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haha. I don't see why all the angst here. The place I work at also has a big VB legacy code base that has to be moved to the cloud.

Furthermore, a lot of these large companies start off with a MVP hastily knocked up from 4GL tools and spend a lot of time doing customer development. (remember lean?)

Eventually they get big enough to be able to afford proper software engineering processes.

Gianforte of RightNow, a big enterprise player, started off in his bedroom with a list of possible features and lots of phone calls.
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So that they can tell the public, "Look! We're not racist!"

Even though they are pretty much making racist choices, the public is happy with it.

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At the very least it seems like the system should have been left in place to collect the noise and then most people could just ignore it.
Yup, got the same. Then rerunning it said I'd visited almost all of the sites.
Most of your post is emotion and opinion, so I thought I'd address the part that is factually incorrect:

> On a technical note each version isn't really getting any better

That's simply not true. To take a single example, the type inference engine added to the JS engine in FF9 significantly improved performance. With the new high frequency release strategy, it's not guaranteed that there will be huge new features or improvements in any given release, but the features and improvements are coming as fast as ever.

> historical problems have never been addressed

You can find ancient pet bugs for any project that either take a long time to get fixed or are never fixed. Do you have something specific in mind?

> version fragmentation is occurring

That's more-or-less false. There's some adjustment going on due to the switch to the high frequency release schedule, but the fact is the vast majority of Firefox users are on a small number of versions, almost all that have been offered an upgrade are on the latest stable release.

> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players.

Can you point to anything specific to back up your claim? If you pick and choose specs, this is true for all browsers. Nobody implements everything completely and correctly. The specs are being developed as fast as ever, and it's common for one browser to be ahead in certain areas. It's also common for competing implementations to differ as the standard develops. This is not confined to Firefox.
Paypal still isnt a licensed money transmitter in Indiana.
https://www.paypal-media.com/state_licenses.cfm

And, Indiana also requires licensure for money transmission.
IC 28-8-4-20 (a) A person may not engage in the business of money transmission without a license required by this chapter.

Therefore, Paypal is illegal in Indiana. But the only reason why I think they haven't been 'busted' is because nobody has complained yet to the appropriate Indiana authorities.

edit: I've been heavily criticised by OstiaAntica for this comment for being "anti-hacker". But I'm simply stating facts, and an opinion as why I think why. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088836
My employer uses it. I hate it, but then, performance reviews aren't exactly fun stuff to begin with.
I'm curious. In your experience, was it just those activities (Violin, cello, piano, etc) that were beaten to death and no longer desirable, or was more about the uniformity of Asian applicants?

For example, if a white kid had the same piano + math achievements as an Asian one did in the same year, would he stand out more?
I'm streaming my music mostly, so that's a no-go for me, but of course a perfect solution if it works for you.
That is simply wrong.

US Population:
White - 72.4 %
Black or African American - 12.6
Asian - 4.8
Some other race - 6.2

Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf

Princeton class profile:
African America - 7.4
Asian - 18.6
Hispanic - 7.1
etc.

Source: http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admi...

Asians are "overrepresented minorities", or ORM's, by admission standards because, in Princeton anyways, the ratios are nearly 4x the population average.
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What immediately struck me is having two forms of communication rather than one. I don't like that. The article mentions the company reduced it's email by some percentage in the last six months as if that means something. I know I'm more likely to send a stupid link to a coworker if I'm on chat vs company email.
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> I don't understand why they require ethnic proportions to stay close to population averages.

Thank god, I hope it means the world is a different place.

First, I'm guessing you're about 30 yo. (Sorry if I'm way off.) When I applied to colleges in late 1981, there were still some dumbass amounts of discrimination for being black. Affirmative action occurred in the 60s/70s to try and rectify some of that.

It was a given back then that admissions would overlook somewhat lower SATs if you were otherwise promising, and if you could be identified as being from a disadvantaged background. The downside was that some completely kickass guys I knew felt that they had been admitted because of their skin color.

I assume there's still discrimination out there, but perhaps it's a lot less than 30 years ago.
the article says "Facebook-style", not "Facebook".
Don't worry about the version number -- a higher number doesn't mean there's a ton of new features; it merely means 6 weeks has passed. Pretty soon, upgrade dialogs will be completely suppressed and it won't matter what version you're on (much like Chrome). I like the rapid release; it means as a developer I can play with new features much sooner.

