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Thank you so much for the hard work. This could become very useful alternative to capybara-webkit.
Could A Folding Tablet Make Microsoft Dominate Apple…Again?
Apple's PC was "better"...but Microsoft still dominated the market.

As small form-factor computing platforms (tablets/smartphones) become more powerful, they will eventually be in position to disrupt high-performance computing platforms (netbooks/notebooks/PCs).

Since the cloud lets you push high-performance tasks off the physical platform, the dominance of the Windows OS for businesses is a moat to disruption from new technologies.

This may mean that if Microsoft gets Windows 8/9 right, and small form-factor computing platforms manage to more fully converge and disrupt existing high-performance computing platforms (netbooks/notebooks/PCs), Microsoft could again dominate Apple.
"if I work an hour for a client in a day, the day is shot for any other client. My hourly would have to be 8x my daily, my 4-hourly 2x my daily, &c"

If they are paying at least your daily rate, why would you mind that your day is shot for your other clients? They are, effectively, hiring you for the entire day and paying what you've determined you deserve for it.

If they are inattentive/crazy enough to actually pay you more than your daily rate for an hour (or any number of hours up to the maximum number of hours you'd work in a day anyway), then that's just pure gravy. Same for the case when it takes you less than a day to do the work you're getting paid at least your daily rate for.

In your original post, you'd said "I can't effectively work for any other client that day, so my minimum billable increment is a person-day" so in recommending the raising of your hourly rate to more than your daily rate, I was going on the assumption that your daily rate would have been sufficient for you to accept the job in the first place.

Of course, if you can't afford to work a day for your new client because of other commitments, you'll either have to refuse the job or raise your rate to the point that it is worthwhile for you after all. Perhaps that's what you were referring to when you cited the 8x daily rate.
But someone's got to stick their neck (and wallet, if only temporarily) out to challenge these.
>Toyota has an strong brand

Microsoft could do like Datsun and change to a better brand name. Meet the Nissan Phone 7.

>I find it hard to understand how people don't see the importance of brand loyalty in the face of Apple's extreme success.

That's not brand loyalty, that's marketing. The next company to market and design like/better than Apple will gobble that "brand loyalty" right up. Unfortunately that likely won't be Google or Microsoft.
For what its worth, downvotes aren't undoable here, and I've fat fingered the button a few times when meaning to upvote on touch screen devices. If you're getting random unexplained single downvotes, its possible someone else did that and didn't realise. I'd imagine such issues explain a significant number of cases where people go from 1 to 0 without anything downvote worthy.

It'd be nice if I could disable the downvote button while on my phone, as I've given almost as many unintentional downvotes as intentional ones. Or at least have a minute to change the vote after submitting.

(Obviously this doesn't explain bulk downvotes or anything of that kind)
It's worse with laptops. In 2003, the highest resolution laptops were QXGA (2048x1536). In 2008, they were WUXGA (1920x1200). Now (with a couple WUXGA exceptions), they're FHD (1920x1080). I'm very frustrated with laptops mimicking TV resolutions. I use my laptop to make things (code), not to watch movies. I find additional vertical space more useful than horizontal and can't get a screen as tall as I used to be able to.

Note also that QXGA is the widest of these, despite the others being "widescreen".
Unless you are someone who cannot afford the legal fees that would allow you to challenge said legality/enforceability. Which is pretty much anyone.
Have you actually used Windows Phone for any considerable length of time and have any real criticisms of the UX or are you just armchair quarterbacking? At least all the reviewers have actually used the devices, some for a week.

Eg. CNet's UK editor has actually switched to WP from iPhone because of the UX. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/why-i-dont-want-an-iphone-an...
This makes me sick. Ordering to destroy? That makes absolutely NO sense to me. If someone told me this story in person, I would have thought that it was a joke. Paypal is right up there with godaddy on the list of worst tech companies.
I wonder how the impending proliferation of Code/KahnAcademy-like sites will impact the bottom line of traditional "e-learning" providers such as SkillSoft[1], which provide training material for businesses.

Would CodeAcademy remain a B2C company while the existing B2B electronic learning companies remain untouched? Would CodeAcademy go head to head with these companies to fight over the money of HR departments worldwide? Would CodeAcademy's existence spur a price war?

I'm very keen on seeing how these online academies' business models develop over time.

