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I think this debate hits at an important point; different people want different things. Some people would find it easier to type "dmv" and have the engine know they want "dmv open right now and closest to my location". Some people, like you, want the search engine to handle your input without external influences.

In the end, it might be optimal for the world to have multiple, specialized search engines/apps to please as many wants as possible.
In my experience this isn't really true. People are perfectly capable of being ambitious, enjoying their work, and wanting to make a big impact. And there's definitely a positive correlation between social skills and impact.
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Any and all feedback is appreciated. Thank you!
Also: these are all huge screens.
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Here's the citation on the FSF license page, in no uncertain terms:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL

The compatibility matrix on the same page confirms it, again in no uncertain terms:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

Both of these come from are from the official FSF license document:

"FSF GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>

Why did you think that it was an incredible statement?
This is completely off topic, but does anyone know how to prevent extreme tech from redirecting my iPad to their awful mobile version every time?
It's nice to romanticize what Google might've once been, but at the end of the day Google is a tool that provides a service. To have a qualm regarding the current user experience is a different story, but in terms of the delivery of sought after content I don't think one could argue they have taken steps anywhere but forwards.
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This article is custom tailored for the HN echo chamber. The link to PG for this article is tenuous at best.
I think he means just knowing a person with connections doesn't guarantee you coverage. No reporter worth hissalt will do a story just base on "who you know." the product, and story has to be solid on its own. A contact might mean your product certainly makes it to the reporter rather than getting lost in emails.

But yes, reporters do have to have people who tell them about things that they might have missed otherwise ;)
My company, probably like many, uses a majority of open source software but rarely contributes back. As an aspiring open source developer (several projects in the works, not yet released), this has always felt wrong. Honestly, I haven't really raised it much with my company, though. Guilty as charged, although we've made some movement to release a few bits of code under an open license.

Interesting thing is that we currently give 1% of our profits to an environmental program through Patagonia called 1% for the Planet. Maybe we need a 1% for Open Source where companies can be encouraged to contribute developer or $$ to open source projects. Anybody want to work on that?
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Do you have a link for this? I can't find it on Google.
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"They just force beginners to not code crappy code and that's all."

That's a pretty huge deal in my book.
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This is beautiful. It would be nice to be able to collapse pages together or somehow view cycles. On sites where users tend to have long sessions the graph of site traversal has cycles which may themselves be as interesting as how users exit a given page. For example if you have a group of desirable actions (say you have a site with shopping and user-user messaging) and you want to roll up the exits (collapse the above pages together and find out how much in users are falling out of those pages into help).
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This article isn't even remotely political. I wouldn't have posted it if the title was "Obama's bird wings are a hoax." :).
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Why is this free?

Is this a loss-leader to get people to sign up for the full Mixpanel service?

These days I just don't trust free services. I don't think there's anything nefarious about them, I just don't trust that they're going to be around in a year (why keep running a service that has costs but no revenue), or that they won't get bought for their talent and promptly shut down.

If it uses resources to any significant degree (a JS on every page load can definitely do that when used at scale) there should either be a fee or a damn good reason why I should put my faith in it, especially if you're asking me to base business decisions / process on it.
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This video is really, really worth watching. TLDR: Jay Smooth makes an analogy between race sensitivity and oral hygeine. "Not being racist" is more like brushing your teeth than like getting your tonsils out. Our (all of our) prejudices are strong and reinforced 99% of the time just by absorbing the majority culture that we live in. Cultivating sensitivity toward minority groups, then, is akin to brushing your teeth every day.

...and it's basic civility, not rudeness, when you point out to someone that they have something racist/sexist in their teeth.
True. All observations were in New England.

>I figure there's too much work involved to give me a ticket for only going 5 miles an hour over the limit

True. I typically drive past speed traps at ~10MPH over the limit with no problem. Passing a cop seems to be showing disrespect and I think that's why it'll get you pulled over.
in the long run, for the survival of the race, we'd better continue to treat them differently. Get over it already!! Women are different! All this pc stuff is drivel.
Are you really saying that there's no middle ground between being actively offensive and being insufferably bland?

