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My premise is that people who fail to detect satire do so because their existing bias makes them see what they want to see. People apparently disable their critical thinking apparatus when presented with an argument that even superficially resembles their own viewpoint.
IIRC the google public DNS service has cache coherency intra location, but not inter.

From what I've seen end users hit a google dns cluster in the approximate geo area. However I e definitely seen odd peering of a public DNS node in EU hitting provider anycast nodes in NA.
Well now, I love Clojure and write it for my hobby projects, but I have to disagree about the online documentation for it. Every command is documented, sure, but that doesn't make it excellent. For example, here's the doc for the `with-open' macro:

"bindings => [name init ...]

Evaluates body in a try expression with names bound to the values of the inits, and a finally clause that calls (.close name) on each name in reverse order."

I deliberately chose a bit of code that's actually pretty simple and straightforward; also, one that I know intimately. Now, knowing what `with-open' does as well as I do, this doc string almost makes sense on the first pass. But to the layman this is almost impenetrable. I've written a couple variants of this macro and I STILL have to read the docstring a couple of times to understand what it's saying.

The online docs are comprehensive but I would never use the term "excellent" to describe them.
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I'm not trying to "rally the troops" as it were under the assumption that they're storing passwords in plain text. That's not the issue, though it would obviously be an issue if it <were> the case.

I just wanted to make sure people were aware of this kind of practice at 1and1, and hopefully (but probably not) drive some change in the practice.
Really? This guy is a tool. Happy that he's scored points with his manager though.
Indeed - the economic pressure of my ~10 domains alone is not enough. The economic pressure of some portion of HN users is more significant.
All I'm saying is that you have to have that trust, it's always going to be the basis of how customer support works in businesses like this. Requiring that you give out your password to a person is not acceptable.
I have no idea why such a rather skewed bit of jingoistic pabulum made it up the HN pages. That isn't just a jab, the quality of the writing, its tenor, and its loaded (apparent) agenda seem wildly out of step with HN.
I haven't found a strict ordering, though, for which is better at tougher issues. Sometimes face-to-face is much quicker, especially if it's hashing out high-level disagreements or overcoming misunderstandings about motivations and general directions. Sometimes for architecture or deciding on features or cuts as well. But when arguing more complex technical points, I prefer LKML-style discussion, where you intersperse code and text, and have time to properly research a serious reply.
Strange, it's butter-smooth for me on Chrome 21 and Chrome 23 Canary. (MacBook Pro i7)
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Here's one more for your list:

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Mostly, when I come across complex equations in CS papers, I tend to skip over them and only go back to look at them if there are parts of the paper I can't make sense of without them - it is very rare to find that they are necessary at all.

Obviously any equation can be expressed in words, but those who are familiar with the notation are able to read the equations and understand the ideas in a paper in a fraction of the time. This is important for those who read papers regularly.
Definitely an improvement over the standard, and looks like it should degrade gracefully on old browsers. I can't help but wonder if fixed/absolute elements might not break the illusion, so beware. But still, (yet another) nice job from Hakim!
Pretty cool! Here's my first try:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/1d-random-walk/968033552
I can see why this guy got the job: he has the "I don't think the way you do" mentality that is so typical of silicone valley employees, I'm sure they probably loved him for it in his interview. That said, I think this guy is a misfiring canon. He's getting mad at all the wrong people for what seems to be his own dissatisfaction with not being in charge, ad he's getting mad at them for doing most of the things that have caused such dysfunction in traditional companies. Is like this guy's ideal work environment is an Innitech next to Michael Bolton and Samir.

In my experience, companies that fight to boost their stock prices in the short term end up making them plummet further in the long run. It's the companies that have the restraint to accept a loss in order to build toward a bigger reward that end up changing the world.

Look at Apple. They used to spend so much money on R and D that their stock prices were miserable. But shit, they got the iPod out of it, and look where it took them. If they had instead tried for short term profit, they probably would have ended up putting out another garbage iMac. Or a Zune.

And finally, you can't be so shortsighted as to overlook the impact of encouraging creativity an freedom. If you force beaurocracy on your employees you might end up getting more done at first, but as they start to lose the excitement that comes with being enabled and excited by a company that believes in their ability to be autonomous, the quality of their work will start to decline.

Short point: don't play devils advocate just because all your peers are stoked to work for Facebook. And especially don't do it to get hits on your blog.
Not true. Merely living together with your partner, if not legally married, can be a crime. E.g., punishable by 60 days in jail in Florida.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-01/us/florida.cohabitation.l...
Silly me. And I thought satire was supposed to be edgy and humorous in an uncomfortable way.