[1]http://www.skillsoft.com/
Sorry, I had to laugh a little when I saw this since I received the same notice recently. I've been using eBay / PayPal since 2002 with 100% feedback and hundreds of transactions, so you'd think they'd treat me like a loyal and valued member, nope. I think my trigger was that people were giving me refunds for my purchases and I was giving people partial refunds as well. During the holidays a lot of people I purchased from made mistakes and left items out so they decided to give me a little something. I guess all that buying, selling and issuing / receiving refunds cause them to flag my account.
I didn't find making moderately complex HTTP requests in Ruby to be much more fun than urllib2 in Python. Do you have a library you recommend?
And to be honest, the original Windows Phone 7's browser was indeed based on IE7. Mango finally upgraded it to IE9.
Out of curiosity, what SMS gateway did you use to send messages?
Clever methods of overfitting
The second comment on the target page has a nice explanation on why this weird resolution of 1366x768 is so popular.

Apparently individual screens are cut from larger sheets of pixels. Using the same vertical resolution for 4:3 screens (1024x768) and 16:9 screens (1366x768) makes it possible to cut them from the same sheet, pushing down the manufacturing costs.
For the vast majority of sites storing passwords in the clear is a bad idea.

However sometimes you need to store sensitive data. Generally this is done with hardware security modules which rotate encryption keys in a periodic basis. Access to the sensitive data is also audited.

Risk can be minimized. It just comes down to if it is worth if for your business. PCI DSS is just one example of minimizing risk.
The picture of the shredded violin causes me pain verging on the physical. It's probably best we don't know the identity of the buyer.
What a terrible story - I'm sorry to hear about your violin. I just closed my paypal account; it took 60 seconds...
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I'd like to see where Perth sits on that scale. There's a pub here that charges $18 (~$19US) for a pint of Hoegaarden and an average pint of beer is $10.
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I don't think you read the email properly. The seller implies that their preferred outcome was to have the violin returned and, presumably, the price refunded. That dispenses completely with your reasons (a) and (b).
The Marshall plan was a tiny drop in the ocean of capital needed to reconstruct the West German economy. At most you could consider it a bit of pump-priming.

The Marshall plan was also equally applied to other war-torn Western European nations which didn't experience the same growth.

I agree that you can't isolate a specific economic philosophy from the general population and culture - the German people have always been very engineering minded and hard working - but something very interesting happened to post-war Germany, and it's always a good idea to look at this (same as the Finnish school example) and see what might have contributed.
The thing is that any seller could go with a company that will handle this on a case-by-case basis - ie a dealer - but the commissions will be a lot higher because you're renting the dealer's expertise/reputation. Paypal's benefit is being ubiquitous and cheap, not as an expert arbitrator in specialty transactions.
According to the article, PayPal didn't give the seller the option to accept a return. So (b) is out, and that undermines the logic of your position in my opinion.
Banks do this as well. In fact, it's fairly common.

> It's my money.

Actually, no. See, if someone pays through PayPal with a CC, they are paying on credit. Not cash. Credit cards work through credit card companies and banks, and they have rules. Because you are using PayPals association with these banks, you have to play by PayPals rules.

If you want to accept credit cards, you can do so without PayPal. Just get it from your bank directly, but it won't be as easy as setting up a PayPal account.
Wow. Points to Google for consistency!
Moderation should be approached like web security - any feature has potential exploits. Expect the flag patrols and bury brigades because if you allow folks to downrate or flag, someone will abuse it.

You know, the only site that had moderation pretty much figured out (meaning: signal to noise ratio is much better than rest of internet) for over a decade was Slashdot.

Making the system both resilient to attack as well as usable for it's intended function is not straightforward or easy. Hey, I hear that Malda is looking for work... I'd hire someone like him or a Wikipedia veteran.
I recently got a Samsung/Windows phone after my old -- very old (but easy-to-use) RaZr got wet and went south. My only requirement for the new phone was that it had to be a Samsung and it had to be free -- no exceptions.

I walked out the door with a Windows Phone.

I like it I guess.. Wasn't sure I would, but I do. It's stable, holds a good charge, and is reliable. I deleted every icon from the main display, except two -- Voice and Messaging. Everything else is on the menu. Access is easy. Call clarity is good and the features work fine.

My main complaint is that I had to setup a Windows Live account to manage my contacts. I'd rather just plug it in to my computer and be done with it locally.

Am I Windows brand loyal? No. But I have had no issues whatsoever.
> If you still have it, it might be worth examining it and looking for a better resale value all these years later.

Just maybe don't sell it on eBay.
When it joins a what now? There are no wifi networks without DHCP servers. At least there are none in the consumer electronics market to which zeroconf is targetted.

