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I don't know if I can get behind this or not. I understand their desire but I don't see this as a viable option just yet. I'm not so concerned with 2.0 and 1.9 as you can load the right one, but what about when 2.1 comes out? Are they going to back-port all the new features to 1.9.1? If not then I now have a big fragmentation issue if I rely on anything specific to 2.1.

Don't forget that IE 8 is the last version XP will get and XP is going to be out there for a long time yet (sadly), especially in corporate environments. Effectively (as far as IE only environments are concerned) JQuery has just set a time limit on proper web access for an entire OS.
"That is turnkey privacy. It’s turnkey anonymity. It’s turnkey security."

These are three things that are not offered as "turnkey" for a reason. They have serious usability impacts and in all but the most disruptive configurations tend to be incomplete and leaky. Trying to provide them in a magic appliance is either dangerous or improbable.
It's happened to a friend. And not a "friend who heard it" bs, a real live person who told me the story over beers in sf.

And the gp raises a good point: what happens when the google magic fairies decide you did something wrong with your adsense account and lock you out of your compute infrastructure? What a nightmare.
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Fun. The sudden death feature is interesting. It forces you to both type as fast as you can while making absolutely no mistakes. That's actually probably a very good habit to enforce.

Small bug: if you switch to the "daily" tab, the bottom of the dialog is cut off. This also prevents you from clicking "Play again!" without switching back to another tab.
I had a (shockingly) similar experience with Chinese manufacturers five years ago. My experience cost me a company, my shirt, and a whole lot of lost sleep. Consequently, I too decided that I will never, ever do business with another factory in China. Not sure that is fair (as manufacturing problems happen everywhere), but it is what it is...

Frankly, my story is useless - it is one entrepreneur's story of woe in a sea full of them. However, when you take stories like mine, Pen Type-A's, and the legions of others that have had problems in China, something more macro starts to emerge.

I'm beginning to detect a strong country of origin bias against China - many people are refusing to contract work out to that country. If this trend strengthens, it will affect demand for Chinese manufacturing. As demand drops, the Chinese economy will be starved of the western currency that has fueled its unbelievable growth.

I'm not crying wolf, rather I'm just seeing some ugly clouds growing over the horizon...granted, getting screwed by a Chinese factory is nothing new, but....??
It's a conditional conditional comment. I feel ill.
Sure I guess those terms are about the same. Not going to spend any time summarizing it for you though :) There are plenty of blog posts that do so already.
Thanks! I noticed that myself today. Will fix.
Also, I think you should consider both allowing the space bar and return to complete words. Pressing space between words is much more natural. Not typing spaces is fairly unnatural typing.

Alternately, later levels could be short phrases or sentences including spaces.
Hmm... I never thought of that.

Safari 6 added a new preferences panel for saved passwords. Unfortunately there's not an equivalent iPad setting (just checked on iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 1), but this might change between now and fall...

Maybe you should file a bug report?
We deal with enough conditionals already. Besides, sharing the same API won't stop you from bumping into some bug that's present in one version and not the other.

We'll have to deal with two codebases.

Download and runtime speed are not a problem on the Desktop.

They should have had the guts to admit that this is all about mobile. Their denial at the end of the post is symptomatic.
Good incubators won't let you to code with one focus. They will shift your attention sideways so that you might discover new opportunities and validate your vision. Often it leads to abandoning the original idea completely.
Click the "raw" link and it's a readable wrapping text-only mode.
This is really sad new, Radical was a staple of Vancouver :(
"... I don’t think I fully understand exactly what the FreedomBox does ..."

It's about control of your sever logs & anonymity.

If you control your own server & sever logs you control who can see them. This pre-supposes you have anonymous access to the Internet. If someone wants to legally gain access, they have to get a subpoena.

You can't control logs and to a lesser extent your anonymity if you are a "client".
> unlimited tabs

Safari on iOS 6 (on iPad, at least) finally lets you open more than 9 tabs! The new max is 25, which is enough.
Chrome Sync allows you to sync passwords.
Incubators are just like street market. There are overcrowded spots where there is always something going on, and there are spots that no one visits. Be in the right spot and you get piece of action.
Ask HN: We're an AngelHack finalist, should we release our product for devs?
Last weekend we competed in AngelHack Silicon Valley and were awarded as a finalist for the tool we made for app developers called Major Tom.

It drops into any iOS app and channels positive feedback to the store to leave a review, and feedback/bugs straight to you. It also tracks app sales in realtime and comes with a companion app called Ground Control to visualise all that juicy data :-)

I was wondering if you guys would mind checking it out and letting me know what you think?

http://majortom.bonobolabs.com
a link for the lazy: https://elasticsales.com/
Node.js installation on hostmonster
I just find this really funny, and refer to MS as such: http://brog.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/michaelso...
There are some PDF readers on Android that are much better than stock. "Night Mode" on ezPDF Reader (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re...) might do what you want.
So if the market share report links below are in the ballpark, that is about 60% of IE's current 49% market share, or about 29% of all current browsers. This makes jquery 2 a non-starter. Even using 1.9 is suspect because the questionable decision making process here makes me think I will have more headaches in the future if I stick with jQuery.