Jonathan Swift (http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html) is crap in comparison to this work of masterpiece (AKA "why I love my job").
> His lawyer advised that because he signed a non-disclosure agreement with the crooks my friend might be legally liable if he turned them in to the authorities.

I'd be astonished if US law allows a contract between two people to protect a criminal from being reported to law enforcement.
I think he meant that his friend should use incognito mode when visiting "red..." site(s) ... Not that he should use incognito mode for his guests.
His arguments make sense, especially when following Apples product history. I like the smaller bezel, makes it very handy and I hope it's as thin too. Looks like a very promising product.
I work at a shop where we use comments sparingly if at all. Our primary product has 14m LOC and 400k unit tests. We enjoy over 75% global market share in our extremely lucrative industry. We didn't get where we are today by being "lazy" as you put it. Comments are by very definition a redundancy when the code is perfectly descriptive and self-documenting. Thus developers can get on with their job and be more productive when they don't have to duplicate their efforts for dubious benefit.
Well, for beginners, this will kill the basic idea to remember necessary things,
But hey.. good job!
Looks pretty good. Need to back-port a couple of my projects to use a reset like this because the slight variations between Chrome/Firefox/IE are starting to get on my nerves. Now just have to find some time for such a low-priority backlog item.
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Were it a photo, that would only depend on the focal length of the lens i.e. a super-wide-angle lens could make the front even wider relative to the screen.
Comments from former submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042122
Yeah, K/°C difference is small, but I didn't expect Kelvin as it isn't a "degree". And I don't know that site/portal/.. If it were US newspaper, I would expect it to be in degrees F without mentioning it. It happens.

Also, any scientific paper should use units. But to be fair, even though the difference between Farenheit and Celsius is huge at this scale, I can't really imagine it or compare it.
Looking at UMUC, it seems it only offers a few subjects, which doesn't include CS.
+1 the left and right should be -15px instead of -22 and the led light should be moved a bit to the left and it looks perfect imo.

Nonetheless, I find it quite ingenious! Bravo
I work on projects on a pretty small scale (5 website, 1 or 2 of them need changes at a time -- some of them have 30 tickets, some have 3 or 4) and trello is perfect for me. If I fullscreen it I can get a good 'at a glance' look at everything i'm working on, and I have a colour code I use on labels to set the importance on projects.

I feel like trello has a certain tipping point for tickets :: at a certain point, its causes inefficiency. That being said, I felt pivotal tracker to be a bit lumbersome for my needs. I had to think too much / navigate the ticketing system.

I'd like to ask people who have used pivotal what thought think of it?

I haven't used Asana, but will check it out.
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While I understand why you don't want to boot all the time, some of us do.

Here are some reasons:

* Despite years of work on it, I find sleeping on laptops on linux is still flakey. My Thinkpad T420s failed to wake up about once a week (on Ubuntu), so I tend to shut down.

* I like having a clean desktop when I start on a morning. If I keep sleeping my machine, I just tend to gather up programs. Of course, you could argue I should get more sorted, but I don't really want to.

* One other problem you have is to do with Linux being used on both servers and desktops. I can see your problem. Personally, if my machine ever got in such a mess that they couldn't boot, I'd just reinstall, regardless of what had broken. I suspect most people are the same. However, I can understand if you want to be able to edit how your machine starts up, and fix it when it brakes.
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Looks like it's probably even smaller than the equivalent SVG would be. Wish I had a use for it.
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/vyHwk

one line difference and you have the non-glossy screen version.
That's why I said there's better ways of getting a MacBook into your webpage. But my point still stands, :before and :after are very powerful.
On my old Thinkpad X200 with Ubuntu/Intel graphics.

Firefox 14. Smooth transition lasting about 1 second. The smoothness suggests more than 4fps. The text within the modal window 'jitters' or 'shuffles' slightly after the transition has completed, as if it is kerning or loading a font.

Chrome 21 (stable for Ubuntu/Debian) much less smooth, quite jerky. The font 'jitter' isn't there.
Yup, just what I was trying to say. Thank you for laying it out in greater detail and more clearly than I've managed.
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It's not hate, just being realistic.

But Apple fans bend their picture of their company, as much as fans of other companies do it. Therefore neither understands, or is willing to understand, the other.
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And they're smart enough to make it corporate policy to upvote their shitty HR blog posts onto HN.
xdg-open for any FreeDesktop-compliant system (basically any Linux since about 2000).
Todos: wunderlist. Simple lists, syncs everywhere. Only bad thing is no nested items. Free.

