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I remain unconvinced. Perhaps I'm being overly skeptical, but I'm just not buying that any "Airlines" forms require that you out your political affiliation, or knowledge of anyone IN a particular one.
It's more like $225k after tax, which gives about $60k discretionary.
Excellent, thanks a lot for sharing, I'm sure we all have same problem with new facebook app authentication protocols.
I am most interested to see what the transition from SHA1 to PBKDF2[1][2] will mean for Django. I have wanted to just switch to bcrypt, but it's such a pain in the ass to manage on Windows and will probably break for users testing my projects locally.

It's not like SHA1 is tantamount to leaving the barn door open, but it doesn't sit well with me to stick with it, until it is replaced natively.

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That's a good point. Is that a stick affixed to the glass, or did some shop actually disassemble the phone?
Ah, I just saw what you mean: http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/the-evil-zynga
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I just disabled the entire API. I see no difference in "user experience" save not being able to trade eggs.
It seems plausible to me that when the phone came out of airplane mode, it increased radio transmission and/or CPU use. Due to some fault in one of those systems, the thermal throttling didn't kick in, and caused enough heat to melt open the battery. Perhaps the phone was jailbroken and overclocked?
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Yeah. I knew someone would call me out for saying the thing about ugly sites right after mentioning Craigslist but I think my point still stands. The only reason I felt I could safely say that was because of your point exactly, imjk. Thanks for saying it better than I could.
Um, am I alone in getting a sinking feeling that the word "security" appears only in one place on their site, and it's in regard to having your searches snooped? Hint to FSF: not everyone on the web is an altruist.
On a recent flight he check-in person asked me if there was any lithium battery powered devices in the stow-away luggage. I think they are looking for things with big batteries like power drills and things like that, which presumably can pack a punch if they go wrong.
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Franchises are like baby cribs for ex corporate people. It's amazing how whinny this guy is as if there is something really difficult about following a clear cut how to manual.

Here is the linkedin page of the person mentioned should anyone be interested.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-cleary/0/215/b14
However, Facebook maintains that users prefer seeing ads that are linked to their interests and lifestyles. Also, the company reminds us that private information stays private, even when data is used to sell ads, because information is collected in aggregate and is anonymized.

This troubles me, because information being collected and 'anonymized' is somewhat of a misnomer. I think many would contest any assertion that data capable of disassembly into its constituent parts (assuming each constituent part to be a unique combination of variables represented in the aggregate) comports with anonymity. I'm generally not one to praise governmental regulatory agencies for their technological prowess, but the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services really "got it" with HIPAA's de-identification standard.

HHS understands the importance of aggregating healthcare data and conducting statistical research, and does not let HIPAA preclude this from occurring. Instead, HIPAA outlines a "safe harbor" approach that limits a covered entity's criminal/civil liability in the event of a breach if and only if the covered entity removes 18 identifiers and has no actual knowledge that the remaining information could identify the individual. These identifiers include names, dates, geolocational codes covering populations less than 20,000, etc. Alternatively, covered entities may opt to use a 'statistical' approach by hiring a qualified statistician (or other scientific expert) who can use acceptable analytic techniques to conclude that the risk of identifying the person from the disclosed information is very, very small.[1]

A safe harbor approach to large-scale data privacy would be absolutely wonderful. Using statistics to prove the anonymity of data being collected/used by Facebook is nonsensical, since by default, we've given them a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to 'use' anything we submit to them. Contracts of adhesion, in my opinion, are more of the problem since there's no good way to 'make change' for the information that you submit. For example, someone very active on Facebook might arguably be 'worth more' to the company than someone who isn't, but both receive the same product.

EDIT: A safe harbor approach to large-scale data privacy isn't even unknown. See COPPA[2], for example.

[1] http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn... 45 CFR 164.514(b)(1)--(2).

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...
The headbar goes from a STRONG green/purple, to an entirely white bottom half. I would not recommend this from a design point of view.

As a US citizen, I'm also not sure what AED is? There's a lot going on. I'd simplify things.
Perhaps the phone was jailbroken and overclocked? So it's the user's fault?
I agree it would be great in theory... but in practice there's a HUGE problem that the author doesn't seem to have considered: many webpages have footers.

I'm talking about normally-positioned footers, not fixed-position ones.

You're not supposed to scroll beyond a footer. It would look terrible. And you don't want to put extra space between the content and the footer either, or have that space vary. (How would you even know)

So while this works great in word-processors, code editors, etc., unfortunately there's just no way to do it in browsers. Literally no way to implement it, even if the browser-makers wanted to.

