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Chris, I didn't see your post but probably would have flagged it as off-topic if I had seen it. I don't think it meets the on-topic criteria posted at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general if it's not hacker-worthy ("gratifies ones intellectual curiosity") or vaguely related to the startup community I'll likely flag it. Your "make money on Android" post was neither IMO. Maybe that's what happened.
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> Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is.

Sure, Mozilla supports the development of Firebug, but as far as I know it does not make Firebug classified as "a Mozilla project", it's a (very popular) third-party project with support from the Mozilla foundation is it not?
Carl! weird that I saw you here. awesome book though, it will certainly help
Very well put and at the 'wrong' side of 40 years of age, your statement describes were I am at as well. I had not defined that for me as of yet and you just sped that process up. For that, I thank you.
that's what i was afraid of! i guess it makes sense from their perspective since Microsoft doesn't let non windows boxes run Visual Studio!

thanks for the reply. the wife needs a new laptop so i guess she'll get a Mac!
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As a long time BBEdit user, a lot of it has to do with the vast spread of features that cover just about everyone's needs. As a vim pre-novice, I think that part of BBEdit's appeal is that the features you may not use often enough to remember a command for are just a little mouse-hunting away. Having used Textmate a couple of time and the somewhat similar e.exe for Windows a lot, the appeal of BBEdit is that features are integrated into the application instead of loosely coupled in bundles that may or may not work well.
In the US, during the early 19th century, state-chartered banks (and other countries, such as insurance companies and railroads) would issue their own notes. These were not, technically speaking, money, but they were used as such, because there just wasn’t enough gold and silver coin circulating in the country to be practical for commerce.

Cf. the book A Nation of Counterfeiters.
Despite being one of the first true ubiquitous computing platforms, becoming the main format of communication for the planet, HTML(s/the web) failed because someone couldnt read a CSS tutorial?

The authors example is terrible, that is an easy layout to do crossbrowser, HTML and CSS do have massive deficiencies in easily creating layouts, but so do most GUI toolkits, and compared to the other factors involved in the success of the web, fiddling around with css a little longer is a price well worth paying, for the majority at least
Our team has basically abandoned Firefox in favor of Chrome. Our team consists of front-end, HTML/JS/CSS types as well as server-side devs. I'm surprised, but every member of the team independently has punted on Firefox. For some, it was the extensions. For others, it was the RAM consumption.

With the new release schedule, it seems every time I would open FF with a new version to pull, some extension no longer works. It's purely anecdotal, but it was enough to annoy the bejeezus out of us that we simply switched over to Chrome.
Great to hear. I'll be chipping away at this shortly. Thanks, Cieplak.
Unless for the OP, it truly is about the money. I know plenty of driven people that use that (money) as their only motivational force. As an opinion I disagree with that definition of success - though it is an opinion and I have been told many times that mine was 'wrong'.
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Yes, but I think one of the problems is that the reviewers can't sufficiently judge statistics. It is peer-review, after all. I've had some reviewers ask some questions that indicated that they didn't really understand the t-test.
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What? How would that be justified?
Lots of ideas, and yet you completely miss the point.

You're not even talking about the same thing: the parent talks about piracy from an ethical point of view. Meanwhile, you reply with the physical point of view, saying the item is an exact duplicate that cost nothing to produce.

Representation doesn't mean a damn thing. It doesn't justify behavior.
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Another nail in the coffin of the claim that imperative programming is more intuitive, persistently asserted without good evidence.

I submit that when people make claims of this sort, what they usually mean is actually "I'm used to doing it this way". Some actual studies of how new programmers learn would be valuable, and allow us to begin to evaluate claims like the above with at least a modicum of objectivity.
Comments about the change itself, and the rationale behind it, should go in commit messages. Comments about the implementation itself should go in the code. Granted, there is some overlap between the two, in which case, go with code only (since it's part of the commit anyway).
I'm quite surprised that they ignored her past - she was married to Friedrich Mandl, an arms manufacturer. She learned about military technology from his friends.

So obvious option - that historians considers - is that she basically patented ideas she obtained/discussed during her marriage. Missing details are also behind the reason why she could not reproduce some of them.
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Open dev tools, click on the gear in the lower right, it's an option in the overlay menu.
Another week, another false dichotomy article on HN.

