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You did say you had killer UI skills. Checking someone's comments and profile takes like 10 seconds.

I pretty much check the source HTML of every startup or demo site I see on HN as a matter of professional advancement and to see what they're using. People sometimes put easter eggs in their HTML or headers too, so it's fun too! Or even better when they're not minifying their JS and leave stupid comments in.

You'd be surprised about how much someone's HTML can tell you about them.
Google is totally a no on this count. Their generally-available programs are all for people entering search terms into Google's own widgets and specifically exclude software sources. I asked around at I/O and the answer was basically a shrug and suggestion to "get big and call biz dev".

I fully understand why, of course — they have lots of tools and expertise for verifying the authenticity of web-based queries, but software has to monitored in a different and likely less scalable (maybe even human-driven?) way.

And Google hardly needs to pursue desktop apps' small (and, to be fair, traditionally risky) traffic source, so in turn they haven't developed the technology to make that scale better.

I still love Google search though, so I wish I could use them. Instead I have to choose between monetizing what is clearly very valuable search traffic and giving users a search experience I think is outstanding. It's really frustrating.

If anyone has any ideas how I can cut this Gordian knot, feel free to get in touch via my profile info.
It's kind of hard to drag the items, I have to zoom all the way in and try and move the items like 10 times before I get it right. Also make them drop down like they do when you hit play, because it's way to hard having to try and line them up when creating structures, due to the dropping of items making them very unstable.
The general theory of relativity does a really, really good job of describing gravity as a result of mass changing the shape of spacetime, and predicting its effects as a result of that. The strength of gravity only depends on the total mass, not its density, so I'd say that gravity is not an emergent phenomenon from the density of matter and energy.

(Mass is almost certainly caused by the interaction between some quantum particles and the Higgs field. I'm not clear on how that deforms spacetime, though.)

Edit: I should refresh the page before posting.
A bit misleading...

The OP is not actually advocating making "yourself" redundant, but rather make your role (and/or subsequent functions) redundant. There are many functions in business processes today that be made redundant with technology. Typically companies hire business process experts (i.e. "consultants") to do this...but that's another story.

So maybe the OP is just suggesting to become a consultant?
Stackoverflow.com has an Alexa ranking of 108 for the world and 165 for the US. Last I heard they were not using that many servers for their site.
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ha, I would wager that there is a simpler reason: sortable tables in HTML are nearly impossible to implement.

once you have a lot of data, you want fixed column headers. stacked sorting (column A first, then B), a lot of things suddenly become needed additions.

and where do you sort? front end or back end? how much data are processing?

just look at google spreadsheets and you'll see how sub-optimal it is.
I love sorting and filtering.

When I'm looking for something, I often remember where it is by different criteria (date last visited, date saved, keywords, frequency of use, numerically, alphabetically, etc) so I get frustrated when my options are limited. But I do understand why designers want to do without.

I hate even more when things are sorted badly. For a long time Google Bookmarks were sorted alphabetically by default. Every single time I went looking for an old bookmark, I'd navigate to the Google bookmarks page and then I'd have to click on 'Date' and then on 'Bookmarks'. (Random tweets and other nonsense was included with my bookmarks by default, too. You had to choose 'Bookmarks' to view only your bookmarks.) 99.9999% of the time you're looking for a recent bookmark, not one that begins with a zero or 'a'.

To this day I'm baffled as to what confusion of ideas lead to that interface. They fixed this in the December 19th update/redesign but I'm sure it persisted for at least a couple of years.
It's a filter, yes, but a filter based on picking different cutoff points in an ordered column: 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, etc. I often find myself using these things as a roundabout way to sort a column, where first I get the last 7 days, then the last 30 and skip the ones I'd already seen, etc. Though it really depends on the app whether users would do that. I recall doing that most recently on an apartment-search site that offered that kind of filter but no sorting: I wanted to see the most recent listings, so first I saw the most recent listings, then loosened the filter to the next-most-recent category, etc. Would've just preferred a Craigslist style sort so I could continue scrolling down instead of doing the filter-loosening thing.
Wow, this is an amazing story guys. Especially the part on how you hit 152 users on the first day with Hn, just gives to show how powerful the platform is.

Anyone else got a story on how HN helped them launch their startup?
Anyones web developer job cooler than this?
fck, finally! I've complained about this same issue for years! Thank God is Christmas! :P
That would be awesome, eg P2P DNS, but I wouldn't want it to pass to see if that is the outcome.
As it stands right now, I can't apply the four updates available to the (very few) Android apps I have installed until I "agree to the Android Market Terms of Service, the Google Music Terms of Service, the Google Books Terms of Service, and the Youtube Rentals Terms of Service."

