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They should clean up the front page. Too many of the default subreddits that appear are super lame.

No. That's what mass popularity is ALWAYS like.

What they need to do is create a better way to find sub-reddits you are interested in but which are not popular.
> I couldn't quickly find a Cocoa method call with eleven parameters

Allow me to introduce you to NSBitmapImageRep, which holds the dubious honor of being initialized by the longest public selector in all of Cocoa.
Here's a contrived example:

NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithBitmapDataPlanes:data
pixelsWide:640 pixelsHigh:480
bitsPerSample:8 samplesPerPixel:3
hasAlpha:NO isPlanar:YES
colorSpaceName:@"NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace" bitmapFormat:NULL
bytesPerRow:0 bitsPerPixel:0];

edit: formatting
Well for one, this SQLite.js is completely useless without persistence. All you need is some way to get the contents of the database and save it to a file.

That way if you have some new type of architecture that's not supported by SQLite, but you do have a JavaScript VM available you could really easily whip up an SQLite based app without going to the trouble of porting SQLite itself.
He doesn't mirror the images? That seems... risky.
For us, the key to staying sane at a startup is hanging out with a different social circle often; ones outside of the tech/startup world.

I really should have done this sooner rather than later when I first moved to Ottawa. Currently living with seven others from the same incubator, in an estate right by the Kanata tech park where not much goes on for a twenty-something. It’s very hard not to get engrossed in just startup and software development (design in my case) culture and this has been draining me for the past few weeks. Finally getting my act together and breaking off from the pack to do random things (BarCraft, training for Spartan Race, techno music festivals, etc.).
Hipster and Fake Entrepreneurs and VCs
great for teaching SQL, perhaps? super easy example queries, etc.
Why we're taking an un-lean approach with our next project
Well, you don't have to "unlearn" it. It's actually a good thing you went through the "pain" of learning it pre-ARC because if you understand how reference counting actually works, you will be able to make better and more informed decisions on the management of your objects in 5.0+ with ARC (e.g. when to use strong vs. weak properties). There's nothing magical about it, and Ray Wanderlich has a fantastic ARC tutorial that helped me greatly: http://www.raywenderlich.com/5677/beginning-arc-in-ios-5-par...

Holding off on ARC is only advantageous if you need to support iOS versions before 5.0, but ARC is the future of iOS.
i built a textmate plugin that runs your js through jsl, based on jsLint, on save: https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/validate-on-save.tmbundle

JSLintMate looks much nicer
China and the U.S are in the same century (along with the rest of the world). The comparison is just ridiculous. Take for example, Qatar. So Qatar a decade ahead of the USA?

What you should compare on is the access to public (or private, who cares) to health care, states services, education, job opportunity, security...
That's basically what I said. You are not arguing with me.

I was just pointing out the distinction is not in the type of currency or exchange, it's in who holds the account.
People get upset about America's wealth inequality - China's wealth inequality is several orders of magnitude worse.

Source? I'd like to see wealth (and income) inequality metrics for both countries.
also, the comparison of number of lines for coffeescript and javascript is usually misleading, because same logic/implementation in cs is usually(or, always) smaller than the js version.

How much functionality, if you can make a guess, would you say is there in the codebase in cs?
Indeed, as Aaron above mentioned, ARC doesn't absolve the programmer of the responsibility of proper memory management, it's just less overhead to have to worry about.
Absolutly agree with this. There is a nice episode of the Econtalk podcast that talks about the "guilds"-Problem.

Here is the Abstract: "Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for lawyers and the role of lawyers in the political process. Drawing on a new co-authored book, First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers, Winston argues that restrictions on the supply of lawyers and increases in demand via government regulation artificially boost lawyers' salaries. Deregulation of the supply (by eliminating licensing) would lower price and encourage innovation. "
--> http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/09/winston_on_lawy.htm...
Same in Opera. I'd say it's not supported as it is quite malicious. Another example that comes to mind is changing the content of clipboard when users copies something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_events#Microsoft-specific_e...
From Xcode to iTerm2 - Spacedust a ported theme
this is a business opportunity - curate some fb pages within a network with believable handles (ie, jj334) and then just sell them to a recent grad that wants a fb profile that looks squeaky clean. try not to put too many 'saved 4,000 kittens' links or it'll get suspicious... ;-)
but seriously - scrubbing your youthful indiscretions from the goog or fb is a high-value service at a point in time where people realise they need it.
btw i'm not saying the OP is right, i think it's a terrible precendent and i'd have told them to @#$@#$ off.
That’s not fancy, that’s standard Safari behavior. Safari waits until the font is downloaded until it displays text. Some other browsers display text immediately and switch the font later. There are good arguments for both approaches.
An employer or college who obtains an applicant's Facebook password and uses that password to access the applicant's Facebook account may be committing a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. 1030 (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, prohibiting access of protected computer systems without authorization or in excess of authorization). (Note that the Facebook Terms of Service prohibit sharing one's password or logging in under another's account.) See http://volokh.com/2011/12/01/judge-orders-plaintiff-to-give-... (noting that such access may be a federal crime even if authorized by a state court order).

