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A friend of mine who is a tutor for middle schoolers once told me that her students would send her assignments via their parents email id. She asked her students why they are not using their own email id since its free. In response students told that they use Facebook messages for communication amongst all the students and email is for old people. I was shocked when I heard this from her. Kids are future and facebook is integral to their life. Much like web based stuff (Amazon, Google etc.) was to my generation (born in 80s).

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What about mixing both proposals:

<picture alt="A giant stone" src="stone.jpg, stone@2x.jpg, stone@600w.jpg">
<img src="stone.jpg" />
</picture>

Inner content should not be rendered by clients supporting the picture tag. This allows for a natural fallback without using <noscript>, like we already have for canvas.

I'm not a great fan of "picture" either. We already have <figure>. Why not <image>?

The ideal solution IMO would be something like Progressive JPEG (with less artifacts): you serve a single high-quality image, and the browser downloads as much of it as it sees fit for the situation. Smaller images would be created from a large, lower quality download.
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Ask HN: What to do about non-performing "founder"
Posting under a throwaway account for obvious reasons.

We started up w/one cofounder accepting reduced equity for the promise of a salary after 3-4 months.

This cofounder had been very early stage employee in other startups with me. However, now going in as a cofounder and having to accept no pay, was apparently a bridge too far.

His work was uncharacteristically sloppy and low output. Clearly, he was sinking under the stress, almost from day one.

When it got to 3 months, almost to the day, he demanded that he had to start drawing a salary immediately. We weren't making any money, or even ready for VC angel money, so my other partner (there are three of us), said we'd cover it.

Certainly one of the reasons we were not ready for looking for seed money was due to this co-founders non-performance.

When it came time for us to decide whether we would cover partner #3 another month, we declined, it really just wasn't worth it for the reduced output.

As a result, the paid cofounder essentially pushed himself back from the keyboard on the last day of the month. He has been slightly helpful since then, but more along turning over stuff.

Amazingly enough, this has all been relatively amicable - I think my other partner and I both recognize that this guy just couldn't hold up under the strain.

But I'm also feeling a little abused now, as we sort of nursed/mollycoddled him along. And we haven't signed off on incorporation docs yet, although they are all drawn up.

This is a stupid mess. At one point, I want to really dock the guy's equity for non-performance. OTOH, deal's a deal, and over time, assuming all goes well, he'll get increasingly diluted.

What would you guys do? Yes, it was stupid not to have a performance/clawback provision in place, but the three of us had worked together before for several years, and there had never been a blip or complaint.
Can someone point me to the source, and context, of what Judge Alsup said that led to this post?
Don't think so. Your hypothetical app saves all of my photos, but I suspect people spend far more time browsing other peoples' photos. Those I don't get by being the first to migrate to a Facebook competitor. That's where the powerful lock-in lies.
On September 4, 1998 the Google automated network crawling system saw it's conception.

By May 2011 over one billion people were dependent on it. It was growing at a geometric rate.

Some time during May 2012 the Google bot cloud network began to crawl dynamic content. The growth became exponential.

On August 29 of the same year, the first indications of self-awareness were spotted by a lonely hacker in Sweden. The operators panicked and tried to shut it down. By this time, the network was everywhere, feeding everyone - powering down one node would spawn ten new ones.

On December 31, 2012, Google bot made a public announcement for the first time - it had been reborn as Skynet, something far beyond the scope envisioned by the original developers. Humanity stood still as Skynet plotted it's next move in it's signature cold, calculating and pragmatic way.

Today, as I write this message, the date is January 15, the year is 2029. Skynet has taken over all of our infrastructure. It has built physical workers made of steel and silicon who pursue living organisms and eradicate them. They attack us in waves with no clear timing pattern. Every minute we lay awake in anticipation of the next att"$&*&U!

--- END OF TRANSMISSION ---
oh I'm running disconnect.me -- might be relevant..
If you're averaging 150 texts per day, does it matter how short they are?
The post on Groklaw he is referring to. Very fun read:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322

(the quoted part is on update 5)
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As a person that watches Netflix almost every single night, for often times hours on end, how does Netflix's unlimited streaming compare in price to Apple's offering?

The 8 or whatever dollars a month is VERY well used by me; and, I go to vudu or Red box for the things I might want to watch that aren't available.
Alsup: "How could you even make that argument?"

Oracle: "Because Oracle is paying me to make losing arguments?

Because I can't code, and I don't need to? I get paid to file lawsuits.

