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But still they use stock Windows. They don't use CE or XP Embedded. They use the popping up dialog windows, screensaver kind.
When a patent is granted, or 18 months after its filing, it's published. Until that time there's no obligation to disclose and no attorney would ever advise it. If the USPTO should rule it not patentable, it could still be a very valuable trade secret.
I'm referring to my web proxy cache, not the browser's cache. I use polipo to cache, it does a number of things that makes dialup web browsing pretty fast. http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
Well, a billion is a lot of walking around money. If he just cashed out for no particular reason, it would point to a lack of faith in the growth prospects for Facebook. After all if you owned a billion dollars of a stock that you thought was a rocketship, wouldn't you leave it in and turn it into five or ten billion?

Of could it could be he wanted to spread his risk around, or pay his taxes.
This is pretty common when someone has a lot of cash that is liable to capitol gains. If you sell the assets to the pat you can pay the taxes over time on the money that is distributed instead of paying the capitol gains all at once and loosing that earning power. You do loose the money in that it you cant use it but you make more money in the long run because you spread the taxes out and make money on the potential tax liability up until it is distributed.

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It is the same as not paying any taxes all year on your payroll and putting the money in the market to make the interest you can, and then paying the tax man in April.

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The default camera does zoom. Just 'pinch to zoom' and it shows a slider as well.
GUIDs are designed to be unique, not random
This to me is what Google Wave should've been - a plug-in to Gmail that allows notifications as well as free-form discussions involving complex media types.
I use an echo'd statement or the "or die" function when using PHP, I just find it easier for me, as I am used to the error messages.

PHP at compile time has it's own built in error warnings (for those unlucky enough to get PARSE ERROR as often as I do) which can be useful, although for loops the line it finds the error on can sometimes be completely wrong, and normally derivative of another error.
I don't mean to be nitpicky, but you can zoom in the default camera app with the pinching gesture. And the only todo app for the iPhone has had iCloud support from day one, since it was first released with iOS5.
I thought employees of facebook can't sell for 6months after the IPO. Is this not true?
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That was an insult to the people of britain and the world, a silly little dance to try and placate us. The worst kind of political manoeuvring, and typical of the ex PR men who "lead" us.

The guy should be in the dock.
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Oh I'm in full agreement with you... I was just trying to elucidate the point that I felt like John needed to drive home - the importance of asking the big questions first, because only then will we have a direction in life that makes it easy to discard all the distractions... otherwise we're merely placing bandaids over lesions rather than curing the disease.
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Variables are one of the worst enemies to readability. Because of them a reader often can't understand a line of code without looking at lots of other lines of code to figure out what the meaning of a variable actually is. If scoped functions are made easy there is no real need for variables. You might have to try it before you are convinced its true. I currently use Ruby dagger syntax and write code backwards to test the idea and it works beautifully. Actually, I find its hard for me to go back to coding "normal" Ruby.
The average person doesn't have much regard for his own privacy either. Are they all scumbags too?
Your CEO is not a wise & protective Starfleet captain but a Ferengi privateer
Did you close him? a.b.c...
I don't know what "12pts paper" feels like, but from the image it looks almost like cardstock. Are these printed on fairly heavy paper?
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IRC_b4g7Sg
I wonder if he'd be willing to buy futures, I'd sell 'em to him ;)
Yes, I love t-shirts (I own over 160) and I know that a lot of people really love free stuff. As others have said there are issues like what if someone misrepresents a brand, but ignoring that I think the idea is fantastic.

If you market it well (I would suggest aiming at end of high school / start of college age people) it could really take off. I don't think posting it here will get you much useful feedback, the HN demographic aren't really the sort of people this will appeal to.
Call me cheapskate, but I always look at £/100ml part of the label.
Simple solution - here is a list of London 2012 sponsors, just avoid them and their products. http://www.london2012.com/about-us/the-people-delivering-the...

If you are a business customer just tell them that you aren't buying from them because you don't like the olympics attitude. Then wherever-the-f* 2016 will have a little more difficulty finding suckers.
To be specific HE did not cash out. An independently managed PAT cashed out.
The default music player does allow you to create playlists.
Javascript debuggers did not exist for most of the 2000s. It was a godsend when Mozilla provided the Error Console to let developers know when an error had occurred in Javascript (in a nicer way than getting an alert for each error), but developers still needed print statements because code that worked in Firefox and Opera would break in Internet Explorer. When the first Javascript debuggers came out, they were difficult to use and slow enough to do more damage to productivity than they helped. Experienced developers might be continuing with their old work patterns or may not be aware that better tools exist now. Safari has a good Javascript debugger and I use it.

