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I suppose. I always assumed the point was to be obnoxious - I know that's why my brother bought one.
Also, if the Twitter handle is available, register is first! If you try to register the domain first, a bot will often grab the Twitter handle.
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It should tell me what it does and why I want to open it in a supported browser. If your just going to block unsupported browsers, there is a lot friction to the user -- give them a reason to continue.
I love that the website looks like a face.

The eyes are the watch and fork buttons, the nose is the download on github and it has a little mustache being the bottom watch and fork buttons. Also the hair seems to be the "GitHub Buttons"-Text. Hopefully that's not just me :D
I've coded twice while buzzed and had great results. I think it may have done something to curb my ADD, which led to some serious focus and feeling of motivation- I was able to focus on problems without other distractions floating in my mind. I figured the code quality would have suffered, but that wasn't the case.

I rarely drink so I would not do this regularly, but I would like to find a less destructive way to achieve the same coding euphoria.
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Good luck with that. Security is lousy with product startups.

The opportunities for technical disruption are clearly there.

But no sector outside Business Process Software like SAS and Oracle has so much built-up institutional knowledge of how to run direct sales and marketing to enterprise customers as security. The crappiest me-too products are weaponized for enterprise sales 6 months before they're launched.

It's hard to break through the noise.
I don't know what this would solve, since many of the most grave vulnerabilities in big company networks are in software those companies wrote themselves.
I use an ad-blocker mostly for self-defense, but also because corporations generally play hard-ball with the populous and so I generally enjoy passively disrupting their systems.

There's no other way to deal with zero-day exploits that are delivered via ad networks. I also wouldn't mind seeing ad-supported services mostly die off, unlikely as that seems :)
The question is not 'is it Germany's fault' but rather what is in the best interests of germany. The Euro failing is surely not. Particularly as Germany has unprecendented strength within the EU today.
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Hell no.

I enjoy a drink or a cup of coffee, but I wouldn't touch any kind of supplement or nootropic with a barge pole.
Do you drink regularly? I don't know anyone who gets 2-3 drinks in them and becomes an entirely different person.
yeah, really! We don't need that crap to code especially. Do you think people that do free solo or base jumping will get tipsy just to get more ballsy? no, they get over their fears and that's much more rewarding.
Not even stuff like fish oil, vitamin D, piracetam, gingko, stuff like that?
Various code style options - which do you prefer?
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I would watch it too but only if it was 100% BS-free. Simplified, fine. I would even stand for a fair bit of handwaving. But it all needs to be possible.

The words of Sherlock Holmes are apropos: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
By that logic, every time that you use the word "he" when referring to a human of unspecified gender, you're advocating masculinism.
DuckDuckGo was also added to the Opera Browser, approx. 1 month ago. [1]

Anyone know how DuckDuckGo do monetization?

[1]: http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2011/10/19/the-hidden-featur...
> It's not about perfect support, it's about something that just works.

For you, on your totally atypical setup. Try it on 90% of the worlds machines, "it just works". In other words, demanding perfect support.

> Don't you know that piracy happens mostly because there is no other convenient way to get the content. I'd be happy to give them my money, but there is no way for me to do so.

There are plenty of ways, you are just too much of a stubborn snob to utilize any of them. I fully agree with this argument when there actually is a barrier to entry, but you are just building them instead.

> Maybe you think that it's good business practice to tell 10% of the potential customer to go fuck themselves, I don't.

I do. When they are as picky and demanding as you, in the long run typically they'll cause you more support headaches. Their 10% isn't worth the 20% you lose overall when dealing with their over the top demands.

> I'm not sorry about having ethics and refusing to use paypal or for not wanting google to track me more than they already do by not using their online payment services, it's simply good privacy practice.

Then be ready to repeat this experience with most things on the internet. Your Monopoly money is unproven and highly unstable, only those that haven't thought it through very well or are desperate for cash from security nuts are willing to accept it, and even then they would rather take real currency if you've got it.

> Actually they do offer flac which is among why I'm interested in this in the first place

They didn't when I posted my comment.

> I simply don't buy mp3.

You didn't have to tell me that, it was clear from your original comment that you would never allow anything but FLAC to tarnish your precious ears. Nobody who's as big a snob as you would be caught dead listening to lossy codecs.
While somewhat out of style, "she" is often used as a universal gender neutral pronoun. To me, it's far less distracting to read than "he/she" or "(s)he." I personally prefer the singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun, but some people think it's improper English.

