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> A Web application can’t arbitrarily make an element fullscreen without user intervention—the operation has to be initiated by a user action.

As the article says, the intent is mostly to offer similar functionality as e.g. Youtube's fullscreen mode. It's much simpler/cleaner to ask ordinary users to click a button on the screen (that is a part of your own interface) than to ask them to press F11. Also, F11-fullscreen doesn't stretch elements as this does:

> It allows Web applications to toggle the browser into full-screen mode and stretch a single page element so that it fills the user’s display.
From The Snowball: "Buffett understood the basics of computers perfectly well. But he would not consider buying a technology stock at any price. 'When it comes to Microsoft and Intel,' he said, 'I know know what the world will look like ten years from now. And I don't want to play in a game where the other guy has an advantage."

This was, I believe, in 1999, so a) he was right at the time coughpets.comcough and b) it's been more than the aforementioned decade, so maybe he has a better idea of what the world looks like now.

Regardless, interesting point.
Jobs ran Apple. He didn't run Pixar. He had a similar title at Pixar, but his role was completely different.
These are all good, valid points.

For my specific situation spending $1000 to get 20 conversions didn't make mathematical sense.

I spent several hours cold calling to get my first 10-15 conversions and if I paid myself for that activity it would certainly be far from 'free', but you are missing the main point of the calls. Personal attention creates relationships. These people talk to each other. Relationships matter to them. Those calls paid dividends beyond individual conversion.

Besides that, there isn't a way to create an AdWords formula for every product X and market Y.
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OMG. That is a horrible UI. It makes Groups totally unusable. Half of my laptop vertical screen is the unscrollable fixed panel with a few big buttons and the search bar. Then 1/4 of the horizontal screen is fixed with the left navigation links. The actual content are crammed on the lower right half of the screen. The bottom arrow of the scrollbar is missing. Please Google, not everyone has 24-inch vertical monitor.

It used to be that Microsoft's website took up lots of fixed upper screen real estate for "branding." Now they have fixed it and is much more usable. Have the Microsoft designers gone to work for Google now?
Some apps use a separate paypal link that avoids the market.
Can anyone from Square or Twitter confirm this work schedule?
Might be something to do with watson.
Maybe Buffet's privy to watson applications before everyone else and
is making a bet on it.
It's when you're to soft, you should not give in to his screaming, and should only agree to do things for him/her only when kid is not screaming, so he will not learn to use cries as a tool to get things done.
I think conventional wisdom on this one suggests the answer to your question is "No".

Ultimately you do want that doubt to go away I'd imagine, so think to yourself, what are the steps that need to be taken for the doubt to disappear? Then ask, how likely are those steps to happen?

I can only speak from the experience of not having doubted initially but then beginning to doubt... I'm still with the same co-founder in that company as we were able to work through the specific points of difference, however I can say the result is a compromised experience compared to the original vision (at least on my behalf).

Nevertheless, it is one that has had positive benefits away from the specific company in question, inasmuch as encouraging me to adopt a broader perspective on where I'm looking to find fulfillment (of various kinds), which has in turn ultimately led me to start a second company which I'm more passionate about, has a more favourable business model, and is the one I want to spend most of my time towards.

i.e. depending on your nature, there are positive externalities that can come from sticking it out, and it may actually work out holistically for the better.

That being said, it's a matter of probability; in all reality, the arrangement won't be ideal and the only value you'll extract from the process is that generic/ubiquitous 'wisdom of failure'.
"It won’t scale."

That's not true.

If cold-calling doesn't scale it's usually the underlying business that's not going to scale, not the method of marketing.

Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO) built his company around "inside sales" which is essentially cold-calling with a fancy wrapping.

A recipe to scale cold calling for an entrepreneur is:

a) Get very specific about who your customer is, and how you're finding them. For instance if you're selling small business websites to dentists maybe that's "go type in "dentists" on Google, and see who's advertising, and then click through and hit the "contact" button".

b) At scale you can then pay somebody else to do the work for you, large list brokers like InfoUSA have millions of consumer and business records for you to reach out to.

c) Get caffeinated, find your courage, and pick up the phone to start placing phone calls.

d) Based on your interactions build yourself a script (or at very least bullet points) that gives you an outline of how to contact the customer including FAQ that you encounter.

e) Build with the end in mind of bringing in your first "inside sales" person. You want to literally turn over a handbook of how you're working this process. Throw out a juicy commission on orders, and then rinse and repeat.

