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Some people don't use menus often. From my experience, I use menus 2-5 times a day at most. However, if you rely heavily on clicking menus, learning keyboard shortcuts can be a really good time-saver.

And the second argument against this "smart" (or maybe legacy?) menu placement: In some applications menus have sub-menus, and sub-sub-menus, etc. And it is impossible to put all sub-sub-...-menu items on the top menu bar, so you have to click many times in different parts of the screen anyway. (Oh, yes, this is not an issue for a program with simple menu, but then the keyboard shortcuts can be the way to go).

So, there are many shades of "correct", I think. Alternatives must be at least considered, I think that it's better to let the user decide what they prefer.
The excellent Pixelmator is only $14.99 in the Mac App Store. I'm not sure how much use their is for Gimp on OS X any more.
What a disappointing AMA. He answers stupid questions about his favorite basketball player and the white house beer recipe, but completely ignores the important ones about decriminalization of marijuana.

Fuck him. I'm not voting for him. He's a mild and more sociable version of Romney.
Well in my post, I never advocated using anything other than your actual name, site, etc. In the comments, I explicitly recommend creating real profiles and using your real name. So I agree with you there.

As for the 500-1000 links thing, I assume you got that number from one of Rand's posts (http://moz.com/rand/the-first-500-links/).

First, those numbers and guidelines are entirely anecdotal. Yes, there is a "honeymoon" phase with new domains, but that's entirely unpredictable and there's no hard limit of links before you're in the clear (or in the danger zone for that matter).

Second, if a comment is put into moderation, and then must be approved by the blog owner, how is that anything but authentically earned? The blogger can approve or disprove your comment at her discretion, you're not exploiting any systems or anything.

I simply can't ever agree with someone who says that leaving a blog comment with your url in the website field makes you a Gray Hat SEO. If that were the case, there would be tens of thousands of mommy bloggers yelling at Google for banning their sites.

It's natural engagement with the community, with backlinks as a nice little perk.
absolutely! If someone asked me if cloud computing can be affected by bad weather I would say "yes, my EC2 instance blew up last time!"
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Outsiders often have a valuable viewpoint on other groups, because they are not emotionally invested.

Bush was always ridiculed and seen as stupid in German media. The US should be proud that Obama is seen as intelligent and that his word carries weight. (And Romney had a bad start with his remarks in the UK about the Olympics.)

I also remember the doomsday mood 2008 about the economy. It bordered somewhat on the brink of a depression. I think the administration handled that very well! And as practically every other industrialized country has universal health care the struggle in the US about that is baffling. On the other side the Republicans were obstructing so much important stuff! I remember the shenanigans about the debt ceiling. I wish they would be punished with an election loss for their irresponsibility to the world and the American nation.
Alexis and Steve applied for the first YC batch with a cell phone food idea that pg rejected.

He told them that he liked them, but not the idea. He suggested instead that they build "the front page of the Internet". They did, and the rest is history.

People have a tendency to think that phrase is somehow bragging, but it's really just what the original idea for reddit was. It's not about their size, but about the intended purpose of the site.
Twitter's Certified Products Program is All About Leveraging Data
Firstly that mode is completely valid for many use cases e.g. logging, metrics. Secondly all the drivers handle this behaviour behind the scenes for you. Thirdly it is trivial to set the write concern to specify how many instances of the replica set you want the write to persist to as well.

And silent data corruption is an easy possibility ?
you know it's a joke, right?
I don't know if that's a SOX law. However, I do know that it is a PCI requirement. A single person shouldn't be able to introduce new code and then be able to push their own change out to production.
You may want to read this. Posted early to HN. Has hitsory of Multi Touch development. As of 1998/1999.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448186
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/aug/29/apple-...
I would call it a table computer rather than a tablet... :)
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I seriously am considering swearing off TechCrunch because of this article. True or not, their hegemony gives them so much power, and to see it foolishly used in this way was disturbing.

The people she was claiming to know are big boys/girls. This should have been handled socially in the valley.
Yeah. I suppose if I was maintaining a list of URLs and could copy/paste them in bulk it might be OK. In which case I'd probably write my own scraper to search CL based on my own criteria and dump the raw links to plug in (a little lynxs or wget + awk).

