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demand more money now, concentrate on learning to work with people, but do not give up on code quality.

Not entirely, anyway. You can't turn the whole app into a good one in any reasonable time, but when you fix a bug, take time to apply the boy scout rule ( http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1235624&... ) Don't put that down as a separate task that your management can approve or deny, it's part of doing the job of coding properly. That way, at least the buggy parts of the app get better.

You should not be focused only on your career when making coding and tech decisions, but look at it this way: in a year's time, you're in an interview for a job you really want. What are you going to say "I can read and maintain shitty code" or "I can make shitty code better"?

Also consider: documenting your app's architecture (or lack of it) and conventions (or lack of them).

Also consider: reading up on architecture, testing, refactoring and code quality. If nothing else, these will help you get your next, better job. Off the top of my head, try "Domain Driven Design" by Eric Evans, "Growing object-oriented software guided by tests", "Refactoring" By Martin Fowler, and on the last topic "Clean code" by Robert Martin and "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell

Big ball of mud apps (http://www.laputan.org/mud/ ) may be common, but it doesn't have to be that way - you can learn some pitfalls to avoid
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They're so kerrrrazy I lol'ed. Good bit of free publicity I'm sure.
I know first-hand that Mercedes are quite user-serviceable, as I do most all of the service (ex-tire replacement, ex-exhaust) on all our cars.

Factory basic service information is not only easily available, it's free (at least in the US: they make you provide a US CC every 365 days for online access, so it might be MB-USA funding it, but the card is not charged). Parts are readily available aftermarket, from OE and non-OE suppliers. There's also several well-respected third party shops within a few miles of here.

I don't drive a BMW, but I know of two excellent (but not cheap) third party shops nearby.

Yes, some systems are computer-augmented for service, and require a beyond-OBD2 level of software, but that software is available (and a couple thousand dollars, a lot for an individual, but nothing compared to the rest of the tools a shop has to have).

I am quite happy with the supportability MB provides, and probably wouldn't drive one if your statement above matched my experience.

Side note: it's a pleasure to work on MB: very few "one time" fasteners (like those plastic Christmas tree push things, or ridiculously fragile/undersized plastic latches). Thing that you need to take apart are designed to be taken apart and put back together many times without damage or leaving ill-fitting parts afterward. You really notice the difference when servicing someone else's other brand, price-optimized car.
Are we perhaps using different definitions of "maintenance" here?

If by maintenance you mean "dealing with bugs", then yes, 90% is too much.

But if it includes adding features, then 90% is perfectly normal if not a bit low.
I would imagine the proportion of DOD users going to an Australia electronics shopping site would be 0.0000000001% of Kogan's total user base.
> Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer

It is the contrary on my computer: chrome is painfully slow, whereas firefox is OK and opera is faster. I guess opera is not the best for everyone.
Opera 12 is the first third-party web browser for Windows to offer an official 64-bit version. (Neither Firefox nor Chrome have official 64-bit versions for Windows. And I think Safari for Windows doesn’t have one either.)

Does this translate to any substantial improvements in speed? Does anyone here know of any benchmarks?
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Nope, as it says in the article, it is also to track how much the film is being played, to ensure that they are being paid correctly.
um so why do American Police need hand guns with more powerful rounds than SF Operators (Delta, DEvGuru the SAS etc) do them.

I bet Bonnie and Clyde wish that the Police where banned from having "Milatery weapons" as it was the full auto BAR's that did for them back in the 30's
"IMO the fact that he was an asshole is probably related but not essential."

I disagree. He did not only gather ideas; he made sure that there were good ones, too. Doing that requires probing deep, and probing deep hurts. I think he also worked on his efficiency by dismissing people who didn't have high ratios of good ideas, and wasn't afraid to ditch a good or even an excellent idea for a better one. That must have hurt those with those good ideas.

Can one do that without being coming over as an asshole? Probably, but not efficiently.

That does not mean he was an all-out asshole, though. For example, from the little I read, Jobs cared for his family. Because of that, I would call him ruthless, not an asshole.