Four very long legal agreements, three of which are for services I have no intention of using any time soon (if ever).

Screw that. I'm just not going to use the Android Market.
The article itself doesn't go very deep in technical details. So I wonder how they manager there views, especially deleting unused events from models and collection, managing livecycle of views etc. Another interesting think to know is, how they handle subviews and the communication between them.
In my opinion, Google put the search vs. sort debate to rest a long time ago. For large, multifaceted datasets, search with faceted filters is almost always the right approach (again IMO).
That's a really good point, and reminds me of some thoughts I had last time I was at the white board explaining the difference between composition and inheritance. I was irritated as crap to be doing it, but I also realized that my irritation should be with myself. Even if I'm not a rock-star programmer with huge contributions to open source, I should, by this point, have a body of work that speaks louder than a technical interview.

Part of the problem is that many programmers still don't get to do open source work (I couldn't have revealed the source code to what I was working on at the time in an interview), whereas many other fields (design in particular) provide more opportunity to show off your work publicly. But there is a choice here, and as you've pointed out, it's important to make sure that at least some of your work is publicly available.

Even "demo" sites don't strictly need to be demo anymore - a small "real" app can be created, deployed, and used, even if the main purpose was to show off skills.
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I wrote a seasonal iPhone app this year, and I thought the crowd here at HN may enjoy it, since it is all about engineering and physics. It's free too, which is always a good thing, right?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/santas-engineer/id465563485?mt=8
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> I wonder if the community would accept the same clause if Microsoft/Bing were to provide the next three years of Firefox searching.

Money is money. Absent some evidence of a conflict on the part of people at Mozilla, I would have no objection to that clause from MS/Bing. I would object to the deal as a whole on other grounds, though.
I know some of the implementations there use native libraries that are built into python but only available via RubyGems for Ruby, like numpy. That makes it less of a language shootout (at times) and more of a "who ships the best C libs" shootout.

I believe MRI is generally faster than Python now when they're doing roughly equivalent work in Ruby and Python.
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I guess the "mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google" contains Mozilla's agreement to support Dart.
i cant seem to access the link on my mobile device. can someone please give me the name of the game so i can search it in the app store?
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so do you use Twillio is the service to send sms and voicecalls?
I didn't realize it wouldn't turn that URL into a clickable link. Here's the link to the game:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/santas-engineer/id465563485?m...
Use Chromium if you complain about privacy
I hope Rovio sees this, finds it as hilarious as I did, keeps their head about them, then finds a way to work with you on developing the idea.
I don't know if you realize this, but Firefox already includes Bing search by default. It's just not set as the default search engine.
This sounds very similar to my experience, just starting with design first and then delving into programming to gain more control over the finished product. I knew that this would be a great combination to have considering how frequently a product breaks down in the communication between programmers and designers.

However, right now I am debating which direction to go in since it has a mess trying to get anyone to take me seriously without being 100% designer or 100% programmer.
SOPA has not yet passed, it is not yet the law and I hope that Mozilla leaves it up for now. The DeSOPA program is meant to discourage passage of the bill by showing congress how easily it can be circumvented, so if it is removed after passage so be it. The link is:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/

or

[add-ons mozilla base URL ] (slash) en-US (slash) firefox (slash) addon (slash) desopa (slash optional)

in case it is filtered.

Disclaimer: I developed it
Perhaps you've never had the misfortune of using one. Google's CSE is atrocious. It looks terrible and has poor functionality.
Yeah that worked for me. Searching for the exact title in the App Store didn't return any results.

I guess their search index is not always up to date.
It's certainly unfortunate, but the business world does not work like the open source world. Nobody would do business with us if we required all of our contracts to be open like our code. We do things in the open as much as possible, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic.
What is the market share of Apple and Android download applications?
Thankfully, it skips IX.
It is also important to mention that java7 G1 garbage collector gives much better results for certain installations (of course test it before deploying it on production). The pauses are much more predictable and, in my case, much shorter.

Here is how to get Oracle Java7 on Ubuntu:

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvf jdk-7-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm/
sudo mv jdk1.7.0/ /usr/lib/jvm/
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/bin/java 0
sudo update-alternatives --config java
You've already sunk money into a Computer. If you pay a little more per year on software, how much better is your computer? It's a tradeoff which depends upon how much money you have, and how much utility you will derive.

