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Depends on a lot of things.

Where will the users be? If they are in america/western europe/japan/korea, etc, mobile download speed is usually pretty fast, but the latency can be killer. In this case, I would tend to go more towards one large JSON request. The only reason I wouldn't is if it was something that requires a lot of communication (a chat app, for instance). In that case, since it is a high frequency of updates, I would work on making those updates as small as possible.

If it is a lot of users in poorly connected areas, where data is super expensive, just cut everything down as absolutely small as possible.

also - remember to remove all unnecessary whitespace and turn on compression on your server.
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Ultimately it's about what you do with the tool, there's not one size fits all editor as far as I know. You don't need to be a CMS themer or Dreamweaver fan to like this, it has all sorts of features that you may or not use if you don't like. What you can do with it it's up to you.
For example, I do music and use software that costs around $500 dlls. I know several musicians that are using far less expensive software, with less capabilities and they're making amazing songs. Well?
There's always the Cygwin + gcc + duct tape solution.
It does seem kind of funny to point people to Opera over Chrome and/or Safari. If you're afraid of showing too many options, why wouldn't you just list the most popular two or three that you support? Chrome is, after all, more popular than Firefox now, and vastly more popular than Opera.
It needs to have the .coffee extension (or two variants): https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...
I do not believe your post adds clarity. What MIGHT add clarity is something like, "Oh, this is an unfinished error page" or an accident.

Any Web developer knows that now it would take intention, effort, not to support Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari). I mean, if we take your interpretation, we should assume that laptops support, say, USB1, 2 and 3. They just _don't show their female ports_ on the panels.

Can we just call a spade a spade? Otherwise the whole page itself is nearly meaningless. "Support" becomes a meaningless word.

Moreover, that's beside the point. It's CERTAINLY fair to suggest that to say the least, without much analysis, we can say that this page implies that FB [intends] a better experience on browsers which are not Chrome or Safari. THAT is fair.

And it's bloody absurd. Chrome is now No. 1. And they knew that long before StatCounter had anything to say about it. I won't say "let's face the facts and say FB has a bone to pick with Apple/Google." But please don't go the opposite end of the extreme to argue that, "Oh, no, this page doesn't mean anything. Obviously FB supports [JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER BROWSER NOT ON THAT LIST.]"

I mean, c'mon... By this reason, FB supports Netscape 2, Firefox 3, Camino, Lynx, etc. etc etc.
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One more reason it's not a good idea: For example if .html was a top level domain, it would be harder to know if you're looking at a domain or a file.
You could still deduce it from the surrounding strings, but why do you want to complicate what's working perfectly as it is?

How about .exe, .app, .txt, .htm... maybe ultimately petition to allow punctuation and forward slash in domain names.
You missed:

- Write compact efficient CSS (arguably the current CSS file is far too big)

- Combine all CSS files

- Don't use question marks in a resource URL (.css?v=234)

- Write valid compact efficient HTML (duplicate meta tags like: ICBM, unnecessary tags like Google verify, inline CSS, depricated HTML: align="left")

- Dont use spacer divs (div clear="all" style="padding-top: 5px") for a better render flow

- Delay loading javascript to the body of your site.

- Combine javascript files

- Compress javascript and CSS files.

- asynchronous loading of web fonts and analytics code.

- Load all CSS files before JS files.

For the unoptimized 1000 images you can use a Wordpress plugin or roll your own batch script.
After reading the occasional article on HN about the different merits and warts of Erlang, all I can say is that I really can’t wait for one of my projects to actually need it. As it is, I just have no application for it.
As is including Firefox and Opera, but not the second most popular browser. Although it's very possible that they decided which browsers to include back in '09 or earlier and just haven't revisited the decision since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browser...
I didn't downvote him, but one alternative is that a language is defined by a grammar. Of course you'd want to group certain very similar grammars together as one language (Python 2.x and 3.x), but the grammars of CoffeeScript and JavaScript are significantly different.
Based on the headline, I thought Lego scheme was some new buzzword scam that I hadn't heard of yet, but no, this is really about Lego.
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I don't get it.

I'm in the process of ripping the last bit of coffeescript out of our code. The marginal benefits of the language don't exceed the costs of having another build dependency, and another syntax to understand. For daily work, I already have to switch contexts between Javascript, CSS, SCSS, HTML, rHTML, HAML and Ruby (not to mention other tools like Bash, Rake, etc., along with API knowledge like the Rails API, jQuery, and all of the various un- or poorly-documented gems). Ultimately, it's a huge mental burden. Every new thing is a new thing that someone has to understand to be productive.

