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I don't even think my text editor [for code] supports underlined fonts.

Well, mine does, and I used to have a co-worker who actually used it for coding. So there you go. :-)
I smell an agenda piece. Who are these "Center for Nonproliferation Studies" exactly? Is that even a real subject? What do they know about photographic imaging, which is all about radiation, or any other industrial process? Who are they that scientists should beg their permission to work?
Ad hominem (argumentum ad hominem) is a specific term of art to describe arguments that try to counter a thesis by attacking the character, qualifications, standing etc of the person claiming the thesis.

It does not mean an argument in which a person insults the person claiming the thesis. Insults rarely add anything to an argument but that is a different matter.

Also note that an ad hominem doesn't need to be insulting - it could be a very polite statement such as "This argument is incorrect because Mr Atwood is unqualified to discuss matters of education as he is not himself an educator". This is not really insulting (though I would argue that Jeff is in a way an educator) but is still an ad hominem.
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And it even works correctly in Firefox 3.6 (actually Camino), including sounds.

I am impressed.
There is I think a very interesting idea here - that an excessive "greed" for growth, if unbalanced, actually pushes the service faster time-wise over the lifecycle than it'd go if it were exploited more carefully.

This can be excessive ads, but this could be as well things like excessive features which make the service more bloated and unsuitable for the original audience.
The risk with this is that you'll end up in too much of a 'loop', dealing with stuff of interest to other techies.

One of the huge lessons I've learned from LiberWriter is how vast the world beyond "tech startups" is. If you can do something like that, or bingo cards, or whatever, that makes life easier for 'ordinary people', you'll get rave reviews.

If you build something for other techies, you run some real risks that if it's good, someone will build an open source competitor, others will complain about how they could "build it in a weekend", and so on.
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Behaviorally there will be differences between how your users act and how your load test plan is executed. A small difference in the two can cause problems you didn't expect. That's the point I was trying to make.
The logical conclusion then is that "the reality of how people use Facebook" is going to change.
Facebook (not for the first time) is attempting to shape users' behaviour.
I am curious what sort of thinking went behind this change.
I found that essay most enjoyable. Thank you for the link, mate! :-)
Yea SRE people are just fine.
But whoever decision maker decided it was a good idea to run a single player game online just need to get a clue. And don't worry, people who pirate will use a server emulator as they've done for every previous such protection.
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At 70+ WPM, I doubt that I would have much trouble. No tests for it have been identified, either.
Sounds like what Flash does on linux or OSX, 1:1 perfect replacement!
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I deleted my Facebook account due to the exact same peer pressure.
For the windows folk, autohotkey does the trick quite well.
But Ballmer really is clueless. When I was at Techcrunch, we were preparing for an interview with him a couple of years ago and decided to throw in a couple of fun questions. Mike and I were both Age of Empire fans, so we decided to bring up the gaming division and ask why Microsoft got rid of Ensemble Studio's.

He had no idea what we were talking about. Here was a major company decision that affected millions of customers world wide and it was obvious that he didn't know what we were talking about because he gave a generic 'sometimes you have to make tough decisions' answer after a long pause and no real explanation.

When it came to asking about anything else, such as Google, he would ramble on for minutes about how they suck. Nothing deep, all just threats and insults about how Microsoft are kings.

The problem is that all the smart people at Microsoft have left. The guys who could steer the company through the technology space - like Gates, Ozzie, Allard, etc. These guys were visionaries, Microsoft is now run by MBAs. The Ballmer group of business guys forced out the smart geek kids and are now running the camp. It has gone from being a leader to just reacting to competitors and then ranting about them.
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I'm looking for one or two developers whom I hope to start a startup with. I have exhausted a list of friends in the tech field who might be able to share the tech aspirations with me and wasted too much time brainstorming too many ideas too ambitiously which were leading me no where, and I was doing this all by myself. Then I hit the wall.

I went back where I started, tried my best to reason, and picked the one most plausible idea. In fact, I should have started working on this a lot earlier. And for this, I believe I have a clear idea on what & how, and I already have a basic framework done to accomodate the development. But of course, I also understand it could all change... In any case, I honestly believe that if we put our heads and minds together to work on this idea, we can build something not only very exciting but also very meaningful both in personal & professional level.

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Not sure if your comment was intended to be sarcastic or if it's actually what you think but I'm going to say this anyway.

Data is the byproduct of business logic. You cannot know how it will end up looking before actually thinking of the use cases and sometimes even starting to code them. And off course if you don't know what the data will look like, you cant make an informed decision on what kind of persistence layer you need.

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What annoys me is the complete loss of affordances for navigation, date, author info, context, etc.
There is no "Apple conspiracy angle". Nobody has suggested Apple were forcing their implementation.

They aren't even angry that they spent months for the proposal to be rejected.

They're angry that they go through the standard processes for months, when vendors seem to just throw an idea out there and it's in the spec within days.

Nobody's blaming Apple. It just appears from the outside that there is a rule for vendors, and a rule for everyone else.
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Perhaps it's reading too much into things, but doesn't that raise the possibility that this judge, knowing more than the average about computer science, is working hard to carefully justify as definitive ruling as possible arguing against the copyrightability of APIs?

At least, that's my hope. The transcripts indicate that he understands the tech better than most.
Do long-form sales letters still work?
> This whole episode has been a massive face plant for Blizzard.

It was a stupid decision and I'm sure there were many angry fans, but if I've learned anything from spending too much time on Reddit for the past couple of years it's that people will forget this pretty quickly.

Take Football Manager 2009 as an example. In order to halt piracy Sports Interactive added an online authenticator for all installs, and to cut a long story short for the best part of three days the authentication server was down due to load, and the only people playing the game happily were the growing number of people who pirated it. After a month or two, it was completely forgotten.