Firefox is as fast or faster than any other browser (assuming you don't load it up with add-ons). [1] So it's not like everyone at Mozilla stopped programming and started focusing all their energy on merely incrementing the version number from 7 to 8.

I don't know why you're so worried -- version is just a number.

[1]
http://lifehacker.com/5844150/browser-speed-tests-firefox-7-...
ive never seen anything like it, is it a compulsory question?

we often have "are you a aboriginal or torres strait islander" but that is always clearly marked as optional and only used for measuring progress in improving the absolutely disgusting state of education for indigenous australians.

really i always thought america was better then this... TIL
I've little doubt record stores are now a poor investment, at least as currently managed.

Like book stores, they need a way to exploit having physical items in immediate proximity, and the prospect of there being other people around as your browse or shop. Perhaps only carry items that have distinct packaging, while providing high-end listening facilities for digital purchases.
This is probably because the existence of their department is not entirely justifiable and they feel the need to make others aware of their presence and create the appearance of work being done.
You'd expect that, as it works by loading an image from each of those sites.

So your cache will end up with images from each of those sites.
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Just because I am friends with someone does not mean we share the same views.
> but it seems to me that applicants should only be known by an arbitrary ID number.

And then there's the whole "legacy admit" thing.
That shared repository is called SharePoint at many companies. Publishing documents to SharePoint often means that they will never be found again.
I can definitely see this come in handy, nice stuff :)
Maybe someone can write a wrapper around the indian train schedule website then, because it sucks.
These questions are optional from my experience.
But can they figure out by inspecting your parents (as it says in the article) ?

Additionally if they have a pic that would it give it away.
I understand they're overrepresented.

What I meant was why is that a problem? According to the article, that degree of over-representation (relative to population) is below what it would be, given a completely blind admissions process.

So why not have 25% asian population? What's the problem?

On the other hand, why isn't anyone saying there is a problem with ORM in football?
Anyone else feel like your kids are going to not believe that this sort of thing had to be done as they grow up only with fine dot-pitch screens?
My previous employer use SuccessFactors. We filled the quarter goals and reviewed them through SuccessFactors. The funny thing is my previous employer was acquired by SAP few years ago too.
Except that the $55k in cash is also taxable income, especially now that he's told the entire world about it.
Bits can and thus should get copied for free. That includes copies of music or anything else.

The original creation of those bits need not occur for free, as evidenced by the various crowdfunding platforms or other such mechanisms. The person with useful bits can decide how they'd like to distribute those bits, including if they'd like payment for those bits; they should have no control over copies of those bits.
Indeed, the myth of equality across racial and cultural lines must be protected at any cost.
It really depends on the culture. When I joined a midsize company, I noticed there was no newsgroup/forum kind of communication medium. I took upon myself to convince management it's a great idea to have one in addition to email. However, after implementation the forums were rarely used. The excuses people gave were they are too busy, they don't want public discussion, they don't know whether there will be replies to their posts, etc. It was a flop. The culture of open communication just wasn't there.
Fascinating piece of history. I wonder if this will all once become relevant again for some new kind of display technology which trades pixel density and color depth for some other desirable property (such as e-ink etc.).
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I too am no expert, but isn't discrimination on the basis of skin colour a 'feature' of the selection process? The novel thing here is that non-white students are not being discriminated in favour of for a change. Anonymising would prevent universities from discriminating on grounds of skin colour and could as a result get them into trouble with the government.
Historically that's why many schools asked people to submit a picture
I'm surprised at the lack of comments about Yammer. I used to think it would be a product I'd NEVER use, but for a recent year long project I used it with a team of around 20 others. The result was pretty awesome. Emails were rarely sent/received, at least internally, and this was not a policy (the use of Yammer over email just naturally happened). When email WAS appropriate (private discussions usually, or outside partners), it was of course used, but this was only around 10% of the time. Everything else was in Yammer, Campfire, or IM, and it was SO much better.

My favorite aspect of this was the ability to include someones username in a post (much like on Facebook, via @username). This would actually ping them to let them know their attention was required, otherwise you can keep up to date with Yammer threads at your own pace. This is not the case with email.
Yes, I had to fill a form for a an American corporation once that asked me about my ethnicity and it was very weird. It was the first time I saw anyone do that, much less in an official form - I was wondering all the time if that was legal - and according to the very detailed instructions I had to select an option that did not match my opinion about my ethnicity at all.
I was first confused by the NaCl name. The NaCl nomenclature is used by another popular project - chrome Native Client.
I would think that some incentive (say a cut in 20% of the delivery cost) might convince you to get /down/ the stairs from your apartment.
> including if they'd like payment for those bits; they should have no control over copies of those bits.