This takes work, but it's an extremely efficient way of building your business particularly for B2B.
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IANAL, but I believe the law is slightly more nuanced than that:

http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-overtime-pay.htm

Overtime doesn't apply to a number of class of workers (including executive, administration, professional, outside sales, and computer related workers).

And I believe you could read "professional" as "anyone with a college degree working a white-collar job".

Having said that, you're essentially correct...
cliffs: Silicon Valley is great because there are a lot of tech entrepreneurs to get advice from and share with.
The blur doesn't take distance into account at all, it simply blurs more at the top and bottom of the viewport. I don't blame the author though, depth-of-field blur is expensive to simulate accurately - look at any video game with DOF blur and before long you'll notice artefacts around the edges of foreground objects.
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Again, please take a moment to look at 'jfruh's submission track record:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jfruh

Once in a blue moon, these IT World stories are interesting, but mostly they're just bait.

I flagged.
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I grew up in Texas. I've been hunting and fishing since I can remember anything. When I couldn't walk through the marsh because I was too little for the sucking mud I'd float on top of a mesh bag filled with plastic duck decoys.
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Here you go :) https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss

Data is scraped mostly from MDN using node-scraper and then thrown into mongodb for storage.

Backend is also node and just provides a json endpoint for pulling the entire db client-side (along with serving up index.html and all the client-side js).

Frontend is all backbonejs, which makes writing the search function pretty insanely simple: https://github.com/rgarcia/instacss/blob/master/static/js/vi...

Both backend and frontend code is organized using requirejs, which I am pretty much in love with.
Next: All snail mail will be opened, read, and unsuitable text will be tippexed out. Phone calls may be monitored and interupted if necessary.

This road leads to a bad place.
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Well, kudos for being devoted to his business(es), but how much is he bringing to the table during each of those 8-hour periods?

If I was working 16-hour days every day, I'm almost certain I'd be less productive than if I was working 'normal' or even reduced-hour days.

Maybe he's just _that_ energetic, but my ability to get meaningful work done is not an endless fount. Downtime is important.
No, I agree, but there's a cost/benefit calculation to be done. Plus it's not like the try...catch solution that doesn't explicitly handle the error will blow up and destroy everything; if the program is properly designed it should merely degrade onto the path of general handling, log the failure and halt whatever was being done.
This seems like a brilliant use case for augmented reality. If I could look at something and have my HUD display "turn this valve to disable all water flow to the upstairs" from the previous owner of my house (or from the contractor who plumbed the house, though who am I kidding?), that would be really cool.
Yeah, this is a communication issue. When I said "disproportionately", you apparently heard something like "predominately". But that's not what I meant.

The point is that MSFT might pay more into the MPEG-LA than it gets precisely so it can influence the MPEG-LA to take actions that are beneficial to Microsoft's other business interests. You are apparently trying to take that same fact and argue in the opposite direction, and I don't think the logic works that way.
> Also, F11-fullscreen doesn't stretch elements as this does

Which begs the question, why not?
This is actually almost exactly PG's reasoning on why Silicon Valley will always beat NY in his YCNYC speech. Including the random walk by of ron conway.
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You can certainly decide what's exceptional.

I can decide to make something in my code exceptional, sure. I can't decide to make something in the library not-exceptional, though.

You can put try-catch everywhere or nowhere (or choose a reasonable place in between).

This isn't always the case. Sometimes the only way to answer a question ("Can this string be parsed as an integer?") is to try it and catch the exception. And there's just no way to do that coherently without catching it immediately.

Later releases of .NET do include a non-exception-throwing TryParse() call in many places. I'm pretty sure I've run into some cases where that was not available, however, and I'm pretty sure I've run into similar situations in other methods besides Parse(). And TryParse() was a late addition; look back in the 1.1 or 2.0 docs, and it doesn't exist.

In other words, somebody thought it was reasonable to force .NET users to catch some exceptions immediately.

Your hands are not tied by .net exceptions...

No, but there's not much point in using .NET if I'm not using the library that comes with it. And the design of the library does tie my hands in some cases.

I think the author makes a great point about libraries that use exception handling blurring the line between bugs and expected problems. That's exactly how I feel about the C# work I've done.
Siri - The battle of the API’s 
Coming soon to an iPhone near you

That sweet hypnotic robotic voice that you hear from an iPhone 4S nowadays might not sound that sweet to some people after all. For beginners, definitely not to Google. No, its not the Android factor, in fact what seems to be worrying the search giant is the ad-stripped search results that Siri is dishing out to its users.