Tickets: anything. Prefer redmine. Ok with Pivotal Tracker. Can use Jira, etc.

Collaboration: hipchat, skype, email, text, tickets, commit messages, and phone calls. Oh, and going out to lunch together.

Tried and liked Trello (simple). Tried and disliked Asana (complicated).
Any chance that the Paladia Narrow font is designed to infect printers?
Since you brought up typing, you might enjoy this related confusion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154388/does-untyped-also...
Unless you use Haskell, in which even printing "Hello World" to the screen is math heavy.
If you add .macbook {zoom:4;} you can see how the detail is done. Basically you use lots of box-shadows to give you elements to glue together. The details on the front are not actually solid lines, but a collection of circles side by side.

That's when you realise this technique is a bit flawed - you can't actually scale the element and keep the detail, you'd be better off with an image. Not to take anything away from it though. It's good work.
This technique was known about at least as far back as the forties.

What sort of RF gain do these provide? Not much, I would think.
My take is that underneath the polish and functionality, what all these tools really do, is to impose a very specific workflow on its users. Peoples workflows differ a lot, so some tools will match some people better than others. In the end, most people will realise that either A) nothing quite works for them or B) will change their workflow to that which their chosen tool imposes.
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Consider the standard Java cough paradigm used by multitudes of developers, and on by default in many Java IDEs:

/* Gets the person's name
@returns the person's name */
public String getName() {
return name;
}

That is insane. The comment adds nothing to anyone's day and helps no one better understand the method than after simply reading the method signature.
what kind of a co-founder "protects" his contacts from a fellow co-founder? Dysfunctional relationship at best. Cut him off, take everything you've built and go somewhere else. He's got nothing legal against you.

Then start learning abt VC, meeting people, and cutting deals by yourself. It's not that hard.
That's super handy. Zapier is shaping up to be my favorite out of IFTTT and Wappwolf.

However, would decent if they allowed selective Dropbox permissions (eg limited to a single folder). It's disturbing when startups (even a single individual/founder) has access to all my private data. It's not necessary most of the time either.

"Please trust us" seems suboptimal.
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This looks nice - will have to try it out later to see how it behaves. It's good to see a detailed breakdown and justification for each of the rules instead of a blanket styling dumped in with no thought.

I'm working on a project at the moment that has div {float:left} in the reset and it makes me weep.
I just hope that Stripe don't make the mistake of forcing users who want to operate in Germany of using the site in German. Paypal assumes that everyone is German, who is in Germany. I live in Germany and I'm not German. I know lots of other people here who aren't German. Europe has a fluid movement of people between different countries. Physical location and language preference have no direct relationship over here.

US startups needs to heed this advice. The minute you plugin that IP-to-geolocation technology, remember it is a guide, not a rule and it definitely does not translate to a language preference.

What puts me off Paymill is that I have no way of choosing a language preference. If I could select English I'd be there like a shot.

Google translate only goes so far...
> Are they more able to debug when a systemd setup breaks?

Yes, because no programming skills are necessary for editing systemd unit files.
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An hour to write plus 10 * 6 minutes of reading time = 120 minutes total. That's an average of 11 minutes for each of the 11 persons.

It's very difficult to hold meetings that only interrupt employees for 11 minutes. In addition to this, emails are async so they have less interruption overhead.

So being able to write very well is important, it's a very underrated skill in many companies.
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you gotta love that confirmation nod at the end of the interview
It does. It should matter even if some random guy would say it because he's speaking out on very important matters that stand on their own.
On the one hand, true, but on the other, it'll let them get started developing their actual site, rather than dig through obscure browser differences - thus making work more fun and easier to learn. At least in my experience.
Sorry, you just seem very upset about it all.

I don't recognise "crack-addled UX design community" you think this belongs to. Everyone I know working on Little Printer is intelligent, thoughtful and very grounded in reality. They've spent a long time working on a product they want to make, solving difficult problems, from logistics and manufacturing through to RF and power electronics.

It's expensive, niche and unashamedly beautiful. That's OK. Not everyone has to be curing cancer 16 hours a day. I'm glad that we live in a world where people can make silly, enjoyable things too.