It is a bit like being an world-class athlete. They will do whatever is necessary to improve their sporting ability. You simply cannot become best of the world by thinking "that is her only chance at the Olympics. Let her go; my chance will come", or without sacrificing something or someone in you social life. Does that make them assholes? IMO: no.
I'd be very curious as to which apps these are. Eventually, they'll be left in the cold regardless. In at least two years time there will hopefully be nobody supporting IE6!
Its also easier to support a distro that runs on 3 types of laptops of the same brand rather than 1000 variations of Wintel laptops.
You're spot on here and illustrating my primary point--that the parents have enjoyed a greater convenience in overcoming the communication troubles with their daughter. I didn't intend to make light of how incredible that particular convenience is over other methods. I don't doubt or discount that the iPad app is leaps and bounds improved over other methods in this particular case. Again, none of that is disputable as far as I see.

The particular dimension of the story I felt worth pointing out that was disputable, however, were the ways in which the author made hyperbolic claims. I could tell with the reactions in the HN comments that everyone was capitalizing on the anti-PRC/Apple angle and somewhat beating it to death. Speaking as a parent of two, the eldest of whom started speaking later than "normal" and still seems to have some issues (though by no means as extreme as Maya's), it was the claims that there was zero communication without the app that stood out to me (particularly after taking other content on the blog into consideration).

It is unquestionably sad and pathetic when anything that truly helps improve people's lives in a demonstrable way is threatened by crap in the business world. Stories like Maya's are excellent for helping enlighten people to the ways that IP fighting can seriously degrade people's lives. I just still think it's worth being intellectually honest even amid the harshest emotional pulls.
The whole project is super awesome and I love it. Really nice work and am excited to see what you do in the future with this ethos!
Well, in my specific case, I am OK with money - 10 VPS ~ $200-600 per month. You spend more on a couple of trips to supermarket.

I don't have time and 15 years of programming under my belt.
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This might also be a font-issue. Most of the time websites embed different font-types like eot, ttf, woff and svg. But some types lack font-hinting. It depends on the order in the CSS file which supported font browsers will use.
Or in my case 90% meetings and 10% maintenance!
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SecurityFocus maintains a list of vulnerabilities at http://www.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities

You can use Feedity (our startup - http://feedity.com) to create RSS feeds (and even merge multiple feeds into a stream, per software in your case) for the vulnerabilities list.
Features that has been there for ages. It's not like they are essential to have in a good browser but once you get used to them it's painful to switch.

For me it is configurability (if that's a word). Primarily ability to configure controls out of the box. For keyboard, mouse and mouse gestures. This includes dozens of custom actions, even javascript, all of which can be combined using logical conjunctions. No other browser I tried allows you this, not even close.

Configuring the UI is pretty straight forward as well, and if there is anything not available through the UI you can always dig into config files.

Some other features it's hard to browse without: global and per-site configuration of: blocked content, pop-ups, javascript, cookies, plugins, on demand plugins, images, custom layouts, .... edit: and back button actually works as expected

That's just a small subset of dozens of features I miss in other browsers. I don't use any of those extra apps (reader, mail, torrent, irc, ...) but they don't bother me either.

And what I miss in Opera? Switching tabs by their position (alt/ctrl+number in many tabbed applications). That's it. What bothers me is that many sites do not work properly or are completely blocked in Opera. The former is due to low market share of Opera, the latter is because people are dicks (hi google). Just write that it's not supported and I won't call your support line, don't make me change my user agent all the time (luckily I can configure this per-site :P).

edit: Totally forgot this but other comment pointed it out: Opera can handle a lot of tabs, no other browser I tried could do this: memory, performance and UI wise.
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How would this compare to a D3? Would there be any reason to switch to D600?
Very unlikely. 64-bit is mostly an advantage if you have to use a lot of memory or are doing processing on actual 64-bit integers.

For the kind of software like Opera (and Firefox and Chrome), the additional registers in 64-bit mode help a little, but that tends to be offset by most pointers now being 64-bits and the L1/L2 caches hence being less effective.
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If you run a tech company and are hiring, now is a good opportunity to try and hire some ex-Nokia hackers. Most of the talented ones probably took the pile of money offered in the last series of layoffs but there may be some still left.

During the last series of layoffs, my company hired a whole team of Linux kernel hackers, together with the team's former manager. The guys already knew each other and were up to speed in no time.
There is an official 64-bit Firefox nightly built for Windows.

I tried it and to be honest I can't tell the difference.