The statute (18 U.S.C. 1030) also creates a civil remedy; Facebook may be able to sue employers who access an applicant's account. Even if the statute is held to not apply in such situations (or held to be unconstitutional as applied in such situations [1]), Facebook may still be able to sue under state law for inducing said applicants to breach their contract with Facebook (tortious inteference) by sharing their password.

[1] E.g., see U.S. v. Lori Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449 (C.D. Cal. 2009), where a district court held that 18 U.S.C. 1030 criminalized TOS violations (including falsifying one's date of birth) but was unconstitutional in that regard.
heh... I didn't know there was such an option. Now I see dead people. Thnx
I don't want to be thinking flash :)

I'm thinking a dumb unscriptable video playback frame that draws its own controls and isn't remote-controlled by javascript.

I've seen plenty of sites that see that see I don't have javascript enabled (or unblocked) and conclude that welp, that guy probably doesn't have speakers, let's display a unhelpful message instead of embedding media content.

Of course there'll still be some attack surface just like people have been managing to exploit image decoding libraries over the years, but at least it wouldn't be engineered against usability by default.
Cat and dog are friends
Look at this story, where a cat and a dog can be good friends. The story is desribed in one single funny photo. I am sure you will like it, because both the cat and the dog are very cute animals.
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Been using the VOS bundle for the past year & it lints much more than just js. Def worth checking out.
Cryptography class is live
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1760250/how-to-tell-if-br...

But that can still lead to inaccurate measurements of "time on opage" if the user switches back and forth between tabs. Do you only measure the periods during which the tab is active (and if so, how granular?) or do you simply subtract the first active timestamp from the last active timestamp?
The only ties to Symfony are the 3 small Symfony components we used to build Composer, instead of reinventing the wheel. We're trying to build a package manager that promotes code reuse and to keep everyone happy we'd be supposed to write everything from scratch? With mentalities like that, we don't even need a packaging system in PHP, everyone just writes their own everything and that's that.

Just give it a shot, forget how it's built, use it and please give us feedback/report issues. We're improving things on a daily basis.
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I would add:

1) Pay can be high with win/lose stakes

2) Different pay models (contingency)
The standard of living might have improved for the descendants of those that survived but what about those who had to undergo generations of subjugation or slavery or worse? What about those wiped out? In other words at what cost was this long term improvement gained?

Are the Aborigines or US native indians actually better off?

For me the benefits of British rule are very mixed and to argue that the conquered are better off ignores the costs borne in the past. Additionally, we cannot say how things might have been if people had been allowed to develop naturally and trade under normal circumstances.
I guess I should use this as an opportunity to remind people of the "Zscaler Likejacking Prevention" plugin for Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera (check the corresponding add-on stores). I use the setting "Request confirmation for all Facebook widgets" so that it asked me for confirmation before sending the Like request.
Cool - what are you using to edit the fonts? Any way I could help?
My wife hasn't ever linked her credit card with the market, mainly because the fact there are even apps is likely news to her.
Why do you think you automatically lose a case with cheap lawyers? If you are bringing a weak case against someone, then perhaps using high priced lawyers will be able to bully them into submission, but if the facts are with you, then a competent lawyer should be fine. If some are so bad that you will trivially lose, then perhaps the ABA/Bar has misrepresented their qualifications?
There's also Minecraft, one of the best-selling videogames of 2011. :)
Without a regulatory body it would be too easy for an unqualified person to pose as an electrician, doctor, dentist or lawyer. Do you really want someone with no experience or training wiring your house, pulling your teeth, operating on your knee, or defending you at trial?
Check out the Sublime V8 package. It comes with a JavaScript console and JSHint support.

https://github.com/akira-cn/sublime-v8
Wow - that is quite amazing. I wonder if that's in use in the wild yet.

Edit: It seems like this is a largely solved problem for Facebook: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=93201&...