On the server side, print and vardump statements will provide the developer the desired information in a one-second refresh of the browser. A debugger will need to be run on an independent server instance which can take time to configure and start up. If the development environment is not already set up for this, running a debugger can take longer than identifying and fixing the bug using print statements.
I think you mean 'capital', as in capitalism.

Capitol is the building in which a legislature meets. eg: The Capitol Building.
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Adam Corolla does great interviews. He's often caricatured as a wannabe fratboy douchebag, but he's very intelligent and insightful -- not to mention very funny.

His podcast is great because there's no hard time limit, so he often has a guest take you through their entire life story.
It's most likely because "get [username]" is the Twitter SMS command to retrieve a list of tweets from [username]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/14020# I would wager a guess that you can't tweet "Fav Better" or "Stats Better" either.
I think you underestimate the usefulness of a hosted environment. I need a really good reason to set up a full stack myself and incur the maintenance problems of system upgrades and hardening an entire OS.

That said, you are right that there are plenty of hosting providers with ruby/python available in some capacity.
Or they'll add Angry Birds, which doesn't replace anything. I'd wager that's the far more common scenario.
>Doesn't sound like the front will be cool enough to justify the back. What if when we presume it is?

What I meant is, I can't imagine a front so cool that the overall t-shirt would still be cool. (And if you came up with a t-shirt front that cool, you could sell it with a plain back for $50 and make a tidy profit without all the complexity of this idea).

>Moreover, you'll be able to see in advance what company is sponsoring the shirt. Don't like McD? Choose another one!

I'm not seeing that anywhere on the page. If true, that changes things; as long as the photo verification isn't too much faff I'd happily sign up for t-shirts from companies I actually like.
Key word: employees.
The missing break has been the sort of bug that haunts me at least twice a month at my current job.

We do car diagnostics and we code in C. Endless time I would not understand why a particular path was not taken, and a missing break was the answer.

Now, I can see the utility of fall-thru switch construct, but this is a kind of bug that could be avoided at the syntax level. Just don't require a break and develop another syntax for fall-thru cases.
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The really crippling constraint on iOS is the keyboard. After using Swype on Android for a while it is excruciatingly slow and tedious pecking out text one letter at a time on an iPhone.

I'm using an iPhone these days because that's the platform I develop for and I don't really miss the flexibility of the Android intents much generally but the chilling effect Apple's control can have on innovation is really glaringly obvious in the keyboard.
With that much money I would just retire and travel or pull a Bill Gates.
In what ways is it annoying? (I don't have day-to-day usage experience with an Android device.)
I've always felt like the switch statement's "break" behavior should have been the implicit case, with a statement to trigger fallthrough if you really wanted it. I wonder what percentage of the time fallthrough is actually desired in switch statements. I would assume it's wildly in the minority.
Seems likely to be related to the Twitter in-band signalling thing that caused the accept bug back in 2010.

http://gizmodo.com/5535536/the-real-story-behind-twitters-ri...
I figured that's why he held on to >50.1%, so he could sell some and still maintain control.
I don't understand your logic that "required & fixed" is better than "expected & discretionary" but if that is how you feel then I'm not going to argue with you. We'll just disagree.
The javascript console on -webkit (Chrome)is a godsend for me, because if you have a JQuery bug, nothing at all works, so instead of being able to do one large update you have to do it in small ones, or spend ages debugging.

Of course, you could just write correct code, but no one is perfect and mistakes do happen. Would be better if the errors it found were displayed in a more clear form of english instead of generic error names, but it is better than looking over line after line trying to find that darn missing semi-colon.
Yeah, the most important part of managing your e-mail is training people not to e-mail you 10 times a day expecting prompt responses, especially for things that are not really urgent.

The prevalence of cell phones and always-available internet has led a lot of people to believe that you need to always take every phone call, always respond to every text and e-mail.

I've developed a habit of waiting at least a day or two before responding to e-mails and phone calls. Let the message bounce around in your brain for a few days and actually make a well reasoned response.

You'd be amazed how often problems will resolve themselves, and training people not to expect you to respond immediately 24/7 will gradually reduce the amount of stuff you get sent.
Ask HN: Purpose of the AT operator in PHP?
I've been using PHP for well over a decade now and I always remembered the use of the @ operator being a last resort against "noisy" modules that would throw spurious warnings/errors that could be safely ignored. Those days have long gone (or have they?) .. but @ remains as far as I can tell for backwards compatibility.