CLMapper does the cool job though of showing all of a current page's results on a single map. Which, assuming the underlying geographic data are reliable, is helpful.
I don't doubt that Google is a very public and very popular target for those looking to breach insecure systems. Having said that, I've heard this "we are the ones that need this the most" sort of argument that they use to justify their in house network authentication by many other companies in many different scenarios. However, most of the time, the problem they are having applies to just about everyone else in the field they are a part of. Which is why open source development has been so successful. Many with the same problem, helping to implement a common solution, instead of a custom one for each of them. So I wonder, what are the deficiencies of other existing 'network authentication' solutions out there? Why couldn't they help improve those? Why not contribute whatever improvements they've mode to this area?
Republicans call for reduced regulation online, more data protection
About those three patents that are so similar: the first two stem from the same initial application so should be nearly identical except for the claims; the third is a reissue of the first so should be almost entirely identical. The first situation happens when you file an application but the patent office determines that there are two distinct inventions being claimed, and so want to examine the novelty of each separately. At least that's my understanding; IANAL.

How did you find these? If someone pointed you to them, I think they were trying to mislead you. If you found them, I think you're trying to mislead us :-)
A lot of this stuff is open to interpretation by auditors. SOX doesn't literally specify any of this sort of stuff.

In my experience, SOX usually ends up meaning that developers don't have access to production systems, or significantly limited access. However, a continuous deployment system should generally be very much in the spirit of SOX, in that it's pretty hard to do without well-defined, highly-repeatable, automated and auditable processes.
So far as I'm concerned they always do.

Given that reality changes (change is the only constant), it's a must.
I think most of these are spot on, but I disagree with number 12 (especially if you're writing code in a library).

It's worth having getters and setters for variables that need to be publicly accessible, even if there's no logic in them, because it gives you the option to change how that data is stored in the future and not break all the code that uses it. You want to be able to change the implementation without breaking all your clients' code!
Yeah, Couch is seriously underrated. HTTP API, Master-Master, append-only, these are things to love if you cherish your web app's data. I wish Couchbase hadn't abandoned the Apache version, or rather, I wish someone else had stepped in to take their place as "the Couch company" the same way 10gen is for Mongo.

Cloudant is close, but their BigCouch stuff still isn't merged yet as far as I know, so if you go with them you're still using some weird Couch fork instead of the open source version. Which might be more of a psychological problem than an actual one, but it makes me really uneasy about the Couch ecosystem they're the only thing we have that's close to a gold-standard champion.
"Every engineer I know... They also have a distorted view..."

cletus you are one of the few people with enough karma to always grab and hold a top post spot who _actually says things worth saying_.

Right on.

As for "someone with the gravitas", never say never. But they might not use the Linux kernel and GNU as their "clay" or "base material".

I've thought about such a person and one thing I believe is that they would be foolish to try to "sell" such a simple to use system to Linux users (and many of those users would, alas, include engineers like the ones you describe: set in their ways) nor to those engineers who worship Apple, with their belief in some mythical "user experience" [translation: _their_ experience]).

In my opinion, a person with the gravitas would also need to the vision to see that the target user base who is open to change lies elsewhere. The users need to come with an open mind.

I don't know what will happen to Linux. But the binary blob problem keeps getting worse. Too many Linux users are happy to accept the blobs. They don't want to read source code. They just want working devices. That's understandable. But in my opinion it's not a small problem in the long run.

Apple, on the other hand, is flat out abusing its power. Not only over end users but over developers (who are of course just a particular class of end users). They are standing in the way of people's general education about computers. Keeping everyone dumb may give some developers a warm, fuzzy feeling as they watch their bank accounts grow to new levels, or dream of it, but I do think Apple's conduct, seen for what it is, will trickle down past just us fanatics on HN and elsewhere on the web. People are going to figure it out.

If I was a monopoly-lover, if I loved to see "winner-take-all" in IT, as if that improved the lot for any of us (I am not and it doesn't), then my money would go on Amazon. They seem to be making the fewest mistakes. Great things will come from AWS. It is the democratisation of hosting - a sharing of power, risks be damned (unfortunately, it may also mean the monopolisation of hosting as we've never before seen). In "Dropbox", we are only seeing the very beginning of what's possible.

In my view, Apple is a "disabler" (everything they introduce is restricted) while Amazon is an "enabler" (generally: they open many more doors than they close).
By their potential to be meaningful in the framework of our existence. Yes.

I am not advocating for the use of probabilities, but instead possibilities.
I got a fountain pen when I wanted to improve my own handwriting just to see what is so different about them. I bought a Lamy Al-Star pen, a converter, and a bottle of ink. I would never use an ordinary ballpoint pen if I can help it. Writing with a fountain pen seems so much easier than writing with other pens.
SEO is one of those types of skills you really don't want to be outsourcing to SEO firms. And why would they be the ones creating the link worthy content in the first place?
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Enough people still read TC to where it can be considered a bully? I'm being completely serious.
It's been a long time since I paid attention to anything that was written on TechCrunch and it's been even longer since the thing I paid attention to was anything remotely sensible or interesting.