An aside: it would be great if browsers somehow calculated fixed-position headers/footers and took them into account when calculating scroll distance for space-bar-scrolling...
Is this site selling Windows products very cheap from China legit?
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Thanks for the info. At this point I'm fairly certain I won't be getting another Android phone. It's very frustrating that I have no idea if Motorola intends to update the X2 to ICS and that I have no easy way of doing it myself.
Right, same here. But the average person doesn't know how to make a distinction between "this is easy to use and very consistent" and "this is boring and ugly". To most, if it's dull and plain they say it's ugly. I regret mentioning Craigslist noe because we're missing the point. I see now that Criagslist is a special case. It's famous, infamous, and just massively popular. It came out at a time when Yahoo was just as ugly but was still heavily trafficked and people were used to similar designs. If Craigslist were a new player in town then it may not be able to expand beyond San Feansisco. People would visit and immediately be turned off because they're used to all the trappings of Yelp, Thumbtack.com and others. Being cute enough to get attention at first glance goes much farther than I think we realize and if Craigslist were the new guy it wouldn't grab attention at first glance looking how it does.
Yes, but that wasn't design related. They had desirable technology and software for the time and they marketed aggressively.
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Ask HN: Is this site selling Windows products very cheap from China legit?
This is the site's URL, http://huigoo.com.cn

They say it is because of the high piracy rates in China that softwares are sold cheap and thus they are selling it online. They only give away product keys and ask an extra $30 for shipping. It mentions that they will provide the COA image as well.

The only payment method is paypal as well. Plus, their prices Windows's official prices from China.

Can anyone tell me if the is legit or not?
This is a pretty weak-sauce blog post to go on about how Windows Phone is actually really good, yet simultaneously posts only iPhone screenshots.
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Incidentally, I notice that almost none of the sites worth reading have such features.
> "As far as I know this argument has turned out to be pure FUD."

Our own lucasjung, who works in developmental flight testing, discussed this in the linked thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285481 and following.
Agreed on the white space, could probably be moved left a bit. This was on Chrome on WinXP.

On the product pages (http://www.grosper.com/deal/view/id/19) grey on white text is pretty hard to read. Perhaps also don't change the header colour (I've seen green and blue) between pages. And "Deals you missed" and "How it works" link in the main nav are difficult to read.

Otherwise, nice and clean :)
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This whole thread is nothing but trivia. It seems there is double standard.
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It depends on what you are interested in. Thinking better in general?
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"... and changes were made to the framework that I would've prevented had I been more involved."

Such as?
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I at least, and I think most people, have a distinction between 'fan of' and 'fanboy'

Where the line is that a fan of a something can talk about its virtues and concede its limits, but a fanboy will gloss over any limitations as irrelevant / wrong "its not a bug its a feature"
No, I'm speaking for how people who aren't educated in design see things. I personally think its kind of ugly but at the same time I can't say the user experience is bad at all. I can find what I want and filter it pretty easily, the pages load quick as anything, and I generally am able to just get what I want done on Craigslist. That said, I don't use all that often so maybe I'm not the best person to judge the UX of Craigslist. I was just trying to see things the way people like my mother or someone would.
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I bet you hated framesets on the web when they were around.
Why not just make the scrollbar take the extra whitespace into account as if it's part of the webpage?

This is exactly what Scintilla (editing component) does if you enable that feature.
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Do you have a link? My previous post disappeared with very little trace (wasn't a "review" post but was tangentially startuo related). I think maybe mine was lost due to lack of clarity or relevance or interest. Maybe it wasn't clear or eye-catching enough? I'd like to see the link regardless anyway.

edit: Duh. Click the name, Sorry.
I find that since removing karma from comments made me less inclined to participate and read the comments here. My participation is way down.

My time is valuable and the comment scores, albeit a flawed metric, served a good purpose to filter out some of the less useful/insightful comments, I wish there was a toggle in the preferences that would allow people to turn it on per user.
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I don't think any mathematician will assert that math is a practical subject or the universal solution.

In math, we just define n-dimensional Euclidean space, but no implication is made about the physical world.
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WP7 does not have inbuilt screenshot functionality.

Edit: The spartan design of Metro apps generally doesn't look that impressive in screenshots. The polish is more apparent in both the animations and UI elements (like the panorama view) which don't translate into static screens. This is the reason most WP7 ads feature "screen shots" that look like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wp7_musicvideo.jpg
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For many years, computers sucked at math. In many cases the job of a programmer was not to make the computer do complicated math, but to come up with clever ways to get out of doing complicated math.

That's not really true anymore, now that so many technologies from gaming to communications rely on concepts and algorithms from higher mathematics. While I'm skeptical about the importance of the particular equations on the author's list, I don't think it's reasonable any longer for software devs to plead ignorance (your humble correspondent included).
It is "lacking in apps" because the iphone has more apps, plain an simple. There is nothing that can be done to change this. App count is the CPU score for phones. Users buy iphones because of it and developers make apps for it because of that, cyclic hell. What I don't get is why no manufacture has tried to avoid this arms race. There are a half dozen different ways you could go about this, but _change the discussion_ so it isn't about the total number of items in an app store.

Even Blackberry's AppWorld has a lot of apps these days (or in Blackberrry management speak tonnage), so is BlackBerry lacking in apps greatly exaggerated?

Disclaimer: these thoughts are my own and not my employee.
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> And there would not seem to be a good answer.