Anyway, after seeing it come up as part of many arguments against PHP and realising it is actually used by developers in everyday error handling! I've tried to find a reference to it's correct use in the docs, source and web but to no avail.

Does anyone else remember it as I do, or is this just a figment of my imagination.
I'm curious if bottles using this coating will be recyclable. Reducing food waste is great, but if it's at the expense of recycling plastics or glass I'm not sure if there is a net benefit.
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The new instant search does some strange things stashing js assets in hidden form fields, and it seems to have a performance impact at several levels (including the IO cost of serialising the session for restoring it after a crash). There's also some weird non-responsiveness with partially loaded pages.
I know that a lot of people really love free stuff

That's what I figured. Lockerz grew enormously until it imploded due to many factors. Rethink their business model, go niche and this is where I ended up at.

the HN demographic aren't really the sort of people this will appeal to

But at least they are likely to provide slightly more insightful feedback than the average feedback I've received from friends/family.
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replace loose with lose.

See: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
"Try paying attention to"? Have I given you any indication that I would have trouble focusing on the interview?

Terry Gross is certainly a good interviewer for art and culture guests. I agree that she does not get the same quality of quests that appear on Charlie Rose's show. I think that is part of the reason I may have discounted her quality as an interviewer. In light of that I would like to compare the two interviewers. Can you think of any guests who have appeared on both shows recently? Do you think Rose's fawning/pissing on behavior is any different than Gross's interviews with Franken and O'Reilly?
"Life hacking" is a term that repels me. Modern life's demands are often insane. You don't hack it, instead you should run away as far as possible.

Most current work environments consist of 8 hour long streams of interruptions. You could say that dealing with the interruptions is the actual work now, and the work that you were supposed to do has been relegated to being a nuisance.

Of course, this results in the birth of the entire GTD and "life hacking" fads, because people foolishly believe that this mess is somehow manageable.

What you describe above could be seen as withdrawal symptoms from persistent hyper-stimulation and hyper-responsiveness. People are so used to constant external stimuli that require attention and feedback at the workplace, that they need to recreate these situations at home.

I think that in this regard, television is an old medium, because it is content with you just sitting on your lazy ass.
And so begins the butthurt.
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If that were not available on iPhone due to apple's policies then what would happen to their market share?

Then they'd allow it (if they couldn't co-opt it).

Apple's interest in Safari and restrictions on the App Store / customizability extend only to allowing them to make hardware that many people want to buy. There's never going to come a day that something so great that everybody has to have it and that runs afoul of the App Store policies comes along and Apple decides to ride a sinking ship of App Store protectionism into meaninglessness. Policies will adapt as they need to in order to continue selling their platform.
It appears the obvious answer may be correct:

The reason that certain tweet content appears to do nothing is that Twitter is interpreting them as commands, according to this article:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/14020

The get command will send the latest tweet from the named user to your phone. I've tried some of the other commands listed in that article, and they don't post a tweet. They do, however, have the listed effect. For example, fav accountname does indeed mark the most recent tweet from accountname as a favourite.

It's perhaps useful to remember that'd accountname Some message here will send a direct message to accountname, even if entered in the public tweet box or via another client. This shows that they have a standard text to action parser that works on tweets as they are submitted.

So, to answer your question: No, it's not down to Jack Dorsey's father. It's purely because Twitter is interpreting it as a command. Sorry!
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I can't imagine a front so cool that the overall t-shirt would still be cool

Can't please anyone, although it does not hurt to try.

I'm not seeing that anywhere on the page.

Pitched this idea once at some startup contest. Judges didn't get the concept. Spoke to other contestants and later stage judges that did get it; advice #1 'simplify, simplify, simplify'. Although I can talk on for an hour detailing the concept, it's best not too cause information overload.
In many server applications your not CPU bound but rather IO bound. In those applications using the lowest power CPU makes sense. These are the applications ARM seems to be targeting first. Examples: $5 month static + php only website hosting market, front end load balancing, static file serving, etc.

The other possible target is embarrassingly parallel work loads where you really just want to cram as many cores into a given space as possible. Usually the limit of how many cores you can put in a rack is either power or cooling, not space.

