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> I'm very sorry!

I'm sorry as well. I probably overreacted. Mozilla is just one of those organizations that I respect and worry over. I remember Netscape, and then Mozilla, and then a little 0.1 browser named Phoenix, and have used every version.

> I was reacting less to your comment and more to the repeated use of the word "funding" in all sorts of articles on this topic.

I do the same far too often. I reply to a specific comment, and instead of replying to that one comment, I reply to everything that comment reminds me of. It's not fair. I understand how easy it is to do.

It's all good. =)

> I'm probably feeling overly defensive after all the articles trying to create drama by claiming Mozilla was in imminent danger of Google "pulling the plug" (when actually a deal was still in place, and both parties were actively negotiating the new one but just couldn't talk about it yet). Within the Mozilla project, we know our userbase is still growing, and the market for search traffic is as strong as ever. But outside, friends are still asking me about these baseless scary stories in the press.

Didn't know you were apart of Mozilla. Should have checked your bio. Btw,

I LOVE YOU GUYS! =)

Anyways, to your point: outside, baseless scary stories or not, it's all we had to go on. Just think about it for a second from our point of view: Google has Chrome, the #1 browser by some accounts, and it's paying Mozilla for searches. And then their deal with Google ends. And nothing is really said from either party. I get emails from Mozilla asking for donations after this happens. Press reports talk about the how much Google as a customer means to Mozilla's bottom line.

So... I get nervous.

> Not at all! As I mentioned, donations are very important to Mozilla

Oh, I realize this. I only wish there was some way I could contribute more regularly. As it stands now, I have to be reminded to contribute. Might it make more sense to help automate that process for those interested? Reddit took the plunge with Gold Accounts, and that seemed to have helped. You don't even need to do anything. Just something that lets me say "Yeah, I'll contribute $X per month, because I love what you do, but fairly forgetful and will sometimes miss the 'Donation' emails."

> Mozilla could continue to exist as a smaller organization -- even a much smaller one if necessary, like it was when Firefox was first developed.

I don't want to see that though. You guys do too much awesome. Besides the EFF and FSF, there is Mozilla. And with you in the ring fighting the fights you fight, I know that someone is looking out for me.

> we're already used to competing with companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft that have literally hundreds of times more money than us

True, but I'm not. And I see these big 800lb gorillas and remember the days of IE6 dominance and the end of the browser wars. I remember vendor lock in.

> But I hope Mozilla gets support based on the great things we've done and will do -- not based on fear that someone else will come along and squash the movement.

That's a fair point. And a good one.

I'll leave it at that, before I start gushing completely as a fanboy.
My first question would be why either of these companies would choose an owl as a mascot when owls are known for good eyesight or wisdom, but not auditory abilities (I suppose this is my viewpoint).

With that said, I have personal experience with trademark law in the US (not the UK), and I don't think they have a leg to stand on if US and UK law is the same with respect to trademarks. For example, in the US, one must have a product and product literature publicly available and in use for at least one year, and one must register for the mark(s) with industry/ product -specifically noted. From the redacted letter, it appears this company is claiming to already have been granted a mark, so this should be a matter of simply looking it up.
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That story is quite hard to believe if I'm honest.

I'm guessing a Windows phone developer would own a windows pc and not a Mac as you say he is known to "rant about apple". Since you need a Mac to develop/publish for iOS would he really buy an iPhone, learn obj-c and buy a Mac just because the store he visited didn't stock Windows phones?
Yes! We can work on the visas for exceptional candidates.
Didn't downvote you, but

1) You're hijacking the thread with something unrelated and better suited for some online research or sites like SO

2) According to your questions you're not investigating PHP, you're looking for C# in disguise/in another set of clothes.
The Nice Classification governs the breadth of a trademark. Basically you can't register two marks with the same name in the same major class for the same geographic area - that's a slight simplification, but serves here.

If there's (expected to be) confusion then one mark damages the other.
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It's been a long time since I had any interest at all in PHP, and these new features make me feel uneasy once again.

The development server seems like the only good thing about it.

Traits looks like a silly implementation of multiple inheritance mixins, with a 'use' keyword that doesn't really fit in with the language itself. And the whole 'insteadof' thing looks weird. It will lead to hackish code for many people, encouraging weird monkey-patching.

The author says "when stored in an array", then proceeds to use "$functions['anonymous']". That's not an array. Sigh. I know PHP likes to call them that, but I just find it weird that they would continue to insist on mis-naming two of the fundamental data types of computer science.

The introduction of closures can only be a good thing, and a lot better than the passing of a string name of a function as a callback argument from before.

