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You would be surprised that most charities spend excessive amounts of their donations to raise more money. An online charity that is using its money to employ people is a better charity than one that publishes glossy brochures or takes out advertisements.
From the name I hoped it might be uk based. Annoying.
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it's an open spec and the main implementation
is open source

Actually, the implementation is so complicated that whatever spec exists is completely useless. And the existence of an open-source implementation does not guarantee a spec, quite the contrary, the spec will be the implementation itself.

See for example the rationale behind Mozilla's decision to prefer IndexedDB instead of Web SQL Storage: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-... (tl;dr - because SQLite doesn't have a spec besides the SQL Manual).

You may think that the lack of a complete spec is not a problem, however I disagree. It hinders other implementations from scratch, which you may want because you disagree with the license or because you want to make it a lot better than it is (like what Google did with V8, when they could have gone with SpiderMonkey or with Nitro or whatever). Also, ask yourself why nobody could implement an alternative Perl interpreter and it wasn't because there was no need for it ;)

It's also a problem because the potential for abuse (embrace, extend) is huge. Suddenly the spec will contain implementation bugs that you cannot fix as long as the reference implementation doesn't. This even happens with Javascript, which is severely fragmented and holden back with concerns over backwards compatibility of scripts that are using the broken behavior. And do note that the ECMAScript standard is properly defined and quite simple to implement by comparison.

except without the near native performance of NaCl.
Which is why it was created

People have only scratched the surface of optimizing Javascript VMs and performance was never Javascript's biggest problem - there are other more pressing concerns, like freaking security, which is still inadequate and I have my doubts that NaCL will ever be secure, no matter how well it is sandboxed.

I see no reason why this is nefarious.

We have fought for years against the death grip IExplorer had on web standards. If other browser implementors don't want to implement NaCL, then Google should not try to push it down on people's throats. People could very well argue that ActiveX was a good thing. It gave birth to AJAX after all. That doesn't mean it wasn't an awful idea (even if it was done with good intentions).
filehippo is excellent, and they have a pretty good update checker (although that is obviously not as comprehensive as, say, sumo.)
Octocats :)
Yeah. I also get this in IE9.
A business which wants a guarantee of continued service from a vendor knows exactly how to phrase that: contract.
Archiving things on the internet undoubtedly is useful/interesting. But really there's no reason they couldn't generate revenue for themselves.

But it's not for example saving lives. So personally, I think there are far more deserving charities in need of donations.

There's people dying out there...
Visualized: http://ycharts.com/companies/NFLX/pe_ratio#compCos=AAPL,MSFT...
another coffeescript-like language.
How many do we need?
It's constantly updated. Nice.
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You may also want to consider quantitative finance. They will likely welcome you with open arms. In addition to python, consider learning C++.

I have some doubts about the social benefit of that field. But you might be surprised how well they pay.
You misread what he wrote. He knows what POSIX is in absolute, the question was what "POSIX" is as a locale. It's in the previous sentence:

> I had the situation that when I logged into my remote server the locale was set to the string “POSIX”.
is it just me that thinks dialog boxes sucks?

i don't want to get interrupted in my flow.

design so that you don't need something to pop up in the users face.
mobile support would rock my world :)
This is one reason app stores will continue to gain traction. It's a single place you can go and know you are getting the developer approved version, all with the addition of easy updates.
I can tell you that since she moved away from Windows, I never had to clean up her computer. Under Windows, it was a monthly chore.

I am aware there are attack vectors than can be employed against her setup, but the odds of something that could affect her friends also affecting her are vanishingly small - and I have never observed one of those on the wild. Education plays a role too and I took the steps to show her what looks fishy. Her box is also behind a very paranoid router that will page me if anything fishy starts to happen on her side of the network. It was so silent I programmed a weekly "lamp test" so I know it's still watching.
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"In fact if you go back in time and look at some of the first versions of Python it's a very, very ugly language and it does not come as a surprise that not too many people took notice of Python in the early days."

I don't know... Python in the early 90s looked pretty much the same as it does now. Unless you mean that some features (or lack of them) required inelegant workarounds?