For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. If I were using svn on the Mac frequently, Cornerstone (which is quite expensive by my standards) would be a necessity.

Twenty years ago, computers cost $5000 and $500 worth of software was no big deal. Well today, that $500 dollars will buy you just a much a productivity boost, so why is it no longer worth it? Don't compare the $500 to the price of your computer; compare it to your already-spent salary plus overhead.

In my view, most of us who love free software have a knee-jerk reaction to paying money for software. Try spending a little more per year on software and observe whether or not it improves you life. It did for me.
Yes, I agree. However at this point I am just hoping that it catches the attention of congressmen giving them another reason to rethink SOPA's feasibility before the vote
I would refer to this as a "parody" of angry birds.
Wear it in good health.
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Guacamole (http://guac-dev.org) has a ticket to implement RDP support, IIRC.
I would object to the deal as a whole on other grounds, though.

May I ask why?

Mozilla was testing having Bing search defaulted in their Test Pilot project. So I suspect such a deal may have been very close.

(I think Microsoft actually offers such a Firefox from their site)
Consistent average brightness across your field of view (both within the monitor and beyond) is far more important to your visual strain than whether monitor is dim or bright.

Next time you feel strained looking at your screen, look around it at the other lights in the room/outside and notice how even the brightness is.
I choose to be an optimist, and foresee a future where every user is dragged far enough up the evolutionary ladder to be able to subvert things like this.
I'm actually pretty impressed by the clarity and design--and I say that as someone who thinks Facebook's design has always been shit. I think Felton really is making his presence felt over there.
Google Docs spreadsheets handle all of these things.

I think that it is better to question why developers still create so many simple CRUD applications. Where is the next generation MS Access?
This. I feel that the law should make a sharp distinction between "a contract fully negotiated by parties of equal bargaining power and it comes up quite frequently as something desired by both sides in contracts between sophisticated entities" and the sort of cookie-cutter fine-print contracts that consumers are presented with. One should be able to agree to very broad things in a fully negotiated contract. Consumer contracts, on the other hand, should be quite restricted both in power and in length.
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I don't see how Chromium solves any of the issues he was complaining about. It's not like it rips out the basic designs of the browser, which are still tightly tied to Google.
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Shouldn't the title says Twitter, not github
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First, I'd like to say that I use JRuby a lot, and you guys have done an amazing job on it. I complain because I like JRuby, and wish I could use it more :)

I did set the Xmx and it still uses around 80MB. I'm not sure what in the world the JVM is doing there, but the permgen is another 20MB or so and then other native stuff, thread overhead, etc.

Is memory cheap? Yes and no. At work we have a rails site with two REST api backends both ruby. I also love RubyMine. Now here's my problem, I can't run all of those on the JVM on my macbook air. 4 gigs is not enough if I also have a browser open!

This is not a problem at all if I switch the apps to MRI and switch my editor to a non JVM based editor. I think the JVM people need to recognize this problem.
How is it possible to promise in a contract that you will not do something you would otherwise be legally entitled to do? Well, that's half the point of a contract. You may as well say, "What's with this clause in the contract that says Sony can't sell our data to scammers? How is that legally possible?"

The real problem IMO is the circumstances under which the clause is presented, not the basic idea of arbitration.
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OP here; thanks for commenting. (This was my first personal post that I've submitted to HN.)

In fact, I became a consultant - but for niches other than business process. Maybe what I'm advocating is that people should think about their role in the way that a consultant might.
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You can rename the extension to .zip and extract. If you have any problems, let me know via a comment or post a contact method and Ill send you the source. Its pretty simple. When on, it intercepts URLs, sends the base URL to three offshore DNS services via HTTP, makes a best effort to check that two of them are equivalent, caches the IP for the browser session, redirects to the equivalent URL using the IP, and substitutes out the domain name in the source code with the IP address for future requests. I admit that it could use some work, however, I wrote in hopes that I could help create some kind of change in the events that are about to transpire before the vote.
Needs a bit of ux work but is pretty brilliant
yeah heroku requirement as well WTF, when they are saying Rackspace Cloud at bottom of every pages.
Unless it's freemium, I don't see why they wouldn't find it hilarious.
No, my point is that web apps are working everywhere - Android, iOS, WebOS, Windows, OS X, Samsung Bada, Symbian. The experience suffers, but they do work everywhere and it's a huge market outside of iTunes that's waiting to be taken advantage of.