If there's an inverse correlation between the speed of deployment and the quality of your software, you're doing it wrong.

The Continuous Delivery philosophy is borrowed from Lean Manufacturing, and a fundamental tenet of that movement is "Build Quality In." In fact Lean is nearly synonymous with TQM, or Total Quality Management. If you've separated the two, then you've missed the entire point.

This tenet is carried over into the software world by Martin Fowler in his book Continuous Delivery, as well as all of the major advocates of lean software processes, for instance David Anderson and the Poppendiecks in their highly influential series of books on Lean Software.

Essential to a successful continuous deployment process is unit testing, continuous integration and built-in testing processes all along the way to feature deployment. These should be focused on quality all along the way: that's the point of continuous deployment, to allow for focused feature development that is highly tested and can be released with higher confidence than the old method of multiple feature release, which are heavy, harder to test and have more integration concerns.

The point of fast releases should never be to allow for "shitty software," but rather to deliver features that users can enjoy as soon as possible, create a process where deployments become highly automated, low-risk events, and gather feedback early and often on the experience of users with finished polished features so that effective product evaluation is happening constantly and the company can adapt quicker to new data and new trends.

A quick perusal of even the first chapter of any of the major volumes on Continuous Delivery should clear this up:

http://martinfowler.com/snips/201006021426.html
http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolki...

http://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development...

And there's a fantastic presentation by David Anderson on Kanban on InfoQ, which nicely illustrates why quality is one of the major reasons you should consider a rapid release process like Kanban:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kanban-for-software
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Not only that, but the entire directionality of the text box does to. E.g. arrowing right and left is flipped as well.
I bought this as an e-book a while ago - I had never spent very much time coding Javascript and I bought the book to brush up. Recommended. BTW, I spent the weekend working on a Clojure + Javascript + Noir app for a customer and I actually enjoyed the Javascript part :-)
The source for the book is on GitHub: https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript

There is also a CoffeeScript "port" of the book, since Eloquent JavaScript is open content: http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/
Well, on the other hand, you have Uncrunched with two Rand-ian articles about how you should just put up with the beatings.

You pays your money, you takes your picks.
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Nice post. What country are you in?
Good luck. Should be some good deals with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Side note when you do dive into iOS, grab Aaron Hillegass' Obj-C book and his iOS book.
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Charging for APIs...SRSLY?
I'm not a hardcore statistics person, since I only took enough to get me through ECE, but I think this is why I always had a problem with softer sciences (undergraduates, maybe graduate students are better). Things always boiled down to, "look, it's obvious." My background simply makes me think the obvious isn't always right.
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That's kind of similar to the zero-one-infinity rule:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zero-One-Infinity-Rule.htm...

Another application of the rule to startups:

http://blog.opportunitycloud.com/2011/06/16/zero-one-infinit...
I'd be interested to know how common credit scoring applicants is. I understand why they'd be necessary for financial institutions but as a general method of filtering candidates it seems rather intrusive.
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I enjoy fixing bugs when the bugs themselves are rare and satisfying to discover. However, I can imagine a scenario where you have a ball-of-mud for a code-base and it stops being fun.
I agree, I have no idea why he can't center content horizontally unless he's making a mistake.

However, those deficiencies you mentioned are only "well worth it" because it's our only option. It's this complacent attitude that helped generate a need for a plug-in. HTML and CSS are still tedious to use and often times requires hacks to work in specific browsers. Why? We shouldn't need a mess of frameworks on top of frameworks to fix these "massive deficiencies", it's simply not good enough.
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Author's big numbers display, correct in IE 6.0+ and anything modern.

Old IE fixes a slight dirty, BUT can't get more basic HTML / CSS then this.

http://pastebin.com/TvPnFzrj

(Train delayed, Killing Time, Rainbows, etc.)

HTH Author.
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It's at #12 now. The ranking algorithm is very sensitive to early votes, so a few votes in the first hour or so can make a noticeable difference in where the story ranks.
if you use [add-on compatibility reporter](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...) then you can tell firefox to use 'incompatible' extensions anyway. most of the time they work just fine.
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The article claims that there are no known md5 collisions. This is plain false. There are known collisions since 2004 and known windows executables with the same md5 hash since 2005.

