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You're probably right, especially given that these seem to be pure-javascript benchmarks, where Linux shouldn't have any particular disadvantage.

What this misses, and what is the real problem with Firefox on Linux, is rendering performance. XRender, as far as I know, is not quite where it should be. There are two ways to accelerate it, EXA and XAA, and their performance varies greatly by point release of each driver. Throw in compositing, with a different set of interactions across drivers and acceleration architectures, and the whole gamut of misconfigured distributions, and you get an unspeakable mess.

It would be nice if X.org could finish undoing the damage of XFree86's latter days, and get the drivers stable enough that distributors could figure out how to package them properly. Then maybe somebody could do something about the generally unpleasant and slow Linux GUI experience.
You can skip down to his point which is to abandon highly marketed programmer junk and do:

1. DRY

2. KISS

3. YAGNI (you aren't going to need it)

Sure, OK. To me, this is like saying skip the Nutri-Slim and learn how to exercise and eat right.

But under all this (including being healthy) is the challenge of harnessing your will and thinking clearly and independently. It takes self-awareness and effort. Being a clean and effective programmer falls out from this, not from learning "oh, ok, keep it simple stupid. Check."
PGO is pretty new, and it's turned on for the current builds of Firefox 3.1.

I'm guessing it wasn't enabled by Mozilla initially for the usual reasons of complex packaging problems and low manpower for the Linux version.

Distribution packagers generally aren't that knowledgeable about what they package, but that probably isn't what's wrong in the specific case of Firefox, which gets a lot of attention. For Firefox, it's probably the fact that Mozilla has very specific software requirements, and distributors have been burned (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=368) in the past by ignoring them. So... distributions generally don't do much to change what they distribute as Firefox.
why no Konqueror or webkit based browser comparison?
This kind of delay? 3 months. The wait was excruciating.
A more modern, work-safe version from SNL:

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I agree, on every private tracker there is a surplus of "seedboxes" or dedicated servers with gigabyte connections ready to keep the torrent community alive. These communities are often where the torrents found on public trackers originate. Most seedbox providers don't even not allow torrents from public trackers.

Although the average bittorrent user may be effected, a large migration, as a result of Pirate Bay shutting down, to private trackers would make it harder for the copyright owners to shut them down and track users because they are much more protected.

The nature of bittorrent and the huge communities surrounding them make it an almost impossible force to stop (outside of direct ISP intervention).
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Actually. Most lotteries become good bets when the jackpots get large enough.

Lotteries never become a good bet. However, if one wanted to waste their money, picking a number that doesn't resemble a birthday or something someone else would choose would be a good idea. On the other hand, if you won the lottery from a $2 entry, $500K would be just as good as $15m since it was all random anyway.
They say that support will come for other countries by the end of the quarter.

However, if you don't want to wait and see what they do, maybe you just need a partner in the US who can set up an Android Market account and pass you the money ? It would work best for you if you had a relative you could trust in the US, they could set up the account and give you the password, and you would work everything from there, and when the money hit the US person's account you would have them transfer it by whatever means were most convient.

If you don't have such a person, maybe ask here on YC and see if you can find someone who would be willing to do it, and sign a contract to deliver the money.

If you don't mind telling us, what is your app and what feature does it use that stops it from running on the iPhone ?
does this guy ever do anything else but talk about himself? HN is going downhill when narcissists are now on the front page.
Yeah, like I thought, middle management in a startup.

I like the post, and sure I guess it's great to have someone pull it together but if that person could also be adding some value to the actual building as well that would be even better.
Note that the guy who Apple hired to build their retail empire is Ron Johnson, a veteran of Target.

Transformers, indeed.

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/ronjohnson.html
But now, everyone will start making "Lite" versions of their apps, and the same trick will not work as well as it did for this guy.
It takes them 3 months to review your app for the Store?
So, this is a BDB clone without the years of testing of BDB? That's exactly what I want for my critical data.

I am really confused as to why one would implement this in C. One pointer math problem, and boom, gigs of data are corrupted. If you are going to reimplement BDB, you might as well do it in Haskell or OCaml and buy yourself a little type safety. (Incidentally, this is on my TODO list, but BDB works well enough for us at this point.)
I am not so sure predicting when a fiat currency will be inflated is tricky.

The money supply and interest rates being econ 101.

And thinking of hyper inflation, where does that usually happen?

Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, the Weimar Republic - if a bad government wants to screw you, a gold backed currency won't save you.
Does anyone think someone like Mugabe wouldn't just change the rules to do what ever he wants?

Besides, even that Money as Debt movie explains that gold is easily manipulated and thus volatile, so not good as a currency.
What difference do his credentials make?

If you want to know if something is true, do research, don't just assume that someone's credentials make everything they say true.
"In June 2005, BitTorrent, Inc. released version 4.2.0 of the Mainline BitTorrent client. This release supported "trackerless" torrents, featuring a DHT implementation which allowed the client to use torrents that do not have a working BitTorrent tracker."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table
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I played this game back on my first DOS computer with Gorillas throwing bananas. Found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(computer_game)

It looks like it originated on Apple II in 1980, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
I guess I should have said that I was at a job fair. I realize that I could have emailed my resume to the company before or after the fair, but I wanted to leave the recruiter with something tangible to both indicate my interest in their company and to display my relevant skills.

However, your comment has prompted me to send an additional, electronic version of my resume to all the companies I gave hard copies to. It can't hurt, and it might give it additional visibility.
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Just a heads up: Wine is not an emulator, so software running under Wine is infact "native" software. There is no reason why it should be slow, so saying "Wine beats Linux Firefox" should not necessarily imply that Linux Firefox is particularly sluggish.
So basically showcasing a bunch of technology they aren't making money off of in hopes they will buy other products while they visit? I think most people buy Windows and Word because its standard not because the technology impresses them.

As for improving the public images, is the mainstream consumer persuaded by a companies ability to be on the cutting edge or the ability to satisfy their current needs effectively?
Especially when it comes to science. Drove me nuts when I first moved here
If I install the 3.0 package on Ubuntu, will the "python" shell command be forced to 3.0? In other words, what are the basics of doing and using a dual 2.x/3.0 installation?
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Have there been any good examples of a peer-to-peer distribution of torrent files? From what I've seen its been either the trackers or search engines indexing the trackers that distribute the torrents most effectively.
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You can still get A4 sized paper here in the states, although not at OfficeMax (I don't think). Most paper stores would have it though. The trouble is all of our file cabinets, folders, and whatnot are designed for letter size.
Why I won't touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole:
Because I don't have a ten foot pole OR a Kindle 2, and even in I did, doing so would be utterly pointless.
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I was going to say-- without Modules, Procs, or Blocks, it's not really Ruby, now is it? :P Still, a ~2000 sloccount makes this a neat and succinct little piece of software, so grats to the author.
There's a clear distinction, though. Prisons are not designed for the benefit of the imprisoned. Compulsory schooling is, at least in theory, for the students' own good.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. As a US-trained scientist, I never used anything but the metric system except when standing inside a machine shop.

Scientists are among the US citizens most likely to relate to the metric system. Although I have to confess that my personal temperature meter is still calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit. ("Uh, it's 25 degrees in Rome today. Is that really hot? I can't remember.") For some reason temperature is my brain's last holdout: I'm pretty well used to meters and liters and even kilos. Perhaps that's because a liter is like a quart, a meter is like a yard (and a kilometer is close to a half mile) and a kilo is about two pounds, but Fahrenheit is completely nuts because there's an offset as well as a ratio in the conversion.
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I am trying to decide whether I'd rather spend my summer at Microsoft or Amazon as an intern. Unfortunately there's only one of me...good problem to have, I guess, but still requires a decision. There are things I really like about Microsoft and there are things I really like about Amazon. Everyone I've talked to from both companies seems really happy there, but I guess if they're talking to potential hires that's then it's their job to seem happy. The team I would be on at Microsoft is a reasonably interesting one (and my potential manager seems like a really good guy); with Amazon I'd get to list team preferences after accepting my offer. The offers are pretty similar in most respects; one is a few hundred dollars more a month than the other, which is nice but I feel that it's less important in the big picture decision of choosing a company.

This decision carries extra weight because although it's just an internship, assuming I do well it may become my first full time job after I graduate next year.

So...if anyone at HN has experience working at either company, or knows people who do, or just has some advice/insight, please share. :) Thanks!

