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Querty with the Kinesis keyboard (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/). I considered learning Dvorak for comfort and speed advantages, but it's a bit daunting and time-consuming to get used to. I opted to get the contoured kinesis keyboard instead which takes about 10 days to get used to, but I'm slightly faster on it than normal keyboard and the comfort level is more than I ask for. It's really great for long typing sessions.
If you are signed in to google for any reason(gmail, docs, etc.) and are a G+ user you are signed in to G+. They put a G+ specific notification area on the black bar across the top. I would hope active user meant something more than signed up and has checked their gmail account at least once in the past 28 days.
It sounds like you're saying that the entity called "Firefox" shouldn't be blamed for aissing feature, because it's up to people to write the code. That's a strange definition of what "Firefox" is. I think Firefox is its community of developers, both those that work on the product full time and those that volunteer. A lack of such an obvious feature is in my eyes a problem with "Firefox."
Court the traffic gatekeepers who reach your target audience by pitching them via email. In my experience asking a single direct/focused question elicits a response at least 50% of the time.

Inbound link juice from being featured on a site that's old, trusted and authoritative is 90% of the SEO game. Getting traffic is all about courting and pitching traffic gatekeepers at progressive levels of difficulty/reach, so you might as well start refining your approach.

For an inspiring read on growing your traffic check out "Crush It" by Gary Vaynerchuk, and start getting your content and community hustle on!
+1 to this documentary about the Traitorous Eight - although it's not the fastest-paced thing in the world, it's fun to watch these folks tell the story diplomatically and in person.

But what on earth is Steve Jobs doing here, other than providing linkbait? He's got nothing to do with this story.

I guess we're supposed to pretend that we can learn something about Steve Jobs by studying a legendarily bad manager like Shockley. But that's like trying to understand Bach by watching a kindergartener drum randomly on the strings of a harp with some pencils.
GoneDaddyCertified.com - next logic step in the GoDaddy/SOPA twist
ok, so I followed online help-page on how to transfer my domains out of GoDaddy(r) to a registrar of my choice, now next logic step is that I would like to show off to everyone that I support anti-sopa move and dislike recent loose cannon aka GoDaddy move with being with/against sopa.

Can someone please develop a simple website, lets call it gonedaddycertified.com where I could do the following:

1) enter my domain name(s)

2) hit submit and service will check where my domain are currently hosted/registered

3) if none of my domains is registered with GoDaddy, then a unique ID is generated with banner "GoneDaddy Certified". Then everyone can navigate to my unique link, like: cert1402.gonedaddycertified.com where is the list of my domains with green check-mark "GoneDaddy Certified: domains NOT hosted by GoDaddy."

I would love to put a banner like that on my websites. Here is a simple draft how the logo/banner could look like: http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/9681/gonedaddy.gif

Thanks!
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Come on now, don't misuse facts. TARP was executed in 2008 and most of it was paid off by the end of 2009. Obama became president in jan 2009.
DRY. Just make a text filter that takes the machine ones on stdin and prints out the human ones on stdout. Unix, baby!
Not at all. They are platforms/marketplaces who collect fees for bringing buyers and sellers together (or employers and job seekers).

They do not keep inventory or buy anything.
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it's a closed-source editor. the dreamweaver-style colour picker that the op is talking about is a gui widget that (unless the developers have gone out of their way to allow users to script the user interface itself with runtime bindings to every possible platform widget) pretty much has to be added into the core by a developer. emacs has gone out of its way to provide an extraordinary level of scriptability (more so than any other editor i know; i can only think of the old dos aurora that came close in the amount of functionality it pushed upwards into the extension-language level), and even they didn't allow for a real palette widget (if you read the wiki, the palette is hacked together from "zillions of tiny space characters, each in a different face", which is ingenious, but not exactly user-optimal).
Depends on which Firefox you are talking about. If you're talking about "the community of people and organizations that develop the browser called Firefox," then your post is correct.

On the other hand, if you are looking at Firefox from the perspective of a consumer deciding between browsers, then the complaint is valid, assuming line numbers are important to you. They are kind of basic, and the product has gone long without having them.

> Ultimately, a free software project lacks feature X because you haven't added it yet.