Zeroconf is a historical mistake. It shouldn't be there any more; it does far more harm than good.
We don't know the interaction between the seller / the buyer. My guess is that the seller initially refused to give a refund back. I know as a seller I am generally hesitant to give a refund back if I know there was no issue with my sale. The buyer probably emailed the seller saying, hey you just sold me a fake. The seller probably responded it is not a fake, I will not give you a refund. As a buyer I hate the hassle of refunds since I just wasted X days listing it, then I have to file a complaint with eBay to get my insertion value / final insertion value back. $2500... that would probably be $100-200 in fees that you'll have to take as a lost for a week or two. The buyer escalated the issue straight to PayPal and this is when PayPal will immediately side with the buyer. PayPal would not be able to withdraw the $2500 from the buyer unless it was destroyed. The buyer destroys it, tada, the buyer gets the money and the seller just lost the product / the money. Welcome to eBay/PayPal.
I like the design of the Metro UI. I can find my way around, the transitions and layout is basically informative and attractive. In my mind, it beats the tar out of Android in those dimensions. I'm not sure if I could even call it inferior to the design conventions and capabilities on iOS, which often accrues the most praise.

Although you could take "user experience" to very generalized levels ("did it get to market early enough", "do my friends have it", "are there applications I want", "is it in the mobile phone store"), these are usually considered social or business questions. One only need look at the flop of the Nexus One -- basically a well designed phone, but one that was positioned poorly with carriers -- for evidence.

I think it is sociological and business factors that blight the Windows Phone, not its design or user experience, except in the most overgeneralized sense.
Unfortunately you're most likely losing resolution in this case. If, for example, your TV is cutting off 3% of the image, then the video card is scaling your whole desktop down from 1920x1080 to ~1862x1048, which will result in more than 3% apparent resolution lost due to less-than-optimal interpolation.
It's not only (or even primarily) about linking your real identity to your HN account; it's about having a track record on HN itself.

I don't care if you're from Seattle or India, or if you're a young guy or an old lady; I care that you're the same person who posted that real interesting post three months ago about certain subject, or with whom I've had some interesting discussion about this or that, and who has a certain opinion about a controversial topic. I don't know if a certain post with your handle comes from the person I know is smart and probably knows what (s)he's talking about, or from some troll.

If I can never be sure if you're the same person, then trust can't be established; it's not about karma as "points," it's about karma as a property of human relations.

It's the same reason why I (almost) never respond to Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot - I'm never sure if the person who replies to me next is the same I was talking to.
a bit over 100, most are just "collectors items" without any projects etc.
Totally agree! I think it is also very important to get a real feel for the people that you will be working with. I think that a lot of people forget that these will be your "partners" for the life of the company. A poorly run incubator will have incompetent people running it. Ask yourself if you think these people could potentially be a pain in the ass in the future. As GCI mentioned: DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE!!!!
There is plenty of evidence that running is good for your knees as long as you aren't making an injury worse.

Also the only way to have a six pack is have low body fat, one of the many ways to achieve that is through running.

I don't think one should assume exercise means running but your points against running are wrong as well.
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I've been on HackerNews for a little over 2 years, and in that time I don't believe I've ever flagged any submission. I guess I've always thought that the voting process would always take it's course.

Curious, if pg is reading this, how often does the flag link generate real actions on submissions?
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Wowzas. That's a pretty big move for Google to make.

Google.com/chrome isn't even the top result for the query "Google Chrome" or "Chrome"

https://www.google.com/search?ix=heb&sourceid=chrome&...

https://www.google.com/search?ix=heb&sourceid=chrome&...

Good on you, Google.
I think you just described the iPhone 4S.

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This is a throwaway account, because I still work at Red Hat.

Oracle, IBM and VMware are some of the top companies where redhatters go to work after Red Hat. Due to their size Oracle and IBM have to allow less talented people in, that's what puts them in second tier and not first. I agree that Red Hat shares some of the talent pool with Oracle and IBM, but unlike Red Hat, Oracle and IBM share some talent pool with first tier companies as well, which puts them in the superior second tier.

I think you have the realistic picture, but you are presenting it a bit more positively than it should be.

Everyone can do the math for NumberOfH1Bs/TotalEmployees or compare the normalized inflow/outflow of employees between the companies. You can take rough (but unbiased) numbers from myvisajobs and linkedin company statistics page. Last year on both accounts Red Hat was losing by far more than 1:2.

It doesn't matter how Google or Facebook hire, what matters is if a Red Hat employee is asked to move to Google or Facebook even without pay raise the number of those who say yes will be significantly higher than those from Google asked to move to Red Hat.

I apply this rule, account for the salaries, the H1B visas and other indicators from linkedin to purify the results (exclude non-engineering employees).

Even if you throw away workforce analytics and look at innovation opportunity both Oracle and IBM make cooler things than Red Hat which attracts top talent - Watson, IBM Research, Oracle Labs and so on. You have to give them credit for that.

