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Fully agree. As I stated in another thread, a good looking UI doesn't mean it functions well.

I'm not sure why they took this approach - perhaps thinking something was wrong with the old Digg design? It was the latest Digg design that had the problem, its precursor was fine and working well. They clearly don't have someone who understands the nuances of functional design - or if they do they aren't being listened to or valued properly.
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The lesson they need to learn is don't do things that lose goodwill in the first place.
One could also call it Facebook's | Zuckerberg's Law: "Whatever I claim, divide by four" ...
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I assume it's an attempt to differentiate themselves from other news aggregators like Reddit and MetaFilter.
That's not just GMail, that's all compliant email handlers; it's part of the RFC. Unfortunately, it's not guaranteed that the site you're signing up to can handle that address format - Facebook doesn't...
Speaking from personal experience, once it becomes clear you and the reviewers are at an impasse but you are still submitting, somebody higher up the app store review chain will give a call to the phone number listed on your developer account and you can have a more reasonable, human conversation.

Otherwise, he should just put up a sign in his club about no cover / free pizza for a member of the iOS team who's willing to put in a good word for xscreensaver. I mean, he _is_ in SF. Even I know several people on the iOS team, at least one of whom has gone there, and I don't even live/work in that area.
Wow, ROT13 and HTML. I'm impressed with the NSA ...
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You don't sell your article very well by calling a bunch of your readers for "rich hipster morons who did not have the requisite level of basic intelligence to use Windows".

Besides, you don't actually seem to get it. Steve felt he was robbed, so he wants what's his (and so does his successor). And most people (myself included) don't care what CPU or how much RAM our phones have as long as we can text, email and make calls without having to wait.
The big differentiator was the software. Where the Amiga had Caligari and the Video Toaster, the Mac had Illustrator and Pagemaker (such as they were), and desktop publishing was a much easier fire to light than desktop video at the time. Let's not forget that video distribution in those heady days meant either broadcast (not very accessible) or tape duplication (or, I suppose, you could have imported clips into Director and made a CD-ROM for limited-duration, limited-quality computer-only video). YouTube would have been a very, very different experience on a Hayes SmartModem.
I this from personal experience? Yesterday I played a little with Raspbmc[0](XBMC based distro) on my Pi. Besides a brief pause when changing menus/start-playing everything is silky-smooth. Including 1080p video playing. And this was while running from a crappy 3MBs SD card.

[0] http://www.raspbmc.com/
It's not really anti-competitive, and it's very unlikely to be illegal. It's just a fairly classic natural monopoly.

There's only likely to be one major classified ad company, because advertisers want to use the site with the most users, and users want to use the site with the most classified ads. That's hard for a competitor to break into, not because of anticompetitive behavior by Craigslist, but because of the nature of the market.

As for the law, the general rule of thumb, in the US at least, is that it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to use your monopoly to dominate a second market.
On the other hand, if we interpret the right to keep and bear arms out of our Constitution because it is inconvenient, it will just make it easier to do the same with due process, which is already on its last legs in the US.
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I wrote Bruce an email after reading this article on my phone this morning:

-------

Mr. Schneier,

I read your piece on CNN this morning (Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events) on my phone.

I thought you'd like to know that when viewed on a phone, the (utterly ridiculous and annoying) links that CNN inserts in their articles are no longer distinguishable from the content of the article, as all formatting is stripped. Consequently, it appears as though on the second page of the article, you wrote "Opinion: Average Americans don't need assault weapons", when that is not the case (as far as I can tell). I've included a screen shot from my phone for your convenience (also viewable here: http://d.pr/i/MTOx).

Cheers,
--
Travis Northcutt
Because their model is working so terribly... Differentiation because you don't know any better isn't good.
I also wish they announced when RDS might start running off of these. In order to achieve higher IOPS i've provisioned 350GB of disk for my ~50GB database. I came across a rumor that after 300GB of space, AWS enables striping and figured it was worth the marginal extra cost.
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Listening to feedback is great but I literally don't know anyone who didn't look at it and immediately go "nice but $300?"

There have to be questions about how no-one worked out at least some of the larger issues before it got anywhere near launch.
A <noscript> tag would suffice.
It seems to me that facebook has all their eggs in one basket whereas google is extremely diverse (even though many of googles' ventures inevitability feed back into search).