This is also true of proprietary projects. I can edit the machine code or clone it. This fact doesn't invalidate observations of behind-the-times features in proprietary projects. In OSS, the barrier to entry is lower, but still substantial. Likewise, it's reasonable for us, as consumers, to observe when OSS projects don't implement things we want. I don't hold them to different standards merely because I have been invited to spend my valuable hours working on them.
I wouldn't put anything on your resume for which you can't answer questions.
fair enough; there are definitely things to do at a higher priority than maintaining an abstraction layer that you might never need.
It depends on your target job. Do you want to be a web developer or a tester? You would be best looking at the job description, then customizing your resume to showcase your skills for the role.
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At Bump we are developing applications that enable users to spontaneously interact with other people/devices or with places. Our category did not exist previously and has no true laptop/web analog.

Do you want to use the right toolset for the job? (and not just your company's internal toolset?)

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Do you want to have an impact? (and not just be one developer among tens or thousands?)

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Well, he wouldn't ever publicly say he's vetoing it to protect Tor -- that would be political suicide, due to all of the CP thereon -- but he might still veto it for that reason, and claim another, cf. Iraq War.
it doesn't scale as well in terms of profits versus man-hours as the business models they're used to.
Oh, my goodness. A truly funny comment on Hacker News. Thank you for this.
Might not be the best contructed sentence, but it's a complete one. "On what planet is a customer, expressing a very clear wish, asking you to do something for them."
Poll: Worst tech PR screw-up this week?
What would you say the worst tech PR fuck-up is this week? Godaddy's SOPA support followed by their milquetoast flip-flop, or Ocean Marketing's e-mail exchange with Penny Arcade?
Godaddy and SOPA
Ocean Marketing and Penny Arcade
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GoDaddy, like a bunch of other giant non-monopoly companies such as banks, cable co's, phone companies, etc. steal from their customers with fraudulent nickle and dime charges. Happens all the time and it collectively costs consumers billions of dollars a year. I'm confused by what your objection is with a prominent blogger pointing this out. Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?
I'm sorry, are you trying to say that this administration is doing too little to protect intellectual property? If you're saying the IP issues are being left to someone who doesn't respect IP, that is the only conclusion I can draw.
If this were your last day alive what would you do?
Quite possibly the best book I ever read in my life came out in 2011: The Beginning of Infinity by quantum physicist David Deutsch. http://amzn.to/mSTNCn

It talks about the kinds of ideas that lead to progress in human societies and those that lead to stagnation. I believe Deutsch is, in this book, the first philosopher to actually explain why science works as well as it does. I wish I could do justice to this book in a short review, but instead I can only urge everyone reading this to give it a shot. Read the first chapter, and you'll know you have to read the rest.
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hacker news has had several discussions stating 'if you can fizzbuzz you can get an entry level coding job' so I thought it would be useful. I have a couple semesters of programming and can answer most questions up through year two because of continued studies on my own after I changed majors. However I haven't had any real software development experience. (I'm a new grad.)

I'm applying for jobs in a few areas:

Systems/Network Administration

User Experience Design

Business Analyst or entry lvl at some software dev places

Social Media Management / Communications & Web Design
You say you do this stuff for a living - Could I pick your brain about your job/experience/education? What is the best way to contact you?
When I watched the documentary the only thing I could think about was how similar Shockley and Steve Jobs's personalities seemed, except things worked out all wrong for Shockley because he pushed his people over the brink to quit.

That's the whole point I was trying to make here.
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FB or twitter don't have the registration right on google.com itself, or the like.

it's not comparable.

that being said I think their rate of growth is very good. i also like the G+ UI a lot more, it's pretty good.

The only thing I dislike is that it's one more thing that Google fully control and doesn't really open up.

Note that I actually dislike both for privacy reasons as well.
It doesn't matter. There's an old saying, "The customer is always right". It doesn't matter if he is or isn't. You wanna stay in business, best to take that quote to heart.
Let's be honest here. Has any "Secured by X company" certification ever actually meant a damn thing? I swear I hear reports about sites like this getting broken into every week. Those banners are basically the equivalent of painting a target on your back.
Try Find and Run Robot. I don't know how well it's aged, I haven't used it for about 3 years now, but at the time it was the best of the free keyboard-launcher programs out there.
Can you explain? Wiki just explains that Rails pretty much slurped up Merb's featureset/advantage in Rails 3.
I work in academia as a mathematician. I maintain a library called FLINT (Fast Library for Number Theory).
..."hough, he should have cooled off before sending that e-mail."