I think most machines were just not powerful enough yet in the 90s to make Python a viable solution for many problems. As computers got faster, that became less of an issue. Also, there was already a scripting language with a large following back then (Perl, naturally). Whether it was "ugly" probably had little to do with it. (Quite the contrary in fact, I recall that Python was often perceived as clean, elegant, concise and very readable.)
No problem, I think it might be worth looking into further, you could restrict it to errors that recur across large numbers of accounts account then scrape github for possible links, cloudsource to verify the connections and bang, the world a better place, well, in a small way.
"JavaScript is becoming more and more an ubiquitous scripting language that challenges Python"... The Python dev team cannot change these conditions; even if they came up with the perfect programming language tomorrow.

Python3 has some nice features and some that could have been better designed, but personally I don't think it's as bad as this author makes it to be. It's pretty much a logical progression of the 2.x series. Python 3 is being adopted, slowly. I still think it's simply a matter of time, as Linux distributions have plans to move on. No one expected it to go quick.

And I like that Python 3 makes Unicode versus Bytes explicit. There's working with sequences of symbols (for humans) and working with bytes (for machines). I regularly hoped this would be done when working with binary data and making hw interfaces in Python, as there is a lot of confusion regarding bytes/unicode in Python 2 also in libraries...

It was interesting to read some discussion and arguments for/against 3.0, but it could have done with a little less "Python is now doomed" attitude...
I'd also like to know why they have 160 employees. That's more people than any company I've ever worked for. What do all of these people do? I'm genuinely curious.
Shoot me an email (in profile) if it would be useful to bounce some ideas around about it.
If you download something from the programmer page it is impossible to be sure that it has no spyware/crazy-toolbars/whatever. Some time ago, if you download it from download.com you know that it was safe.
Well, that has already happened to me sometimes.
Everytime that happens, I get a little down. Makes no good.

The problem isn’t you. The problem is the problem.
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Ask HN: Designers, and other non technical staff
Hi HN, just wanted to check in with you guys on the best ways you've come up with in incorporating designers and other non technical staff in your work flow.

We use git and rails in our shop and while that works great for our technical staff it's trickier for the designers.
Lets say a designer wants to implement some changes to the CSS, currently he has a static version of whatever we are currently working on on his local box, he does changes there and takes a look and then sends it off to a developer to have him/her implement into the staging version. This however presents a problem for the designers since they cant get a feel for how the changes will look on the live site by themselves.

To solve this we have been using a drop box solution on a staging server where the designers can easily change their CSS and then see the changes take effect, this, however doesnt seem to be an ideal solution. I've also been thinking about teaching them GIT but Im not sure it's a good match for designers.

Basically what Im asking is what is the process that you guys have in place in your workplace to solve this? All designers use GIT and have local rails instances running on their local boxes and then push and pull and commit as any other developer?

Cheers
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Weren't they mostly maths/physics/electronics graduates, though? Besides, university attendance was much less commonplace in those days, so it's not a particularly fair comparison.
The first Danes that came to my mind were actually the Laudrup brothers. But I guess that proves the point of how biased one is. I am a German who grew up in the 90s. I gotta know football stars from my childhood.

However, I'm unable to think of anyone from Argentina that is more famous than Maradonna even if I try to be as objective as possible, the only competition I can think of is Messi.
...That's why when Nationwide Building Society got hacked their only response was to increase the number of "security" questions people had to register? Now as well as my mother's maiden name they know what my first pet was called.
I can only image they would. I often see people complaining that they don't have anything to do on facebook, what means that they get bored, they want more useless stuff to procrastinate.
Thanks - that looks quite neat.

It seems to me there is a big difference between having a language that is truly based on multimethods and one where it is possible to implement multimethods fairly easily - from what I can see Python looks more like the latter.
The MIT article was submitted earlier. The Rice submission even emphasizes that by ending with "too".

So by the time I scroll down far enough to see the Sal@Rice article I am thinking, yeah I already know he's giving a commencement address soon, and having him deliver it twice doesn't make it much more interesting.