Yes, if a poor developer makes mistakes they'll suffer, but Blizzard is loved by all and all will be forgotten when the fans get their hands on sweet, sweet Diablo action...
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Thanks, didn't even see it was a CFX. Add calling it a reactor to the list of distortions.
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It's worth noting that G+ was intended to solve the fine-grained partitioning of people, and yet, no-one I know uses it regularly. It's FB for friends, LinkedIn for work contacts, for most people.
There's only on the order of 1 mg of Cf-252 in the source (my estimate) -- enough for the order of 10^9 neutrons/second. It's not a meaningful amount of fissile material. By weapons-grade they mean the uranium in the neutron multiplier is >90% U-235.

Cf-252: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=98&n=154
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A lot supported Forbes' Adam Hartung, but the number that rose up and spoke in support of Steve is amazing. The summary, Microsoft and Balmer are doing averagely well and shouldn't be tagged with that WORST label thing.
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WTF, New York Times? Look at this bullshit editorializing:

"the band wants to ignore valid contracts and deprive theaters and promoters of standard revenue sources."

First off, they bought the tickets FROM THE THEATER BOX OFFICE. So no, they're not depriving the theater.

What they're doing is looking out for the FANS, which have been victimized by a far more complete and consumer-harming monopoly than Microsoft ever was. Ticketmaster should've been shut down decades ago. I've written to senators about it. These scumbags violate antitrust law in a way that should be a case study in schools around the world. Yet our "representatives" do nothing.

Ticketmaster even scalps its own tickets, which is inexplicably allowed while the same act by private citizens is illegal.

Bend over and take it, America.
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Very curious to what kind of code he has written: was it a part of his judicial duties, on his own?
I think the user specific token in the URL disproves that. It's more likely that they're just doing the discovery themselves. Otherwise googlebot would be responsible for massive data loss, as it goes around mistakenly replaying delete requests on behalf of toolbar users...
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This is like those horrible read receipts in Outlook. When I read and reply to a message is my business. Facebook is just going to create an atmosphere where the sender gets miffed because the receiver read the message and didn't reply for x hours/days and the receiver is going to resent the sender and Facebook for creating this obligation which they have to deal with now so as not to offend the sender.
> It's tough to con Reddit.

That is debatable, Reddit has been conned a lot in the past.

But one error when trying to con the site seems to be too much information: many users apparently love snooping around and digging (and are pretty good at it), so giving more information initially makes claims more credible, but also gives more strings on which users can pull risking unraveling the whole thing.

Furthermore, there's a high level of dependency on the subreddit in which things go "viral", some subreddits are far more credulous than others (and credulity depends on the subject matter as well, you can get both /r/atheism and /r/libertarian to lap up claims unchecked, but it's unlikely the same claim will work on both) (this also means hoaxes are far more likely to unravel as they spread outside of a given subreddit and get wider exposure in the community)
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I don't think so. Even desktop OSes are not ready for such vast differences of today's hardwares.

Desktop-PC usually have approximately 100dpi screens, so the OS and the app generally don't consider dpi differences. So, if you've ever got a high dpi screen for Windows, you'll see the icons are frigging small.

Whereas, on mobile platform, we have screens ranging from 80dpi to above 300dpi. Android take dpi differences into account in the first place, to make sure, a same icon have almost same size on different dpi screens. It's a start.

I much doubted Microsoft or Apple would deal better with 'retina' desktop-pc coming in. Real trouble have just begun...
Yeah I have no problem with LinkedIn doing that because they are way more about making business connections whereas Facebook is a much more personal thing where I think people like to keep their actions more private.
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For some things I can agree with you, usually web-apps with many possible branching execution paths where it is hard to know exactly what will be the most common use case to test for.

However in this case what can the users do that can be different to their plan? The most basic example would be logging in, there are not that many execution paths I can think of for that one.

As for the integration / reporting during gameplay, this is all done via a strictly defined API which is called by the game client in relatively predictable ways (game started, player does X, authentication ping every x seconds, achievement unlocked), unlike a web-app where users can do whatever they want the API usage flow is basically controlled by Blizzard.

That is why I am not impressed with blizzard on this one; they control basically the entire use of this API apart from one thing, the number of users trying to use it at any one time, which is there the load testing plan should have worked.
I often prefer print pages for BI-type "articles" where 300 works are split across 5 different pages, but yeah in this case the article is a single page originally, and the site's own chrome isn't overbearing. There was no reason to link to the print version.
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> outside of a few countries, unlimited internet isn't ubiquitous

Reference?
As standard, all HN feedback (good, bad and ugly) is appreciated and genuinely welcomed.
> there is no technical method for preventing clickjacking

I think there is. Most of these widgets are embedded using SCRIPTs which have access to the parent page's DOM structure. For Twitter/Facebook they can basically access anything on your page. This means, they can do a check for `pointer-event:none` (computed CSS value) on the element above the widget (get that using `document.elementFromPoint`).

EDIT: After some investigation: elementFromPoint doesn't work on elements with pointer-events:none, it seems. That sucks. It may still be possible to circumvent these attacks. For example, when the widget receives a mouseenter event, it could place itself at the end of the document tree in the parent page and ensure it has the highest possible z-index. I'm sure there are other viable options too...
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Did you mention to him during the first 3 months that he was not performing?

If not, it seems to me like you might just be looking for an excuse not to pay him because you can not afford to.
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I'm sure Isaac Newton would have resented the fact that calculus is so easy nowadays (at least the calculus required to understand his writing) that high school students have it on their curriculum.

On second thought, he probably would have been delighted that even teens can use his work.
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I guess Atwood felt that even he needed linkbait and chose that title for that post.
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