To justify the extra mental cost of another piece of technology, it has to do something pretty amazing. A minor syntactical transformation of javascript just doesn't cut it.
Well it depends if the students want general purpose knowledge or knowledge that will earn them cash quickly.

Common lisp isn't all that functional TBH (it can be if you want it to be though)
This is indeed visible in the example, only source has progress while bzcat and gzip only have flow.
Seriously? Not really hard to expect otherwise? I guess it's ok then for Google to drop FB from its search results, after all it's one of its biggest threats, right?
Interesting - I see the story as saying almost exactly the opposite.

Crazy lady behaved in a common-but-still-technically-wrong manner, thinking (if she thought at all) that she'd "get away with it", presumably "'cause everybody else does".

The thing is, she got caught, and none of her "but everybody _else_ does it!" defenses stand up to even the most minor scrutiny.

Note, this is a lot like speeding - (almost) everybody _does_ it, and we all try to justify ourselves with lines like "I was just keeping up with the traffic", or "the speed limit is set unreasonably low for the conditions", or "my vehicle/driving skills are significantly better than the lowest common denominator they used to calculate the safe limit" - but every now and then we get caught, and none of those justifications mean anything.

Copyright law and the DMCA might well be "wrong", but if you think so you need to lobby to get the law changed. Arbitrarily choosing the break copyright then complaining when you get caught is just like being that guy with the fast car who speeds _everywhere_ bitching about getting speeding tickets. To most (informed) people, you just became "the crazy person".
If you want to hook up some unusual buttons up to your computer, there are a couple of ways to get them to appear as USB hid devices. A presentation I saw at Maker Faire mentioned Teensy USB, ~$20, and another I've seen is Makey Makey,[1] a possibly more versatile device, on Kickstarter and ~$35.

The posted solution requires custom software, but the above are more customizable yet require nothing special be installed.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...
I completely agree - a boycott would never work here. It would have to generate bad PR for Apple - a lot of it. That's when they would look at making changes.
Maybe he should have brought the security guard on as a co-founder?
This is the strategy of weak people. If it is actually used, in the way prescribed, by an average middle class American it will inevitably lead to financial ruin.

The only people who can realistically live off of this strategy are investors who know what their doing and can easily make orders of magnitude more than this using their own methods.

Though if you think this is the strategy for you, then more power to you. Can I just get you to sign a waiver that bars you from whining to the government or big business when it doesn't work out for you?
It's also worth noting that the NIH has had such a policy in effect since around 2008. It's conceivable that making it universal for federally funded research would so disrupt the business model of journals that they'd collapse, but they're run by smart (if stodgy) people, and I'm sure during the phase-in they'd figure out a new business model that would work.
I have a better idea - if they do not let use get a 2-letter TLD, then how about we get .json ? If you want, my twitter handle is @json and I own json dot com , so we could do this for FREE by using subdomain.json.com to start
You're misunderstanding me. I'm not taking a position here or making an argument. I added the post because the headline and several of the comments seemed to imply belief that Facebook didn't support Chrome. They do, that's not what the joke/link/point/whatever was about.
I'm also an iOS dev, and I also love developing iOS apps, but you have to realize - you are a pawn in their game, where they stand between you and potential income.
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Simons' supervisor commented that he was a model employee for AOL's Palo Alto Office.

"Eric was always on time, never late for work."
In case Heroku needs names for future stacks (Aspen, Bamboo, Cedar...), here are building names from the De Neve housing complex at UCLA:

(Acacia)
(Birch)
(Cedar)
Dogwood
Evergreen
Fir
Gardenia
Holly
I believe that the word orthologonal should read orthogonal.

I don't mean to downplay your points; I agree wholeheartedly with your post, but I actually did a double take and thought I might have been spelling the word incorrectly for some time.
developers only like visual studio because either they haven't had much experience with anything else, they use languages that require massive amounts of IDE to be practical or they paid for it which results in 'money bias'.

Its rarely because they knowingly like it.

That's the opinion I've managed to deduce after working with over 200 heavy vs users over 10 years.
On the one hand, I find it hard to believe that Google is not extracting data from cookies and looking at it over the long term.

On the other hand, I know that much of the data which Facebook is collecting will be pertinent twenty, thirty and forty years from now...e.g. my cousin will still be gay in 2036.

Finally, the notion of Google selling their data only seems remote given the current state of affairs. If Facebook starts selling direct access to their data, it makes Google far more likely to follow suit not only based on a need to stay competitive but also because the standard of acceptable behavior has been lowered and a new status quo has been created.