Where you probably won't see ARM in the near term is on work loads that are highly single threaded and performance critical. I think this is exactly the type of situation your describing.
Three years of debugging and writing code and I have never seen an @ used, I would consider getting rid of the key but I need the darned thing for logging in to my hotmail :(
No. It looks like a pyramid scheme of some kind, so I didn't even bother finishing reading the page. Sorry.
Start your sentences with a capital letter.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case
Well the device itself isn't powerful enough to run the speech recognition so they have to send the data back to their servers to run it (Nuance I think?) before responding with what the user said so Siri can use it.
It's certainly possible that Apple store every sound bite sent to those servers which is rather worrying. There needs to be some clarification on what they actually do with that data...
Sudo has always felt like a bit of a blunt instrument to me.

For example having to type the root password every time I want to run a vaguely administrative program or install something etc gets old fast.

Not to mention the number of times I've made a bunch of edits to something like a conf file in nano and then gone to save and got "permission denied" where the only solution seems to be to exit nano and run it again (and do the edits again) with sudo. Surely it should be able to prompt me for the password at save time?
It seems to me like this could potentially be used as an exploit.
Do lawsuits like this happen often for IPOs? Or is this something unusual?
A good story, and the best closing line ever:

"Mommy, I'm not that weird."
I have to admit I was surprised to see Carolla mentioned in a discussion of Gross, Rose and Russert. I would like to check him out. Nothing jumped out at me after cursory review of his recent episodes. Can you give me any pointers/recommendations for a good interview to listen to?
A recent podcast from NPR's Planet Money had someone on arguing that the sticker price for private colleges is soaring, but the average actual cost (after grants and scholarships) is actually tracking inflation. If you believe that, then there's no bubble in college tuition prices. Why do colleges raise their sticker price? First, they can do price discrimination, charging rich people more to subsidize poor people. Second, (I didn't know this) giving a kid a $20K scholarship is a great marketing tool to get them to come to a school. Apparently, it works.
Sorry. I had forgotten that it was the M3 they cancelled and not the M1.
"Work with the Government to design & develop innovative high growth products"
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Fantastic energy from @todd_park US Chief technical Officer - presenting at techcrunch disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-ny-2012/live-video/
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Would you care to elaborate? Why does this look like a pyramid scheme to you? The same way that 'FB is a ponzi scheme'?
This is what I thought, also.

This thing is very useful for consumers and the environment, but not for the companies that will pay for it. Unless customers are willing to pay more for a bottle with that coating I don't see how can you sell this.
Have you considered using Squid to cache everything (even over SSL)? You will have to install certs, but I think that may be the best route (especially if your OS is *nix). I am planning on doing this at my friend's cabin this summer where satellite internet is all they have.
Wait, why did I post this? Ugh - Jedi mind tricks...
This is really strange.

Such a move should be prepared carefully and when executed then immediately explained with a press release.

Mark doesn't believe in FB.
How people judge your intelligence based on the looks of your graphs: Take 1.
Thanks for links :)
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Grubber sounds upset, or guilty. It might be about the t-shirt part, and he not knowing anything about it, or the fact that it was a t-shirt for a show he will not longer be doing (and Dan did not know anything about it). Pretty uncomfortable.
> Today when you search for 'random.choice python' you get to the random front page with 20+ random

I prefer a single page for random than having 20 something pages for random.x. Here is the doc for random.choice:

random.choice(seq)
Return a random element from the non-empty sequence seq. If seq is empty, raises IndexError.

A separate page for this will be textbook definition of overkill.

If you already know what you are looking for(random.choice), a better way to lookup the docs is to either use the repl(help(random.choice)) or configure your editor to lookup the documentation. Python library docs is mostly contained in the docstrings.
Doesn't seem pyramid scheme if they go by 'order one free t-shirt' as the first step, with no strings attached.

But that sounds like loss making venture to me - to give away the first free t-shirts to anyone who would order.

That said, I doubt if I would do this as collection of garments does not excite me. But if this means free t-shirt, I definitely know some who will do this.
About a year and a half ago, I made a little project intended to make a framework for creating HTML5-based video art:

http://www.cacophonyjs.com/

The site could use a better design, but basically this integrates user input (mouse, text) and external data and libraries to affect the video itself as it plays. Would be a good base for making videos like the one Arcade Fire + Google made, or ones with even more interactivity, since user input can also be saved and reused on subsequent plays, allowing the video to evolve over time based on collective user input. That's what I was planning to create with it, but didn't end up finishing that part...
Agree... this is not a how-to-guide on growth hacking. It's just link-bait. Great title though... I wish somebody would write it.
So these people bought it at $38 or whatever. And now they've lost money because "the true facts" came out. When exactly did that happen? What's the timeline here?
were they the same person?