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I was at the GoSF meetup. It was great seeing Rob talk and I think many of you are taking this blog post a bit out of context. The gist of his talk was about the philosophy and history behind creating Go.

For me the talk made me more convinced to switch over to Go. I'm a believer that makings things simple is a lot hard than making things complex and I really appreciate the deliberate approach of the Go team regarding adding features. I really hope they stay true to Rob's philosophy of less is more for years to come.
The Capital One example actually turned out to just be normal split testing, not based on the visitor's browser.

HN discussion thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861037
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I bought a ticket for SF, and I got something I could print out.
So I just disabled the Facebook contacts sync on my phone, because as of today it is useless for me. I'm also thinking of uninstalling the Facebook app, because the web interface is good enough for me, and I kept the Facebook app just for the contacts sync.
Oh, come now. Mobile systems, the one place free software can still wreck havoc, is locked off by hundreds of artifical speed bumps. It is purposefully hard to mess with the os level on these devices.

How many phone distros are there? How easy are they to install? Why is nobody shocked by these answers?

Turing would be fuckin screaming with stallman; we're regressing and nobody cares.
If the facts provided on the reddit post were untrue (such as the email replies), they would have been refuted by now.
I totally agree, this happens when you first start. Call it inexperience or just plan ignorance. Either way if this designer is any good they will have new work in no time. Learn to manage your clients better and how to actually approach a project correctly. On another note, take them to court if you think it's worth the time. Or if you can take them out to lunch and figure it out with out legal council. See if you can make a new friend, it's better to have them as a friend than an enemy.
Looks good but this wouldn't fit into the modern-day front-end developer workflow. I'm talking about companies who use pre-processors like SASS, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, Jade, HAML, etc.

As for live code-editing feature, you can already do a lot of these stuff in Chrome's developer tool.

Note: I'm a Vim user. Which I personally think is still the best text/code editor in the world.
Note: You also need "/master" at the end, or whichever branch you intend to work on.
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When I heard Telstra, I thought - yeah that sounds about right. A truly disgusting monopolist.
I'm beginning to wonder if Heroku is going to bother with this any time soon. The default version is _still_ 0.4.7 [1] and personally I'm starting to feel the pressure to update, especially considering recent performance improvements.

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-versions
Another interesting column: "Who's out of town?". I wonder how burglers use social networking.
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This much is completely public:

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#facebook

(Click the "Contacts and calendars", and see that contacts can have multiple addresses, even with Facebook sync.)
> In Go the code does what it says. The error is handled or it is not. You may find Go's error handling verbose, but a lot of programmers find this a great relief.

I'm sorry but you are on the wrong side of history on this question (and I happen to think you're also wrong in your characterization of exceptions).

Forcing callers to deal with error numbers right here right now only gives you the illusion of clarity and robustness but it gives you neither.

Every Go program I read is littered with "err,ok := Foo(); if err {}" every ten lines or so. It's brutally verbose and hides the intent of the code.

And it also forces callers to handle error codes that they might not be able to, while a caller a few stack frames above would do a much better job at it.

We learned all these lessons in the 90's, pity Go chose to ignore them.
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Not.

How would you handle the case of pre-standard implementations?

Like:

-webkit-gradient(<type>, <point> [, <radius>]?, <point> [, <radius>]? [, <stop>]*)

vs:

-moz-linear-gradient([ [ [top | bottom] || [left | right] ],]? <color-stop>[, <color-stop>]+);

which eventually became:

linear-gradient( [ [ <angle> | to <side-or-corner> ,]? <color-stop> [, <color-stop>]+ )

In CSS, the vendor prefixes are exactly what we need. They help bootstrapping, discussing, and proofing standards by having pre-standard implementations in the wild.