These are contradictory no? What if I as an artist say that my wish is that no one should have a copy of my mp3, or listen to my music I produced without paying me for it. If you copy the music without paying for it you are directly going against the artists wishes correct? He produced this music and he'd like to get paid for it...

edit: Since I can't reply below.

Come again? So I as an artist should only be expected to be paid for one sale of my digital album? This makes no sense and sounds like some crazy argument just to justify copying music without paying anyone.
Hey... thanks for mentioning Pentadactyl... nice addition to the bag of Firefox tricks.
I'd love to be able to explain my identity this way:

Asian [x] - If you're more "white"

White [x] - If you're more "asian"

Both [x] - If you open minded or PC

Neither [x] - If you want me to pick a side

Hapa [x] - If you'll allow me all of the above

Identity depends on where you stand.
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Only if you turn that on (and by default it is not). See http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=18...
For regular patents you are correct about prior art. But for design patents it is different, a design patents is closer to a trademark, where what matter is how it is currently being used to identify a product not who first thought of the idea.

Part of the problem here is that the * appearance* of a tablet or smartphone has become a much bigger part of the product. 20 or even 10 years ago people didn't buy a computer based on how it looks, and all computers looked pretty different from one another. The way the bulged, how the vents were positioned, or the color, made it obvious who made the computer (or even which model). Dell is an excellent example of making a recognizable design despite that design being ugly and making the USB slots hard to reach.

Now because the look of a tablet or smart phone is so important, perhaps even subject to fads, it's more like clothing industry which has very little IP protection.
I'd also like to just drop this off here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/samsung-digital-picture-f...

Exactly who is aping who? Make the bezel thinner and take off the logo and it's a completely different design, your honor!
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When using git in that way, I spend more time mucking around with cherry picking than I would to just treat things atomically.

The tools are more powerful, but they're also correspondingly more complex, and the net value is in my experience negative.

People simply feel more productive as the number of knobs they're turning increases. However, SCM is the least important knob in my day-to-day development. What matters to me is turning around quick changes with associated unit tests and ultimately committing code that works the first time. The less I think about SCM knobs, the sooner I can move on to the next piece of actual work.
It's a shame that the mobile providers are making it so difficult for Mozilla to succeed in that space.
We have yammer at work. It's a total waste of a time sink.

Maybe I'm just old, but I much, much, much prefer stored systems like email which I can ignore when I need, keeps nice queue of what I've received/read, has folders/filtering/taging/search, ability to archive/save important messages.

Vs IM/Twitter/IRC constant stream systems. Which constantly distract me with msgs I care little about and when I ignore them it's easy to miss and hard to discover I missed something important.
That's not a "tracking feature". That's a feature of the Omnibar that can be disabled, and it's a feature I choose to use because the utility of it outweighs the privacy concern for me.

Next?
Ah okay, I fully agree then. One issue is that you want a "diversity of interests" on a college campus, but there is no evidence to convincingly say that schools would be more or less diverse if we admitted people in a race-blind manner.
An asian high school senior here. I'm currently in the process of applying to colleges. In most college applications, demographics are listed under the section where they say the information you provide won't hurt your change of getting in. I have not and will not lie about my race on any of the applications. I understand that, statistically, it will hurt my chance of getting into a top-tier college, considering I don't have perfect SAT score and GPA. But I believe that the admission officers would be wise enough to evaluate a person as a whole instead of just puting "tags" on him/her.
Thanks. Haven't heard about [legacy admit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences) before - That's some serious nepotism at play.
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You're not addressing his key point, I'm recommending Chrome to anyone I speak to, many other developers I know are too. Firefox is slow, sluggish to use and confusing compared to Chrome.

The edge it had over IE was that it was a better user experience. It's not compared to Chrome anymore. Even IE is better than FF apart from the weird crash like blank screen glitch when opening a new tab that IE has.
We recently set up an internal reddit server at work and it seems like it will be fucking awesome for internal communication. As soon as people actually start using it.
Really? It blew my mind when I used it because of how good it was. I needed to create a pizza with half-and-half toppings and it was really easy to do. Maybe not all corner cases have been handled well, but given the limited UI space and just how complex ordering pizza can be (your use case to wit), I think they did a great job.
To help ensure university doesn't look as racially and sexually homogenous as the tech industry?
That you are biased.
Thank you for your detailed description. I do note: There is a conspicuous absence of "legacy admit".

