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thanks for citing your quote!
The Web Inspector is actually part of WebKit itself (the rendering engine). You can get any improvements that happen there and between the chrome (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) by downloading WebKit nightlies: http://nightly.webkit.org

This update is for Safari itself, which is the UI/chrome.
Agreed. Vladimir, put a link in your profile if you want, but your resume is not "something that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity [1]", so it really shouldn't be submitted as an article.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Funny, the flash blocking plugin I use still works.

http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master
Goodbye, native controls and window decorations. I'll miss you.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2mk2uo.png
Unfortunately, apparently still no support for plug-ins?

Safari has supported plugins since before I got my first Mac. I use Inquisitor for searching right now. Google SafariStand if you don't believe me.

Mac users who want to block ads can get GlimmerBlocker, which blocks ads on every browser at once. If you want to customize Safari further, GreaseKit allows you to inject your own code into sites (it's Greasemonkey).

Apple won't do anything further. In their mind a program should be designed with the right features in mind up front, and then everything else can be hacked for the people who really, really care. Most of the people who use Safari like that a lot. I do.
I think we're far away from our capacity in terms of hours per day, but not in terms of average output per day: being actively working much more ours a day would be mostly countered by the lowering of hourly productivity.

Here's a Very Bad Analogy: even if you observe a sprinter runnning 100m in 10 seconds, you hopefully won't think "If only he wasn't slacking most of the day, he could run a marathon in 1h10"
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Kinda reminds me how everyone demonized Black-Scholes when LTCM collapsed.
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"...my twin brother Wes..."

Shit. There's two of them?
Your last sentence rings especially true. Each step is a potential point of failure. I tried to set up cap and passenger one day but got stuck on a couple of steps. Sure I could have plowed through and gotten it to work eventually, maybe switched to a different computer or whatever but time is precious. The word "easy" is thrown around too casually in tech circles. Today I've got three domains running on herokugarden and it still shocks me how short the procedure is. Thanks.
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In my opinion, convention means nothing.

Do what makes sense according to the problem you're solving.
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Film soundtracks are rarely played continuously. They're used in snippets. Very often, a movie soundtrack will consist of tracks that are 30-60 second hooks, since that's all the director needs. In any event, the soundtracks are tools to be used by the director.

In a video game, it doesn't work like that. Most tracks are played in their entirety and looped. It means that a song from a video game very often requires some integrity that a song in a movie doesn't need, because the song has to be replayable again and again without losing its meaning. Furthermore, game soundtracks are long. The Final Fantasy soundtracks started with 50 tracks in the original NES versions; the Playstation games ranged from 80 tracks to 160, which is incredibly long. That's longer than a good deal of operas, for instance (and back in Final Fantasy VI, an operetta was included in the soundtrack itself).

Gesamtkunstwerk is a term Wagner used for his operas, actually, and it's that operatic mindset that video games most remind me of. When you compose for a video game, you've got enormous potential at your hands: your music determines the mood of everything that happens. When you write, you're told how your tracks will be used, how they'll blend together, and that gives you an incredible freedom to really do whatever you can.

In my article, I mention how Nobuo Uematsu very frequently shifts genres: he's written waltzes and ragtimes and celtic pieces and rock pieces and piano ballads and he's had two pop hits, once of which (originally written for Final Fantasy VIII) sold half a million singles. If he'd been writing for a movie, that wouldn't have been possible: the best movie soundtracks all integrate around a sonic theme, similarly to how a symphony works. A video game's music is far grander: when you're writing over 4 hours of music for a single soundtrack, you can create music that goes over and over themes, and still have space for two hours' worth of whatever you see fit.

Because of the circumstances in which you're writing, you have a freedom to use your mind in a way that no other composer today really gets a chance for. It's similar to having a patron in some ways.
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It seems endemic to modern journalistic media to never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Frankly this disturbs me.
Have you, then?
In my own experience, from a creator's standpoint it's quite a bit different. You have to make sure pretty much every track loops well, and for non-cinematic music you don't really have the luxury of an "intro" section of a song; you have to hit the hook or otherwise the "meat" after the first measure at the latest. This is especially true of intro or menu music; the player is probably only going to listen to 10-30 seconds of the music before they move on to another screen that plays different music.

