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Every time we use the keyboard, we mentally split it into two sides, left-hand letters and right-hand letters, so why not learn one side at a time? It makes sense and, 15 keys instead of 30, it’s much easier. There are 4 fingers on your left hand and 4 home keys on the left side in the middle row, ASDF, so it’s easy to figure out what finger hits what key, but how to remember ASDF, it doesn’t make any sense. Animals in the Snow Dig for Food, yay! Type ASDF and say this sentence aloud. Do this 10 times.

Now, what words can you type using ASDF? Type add, as, dad, fad and sad without looking at the keyboard.

But wait, there’s another letter in the middle row, G, and you don’t have any more fingers. The Food finger does double the work and moves over to G. Type ASDFG and say aloud Animals in the Snow Dig for Food Greedily. Do this 10 times. Now, type gad, gag, gas and sag without looking at the keyboard.

Next, the top and bottom rows. Place your four left fingers on ASDF and idly move them up to the top row and down to the bottom row. The Animals finger types Q on the top row and Z on the bottom row. Animals Queensland Zoo (or Qatar Zoo, Quebec Zoo, Qingdao Zoo). Type AQZ and say aloud Animals Queensland Zoo. Do this 10 times.

Top and bottom row associations for Snow, Dig and Food are: Snow White Xmas, Dig Easter Chocolate, Food Raw Vegetables.

Two keys to go. The hardworking Food finger also types T and B. Type FTB and say aloud Food T-Bone. Do this 10 times.

One home row sentence and 5 up and down association words and you have finished the left side in 35 minutes. This is the Nail It Now way of learning http://www.nailitnow.com.au
I agree it's certainly not a panacea for all the ills of the current system, but as the syntaxes converge it could provide a way for web devs to use one prefix without breaking the web or forcing minority browsers to adopt the prefixes of the majority browser.

And it is often the case that you're using an experimental style that's only available on one browser family which is then adopted at a later date by other browsers. This method would mean that as soon as other browsers adopted the style it would render without any changes or additions required on the web site.
Although there are some jobs that are killed, there are some jobs that are created. The nett jobs is an interesting metric.

Some jobs should be killed. Thanks to technological innovation, less people don't have to work in fields collecting food. More people can work indoors etc.
Netvibes was pretty much dormant right, didn't Tariq move on a while ago?

Not surprised someone picked it up.
I can see your argument, but I'm having a hard time grasping the "Thanks, Chome!" comment as if they were the ones who fired you. Obviously if your workplace fires you for this they are in error for using inaccurate data.
That depends on how the person wishes to be rewarded (within reason) hence my previous comment about how "value" differs per person.
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Yes, but DNS also assumes there is exactly one match for a given text string.

In RL, there are a lot of "John Smiths", and it would be non-trivial for a system to figure out which one you wanted to call without some serious hinting (like access to your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, G+, etc. accounts), and it might even have to access a private list of names/numbers to figure out that you probably want the John Smith who works with Alice Bell (an entry in your phonebook)...
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My mobile provider used to just drop all calls at exactly 23:54 presumably to solve the crossing midnight problem. I know because my phone at the time displayed the start and end times of calls and I was doing mostly all my calls at that time.
True, but that's copyright IP not patent IP.
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In politics/activism, this is usually referred to as "heightening the contradictions". That strategy only works, however, if you have a fairly optimistic view of history and progress. If you don't, the strategy is just as likely to produce a dramatically worse outcome.
Lawmakers can easily avoid this meta situation by writing simpler more encompassing laws.So rather than being specific about how the pirated material is accessed they can write a more open law along the lines of "a site that's main use is assisting the distribution of pirated material".
Nice... I am writing my first site using backbone and as a Java Dev sometimes I have a hard time to do things in backbone, I want to make everything a into reusable objects and views as far as I am seeing right now are not always to be used like that.

Sometimes They are used to listen to collections and create smaller things( like a factory ) sometimes they can represent a whole small popup, sometimes a single HTML entity.
I am sure my code is not 100% yet, but patterns like this help a lot.
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In no way is the value of an unpolluted atmosphere or good health some abstract concept. They have a value. The point of putting a dollar figure on it is for comparison purposes.