Using your own words, Android "got customers by
their balls in a way that Microsoft only dreams of"
because Android Market doesn't work on a Dell.

Those weren't my words. However Google doesn't have the same lock-in with Android simply because Android customers can install software from third-party sources. And Microsoft would have never been capable of banning apps (like Firefox) from their platform because it duplicates existing functionality. Apple may have relaxed the rules of administer lately, but it's still a closed garden that even Microsoft wasn't able to pull off.
I was under the impression that we were very close to being able to move sensors with our minds.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_br...
I meant it in the sense of the Oscar Wilde quote: "All art is useless." It's what distinguishes it from worldly concerns. Its uselessness confers on it a nobility, if you will.

I guess what he really meant is that art is purposeless, rather than useless, but the statement doesn't have the same impact that way.

Obviously this is but one way to conceptualise it.
I usually shrug off these JS demos but this is just getting ridiculous. The amount of stuff that people are creating with JS these days is amazing. Atwood's Law indeed.
How Big is Big Data?
So these are the guys to watch then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dm4RvDSkUY
I'll try to find the titles.

Note that not all such studies look at the same thing. I should've been more precise: on paper and with training, people were much faster at quickly reading a page if it was light-on-dark than dark-on-light or dark-on-white.
Unless you're on a platform where you can't get gcc >4.0, so RVM is helpless, and you're stuck with just bundler. Then the rake/cron nightmares come..
Yes, but what if I want one file deeply nested inside a massive archive, like a source tree or something?

In the scenario you describe, I generally use the dtrx script.

http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
Only for data that is subjective - given a search term which site is most relevant? Who knows.

But for questions like - allow me to examine the cost-distance-availability of hotels sorting is essential.
I've always found http://jottit.com to be excellent.
The open governance of the Mozilla project is not subject to the sort of back-room dealings you imply.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but have no knowledge of the inner-workings of the new deal.)
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If Mr Darwin is at work, nobody should have the right to sue.

Their coffee might be very hot or not so very hot, but the real problem is that thinking which allows the customer to lay blame on McDonald's without ever considering any responsibility for himself.

That thinking blatantly ignores the fact that everyone is—to a fair extent and by default—responsible for their own mishaps unless they truly had no reasonable way to guess or test for the surprise outcome.

If you're buying a hot drink in the first place, it's just common sense to merely touch the cup first to figure out if it's too hot before lifting it and burning your fingers. Similarly, when washing your hands you will generally first test the temperature of the running water before you splurge into your watery rejoicings instead of suing the café for reckless overuse of their water boiler. Further, most people learn very early on to try out if a stove plate is hot first before focusing on pressing their hands against it.

Now, admittedly, there are some things that you couldn't possibly avoid yourself. For example, unless otherwise signposted, publicly available staircases should hold together while you're stomping up and down on them. Door handles shouldn't deliver you a surprise shock directly from electric mains. A new car probably shouldn't explode on you when you turn on the ignition. But these come in rare numbers and equally extreme conditions.

Known accident-prone activities, such as driving, are explicitly protected via mandatory insurance in general. But in life in general, anyone can be expected to avoid many unexpected accidents with mere common sense, and still most of the rest of the incidents are well, just accidents. Accidents do happen and the driving nature of accidents is well, accidental, i.e. "nobody's fault" in general.
SOPA (officially) only addresses foreign sites. So they order removal from DNS servers and interrupt advertising or other funding processes from US based companies. But the ability to change the content on a server that is hosted in another country (I believe, IANAL) is beyond their capability. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, the issue between domestic and foreign sites is still a bit vague in regards to SOPA. Supporters claim it only addresses foreign sites but most opponents claim (I think) that domestic sites can also be affected.
Congrats on the success!! It's inspiring to see what might be looked on as a 'stupid idea' to turn out "not so stupid"!
This is one of the first apps I've seen using all these "hot" frameworks that would be worth something to a broad IT audience. Very cool.
Because in my opinion, assisting Microsoft's acquisition of marketshare in any market is ultimately detrimental to everyone. They are a societal and economic evil, and directly aiding them is highly unethical.
Entirely different, see my comment above about Deng Xiaopeng's ascendance in the late 1970s and the quite severe repercussions for the perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution. There's no linkage between the revolution and nationalism anymore. "A cat that catches mice is a good cat, whether it's white or black".

Nationalist pride, sure, that's been a constant through any cohesive nation's history. Koreans aren't Chinese, though, and the leaders of China are too smart to look for a "short, victorious war" on the Korean peninsula..
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