For someone who tends to make music based on "whatever sounds cool" and experimentation, it's very jarring to actually have to make the music accompany some on-screen, non-linear action and fit the theme of the game. It forces you to use instruments you might not be comfortable with (ex: an orchestra for a fantasy game) but also lets you explore instruments that would never fit in one of your personal tracks (ex: panflute and mandolin in an electro house track). It forces you to rethink your melodies and arrangements; it's surprising how bad or unfitting some non-game music can sound when played in a game, because it was designed to be the center of the audience's attention. Thankfully, because of this and the fact that the player is generally distracted with the game, the tracks only need to be about a minute or two minutes long, which is a lot simpler to make than a five-minute or longer track, and allows you to just focus on one set of patterns and be done with it. It's sort of like how a short story doesn't allow the space to develop subplots or excessive exposition, you've just got to get your point across and be done with it.
Facebook has a dev feed where they announce platform changes and they have a staging platform for you to test the new changes. And do not assume the api call is 2 seconds, now that you know this is not the case take measures(ajax) to minimize impact.
Yahoo's total revenue for last year was around 7 billion, and their net income was 400 million. The company has a total market cap of 17 billion, so Yahoo Mail earning 6.5 billion a year by itself seems inaccurate.
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Please do explain how objectivism resolves both error, and regress skepticism.
"What part of laying things out in specific widths prohibits an implementation in a high level language?"

Nothing, mechanically. I was more referring to the efficiency of doing it (OK, one thing I'm learning on HN is that I can't just think of it as a casual chatroom, need to flesh comments out more). And note the original question was an actual question and also I'm sympathetic to what you're saying.

I was taught that with raw pointers and memory control, the database implementation would chunk all the right stuff efficiently in and out from the disk and it could get directly to any row/column naturally with pointer arithmetic. I thought DBs even managed the disk directly and had their own buffer cache like in the kernel.

This part of things doesn't look like a high level language task to me, especially because of garbage collection. And I'm sure, like with most things where I lack implementation experience, this is only the most cursory view of the field.

My preferred mode of work is to use Python and if there's a true bottleneck/limitation from the language features then break it out into a C module. Maybe something like this would be more appropriate here instead.
Still baffled by lack of proper auto completion for URLs based on the (HTML) title, e.g. typing 'hacker' into the address bar still does not offer me e.g. news.ycombinator.com even when this page has been loaded before, cached and stored in the history (btw: the new history search _does_ find URLs based on the title and other page content).
This is bullshit.

BULLSHIT.

This is right up there with the people who thought that we could never travel at speeds of 40 MPH or above because then we would suffocate.

Psuedo-science at its best (or worst).

Teachers who can't teach blame facebook. Well maybe they should find another occupation instead of blaming technology. Incompetent teachers and parents want to blame social networking. Eat shit and die is all I can say.
These are input manager hacks, they are not real plugins.
I haven't seen any realistic alternative offered

What do you mean by "offered"?

Evolution makes no offers, it selects and extinguishes. In this case it has extinguished the record industry, at least the part that failed to adapt. It also doesn't care much about laws or the outcome of a pirate bay trial.

Time will tell which of the new models can prevail but one thing is already clear: The middleman is gone. The big monopolies that used to shove Britney Spears down our collective throats are mostly gone.

On youtube nobody cares whether you're Britney Spears. If your music is good then people might push the "donate" button. If your music sucks then you can just as well shave your head...

Yes, this will make it probably harder for individual artists to execute their god-given right of raking in millions on end. Cry me a river.
A few thoughts:

1) The Top Sites needs a way for me to manually add a site I want to add. It looks beautiful but right now I've got one site in my top list that I feel shouldn't be there, because I didn't like my #6 and cycled through far too long, looking in vain for the one I wanted. (EDIT: Fixed!)

2) The feel is incredibly Mac-like. This is what I've wanted Safari to be like all along.

3) People that run the browser in "anti-chrome" mode (remove the bookmarks bar and the URL bar and run all searches with CMD-L) will find this to be the best solution they've ever used. Now there's a single line, since even the tab bar is gone. Brilliant solution on Apple's part to the problem of eliminating chrome. Furthermore, there used to be a bug where the search bar wouldn't vanish if you used the Google search bar during CMD-L. That bug is gone, meaning there's no need for a workaround (though I still think having a shortcut for a javascript-prompt Google search is the best solution).

4) It's a little harder to drag the tab bars around: I like that they let you detach more simply, but rearranging will take a week's getting used to.

5) Using Zoom with multitouch is incredible - I love how that feels - but not quite perfect. It's too responsive.

6) Multiple tabs look great - I like the expanded view and the faded out text that appears.

7) Trying to open an old tab I keep trying to double click, which minimizes the window. Not quite optimal.

