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Having worked for a comparison shopping engine, I blame users.

The typical user of the typical comparison shopping engine is not a user in any real sense of the world. They accidentally stumble onto the site, almost always from Google, and click out to a merchant before they even realize they're on a comparison shopping engine. There are like three guys who actually type the URL of a shopping engine into their address bar and intentionally search on that site for the product they're looking for. This holds across basically all of the top comparison shopping engines. Their direct traffic is almost non-existant, and they are utterly dependent upon search and paid traffic to survive.

And it's all the users' fault. The various engines have spent nearly a decade and literally millions of dollars trying to figure out how to get people to come to them when they want to buy something, and they just don't want to. Users can't deal with remembering a second URL to go to to find something on the internet. They want to go to Google and type in what they're looking for and find it.
You do, but Samsung is a multi-billion corp and wants YOU to know that they exist...by making something of their own.
One page version:
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You could interpolate from the chart that shows distribution by browser versions up to February 2012. Chrome's auto-update feature is staggeringly efficient.

IE 8.0 18.86
IE 9.0 12.08
IE 7.0 3.32
IE 6.0 1.48

Chrome 16.0 13.39
Chrome 15.0 0.35
Chrome 14.0 0.35
Chrome 12.0 0.27
Chrome 13.0 0.25

EDIT: removed the Firefox and "Other" numbers as their sum is nowhere close to the aggregated numbers in the browser monthly charts [2]. StatCounter must be counting recent versions of Chrome and Firefox as "Other" in data set [1].

Source:

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201102... (from the CSV file)

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201102-201203
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All I can say is you need to read this all over again -- starting with the original blog post -- because you have missed the point in a big, big way.
They may not go anywhere productive in your eyes, which I would imagine means they do not reach a definitive and world-changing conclusion in the course of the thread, but they do increase awareness, particularly in male-dominated arenas like this. Increasing awareness is probably the most important thing that can be done. See klausa's post.

It's also the case that fighting injustice and increasing awareness of societal boulders that need to be broken down might very well lead to larger change that results in less actual dying in the world. For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_Asia
http://www.economist.com/node/15636231
Your attraction is normal. How you choose to act, what conclusions you draw about the other person, are the important things in this context.

Sexism would be if your attraction influenced your professional behavior towards your prospective client in any way, negatively or positively.

As you hinted, being able to be less distracted by an attractive figure is a matter of self-mastery, which often comes more easily with maturity, and to some degree familiarity. But a modern gentleman knows to treat others as persons first, not as sexual beings, especially in a professional context.
I agree with you. And since this is the case, it's amazing to me that the OP didn't simply find another job where people would treat her with civility. Anyone can wind up working with jerks. Most of us don't blame the system and quit being productive.
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I can see why the whole Metro UI thing is gonna make a bunch of long-time Windows users sad. Microsoft knew that.However, I feel like they're solving much bigger problems with Metro - namely, the huge gap that currently sits between tablet/phone sized devices and desktops. It seems like this is going to be the first proper attempt at bridging that gap: a minimum screen resolution, sensible asset scaling for high dpi devices, good strategies for handling different resolutions, and technologies that are architecture-agnostic. Google and Apple don't seem anywhere close, yet; Google's ChromeOS was kind of a flop (though I guess we have docked mode to look forward to in new versions of Android), and Apple seems to be more busy with the iPad and making sure nobody ever uses a mouse again.
The slowness actually appears to be down to his client implementation - see the comment by Clément Stenac on the original post.
Something that bothers me about HN is a sort of a tactical assault on the front page between articles. The title is semi-inflammatory and stirs some controversy but the article doesn't feel researched. This article is no exception. It feels more like a post to garner publicity by loudly going against a more mainstream opinion. Perhaps if the author offered any analysis I might not feel so offended. Even a list of all the start ups funded last year and their topics would offer more insight.
"Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
How would it dramatically destroy the movie? The term is existentialism. It may all be a dream, but that doesn't mean that you can't give your life (or the movie for that matter) its own meaning. I personally find this more liberating, than the idea that life is a game to played.

