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True. For all the bitching about Mozilla's switch to a Chrome-like rapid release schedule as well as the "virtue" of having a stable target platform to develop against, by the time IE11 becomes reality, it'll have degraded from "really good" to "outdated" at the least.
Wow, I want this at work.
There will be no patent reform as long as the tiny niche of web software people claim that everyone who doesn't oppose the existing system is in favor of "IP maximalism." Patent reform is going to require web software people convincing the electrical engineers why software patents have a very different effect in their space than say the patents on OFDM, and they're not going to do it by being arrogant and dismissive.

The rest of the engineering community by and large doesn't understand what software folks are ranting about. People don't accidentally infringe on the OFDM patent, people don't accidentally come up with the same chemical formula for a drug. To them, people who oppose patents are in the same bucket as Chinese companies who rip off American technology--they want to copy other peoples' work for profit.

This is not to say that patent reform in the area of software isn't beneficial or desirable. But the attitude that anybody who opposes it won't listen to reason dramatically overstates the universality of the arguments and the consensus around the position.
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This news is actually a brilliant illustration of the sloth of academic publishing. I used Color as an example in a book review of an academic text on the knowledge economy, written now almost 18 months ago. Hopefully, it will be published by the end of the year.
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And yet everyday using it at work, the OS will boot, the cursor and HD will idle, I'll click IE10. I wait a few seconds and it appears to have loaded. I click in the URL bar. Wait. Okay, finally I can talk, nope, it loaded Bing and now it's stolen the focus on my text input. (Or vice-versa where the DOM is still largely unusable as IE render it).

Before I get a lecture on my computer, these were on brand-new-images of Windows 8 RTM that I was using on clean, very powerful machines. Chrome is still so responsive and snappy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the focus has been on JS and HTML5 and CSS3 but using IE still feels as much a chore as ever.
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likely not, because they are already in "the battle" and have been on both ends of the barrel, they're not on the outside looking in and considering that they'd prefer not eating a broadside.
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"This way, you can run complex analytic queries, join different collections, and benefit from SQL data visualization tools."

"In the following, we show a rather simple query, but complex queries that involve sub-selects, SQL window functions, and collection joins are also possible. In fact, you can even join a MongoDB collection with a PostgreSQL table."

"And the really exciting part for us is that CitusDB can easily enable analytic queries for sharded MongoDB installations, as it is built on PostgreSQL and can already distribute SQL queries."

This company builds CitusDB, "a distributed database that lets you run SQL queries over very large data sets. Designed for analytical queries, CitusDB enables real-time responsiveness." This apparently allows their software to work with MongoDB.
It's called the EU safe harbour certification. I'm not sure how rigorous it is.
I would love to see a good example of your first case. It is difficult to imagine and learn from it without seeing it action.

As I mentioned before, it seems the number of people who can actually pull off good comments are exceedingly small. I've looked at some prolific open source projects that have a decent amount commenting around method definitions as you suggest is good practice, but found the comments to be no more enlightening than just looking at the source code itself. I will assume they were just poor examples.

I do agree with everything else you said though.
No, it's better this way. Because Amazon has plenty to lose from letting go of patents, so the message is that much stronger. Amazon is in the game, and if anything on the whole they're winning the game, and they are still saying that the game is messed up and needs to be changed.

If Richard Stallman yells that the patent system is broken and needs to be changed nobody is going to listen, of course he's going to say that, he's a zealot with no skin in the game, it costs him nothing to say that.
Not only straightforward, but also not novel. For example such lists have been described (with source code) in this textbook (published in 1994): Taming C++: Pattern Classes and Persistence for Large Projects by Jiri Soukup. Here's a picture taken from this book illustrating the concept: http://community.moertel.com/~thor/blog/pix-20061201/soukup-...
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It is certainly not misrepresenting the issue, the rolling shutter is a big issue. Having said that, as a pro-sumer bit of hardware this camera is a fantastic deal. For true professional shoots the rolling shutter is problematic precisely because this is the type of camera that you will be putting in high-vibration locations. I've used these cameras extensively and they are great at what they do if you play to their strengths, but I'd definitely be willing to pay more for them if they move away from a CMOS sensor.
Why not ? Just because you bring up money does not mean you are only interested in money. I always bring it up if it helps. Look at it this way. Employers will negotiate hard with you to give you as minimum as possible. So why should you be shy to negotiate and get as maximum as possible.