I actively avoid visiting links to TechCrunch. Because the people who work there are a poor excuses for journalists - which is why it will forever be to my mind 'just a blog'.
Freelancers union is a new phenomena...
And the fact that it is formed by independent workers..
tells you about the need for this associations.
I would like to meet the person who thinks this is controversial. And fire him.
If the Woody Harrelson AMA has taught us anything.

Do a legit AMA or don't do one at all.

Although I'm surprised more people aren't calling him out on completely dodging the questions.
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Not at all. I have virtually no guarantee that my equity share won't be diluted to nothing, which is even less than the slight sense of obligation an owner might feel towards their full-time employees who are working for equity.
What do you expect? When you're in an office, and I mean a high office, you represent that office and all that office represents. Right or wrong, the office of the President of the United States represents America on the international scene.

And people are unfair. People take things out of context. Occasionally, people just make shit up and shove it into your mouth. You can't stop them, but you can avoid helping them to the extent it's physically possible.

There's always going to be a noise floor in politics: The rampant idiocy, blatant lying, and absolute unreasoning psychotic hatred honestly felt by certain groups. Going off-message can either raise or lower that floor, and the sad fact is a single bad statement raises it a lot higher than a large number of good statements can lower it. Look at Muskie: He lost the nomination in part because he possibly cried on stage. Possibly. It could have been snow, but the implication was there. Nixon's lies hurt him, but it was likely the 'tears' that broke him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Muskie#Presidential_cand...
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Why on Earth would he go touch marijuana legalization with a 10-foot pole? He's not Ron Paul; he's actually trying to win the election. The average swing voter is a middle-aged mom, and you want him to talk about marijuana legalization?

You can either be a frank politician who addresses all questions honestly, or you can be a politician who wins elections.
The goldmine analogy is palpable, BUT in the case of the mine/property, mineral-rights and land-rights are assigned to only one party. Having the legal and exclusive right to exploit physical properties (esp. when that property has value in the marketplace like gold would) is of course very, very valuable. No one can encroach on your territory for fear of legal repercussion. Aside from defensible patents, I'm not sure an "idea" can ever be treated as a goldmine. No one can be assigned the exclusive right to exploit an "idea". Perhaps film producers may have this right, but even in their case, they've essentially gambled on the bankability of someone's creative mind, and placed a bet, so they might be better thought of as the investor, and not the "idea-holder". I think a better goldmine analogy would be to think of a person's past performance (rather than a single idea), hunger, execution, determination, network, and get'er done attitude as the goldmine - one that will deliver gold more often than not with respect to the rest of the population at large.
I've never met a 9-5 Photoshop user that thinks Gimp is anywhere near the quality of Photoshop. Perhaps more importantly, _none_ seem to think that it will ever, ever, be able to catch up let alone surpass PS.
Their "Backlink Bomb" provides "50,000+ backlinks from 10,000+ websites powered by 120+ content management systems and not a SINGLE blog comment."

Sounds like blog comments aren't the way to go.

They also advertise this service as "Penguin safe." Maybe if you launch your site between algorithm updates. You can definitely rank with these kind of links, but you will get torched eventually. This is not a long or even medium term strategy for what most of consider a startup.
The thing I don't get about the techcrunch article is in the comments Alexia Tsotsis wrote:

> This is the story that no one was writing. Amazing work Anthony Ha.

is his life in danger? is she some high power person that can destroy Anthony Ha's career? No... she's a person that lies...
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If everyone ignored them, they'd go away.
I usually have firefox, a terminal, sublime text, ftp client, irc client and a file browser open. All I use is openbox for a windows manager, tint2 for a task manager and dmenu for a launcher. I very rarely have problems with my linux computer.
I think a lot of developers are looking at this in the wrong way. Twitter realizes its potential as a service. It has been used to topple governments in the last 5 years and to stage massive political movements. A lot has been changed thanks to Twitter's method of communication. In the past year they've hired multiple security experts and have begun making their product more secure (look at the patches to the Twitter client). I think their move to create licensed applications may not be as much for money as it is for security and having trusted sources. Lets face it, most applications you can't trust with your security. This allows Twitter to have a say in who meets their standards.
A plug: If you're worried about "lead pipe" attacks, I've set up a simple service for remote-activated duress codes at http://unduress.com. I'm not sure anyone actually uses it, but it passes the tests I've written and it seems to work in practice...

It uses GPG for symmetric encryption as per TFA.
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This proposed rule does not relate to the crowdfunding provision of the JOBS Act.