>It's already not real.
Dreams are real while we are in them.
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Do what I always contemplate doing in these situations: go work on a kibbutz for 6 months until your head is clear.
No it doesn't. This is screen that greets new users of Chrome:
http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/chrome/chrome_95346_sea...
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It is also possible that you get a little too excited and go too far could buy a bunch of stuff that you might not need after all. It is better to have a clue what are the necessary elements, which are part of the nursery furniture. Essentially, the nursery furniture is made of the changing table, bed and crib. Other items such as rocking, rocking, bookcase, wardrobe, chest of drawers, etc. These products are purchased according to the needs of each child and the parents' budget.There are many things to consider when choosing nursery furniture. First, the style or theme, which is decorated with care in a number of ideas, styles and interior design choice readily available, so everyone seems to nursery is ready desirable.
They want their interface and their way of working to be completely under their control. Which, until now, it always has been.

Not really, that's a lot of what attracted me to Linux. I don't understand why MS still gives users so little control of the window manager. (FYI, I use awesome wm under Arch Linux.)
Programmer and Scientist tend to be the nice guys in life so I would be surprised if some programmer were underpaid.
There's definitely an overlap between funny jokes and 'sexual' jokes. The OP seems to have a hair trigger for 'sexist,' to the point where I suspect her co-workers weren't sad to see her leave.
MVC for server-side APIs is still useful because you still need separation of concerns, validations, access control, session management, data crunching, etc on the server.
Maybe in the early-aughts. Me, I'd be putting my chips on a Webkit future.
You said "He's missing..." and the other guy read "he" as "PG" but you meant the author of the linked post.
Isn't Google's dominance in the search engine business pretty well established at this point? Is there a sizable group of people that, upon using Chrome, will be using Google search more often?
When you first install Google Chrome, you're presented with the choice of search engine.

I'm pretty sure 99% choose Google not because they are already using Chrome, but because they probably trust or know Google more than Bing or Yahoo.

From my experience, IE users will usually either ignore the Bing search field, type "google.com" in and search manually, or change the search provider to Google anyway.

I would also speculate that a very large portion of Chrome users has no idea that the address bar is also a search field. They probably type in "google.com" manually every time.

If Bing, Yahoo or anyone else provides a more compelling search experience, these users will switch.
Let's talk about context switches here: OMG! it's going to be sooo hard for developers to switch from a model where all the logic happens on the server and where the client is just a dumb display to a model where the all the logic happens on the client and the server just serves as a coordinator.

Oh wait. That already happened, and it was called the switch from mainframes to PCs (or whatever the fuck you want to call it). The point is: developers adapted, and got over it, and you will too.

The question I (and everyone in this community) have (or should have) is - are there strong technical foundations for this switch? Is Javascript the right client-side interpreted language to support every conceivable application over the next 10 years? Is HTML the right display/templating language?

My answer: no, not at all. But it's hard as hell to fight the momentum of an unstoppable force. Even with an immovable object.
No, it's very much active aggression, only covert. See also "politics".
Some others,

Search: Hipmunk, Octopart

Email: Streak

Movies/ Music: Can't Wait, Like.fm, Teevox, Nowbox
Well, to be fair, he does say that you need to take a novel (and niche) angle on doing such a thing (not to say your company doesn’t). To secure the investment on any extremely ambitious idea you would also need to be very effective in person; much more so than someone with a less ambitious, more realistic idea.
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Hey Patrick do you do a pre-auth when you take the CC number as well I assume?
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They do get it. They want you to feel an attachment to Samsung devices, not to Android devices. They want customer's to think 'well, I already know how to use a Galaxy, so I'll get the newest one of those', rather than buying an HTC because it's the newest Android.

Samsung have been some of the best in helping get custom ROMs going on their devices, and if you want stock Android, it'll always be available to you that way.
I've heard of them saying they'll change to Debian or other flavours, occasionally macs, but not one said they'll go back to windows.
Cool project. You might want to check out the etherpad github repository, if you want to add real-time syncing to your site. https://github.com/ether/pad
Then again, by being experienced, you know that certain things just don't work and never will. Until you see a newbie do them because he didn't know it was "impossible".

Like the guy presenting his NES emulator at jsconf.eu in 2010 which was practically a line-by-line port of a Java emulator. If you'd have ask me whether it was possible to line-by-line port a Java application (and a complicated one at that) to JS, I would have told you that, of course, this was entirely impossible.

Until that guy, totally new to JS and emulation -heck - even programming in general - just did it because he didn't know better.

Sometimes, having a new perspective is very helpful and we must be careful not to lose that. Sure. The solution might not be perfect, but one can always refine it.
Apple does not have a monopoly on good design!

