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I grew up in China and this is def true. IE6 is still popular in China is because a lot of banks and governments website only works in IE(6). Since banks are state owned, they don't have incentive to compete to make their site better.
I think the only hope is to wait till their computers die and when they install new windows IE6 will be gone.
its not really that adobe won't support it. its that chrome is default and never supported it.

I bet we can install ICS's flash and whatever req. libs and it works with other browsers.
@tptacek, don't you think this point about Apple and the iPod (as well as early Youtube behavior) have some bearing on this case? Obviously Apple knew for a long time that the vast majority of music on mp3 players was copied, probably illegally. They provided tools to "rip" the CDs! In Apple's case, they stayed well on the legal side of the letter of the law, but the underlying reality was the iPod siphoned off a lot of profit from the record labels because the ability to carry a lot of music with you was so compelling, legal or not.

In the MU case, setting aside the unsavory aspects of Kim Dotcom, they were well on the other, illegal, side of the letter of the law.

But in both cases, the defense of the behavior comes down to legal technicalities, as opposed to broader concepts of "fairness" or "ethicalness."

Really, it seems the same with Google, as long as they comply with the DMCA they are safe, but I doubt they care to much about the wellbeing of content owners whose content is being infringed and accessed through Google. That's money in the bank to them.

I'm not trolling, just curious as to your thoughts on this.

FWIW, I do support the concept of intellectual property. But I think it should be enforced against for profit entities, and take a live and let live when it comes to individuals copying for their own use. It's messy obviously, such a distinction might not be able to be enforced.

But I don't think it's as much a case of ethical behavior as other laws address (laws against violent crime for example).
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They had to develope a special fuel for the SR 71. One with very high flash point. I imagine that the temperatures at mach 6 are too high for normal fuels too.
Yeah this is exactly the thing. It's not like 1.9 or 1.8 or even 1.4 will stop working in the future when the new versions are released.

I duplicated a project for a client today that needed a one-page form and a two-page admin section, and I have only a couple of hours of budget to make it work. They don't care that it's running jQuery 1.3.x. It's working fine.
So let's see. There's pi, used for ~2300 years, or tau, some niche US-only fad (check for the tau wikipedia page in every language BUT english). It makes absolutely no fscking sense. Now could we move on?
They had to develope a special fuel for the SR 71. One with very high flash point. I guess that the temperatures at mach 6 are too high for normal fuels too.
Same here.

I don't mean to be snarky, but if this guy can't even post readable text on a website, it makes me question how valuable his advice can be.
Hopefully the absence of Flash on both major mobile platforms will help speed its demise on non-mobile platforms as well.

On the other hand, this news might just precede another announcement from Google saying "don't worry, Adobe doesn't support it anymore, but we do", just as they did for Flash on Linux.
Right now we solve conflict of interests by not working with competitive customers in the exact same space. There are long term solutions for this. Regarding contacts - yes you keep all of them :) We use contracts and processes that make it tough for our sales reps to steal any of your data. But beyond security we pay a lot of attention on who we hire in the first place :)
What inspiring and awe-inspiring talk!
I discovered this video thanks to this post on HN http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4171058
Tx Brodney, we have a tonne of line-up ahead. Hope to see you more on our platform :-)
That's a fair point. To be honest right now we have more demand than we can handle so we haven't really optimized the website for that. It's more of a recruiting tool for hires :) Definitely plan to improve on it though!
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It's a lovely thought, certainly, and I wish I could structure my life that way.

However, money doesn't behave like that. Fun doesn't behave like that. Life doesn't behave like that. Love doesn't behave like that.

You can try to set as rigid a pace as you can, but some thing will always find a way to mess your plans up.

Recovering gracefully is the real challenge.
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If you like aerospatial history but also if you'll like to know how all this birds were made, you should read "Skunk Works". I have just finished reading it, and is a great book. It tells all the development of the U2, SR71, F117, and more.

It's also greatly recomended for entrepreneurs, they worked as an small team, a very talented and focused group of people building unbeliable planes. At the end it has a great rant against all the bourocracy that has built up alog the years at the government.

Just an amazing read!
How's this for broken english: due diligence.

Now you can take your naive, tarbrush, self-adoring brand of racism, sandblast it, polish it and and stick it up your ass.

(Thanks for reposting, ars!)
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There is a state that I call "waiting in motion". You have a goal. It is some ways away. It will take a lot of work to get there. But you just make sure you stay in motion in the right direction, then wait...surprisingly soon you will arrive.

But it is frustrating to want to be there, and just be plugging away.
Though it's generally thought that Whisky doesn't age in the bottle, rather the cask. (Though there are plenty who disagree/are unsure!)
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Four years on we're buying better laptops than ever before and, with the netbook class now more or less dead

I still cannot get over the second part of that sentence. It's true though, but I could cry bitter tears over it: when netbooks first arrived on the scene I felt happy like a little elf: small, light, cheap computers made to run Linux? That was exactly what I had been waiting for all these years.