The SEC has still not made public any information about how they plan to amend their rules to implement the crowdfunding provision. But the act stipulates that in some circumstances investment will be open to the general public, not just accredited investors, so stay tuned.
America has always been a land where you could fail, then pick yourself up. You could move west in search of a new beginning and a new identity. You could go bankrupt, then start over, and eventually fail your way to success and a better life. There is no longer a place to hide or run away to. There is no way to re-invent yourself and start over. The foolish crimes of our youths are now a permanent part of who we are. For the rest of our lives and likely eternity.

This is the sad side of the products we are helping to create as engineers at Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc...
Ehrenreich's book has been pretty widely rebutted, especially by Adam Shepherd, who wrote his own book. Shepherd started with $25, a sleeping bag, a tarp, and an empty gym bag and ten months later managed to have a job, an apartment, a pickup truck, and $5300: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_Beginnings
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OSX was the first system where a printer worked without not even a popup saying that "drivers were being installed" (and I'm not even the biggest Mac fan, I'm typing this on Windows 7...)
The company, yes. The employees you meet within the company, no. They're going to move around a lot, and it's always nice to be on someone's "cool guy" list when you encounter them at a different company, or as a client.
I hate to be pedantic, and I don't want to take this thread off topic, but IPO is a noun, not a verb. It stands for initial public offering, and I'd prefer if people claiming to be in the know could use it properly. Please don't misuse simple terminology, as it promotes misuse by the younger people who would like to create companies.
Former SEO consultant here. This is a fine, low-effort low-reward way to build links. The reason it works is it is not actually that easy to write the kinds of comments that will make it on a worthwhile blog in the targeted industry. The person who does this is doing better than average unless the goal is a difficult one. The attention and traffic from comments actually part of conversations is real.

Even if the keywords targeted are very difficult, this is a fine activity for idle moments or for a marketing specialist/writer to do.
Because they don't wanna fall prey of a 0-day in the wild?

BTW, a company like Google enforcing software choices for employees... Meh.
Awesome! Now when will Stripe come to Canada too?
Service-Oriented Architecture. It helps because each service is self-contained, and only communicates with other services through defined interfaces and known boundaries. Because they are self contained, you then only have to have the mental overhead of the complexity of the service you are currently editing (so long as you do not break any of its contracts.)

IE: Encapsulation and isolation, which is something that "scripting" languages generally stink at enforcing (on purpose!)
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I wish it were available from the App Store.
I like using GIMP because it's what I use on Ubuntu and Suse and I use a lot of different machines (two XP boxes on different networks at work, several OSes at home, and I change jobs every couple of years). Photoshop isn't cross-platform, and the licensing would be prohibitive for my needs. For my brother, a professional artist with his own studio, Photoshop is the only way to go. For my daughter on a Cr-48, GIMP is great.
Agreed that things should just work. In case you're still looking for a fix for the dual monitor full screen issue. I had the same problem on Chrome. It was when they introduced built-in flash. You need to disable Chrome's built-in flash and everything is back to normal.
> AirBnB for lightbulbs

This statement exists in a Universe I don't inhabit, but would like to visit sometime.
Agreed. Especially since he used 'find /Users -name "order*"', which means it was probably written on OS X.
True, but this is why you tend to migrate towards an architect/lead role later in your career where the general insights about systems and design are still applicable with out needing to overly focus on present day implementation minutia .
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Then frankly he shouldn't be going on a forum known for its impertinent (to say the least) questions and saying "Ask Me Anything".

The abuse of Reddit AMA for boring, dull, traditional PR purposes takes one of its more interesting contributions to the internet and makes it just another venue for the Same Old Thing.

If a politician wants to be careful, let them go to the old careful outlets.
Yes. That is why the water part of my bill is sometimes only $10, but the connection charge is $120. It's a worst case scenario in the few months where I hardly use water.
How do you guys release features as "staff-only"? Do you have some internal tool that manages that?
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Not to mention realtor creativity in deciding where an apartment is located. The Tenderloin? That's totally practically Nob Hill!
A lot of people I know at Google use a Mac.
Maybe there is a simpler solution then a full-blown union.

A good start is simply a list of demands + a list of possible protest actions. Developers did it really well with Stop SOPA.
Linux isn't dead in the desktop because it never was a product in the first place.

The first attempts were Mandrake and Conectiva. Canonical has been doing a good job lately, the problem is that the platform is now beyond hope on the desktop, it simply doesn't gather traction from 3rd party developers - the most important thing for a desktop OS. You're pretty much limited to the FOSS utilities that exist on the repositories.