As usual though, it's expected that most servers and frameworks won't get the update for some time, due to whatever backwards incompatible changes have been made.

I know it's all the rage to hate on PHP these days, but even giving an objective look at the state of the language, given the thriving ecosystems of its competitors, makes it look to me like something I would never touch.
I absolutely love this idea - a very Silicon Valley way to deal with the shortage of quality developers!
OK, than I am totally OK with this. Because, if I look at my "work"-week, i do have 70+ hours. 40 - 50 @work, 20 - 25 refurbishing our house, 5 - 10 reading/learning new things, mostly while commuting. and for good measure, I would throw in the occasional (3 times per week+) blogposting.

So I really hope, you can find the right, dedicated person. If it wasn't for the "refurbishing the house" part of my life, I would ask, to join, just for the sake of learning RoR.
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Funny you should mention it. I am in the middle of Cryptonomicon - a thoroughly enjoyable read with a heavy focus on this area of study.
I used a similar approach when i wanted Windows internals programmers in the early 90's. I just called it a internal training program, though.

Irrespective of the number of hours put up, i still think a person new to rails will get a chance to pick up a lot of knowledge and be mentored in the proces - and is a good deal for collage kids.
Closure::bindTo gives a nice js-like feeling, but i wonder why the hell a invocation of a closure in a class member triggers a warning.
Dang, you guys had to mention being hungry. I'm hungry, but that's because the GF hasn't come home with our food yet.

When is the deadline for the applications?

Edit: Downvoters, seriously? Isn't this a legit question? Just ignore the part about me being hungry. I'm just reading through hacker news while waiting for my GF to get back with my cheeseburger.
That's good to hear. I can't apply this time due to visa issues, but I hope the program is a success for both LivingSocial and the candidates so that more editions are done :)

J-1 "two years restriction"
If you give it away, people will buy it
Congress defends the cloud
Few of the good programmers I know write much in the way of comments. 1 good comment per 30-50 lines of code is actually plenty as long as the code is readable. (Edit: Plus one comment per WTF.) The problem is writing readable code is difficult and must be maintained.

PS: At best a comment only says what someone thinks the code does. Program for long enough and you will get bitten by this.
Hi, it is decided on a case by case basis - basically a judge has to consider the two together to determine that, but there is general guidance (albeit really, little more than logic) here: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-other/t-infringe.htm. As you can see from his language in his email, the person who wrote to you has clearly read this or something similar.
Thanks for the link... it was very informative!

However, Xerox PARC did progress with the research:

"Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity after 1976. Several of Engelbart's researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing. "

But granted... they weren't the ones who invented or patented it although they were a key actor putting all pieces together.
Microsoft doesn't even use Bing Maps.
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it actually not so much the taxation that costs much for a company, its the "social fees". We will still keep a development team over there, but social fees can add 31% to an employees gross salary. Then the employee still has to have around 30% of tax removed as well.
Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Nothing special happens on mobile.

What's supposed to happen?
"Way of the Superior Man by David Deida"
Also, it is worth firing of a quick email to ask if they have registered anything, and specifically, what they have registered. I wouldn't enter into any other correspondence until that information were given.
Ask HN: How do you A/B test infrequent events?
I often have the situation where a design discussion could easily be settled by A/B testing, only there aren't enough events to get statistically valid results in a reasonable amount of time.

My initial reaction is that this is a sign that we should either focus on getting more traffic or that if we can't measure a difference we shouldn't care either way. However this doesn't really wash in low volume / high value businesses, where a single extra sale means $10-20K.

So how do you handle it? I'd like to avoid reverting to long discussions where everyone is speculating about user behavior with no way of validating the outcome.
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Its also not a good thing that we don't know who Facebook or Google is selling this or giving this information to. The advertising agencies, meh kinda. The organisations with acronyms, they are more worrisome. I also wonder, to what extent the amount of information they have about the average user.
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I am also on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ricburton
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There are lots of people on the internet with lots of money. The internet needs to lobby as hard as the MPAA does.
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German counter point:

Give me something that is _fun_ and/or _interesting_ and I'm happily spending a big amount of time on it - and in fact, I did that in Germany as well, laws or not.

I'm not sure I'd sign something that says "You're required to put in these hours".

The compensation is completely open - I don't know if these people are payed as junior developers or trainees/interns etc.. - I guess that factors into the equation.

My gripe: I'd expect these 24 people to work on actual products (otherwise I'd question the teaching/mentoring method), so to me it seems the company is getting a temporary team, possibly for cheap.