Either way, I don't think that using "she" as a gender neutral pronoun can be considered distracting advocacy of feminism.
Maybe if you didn't layer your criticism with serval coats of "entitled asshole" people would be more willing to hear you out?
The WebKit inspector adds closing tags. You have to view source or use curl.
Then we need a tool that mashes up domai.nr, twitter, facebook and Google+ API's and tells us which name is available on all 4.
I wish I could find PJ Eby's "Irresistible motivation" video. Anyone know of a working link?
Paul Irish recently shined a light on the Google 404 page in his talk on the primitives of HTML5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxmcDoAxdoY
(around 19:20).

In the talk, he explains that all this is valid HTML5. You don't need quotes, you don't generally need closing tags. Whether you choose to them depends on how dirty it makes you feel, but few browsers will actually care.

A separate but related lesson is that Google cares a ton about performance, so you'll often find these byte-saving tricks in high-traffic Google pages. e.g. the use of "//foo.com" instead of "http://foo.com.
How many amps do we need to have on the home's supply? My home is a newer home and has 200 amp service. Lots of older homes around the US have 100 amp service or even smaller.

Is this furnace going to clamp onto the existing supply or do we need to get additional capacity into each home? If the system takes the place of the heat pump in the winter that's okay but what about the summer? You mean I'm going to have a furnace and an A/C unit fighting for electricity in my home?

Adding capacity isn't always as simple as calling up the electrician and adding a phase to the breaker box. Now we're stringing cables, digging up backyards, and running lines to transformers in neighborhoods (like mine) where the infrastructure explodes if a squirrel farts in the wrong direction (I'm looking at you, ComEd).
Genuine question: what are the use cases?
If you look at http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-html.html you'll see what HTML allows you to get away with...
I believe this approaches what you're looking for: http://namechk.com/
My last information was that they used a combination of third party search APIs (Yahoo, Bing, Google) and producing their own search content.

By now, in terms of functionality[1], I mostly use DDG for the bangs, having set it as my default search engine in Firefox (keyword.URL in about:settings) so I can search using the URL bar. I caught myself doing ^T and typing "!w keywords" (to search wikipedia) on other people's computers more than once by now.

[1] I originally switched because I'm very privacy conscious, and that's still my most powerful argument for using DDG, but it's by far not the only strong argument for duckgo'ing instead of googling.
Nope. Good diet, plenty of exercise. :-)
From the wikitravel article:

"Teach English. Schools licensed to employ foreigners to teach English include D.D. Dragon, Dr Mike's, Kid’s Castle, English First and Web International English. Always inquire about a Z-Visa and check that the school has a license from the local government. There are many unlicensed schools, some of which provide a good teaching experience but your passport might not bear up to scrutiny."

So there are at least some schools there.
Are there any good startup ideas around testing and improving stuff like this?

Some ideas:

http://ideashower.posterous.com/idea-bodyhacking-blood-work-...

http://ideashower.posterous.com/site-idea-informal-science-e...

Or maybe CureTogether is already doing this?
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"ideas are being funded after a meeting with 2 guys and a sketch pad, with no product and no company, then we are in a bubble"

Unfortunately from a few interviews I went on in SV a few months ago, more than a couple of times this scenario was bragged about by the founders when asking how they started. It was a huge turn off to me but I guess it impresses other candidates. (Ironically though one of those companies was a small social games company that just got acquired.)
Cheap power, free heat, and great internet. How long until hacker communes spring up (no pun intended) around them?
awesome, thanks for the book name
How about: stop browsing to HN when you actually wanted to do some real work, while telling yourself you're doing it for research and keeping your mind fresh and stimulated.
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The kind of nerds that would jump at the chance to install this sort of stuff (those people TFA referred to as already heating their homes with servers) are the exact same people who would jump at the chance to drill out the back plates of the cabinet to defeat the tamper switch(es), then freon your ram to steal your keys... just because it's there, tempting them.

http://xkcd.com/916/

These issues have _not_ been solved. Tamper-resistant and tamper-proof are entirely different concepts.
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Really? Go is on there, but ActionScript is not?

I realize that the future of the Flash Platform is in doubt, but Flash is still a great choice for a lot of things, like:

- This language is good for beginners.

- This language is well documented.

- I find this language easy to prototype in.
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I have personally found vitamin D supplementation to help with my mood and energy level, at least in winter.

If you get a lot of sun on a summer day, your body can make as much as 10kIU. So supplementing at the level of around 1kIU/day, which is what I do, seems reasonable.
Really? That's messed up.
Worthless article: Register twitter/facebook/g+ of your domain.

Duh
This isn't the right question to be asking.

There are certainly cases where one language at another for a given task, e.g. Ruby is better for string parsing than PHP. But in many (most?) scenarios the technique used for the job matters far more than the language. Sorting is an easy example: bubble sort is a crap solution regardless of the language.