Also bear in mind that it needs 64-bit Flash and Java plugins which are notoriously problematic.
Are many out there using this product effectively. We have one for our coworking space and I mostly only check the weekly update emails.

On one end of usage spectrum it is probably easier just to have a Facebook page, on the other end of usage you are probably better of with something designed more around project management.

The product is fine but for me has become yet another social tool to try and find time for.
The issues mentioned in the blog sound very fixable. How hard could it be to allow a few minutes of unconstrained grace period from the beginning of the movie? That would take care of ensuring the projector works properly.

It should also be straightforward to offer functionality that verifies if the digital key is valid before the show starts.

I would not be surprised if those options already exist and they simply did not know how to use it.
The scrolling might be due to "smooth scroll" enabled: opera:config#UserPrefs|SmoothScrolling

It is (was some time ago at least) disabled by default in Chrome, Firefox and even on linux version of Opera.
Supporting your point is the fact that Yammer runs on the JVM.
Kinda off topic, but Opera Mini and Opera Mobile for Android is vastly superior in terms of smoothness compare to all other available browsers. It is very noticeable especially if the page is heavy. A good test is to load this page http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers... on your Android in different browser and test the responsiveness.
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Typical for software with actual users that rely on it. Hell, typical for hardware too like the electronics in your car.
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Why don't they enable WebGL by default?

I don't see why more people don't realize, WebGL is a prime Microsoft threat and the key to moving away from the MS Windows monopoly. That's why Microsoft has done so much work to try to scare people away from WebGL (by sponsoring 'security research' and creating FUD content on Wikipedia (seriously, look at the history of that article, the person who created the whole 'security' section on WebGL has an ip that originates right next to Microsoft headquarters, and the 'security research' is done by a Microsoft shop)).

What the Opera, Webkit/Safari/Chrome, Mozilla teams should focus on is getting mouse capture and WebGL uniformly supported and turned on across browsers and one or two well-hyped and playable 3d first person games. Any industry player who has money and wants to oppose Microsoft should put money behind big WebGL game releases and hype for such.

You get that working across browsers and push that and things like Google Docs, EditGrid, ethercalc, Zoho Creator, LibreOffice etc. and you will see WebGL games starting to take down PC games sales and Office alternatives hurting Windows/Office sales.

Anyway, please give the people in charge of those programs and funds a link to this explanation if you know anyone like that.
I can back that up, it's the same case for me.
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I just read that on their main page. Are they getting a lot of support from developpers for extensions ?
On my computer most memory hungry apps are browsers.

And by the way I use opera to open a lot of tabs and it handles those very well (compared with other browsers)
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Disassembling is incompatible with clean room reverse engineering, so other techniques must be used. Nouveau used a tool (renouveau) that poked at the graphics card and reported its state before and after.
Anyone remember animated gifs back when the web was young?

I think we're going to have a revival, only with css3 this time.
Surely there is a massive selection bias in this approach?
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Still no ARM version available, by the way ? Or has this changed?
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You mean PhoneGap Build? It's actually a bit different, because you have to send up your whole app to their server, where a compile and package is done and the fully-baked app is returned.

Useful in some situations, to be sure, but this approach means you still get all the benefits of the Trigger toolchain - builds are done in seconds rather than minutes.
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A word of warning: this update erased the persistent storage data for all sites. So if you're using plugins or if a particular site is using persistent storage, this will cause issues.
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Not sure what you mean now? I'm still on older Opera (11.61) and the checkbox is resized.
Haven't tried it myself, but from what I've read on reddit (r/operabrowser) it was really buggy in beta builds.
I played around with this project a couple years ago, so I can give some feedback on my experience. It isn't a con or joke and it isn't full of lies... that said, I still couldn't use it.

First of all, it is mostly one guy, and he seems exceptionally bright, and a bit freaking insane (Tesla was crazy but still smart, so it can work). I exchanged a few emails with him that combined with lack of access to the source drove me away from the project.

That said, every single claim he made I found to be either valid or an undersell on the actual performance (it did even better than he claimed in my tests). I was rather blown away by the performance, but the risk profile on it just made it unacceptable. Code C-Script (it supports more now, I am aware, but at that point it was C), no source, [possibly] nutjob one man show, no ability to easily hire people to work on it (which to be fair is entirely chicken and egg).