Context matters, there's a difference between what's appropriate in a professional setting and what's appropriate in (for example) art. Please, be as edgy and un-PC as you want, just don't do it in the workplace.
This video is really, really worth watching. TLDR: Jay Smooth makes an analogy between race sensitivity and oral hygeine. "Not being racist" is more like brushing your teeth than like getting your tonsils out. Our (all of our) prejudices are strong and reinforced 99% of the time just by absorbing the majority culture that we live in. Cultivating sensitivity toward minority groups, then, is akin to brushing your teeth every day.

...and it's basic civility, not rudeness, when you point out to someone that they have something racist/sexist in their teeth.
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> What Would Nature Do?

I dunno, make a trillion creatures who are desperate to survive, then kill them all to find an answer by trial and error?
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entitlement? How bout might makes right? Our forefathers won this place in war after war, so it's ours by right.
I've taken a long, meandering road to appreciating TDD/BDD. When I started programming, I looked up to _why and his hacking approach to coding. Sadly, I could not express his brilliance and my code was not just untested and sloppy, but fragile and inundated with smells. As the scale of the projects I develop increases, I've learned to use testing to decrease the potential breakage and to better understand the libraries and features I'm working on. Of course there is an exploratory spike here and there, with tests coming in later to glue it all together, but those are now exceptions to my normal practice. When debugging legacy applications, simply creating test coverage for problem areas goes a long in solidifying the patches. Testing is not fail proof elixir, but it certainly improves my workflow and my product, and those results are hard to argue with.
While certainly not cheap, the B2 was brought in under time and under budget. I also think we got our monies worth out of it in the several wars it has been used in. Source; the project manager. Disclaimer: he's my brother---we are both a little biased :)
Why are posts about the Geeklist controversy being removed from Hacker News?
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This is no different than banning/censoring books for "extremist content". It will start with terrorism and a few months later it will expand to other topics, and we all know that's going to happen. Next in line is probably copyright infringement, because that's a favorite topic of Sarkozy.

When exactly are the upcoming elections, so French people can get rid of Sarkozy once and for all?
"if you're actively working to undermine your male colleague's confidence in their ability"

You don't have a solid grasp on male-to-male communication in the US workplace. Please keep in mind that perhaps your culture is different.
I wonder where this is heading. Either that's going to turn up to be an unusable medium between tablets and phones, or we're watching the evolution of the "personal computing device" who just happened to be that smaller because they started out as phones. I bet it won't be long until someone calls out the "post-phone era"…

(I'd bet against it, due to the pretty constant constraint of jeans and jacket pockets.)
Android phones have never been as impressive as they are today. They have never been as responsive, as slim or as powerful. Their displays have never been more vivid or more stunning. Their data speeds have never been as fast.

Yes, that's true right now. It was also true 2 years ago. It will be true next year, too. Every successive generation has to be better than the last.
This is actually exactly his point...The best way to get coverage is to nurture a real relationship with that reporter.

You are focusing on the self-serving part of this post, which is Shoemoney doesnt want and wont put his relationship on the line for your product or company...Especially because he gets a million requests just like that.

Sure, you can try to convince your friends who have the relationships to get you coverage, but your best bet, and the way your friends probably developed the relationship is by nurturing a real relationship with these reporters.
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Interesting. I'm a simpleton when it comes to this stuff.
Yes some companies do seem to have a vastly inflated sense of their own importance. Id be tempted to say the HR person "just who the fuck do you think you are" and does the CEO dress up and run round the woods with airsoift guns pretending he's in the SAS / DEvGuru.
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Everyone always says this, but the majority of the community is very much against you making money on it and will destroy any chances if you making any sort of profit by releasing the source for free (which is allowed under the license).
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"Hello, it's the IRS."
My personal pet peeve is the number of times I've seen police officers breaking traffic regulations. I was hoping someone would study that (and actually make them stop). Speeding, tailgating, illegal lane changes, etc. etc. They're not supposed to do any of that without a siren.
The reality of it is slightly more meta than that. Some people just want the right answer. Some people want a tool that they can build a consistent mental model of.

Hackers prefer the latter. Everyone else? That's up in the air.
This is free because to install it, you must put a link on your page back to MixPanel. MixPanel likes links because Google likes links: it increases the domain authority and PageRank for MixPanel. You'll notice that alt text in the link back to www.pixpanel.com is "Real Time Web Analytics", surely a set of keywords that MixPanel is aiming to own in search.