If I'd be younger, w/o a significant other and - well - applicable (I assume this is for US residents only) I'd apply anyway, though...
Oh that is very cool. I would definitely invest the time if I was still interested in the project but I have finally found something I want to focus all my attention on. Thanks!
For us wisdom is a positive connotation and also due to the owl's hearing range: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl#Hearing

But, that's probably a bit off topic - our name and the mentioned company's name has the word 'owl' in common, in our case alongside the word 'super' in their case alongside other word(s) so I am investigating how much, if at all, there are any breach of trademark grounds here.
That is an old cliché that doesn't hold true anymore. The US doesn't have substantially lower taxes or less government regulation than Nordic countries. (If anything, the regulations for private stock investments in the US are much more restrictive and complicated.)

The difference between the countries' investment and startup growth environments goes much deeper and can't be easily summarized by simple political sloganry.
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I agree, but the voting function is there to let the community decide if it should rise or disappear.
I used to upgrade my phone once every ~5 years too. Until iOS/Android phones came out things didn't really change much. Sure they got thinner, bigger/colour screens, higher MP cameras, etc. but the functionality was pretty much SMS/MMS, voice calls/mail, photos/videos and that was it. If you were happy with the camera you had and the size of the screen there was very little reason to upgrade beyond fashion.

Now, however, the smart phone I bought last year is struggling to run the latest applications due to it's low CPU speed, if I didn't know how to install my own ROMs (and most people don't) I would be stuck on Android 2.1 and that means I couldn't run a lot of the newer apps. Newer phones have actual useful features being added like HDMI-out, NFC, better battery technology, etc.
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But I have seen a few persons with multiple skills in my career.
Sharing the portfolio of such a guy http://idiode.in . Its really awesome.
well, facebook.com is on the list too.
I too wish php had a widely supported compiler, but in reality it's not something that most projects require. The overhead of interpreting php is a lot lower than e.g. making a single db call. Also, in the most common usage scenarios, PHP processes only live for the time it takes to deal with each request, so how do you approach that if you're compiling your code? Keep spinning up new processes or rewrite your application code?

Regarding MVC frameworks, try Yii - http://www.yiiframework.com
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In a week, or so, you'll find out how this is very different from an internal training program. We're going to make this very external, a learning experience for whoever wants to be involved.
Is the job salary negotiated before the program? I feel like it must be hard to accurately judge someone's programming value before they learn how to program.

What happens if, at the end of the 5-month program, they offer you a desperately low-paying salary? Have you wasted 5 months and moved to DC for nothing?
And there are not only environmental effects but social too. IEEE Spectrum has an article this month regarding this. Is a good read.

Cracking Down on Conflict Minerals

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/cracking-d...
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> It was cheaper to manufacture a display that produced bright text on a black background - fewer pixels to light.

Btw, I hope that was a completely tongue in cheek remark.

Monitors don't work like photocopiers and toner. The whole inside of the CRT was coated with phosphors, and an electron beam scanned across them, changing intensity to determine the brightness of a so-called pixel. As the beam is only "drawing" one dot at a time, it doesn't really care whether your whole screen is on or off.

Which brings up yet another reason a monochrome CRT was less fatiguing than a color one showing black and white: the color CRTs required a triad of phosphors and a shadow mask screen to help the beam hit the right phosphors, cutting visual resolution to less than a third of what a monochrome would offer.
That's pretty short, no? Get an unparalleled education in modern software development, step into a high-paying job, and we ask you to stay just 18 months?
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I was surprised to see that http://www.drawastickman.com/ was not on the list.
It's funny that this is a thing now. In the early days of the web, being a Designineer was a necessity to get anything done in most web-type companies.

Some will say, "well, you probably aren't on level with a rockstar coder." This is probably true, although my clients are very happy. I can wireframe, design and code a large-scale web app without having to consult a single person (other than the client, of course).

I am starting my own web company now and I am finding that the Designineer badge helps me in great ways. For example, I wanted to quickly create a prototype to show a potential client a better way to go with their website. Normally, in a web company of 5-10 people, this would require consulting a coder, designer and whomever else is involved in the drafting of a project. This could potentially tie up 2/3rds of the company for the possibility of landing a new client. For me, this was all handled inside of a few hours and it makes the company appear more staffed than it actually is.
You are right. Corporate taxes are no worse off. However, US investors don't want to touch stuff there because they don't completely understand local law...
I stumbled upon three.js demos when looking for Javascript plotting libs yesterday and I couldn't believe the stuff it can do rendering on a canvas. It was a big "I really underestimated Javascript" moment.
http://repl.it/ should be on this list.
I don't think anything on this list comes even close to compiling CPython, Ruby and Lua to JS.
I disagree. Unless you are an inexperienced software developer, or it's a completely new domain or technology, or a very experimental problem, you can indeed design the software up-front. Why wouldn't you be able to?