And a netbook has been my main computer ever since I bought one. It's ideal for my personal usage in which I basically run four programs all the time: a browser, an email client, shells, and Emacs. Add a compile every now and then and you have a description of >95% of my computing time. I can code on the kitchen table or on the couch, on the bus, even in bed if I feel like it. It's fun.

I used to have a 12 inch laptop before but the netbook clearly beats it in terms of portability. And the battery life is decent too, even though the device is a few years old by now.

And I paid around $280 for the device.

And now the market for netbooks is dead. Taken over by tablets. Except, I have no use for them. I mean, it's a selfish way of looking at it because apparently many more people want tablets than netbooks. So let the market decide. Unfortunately for me, the perfect match will slowly but surely stop being available.

Ironically, I'm not even using a netbook the way it was supposedly designed to be used: for browsing the web anywhere. As I've outlined above I use it exactly like I use a desktop computer, except that I run heavier jobs remotely on other machines.

Anyway. I am not even sure what point I am trying to make. Probably none. But it does make me sad that a type of computer that is perfect for me is being replaced by another type of computer that is unusable for the same tasks.
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Ever heard the notion of "opportunity cost"?
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Because historically jQuery has been a buggy pos that we've had to work around a lot.
Got this https://www.docracy.com/doc/showalluserdocs?userId=10881

all of them gets signed?
no we havent released a MVP yet and i also think a mvp needs at least a "decent" design. (depending on your customers of course)

but we will do some user tests before the design is ready, just to find major flaws in the interaction & interface.
Second Skunk Works. They really did some amazing things, and that is probably the best book on it. It reads like folklore.org, in that it's one of the principal people involved retelling the stories.
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Bob was the most likable guy from all the public Apple guys for me, YMMV.

(Not comparing with Jobs etc -- just talking about "likable person" factor).
All NES/SNES were written in assembly too. Just think of Donkey Kong Country written in assembly, AND someone had to have a clear enough understanding of the assembly later to port it to the GBA.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Super_NES_Programming
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All that rambling is just his passion about the topic :)
Definitely. Something as simple as a bookmarklet can become hell with all the IE-specific rules for cross domain messaging, third party cookies and the like. We're still trying to be IE-compatible but man it does take a hell lot of time.
huh? Might want to check the comment I was replying to.
It was more about commercial services, and it provided integrated billing (users would get billed on their phone line, each site would set its time-based billing)
Not an answer, just an elaboration on differences: Apple doesn't allow "duplicating functionality" or something along those lines and as other comment already mentioned, Chrome is a stock browser with different UI. That's also why there is no Opera Mobile on iOS. Opera Mini on the other hand bypasses this rule by being application which shows already preprocessed web (similar to Turbo function on Desktop or Mobile).
Unreadable on iPhone, what's up with its stylesheet? Safari won't even zoom...?
Are these people considered the "laggards"?
An ebook reading device without an expansion port, how nice. Romance novels in, reference books out.
You're seriously mentioning Lilith, Spin, Singularity, Lisp OS, MarteOS, Smalltalk machines et al to challenge the 99.9% thing?

OS X and Windows have some C++ (mostly wrappers) but otherwise are C.
~3,000 years of recorded history point to it.
Java runs everywhere. C# runs only on M$ plateforms…
How does it compare with http://www.vertica.com ?
If you ask the general public, hacker is a negative word, too.
I work for a company that uses Google's apps internally. We have less than 1000 users. We get sales and technical contacts at Google with real phone numbers and everything.

If you think there's a market for Google's products but with better customer service, you could form a startup reselling Google's products, with you providing customer service and escalating to Google whenever appropriate.
As I understand most that still use their Minitels use them as a digital phonebook next to their old phones. I mean, If you have inputed tons of numbers in to any device and it works reasonably you won't change easily.
Yeah, it seems to be the default RTFD style…try: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fncoghlan_devs-...
That argument doesn't really hold though. You're not upgrading your base(the OS) to fix the problems with it yet you're complaining about a minor(in the grand scheme of things) library removing support in a modern version. If your network is closed off like the NHS one you mention, why not just stick with the old versions you've already fixed?

It's like complaining your 56' Chevy doesn't work with the new battery technology coming out in the Chevy Volt.
There's a plug-in that does word wrap. It's something called "Word Wrap within <PRE>."
On my 3gs Chrome is showing some significant slowdown over Safari, in JS, page loads, and scrolling - all are delayed. The reasons have already been explained, but it is still sad. The omnibar makes it worth it though, gosh I have missed thee.
If you can install it from the market it will likely just work with Firefox.
It's not a myth, it's maybe even one of the reasons why startups are failing. If building would solve all your business problems, we wouldn't have the famous 9 out of 10 startups fail statistic in the tech world.
Yep, even with it closed the tip dries and I have to wet it a bit / scratch a bunch to get it flowing. Not sure there's a fix that is reliable.
meh, I get my page in EU on a DSL line displayed on my US comp over SSL in ~250ms. SPDY, etc, all those techs are free and simple to use.

Round-trip to EU of a ping for me is 150ms... probably coincidental but that matches the 100ms for "nearly local" har har.

SPDY made the biggest diff on SSL.
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>It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect.

No. You could still be fitting his stereotype to a T. It's just that his way of determining it was inaccurate (but it wasn't meant to be taken literally in the first place).