You may disagree with the value placed on these things, or perhaps value them differently than "the average", but don't assume that their value can't be calculated.
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My girlfriend is an attorney and uses it for date calculations. If you need the delta between two dates, it's not a bad way to go.
At a concrete, legal level, suppose that I as a software developer wish to be paid in money for my time working on software, and not on client projects, what do you propose? And if I write books?

What is the legal framework you are proposing that would ensure that I would be paid a "fair" price for my work? What if my work is brilliant and millions love it? What if it's shit, and no one would pay me a dime for it? Who judges?
good read. I would love Paul to change this part:

"A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem."
I had no clue what the app did untill I visited the "about" page. Normally I don't have the patience.

The snippet explained me the entire app. Perhaps some of it belongs on the home page.

How does PaperKarma work?

The PaperKarma app enables you simply snap a picture of
your unwanted junk mail, press Send, and get
unsubscribed. That's it! Just snap your junk mail away.
(In about 24 hours you'll receive a notification that
you've been unsubscribed. You can always use the app to
check on the status of your unsubscribe requests.)

A video/animation showing the unsubscribe process could also help clarify the purpose of the app.

Those stats are great hooks, but I doubt your potential users would need convincing. You stop spam for yourself first and foremost, that it helps the environment is a nice add-on.
Why not use the same system any web service in existence already uses - nicknames? Any text string is still easier to remember than an arbitrary number.
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What "inaccurate data"? You visited Facebook repeatedly, there's no arguing against that. You might not have wished to, but who's fault is that?
See Google Talk and Skype, both of which can do voice-only calls and video calls over 3G. It's not all perfect, though...

The problem with Skype on a mobile is that keeping a connection to their P2P network requires much more power than the usual push notification channel does. It's more expensive computationally and traffic-wise.

Google Talk, in comparison, needs less power, but the audio and video quality is just much worse (on my Nexus S with ICS). I also have fewer contacts in GTalk than in Skype. And for some reason, on many phones, there is no audio and video support at all.
Yeah this is like BP making excuses for the oil spill. Anyway, it's every iPhone owner's fault that they give away their privacy that easily without even caring. On the other hand it's Path's fault that they seem to have done this without a real plan (what are we keeping the data for? what are we going to do in case of "PR nightmare"?).
wait. Doesn't android already do those things?
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Google has Big Table right? But do they have a distributed storage mechanism on par with S3? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
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> "Yeah, my phone number is 81984324894"

IMHO, I haven't heard anyone telling/writing down their actual phone number for quite a long time, what I see happening a lot it's stuff like "you want my phone number? sure, let me give you a short call so that you can save it in your's phone's address book" (with the option "you want my Vodafone or Orange number"? I haven't actually never seen anyone changing their SIM cards, people just prefer to own 2 or more phones if it best suits their needs. Phones are getting damn cheep, at least in Eastern Europe).
Can't you say the same of most technological advances?

Edit: So your reply is essentially: "This is stupid! The way we currently do things is good enough!" and I get down voted?
On his blog, former Netvibes co-CEO Pierre Chapaz writes that Dassault bought Netvibes for €20m: http://www.kelblog.com/article-netvibes-naissance-vie-et-reu...

Enough to allow investors to recover their stake, not much.
Netvibes turned down a €50m offer a few years ago
That could be a nice income boost for google, right? Keyword: "impression based adsense advertisements"?
Just yesterday I had similar comment(s) here on HN[1]. And blogging probably won't help. Just don't do it on your production sites and apps. If you don't have the capacity to support other than major two browsers then just don't. But blocking them is not a solution. And blocking features even though they work when you change user agent (hello google[2]) is complete nonsense.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3566329

2. search by image, search background, google plus notifications, ...
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I agree. They've done such a good job in mimicking the look of the Flash player than many in the HTML5 opt-in probably don't realise half the videos they watch are presented in Flash.