(I'm a reasonably active HN user, but created this account to increase anonymity - so I'm not just wisdom leeching.)
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No support for anything besides Google's official hardware, though. Screw Google and the 'open' Android platform.
That's because it's not a DRM laden monster and the distribution of music is such that there are many alternative ways to get songs you've purchased onto one without involving DRM. Unfortunately the same can not be said for books even though essentially all of the electronic books will let you put non-drm'd material on them.
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Anyone have experience with nexpose or other automated penetration testing?
We just asked for, and got, our first audit, from our university's nexpose install. A lot of it seems pretty legit, most of it I knew before hand. Considering that zero holes out of umpteen thousand is the score you want, what's a "good" score? How does nexpose stack up to nessus, etc?

Also, how do people handle xss? Do you prefer sanitizing all your own code or do you run mod_security? How do you handle mod_security's stringency? Are there well-established "looser" and "tighter" rule sets out there?

All questions of a med student working on a side project for no money: I'm unabashedly trying to optimize both time and money and quality. "Pick two" is not the advice I'm looking for. I would greatly appreciate actual comparisons based on your experience and suggestions I can act on.
Perhaps the best method to fix this is to leave it alone and let the 'free market' work things out. Another site to succeed the current generation is due to pop up soon. It will probably try some new things, and if they work then it will have a longer golden age. Gradual evolution could patch these issues. There also seems to be room for more than one site (Slashdot still exists, after all), so this process can go on in several places simultaneously.
I got DaVinci Code just to see why everyone in the airports was reading it, and wow. I mean, just wow. If you ever find yourself routinely overestimating the intelligence of the average American, read that book, then Google around to find out how many copies it sold.
Another example:

I checked my DVR for the latest Office 2 weeks ago. Nothing there. Was the problem the DVR or was there no new office?

Twitter search: "the office"

Results: "wtf -- no new office this week" and about 100 other similar messages.

I do things like this a few times a week now. Twitter Search is about as exciting as Web 2.0 companies get, imo.
You know, at least I got through DaVinci code (though maybe only because it was an audiobook and I had a very long drive). Try reading anything by Robert Ludlum. I liked the Bourne movies, but I couldn't get 50 pages into that. It was like reading third grade fiction projects. I can't believe writing that bad could be published.
I avoid the hardcovers except for those of very few authors because, they're physically awkward and heavier, however, I have reread every hardcover novel I've purchased at least once. In fact I've reread almost every novel I own at least once and within the next 20 years I suspect I will have reread my current shelves at least 3 times on average. For me it's equivalent to rewatching a movie, which people do all the time.

If you never reread books the kindle makes much more sense, but I do, and I lend them out a lot too.
Can you give a general idea of what kind of "team" at MSFT? is it internet related or software related?
Mac OS X has something almost identical to this built into its Services menu. By the way, the Services menu is tragically underused and needs help.
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bête), and Orpheus.

Try the version of Beauty and the Beast with the Phillip Glass soundtrack (basically turning the film into an opera).
"The file-format [PDF] is only semi-open and Acrobat files are larger than I’d like them to be, when compared to the amount of information encoded within them. There’s also the small point of cost."

I would like to point out that this was written in 2002 when it was still valid. PDF is now an ISO approved standard (ISO 32000) and therefore quite open. Also, making PDF files at least for viewing is a breeze. If you use latex (and why wouldn't you?), pdflatex works great and can even handle edge cases like PDF forms using hyperref. If not, PDF printers are still a dime a dozen (quite a few are actually free) which can produce PDFs without any hassle.

In conclusion: PDF owns all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_O%27Brien_(journalist)

"Based in New York City, he served as CNN's chief technology and environment correspondent. He was also the network’s space and aviation correspondent and an occasional stand-in anchor. He anchored The Situation Room on November 26, 2008, covering the terrorist attack in Mumbai on the Oberoi Trident and Taj Mahal Hotels, as well as several other locations.

He covered Hurricane Katrina for several weeks anchoring CNN’s Peabody and Dupont Award-winning coverage.

During his 16-year tenure at CNN, he anchored several news and talk programs, including Science and Technology Week, Saturday Morning, Sunday Morning, TalkBack Live, Headline News Primetime, Live From... and, most recently, American Morning."

This guy is not really a great example, although the article is definitely exceptional. He's pretty entrenched in the old media.
Well...both, actually. Sorry for the vagueness, but I prefer to stay anonymous as much as possible.
The table DB type and Tokyo Tyrant for network access seems like a pretty big deal to me. The full text search seems pretty damn awesome too. With regular backups it doesn't seem that risky for certain things.
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Fair enough - I reacted pretty harshly.