What might seem like a cool gadgetry app or just a fun activity today – that is, talking to your phone or making it answer your silly questions, is potentially as destructive for its competition as its innovative for the consumers. Siri in more ways than one has the potential to redefine the way we perceive and interact with a plethora of services that are available online. And in doing so, its paving the way for people to make these services a part of their everyday life closer than ever before.

The web has already become a cohesive unit of services with every application trying to find their niche market. You have Netflix for movies, Facebook for social connect, Spotify to listen to your music, Yelp to find your local grub and so on. Siri currently uses close to 35 API’s for retrieving information which covers most of the basic services that should satisfy most of the users needs. But this number is surely going to increase and as the app space becomes more cramped, and its those that find a niche, will be the ones who will survive.

That begs a very important question? What API’s are going to be used by Siri in the future.

For example, Bing would surely feel short changed, as Siri uses google as the default search engine. Not that you cant change this in iphone settings, the question is how many users will do it? The same goes with yelp vs open table or a rotten tomato vs metacritic and the list goes on.

The interesting thing to watch would be if Siri will ever release its own API or just continue to partner with a host of services as they continue to move ahead. Also, until now we have seen Siri as an interface to collect data from a source, will she ever be used to push data to a service?

I am sure a lot of developers are waiting with bated breath for the day Siri releases its API. For the possibility of integrating with this AI machine only means getting more people and traffic towards your service. Google surely is not going to wait and watch. Iris, the rumored Siri alternative for android is on its way and will surely try and match Siri blow by blow.

Looking at the history of the two companies, Google has always been perceived as the developer friendly one, and the assumption its Siri’s alternative will have its API released should not be a long shot. On the other hand, Apple has always played daddy to with its rules and restrictions. What say Flash? Will it change its game this time, considering it already has an edge with the hype it has generated with Siri.

Finally, I guess if you are an app developer or a web service provider, the most important question posing you tomorrow would be – Are you on Siri, yet? Cause maybe you might just not want to miss this boat.

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Now that is what I call impressive and determined.
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While I feel that saying that massive systems fail in unusual ways is accurate, I also am concerned that RIM may not have the same technical prowess as a google or even amazon and yet in a way they are competing at that scale.

Further, I guess pulling their users email into their system makes business sense for them, but that has always struck me as an unusual technical choice.
Hi, I’m Robert ... I am looking for a few people to visit, tour your facilities, and talk with you about your business. I can then write up the experience and link you up on the blog.

I'd be inclined to think you were stopping by to case the place which is why professional networking is so important. Not fool proof, but helpful nevertheless.
According to Wikipedia, Windows XP and previous versions can only read, not write to UDF filesystems.
The parent comment appeared to be assuming an consumer ideologies were relevant to the actions of various companies with interests in Android licensing or litigation.

I agree that B&N is struggling for its existence and I believe that their actions are more consistent with desperation than with an intelligible long term strategy for growth in a changing market.

The drag on profits argument is pretty weak in my opinion since the real money from Nook sales should come from ongoing content sales rather than the sale of the initial hardware, i.e. profits are more dependent on the viability of the Nook ecosystem than on the cost of manufacturing the device.

It might be argued that essentially, B&N is choosing to litigate Google's approach to IP while Google clearly has attempted to disassociate itself from the IP issues which surround Android. And furthermore, that B&N is choosing to enter a litigation arena, patents, in which it has very little institutional expertise.
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>The second difference is the Stirling engine is more efficient then the gasoline driven engine.

Gotta proofread this stuff.

Anyway, I was thinking recently about how a stirling engine could be powered by solar energy, and discovered that this is actually done. From wikipedia:

>Placed at the focus of a parabolic mirror, a Stirling engine can convert solar energy to electricity with an efficiency better than non-concentrated photovoltaic cells, and comparable to Concentrated Photo Voltaics.

That's cool, and I'm startled that it isn't mentioned at all on this kickstarter page, especially considering the first paragraph of the pitch.
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This is a lifesaver, just what I was looking for. I tried google searching for something similar, but some how I never found this list, and only found useless links. Thanks.
applause for taking the plunge. i was thinking about something similar after watching it last night.
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IBM is a little bit weird. While it's true that they don't build product, they're still milking those old LotusNotes, FIM, WebSphere (enterprise version) installation.

Those things will become more expensive to maintain through time.