Also, if anything, Metro is farther away from OS X than Windows 7--the whole design is less like anything physical (Apple loves this, but Aero glass is also like this). The whole design aesthetic is what they call "authentically digital" and I like it quite a bit more than Apple's skeuomorphic (what random words I've learned on HN...) tendencies.

Overall, I'm actually really happy with Metro styling. I'm also happy with the related design of WP 7 and the Zune software before it. Plenty of color, no rounded corners, fewer gradients and generally simpler, more minimalist design is what I like the most about it. In some ways, it's not dissimilar to the design of HN, which I also like.
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Perhaps, but that's mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a "choose custom settings" button.

http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se...

vs

http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png
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Feedback:

1. The inability to protect a note or do anything beyond create a note may fit the "simple" mantra it does not create good usability. There are so many essential features (no matter how simple the site is) that are missing. What if someone guesses my URL? What if I don't want anyone else to see my note(s)? I tried signing up and got "Thank You for signing up. We will notify you when user-specific features become available."

2. The ability to edit other peoples notes can create value with collaboration but it needs to be real time. If I open a note in another tab, edit it then switch back to the first tab and edit it I've just overwritten everything that the other edits contained. This is a big problem.

3. (Personal opinion with no real justification beyond personal preference) why have you put adverts on this? For me if you're building something that is "simple" and then putting adverts on it seems a contradiction, now instead of a basic notepad I have a basic notepad with a flash advert distracting me from the actual purpose of the site: typing. Yes, if you had large costs to cover it would be understandable, but you don't.

This isn't a bad start, the design is nice but "simple" is not synonymous for "lack of features", it means something is easy to use but has enough depth to make it usable, this doesn't. A very basic revision history is necessary at the very least, although personally I'd use one of the already existing text tools (pastebin, pastie, hastebin) or for collaboration google docs.

Personally I think if you were to expand this into having real time collaboration, customisation of permissions (using the "account" system?) and revision history it would become something worth having bookmarked :)

Edit: seems this is just a resubmit from a couple of days ago, not sure why it seems to match the previous comments, have you made any changes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719057
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I'd be kind of curious to see more data, both for more schools & more years, and also to follow this "top 1%" through the years. On the one side, I'm curious if this is actually a good predictor of what hot companies are, and three years and a dozen people isn't enough data to make that sort of call. How many people were joining Google in 2005? How many were joining Microsoft?

On the second part, I'm a little curious to see how people's tastes in workplace mature over time. A fantastically smart, driven, awesome guy just out of school is still fundamentally a dumb kid with no work experience. Some of the top CMU graduates from 2002/3/4/5 presumably switched jobs in 2011. Did they go to the same companies as the graduates of 2010/2011? Which companies from 2005/6/7 retained the most of their fresh-out-of-college top 1% hires?
Well, I didn't even mean source code (although that would be great.) It's hard enough just to find binary GL blobs that you're legally allowed to pass around.

With respect to the source code, I suspect you're right - and I'd also suspect FUD around the possibility of patent issues when other people can see more of how things are implemented. But IANAL or a GPU manufacturer so I'm just guessing.
This applies regardless of gender or situation.

I haven't shared the OP's experience of software developers being oblivious to asymmetrical interactions. Most nerds I know are very good at this.
"DEAR FRIEND IN GOD, ... I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO DISPURSE A LARGE FUND OF 2 FILES WITH 11 INSERTIONS, 3 DELETIONS."

Epic pull requests indeed.
Either they were already considering making the switch, and the Windows 8 is not good enough to keep them on Windows, or they like to have the latest features in an OS - to have the most modern one, so then Windows 7 will not be good enough for them in the coming years, and since they don't like Windows 8, they decide to switch to Linux.

Personally, I'll keep Windows 7 for a little while longer. Definitely not going to use Windows 8, and I'm going to make my decision in a few years to what platform I'll switch , probably Ubuntu or Android if it becomes mature enough, and on the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture - 2014-2015 time-frame with the latest hardware. If Windows 9 looks like 8, I won't use it.
Are you saying duplicating code is ok if only to make the app appear faster? I've often wondered that myself.
"Attractiveness" implies compliments that are suggestive. But, personally, I veer away from anything along those lines because I do not know what my colleagues are comfortable with. It is not my place to assume.
I have nothing to do with YC and no reason to defend pg, but I will say that this article clearly misses one of his big points: it's very hard to be successful if your whole goal is to change the world from day 1. Even if it is your secret goal - you are probably going to run out of money before you get the chance to.
Nothing new here. Any elegance gain over EtherPad hosts or HackPad is lost due to the ad at the bottom (and I don't think there is any, besides).