The windows executables were constructed|discovered by a founder of the company I work for. Here is the relevant link: http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&a...
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I hope they can pull this off, because my experience with Vim emulation plugins is they don't even come close to being Vim. Vim is so vast that everyone has their own way of using it, and what one person might consider an obscure feature could be essential for someone else (plus losing my .vimrc would be like losing an arm).

I wonder if it would be possible to run Vim itself in a browser using Emscripten or something?
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I'm glad OP posted this. I'm actually a bit surprised this sentiment hasn't been expressed more often, but I guess it's part of the bubble a lot of Valley entrepeneurs live in. I am just a 25-year old guy working as a regular employee in a small consulting company with flexible hours and freedom to take unpaid leave pretty much whenever I feel like it, but I have some pretty strong opinions on parts of the startup culture.

To be frank, it seems like a lot of startup employees suffer from OCD (literally). Working really long hours and improving the product, changing the world etc. is what it's always about. Lots of people seem to lose sight of the ultimate goal in life, which is being happy. Or maybe they didn't have a goal in the first place, and working really hard is a substitute for something else which is missing in their lives.

Unhealthily hard work is a good idea _for a period of time_, if it _seems as if it's working_, as a means to an end: Making a lot of money in a few years instead of throughout a lifetime, creating something of your own and leaving your mark on the world, reaching your true potential, etc. But if you're working 12 hours a day for _years_ with nothing to show for it, you are on the wrong track and should take a step back.

I realized this after experiencing burnout at 19, spending two years where I was capable of doing absolutely nothing traditionlly productive. Therefore, it's really surprising to me that a lot of supposedly older and wiser do this rat race for years, losing sight of the goal along the way.

Pushing really hard to achieve something great is a huge risk to your mental well-being, and this is something you should go into with both eyes open. It's better to make a tactical retreat if things seem too hard.

You can be perfectly happy not being a Steve Jobs. In fact, if it doesn't come naturally, you're almost guaranteed to be happier by being a little easier on yourself.
Wow... That hit close to home for me. I've always felt this way and I'm afraid to fail. I overachieve always to try overcompensate for the feeling that if I fail then I'm not smart enough.

I never overachieved in school, I think I was mostly bored but was always told I was "smart" and "bright." Jebus, that really hit a nerve.
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You okay, bro? Unstable people like yourself are more of a danger to flying than cellphones ever could be.
This is a pretty good bite-size sampling of the workings of some of the nice things we take for granted in Rails (like AREL). Rspec is another one that's worth looking into:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3105755/ruby-metaprogramm...
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Thanks for the info, I found it really clever to have a working console really nicely integrated within the HTML book text. I am a Java developer and scala student myself but my mission to 2012 is to learn javascript and I am enjoying this book very much.
The article reports about the collision paper from 2004: http://unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html#bignew...

And it seems to be written sometime in 2004, see the update and linked blogposts at the end.

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>would then require extra complexity to provide a syntax for lines that should not get wrapped,

And what's stopping someone implementing this?
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Why not hardlinks instead of symlinks? This would make much more sense.
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Oh crap, HN just ate my 10 minutes of typing.

My point was: the parent wants a different behaviour for Cmd-F but it turns out the different behaviour he asks for is already provided by another shortcut.

Yours is: it sucks and these different behaviours should be triggered by the same shortcut for the sake of "quicker and easier".

I think that such a move would actually go the opposite of "quicker and easier".

The most basic case for which the "Find" feature provided by Mac OS X is this: you need to locate a word in some text. This can happen if you want to jump quickly to a specific paragraph or if you want to read the definition of a word or the address of a person or if you want to bypass the LOC… Cmd-F is the way to go: it pops up a window with a textfield and a "Find" button. Exactly what you need to achieve your goal.

The case addressed by the Cmd-E Cmd-F combo has different predicate: you already have the word highlighted and you want to jump to another instance of the same word in the document. This may happen in fewer situations than the above case. In such a situation, comparatively rare, I believe, Mac OS X provides another shortcut.