IE Market Share: http://bit.ly/LUhxlA

IE Version Market Share: http://bit.ly/LUh9n2
I guess. AWS is still cheaper.

However, Hetzner beats both by a huge margin, even though it's not a cloud offer.
I'll be curious to hear if the screen is sufficient for reading. I have an e-ink Nook currently that's starting to feel a little old but the e-ink is absolutely the best to read on. Would consider upgrading but I'm not sure if it will be a good reading experience or not.
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> Fuck IE - they've done the same to us for years.

You're not "fucking IE" though, you're fucking the end-users; many of whom might be stuck on XP (and therefore IE8) without a huge choice. Corporate users, education users, those without the money to upgrade their OS/machine, etc.
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The cycle here is pretty long:

jQuery 2.0 will be released in "Early 2013". For some time (probably at least 6 months if not longer), jQuery 1.9 and 2.x will be perfectly API compatible. That means that the conditional comment approach will work with very little downside.

That gets us to summer or Fall 2013. At this point, there may be a release of jQuery 2.1. According to the blog post, it will probably contain few new features, and some speed improvements. It will almost certainly not break backwards API compatibility. At this point, you can upgrade to jQuery 2.1 for the speed improvements and simply not use the new features. The conditional comment approach will still work.

That gets us to Spring 2014. At this point, Microsoft will EOL Windows XP. It's frankly hard for me to imagine more than a tiny number of Windows XP users using IE8 at this point. There was a lot of similar-sounding concern about IE6, which has mercifully vanished. IE8 was at 30% last November; it is now down to 15%.

Even at this point, a jQuery 2.2 will likely not break API backwards compatibility. If IE8 clingers are more stubborn than we expect, we can always modify the strategy to be more aggressive about strict compatibility between the branches.

Unfortunately, many of us are still fighting the last war, where the cutting edge (IE6->IE7) was plodding and the slow upgrading tail was huge. It's time that we acknowledged that the ecosystem has changed: the slow upgrading tail grows smaller all the time, as the cutting edge absorbs more of the mindless browser population. At the same time, the pace of the cutting edge grows faster and faster. We aren't quite there yet, but we should prepare for a future that is not a simple clone of the 2004-2008 era of browser development.
tldr: Shit's hard, need intuitive tools.
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The relative placement of the code excerpts is confusing. The coffeescript is canvas code for drawing the gauge needle, a progress bar for the image upload and therefore not timed with the rocket, if I understand correctly.

The SASS example is a css3 animation for the rocket ship. But it highlights something about css3 transitions I find really frustrating: you can't specify arcs (you can use bezier curves to specify a timing function, but not a positioning function). Animating an arc requires using translation and rotation in combination, which is very kludgy.
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Elegant solution, but it's not possible if you bundle/minify all your scripts in one giant file, as more and more do.
Back in the day, several of us wondered why they seemed so bound and determined to do it in China: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3037108
it's not their risk, it's ours.
What about query latency? 5-8 seconds?
What is stopping those users from using Firefox?
Yep, they sure are. They are all benefits to particular groups that cost the government money to provide.

I don't think anyone here is saying that all subsidies are necessarily bad. Some activities are worth subsidizing. But let's not deny that that's what we're doing.
It's a reference to the new VS menu design.
http://majortom.bonobolabs.com
Only a fool spurns tools out of machismo.

Also, I'm willing to bet that that if you've written any significant amount of C, you have some undefined behavior that you're not aware of. Just because it works doesn't mean it's defined behavior according to the standard.
Will running functional tests help?
It's happened to me, thankfully I created a Google Apps account and has Adsense on it but for some reason the Google fairies decided that the click-through rates were to high and suspended the account for 2 weeks. No thanks, I'll stick with Amazon and real CS
Hmm... some of your other comments read like they were written by a PR firm, (take that as you will) and in this one it seems that you are being deliberately obtuse. At best it seems like you are arguing a technicality.

I'm not in any way defending the actions of MU, its founders or staff, but it had only be established that such devices were legal a year or so before the iPod was released. At the time there was no way to legally purchase MP3- or AAC-encoded music from any of the major recording labels, so the idea that selling those devices (and distributing an MP3 encoder with iTunes for free) was inducement to infringe copyright on a massive scale wasn't so obviously without merit.
Right, that's the point. Google keep putting more shiny things on the table but neglect to fix what we are all clamoring for: having a proper business relationship.
I made an account just to reply to this, that's how much I disagree with you (usually I'm a committed lurker).