A blog post about building it, and the philosophy behind the site could have made it interesting for me.
By saying 'racist' humor, rather than 'humor about race,' you turned your question rhetorical.

However, humor about race, gender, age, etc can all be hilarious, even in an office.
If you develop a compiler that, say, parallelizes the hell out of code, you'll have a group of massive companies breaking down your door and throwing money at you.

Edit: Also, compilers to move code from mainframes to commodity servers, recompilers to switch architectures (e.g. Rosetta by Transitive), etc are big business. Are they going to make you a billionaire? Probably not. Can you make a couple million and a great ROI? Absolutely.
Thanks for clarifying. I admit that I was very put off when I downloaded the Nexus drivers and had to scroll though all the legalese just to use them (I was actually messing with a Samsung S5P SoC on a different board and I was hoping that I might be able to reuse those drivers there - no dice as per the EULA.).

Is there any reason why PowerVR don't release userland binary libraries for download themselves? Is it just that the libraries are too closely wedded to specific kernel modules and the like? Or specific hardware revisions? (I noticed breaking changes between different version of the pvr kernel module sources.)

Or is it more just that there's no real incentive to bother?
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It has taken 10 years and counting for large numbers of people and organisations to upgrade O/S from Windows XP. It may take a further 10 for people to upgrade from Windows 7, at which point, windows 8 style interfaces may be the norm for the devices we use.

So unless there are direct problems in Windows 7 you want solving, or features you want implementing (which an application doesn't solve), who cares that it's available now?
Upvoted for the name.
That was my impression, too. You weren't grandstanding or sounding sanctimonious, but rather saw an opportunity to write an informative article using Sqoot at an example. It was well-written and entertaining. Thanks for writing it!
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Touche to that. I suppose I should have said that there are less design elements in Metro that are susceptible to trends as long as we're talking about nice typefaces and clean layout.

The point in question is my uneasy feeling at the increasingly intricate designs dominating the iPhone for both third-party and Apple's default apps that seem to distract from a focus on utility and functionality. Of course, that's not entirely a valid logical position but my subjective opinions so I do concede.
To Graham's point about the things we do that will appear ridiculous to future generations, I believe travel is one of the most obvious. Think about this- people pay three times the normal ticket price to fly "first class" and have a seat that is not uncomfortable to sit in for more than an hour, a drink that is served in a glass, and a meal. People are subjected to long lines, security screenings, and an archaic, drawn-out search for the cheapest tickets. And even with all this, the airlines are still losing!
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I actually like what windows 7 did and think 8 will be a great step forward as well.
don't think anybody can really help you here, but things to try that come to mind..

* have kids
* have friends that you can touch
* have an affair
* travel
.. ...
* put "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" in your "/etc/hosts"
I think you're only seeing the world through a enterprise licensing lens. Win7 won't be on store shelves after 8 comes out.
No, not time for an MBA. Then you'll be the one imposing shitty languages on everyone else.

Go Learn You a Haskell. That should cure you of the impulse to come near PL for a while.

The rest is commentary.
For the most part, yes. Gender generalizations more or less define the concept "sexist". And his "boy's game" "girl's game" thing is a good example of that.
Why did they remove it? What is GPL stopping them from doing?
I like that style of WM too. I tried XMonad, but eventually settled on AwesomeWM.
I think you're writing these comments with the best intentions but also that you should probably stop digging.
"I extolled the virtues of Vista" #FacePalm.
>The best 1% of the world moves to the Valley.

I would ironically shout, "We are the 99%!", but I'm not being ironic. The presumption that the Valley contains the best people on Earth is simply wrong. It contains the most ambitious white or East-Asian upper-middle-class web application developers aiming for start-up careers after Ivy League or similar educations... in the world.

That's not actually "the best 1% of the world".
Much better than my terrible attempt at something similar: http://flyerme.info.
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"Is it time for me to leave the coding thing and get an MBA?"

Do you need someone to tell you a "supportive" NO, or you want to hear an encouraging "YES"?

Do you need MBA? Go for it. But don't blame Java.

Do you NOT need MBA? Don't go for it. But don't blame Java.
So far all the women on my team are fantastic and can give and take in equal measure to any of the guys.

I fear the day we hire a hypersensitive woman and the entire office becomes censored.