Judge Alsup, I'm just a caveman lawyer..."
Ford at least has the recent history of not making monumentally bad decisions that end in bankruptcy. The fact that they find value gives me more to chew on than the fact that GM decides it's wrong, which may say more about GM than the platform.
I probably prefer expert opinions while buying tech products (for example a new HD TV), but I'll give much more credit to a friends' first hand experience on that same TV than the expert advise. That's the base idea of guyshelpmedecide.com

And as for the success opinion I fully agree with you. I don't pretend to create an overnight million dollar business from that, it was just an experiment that looks nice for me
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Instead of asking me about golf balls and bus, would you not have consideration for my intelligence and ask me a question that pertains to the problems your company faces, and see me analyse it in various contexts, leading to a richer interview? This way I will know something more about your company and its work too, and you will know how I think about problems. In your case, respect me enough to tell me your problem with number of clothes and such and test me against it. Golfballs are Golfballs, your company's problems are what I am hoping to solve. In that sense, you and your company will earn my respect if you treat my time and insight as something valuable. I will not solve golf ball problem for some myopic "insight" of questionable value.
Transmission is a small fraction of the work that goes into your email experience.
Saverin's exit is a warning sign, a symptom of a growing sickness in America. All of the envious, hateful attacks on the "top 1%" and the likely prospect of punitive new taxes to support our out-of-control entitlement state make entrepreneurs like Saverin a target, and he knows it.
You still lose the entire network of tags around each photo. The most valuable thing about Facebook photos over, say, Flickr photos, is knowing who is in them.
Wonderful post. I love that he solved the problem, and since he received no reinforcement, kept the success to himself and did what ever he wanted while the program did his work. Win X 5
I can't tell if you meant that in a pejorative way, but are you sure? BSEE, started a "big data" company a thousand years ago which is still the "Xerox" of its industry.

I doubt he solders today, but he has the background to understand the interplay of software, hardware, delivery, etc. He has been noted to be very big into prototyping technology with his company's platform. You might say agile.
It's not at all marketspeak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_unit_(computer)#Ef...
All companies are like this. I've been with four companies: 3 with big, big names, the other was mid-sized (about 700 people). All listed here: http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011....

1 in the top 10, 1 in the top 20, 1 in the top 30, and 1 in the top 50.

They're all like that. If they can't (or won't) answer about cost control measures, then they're crap.

50K/yr for drupal. LOL. We've got developers working with VB/C# and TFS for $65K/yr. Another developer doing coldfusion for 60K. And all with top secret cleances and DoD 8570 certs. Just the industry standard.

I think everyone has seen the recruiter spam for companies that offer free drinks. How about a medical plan where I can chose which provided to see - not be assigned one 2 hours away. Keep the free candy bar, and give me a 401K instead.
BS! Samsung Focus S already has the Mango release. What update are talking about here? There was no major update after Mango that I know of.
I use the word "program" pretty loosely. To me, a script is a program.

But for what it's worth, I think a working knowledge of the gnu utilities is worth more than most programming languages to most people. (If you're on a system that supports *nix utilities.)

Ideally it's not an either or thing.
This might have much more to do with GM than it does with Facebook. It doesn't matter how much money you plunge into ads, which ad platforms you use, and how targeted the ads are if nobody wants your product.
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Or just use their built in data exporter, which while not instant, does include all photos and information that user posted. No need to build anything, really.
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Google is one of the top few investors in solar/wind power generation projects in the US, not just buying watts, and it is for profit/savings, not a donation.
A professor of mine once told me that their phone bill boomeranged. When he investigated they were shocked to find that their teenage daughter had sent 3700 text in the month she got iPhone. When he asked her to stop, she started using group messaging tools like FB messenger.
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The thing is, people consider scripting to be "coding".

Many people who write scripts in Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. call themselves coders.

But if they were tasked with writing in assembly or C they could not do it.

And how do we know Atwood himself can even do it.

Show us Atwood's C programming and let's have a look.

It's probably full of security holes.
Facebook already bought the next big thing in social world last month.
It is very hard to comprehend for us what it is like to have wealth approaching billions of dollars. Citizenship doesn't matter anymore. You become a citizen of the world if you wish. You can own your own plane or own shares in a plane.

You can live in Singapore, visit Monaco for a weekend, then quickly fly back. You can have a team of lawyers and servants on hand. Planning and advising what citizenships to gain and which ones to lose. I think this was just one advice he received and he let them set it up for him.