This is a very clever and subtle SEO move that provides real benefit to users at the same time.
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Good points! I actually don't have much of an argument to make, just the evolution of old+successful software is an interesting topic. It is definitely a fuzzy line between "new thing" and "old but better", and your list has a bunch of must-have-every-single-day features that haven't always existed. I admit I'm glossing over the "invisible" work like Intel Mac support. I'm mostly interested in the interaction.

But - that list is fairly short, and things like nondestructive filters, hierarchical layer groups, type on a path, etc are exactly the codifying of manual processes I was talking about. They've certainly replaced duplicating layers and using complicated naming conventions to manage all the bloat.

So they're technically "new features", but they're not reinventing what folks can accomplish, or even altering the fundamentals of how one thinks about a task. That's a big accomplishment for software that has to please so many existing+trained users, and I'm looking forward to CS6 precisely because it seems focused on improvements to what people already do every day, rather than cool but rarely appropriate features like magic background fills and bending spoons.

We've been given a huge toolbelt to work with - the move from desktop software to web and tablets is going to be pretty awesome as we look at the whole belt through a new lens, and (potentially) significantly improve on everything from palette-oriented UI to how we manage discreet and grouped elements in a complex composition. Even more opportunity as Photoshop begins to acknowledge its expansion of purpose from photos and graphics to quickly comping high-fidelity interactive UIs.

Relative to all that's coming, Photoshop hasn't changed much. Exciting times ahead.
>without breaking the speed limit

Yeah, I pass cops all the time without breaking the limit and have yet to get pulled over.

Though, I did get the "freaking idiot" riot act the time I got pulled over for passing above the limit.
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If you are calling yourself a freelancer, then you have the wrong mind-set. Treat your work like a real business. Brand your services. Whatever you do, don't call yourself a freelancer. You are missing out on the opportunity to present a much better image to your prospective clients.

Freelancer is bad, hacker is even worse. You might as well have thrown rock star and ninja on the front page as well.

Quote from the front page...

"Hackers can focus on code, and clients get peace of mind."

Sure, because these are the sorts of problems people who refer to themselves as freelancers or hackers have. If this service isn't taking care of marketing, accounting, budgeting, business strategy, etc. then the hackers can't just focus on code. If you need a service like this to give your clients peace of mind, then you probably shouldn't be doing client work.

If you guys really want to help connect people, then you should probably start by helping them get into the correct mind-set. Prospective clients aren't looking for hackers, they are looking for professionals.

ETA: This was a bit of a rant. So, I suppose I should offer something constructive. I think the service is fine, but I would change the message. I could see clients being turned off by the choice of wording. Also, you may want to provide different portals for clients and hackers / freelancers / ninja's / rock stars. The client doesn't care about all the benefits to the developer and doesn't need to see those details. Maybe a more simple "find talent" and "find work" page (like Elance) would be better?
Well, it's more mature.
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I work in the health care industry where a lot of our business is done through referrals and recommendations. We offer kickbacks (which are legal in our field) like dinners, limo service, or cash to those that offer us quality leads. I guess what I'm asking is this: Is there a cure bit for kickbacks that are not just based on opt-in online registration.

Here's the scenario:

1. A referral source we typically use has someone that needs our services, that person's choice of who they use depends on our referrers (doctor, nurse, lawyer, receptionist) recommendation.
2. A referrer then submits a lead via phone call, web, or txt (name,phone number, email).
3. Lead is verified (by our team) as a likely candidate (after phone or email contact is made).
4. Once a certain number of verified leads is reached by that user, a monetary reward is presented. (2 leads = $50)
5. Milestones are reached once a certain number of leads are reached. (3 leads equals a $100, 10 leads equals 2 night resort stay).

System would still allow referrers (insert curebit style social reach) to recommend to others via social avenues like Facebook or twitter for example "Anyone want to make $100? I just did by referring people that need "insert service here" to http://t.co/qwerty

Would have a site through Facebook or client hosted where referrers could check in/set up on their status and payouts.