Disclaimer: I can't read the actual page due to 503's and the cache isn't helpful, so I'm responding to the title and what I can divine from the linked page.
> Also frustrating is the fact that I couldn't spot the link from the official Linux Mint blog to the "please tell me what Linux Mint is" page.

Yes, it's incomprehensible why so many companies: a) don't use their normal headers for the blog, or at least b) put a prominent link back to the homepage (like the logo, for instance).

However, when the blog is at http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1884 it is not a gigantic leap of thought to go check what might be at http://www.linuxmint.com/, from where it's one click to the about page.
No, the way around it is to work with computers in a company that need computers. i.e. If you want to work in software or with computers, then work at a software company, not a $GENERIC company that has a software/IT side.
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that's not bytesaving, that's called protocol relative URLs, meaning if the linking page is https, //foo.com will be loaded as https://foo.com. most google properties have https modes, this is a way to reduce the complexity of the page and whatever generates the html code.
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well no, the browser adds them when it loads and parses it for rendering. the inspector just shows you what the browser created. the same is true for all browsers, their inspectors will reveal how the DOM looks like for the browser.
If anyone is interested in knowing how DuckDuckGo gets its results check:

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...
So after reading the article, the author has yet to give a reason why it should be propietary
Really, really hate the name.

Maybe try this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282495
The noise is incredibly annoying. There's no industry-accepted way to distinguish between a security expert and the guy with the A+ cert. We really need to raise the bar and instuitionalize better standards.

Your points re: difficulty of enterprise sales are hard-learned, I assume. My intuition says there's an opportunity to exploit there, given the disconnect between users and industry. Of course, the same is true of cell providers, but no one has managed that one yet either.
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For a moment I thought this was a sealed unit with wireless recharging. Then I could monitor rainfall, watch the temperature of a pool, or make a nice sous-vide cooking apparatus.

Next rev, perhaps.
802.11ac, the successor to 802.11n, specifies phased array antennas that are autonomously aimed by the device software. This doesn't solve all the problems of directional antennae, but it's a big step.

802.11ac devices are expected to be widely available at the consumer level within three years.
Reviews are a huge part of my business, and the third party recommendation site (GigPark) that we use doesn't allow us to edit, delete, or respond to comments. I kind of like it like that - it forces us to take care of issues and make sure the customer doesn't end unhappy. It is risky, but motivating.
sounds like a job for clojure, lazy seqs and java's threading and network libraries make this sort of thing not too terrible
I don't find alcohol helps me at all; it takes an edge off me for several days. I very rarely drink, almost only at special occasions and then matched wines with meals and that kind of thing.

But I do find that being somewhat tired helps me get into a certain kind of "getting things done" zone: when the creative planning is not necessary, and mostly the grunt work of pushing things through to implementation remains.
I think for MVP sake it makes sense to make it work for people with modern browsers first. If it generates a passionate enough user base there, then they can put in the resources to make it compatible.

Sorry, webkit has won. Firefox and IE are slow, antiquated technologies. For an MVP product, it's just a waste of time to try to put in the dev effort to make things work across every browser. People who happen to be early adopters tend to be using Chrome exclusively (almost none use IE).

(i have no affiliation with Hoodsup)
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I'd live above a datacenter if I could. Not for the heat, but for the connection speed - imagine multi-gigabit connections per apartment!
Thanks for that frewsxcv, I've updated the article.
What if Apple and Amazon start supporting SPDY? Google will have less load on their servers and most probably more ad revenue.

Why would that be a good thing? Why keeping it proprietary, something only Google Chrome users had access to, and only when accessing Google servers, would be a competitive advantage?

In order to be a competitive advantage, Google should be making money with Chrome and Android. Instead, it makes money when people accesses sites with AdSense banners on them (that includes Gmail) and when people do search through Google.
Great that it works for you... I'm usually totally off the rails after a drink - I get so relaxed that nothing can bring me back to work, I can't even talk with people... also I fall asleep short after.

Lack of sleep, on the other hand, does exactly what you describe - I don't anguish over every detail and just get stuff done (usually pretty well, too)...
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yeah it might work for some time. but can't say for longer periods. Its kinda addiction you know.
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I'm having trouble understanding your comments. The article doesn't talk about "entirely different people", we're talking about drunk people. No matter how drunk you are, you don't become an "entirely different person", but you lose the social inhibitions that prevent you from writing the types of emails that offend customers.

And I'm not sure where 2-3 drinks comes from, either. 2-3 drinks get some people drunk, but not large people or regular drinkers. That's not really relevant, because even large people or regular drinkers start to lose those social inhibitions after 3 quick drinks even if they aren't yet 'drunk'.
Why would a beginner want to learn a dying technologlash unless you were writing games, Flash was never the right answer.
I've tried Adderall, Ritalin, etc, and sometimes I'm able to concentrate on the things I need to get done, but unless I'm really careful about saying focused I end up going off on tangents and writing the most amazing but useless code for several hours.