CSS is vastly more complex than HTTP headers which are most of the time, key-value(s).
So somebody bought Danger for $500MM, but it's now worthless? (I don't know the backstory, but reading between the lines.) The good fortune of the ex-founder isn't the focus of the page. The person doesn't seem to be saying "don't work in a startup", they're just measuring how much funding startups get that ends up with a dead server [1]. Pointless and misleading for HN startuppy-readers, but I can imagine there are people who might find it perfectly on-topic.

Edit: I'm not saying the data is correct, just that the page might have value for some participants. Hopefully the creators will include HN and other feedback on final outcomes.

[1] From the page: "3. Calculation

Calculate how much money was spent on startups which dns/http servers don't work at that time."
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One thing that's critical here is to internalize the wisdom in "more speed, less haste." Know yourself, and find your productivity sweet spot.

For example, I am most productive when I am doing approx 6 hrs of heavy coding a day. More than that and productivity slowly drops. Less, and I could be doing more. That leaves time for meetings, management activity, etc. Most of the time I can out-produce at least three other developers together at 6 hrs/day, and I don't care how much time they put in.

That allows really 10-12 hours of work a day max, which means really no more than 90 hours of work a week assuming doing some work every day.
> I don't mind writing code.

You should mind writing code that the compiler can write for you, which is exactly what you do when you don't have exceptions (you simulate bubbling up the error manually).
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Previews on FB are loaded and processed in your own browser, and then results are uploaded to FB (to spare server load, I assume).
We're really only five years into this game. Everything is still up for grabs.
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I'd have to agree. If you force users to search for magazines or newspapers (that might or might not contain content you'd like to read) an they're concealed inside an App (like Newsstand) users won't bother. It's just too much trouble. Apps like Flip provide the right solution: The content you'd like to read about can be scanned quickly and you can instantly read it you want to. It's all about (quick access to) the content.
"A real hacker would never be dismissive of code and claims backed by an open git repo and documentation"

Time is limited, the stream of new NoSQL projects is less so.

I'm sure the project is interesting, but the webpage comes off as bombastic.
I really feel this is the right moment to give other social networks a chance. I am so tired of FB and all their antics . If only my friends were there on G+.....
I care about PadMapper the company just to the extent that it is a reasonable startup and seems like decent people, but the real reason I care is selfish -- it's the least bad way to do preliminary searches for apartments, and to find "pop up listings", that I've found to date.

(The second stage strategy which worked pretty well in SF at least was to find decent but unacceptable for some reason listings using padmapper, than contact the property management companies or listings services directly and ask them if they had more listings which were different. That's how I found my SF place back in 2009, starting from a craigslist ad for a place which was out of my budget.
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I'd have to agree. If you force users to search for magazines or newspapers (that might or might not contain content you'd like to read) an they're concealed inside an App (like Newsstand) users won't bother. It's just too much trouble. Apps like Flip provide the right solution: The content you'd like to read about can be scanned quickly and you can instantly read it you want to. It's all about (quick access to) the content.
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I've had the same thing happen at least twice.

Count me in for whatever the consensus action is, whether that's complaining to the CFPB or a joining a class-action.
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Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents." Wired magazine called it the "longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry". The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an implementation was released, and this was incomplete.

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It's ludicrous to call that an "anti-feature." The feature may very well have been active on your account for years without you even knowing. Yet again, the only bad thing is their choice to replace your personal email address with their own.
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The business, which is four years old and has five million users, operates like Facebook for communication within companies.
The profit story isn't nearly as black-and-white as you're portraying. First, Apple may be #1 in this particular way of slicing the market, but #2 is Samsung and they're a poster-child for the modular approach - to the point where Apple (and other competitors) use many of their components.