8) No spinning loader for the page I'm currently on? Frustrating.
It works because it uses Safari's real plugin architecture, not input manager hacks.
Surprising that they skimped on XP. On Vista it looks excellent.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrover
The one thing I always, always miss when I attempt to switch from Firefox to Safari is how Firefox automatically executes an I'm Feeling Lucky search from the address bar. It's an even better feature now that it searches my history/bookmarks first, allowing me to save the I'm Feeling Lucky step if I find a match first.

Safari mimics the live search of bookmarks/history in Safari 4, but what happens if I don't find a match there? I'm left with the search term in my address bar, and now I have to jump over to the Google Search field, retype my query, execute it, and then mouse down to the search results to get where I'm going.

Sigh.

Of course, if Firefox didn't regularly take up 15-20% of my CPU resources after having it open for 10 minutes I wouldn't be trying out new browsers every 3 months!
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GlimmerBlocker supports injecting javascript and css, and it supports transforming the html (search-and-replace using javascript) before the html hits the browser.
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Poll: How many hours do you really work each day?
I'm interested in the Slashdot poll repeated with this audience: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1719&aid=-1
Not at All
1-2 hours
9-10 hours
11-12 hours
Regarding error, from the wikipedia link:

"She held that objective identification of the values of attributes of existents is obtained by measurement, broadly defined as procedures whose perceptual component, the comparison of the attribute's value to a standard, is so simple that an error in the resulting identification is not possible given a focused mind."

Regarding skepticism:

Hyper-bolic skepticism is self-defeating in that if you go around saying nothing can be established then neither you (your own existence) or the statements you are making can be established either. It is right up there with solipsism, i.e., it deserves no serious consideration. Nobody acts on a basis of solipsism or hyperbolic skepticism.
Is that a huge complaint? I've always liked that I can just use the URL and have it autocomplete. (On Firefox, if I type "n" and hit enter it doesn't take me directly to news.ycombinator.com, and that always irritates me.)
Daria: "But Quinn's a brain with bouncy hair. I can't compete."

Jane: "Then you can be... a super-brain. An even bigger outcast than before."

Daria: "I don't think I can handle being a super-brain."

Jane: "Then she's got to be stopped... but how?"

Daria: "Oh I already know how. I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Until now."
News Flash - people who read slashdot frequently and respond to its online polls work less than people who don't.
My point was that the big things I'd want a plugin for you can do. GlimmerBlocker is incredible.

I don't want StumbleUpon. I don't want Snap Previews. I don't want del.icio.us or a music player plugin or whatever else plugins offer. I want a browser that lets me access the web as powerfully as possible. The only plugins I care about are the ones who make that more efficient.
I liked the unified approach that Chrome used a lot. Safari's wonky solution (go to "[].com") is one of the few things I dislike about the browser. However, I don't often find a need to search for a query I type into my browser, since I most often use direct URLs for that.
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I had the same eureka moment reading The Economist's science section. The articles are usually old info, superficial and misleading. Then I read an economist's blog post complaining about the same thing in their finance section. So I assumed the entire magazine was suspect and stopped my subscription.
I like the idea a lot..
See http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:olonKuXb1G4J:developer.a...

"WebKit–Based Plug-ins"

This is how ClickToFlash works.
If you count the time actually coding as work, then about 3-4. If you count the social nonsense that has to go on, such as meetings, answering phone calls/email and dealing with the normal stuff of office life, then about 11 hours.
Ask HN: What does everyone think of Charlie Rose?
I witnessed an interview from Charlie Rose to Warren Buffet last night and I was taken back by how interesting it was. I don't want to obsess over his interviews until I get an actual grasp on the guy.

I already obsess over TED talks and my time is needed else where but what does everyone think of him?

I value your opinions and thats why I ask. Thanks for responding.
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books is different - you can feel them.
I totally agree with the sentiment but strongly disagree with the provided resources. Studying style guides to learn how to write well is like studying the syntax of a language to learn how to build good algorithms. There’s a connection, but it’s missing that the art of “writing well” is split into two parts.

Firstly, yes, you have syntax, grammar and spelling - the “technicalities” of the task. These are less important than.. the actual message. There’s enough technically fine but dull and easily ignored text out there. To be successful, the words must first mean something to the reader and be able to inspire them to read on - learning syntax and style is not going to help with that at all.

Unfortunately, writing what the reader wants to read can be both very easy and very difficult. It’s very easy if you have the ability to get out of your own head and place yourself into the readers’ shoes, but some people find that, in itself, difficult. This is essential before you start thinking about style though - otherwise you’ll be to English what a code monkey is to programming.

(Figured I should post this here as well, just because more discussion tends to take place :))
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Once you get used to using the address bar as a search field, it's addicting. Right now, for example, I'm working on a project in Django, so I'll type things like "django queryset" in my browser bar and it will pop me straight through to the documentation for it.