Is there a startup out there already that anyone knows of (If there is please let me know because they're not asking for my cash for some reason) or is this just my bad idea that I should have kept to myself when applying to ycombinator's new incubator for non-technical kiddies with big ideas?
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As I move my mouse around the circle, the popover follows along on the perimeter of the circle

Seconded, this is a terrible design. Scrap the popovers and just display those 4 figures right inside the circle. Save the eye-candy for where it doesn't get in the way.
I prefer teaching beginners the JavaScript way of doing things instead of forcing them to write spaghetti code.
Apple may not have invented high-DPI IPS panels, but those panels wouldn't exist outside of the lab today without Apple. Nobody else was willing and able to put up the capital necessary to put that technology into mass production. Certainly, laptop makers haven't been pushing very hard to advance the quality of their displays in recent years, and even desktop displays have been regressing or stagnant at best for the past 5 years. And without Apple, there wouldn't now be a tablet market big enough to matter.

Apple decided that high-DPI displays were a priority, and decided that it was worth it to bear the expense of fully doubling resolution just to make the software scaling issue easier. That doesn't qualify as invention, but it certainly qualifies as pushing forward a technological advance.
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I'm a paying customer of Mixpanel. I like Flow. My biggest request is the same as the biggest request for the rest of Mixpanel: remove the wall between page views and other events. A flow of pages is nice but a flow of events might really teach me something new about my users.
I did about 6 or 7 weeks of Codecademy and then stopped also. I found the same issues mentioned above, mostly just wrote "code" without really understanding what was supposed to be happening. I like Udacity a lot more and have been able to stick with that (so far). I think the lecture videos used on Udacity make a big difference. I guess it's also different in that it's "computer science" rather than learn to code in javascript - so the Udacity course is intentionally more focused on underlying concepts. I am afraid I am going to fall off the Udacity schedule though because it's very challenging/taxing. I just can't sit and work the lessons or homework in one sitting - my brain gets too tired!

Both courses/companies have been great for me though as a non-programmer. I think these companies and others like them have bright futures.
The 'write your tests first' school is right in that it can create another boost but it comes with the problem that it puts a damper on any exploratory programming.

As far back as 1999 I can remember the "write your tests first" people saying "... unless you're doing exploratory programming and are likely to throw away the prototype."
Both of those links support my position, and refute yours. Did you read them?

edit: for the downvoters, here is a direct quote (emphasis added) from the first link (which covers combinations of GPL/non-GPL code):

"""If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that any software which uses it has to be under the GPL or a GPL-compatible license?"""
I'd already started an analog version:

Self vs. unread / unfinished books: http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg
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Good idea and nice site. My biggest question is if the technology is easily re-used to scour your established sources for other top 5's anywhere from top election candidates to the best hospitals in an area.

@Skram
I'm highly sceptical.

Ignoring the auction house for a second, Blizzard makes money once though a large up front sale, and then has no monthly fee. The game is played entirely on online servers with no single player however.

That means Blizzard makes the most money from a customer who plays though the game once (or not at all) and then doesn't play again.

This philosophy seems to be present throughout the games design which, as far as I can tell, is tailored for minimum re-playability and maximising the fun you get on your first play through. Even the auction house itself helps this design goal when matched against their other design decisions.

This kind of design isn't conducive to long term success with the auction house.

I believe that the auction house is primarily designed to kill 3rd party item sales, which it absolutely does, albeit in a way I find personally distasteful. While I'm sure it will be a non-trivial revenue stream, I don't think it will be anything like what WoW subscriptions were.

Disclosure: I work for a company making a competing action RPG.
It reminds me of HN itself.

I don't want to know what the "average" likes to read, or even what people like me like to read. I want to know what smart, interesting people (not me!) like to read.

In other words: I want curation by an expert, not the average of everyone's inputs. Google is supposed to know the right answer, not ask all my friends what the answer is and report back.
You must not have talked to anyone that uses templates extensively.
Is Deathwing the current final boss? I used to play WoW back in BC, and I LOVED it (a little too much to be frank, grades suffered quite a bit). The triumph of your guild taking down a boss after struggling with it for weeks couldn't be matched. After Wrath came out, content was getting cleared so quickly that I didn't find it fun anymore. I'm currently having a blast with SC2 though, with a large thanks to the esports scene.
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Adding the badge to your site is not at all required to use Flow. We would like it if you did, so we will give you 4x the page views if you do, but it's not necessary at all.
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