Second, when the modular approach was winning the last time around, PC makers weren't the big winners (that was generally a tough business). Instead, Microsoft and Intel were. This time around, that's not Samsung (Galaxy), HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony, etc (profits Asymco looks at) that's Google, Qualcomm, nVidia, TI, Samsung (Exynos), etc (profits Asymco doesn't look at, unsurprisingly, as it isn't obvious how to get them). IIRC, everyone on that second list is generally profitable and very bullish on Android (though none of them breaks out Android specifically, AFAIK). Moreover, Apple's iPhone profits include some amount of return from their SoC and iOS development, so ignoring the second list subtly tilts the scales.
looks like they've assigned a larger weight to this post so it falls faster but there's no way to be sure of course. I don't see why so many regular HNers would flag this post.
> And the reason I hate calling is that I imagine I'm one of a string of no-chance hopefuls just being a nuisance. And the staff are on the other end thinking "Doesn't this guy know who we are?! You're two months late, bozo."

Speaking from personal experience, once you get past barriers in yourself like that, life opens up to you. Using the internet as a crutch to avoid social interaction with a possibility of embarrassment is unhealthy.
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Paste the article title ("On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels") into Google.

The Wall Street Journal article should be the first result. Click on it.

You should be able to see the whole article. The WSJ appear to give you the full text when the referrer is google.
Some bacteria know up and down by knowing magnetic north and south. They take advantage of the fact that magnetic north usually points slightly down or up.

By knowing up and down the bacteria can move to the area with optimal parameters like temperature/oxygen saturation - these usually change with depth.
365 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121698
Pardon me but I don't get any alert when I run the test script.
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there's been a lot of work on skype, most of it coming in the next months. it takes months or even years for two big companies to merge and align strategies, not to mention products and tech are often shared behind the curtains so you wouldn't know about progress until some big news or big release, ie. wait till win8
Facebook has a billion users, and it's not at all inconceivable that this feature would be useful to a large quantity of them. I suspect that many users, especially younger ones, are more connected and engaged with their Facebook account that with their email. Certainly many Facebook users send far more Facebook messages than emails. Facebook is similar to Microsoft circa 2003 in the sense that a single tech-savvy individual is not their sole concern in product design.
When the Humble Indie Bundles are on sale (where consumers can pay what they want), the stats showed the average Linux user paid more than Mac or Windows users.
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In principle, you should be able to trivially turn this into a WinRT app. This way you could write to temp file storage for your app and render out of that. You could keep the codebase isolated for the cross-platform browser bits and have WinRT integration code as a separate project.
Yeah, that "Apple consumes the lion's share of mobile profits" is rapidly becoming a myth.

Eg: [Samsung] posted a record net profit for all its divisions of 5.05 trillion won ($A4.43 billion) in the first quarter, thanks largely to strong smartphone sales.[1]

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/samsung-galaxy-s3...
I lived in three countries in europe, and I've met people working on sharepoint in all three, so add another anecdotical evidence on this side of the pond too.
If only other social networks started using distributed social protocols like OpenID, Activity.streams, Salmon, OAuth, FOAF.

Don't crave for a nicer walled garden.
Instead start tearing down the walls.
Well, one obvious counterpoint: startup founders and early employees work 90 hour weeks before you point cameras at them.
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Additionally (ceteris parabus) a Linux user would be richer as they have not spent money on an OS (except the odd RHEL user). However I doubt this makes a statistical difference.
I've got a fantastic idea: Why don't you make a list of all the pages on the internet that don't interest you, and then tell HN about it. Then I can use that as the starting point for my list.
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Exactly - I prefer links on the verbs when it comes to referencing individual events. Nouns should be used for more general information concerning the topic that isn't necessarily related to a particular incident/event.
Let's also have some backscatter imagers to make sure nobody brings weapons into the venue. Emulating the airlines is a business model guaranteed to succeed!
please explain how would you go about detecting linux/windows/mac without agent string (with the exception of detecting Safari/Konqueror/IE)

Screen size? Fonts?
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Firstly, I'm only discussing it's application to HTTP and I realise this is a more general rule. Customer X- headers are a hack, but they're also incredibly useful for simple debugging ala FirePHP, for transmitting application specific metadata or caching metadata in dev environments. The RFC even mentions a similar objection under three 'primary objections to deprecating the "X-" convention' - BCP 82, http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp82.