Basically, Sal@Rice could have been the top comment on the Sal@MIT article, instead of a separate submission.

Edit: Sal@Rice currently represents comments 2, 4, and 5 on the Sal@MIT submission. Also, Sal was an undergraduate at MIT.
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If this struck a chord, you should definitely check out Steven Pressfield's Do the Work book linked in the post. His reading of it is super awesome.
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But the vast majority of people do pay for online access to ad-funded apps every time they purchase something from a company that runs an ad. I don't imagine Heinz ads make any money from click-throughs, they promote the brand - but Heinz paid for those ads with the money I spent on ketchup last week, which is the only brand in the local store, so it's not like they needed the ad to convince me.
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Everything on CNET is being tested manually with VirusTotal. If it gets at least 4 positives/false positives from 43 antivirus engines they don't publish it or work with it, until developers get things settled down with anti-virus/anti-malware companies.
They get not that much profit from paid accounts cause of small percentage of subscribers, and give away tons of traffic + man hours even for free products. That includes manual testing, checking and writing descriptions, reviewing, and that repeats for each update. And lots of companies update their products like 10 times a week, just to get bumped in search, or create like 20 versions of 1 program under different names, especially Chinese developers.
So they just monetizing traffic and stimulating developers to get subscriptions to remove ad for their products.
I personally hate all kind of that toolbar stuff, but hey, there are not so many ways to promote an alternative search engines that work for free.
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I personally am a designer as well as a developer but you are assuming that a designer couldn't learn git? It's a bit of a struggle but to simply clone, branch and push said branch this is pretty easy. You could deal with the merges if you wished.

I currently work in a designer studio and I'll be introducing everyone to Git soon. But most designers I know have some programming knowledge (for implementing) and would be able to use Git :)
To count programmers by their sole programming language proficiency suggests he was paying bottom dollar, rather than hiring hackers.
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Late last week I spent some time cutting the bed apart to stretch it to give a more 'balanced' look when viewing the truck from the side. I know a lot of people aren't agreeing, but I think in the end it will be hard to tell it was lengthened at a first glance.
It is very difficult for a developer to support two code-bases, for the "same" language.

The `estr` suggestion is quite welcome.
My point is that movies are the movie studios' core business. It's what they've specialized in for decades. The article specifically mentions HBO as a key competitor, and HBO is known for incredibly high-quality shows. I have a very hard time believing that Netflix will be able to make anything remotely as good and popular as Hollywood's movies and shows, unless Hollywood collectively does something very stupid to piss off its existing actors, writers and producers.

Netflix are great at distribution, but they need to have something to distribute. There is no use in distributing a product that no one wants. The movie studios' key product isn't distribution, it's the movies themselves. Things are different in the music industry, where many of the labels are simply an intermediary between the musicians and the customers. But the product and distribution are much more connected in the movie industry.
Hahaha, very very nice ! It's petty that Mint doesn't work in my country... it doesn't sync with Brazilian Banks. So I am stick with Buxfer.
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Do you have any figures to back that up? Most charities here in the UK publish their expense ratios (i.e. how much is spent on admin, fundraising, on the actual good cause etc.) and they tend to be fairly efficient.
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Point of curiosity here, and I'm genuinely curious and not trying to snark; is it considered "compiling" when it's simply translating one source language to another? I see this term used a lot lately (and almost exclusively in the "... to javascript" context), so wondered if my preconceived notion was incorrect.
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They do not injecting it, it's just a small downloader that helps to download applications even with bad connection. And potentially may use a p2p distribution, as for example some game developers upload their game clients(>1gb). Well-known companies pay per download for their software suits, and they don't really like to pay for the interrupted downloads.

Im not sure about the deceptive tactics, they just trying to get people attention, not just unmarking checkboxes without reading.
I remember back in the day that one of the best sources for online marketing and SEO tips was a porn webmaster forum or mailing list - can't remember the name of it though - and one of the tips was to, instead of linking off to Google or Disney for U18s, instead create a sports themed site to monetise.
Somewhat off topic, but it looks like their blog has absolutely no link to the main site. I had to edit the URL to see what it was all about.
This is great advice that I've found to be useful when applied to management too.