"Try living there" should be read as "try walking in their shoes / understanding them", not as "live in that physical space".

One could be living in a country and have no fucking clue how the population thinks and feels. Westerners, with their expat clubs and little isolated houses, are very good at this. But even a local can achieve this ignorance. How many rich americans really know how "the other half lives", be it blacks, hispanics, white trash, etc?

>Not sure how you get that, or even what it means, really.

It means the "general sentiment" about something in a place.

If you doubt that such a thing exists about the issue of american intervention in latin countries, then you don't have a very good grasp of politics and/or reality (at least in this matter).
It isn't sticking fingers in ears, it is yelling at business that software can not be treated like vending machines where you buy one model that lasts decades on end regardless of what new revisions come out. The vulnerabilities and inefficiencies of the old IE browsers are detrimental to the businesses that are resisting change, and the entire web supporting the bad habit is why change doesn't come.
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In the third world country I live in, $50 is 4 months salary.

I'm pulling your leg now, but wanted to make a point.

Plus, it doesn't matter if $50 is equal to 60 minutes of my time or not. What it matters is if $50 is a fitting price for such a product.

Would you buy a can of Coke for $50 because it's "equal to 60 minutes of your time"?
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I totally agree about the design language. I work on a Mac most of the day and love my iPhone, but damn does Metro look nice. And it's great seeing that come across with their other products as well.
The problem is that the general use case doesn't have a media center pc from 2007, "A significant portion" of consumer hardware is EXCUSIVELY for web browsing and word processing. Sources: every single relative I have except for my father who uses trading software to watch stocks, only use a combination of word (if I haven't touched their boxes), libre office (if I have), ie (if I haven't) or firefox (if I have). Those two cases cover 90% of pc use, maybe some photo browsing, but none of them watch video on a general purpose pc. (yet). Netflix probably changes that.
3 month free with the only upgrade being 45$/6 month is a total turn-off for me. To me, it seems there really is only one plan called "45$/6month, get 3 months free when you signup".
I think that's exactly why Adobe did it. Save money by making google do the work for us.
This grates me.. I'm sure the MS devs are more than capable of doing what Chrome / Firefox "do already".

This looks far more likely to be a political decision to avoid whatever backlash even a single failed update would produce.

Help, i've lost all 93 of my open tabs..
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I also recommend Rich's talk called hammock-driven development

http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586

http://www.popscreen.com/v/5WwVV/Hammockdriven-Development

or his recent talks about reducers or Datomic.

For me the talk about reducers was especially jaw-dropping experience because it was about something simple we all do every day - crunching data in collections (how many times you have implemented lists library? :). Yet after decades of collection traversing, there is a still a place for fresh approach, if you are willing to thing hard.

This is the difference between blindly following known programming patterns (cargo-cult programming I would say) and really thinking about a design.
Really? That seems a little harsh. It's free, it's open source, and it's made web development hugely more productive for massive numbers of us for the last 5 years or so.
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And then Google will listen and help out when you "escalate"?
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You've just dodged the subject and went on to talk about something else.

Will you first admit that your claim about "home made" rockets or small amount of deaths are inaccurate and misleading?

There's no point in debating with someone who's made up his mind and only then goes looking for evidence to justify it.
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The post you're replying to is completely factual.

His claim was an oft-repeated lie. I corrected it. Apologizing for lies is a litmus test for an honest debater. There's no point debating someone who would lie and when corrected, would yell "propaganda" instead of apologizing.
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So, despite having spend some time surfing the web, mostly right after the device was announced, I still don't know how the Leap Motion works. I realize, that this is proprietary technology so it might be simply unknown. Still, from a magazine like TR I would expect to hear at least an educated guesses.

They link to a different article [1] which apparently got a demo from one of the founders. They claim, that the Leap uses VGA camera sensors but then they talk about a force field - whatever that is supposed to mean in this context.
[...] Leap's device tracks all movement inside its force field [...]

Earlier, I heard some crude speculations about electro magnetic sensing and a mathematical breakthrough, that lead to the foundation of the company. But I have no idea what to think of them. A quick search on google scholar about the the two founders didn't reveal anything so far, either.

There is a Quora thread [2] on the topic, where someone, without any further comment linked to a 2012 Microsoft Research paper [3] with the title SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures.

My assumption would have been, that they do indeed use optical cameras only. By using a bunch of them, combined with different angles and positions as well as a very limited workspace, they are able to increase the accuracy when compared to the Kinect. Do we have any hint on whether or not they project an infrared grid like the Kinect does?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/26/3118592/leap-motion-gestur...
[2] http://www.quora.com/Leap-Motion/Does-the-Leap-product-work-...
[3] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/pu...
The following situation happens with other data than just unicode. This seems an argument for static typing in general.

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The company had already said that HTML5 was the way forward on phones and tablets -- now we know just how quickly it's backing up that claim.

Why don't we just move onto HTML5 now? I use iOS devices and completely removed Flash from my Mac months ago. There is a Safari plugin to force the use of the H264 stream from youtube.

Haven't missed Flash at all.
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