wish journalists writing about scientists were subject to the same peer-review process that scientists are. E.g.,

"One binds to viral double-stranded ribonucleic acid, a type of molecule found in all viruses."

Goddamnit, no it isn't (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Baltimore_classification). Some viruses contain DNA, not RNA, in the capsid. The proposed treatment acts on dsRNA made after the virus has entered the cell, and the only hope of it working on DNA viruses is if sufficient dsRNA is produced during transcription of the viral genome (I'm not convinced—the citations for this in Rider's paper are weak).
Yes, I truly hope that these proteins do work as intended, but a part of me thinks "what about obscure virus X, which is capable of easily infecting most cells in a body but doesn't exhibit any negative effects on health?" If such a virus existed then these proteins, administered in significant enough amounts, would kill a person infected with virus X.
"Do you really consider the act of stealing someone's physical property to be the same?"

In principle - absolutely.

"Uploading a video of a child dancing to a song should be prosecuted by the state, with imprisonment as a valid punishment?"

This is not an example of piracy, but of copyright violation.

In any case, copyright is worthy of a thorough analysis. Where to draw the line in such corner cases can be hard to pin down.

Should I be able to author a home movie with copyrighted background music to privately show my friends and family? I think so, under fair use and for the same reason that I can buy a cd or dvd and view it with others (who didn't personally enter into contractual stipulations by purchasing it).

Should I be able to upload it to youtube - since it's a convenient venue for sharing? If it's restricted to private, invitation only viewing, I think so. If it's exposed publicly, then, unfortunately, no.

Should I be able to profit commercially from it without royalties? Of course not.

On the other hand, say I happened to catch on video my child spontaneously reciting the Magna Carta, and this remarkable event took place in a restaurant that happend to have background music playing. Should I be able to post, share, even profit from? Maybe so. I think the intent (or lack thereof) to violate copyright, while not an absolute metric in all contexts, has merit which is selectively applicable.

It's hard to codify objective assessment of intent into law, but the underlying ethical standard is that of the explicit choice to intentionally violate the property rights of another individual by acquiring a commercially available product outside of lawful venues and apart from legally valid contractual stipulations.

Piracy, on the other hand, is - without exception - a blatant manifestation of such malicious intent.

Those who do it should know it's unethical, and any attempt to justify it is merely a rationalization - as is the attempt to whitewash the practice under ambiguity and semantic nitpickery, which is the purpose of the article at hand.
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It's a common idiomatic expression and I'd be willing to wager that everyone who read it understood what it meant. I'd also wager that most people could really give a shit if it offended a few language prudes.
You can distribute encrypted files via torrents to solve both control and bandwidth (you just divulge the password at a future point in time).
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Stroustrup's C++ book stands out in my mind as one of the few programming books that I own (possibly the only one) that does not use a fixed-width font for code examples, and I find it very unpleasant to look at. Accordingly, I have avoided variable-width fonts for programming altogether.

But the font in that book is by no means the only variable-width font. Could anyone here recommend a variable-width font that you have had good experience coding with?
"""In that sense, piracy is the market attempting to provide what people want when the copyright owners are unwilling to do so."""

When, which is, basically, proving the goods for free.
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Unless that copy originated with permission of the property owner, or a representing legal agent thereof, then it most certainly is.
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I usually take a much different approach with this issue. I had to support IE 6 for years after anyone could reasonably have been asked to do that. I did it because our customers used it a lot and asking them to upgrade wasn't in the cards for us. We could have lost 30% of our business or just not do all the cool things we wanted to do.

I realize it's not cool but we chose to just not do all those things. IE 6 does support a lot of what you need to do and once you figure that out it becomes easier to make it work without having to go back and fix it later. I'm pretty good at it now so I don't really complain if someone asks me to make something work in IE 6. It's not a huge deal if you know what the issues are.
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