Experimenting with crazy metaprogramming techniques, writing over-engineered utility libraries, experimenting with new technologies, writing epic blog posts, etc. That said, I've learned a lot about programming by going off on those tangents.
It wouldn't be very interesting. Here's what real hacking looks like: http://imgur.com/YAnUh

(sorry for the reddit-esque share, originally there. But it's relevant and accurate)
"We Brits believe that alcohol has magical powers – that it causes us to shed our inhibitions and become aggressive, promiscuous, disorderly and even violent.

But we are wrong. In high doses, alcohol impairs our reaction times, muscle control, co-ordination, short-term memory, perceptual field, cognitive abilities and ability to speak clearly. But it does not cause us selectively to break specific social rules. It does not cause us to say, “Oi, what you lookin’ at?” and start punching each other. Nor does it cause us to say, “Hey babe, fancy a shag?” and start groping each other.

The effects of alcohol on behaviour are determined by cultural rules and norms, not by the chemical actions of ethanol. There is enormous cross-cultural variation in the way people behave when they drink alcohol. … In … the vast majority of cultures, … drinking is not associated with these undesirable behaviours … Alcohol is just a morally neutral, normal, integral part of ordinary, everyday life – about on a par with, say, coffee or tea. …

This variation cannot be attributed to different levels of consumption. … Instead the variation is clearly related to different cultural beliefs about alcohol. … This basic fact has been proved time and again … in carefully controlled scientific experiments – double-blind, placebos and all. To put it very simply, the experiments show that when people think they are drinking alcohol, they behave according to their cultural beliefs about the behavioural effects of alcohol. …

Those who most strongly believe that alcohol causes aggression are the most likely to become aggressive when they think that they have consumed alcohol. … These experiments show that even when people are very drunk, if they are given an incentive (either financial reward or even just social approval) they are perfectly capable of remaining in complete control of their behaviour – of behaving as though they were totally sober. …

If I were given total power, I could very easily engineer a nation in which coffee would become a huge social problem. … I would restrict access to coffee, thus immediately giving it highly desirable forbidden-fruit status. Then I would issue lots of dire warnings about the dangerously disinhibiting effects of coffee. I would make sure everyone knew that even a mere three cups (six “units”) of coffee “can lead to anti-social, aggressive and violent behaviour”, and sexual promiscuity, thus instantly giving young people a powerful motive to binge-drink double espressos, and a perfect excuse to behave very badly after doing so."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15265317
"Experimenting with crazy metaprogramming techniques, writing over-engineered utility libraries, experimenting with new technologies, writing epic blog posts, etc. That said, I've learned a lot about programming by going off on those tangents."

Sounds like fun to me.

But maybe the focus you needed was more in the TPS genre? :)
The one disruptive approach I've seen work over the last 10 years is open source.

There are early adopters and there are influencers. But in enterprise sales, they're rarely the same people.

Among 2000 billion dollar enterprises, there are perhaps 20-30 with strong security teams with the bandwidth to truly engage with new technology (as opposed to simply running a bakeoff and deploying a product in a category that a trade press magazine says is important). Those are influencer early adopters.

Open source allows you to release something early and maybe catch the attention of those influencer early adopters. A scrappy sales team that can take a meeting with a new customer and put a couple F-500 deployments on the logo slide because they've got Github followers has a shot at getting pilot deployments.

Open source is also "free", in the sense that enterprises can't not spend money on software; deployment decisions follow purchasing decisions, not the other way around, so the drumbeat of technology at an enterprise is purchase orders. Try hard to give your software away at an enterprise; nothing will happen until you give them a way to pay you money.
This isn't what the parent was saying, but you are correct: the NSA can't break properly implemented strong encryption. They can't perform miracles; they used the same technology the rest of us use, just on a different scale.

Fifteen years ago we had proof of this after the government inadvertently showed its cards via clipper chip, the crusade against PGP, etc. We still have export controls on strong encryption, and there's a good reason for that (well, maybe not a good reason).
That's exactly my experience, as well, only I think I'm pretty good at creative stuff when I'm tired, in addition to accomplishing any grunt work I have...
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Now there's an interesting statistic. What does each newspaper make of each of it's subscribers/readers in addition to direct fees.
Just a clarification on the rules. You can't place all pieces "anywhere on the board." Pawns can't be placed in the first or last rows so no illegal placements and no instant promotion.
DDG uses Yahoo! Boss.

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