I think facebook haven't used their huge cash reserves wisely which is why faltering in a single area (aka. advertising) puts them in a very precarious position.

What has google done (just off the top of my head)?

android, gmail, google maps, search, self-driving cars, glass, hardware (I know the nexus/q are manu. by asus but google do have their name on it)

What has facebook done?

facebook.com, facebook app for mobile? thrift?
Having some experience of this I know that background is crucial, as is current circumstance. Both need to show beyond doubt that you're trustworthy.

What that means is that if you've been convicted of something you should point that out. If it's serious, like assault, you're out. If it's not serious, like exceeding the speed limit, and you didn't mention it, you're out.

Current circumstances are about trying to uncover anything that might be used as leverage against you. So having excessive debt means you're out. Being gay is absolutely ok, but keeping it a secret from your parents is not.

All techniques, from completing the application form to polygraph and interviews are about finding the chinks.
Does anyone know if these 10 touchscreen concept devices use resistive touch screens that require a stylus?
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And if you think it's ok to use national security means to spy on foreign companies to rig the economic competition and if you think a human being from another country has less rights to privacy than one with a US passport, apply.
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From the recent comments of Samsung design chief the Samsung subsidiary making parts for Apple is different and independent from the one that makes smartphones. Samsung smartphones division competes for parts same way Apple does -- they don't always use Samsung made parts in fact.

Other problem is that Samsung only makes some parts of the iphone -, there is no reason to think they had finished product design before the iphone was announced.
Well, you're asking people to dig up the roads and install a bunch of dark fibre in the hope that someone else will invent a use for it.

That's a tricky position in the UK: We're in a severe recession; no-one wants roads dug up; the last time we had a fibre glut it didn't end well for pretty much anyone involved.

Speed of connection isn't what's preventing most people from working from home - stupid PHBs do that.

Synchronous 1Gbps is unrealistic for the next 5 years. Maybe asynchronous 100 Mbps is possible. Not forgetting that the aim is for everyone - isolated villages in Wales and Scotland - not just the 4 big cities who can afford it and need it.

I'd agree that if people are putting fibre in (or building new housing (as someone else mentions)) or even just digging up the road that there should be a requirement to install extra fibre. the stuff itself isn't that expensive and putting lots in gives you economies of scale.

I'm just more realistic about finding the money to pay people to light it.
Having done several undergrad chem classes, I'm impressed how much of the article was outright wrong on a chemistry basis, along with lots of the HN comments. Mostly names wrong, but some basic concepts were messed up like you don't make a fertilizer bomb out of potassium nitrate. Its like saying you could make a ipod out of a watch, because both use circuit boards and silicon based chips.

I'm almost 100% certain the article was not run past a chemist before publishing. Note that a chemistry teacher is an ed degree who was hired to teach, chemistry knowledge is a nice to have, but quite optional.

Also funny watching the article dance around the real reason, nobody on the planet works harder than teenagers trying to be cool, and its not cool to be smart, chem sets are for smart kids, therefore chem sets are not popular as a gift, compared, perhaps, to a football. They were never popular anyway, although they did "bubble" for a decade or so in the 50s. In a similar way I expect in 60 years we'll be treated to journalists writing "whatever happened to McMansions/SUVs" and they'll somehow get it entirely wrong.
It assumes that you can't have both

You can, if you make certain - unwarranted - budgetary assumptions first.
Sure, but you could turn that argument around the other way. With 6% having licenses, how many have been able to stop a mass shooting? Is there a correlation between low mass shooting rates and concealed carry laws?
For a great example of a responsive news site take a look at http://www.breakingnews.com/

I was pretty impressed.
Thanks, I had no idea of this RFC part.
What kind of behaviour is that? And 6% is pretty low, especially since I doubt most permit holders actually carry a gun most of the time.

What do you think would happen if there was a credible threat of a gunman running amok in an environment like a university campus (many people but not crowded, lots of cover) where a large percentage of people is armed? Someone gets shot. Everyone draws their guns. How do they identify the killer? What happens to the first person who correctly identifies them and shoots at them?
Digital TV switchover has killed a lot of the mega-power transmitters, though.