One need only look at the speed at which telephony has changed over the last five years or the music industry over the last ten to realize that business models of established companies can change rapidly.
Actually, Microsoft owns ASP.NET - which is a site about ASP .NET
The page is STATIC. It isn't being generated based on any logic.

So the "you're" bit is vacuous. They don't mean your browser. They don't [functionally] mean any web browser. The page makes a statement, but we need to interpret that statement IRRESPECTIVE of our considerations of how it is generated/produced.
> Perhaps that would put a "chilling effect" on Internet censorship.

Actually, it would most likely invite new theories of vicarious liability for infringement and make such transparency more legally risky.

That said, reading through the ChillingEffects list is a great way to gather news. For example, you find out about leaked materials rather quickly.
Agreed, start with a known entity. Take the one special table that is killing you and move it to a special database (Riak/Cassandra etc) suited for that task only once you understand exactly what you need.
And here's how you'd actually induce this error, I suspect:

http://imgur.com/hRqkB

...so really, who is seeing this page who isn't aware of Chrome and Safari?
They could introduce an app store for windows8 where only MSFT approved apps could run.

They might not get many desktop upgrades from Win7 though !
Not so sure that Facebook's strategy would be in-line with early monetization.

Their business strategy was clearly to rapidly gain default status and solidify the barrier to entry of being the de-facto social network... by monetizing you either piss off or scare away users, or decrease your eyeballs (that you can sell in-aggregate to advertisers).
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I think Kiip agrees with you completely too.
With the single side effect that you become a WebKit nut, as evidenced above.
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The assumption the companies has is that the building is clear each night. Having a person there could be an issue simply if there is a fire or other event and emergency personnel involved.

FWIW, from a firefighter's perspective, I can assure you that - in the event of a fire - the fire department does not assume a building is clear just because it's the middle of the night or whatever. There are any number of reasons why people could be inside at 2:00am, 3:00am, etc. Maintenance work being done, facilities people cleaning, cheating executives banging their mistresses on their desk, etc., etc. In the case of a working fire, a primary search is going to be done (conditions permitting) anyway.

In no way can any responsible company tolerate this type of stowaway.

You're probably right, but I don't really think the reasons this is true have much to do with emergency scenarios. If anything, I'd lean more towards "what if the elevator was being repaired late at night, and the stowaway fell into an elevator shaft and plunged to his death?" and any potential liability that might come out of that.
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Why would he tout what is clearly bad news for Microsoft?

Personally, I'm sick of all this injunction nonsense, but they need some way to fight back against Microsoft's patent aggression.
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I'm sure the value of the theft is immaterial to AOL. The security breach is more serious, and the bigger issue, to me, is that other startups in the same building that are behaving ethically could suffer because of one person's behavior.
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Even if that is the case, I'd say needing a central key for AirPlay is unethical in the first place since it unnecessarily locks out third parties.
destructuring assignment is not really pattern matching, as the latter allows flow control and the former does not.
I see AOL as doing their best to avoid a bigger snafu over a smaller, unattractive snafu. Opinions on the value of this PR will vary, but the fact is that there's no substance here.

Somebody abused their fairly standard SV corporate perks, they responded without bringing in the police.

At the end of the day, my subjective impression is that their startup interests brought in an immature, ethically-challenged entrepreneur who is stuck in the money-raising cycle, and accordingly AOL has been dragged into the press because of something stupid he did.

That isn't a particularly positive narrative, but I can see how people that are more comfortable with Eric's failure of ethics can see it as a cool story of "hustling" entrepreneurship.
I understand your sentiment. If that's the case, our concern should not be "what browsers are on the list"? It should be, like with Y!: "What does FB mean by 'support'?"
> Because chome is 1. quite new and 2. auto-updating without neither asking or notifying users (and that is G-R-E-A-T).

You know that, but there's no guarantee whatsoever that someone landing on this page knows that.

It's in FB's best interest to inform people of what works and what doesn't. They certainly don't test every single browser out there, so putting the browsers they test on onto this page keeps users on the happy path.
"There are a lot of older coders who can't code"

Sturgeon's Law applies to coders of all ages. That, combined with the facts that coders vary very widely in their productivity, and it's hard to reliably measure a coder's productivity quickly, are the fundamental challenges of hiring coders.
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Proposition E is actually in line with his point: if you read the article, WinRT development remains free. It's Win32 development only that now requires a paid Visual Studio license. So, in essence, what I read the original poster as saying is:

"Visual Studio is sufficiently awesome that full-time developers--the ones who need Win32 support--can easily afford $500. For those who can't, Microsoft is making a deal: they'll give you a free copy of Visual Studio, but it's only good for targeting the new Windows 8 Metro environment. In other words, if you're willing to take the risk of developing for the new hotness that currently has basically zero apps for it, Microsoft will foot the bill. If you want to target the massive installed base that is Windows 7 and younger, you foot the bill."