I originally hosted my apps with Google App Engine. I experienced several problems with my apps, and I received no response from Google when I emailed their staffers on the google-appengine Google Group. Then came the huge price hike in fall 2011, not to mention that Google shut down their google-appengine-java and google-appengine-python mailing lists and "outsourced" their help to Stack Exchange ( https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-ap... ). When I need help with an application, I want help directly from the company, not a third-party site.

I migrated my apps to AWS, couldn't be happier. AWS has their own help forums, filled with staffers constantly answering questions. Not to mention they're constantly lowering prices (seriously, it seems every 4-5 months, AWS announces a price decrease).

For me, I couldn't use GAE or Google's new IAAS until they beef up their customer service.
IE9 is available for Vista too. It's not available more crucially for XP, but XP is EOL in April 2014, which is within the timeframe for 1.9.x and 2.x to remain API compatible.
It is only not possible if you are incapable of changing your build script.
I wonder if Apple is ever going to run into legal trouble for this - it can't be much different than Microsoft's troubles with bundling IE, WMP, etc. on the desktop.
You should use the feedback button on the right!
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Eh, I don't see this happening because China still has the big manufacturers, and they keep the big clients happy. Most of those manufacturers probably are good at building to spec, but would not entertain a small project like pen type a.

That's what China is all about: mass (with a capital M) manufacturing. In pen type a's case, the up front costs and haggling are a major trouble but for an order serveral orders of magnitude larger, the up front costs are a mere rounding error.
>JQuery has just set a time limit on proper web access for an entire OS.

doesnt chrome work on xp?
It's unlikely Microsoft themselves even created the site, it was most likely contracted out to a design firm.
Corporate; awareness; familiarity
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Hi, from work, on Chrome, on XP.
People are willing to spend a lot of money on a text editor, feature set is really not as important as one might think... What's important is that the editor feels good when I use it.
I thought HNers actually choose not to upvote these things since they are maybe irrelevant to hackers?
Again though, Apple is one manufacturer. They make a device and supporting software for that device. Unlike the situation with Microsoft where they were licensing software to multiple device makers. It was the OEM agreements that led to them running afoul of antitrust.

Since Apple sells a hardware device with software they are entitled to do whatever they want with it. This is true of Android of course too, as we know device manufacturers often modify Android to suit their needs or the needs of their networks, why else do people speak of having to root their devices?

That's what makes it an non-abusive monopoly, they aren't dictating the rules for the vast majority of device makers, and doing so in a way to benefit their products unfairly.
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I'm seeing a lot of hate here, but I think this is a good decision. I know what a pain it is to support older versions of IE because I was doing it before jQuery came onto the scene. They took a lot of that pain from us and hoisted it onto themselves, but we can't expect them to carry that burden forever.

My company dropped IE 7 support months ago, I look forward to the day we can drop IE 8. We'll probably be suck with jQuery 1.9 for a while, but my side projects will start using 2.0 right away.
Is it? There are other JavaScript libraries available, and 1.9 will still support IE.
Wellcome Trust will penalise scientists who don't embrace open access
Good job, hunny bunny!
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It might take awhile for the defriending action to propagate to whatever system is generating the ads?
For all of your rhetoric you are admittedly using an iPhone.

I think people who thought their BB was the best device ever, yet joined the exodus to iPhone or Android killed RIM.

That is- you killed RIM. Not blogs.
wow glad I didn't suggest migrating to jquery at work like I was about to. We just rolled out windows 7 and IE8...I know sad..tens of thousands of new workstations will probably be running it for a few more years :(
RIM is most certainly no Apple.
Could you expand on that at all? I realise that Zepto covers a (very) small subset of jQuery functions, but I thought that in a lot of use cases it would be an appropriate substitute?
>> ..as their base and building proprietary features on top.

I thought they were essentially doing that with QNX. It should utterly kick ass on a phone if they can manage battery life. As a bonus they control the O/S update cycle + avoid open source licensing issues that may sit poorly with some of their core customers. Just need to put the apps on it. I don't think android would have made things work out any better for them. They failed hardcore in other ways.
People will switch from IE when they have to. Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all run well on XP. As for corporate America, they'll wait it out as long as they can too.