Point being, I use it for more than just hitting the home page of a website.
Troll? Or did you just not see the link to the Safari 4 download/the screenshots being posted?
"If someone can find it I'd be grateful, but WIRED had a chart in an article sometime about 2004 showing that: average length of song is trending down, number of songs per album trending down, number of new artists trending down, number of albums per artist trending down, cost per album trending up, piracy trending up, and sales trending down. So yeah, it must be solely the fault of the internet and those dirty pirates that the music business is slowly falling....."

Uh, what? All those facts seem pretty consistent with artists losing sales due to piracy. Fewer new artists and existing artists making less music could indicate that piracy is taking away incentives for people to make music. Even cost per album could be due to trying to re-coup more revenue from falling sales (not saying this is a rational strategy, but not inconsistent with losing music sales to piracy).
This is what I was afraid of. Do we really need to see a tacky, funhouse rewrite of every little bit of startup gossip the day after?
I guess my browsing model works a bit differently, then. I use a keyboard shortcut to search, so that's just as approachable as the URL bar to me.
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When you write non-fiction you are trying to convey facts. That's why all these guides focus on non-fiction because, in truth, you are conveying information more than anything. So rules like the ones in these guides bring you closer to the ideal because they strip away anything that is not relevant to relaying the information.

Even if something is non-fictional, it can still be a story. The most engrossing non-fiction content (such as investigative journalism or essays) has more in common with fiction (in the sense that stories are relayed and emotions are worked) than it does with dry parroting of facts.

Learning at least the basics of storytelling and being able to write good fiction are essential skills for non-fiction writers who aim to be engrossing.
Enough with the shyness, tell us how you really feel.
On 1) You can (at least on Mac) — drag a site icon from address to Desktop, then open a new tab with Top Sites and drag the alias into it. (But be careful: I just did this, and can't remove the site from Top Sites :)
"Voluntary data are worthless"

c.f. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491723

Especially when the polls lack any sort of attempt to prevent double (or more) voting, and are generally viewed as a joke.
The root issue of having copyright laws that enable corporations to sue people for dancing baby videos.
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One needs to be careful, however, of being too concise or focused on density alone. There are many lessons that are better relayed (and learned) in the form of a story or anecdote than in dry, factual form.

Of course, if you do use stories, then being concise within that form is, naturally, still an important consideration, but storytelling mustn't be ruled out simply because it tends to rely on using more words (I know you weren't saying that, but I think it's a key point.)
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We used to joke that you could tell when someone in the cube farm was sending email or IMing - it's when they were pounding on the keys/typing like madmen - no one can write code that fast without sacrificing quality and/or non-broken-ness!
These people deserve to be treated with the same courtesy, dignity, and respect as everyone else. You would be surprised to see how people change when they get a nice response from a human.
Excellent! Worked perfectly. (If you go to Edit, you should be able to delete it. I tried and it worked.)
Perhaps it is because many less savvy users fail to grasp the concept of a URL serving as their identity, and find the whole OpenID system to be extremely confusing. This may result in lots of support tickets / complaints, complaints lead to hate and hate leads to suffering.
no one deserves that abuse.

what does that have to do with dignifying such a message with a response? be professional. drop it or respond with the upmost respect and civility. getting off topic is a waste of your time.
Well, at least it knows where it is.
I like the phrase "authorized jobber." Much more catchy than "middleman."
The number of languages isn't the issue. The issue is putting them all together in the space of a few lines.

It's bad organization.
Nobody said it was a technical requirement. Just that they were "limited". The net result is that netbook manufacturers are selling machines that don't live up to the capabilities of the hardware or the OSes. There are ways around them, and recompiling linux kernels and installing Mac OS are just two of them.
I think that figure is outrageous. Back when I worked in the corporate environment, I worked considerably less than 4 hours a day.
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Actually a corporation is, legally, an individual.
That is the record label's argument verbatim. There is not shortage of new bands or artists and most artists make almost nothing off albums sales. Most touring bands make the majority of their money on merch sales.
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NoiseBridge is up the street a bit, 16th instead of 21st. I keep meaning to visit them. OHH is nothing special -- it's just an excuse to meet other startup folks.
As if this wasn't amazing enough, let me compare Peldi to a certain Big Freaking Enterprise whose software we use, which also has a Japanese localization issue:

Cost of software:

Peldi: < $100 (was a free review copy, technically)

BFE: more money than I will make in the next 10 years

Bug opened:

Peldi: 21 hours ago

BFE: 7 years ago

Bug status:

Peldi: Fixed

BFE: Really Soon Now (TM)