Different actions -> different triggers.

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I expect of course any software to go as far as possible on the road to "quicker and easier" but such a goal shouldn't impede clarity, simplicity and robustness. Making all of these requirements work together is what makes good software.
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Can you point to any examples of high quality software products created using the methodologies you mention?
I really enjoyed that. It's something I wish I knew early in my Ruby programming experience. I've done similar things on my own but I really appreciated the approach taken here.
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"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" or so they say. As a mid-40's veteran of multiple startups, I say do what you have a passion to do. If that's fishing, live to fish and do what you want to support that passion. If it's whatever you're working on, then you're good.

In your case, perhaps your drive and your passion are not aligned at this time. Once that's fixed, life becomes much better.
No, according to this one controversial[0] study, anti-depressant drugs have no statistical significance compared to placebo except in cases of severe depression.

[0]: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/comments/info%3Adoi%2F10...
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I love seeing these posts every month. They're great inspiration for developers who might be thinking about going off on their own, and a reminder that Rome wasn't built in a day.

Congratulations kreci on reaching your income goal!
I have submitted my apps to Amazon Store. One of them is on top of rankings in its category. Still it is just a little percent of downloads comparing to Android Market.
In other words, you're arguing that the title should be: "50% of 31% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error." ?
What are you asking about? Am I sure about what?

I feel certain that pg posted a comment a while ago mentioning that he had re-worked the algorithm and that an average below 2 meant your upvote did not get counted. I can't find that thread though, but I expect others will explain it better, although I would not expact the algorithm to be posted.
Funnily enough that’s actually one of the reasons why I have always been fascinated by social science. Not as something where the results and methods are fascinating but rather as something where much is to be done and all problems are hard to solve.

During the last century empiricism’s role in the social science has been growing but social science as an empirical science is still relatively young and, I think more importantly, it’s not really dominated by empiricism the same way, say, physics is.

It’s still necessary to adapt and find methods.
Do you have any suggestions? Currently the business model works like this:

1)A user from your target demographics signs up at your website (or install your app on her device)
2)Responds to a series of questions asked by you - and provides some actionable feedback
3)Gets paid $5/website or $10/app (we are charging $9 or $15 respectively).

If there is a way to create a better model, I would be happy to consider it. My goal is to cater to new startups and give them a number of users from their target audience so that they can get their initial testing done and get soem feedback at a comparatively lower cost.
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The conclusions the author draws are very similar to the conclusions the I/O Psychology community has proven scientifically. The best predictor of future performance is IQ and sample work product. Period.
It's fairly traditional for American individuals/corporations that benefit from government assistance to fight against the same when it applies to others e.g. "deregulation" is usually just re-regulation that favors the incumbents.

In this case he's also rewriting the history of Silicon Valley to not be an offshoot of the tax funded military:

The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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Have you considered using ClojureScript, instead? I wonder how mature it is at the moment.
Is there a UK body similar to the eff that is fighting these kinds of battles?
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I just downloaded the PDF of the original paper - nice work. I would like to have the allrecipes.com data myself I am going to ask them for it.
sounds like she might not have been confused if the bit to the right of the equals sign didn't contain an "X".

in other words, maybe it's not mutability that is confusing her.

...this isn't to say i'm not a huge fan of immutability :-)
I have been in very similar situation. Hated my day job and boss. But as you may see you can change it. There is a lot of money in online development. Not only Android.
Thanks for all your answers here, Joe. Just as a note, you may want to update your profile to reflect that you work on the dev tools.
> Coding - is a creative craft where you take instructions and make something that never existed before.

Mathematics - is a creative craft where you take a formal system (a structure purely of the mind) and create something (a new theorem, an addition to the structure) that never existed before.

That is what mathematics is. That is why there are math majors. If it were all rote nonsense, computers would be doing all of it by now; computers are cheaper than people for rote nonsense, after all.

So, to tie this back to the topic, teaching programming correctly would be much easier if we taught mathematics correctly.
I got less downloads than usual. Maybe because of xmass time (I do not have xmass niche photos in my portfolio). Hope it is temporary.