It can be valuable to look at mistakes in a team as not something that is created by individuals, but as something that is the by product by a larger system with a bug in it. You can fix bugs in a system and the system gets better, but it's much harder to try to fix people (short of the easy answer which is to fire and replace).
Compiling is translating from one language to another. Sometimes the target is machine assembly, sometimes virtual machine bytecode, and sometimes other language.
Buxfer automatically import data from brazilian banks? I am looking for something like Mint for a long time to use here.
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18 months of cash. That would take me about 180 months to save up.

Are you guys all really that disciplined when it comes to saving up? Or simply earning way too much?
My advice? Go out and find something really hard to do to give your business issues some context.

I'm a record-holding ultra-endurance cyclist and only came to the sport later in my business career. It was amazing to me how much more manageable the issues presented by business became after I'd accomplished (and failed a few times) at something super-hard.

Physical activity is great in this regard because it will have direct benefits in your day-to-day business activity - you will be more effective and a better frame of mind, and it has much less risk of distracting you. Whatever you take on as your challenge, make sure it won't ultimately distract you from the real problems you are trying to solve.

Anyways, my $0.02...
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They should probably mention whether he wants a date with a guy or with a girl...
I am moving back to SD next week after a ~10yr hiatus. Any anecdotal info I could offer regarding my experience there is outdated, though I can remember many good experiences working with web development circa 97-2002.

Very interested in finding groupings of web-oriented startups, designers, developers and entrepreneurs to plug into. Please keep the links coming and thanks... Looking forward to it! :D
> Thanks for having the courage to state the truth, that most startup founders don't give a about users.

Is this a public secret. Do you think Steve Jobs was so obsessed with user experience because he cared about you personally?
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"""Of course you do. Reality is unattainable, perception is all we have. What you're saying is that your perception is different from the average, and that's fine, but it doesn't change my point."""

While I understand the pedantic argument, (hey, I've read my Hume), I mean that I don't rely on my "perception" as is, but try to form it based on evidence, facts, numbers and other stuff from the "unattainable reality".

Reality might be ultimately unattainable, but a, say, DNA test for example can show with 100% certainty who the raper is or isn't. And a educated rundown on the numbers, performances, etc, beats perception, especially such as cultivated by PR and the media, anytime.

"""Besides, do you really perceive SAP as a cool company? """

No, but I also don't like "cool" companies. I could care less about the flavor du jour and "ramen to riches" stories. SAP is interesting in it's own way, and invaluable for tons of businesses using their system.
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Well, the author has direct experience porting and maintaining (very popular, well-written, well-tested) Python libraries, so I think it bears more weight than the platitudes I hear from "the other side" of "it will all work out in the end, it's just a matter of time." I think the latter line of reasoning is going to fail without any specifics of how it's really meant to "all work out" if issues like the ones he's given examples of in the blog post aren't treated seriously (particularly the straddling-2-and-3-issues).
"""Then I'd be surprised if you do well in trading. For monetary value; perceived value is value. We have no other means of valuing things monetarily."""

Then I'd be surprised if you do well in long term trading / investing.

Perceived value can change from one day to the next. You don't want to get caught in a bubble.

You better sharpen the "perceived value" everybody, er, perceives, with your OWN value judgement that takes facts, numbers, long term factors etc into account. Else, you're trading blindly based on what everybody else perceives, which is really fickle.
People are complaining about PayPal "hiding behind antifraud", but real banks do this too - at least in the UK. My bank has phoned me up multiple times to check transactions. On one occasion they simply "black-holed" a credit card transaction and didn't bother to tell me, nor did the merchant contact me. On another, they made a simple purchase take 45 minutes of phone-tag because buying a bed is an "unusual" purchase. Well, DUH. Moving house is pretty fucking unusual, too.

I now try to remember to phone them before buying computer bits or large "unusual" purchases, but that has a 50% chance of a dropped call as they try to transfer my request.

So, no, PayPal aren't really any different to any other payment processor in my experience.