Yup. Think before you speak. Or in this case, before you write.
How is this "Faceweb" approach different from Phonegap? I believe Phonegap too does progressive enhancement as described in this article
I've been wanting to shoot a film about this for some time.
'twas sarcasm.
I actually find Portuguese QWERTY better for programming. It's got all the braces in 'the right places' (that is, in the same place you'd find them in an US/UK keyboard), and it doesn't have the 'ñ' character that is completely useless in anything but Spanish.

(note: I grew up in Argentina, so I'm used to Argentinian keyboards, maybe Spanish keyboards use a different distribution?)
I use facebook. Why am I not registering for G+? Well:

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
Try selling or buying things often on CL for a week. You'll find most people are ludicrous to begin with.
Yep. I've spent some time investigating the possibility of using web views to replace some native Android/iPhone views (e.g. ListViews), and I assure you it's not easy. We didn't do anywhere near as much stuff as Facebook did (of I read that right, they bundle a version of WebKit with their app, and write client side compilers from JavaScript to native languages for phones with bad or no JavaScript environments). It's getting there, but web still hasn't quite arrived as the write once run everywhere platform. At least it's somewhat reassuring that Facebook still has lots of problems after spending many more hours on the mobile web than I have.
New Horizons has set the speed record for spaceflight, and is racing toward pluto and will make it in record time. However, its RTG doesn't have the longevity of Voyager's, so New Horizons won't last nearly as long. NH does have an extended mission, but nothing will match the voyagers': the stars and planets -- literally -- aligned, and it's an opportunity that will probably never come again.
People don't care, he gets blamed for stuff that happened before he was in office all the time. I've seen Republican members of congress publicly blame him for TARP too. The downturn we're in right now is the "Obama economy" even though it started before he was elected.
Although it'd be nice if Sublime came with autocomp out of the box (or at least an easier way to config it), the options are there. The blog I followed to set it up is http://urbangiraffe.com/2011/08/15/sublime-text-2-for-php/. It does make ST a bit more resource intensive than the vanilla version, but it is still loads lighter than Eclipse and also a small footprint on any modern machine.

Save yourself the time and skip the Soda UI part of the blog post
"orbiting really fast"

That is an oxymoron. You are either orbiting or going "really fast" but you can not be doing both. (In the context in question single-digit miles per second is not "really fast", it's just the cover charge.) You can pour arbitrary amounts of energy into a kinetic kill projectile, and there is no known reasonable way of defending against such a thing except to not be where it hits.

Just as people worry about nuclear weapons and biological weapons, we get planet-killing kinetic projectiles rather earlier than we get anything else useful from space. In fact if we put our minds to it, and were willing to be patient, we could probably do it today. The same tech we're looking at to divert existing planet killing asteroids can just as easily be turned to tweaking one of their existing orbits towards us instead of away.
We are finally coming to the era when the first amateurs who grew up with Personal Computers are starting to die of old age.

Stuff in BASIC coded by somebody in the anonymity of the pre-Internet. Maybe something truly novel in its time or even now. There's something extremely romantic to this, like a rescued roll from the Library of Alexandria.

Naturally, most of that anonymous work will be lost forever. Heck, most of my 8-bit era stuff stored in tapes and 5 1/4 floppies must be dead by now. I had some original Sountracker mod files from Amiga times and when I tried recovering those it was too late.
I would say don't waste your time with this gossip, and go do something useful instead. Make something people will use.
The Emperor of All Maladies - spectacular journey into the history of the disease. Filled with great human stories of discovery, and also taught me a ton about the currently understood biology of cancer.
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The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011
I'd recommend buying this more thoughtful version by Sam Harris for three bucks:

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/lying/
How about copper? We had someone steal it from the crawlspace of a house we rent out.
GoDaddy claims to offer website security as a service:

http://www.godaddy.com/security/website-security.aspx

Under the "Common Threats" tab, they claim to find "spyware, back doors, SQL injection opportunities and cross-site scripting (XSS) holes".

They also imply that they check input fields "properly", since "When fields aren't checked properly, hackers can insert code that exposes everything in your database."
The point of Ember.js is to reduce the amount of boilerplate a developer needs to write to perform common tasks. I think Thomas did a good job of explaining how you can accomplish the same thing in Ember.js with fewer lines of code (and remember–less code, fewer bugs!)