Thanks for the links, very interesting reads. I agree that the HTML5 player has vastly improved, but if the issues I'm experiencing with the player now persist, I don't think that it's nearly ready to replace Flash - or, I don't think they should.
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Firstly, the comparison with DNS doesn't really make sense.

DNS works because there is a one to one mapping between name and number. There is only one johnsmith.com anywhere on the web. OTOH, there are many thousands of John Smiths out in the real world, each with their own unique set of phone numbers (and other things that this guy seems to have overlooked from an "address book", like an actual address, or an email address, or relationships to other people).

DNS doesn't solve the fact that many people called John Smith may have their own websites. They won't all be found at johnsmith.com. This is solved through a combination of search engines (equivalent of a phone book) and bookmarks (which is pretty much the equivalent of a person's address book - so DNS alone clearly hasn't removed the need for address books in the online world).

Secondly, that's all totally irrelevant to the actual issue with Path - whether someone's got access to a complete list of your contacts with all of the details required to contact them, and got this without your permission.
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It looks great.

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HN users complaining about bandwidth usage? Seriously? It's 2012. I'm all for a better user experience, and this is exactly what Google is delivering. Quit crying.
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I have a real IMPORTANT question...

Did you know that Path by default and always does not store android phonebook address entries on their server?

In facts its against standard android dev practices to the point where its prohibited by Google..

So when Path found out about that in completing the android app why did they continue to insist that it was right on iphone to do so?

Now I would not say the Path CEO is directly lying, but it stinks pretty bad..
You may be right, however, some people haven't experienced the caching issue when using the same browser and version that I was using at the time of this post (Chrome 17 just came out), which makes me wonder if the download limitation was implemented by YouTube to conserve bandwidth should a user click off the video early, thus saving YouTube from sending the entire video to the user when they're not going to watch it.

Interestingly, my caching issue seems to have disappeared since updating to Chrome 17. I need to do some more tests, though.

I think you're right, though, more likely to be browser issues more so than YouTube issues.
Looks awesome; I'd love to use this service. Would you consider providing an API for image uploads, so that people could use the site without an Android or iOS phone? (For example, using a smartphone you don't support, or just sticking junk mail on a scanner.)
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That's a good point. However, the downside to HTML5 is that if your computer freezes for a moment, the video continues playing and you may have to rewind a few moments. Flash tends to pause the video when a computer freezes.

I haven't noticed my computer overheat nearly as much as it did with Flash, though, so that's great.
Oh for sure it is better than the guesswork of the old way of market research and relying on unfavorable deals with investors, but when put in the same space as actual investments which entail a level of risk, I have to wonder if the pre-orders will siphon money off the "We need 50k to pay our bills while we do something cool for y'all" projects, which I think are also important. For now it's all relatively small so there probably isn't much cannibalization going on, but I see it as an inevitable concern.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System

If amazon can build it, Google can build it.
I'm still having some problems with the player, but I've updated to Chrome 17 and my caching issue seems to have gone away. Not sure what the cause was.
I would say it's not very accurate on a per-tweet basis, but when you analyze a bunch and you look at the breakdown of positive:neutral:negative and the different keywords, it can be pretty telling.

The best results obviously come with things that people feel strongly about, because they are more likely to use strong words associated with their sentiment.
While I don't necessarily agree with everything in this post, I do see two problems with phone numbers:

1. Ask yourself, how many phone numbers do you actually know at this very moment? I'm willing to bet, on average, it's less than five. It might be slightly higher on this site, but for the average consumer, I'm guessing it's between 1 and 3. I ask people this all the time, and I know many who don't know a single number other than their own, or their parents.

2. You've all seen the Facebook groups that pop up when someone loses their phone. "I lost my phone, give me your number!".

Apple is doing a very good job of solving this for the masses right now with iCloud, but you have to be an iPhone user to take advantage.
How about something like the Finger Protocol?
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How is that any simpler or faster than typing a number? One of the things I still miss to this day when switching to an iPhone was how quickly I could make a call on my old Motorola. I didn't even need to look at the phone. I've since switched to an Android device with a physical keyboard, and that's made typing a lot easier. But I really wouldn't want to have to type in some fully qualified name every time I wanted to make a call.