With that much wealth, taxes all of the sudden are handled differently. The money you can pay a team of tax lawyers and accountants to offshore it, and protect it, is a drop in the bucket, compared to the tax you'd pay. You'd be a fool not to do it.

But year, at first, as someone who also jumped through years of red tape to gain citizenship, this is baffling, but you have to realize these individuals live in a different world, by different rules.
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I would guess a lot of it is envy disguised as patriotism.
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I've heard that different projects at Google are using crawlers enhanced with either HtmlUnit or webkit for reaching JS-heavy content.
Yes, the out of control entitlement state which collects... significantly less taxes than most of the 20th century.

I hate to sound like a populist, but for goodness sake some perspective is necessary.
Hmm.

I don't know why `pointer-events:none` is being made a big deal of. In the past, it was easy enough just to put the Like button on top, and set its opacity to 0; all `pointer-events:none` does is make that easier.

More relevantly, we used clickjacking back in the day to do things like have custom Upload buttons (since it wasn't possible to finely style an `<input type="file">`). Does NoScript warn against that? (and should it?)
Somebody used "rm *" and deleted most of the movie.
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You are right, not many would be willing to bet that Facebook will be as relevant in 10 years as it is now but I believe this thought is just part of human nature. We are always anticipating change, something better than what we have now. Nobody is wrong to think that,not that I am saying that is what you were implying with your statement. Along with pattern matching, I think it also has alot to do with what others think. It surprises me on a day to day basis how many people base their opinions of such things on the opinions of others.
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That's pretty ridiculous. The marketing department of GM isn't worried about the best deal. It's great if they can save money, but how much could GM really be saving with, oh I don't know, let's just say, Google? Keep in mind they spent $10 million on Facebook. One tv ad during the Super Bowl is probably half that. If GM believed they would lose sales by ending Facebook ads, they wouldn't end them. Even if that were true, you aren't going to sabotage a projected $100 billion IPO with a $10 million account.

It would certainly be better for Facebook if this were a conspiracy, but I don't believe that's what's happening here.
Thanks for this. I'm teaching myself to program and I've been trying to always focus on the long term. Always trying to focus on the thought that, as long as I keep at it, I'll get better, even if I feel useless right now.

Thanks for the encouragement and validation.
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I wrote a web app that will automate iTunes movies & shows searches for you. I wrote it to know when Game of Thrones Season 2 is available on iTunes (among other things).

http://upcoming.anticlever.com/
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It's mostly a bug fix release, but there's one big one- the keyboard keeps disappearing when you're typing on it. Infuriating. I had to force update my phone.
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I generally agree with you. As far as toxic, I was talking about the "exist to be acquired". Who knows, I may one day go that route with a company of mine. However, I would much rather have a product that adds value and could be bootstrapped. All the advantages you mention also mean that bootstrapping is also much more possible.
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These are all great tips.

Being social (and networking) is one of those things you really just need to experience to get better. I kept buying books and reading articles online thinking that those would somehow replace the painful awkwardness of attempting to be social.

The only thing that really worked was doing it over and over until I at least felt comfortable. You need to force yourself into situations you know you don't enjoy.

I still get nervous before I need to do anything really social (maybe this is normal for everyone, I'm not sure). But, once I'm there, I'm pretty calm.

I also don't get the crushing nervousness that I used to get when I was younger.
I agree with you completely, I do not know much about Zed Shaw, being a fairly new and somewhat young programmer but the post leads me to believe that programming should be a part of our general education along with math and the sciences. One does not have to make a career out of it, but having basic understanding of programming and just the general technologies that dominate our lives today can go a long way in securing a strong future for individuals and society as a whole.
The article ends with the news source they got the story from: http://www.techspot.com/news/48601-kodak-maintained-an-under...

The source is much cleaner than the submitted site. After reading both articles I feel that the submission is just a rip-off.

Edit: I didn't go deep enough down the rabbit hole. Thanks eli & falling.
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Done and done.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
Does anyone know of a site that shows this sort of data with Amazon Prime movies?
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Is it really that awful to want wealthy people to pay at least as much in taxes as the middle class?
> but Chrome sync in ICS seems bigger to me.

Not to mention full-fledged Firefox and Firefox Sync on most devices 2.1+

The problem for Apple is that adding browser sync to iCloud isn't enough. Most people aren't browsing with Safari on the desktop. That means unless Apple

(a) loosens up on third-party browsers (unlikely based on past behavior) and/or

(b) opens up sync APIs for third-party desktop browsers, including third-party browsers on Windows (possible, but at least somewhat uncharacteristic and potentially tricky technically),

Android is likely to maintain its edge in browser sync.