Could definitely still be a problem for other social/ad/affiliate networks though.
In what way are lawyers middlemen?
Most actually, depending on your interests of course.. IF you are looking for content, not games, animations or games and the like. I browse with Javascript disabled by default and rarely enable it (and mostly it is for things would work just fine without if their creator wanted).
I do the opposite: I should be able to take my main computer everywhere and never have to copy stuff from pc->laptop. So i use a lenovo X220 in 2 workplaces, both with a docking station (it has a terrible screen). Ideally i d like to live in a world where desktops are replaced by universal docking stations ready to serve any employee and her laptop.
Absolutely you can help. I'll drop you an email.
You can still sign up for Basecamp Classic at: http://basecamp.com/classic
That's down to WPF which is a total pile of shit to be honest (having spent the last 3 years with it).

It's nothing to do with the language.
"She wasn't doing that well financially at the time, and had three kids to feed at home."
If I want to represent myself or my company at trial, I should have that right.
Bloated - yes a bit. I tried doing a custom build removing classes I didn't need manually, I could go down about 220KB and still have my app run. Similar things can be done to the css. It would be great if their jsbuilder could also pick and reject used/unused sencha classes to produce optimal build.

Choice of sencha touch also depends on where the majority of your user base lives. If I've to deliver something to India, 300KB in a webapp would be impossible given the great connectivity over phones here.

Poorly documented - well not exactly, in fact they've made a great effort to produce useful guides. API docs let your own add comments within the docs too.

Themeing - delightful, I get great control over how my app looks. I've built a nice abstraction atop their scss code that enables me to produce new themes for my app with 10-15 lines of code and deliver it to new customers. Thx to scss/compass.

Frequency of Pain in the Ass while working with it for 2+ months - very less compared to most other frameworks.

Amount of code you write over about the 300KB - quite less, unless your UI is completely completely different (mine is).

Integrating with your backend's APIs - smooth as silk, thanks to the awesome data store and model classes. They've been there since 1.1. They've been there since pre-backbone era.

Now they've got scaffolding tools to produce skeletons too, in case you were confused about the MVC approach which was unclear for quite some time. Studying examples helps a lot. My app has become too heavy - 20+ views, 15+ custom UI components, 8+ stores, 20+ controllers. Their MVC & the new class system results in a very maintainable code. Though I'm in the phase of re-architecturing my app and implement a view cache as seen in kitchen sink. I also feel putting in many sencha classes is heavy, I plan to reduce the views and controllers as much as possible. Our initial UI was done by a graphic designer in photoshop, it didn't care much about sencha touch's existing components. In turn trying to replicate the photoshop work as much as possible, has also resulted in some slow performance (translucent backdrops, shadows)

I'm heading on for a re-write with performance in mind. Been using sencha touch 2 right from alphas in Nov/Dec AFAIR. It's gone through some really sweet changes from 1.1. Kudos to sencha team for knowing what exactly their user-base needs.
Now if we just had a tablet computer with a super high resolution display, this would be perfect for it...
Well, if you think about it, when you deal with a lawyer, it invariably has to deal with the law whereas the other professions only deal legalities as a result and not primary purpose. So the relative consequence is not the same.

Similarly, with the police, because they are charged with law enforcement and being equipped with guns is very different than dealing the local surly person at the market.

That's why I'm of the opinion that certain professions need a lot more oversight and avenues of recourse than others. One would be foolish to think otherwise.
Minor point that has always bugged me: why doesn't Cocoa have native implementations of tree data structures?
> The market dynamics and model are entirely different with these sorts of emergency industries.

Would you call auto-repair an emergency industry? After all, if you break down on the side of the road, you need assistance immediately?

The vast majority of medical care is NOT given in an emergency situation. The same is true of legal services.
And yes, auto repair as well.
Had to read quite a few comments to understand what was happening. Accessing the site from France, I only see Android apps and games.

What is on the US site exactly? Movies and music? Would anyone mind posting a screenshot?
Google Play is a smart attempt by GOOG to gain more control of MO/OEMs. Platform fragmentation exists across 5 axes (UI, Device, OS, Marketplace, and Service).

By bundling these services together they may make it harder for MO/OEMs to implement their own and reduce fragmentation across both the "Service" and "Marketplace" fragmentation axes.
Isn't building a browser a bit wired for a class thats called "Programming languages"? I'm main sure when you write a browser you have to write a parser and at least an interpreter but these are not things I would put into a PL Class.