I'm curious: what about the Backbone version feels "cleaner" to you?
1. Founders At Work. Biographical - "Entrepreneurship stories at it's best"
2. Rework. Business-Book - "Think your business different"
3. Into Thin Air. Biographical . "An Everest Expedition Turn Wrong"
4. I Was Blind But Now I see. Biographical. "Leave Your Job, Start Your Business. Make Your Money Work For You, Don't Work For Your Money"
5. Anything You Want. Biographical. "Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently doing what's not working. "
Why wouldn't it be a goal? If you're fighting over space resources and destroy their space-based military, then its safe to assume the planet bound will soon be launching missiles at you.

The obvious plan is glass the planet, spend 50 years harvesting the orbital resources and then you'll have the infrastructure in place to strip mine the lifeless planet.
Ask HN: Preventing Chrome Malware Warnings When Image Search API
I'm using Google and Bing image search APIs to provide a way for users of my web app to search for images to include in the documents they create in the app. A (rare?) problem I encountered today: a result from either Bing or Google (I'm going to assume Bing) caused the Google Chrome Malware detector to go off.

Is there any good way to avoid this that I'm not aware of, aside from only using the Google Image API (which is being deprecated!) since I assume they filter out results from sites they think contain malware?

There doesn't seem to be any performant way on my end to check these results before displaying them to prevent this error from occurring, and I'm very worried that any less savvy computer users will think my site is at fault (not to mention being unable to make the warning go away).

I guess I'm also making the assumption here that images from random Internet sites are okay to include in the page as long as they are returned by these APIs...I do copy them over to our own S3 account a few minutes after they are added to the document in case they are changed/removed on the external site...

EDIT: The result is indeed being included from the Bing API, and it is from thefatlossauthority.com.
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I spent a month in 2011 learning Colemak. I never got siginificantly faster than QWERTY, but is was way more comfortable and easy on the hands.

Sadly, I went back to QWERTY because I just couldn't manage to retain QWERTY ability. I typed like a retard on other people's machines, and because I spend some of my work hours helping and teaching others (on their machines), this ended up a deal-breaker.

I had thought by typing in QWERTY in the mornings I would be able to retain both, but I just couldn't actually do that in practice.

Learning Colemak ended up being an overall negative experience, even, because QWERTY seems even more stupid than it always has, after experiencing something better.
Doesnt work on my ipad. Let me check this up.
> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me

Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.
What really intrigues me is that average users feel the same way; it's not just us. Read the iPhone app reviews (current average: 2.0 stars). Ouch!

Facebook should hire back Joe Hewitt. His native app was fast and powerful, at the very least. Is employing one talented full-time iOS developer really too much to ask from a company as big as Facebook?
There's no such thing as a "steve jobs schol of management". Apart from him (and possibly Zynga's founder), entrepreneurs with that kind of attitude rarely succeed (and are definitely not encouraged anywhere)
I do this at home, but my items are geared towards musicmaking. Every guitarist knows picks always go missing - buy hundreds and leave them around the house. Same goes for instrument cables: why should you EVER have to deal with running out? I try to facilitate creativity by making it as easy as possible for me to create. This also applies to your work area, the kitchen, etc.

Also, after getting a couple flat tires on my bike, I stocked up on tubes so that I wouldn't ever have to worry about that again.
Part of the exercise was to always respond truthfully. I didn't make any distinction between omitting truth and actively lying.

I never really lied to people in the first place, but I would offer standard niceties. Those counted as lying and were no longer said. It's hard to say who was most offended. I can say that the least offended typically were somewhat antisocial themselves; those who found social norms something to analyze, rather than to follow.
I've only played with Backbone a little, but I was under the impression that one thing Ember and Knockout offered over Backbone was the built-in automatic binding to perform UI updates, which required a bit of custom code (albeit pretty short) to update the views. Or did I miss something in Backbone?
Kotkin has issued and apology and fired Ocean Marketing... I'll try to find the link.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/axYAm.png
Ask HN: Can you legally own a domain, or only lease?
Gandi.net claims that you actually own, not lease, a domain name you register with them:

http://iwi.gandibar.net/post/2008/10/20/Who-is-Gandi-and-why-should-I-care-about-them

However, Wikipedia:

"...this transaction is termed a sale or lease of the domain name, and the registrant may sometimes be called an 'owner', but no such legal relationship is actually associated with the transaction, only the exclusive right to use the domain name."

Can you own a domain name in a legal sense? Or, are there any contractual reasons to prefer one registrar over another?