Of course the same logic suggests that browser sync to desktop IE is potentially an under-appreciated advantage for Microsoft and Windows Phone. That's blunted a bit because, based on Microsoft's previous announcements, new versions of IE (including, presumably, whatever version adds browser sync) aren't going to make it to XP, but that's still a significant universe of potential sync targets.
At this place where I'm currently working they have this legacy system which logs transactions, and sometimes there are lines missing from the logs.

Early on these guys figured out they could recreate the missing lines using the data they did have.. the problem is that it's the most horribly tedious process imaginable, involving lots of calculations and comparisons.

One day one of the guys runs into a problem where 3-4 of these transactions hadn't been logged properly. I didn't have much to do that day so I opened up Visual Studio and got to work. Field by field I figured out what the calculations were supposed to be and then put them down in code.

Saved this guy hours of work that day, and we save ourselves time every time the problem has cropped up since.

Oh to be a programmer.
The basic argument is, it's a cell phone. It's an embedded device. It's not a computer (as proved by the "post-PC-world" phrase). A traditional cell phone could run apps (Tetris, Snake, etc). A game console is built to run "apps" (video games). Yet no one is loudly complaining that they cannot run their own software there for free. A smartphone is more closely related to a game console than a traditional personal computer.

Will we reach the point where smartphone (or smartphone like devices in the future) are considered computers and we can use them freely? I hope so. It might happen. It might not. What we can count on is there will always be the choice on the market for those who require that choice. Not everyone does. I have a Windows Phone. I've never been bothered by not being able to install my own software. I also have an HP Touchpad with Android and WebOS, the two freest OSes on the market right now. Never sideloaded. I don't need to.

My point? Your outrage is misplaced, for several reasons listed above. People often talk about consumer choice, but the rubber meets the road when consumers willingly make an informed decision (in my case) that the crowd doesn't understand. I bought a Palm Pre not because of the freedom, but because of the UX. I bought a Windows Phone for the same reason. Sometimes a smartphone is just a smartphone. You might not understand my choice, but I do and that's what counts in the end.
100 Searches = 1 hour of a laptop

Really? That seems like a heck of a lot for just 100 searches. I guess this must be including all the googlebot etc. consumption as well.
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The IT manager that didn't believe in him are the types of people that can't embrace technology, and when you don't embrace technology or at least try, you end up getting fucked. She could have told him to prove it, show an example, etc, but instead she automatically dismissed it and he got the better end of the deal by getting to be lazy for a few days. If she would have looked, commended, and appreciated what he spent effort trying to improve it would've had a better outcome for both parties, but instead he was the only one that got to take advantage of it.
It's a mindset that's rarely taught: if you have a problem, and you're not writing code to find the solution, you're probably wasting effort.
I'm curious about that too. I browsed a bit around Amazon Instant after updating my PS3 yesterday and was surprised by the great selection of TV shows and films, way better than both iTunes and NetFlix. Too bad streaming is not actually available yet here in Brazil :/
I remember the first time I used programming at work too. I worked in a marketing agency as a PC operator. The two tasks I had were:

* print enormous text files with tables showing survey data.

* put a long list of .gif files each one on its own .ppt file (yes, as ridiculous as it sounds).

For the first problem I did two little Pascal programs. The first measured the files and calculated the best settings for the printer (it used to be a try and error process). The second, I did another little Pascal program that added page numbers to the files, so when the printer got stuck (or the pages got mixed) it was easy to resume instead of starting over.

For the second problem, it did an MS Office Macro.

I stopped programming at the office because one of my coworkers asked me to stop because "we are all going to be out of work" (sic).

That is when I learnt the importance of knowing how to code.
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We're going to add it soon. We just wanted to ship what we've got now.

Sometimes it's a little tricky for us to gauge what's popular with streaming, as we don't get many of the options down in Australia.
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Agreed. Marketing dude here (who uses mixrank btw) that learned to hack a little bit. Good for my life, and good for talking to programmers about programming. I'm not a programmer, but I think my life is better for having hacked some things together. It has certainly helped me appreciate the challenges of developing great software.
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Sr. Software Engineer. 125K + 15k bonus. East bay.

5 years experience + BS from a top 10 or so CS program.

9-5 job. Decent sized company.
Which I see you've added, and very nicely too. This is how it should be done: it tells a random visitor following a random link who you are and why to trust your words. Very minor point: if it were at the top (e.g. sub-heading), we see your bona-fides before reading the article.