Sure there will, but it depends on whether you are empathetic to the condition of other human beings. A small software vendor sells their product. In effect, they're saying, either pay for a piece of software, or do without it. I could violate that contract, but then I'd be an asshole, because they asked for payment, yet I went and took it without paying.

I wish to treat other human beings with respect, especially creators. I may hate copyright, but that doesn't mean I take it out on creators. Their works enrich my life in ways I never would have imagined, and I'm pleased to be able to support them. Jason Fried of 37Signals had a quote recently where he mentioned that, in the case of good products, people are happy to pay for them.
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Chrome 15 solved / worked around this problem by smooth scrolling whenever you page up/down. Without the instant jump, the eye can easy tell where the page is compared to where it was before.
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That's totally the standard way that all mathematicians think about n-dimensional spaces.

I've never heard a mathematician claim math is the universal solution to all problems... sounds like you had a bad high school experience. Do you need a math-hug? :)
Agreed. For a certain definition of the word, Facebook does "sell" data to advertisers, but not by my intuitive definition of "sell". To me, they "sell" targeted ad space.
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I guess that even for short messages rather than interaction, some of this applies: http://www.psych.utah.edu/AppliedCognitionLab/cdir489.pdf
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This bash script installs the different versions of Firefox, creates profiles for each, modifies the .app to launch with their own profile and applies custom icons for each version.

I've got some further features planned such as being able to specify additional versions not included in the script as a parameter.
>I, the user, go to Facebook, expecting to see the widget there, but it's not there. I'll just assume it's lag. Things are slow sometimes. But it never shows up. I'm left with the assumption that it's Foobar's fault, for having a buggy "Share to Facebook" button.

If the button doesn't give you error feedback when you click it then it is buggy. The author has to assume anything an everything will give an error at some point, and reporting errors to users is important. Saying "everything is great!" and then erroring silently in the background is lazy and deserving of a user's ire.
This article reeks of inexperience and just a dash of sour grapes.

Supplier got the order wrong? Your problem; you fix it. Sales team can't get their act together (despite a wonderfully choreographed song and dance routine)? That's on your shoulders. People fighting? Smooth things over. Someone is only working at 103% efficiency, not pumping out enough likes and tweets and check-ins? All you to handle.

Yes, that's called being in charge. If you can't handle it all and have the means, delegate.

Brief edit: turns out this guy went to my school and is a friend-of-a-friend. Did some due diligence and friend says he's just trying to provoke a reaction (aka "troll"). He is, says my friend, "one of the hardest working people" he knows. Nothing to see here.
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I wouldn't want to find out.

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Maybe there is an app for that?
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Your email address keeps bouncing for me but I'm certainly interested.

Edit: Looks like I was either reading your email address wrong or you changed it but I got through, thanks.
I think a much better post may have been tell people to check for their apps in the marketplace first because there are a huge number of common apps.

But, they might not have _your_ apps, if your apps include Pandora, Uber Cab, or Bump, for example.

It's like using a text editor with an "emacs keybindings mode" --- it's not inferior if it doesn't have all ~1200 bindings from my default org-mode. It's inferior if it doesn't have the particular subset that I use daily.
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Often the little things make an assignment challenging. If it's not the client or the problem itself you should be looking in another direction. Perhaps you can practice on your soft skills and get your co-workers motivated. Building a motivated kick ass team is a real challenge and will gain you useful experience.
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The way you think of it is precisely the mathematical way of thinking about n-dimensions.

Mathematically, an n-dimensional space is R^n, that is, the cross product of the real numbers (R) with itself n times. Each copy of R lets you specify a number independently of all the others.

Mathematics is just careful abstraction. If you are abstracting away certain aspects of your problem and carefully making deductions about what is left, you are doing mathematics. As you point out, this can be taken too far but any tool can be used poorly in the hands of a novice.
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Safari on Mac OS X does this as well (though only when touch-scrolling, not when keyboard scrolling).
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Mine too. I was simply asking an opinion for a friend of mine, and it never even made it to the 'ask' section...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287202

maybe there is some SEO algorithm that the poster needs to embedded on his post so to be able to get bumped up? lol
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There's an old saw that says "Work is like high school, but with money". Feels appropriate to this story.

More generally, I'm always amazed at how easily managers/founders can get caught up in the game of publicly toying with other companies, with no apparent benefit to their customers.

Another saying comes to mind "real artists ship".
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"There is, however, a shortage of good startup designers, at least when it comes to people who have both interaction and product design experience and skill sets. Designers today are being asked to do more than simply build visuals and hand them off to engineers. They are evolving into experts in user research (customer development), information architecture (IA), interaction design (IxD), visual design, and storytelling (copy writing and messaging). They also possess back-end skills and have a thorough understanding of the technology stack that the product is being built on. "

It seems that the definition of a "good designer" includes various technical skills / knowledge, while the definition of a "good developer" does not include design. I've noticed this a few times in startup culture, where people are hesitant to hire UX/designers that do not code.
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