In the North West, for instance, Winter Hill used to run around 1,000kW for each of the analogue TV channels. Post-DSO, this is down to 100kW per multiplex, as the DTT signal is far more robust.
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I think a better comparison is to another major risk we take every day, which is getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, something which kills 35-40k people in the US annually. In fact, 3600 Americans lost their lives in car accidents in September, 2001, about 20% more than were killed in terrorist attacks in the US at that time.

Assuming a nuclear attack kills half a million people (small nuclear warhead detonated, for example, in a port), you'd have to have one of those in the US ever decade before it would be significantly more of a risk than being behind the wheel of a car.

And Anthrax? How many people died as a result of the Anthrax attacks in 2001? How scared are people of that? Heck how many people died when the USSR released weaponized anthrax over a small population repeatedly?

There are many risks which aren't worth worrying about.
I agree. My first was a Commodore Plus/4 which had no games and barely any programs (at least not any I could get a hold of as a 10 year old boy). So I took up reading the manuals that came with it, learned BASIC, and created my own games. It was probably good that I didn't get a C64 until much later, otherwise I'd have probably just played games the whole time.
Oh, sorry. You must have missed the part where they rebuilt the entire thing in 6 weeks.
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> I had fallen asleep with my eyes open but was staying upright in the driver's seat, maintaining my speed and staying on the road. It was an extremely frightening experience, because I was very keenly aware of not being conscious a few seconds earlier, and having no sense of how much time had passed.

I don't know your specific story, but this is not to be confused with the hypnotic state that one usually enters when doing something routinely (e.g daily commute) and the brain simply drops the irrelevant information before it reaches you consciousness. Then something unusual happens that crosses the relevancy engine (a pattern, a sound, anything) and the brain plugs itself back into conscious mode just in case the situation might ever so slightly require highly cognitive decision-making functions. In those cases consciousness can drift away and think about what you'll be having for dinner or some project you're working on. When consciousness snaps back into the driver role you'll have no idea of how much time has elapsed or even which road you took.
Oh, I saw the ROT13 text; I was saying there's no real easter egg there, just a dead-end tagline.
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Was the data included in the purchase of the sale?

I am looking at the login page and it seems to require Facebook authentication, and not even an option to use my old Digg.com account. In the FAQ it implies that eventually the old data will return.

I'm starting to feel like they decided to release a work-in-progress to capitalize on the wave of press they've received due to the sale. Most people had high hopes for the new management, and releasing early with a product that is less than half finished really causes a smell.
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ZipList, Inc, newly acquired by Condé Nast, seeks a Mobile Developer for a full-time staff position in Dulles, VA. facility.

Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for self-starting, entrepreneurial-minded software engineers to work on meaningful components of ZipList's mobile offerings. We work in a highly Agile, scrum-based development environment and we release early and often. The ideal candidate will be able to easily switch from mobile platform to mobile platform. They will keep themselves abreast of the new APIs and technologies that are available on these platforms. Also, the candidate will be able to participate in the discussions and make recommendations about what are the best solutions for the many varied scenarios we may face.

Requirements:
• A minimum of a B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer/Software Engineering or similar degree, and two years of professional software development experience.
• A minimum of one year of Mobile Development experience (modern smartphone platforms a plus, iPhone, Android).
• Minimum two years experience with Java and/or Objective-C and their respective User Interface layers.
• Minimum two years experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Experience in developing mobile applications on multiple MVC architectures.
• Experience with Client Application Development and Deployment Processes, a plus.
• Experience with AJAX, JSON, and REST a plus.
• Experience with Windows Phone 7 (.NET) , a plus
• Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails (or experience with other dynamic languages like PHP or Python)

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Um, yes it is? [0]

If it's not, I would love for you to correct me.

[0]: https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/calculate-perc...

total = 4874326

amount = 4015000

4015000 ÷ 4874326 = 0.823703626

1/5 = 0.2

4/5 = 0.8

Unless you mean it's an awkward phrasing, in which case you would be right.

(No, I haven't taken a statistics course, but the percentage algorithm is taught in like 5th grade, and I don't really need anything more complex than that here.)

(I would also like to note that if I have said something stupid/I said what I wanted to say in a stupid way, theres no way to fix it now even if I wanted to.)
You still need to demonstrate causation. Simply saying 'the US has the highest gun related deaths and the loosest gun regulations' only establishes corralation.
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- People worked from home perfectly effectively on ISDN. Dual-bonded if you were fancy. Lack of bandwidth has never been the problem, not for decades, literally.