However, if forced, technology departments are quite capable of installing Chrome or Firefox. I don't feel sorry for corporations who have IE[6-8] only apps. I was there 10 years ago when people said that it only had to run in IE, when I said we should test in Firefox too.
Good job guys! How did you guys get such a good domain name? Importantly, how much did you pay?
I grabbed the image and tossed it into Paint.NET; there does appear to be some artifact in the center of the laptop lid that could possibly (to my unskilled eye) be (mis)interpreted as the leaf on the top of the Apple logo. However, I don't know enough about this stuff to say anything more than that someone should take a look.
Congrats on the 1.0 release. I have been following Chocolat's progress since a few months now and am impressed with how well it has improved.
Get Over Ex 
While we have to cope with put downs once in a while, it is more bearable if this comes from someone we are barely related to in some way. However, when it comes from someone you deeply care about especially if that person was someone you were so close with before, it can cut you deep down into the heart. You may feel very dejected and hopeless.
Ah, okay. That I'm fine with. :)
I am completely underwhelmed beyond the responsiveness, which is nice. Feels very yesterday. One click thru to products page, and it's more underwhelming. Shows lack of vision for the company. "Managing home and homework just got easier." Really? This is the best their designers and copywriters can show us?
It's been a meme all over the internet for a while now. Its quite frankly childish and annoying. You would think a place like hacker news would be above that.
jQuery is throwing its burden --- on developers and users. But since it is on 1/3 of websites, maybe it does have the power to influence a change.
We got lucky and it was available:) Thx!
Well my Nook Color (first gen) is a 7" device, and I can easily slip that in the back pocket of my dress pants or jeans. Of course it is good to remember to remove it afterwards. Usually I would slip it in my back pocket on the way to the car, take it out, then repeat for entering the office -- no bag needed. It does work really good for regular books, but around the house I mostly use it to look stuff up online when someone else is at the computer. Things like checking the weather, looking up a channel listing, etc. The one thing that it really stinks at though is PDFs. For some reason, almost every PDF is formatted for 8.5x11 (or A4) -- even when there is a load of white space around the document. Now if I have the source for a PDF document and reformat it for this size screen, it works great.

What I think would be a killer feature is having a print driver on your desktop that sends formatted PDF printouts directly to your tablet device, sized for the screen. Then you would have a true replacement for your printer for many use cases (such as printing off some quick notes for a meeting, etc).
The reason IE is still clinging on is because not enough people are making noise about it.

The less usable the net is for older browsers, the closer we move the users of those browsers to the threshold of upgrading.

It may mean more complaints from the staff to the IT department, it may mean grandma asking her grandkids why the google is broken, but if enough people are vocal about it, it will encourage upgrading.

Every time you support IE, you are slowing the uptake of newer browsers, and you are a bad person for it.
But most startups aren't built around making money off direct app sales anyway so Android sales aren't the issue.

If you're an Instagram or Pinterest or Flipbook the Android userbase it way too big to ignore.
Imagine in 50 years:

"Nope, that's a bad idea right there in you thoughts."
Not in Firefox.
Gigabit is not the reason an EBS volume is limited to 100 IOPS. Forcing all customers to use 1 TB SATA drives regardless of their needs or budget seems like the more likely reason.
Hard to tell whether this will be good or bad; it does bring to mind some of the gyrations commercial software vendors have forced, from time to time.
I think it's a rational trend. Our direction has been towards more "omniscient/passive" forms of information, where you can update at your own pace, and others consume that information optionally. Doing this is cost-effective and allows people to prioritize their contacts by reading their feed occasionally, rather than by doing "pavement pounding" to make calls and arrange dates.

In doing this we miss out on some deeper conversations, but I think we gain on balance because it allows people to _choose_ which conversations they want to pursue. That's the key thing here - if you aren't feeling a benefit from socializing, you aren't motivated to do it. Which inevitably leads to the conclusion that most people are finding each other boring, even if they're friends...
Why not TF700?
The article specifically states that 1.9 and 2.0 will be API compatible. So no, you won't have to do anything other than include the proper version and forget about it.
That too was my approach, but I'm sorry to report it didn't wrap for me.
Here is the magic: IE 6 - 8 are not popular browsers. They are only used if the person using them doesn't know what a browser is. And all it would take for them to switch is one webpage they use popping up "You are using an outdated unsupported vulnerable awful browser, here are Firefox or Chrome, take your pick and don't ruin your web experience any more".

And the corporate clients could finally get through their heads it is not ok to expect employees to be accessing the internet through IE. Businesses don't have the rights to stick their fingers in their ears singing 'lalala' while the internet attempts to grow around the tumour of conditional comments and other crap.
I've been doing iOS for a year now and it's just painfully slow for anything involving a database or doing a lot of web service traffic, which seems to be most apps these days.

I'm actually looking into Monotouch now because C# is just so much easier for anything beyond snapping components together snd because every client wants an Android port now.
Hey, I am not suggesting there's a solution-- let alone even suggesting that we preserve jobs by "limiting innovation" (if that could even be done). All I am trying say is that there had better be something hard thinking about what will happen to people whose jobs become obsolete in large numbers. If recent history is any indication, it seems that we're NOT headed towards increasing the size of the welfare state. Instead we're seeing larger and large rifts between the haves and the have-nots. That's a serious problem and not one that has an easy solution.
Do you mean something like the Data Protection Act?