I try to read everything on HN, especially Kindle criticism, because the popular opinion is negative on this site and I like to play devil's advocate.

As for flagging: it's really not my trying to get back at you. As you say: you didn't submit this and you're allowed to write anything you want. I still don't think it's HN-worthy, though, hence the flagging. It's not "Let's piss masukomi off," it's "hey, maybe other people were similar-minded and flagged this, in which case the story gets killed in exchange for a more relevant one."

As for 3): I take everything personally kind of as matter of routine. I'm very, erm, passionate about stuff like this. Again, I hope you're not offended by my taking offense, because it's nothing personal towards you.
But it shows that windows firefox is still much faster than linux firefox.

I'm very grateful for this article because this has been a pet peeve of mine for years, too. I sometimes run a win32 firefox inside a vmware window side-by-side to the native linux fox - even the vmware fox wins hands down, talk about humiliation.

The situation has improved a lot with Firefox 3 and the latest Minefields but it's still a night and day difference to windows or OSX. While the UI performance has become nearly bearable (at least it doesn't freeze rock solid for multiple seconds anymore) the javascript performance is still ridiculous. Usability tanks with only a few addons loaded and Firebug has become nearly useless to me recently because it has grown a habit to halt on any pages containing non-trivial javascript with the dreaded "A script on this page made me pee, Abort or Freeze?"-dialog.

Opera is proof that it doesn't have to be that way. It's zippy on every platform, including linux. Just compare the two on anything involving alpha-transparency, e.g. http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/.

Well, perhaps this article will finally draw some attention to the problem. Linux shouldn't to be treated like a third-class citizen on the single most important app. After all many (if not most) developers, the people who actually build the visible portion of our internet, are doing it on linux.
Not aimed at you, but too many people are searching for that magic "something" that will help them be awesome. When you get to the top of a field and talk with your peers, you realise that everyone else has the same questions as you, and that the answers come slowly and loudly. It's hard to miss truly great things.
That would depend on if you believe the primary purpose of prison is punitive or rehabilitory.
This is an advantage for Linux over Windows? Buying Windows and all the software needed and dealing with any technical issues will be far cheaper than developing the software again in every scenario. People use computers for work, not to use computers.
seems a great list to pick from... thanks
Maybe the answer is in Microsoft optimizing compiler? MS compiler may optimize the same C++ code much better than gcc.
Do you feel that you want to be a career developer or do you think you'd prefer starting up somewhere?

If you think you want to be a career guy, go with Microsoft; it's golden on any resume and it has the benefit of treating its employees very well.

If you think you want to be a startup guy, I'd say that you hear about many more people doing startups with Amazon in their past than Microsoft. Plus, Amazon is an expert in the efficiency game - they know what technologies can get the job done, and being exposed to that culture is great for forming the startup mentality.
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Not at all. There's nothing obsolete about it. There's a social aspect to switching because others have done so but that's all. Except for that it's change for change's sake. An inch, a foot, a yard are all very intuitive measures that have good rough ways of being measured without any tools. I'm not sure what I get from metric that beats this. It's just convention. If anything metric is more arbitrary. Metric is design by committee, as hacker's we should consider that a mark against it.
do iphone developers care about support? it's not like anyone can try the program without buying it or ask for a refund. worst case someone leaves a one-star rating saying "this program sux!" which no one reads anyway.
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Come and show it to the group!

We are looking not just for people that make products, but we really want to also engage people who buy products and use them.

Products can be anything to start off with.

A few ideas could be clothing accessories, plants, kitchen gadgets, electronics, or anything else you can think of that you think would be interesting to share.

The more we all know about what we like, the more we can provide each other with good stuff.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to call it evil, but yeah I agree it's not exactly Ruby.

Using Lemon is an interesting choice. Our product is very parser-heavy, and we've played with most of the mainstream libraries. I'm not sure what the win is with Lemon over Racc.
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Python code will run competitively as fast as C <--- that's highly unlikely that will happen in 50 years, let alone five years.

Have you been keeping track of programming history at all? Lisp isn't as fast as fortran or C, and it's been around for 50 years.

You're delusional, I'm sorry.
I don't understand the extra level of protection... they are again offering torrents of copyrighted material. also the value would lie in the users sharing, which means that both the normal users and the law enforcement guys will get the same privileges, just as in the case of piratebay.
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