- What does that even mean? It means services off in a datacentre somewhere and no/minimal state maintained on the client. You can, and people did, do that with dial-up modems.

- For what?

- Bandwidth isn't the problem there either. It's the budget to pay huge teams to create the volume of detailed content required. Games are converging with movies in this respect.

- No-one will touch this with a bargepole, not until it is economic to deliver 5-9s reliability.

- If you build it they will come? I am reminded of Wayne's World II.
But in the cities these things are likely to come regardless - government mandates aren't needed. BT is covering about 10 million households with its fibre to the cabinet Infinity option, delivering 38 to 76Mbps, and is making rapid progress on fibre to the premises with its Infinity2 (or 3?) rollout, which brings us to 100Mbps. Virgin is also rolling out 100Mbps over its cable network.

BT is indicating it'll cover 2/3's of the country by 2014, but meantime there's evey reason to assume that speeds in their core network will continue to be increased - they've already doubled the speeds for Infinity once, have indicated 300Mbps for Infinity2 / 3 (fibre to the premises) "soon" and have been testing 1Gbps.

So if the government is going to get involved, where it makes sense to get it involved is in making sure people who don't happen to live near the exchanges that are most profitable to upgrade won't fall behind.
You dont always do anything, you compare the cost of the effort against the value added, if its not worth doing, then people wont do it
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That's not the point. Why rush the release when you know that historically Digg had problems with losing people because they severely botched a redesign?

Didn't Digg at one point purge their comments and there was a huge uproar? The new management shouldn't have went online without the migrated data, or at the very least, the user profiles.
I love their CSS naming convention.

#maincontent {
width:941px;
margin:0px auto;
}

#maincontentleft {
width:228px;
margin:0px auto;
text-align:left;
float:left;

}

#maincontentright {
background-image : url(images/tableGrad.png);
width:699px;
margin:0px auto;
text-align:left;

float:right;
color:#ffffff;
}

#maincontentright1 { /* a lowercase L or a number one ? */
padding:15px;
}

In their careers page (http://www.nsa.gov/careers/), there is a comment that reads:
<!--do not remove the extra close a tag, needed to fix an error in ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/cae_r_program_criteria.shtml-->

I thought they would be using template inheretance for such a big site.
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> Im not sure about the situation in the US. But the same
> should be true to some extend.

My understanding is that it's not true to much of any extent in the US. The contract will generally win. It'll depend on the jurisdiction and the case, but it's certainly not the case that all EULAs are per se invalid. Nor is it the case that "the laws cannot be overwritten with contracts." Overwriting the legal default rules is what contracts do.
Thing is, is it worth it to relaunch without user accounts and without a proper login solution?

It seems to me you are really looking at not having those users that was on the site for a long time, it's not like digg and facebook really goes hand to hand together...
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Primary Responsibilities:
You'll run the day to day operations for a one-million-plus user website. You'll bring up and maintain instances, assist developers with deployment to testing servers, implement new services etc. ZipList is very open to new ideas that benefit the company so you'll not only maintain, but also be expected to improve, the current infrastructure. You'll be responsible for insuring the site is operational 24/7 -- that means responding to Nagios monitoring alerts in a timely manner.

What's in it for you:
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• Competitive pay and excellent benefits
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• Relaxed, friendly, congenial, human culture
• Opportunity for growth into RoR development, if you'd like

Requirements:

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Natural advantages are typically a fairly small boost. In most cases it is possible to modify the way you do things to take advantage of your anatomy and physiology. File this one under "know thyself".

Also, don't forget that there are enough people out there that someone with all the natural advantages is going to be working insanely hard. This is why having olympic aspirations is unrealistic; in a realm where a few tenths of a second is the difference between gold and going home empty handed, natural advantages matter.

Don't just work hard, think hard, explore all your options, understand what you are trying to do on a deeper level, then attack it as if your life or death depended on the outcome. Failure cannot be an option.
That looks complicated. Dropbox targets itself at people who just want it to work without having to think about it.
>If it's boredom, you should probably be doing something else.

If only this were the case. So much of any work, even work you love, is boring, menial stuff you'd like someone else to do. You've got to find a way to power through those tasks in order to do what you love. Sometimes task lists are a good way of doing that, at least you get a sense of accomplishment for doing that one stupid thing you have to get out the way.