I guess you'd work around that by having a local address book on the phone, but now I've barely gained anything from that, given I already have a local address book on my phone.
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I have solved this problem a slightly different way, and I realize that it is not perfect.

90% of my business is conducted within the US, here I have a single number I give out. This number is managed by Ribbit (www.ribbit.com , no affiliation).

Ribbit knows a list of numbers for me:
Office desk phone
"Mobile" IP Phone (eg: sometimes it is at my house, or at my condo if I am spending more than a few days there, or possibly even travels with me if I am going someplace for an extended time).
iPhone 3GS which has numbers in the US, Dubai, Caribbean and Japan via multiple SIMS.
iPhone 4 which has a US number.

When you call my Ribbit number, it rings ALL these services simultaneously, whichever phone I pick up is the one that gets the call.

I can take numbers out of the routing loop if I want (for example when I travel, I don't need my home phone to ring and bug my wife).

So, to reach me, you dial a single number.

The downside to it is CallerID. While I can jump through some hoops to use apps and soft phones to get around this, it's a PITA (to me), so if I call you back from Japan for example, you're going to likely see my Japanese phone number as the caller ID, but I get more calls than I make, so it's not a huge problem.

The phonebook to DNS analogy is also off in that we all have "bookmarks" of sites we want to revisit and keep in a handy list. DNS has not solved or removed the issue of list keeping and organization/management.
There were various Firefox plugins that implemented something like that, and they've been heavily criticized for the additional cost to the websites.

One I used was called Fasterfox.

"Prefetching is considered an aggressive practice when it's initiated by the client, and plug-ins like Fasterfox have been widely criticized for supporting it"

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Ahh, okay. Fair enough.

Yeah, it took me a while to find some HD videos. I noticed it when stumbling across an advert for Breaking Bad which was uploaded by a user, if I remember correctly.

I haven't tested on all of my computers yet, but I've updated to Chrome 17 on my Mac and the caching issue seems to have gone away. I believe I still have Chrome 16 on my Windows machine, so I'll hopefully be able to test them side-by-side.
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So many people are fooled by these weasel words I am surprised.
So far really liking the tutorial. Just one thing, as a rails newbie, could you expand a little more on the deploying part of section 1, specifically giving an example of deploying NOT using heroku.

It's just I want to be deploying to just a generic server running rails and I want to know how the process is different. I know you have to set the ENV to production but at what stage of the process does this happen etc...
I see your point. However, jf you have a smart solution that's worth buying, people will buy it over and over again and even when it seems "cheap" it could generate significant revenue (just like the songs etc. on itunes)...
In England you can stop anything addresses to you. You start by registering with the Mail Preference Service (while you're there register all phones with telephone preference service).

That takes a few weeks but should stop most things. Then you contact the Royal Mail and opt out for door to door. Which stops unaddressed mail delivered by Royal Mail.

One important difference between US and UK is that anyone can stuff things through a UK letterbox, but the US mailcan things are protected and only us postal service can put things in them.

I agree this service is really neat and would be very popular. Perhaps if they had a way of telling them that you've opted out and this particular bit of mail still came, and then they could handle the complaints?

(http://www.stopjunkmail.org.uk/guide/door_to_door_opt_out.ph...)
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Bandwidth costs a fortune on mobile devices in most countries around the world.

It's a legitimate whinge.
I've somehow been conditioned to think of these Civil War diaries and letters as full of flowery prose and beautiful handwriting. It's actually amazing to me to see someone writing plainly and with handwriting almost as bad as my own.
Only some of them, not all.
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Looks quite faithful.

Copying a game mechanic in such a way is probably not prohibited by law but could be judged ethically wrong, if it was not an educational endeavor. Still, I would have scrapped mentions of the 'Tiny Wings' name especially in the repo name and in source files (yet probably making mention of it inside the README as a credit).

The question of IP ownership of procedurally generated art could be quite touchy too, as the result in the WIP videos is incredibly close to the original, yet procedurally generated. Does the author of the algorithm gets IP on the resulting style in some way?
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