Also, this statement, "the name space is not limited or constrained in any way, so there is no need to assign a block of names for private use or experimental purposes", this is true only for application/browser vendors (native devs), web devs are stuck with X- headers for sending custom data to the browser without interrupting page output.
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> Simplicity is a virtue worth striving for

I think simplicity is a virtue you should strive for in your designs. How complex, messy, dirty your tools are which you use to create those simple designs doesn't really matter.

In the end you don't see the 2 dozen different kinds of tools a master craftsman used to create the beautiful desk. Nothing dirty and blue collar about that.
Technically, a 404 page with ads on would be fine too ..
It is important to read the article carefully:

WRONG - Mac users see higher prices for same hotels than Windows users

RIGHT - Mac users are sometimes also shown hotels that are costlier than their windows users

"...so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see."
Hey, jinx! When I heard "US based company", I thought "Telstra". Optus would have saved a few million going with the cheaper crappier solution from some other bargain offshore location.

I'm not happy that the user data munging being outsourced but it is pretty likely that the same activity is rife at the other telcos (or will soon be, once their copy-happy product managers get wind of the feature).
Nope, the trick is that he's skipping the "id=" part between the '?' and the user ID, so the param is not being passed properly and thus the link is processed as just 'profile.php' without params. The link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=yaddayadda would work propperly.
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I've flagged you as you've (so far) said this three times, and the abusive style is not welcome here.
"When Google was a young company, she worked 130 hours per week and often slept at her desk." - Nothing from the article suggests this is an edge case. Instead the author seems to perpetuate a very dangerous meme "toughen up and work insane hours if you want to get anywhere in the startup scene".

This meme is dangerous not just because of the effect it has on people who don't subscribe to this, but also because it is just plain wrong. People who work longer hours are not more productive and they do not get more done. Its a simple case of measuring input (hours spent) instead of output (quality code, decisions whatever...), because measuring what matters is not very straight-forward.

I know the statement above doesn't have backing data, just my experience/ observations, but have you seen anything to contradict this statement?
Flight price change all the time. This "go back to the start and its a different price" happens often. As a point of data, I've had it happen, but the flights have been cheaper.
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I have some doubts about the site's disclaimer: "I cannot be held responsible for any persons actions as a result of using this experiement."

If someone gets fired upon a comment you took out of context and put under "people who want to get fired" then I wouldn't bet the above statement as your best line of defence in a lawsuit.
Another reason to use https, (and to deny telcos the right to run root certs)
How easy is it to integrate with other git providers or git from my own servers? Jekyll is not the best for content management and has its own drawbacks. But, this is something orthogonal to Jekyll, in that it call be used to edit any git files. Definitely looking forward to tinkering with this :)
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If you click one of these profiles, you can't see those messages, so how does this guy do it?
It's much harder, but possible. You could look at browser features in JS and compare them to what's known for browsers to do and guess the browser. Some browsers are highly likely to be certain ODs.

It's highly highly likely that they are just looking at user agent strings.
I am really glad that G+ does not give right access to external apps. It prevents the network from getting spammed , help to maintain cleanliness of the content and really helps in relevant discussions rather then water my farm kind of posts.
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Any more tips in the same vein as this email?
Agreed. I up voted the link, but I think the same message could have been conveyed with garbled names and numbers.
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Yep, the commits are funny too: https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs/commit/001b146fc9dc6...
iOS won because it was a greenfield implementation, and benefited from having no backwards compatibility issues to deal with. In addition, the outsourcing model of building hardware was largely perfected.

Taiwanese manufacturers proved to be willing to become OEM makers for branded products, and a lot of risk has been taken out of the system. Apple couldn't have managed this in the 80s.

The same pattern has been replayed many times over. Even the humble PC was just a toy before Moore's law allowed it to replace minicomputers and eventually take over departmental servers.