It's up to them to produce the product they want to make, and it's up the market to decide whether it's viable. Everyone makes a different value judgment, and that's fine.
Although probably an overkill if all you want is a glorified todo list shared between a handful of people, I haven't seen a collaboration tool as flexible, powerful and well designed as Podio. Most underhyped web app in recent memory.
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I agree, it's great to be able to read it and actually know what it's doing. Much better than other resets which strip defaults.
I understand why they only want the latest browsers, but it sucks that I can't look at it in my spare time at my locked down corporate (IE8) environment.
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I have to agree. Woz has done some cool stuff, and seems like a straight-up cool guy, but I'm not sure that confers special status to his opinions on anything and everything tech. Now having said that, I think it's mostly the media's fault for covering anything he says (e.g. http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-co-founder-steve-woz...).
For more on Normalize.css, see "About Normalize" (http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/), esp "Normalize vs Reset".
That law is invalid, so not a big deal.
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>CriteriaBuilder API is the worst API I've ever seen.

It's not great, but it's type safe. Having said that, I do C# so I just use Linq but before Linq I was using CriteriaBuilder. It wasn't so bad because I was only using it in specific repository objects, not all over the code.
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Is this something one could use as an alternative to "HTML5 Boilerplate" or does it serve a different purpose?
At Woorank we gave both of them a spin and a must say that for our team (8 people = 4 tech/2 CS/2 Allrounders working closely together) Trello works best, even with only 2 boards.

We've put up the Trello board on a big screen in the office and after some tweaking (eg. cutting the tasks in smaller bits) it's amazing how productivity rose, just because people are pushing the enveloppe for getting a ticket from the left to the right.

Also for a workflow of a ticket having several states (planned, in progress, done, reviewed, pushed, live), and going back and forth a lot, we just didn't find a nice way to do this in asana, without having lots of projects with several sub-lists, having to reconsider the workflow again and again, etc.

Asana looks more promising to me, when used in bigger companies (20+), having several departements, using there own projects or workspaces, with their own flows and way of working.
Hey, the carousel pictures should have more and bigger smiles. That's what investors crave.
From my point of view, I see Trello better suited for managing a team project, while I see Asana better suited for handling personal tasks and projects. Trello allows you to assign multiple members to one card (task, depends on how you used it), while in Asana you can assign only one person to a task and followers get an update. Trello does a great job of providing the big picture of a project and its progress through its unique UI. Though the UI is not all rainbows and cookies. The larger your monitor the better because you have to keep scrolling to see cards.

Right now I use Asana to manage everything personally, but I use Trello to manage our company. If it was up to me I would like to do everything in Asana. I would like to see Asana give mobile a good shot. Right now they have a 2-star iPhone app and no Android app. Trello on the other hand as both iPhone and Android apps, and they are work pretty well.

One feature I really like about Asana is that it can sync your tasks to your favorite calendar app without any fuss. This feature makes Asana perfect for managing personal tasks with ease. Both services are mature but still have some way to go.
Why not post the survey here if it targets entrepreneurs, maybe the way your survey is designed does not "speak" to people?
Just for the record, if you leave keywords at its default setting rather than ~arch you can run a perfectly stable system under Gentoo.
Me too. I was thinking: "Ah, this explains why FB is buggy as hell, changes too much, and irritates me".
But you are much more likely to pay for HBO if all your friends watch it and talk about the shows.
I think the parent meant the value vs. reference separation.

Consider that you create a record, give it a primary key N, then start referring to that value by the primary key and at some point make an update to the record, the same primary key now refers to another value. The primary key is just a reference pointer to a placeholder (=record) and depending on whatnot the value in the placeholder can change to anything. So, you have to be careful of what you mean by the primary key because it's just a reference, not a value. In the value paradigm your primary key would be a hash, like in git, that would forever be that one value instead of referring to some value.
I don't think this argument holds up, because programing in Hypercard was simple, programing for iOS is not.
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You wouldn't run Arch on an embedded system though. At least, I hope you wouldn't.
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You should not compare a 'driverless car' program with a cab program, you should compare them with a car-sharing program (technically driverless!)

In Amsterdam, I use a car-sharing program called car2go. This system uses electric 2-person smart cars.

The cost is €.29/minute (driving) or €.09 (parked), with cheaper rates if you are using for an hour/day. Rates: http://www.car2go.com/amsterdam/en/favourable-fees/

Your 30 minute trip would cost €8.70 ($10.72). This rate includes everything, even insuring the driver, which I presume could get cheaper if these cars were all driverless. Driverless dispatching (instead of me having to find one on my phone and walk to it) could raise the utilization rate, and thus lower costs.

At the moment I believe these cars are given free/discounted parking in Amsterdam to encourage their usage. I can imagine that changing at some point, but I wouldn't factor that into my calculations as it's pretty easy to disrupt parking fees when all of your cars are driverless and highly utilized.