Engineering talent may not be US trait but again it all boils down to asking someone in an asian country to stay home or move to US. The answer predominantly will be yes. When you hire talent in Asia you demonstrate that she is less valuable to you than companies who do H1B or other. This is one of the reasons H1B is a good indicator about talent level in a US company.
I think this should be taken to Reddit to get PayPal to change their ways, and/or fundraise money to sue PayPal to change this practice.
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Well, this is definitely not entirely accurate. It has Phoenix, AZ as being more expensive than San Jose, CA. Having lived in both places I can say the cost of living in Phoenix is about half that of San Jose so its entirely wrong on that. I suppose its just mean to give a general idea overall and maybe was taking in data in some strange way to where it counted a large rural area that also included San Jose, or something, against just the urban area of Phoenix.
In any event, even if the clause is legal you can challenge the decision to declare the item counterfeit. If the court finds that the decision was procedurally deficient or unreasonable it can be overturned.
I agree in the sense that's the way I prefer communication. Direct and to the point.

But when I'm dealing with non-techies, I see a use to preface any opinion or question with some sort of disclaimer of that sort. I do this in order to lessen the probability that they take offence to what I say and then become uncommunicative. On more than one occasion, I thought we were having a productive conversation about their problems with the software and I find out (when they inexplicably become angry) that they thought I was insinuating their incompetence or lack of intelligence or something.

I think the terse, abrupt style that I and many other techies prefer, comes across as needlessly insensitive to non-techies and we need to be mindful of that if we want to allow them to contribute to this community. (We do like teachers, accountants and shopkeepers commenting on startups in education, finance and retail, right?)

Not to the extent of prefacing everything with patronizing verbiage, but to be mindful not to be too abrupt. Because many people take that as being disrespectful (in my understanding).
Try http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
On The Day Of The Iowa Caucus, Barack Obama Joins Instagram
Laravel is a new PHP framework which focus on clean and expressive syntax, worth a try. (http://laravel.com)
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HN has a really bizzare, inconsistent relationship with humour. Best to avoid it altogether.
tl;dr blind people mentoring blind people?

EDIT: the second "blind" means lack of technical skill
I will never have a PayPal account.
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I'm a bit intrigued by this, could you elaborate a bit more? Are they working as contractors commuting once a month for meetings, etc or doing their own ventures where they are coming down for meetings with investors?
Television is the worst -- and best -- invention of man.

Apart from radio. That was genius.
are you talking crash or leak? the one ticket was fixed pretty fast

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693905
I couldn't disagree more. In this case, being more specific is only going to multiply the gossip and opinion.

There is more than enough data in the google doc to support a discussion.

Furthermore, you now have comments from people who have had the first hand experiences I described. I'm willing to wager they didn't go through the programs I would specifically identify.

I'm not sure what else one could need to have a discussion, but suit yourself.
I've never programmed in Clojure or Java before, I figured I'd give it a try. I got hung up on a very early, and with no way to see the solution I'm stuck googling (to no avail) and trying random things (waste of time). Why can we not see the answers? Is this a standardized test or a learning tool? I'd feel silly going to a IRC channel to ask the devs what the answer to intro to strings was.
We've had a few issues with travel radius/dual location listing. Very sorry she quit - drop me an email (aaron [at] tutorspree) and I'll take a look, if you like.
Yeah I agree that's a solid case for destroying an antique instrument and fining someone $2500.
> The placebo effect is real, sometimes even when the patient is aware that it's a placebo.

I actually think Sarno explains quite well why the placebo effect works in many cases. It works because the pain is caused by psychological issues to begin with, so when you receive a placebo, your mind knows to make it go away and shift to a different problem. He actually calls it a "nocebo" because it doesn't actually make it go away. For example, you may have back pain, do some kind of therapy to address it (whether it is chiropractic adjustments, massage, medication, cortisone injections, or even surgery); it goes away, but then a week later you start having wrist pain, and the cycle continues (maybe with the back pain coming back) until you address the underlying repressed emotions.
Have to agree on that good Seo is the key. I set up a while a website for my mum allowing her to offer some online service and there is a tremendous demand. I just wish the service was as automatizeable as yours. Good luck with that, its a great idea!
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Places like Ward Cunningham's Wiki or LtU seem to have good discussions as a rule, but I agree that they aren't all that common.
I would ask for proof of their 'reasonable belief' that it was counterfeit; If they don't provide, sue them for breaking TOS.
You dismiss the possibility that your tone is consistently offensive. Also, you perhaps underestimate the amount of traffic HN generates.

"The CS profs can continue to struggle to publish without my help."

This is emblematic of what I find grating in your writing style (and why I downvoted the parent post). In a single sentence you have managed to communicate (intentionally or otherwise) a sense of hubris and entitlement.
This struck a chord with me as well, and reminded me of pg's 'How to Disagree': http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html