I'm not saying I agree, but the argument is coherent.
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They don't need to promote Safari for Mac users. No one on Windows use safari. Safari does not belong to that page in my opinion.
How about .startup and .hacker? .innovation for biggies. .tldr would add something. .lolnotreally
I can see why they wouldn't include Safari--it's not very good for Windows and anybody on Mac OS has it already (and probably up to date?).

Chrome, on the other hand, is a great browser on every platform (including Linux!) and automatically updates itself (which means that you only need to get somebody to switch to Chrome once rather than repeatedly like with newer versions of IE).

Also, I'm not sure Firefox is actually behind Webkit-based browsers in features and certainly not significantly. I suspect Opera is pretty good as well although I don't use it.
That's something you should get proper legal advice about. I'm in the same boat, actually, and plan to talk to someone once my friend gives me a referral.
Cygwin+gcc isn't an option, and may no longer work in win8 anyway.

Mingw may work, but it's still not a first-party tool, and it's still not fully compatible to microsoft's compilers.
Who the hell cares? Take a deep breath of chill the fuck out and don't read so much into things.

I doubt they spent much time debating which browsers to add here, or that this came out of a strategy meeting with Zuckerberg. I wouldn't be surprised if this was designed before Chrome was popular (perhaps with some styling fixes since then).

Even if they did exclude Chrome intentionally, they are entitled to promote whichever browsers they want to promote for whichever reasonable non-evil reasons they want.
>On the other hand, I know that much of the data which Facebook is collecting will be pertinent twenty, thirty and forty years from now...e.g. my cousin will still be gay in 2036.

I think Google could probably guess most gay people are gay from their searches, and the pages they visit.
Microsoft issued removal requests for 543,378 URLs last month alone
Very excited about the code school products. Worth the money due to the polished production value.

I pay for an account, have done almost every course, and have only once been disappointed even a tiny bit.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Not to say that the people working at FB are stupid, but odds are that someone at FB made this page several years ago and this page has languished on the backburner with no attention since then.
It's more expressive. It's like going from having a 19" monitor with 1440x900 to a 24" monitor with 1920x1080. Sure, you can do all the things you can normally do with the 24" monitor that you could do with the 19" monitor, but it isn't as pleasant or efficient.

The place it best fits in right now is for in-house software development at a place with a low turnover of developers. 37signals has a very low turnover, so it shouldn't be surprising that it fits them well. That mental burden is low, compared with the time saved using it.
If you're living your life expecting to win the lottery, that's bad, but I think it provides a nice incentive to dabble in something. Or makes the dabbling a little more fun. (For some people.)
In a system written by lawyers, whom else would you expect to emerge the winners?
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Was it designed before Safari too? This is really pathetic. Nothing to get mad at but still ridiculous from Facebook.
Those are all way too long
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How is allowing the app to exist a lousy experience for their customers? There is no harm in allowing competing versions of the same feature, especially if the other version was there first and people were using it.

I can see rejecting new apps that duplicate existing functionality, but proactively un-approving and pulling apps that implement a feature that might exist later?
Google has a form you fill out that makes you put in all of the proper info. The DMCA itself spells out the requirements for what you must include and it does have some provisions that describe what happens if the notice is only partially defective.

Formatting isn't really an issue, the real issues are whether the notice contains the proper information and whether it's sent to the right place.

As always, get proper legal advice if any of this information is of more than academic interest to you.
Health insurance for my family of 5 is about 7 grand a year, and food is about 6 grand, and utilities are about 3 grand (Internet/water/electric/gas). That's 15 grand before transportation, rent, or any luxuries. I frankly have no idea how a family with children can live on 15-30 grand a year without being in constant stress.
I prefer to work with people that resolve ethical questions ethically

So what you really mean is:

"I prefer to work with people that resolve ethical questions according to my personal, subjective ethical standards."

It's not like ethics is some simple, black and white thing, where every question has an obvious "right" and "wrong" (or "good" and "bad" ) answer.
If ethics weren't subject to debate and controversy and analysis, the field would have become completely stagnant centuries ago, with no new philosophical work being produced.