The recent IBM offerings are all based on Open Source being re-packaged:

- IBM packaged Hadoop

- WebSphere Community Edition is based on Tomcat

- IBM HTTP Server is based on Apache

By utilizing open source being pre-packaged and charging for support, they basically can get rid of expensive Software R&D and at the same time probably make an in-road to SMB: use the software that you've been using but with IBM support behind it! (discussion regarding the quality of IBM support is left for other time but let me say this straight up: Microsoft software support has been far more superior in terms of speed and the quality of the response than IBM lately).

Having said that, IBM is also becoming some sort of SaaS for government agencies. In some places in North America, IBM machines are printing the local ID card (and probably Driver's Licenses as well). So when a resident lose their local ID card, they'll have to pay the Government certain amount of money and IBM takes a percentage of that.

Maybe Buffett and his co. saw a big picture of IBM strategy to become more aggressive in that market (SaaS for big enterprises) seeing that Big Data is all the rage these days. That's a bigger lock-out that nobody can escape for years and still charging money without having to upgrade or add more features to compel people to upgrade.
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What are your motivations for using Mercury? Are you using it for hobby projects, research/academic purposes or actual production code?
Chromebooks have at least 16GB of storage for caching things locally. For example, I believe that the Kindle app for Chrome supports offline reading.
F11-fullscreen stretches the browser window.

Using the fullscreen API, you can put in fullscreen some specific parts of your website (a specific div, a specific menu, etc.).
Whilst I was writing the above, I recalled a more pointed answer to your secondary question -

It's probably not quite the kind of "doubt" you reference, however Max Levchin at Startup School recently referred to having a scintilla of such towards Peter Thiel when they were first kicking off PayPal. This doubt was engendered after Max was abandoned in a carpark with an empty car battery by Peter who seemingly didn't really care too much for his welfare (I personally wouldn't consider Max referencing a deep-seated sense of doubt, but maybe that's all that you're referring to)... I think by all measures, things worked out fairly well thereafter... ;-)

If you haven't watched/listened to it already, worth the time for the above and other amusing anecdotes/morsels of wisdom: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808490
Ideally, either your drop-down menu responds to clicks rather than hovers, in which case it works for both mouse and touch-based devices, or it works with both hover and clicks, with clicks setting the state in a more permanent manner, even when you stop hovering. In both these ideal cases, I believe you'll need javascript in addition to your CSS. I consider hover-only menus, which disappear when you stop hovering, to be a pain to use in any case.
I believe "professional" effectively means "salaried". Salaried employees generally don't get overtime.

Details are in a page linked from the parent (see Learned Professional Exemption):

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17d_profess...
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To me the important issue in the 'mimic' thing is that the kid is not a one-in-a-million special kind of genius. (At least you can't tell that from the video.) Instead, he's just a smart sixth grader. I think this is important because we should realize that what this kid did is something most smart sixth graders can do, if they have the interest and devote themselves to it. So we can hold him up as a model to other sixth-graders and say, "Hey, you can do this too."

We're talking about both (1) his presentation and (2) his programming skills. Other kids should be encouraged by his presentation, instead of thinking, "Cool, but unfortunately he's a genius (or super-special, or etc.); I could never do that myself."
Perhaps not from the same angle, but I think we (1986 here) might be better able to relate than you realize, particularly to Thomas Jefferson's quote about the moral effects of dependence on manufacture. OWS is made of people with nothing to give back to the manufacturers.

But you're right that I've never worried about being nuked.
Likewise, what requirement would DNS provides outside the USA have to cooperate with any blacklisting? I would image most would refuse, citing the additional effort required, lack of jurisdiction, and general inanity.

Thus, affected folks who are savvy enough can switch to DNS servers outside the US, which presumably also includes the group of genuine copyright infringers whom these bills are trying to target in the 1st place. Which also renders these bills ineffective at their intended purpose too?
If 25 years is some diligence then I clearly have started off WAY too early.
Building companies as successful as Twitter and Square are also the exception, not the rule.
Making this for all the different languages would be awesome. I'm thinking PHP, jquery etc. one liners.
Is there any other language that implements this? I'll freely admit that I'm no expert on Lisp, so I've tried digging through the code, and I sorta get what the concept is, but I don't really understand it. Any other languages have the same idea?
That's a poor analogy.

It's difficult to get infected with Android malware without directly installing questionable applications on your phone, but it is pretty easy to get into an accident through no fault of your own.
I suppose he is referring to this - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/9e84/
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The JVM takes advantage of this: http://wikis.sun.com/display/HotSpotInternals/CompressedOops