But it seams to be a Udacity policy to have a "What could i do with this if I new alot about it". Instead of "AI for Robotics" the call it "Programming a selfdriving car", instead of "Fundamentals of CS" they call it "Building a search engine".
This also helps people to be open minded, not seeing the world from a single perspective.
... I'm an idiot that got lost in the tree of comments
here you go: http://i.imgur.com/5Bdmk.png
The same in Opera, both the original and the "fake" one are visible.
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I understand that msn articles can contain sensationalism and may not contain the most accurate facts, however let's not make a hasty generalization. Freedom limitations such a curfew and sex life control, are by design there to limit the person's physical behavior, where being forced to provide your password to your social media account, an area where you feel that you can speak freely as a person, has nothing to do with trying to increase one's physical performance. To me, this just seem's to be a way to protect their institution. For example, It get's leaked that their QB believes in the Communism movement, which could reflect poorly on the school. This goes against progress as we are judging athletes based on their believes and not their athletic abilities. I find that the issue is more complicated than it just being something athletes should adapt to since they agree to give up certain freedoms when they join a team.
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Docracy was posted to HN recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3666478

It's really limited or just starting out, no EULA's or anything that I can personally actually use.
The Hands That Feed
Erm, how is that different than food? You can't choose not to buy food, so would you also consider that not to be a free market?
Despite all those frauds, hacking, and mistakes, bitcoin continue to keep on ticking.
For a second I thought polyfill, as in polygon fill :)
search for user groups in your area on the tech you are interested in/good at and go to them. it's a good way to make contacts. and be open about that fact that you are looking for a job. you will probably have more luck finding something through a contact than through an ad.
It says “Wide @font-face support means Font Awesome even works in IE4” but not as the way it is implemented on the demo page.

That technique is not compatible with browsers that do not support the :before pseudo-class (eg. IE7). The icons could be used though, but not that way.
agreee totally with you, it is isn't hard at all
You also can't claim it's not a free market because you actually need the thing you're in the market for.
Nearly everything stated in this also applies to Adobe Flash, which has a horrible accessibility track record.

Apple did the blind a huge favor by not supporting Flash in iOS.
> He also led the all-male congressional hearings against contraception.

The hearings weren't "against contraception". They were about whether the current status quo, where certain institutions aren't required to pay for contraception, can continue to do so.

Also, the panels weren't weren't all male - there were women on the second panel from Catholic schools supporting the "religious freedom" position.

And no, contraception isn't anywhere near $1000/year. Walmart charges $4/month while Target and CVS charge $9. Even at $20/month, we're looking at less than $250/year. (The required medical appointment is already covered so it doesn't need to be added.) IUDs and the like are less.

Condoms don't account for the difference. Yes, you can pay $1 each, but if you're going through $750/year, you should be buying multi-condom packages. Amazon charges $0.14-$0.30 for small packages.

Then again, the person claiming to spend $1000 is a lawyer-wanna-be, so maybe she's engaged in creative billing.
Interesting. I got some reading to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_King...

"No Act of Parliament can be unconstitutional, for the law of the land knows not the word or the idea."
This whole argument that this is "not a free market" is silly. None of the factors pointed to here would actually limit choice or restrain price movement. It is a free market, but that does not mean that the market lacks information asymmetries that would artificially morph prices.

As Antone points out, there is a strong quality perception issue. Ironically, it is the Bottom Line Law Group that is fighting this perception of quality on a daily basis (vs a Wilson or Fenwick). Thus it does not matter if the supply increases if the consumer perceives the bottom-end as an inferior good.

This skewed perception is rooted in a total lack of transparency in the legal industry. This lack of transparency limits the consumer’s ability to find lawyers like Antone, and keeps the cost of standard information and a simple opinion high.

I agree with Antone that the industry is on the brink of change, but it is a BIG messed up industry. Change will come in many forms within the industry's mirco verticals. It will come from networks of smaller more specialized law firms such as the Bottom Line Law Group, and from innovations which create more transparency in the industry to find qualified attorneys and access quality information.
You do already, I think (speaking of The US).
> regulatory capture of government protected guilds

this just doesn't align with evidence. if it were true, there would be too few lawyers, not too many lawyers.

i'm not saying the effect you describe never happens, but when it does, there is not enough supply, driving prices up (this is probably the case in medicine, where there are not enough doctors, driving prices up)
probably because you're getting a mobile page of some kind.

I just checked it in firefox on my laptop, and if you scale the window you'll see the text slide behind the graphics leaving the text unreadable.
I was just about to post this, the web site is down by the way.

This is what I miss in all the explanations and summaries about how to make a good startup. PERSONALITY.