But, it is still a project I watch with mild interest... and I do encourage people to try it (great comment on this thread how to run it as a user http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4110247) and try it out, if nothing else it is extremely opinionated software, and it really is borderline insanely fast.
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My experience was extremely similar. I think one of the many reasons that Linux has gotten more popular was due to how poor Vista was as an OS. Ubuntu 7.04 was my first intro to Linux and I was only using it because a friend had given me a LiveCD after hearing me complain about Windows Vista.
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Yes, there are loads of different forms of algebra and geometry. Sometimes people throw out what people though were fundamental rules and come up with new geometries (e.g. non-Euclidian geometry which turns out to be very helpful to describe relativity).

A lot of the time though, the other rules for alternative algebras produce very dull and boring algebras.
We use it on a daily basis. It's... well, let's say its better than any of its competitors. We tried using Salesforce Chatter, as well as Jabber-based solutions, none worked as well as Yammer does.

Still, Yammer has plenty of problems. Their iPhone/iPad apps suck badly (as an example, getting rid of a notification requires 3-4 actions within the app), but at least they exist. Their desktop app is Adobe AIR based, which means all kinds of bloat, slowness, annoyances and bugs.

Let's put it this way: if I could get Yammer with a mobile interface like Tweetbot or at least Twitter, I'd be happy.
I really love the interface. Congrats!

Any idea about mobile integration?
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I don't think that money resolves everything (at least, normal sums of money, lol). If they are paying him the minimum, that means they don't value what he does. I guess that's the reason he has a lot of projects to handle... probably other developers have left for the same reasons.

Reductio ad absurdum: If somebody offers me a full time job of sewer-cleaning, paying me 15k, i'd probably pass, because I value other things besides money. I want to enjoy what I do, and the market right now (at least for the dev community) gives me enough options to choose where I want to work.

He'd probably learn A LOT more, somewhere else, working with other people, and where the company actually values him.

Someone would think that the kind of people who hires devs in such conditions, having a high employee turnover, would start to value them a little more. Sadly, my experience knowing a few cases firsthand, is that they think "there's always someone else".
Not really. I've told countless people about how Opera really is the best browser, by far, and how people using Chrome and Firefox are stuck in the stone-age of Internet Explorer 6. I'm getting tired to repeat it.

Screw it, I'll do a quick run. Depending on how good your computer is, Chrome will buckle (freeze your computer, in my case) sooner or later after you keep increasing the number of tabs, due to the one process per tab design flaw. That does not usually happen with Opera (unless you have some very demanding pages, which doesn't usually happen to me), it will keep going as long as you have the RAM to supply it. Right now opera:cpu shows me a round number of 115 tabs with 1.5 GB RAM usage, plus the plugin wrapper grabbing an additional 400 megs. Given that this particular computer has 12 GB of RAM I think it's very reasonable.

Of course, I don't have a rocket computer at home but the performance is very good as well on a mediocre laptop.

Now, what good does it do to have 115 tabs if you can't see them or switch between them at your wish? In Chrome you have one line of tabs that keep pushing against another, and at 115 tabs you could not select your tab properly, nevermind reading the tab title.
In Opera I just configured my tab bar to wrap to multiple lines and aligned it vertically on the left side. I also have tab groups that work very nicely to minimize unnecessary clutter.
I can also turn the tab bar off altogether and move between tabs with ctrl + tab or right mouse button + wheel, or hold ctrl + tab + mouse click.

The possibilities for customization are so numerous I can't be bothered to describe them all. Opera is a true browser and it has all these features out of the box without getting in your way.

You're a hacker? Where's your curiosity? Explore Opera's features (like mouse gestures, keyboard navigation, and so on) and see for yourself.

And by the way, one last thing. The default option for Opera is to restore your tabs from your last browsing session, which was not the case for Chrome and Firefox last time I checked (and if that didn't change it's retarded, although I would understand the reasoning, they don't want to encourage you to keep your tabs open because the browser might buckle under the pressure of 10 open tabs). So really, feel free to keep open as many tabs as you like.

You can also use ghostery (an extension) to block all these resource-consuming background scripts, just in case you have reached the limits of your hardware.

I have enable 'plugins only on demand', so no Flash player will be loaded without my explicit consent. Again, this is out of the box. Also, content blocker. And so on and so forth.
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