That item is an even bigger injustice imho.
Interesting. Twitter and HN yes, Facebook and LinkedIn no. Chromium on Debian.
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"Social travel" is kind of a startup black hole. That was a bad direction for a pivot.
Yet another reason this test is useless. If site A uses it, it may get partially correct data, but when you browse to site B, it will return 100% positive, most of these being false positives.

I just don't see any practical application for this method with such high error rates. The methods mentioned above are only valuable if you can guarantee at least relative reliability. By and large the results have been seemingly random, with only one or two persons reporting 100% correctness. So what's the difference between running a test with wildly unreliable results and just doing something randomly?
Not contradictory at all. I said that the artist can choose to require payment to obtain the original bits; I also said they should have no control over any copies of those bits.
I was 13, I think, when I went to compete in the all-Ukrainian math olympiad, back a bunch of years ago when it was called a "republican" olympiad because Ukraine was a republic in the USSR and not a separate country. It was a long event: delegations from all the regions came and were housed in a sort of summer camp for two weeks. As we were getting registered, one of the organizers who was getting everyone's details for the official forms told me she needed to know my ethnicity.

I was pretty naive, and after thinking it over for a few minutes I decided to ask her for advice. I said to her: "Well, I'm really not sure what to tell you, see, my mother's Jewish, and my father's Ukrainian. Can you write them both? Or am I supposed to choose somehow? What do you think?" I'd actually thought it through a bit more and was ready to continue telling her how my parents were divorced and I was living with my mother so I should probably choose that side... but I decided to wait for her response first.

She looked at me a bit funny (I think now that she was trying to see if I was being ironic. I wasn't). She held a pause. And then she said firmly: "Let's just write you up as a Ukrainian, shall we?"
> Most of your post is emotion and opinion

The vast majority of the population makes decisions based on emotion and opinion. They are determining factors. Facts often don't matter.
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Anyone else think the title is misleading? It's a really loose definition of "suggestions", kind'o like "suggesting" someone go jump off a bridge... So, in the spirit of "suggestion", Samsung could have just gotten rid of the touch screen thing all together and added a fold out keyboard and cd-rom just to be sure not to infringe on Apple's patent. How about circular or triangular screens?
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You're right. I don't know enough about how legacy/recruited athletes get admitted, so I didn't talk about it. They do, however, get admitted at higher rates, so let me edit that in.
Indeed, I replied a little lower down about emotion and opinion and that it in part it isn't mine (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309208). But for your specific comments I'll reply.

You make 3 comments that I think answer themselves. First statement I imply that things aren't getting better, I'll agree that some things are getting better, new features and support etc... but theres a chunk of stuff not getting improved.

You note it yourself in the second point "You can find ancient pet bugs for any project". The fact is there are things not being addressed which have been raised as issues, some of them half a decade ago. Thats a pain point for most OSS projects, but browsers are a competitive space, to remain competitive some of these things need to be addressed.

Version fragmentation may have been the wrong term. What I meant was that lots of plugins aren't being supported between versions. Its not such a problem of the core FF, but without the plugins FF just isn't that great. From a support point of view, new versions every 6 months is painful, especially when I read things like pulling support for HTML 5 features they had previously supported.

It makes its a painful thing to support. I now test my HTML5 applications against IE10 and webkit, I don't consider FF worthwhile currently. I test Opera only because I use it (sorry other opera users).

For the w3c stuff my biggest pet peace is websql. On other points Mozilla have a political and ideological argument for and against like every big player, I can sympathize and support where appropriate. But WebSQL is something that I would like to be ubiquitous.
This has been submitted twice before by this user: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3302354 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3299263
I get what you're saying, but if the technique really worked, I'd expect it to have told me the sites I frequently visit on the first run and a 100% score on the second run, but it was only like 80% of that.
The author also has Zenburn for Emacs 24.

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Oh god, that is genius. Makes me want to buy a snowblower, any snowblower. My manhood depends on it
Last I knew (= 1990s), Harvard had about 1/3 legacy admits. That number seems incredibly high now, does anyone know a modern number?

FWIW, The rationale back then: Large donors run in families, it was deemed essential to keep the universities funded.
Maybe you don't value $300 sneakers and see it as wasteful? I do. But, I'm sure this guy would shake his head at someone buying a $2,000 laptop (or something like that) when there is one for $1,000 that is "just as good."