And even if it's an experimental problem or algorithm that's not well understood, and you have to write some test programs, it's still better to spend a day writing test programs and 4 hours doing a design (then throw it away if you encounter a problem with it), than spending 2 weeks actually writing the real code, with documentation, error handling, performance testing, and so on (then throw that away if you encounter a problem.)
PHP is not strongly typed as C# so it doesn't need generics or templates or better said it wouldn't make much difference on performance unless it would be compiled (which is not the case on the standard).

I don't think that an official compiler is planned but HipHop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP) might change that in the future.

There are plenty of MVC Frameworks for PHP you can try with SilverStripe or CakePHP.
Odd that it's posing as an iPhone rather than an Android device. Maybe it's just enough sites having "iPhone sites".
The SSD market is starting to collapse in on itself as well. Most of the smaller controller manufacturers are starting to be bought by rivals and I'll be amazed if Sandforce makes it until 2013 without being bought. Plus flash chips are already a pretty small market.
Yeah, I see how that could be an issue. How is it handled now, though? If government approves a project to improve [community service here] for $X, and the project goes over, what happens? Does the contractor have to eat it? Does government have to approve an additional extension? The project can't just run on and on, right? Sorry, I just am not that familiar with how it all works, which is kind of sad, I suppose.
I don't think that PHP referring to hash maps as an array is a bad thing, in fact I've always loved the flexibility of the overloaded array implementation in PHP.

> ...due to whatever backwards incompatible changes have been made.

PHP is normally very good that way, does anyone know of any backwards incompatible changes that have been made?

> I know it's all the rage to hate on PHP these days, but even giving an objective look at the state of the language, given the thriving ecosystems of its competitors, makes it look to me like something I would never touch.

Yes you're right, it is quite fashionable to hate PHP and has been so for the ~10 years I've been using it, but who cares it gets the job done (a language for the pragmatists not the purists).
No guarantee it will be high-paying, and the word "required" implies that at some point in this process you become beholden to your educators. They certainly don't want any applicants taking the paid education and leaving, so I can imagine some print, fine or otherwise, indemnifying a worthy student (one who is offered a job) should they not fulfill this 18-month requirement.
Quite honestly I wouldn't call that great design.
* traits is a concept explored in smalltalk. surely the greates monkey patchers among us.

* array? yeah, it's called like that. it could even be named "fridge" or "smartass".

* due to the new release process php BC is guaranteed for non major versions. adaption will be fast.

* thriving ecosystems don't matter, PHP is just one possible piece in the toolchain.
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Where are all those Galaxy Nexus subpixels?
Yeah your probably right about asking this here. I was hoping for some Php experts maybe to point me in the right direction. I'm not trying to hate on Php just want to learn an open source framework or language that has similar features to C#. I really don't want to learn Java because I think thats a dead language. I'd rather use Mono but they don't have very good support for asp.net mvc.
Not sure if this is the criteria -- but Facebook's Timeline feature was recently added and appears to me to be JS heavy.
A company that makes really crappy disk drives. I've RMA'd so many of the newer Samsung's I've lost count. At this point, certain models fail so much that I toss them when they fail, and I only ever use them in mirrored arrays (with other non-Samsung's!).
Unfortunately, in this period of time I am quite busy porting Paulstretch to Android. I have rewritten a (C++) fixed point implementation of Paulstretch and now I have to write the GUI for Android. After I will release it, I hope that I will have some time to port it to JS. Anyway, feel free to add the task for me (my user is 'paulnasca').

If you want to look at the algorithm of Paulstretch you can have a look to a simple Python implementation:
https://github.com/paulnasca/paulstretch_python/blob/master/...
The algorithm is pretty fast, the most time consuming operations are the FFTs and IFFTs. That's why I think that it might work on real-time JS.
Any list like this without http://140byt.es and http://js1k.com/2011-dysentery/ are incomplete IMHO.
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You might also consider buying an OpenBSD CD. It's only 50 bucks. This funds the development of OpenSSH (which we all benefit from regardless of what *nix we use and like).
Are you paying people regardless of whether they receive/accept a job offer from you?
PHP 5.4 does NOT introduce closures, they've been in there from 5.3.

As for traits, sure but as with all things it depends on who will use them. Some will make a mess out of them, while other will use them properly. Just as with any other feature in any other language. Please stop using this tiered "reason" for why PHP is bad. It's just doesn't hold water.
One other even simpler possibility, Facebook is looking at where you checked in or made status updates from and comparing the timestamps?

"I just had a baby" - updated from hospital
(Upload photo with timestamp near that status time)
Match the two
Can't they just use NFC?