Use this in addition to the value you bring and other context etc. as you mentioned.
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I generally don't cite specific offers -- if nothing else I consider the information that a competitor is offering $X to be confidential. I also don't like to discuss other places I'm interviewing.

I will say that I have competing offers, and I'll be up front about what I want to make. I think at that point my potential employer has all the information they need.
Just for Windows 7? So now they are giving up on supporting Vista, too? Going by this trend, IE11 will only support Windows 8. Meanwhile, Chrome and Firefox support all Windows versions up to XP.
Well it's not trying to "prove" that radical Christian ethics are different so much as just giving an example of a different thought process. I actually think the fact that it can be expressed in terms of a pagan philosopher strengthens the argument.
It's manual. You have to setup the encoder to download a copy to your hard drive and then upload it afterwards. It's not automatic.
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Be careful, though. Replying "I don't know," or "What's that?" can have the effect of calling someone's bluff. If they are someone you do not want to offend, the situation can get awkward quickly.
Officially announcing things that "everybody knows" already can still make a difference. It means that you can ask Google executives about those things in public appearances and they'll at least acknowledge the question even if they refuse to answer substantially.
And at the end of the battle, Slattery shook Ender’s hand and said, “I’m glad you won. If I ever beat you, Ender, I want to do it fair.”

“Use what they give you,” Ender said. “If you’ve ever got an advantage over the enemy, use it.”

“Oh, I did,” said Slattery. He grinned. “I’m only fair-minded before and after battles.”
I'll be keeping my account, because there are several small subreddits I enjoy reading and participating in. That's the extent of my association with Reddit. I don't look at or comment on default subs, I don't make Reddit references in real life, I don't know who the current crop of Reddit 'celebrities' are.

There's a much better Reddit underneath all of the garbage that makes up 'default' Reddit. I don't really care what the public image of Reddit is, because nobody in real life knows or cares that I use it.
I'd imagine that it's a QA engineer's dream. Imagine never having to worry about spinning up some brach to test. That's kinda cool.
Letting them know that you are in demand shouldn't hurt and I have used offers to negotiate things like salary and equity. I think with any negotiation process its more about how you approach it. I would try to re-emphasize that you are excited about the position you are being offered but that its a competitive market with many choices these days.
Thanks to these metrics, I've cracked the HN code:

We should always publish our content on paulgraham.com

That's the takeaway of these metrics, right?
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I've seen people on the hiring side bring this up as a huge faux pas that a candidate made. It's typically seen by those doing the hiring as an arrogant move. The reaction to it is "who does this guy think he is?"

On the flip side, a friend of mine uses this tactic aggressively when negotiating salary and equity at companies. It's always worked for him and is considered a "cost of doing business" when trying to hire this person.

What's the difference? The former was being hired for a junior position, the latter for a senior position.

It's all about leverage. If you can bring a lot to the table, you can play the "other people want me" card. If you are bringing relatively commoditized skill to the table, then that card just makes you look foolish.

Hope this helps.
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That would be a very different context. You can't just take the same story and apply it to a different subset of companies. If Apple were to do this, it would be a very different situation since by doing so, they risk losing market share. Amazon won't lose anything from this, they can only gain.
I guess Amazon is forced to do that to the extent that someone else would do it first if they don't.
I hate it when people bring up the logical fallacies in incorrect contexts. The fallacies apply to purely logical arguments. They do not apply to arguments, like Bezos's, that are based on a mix of logic and credibility.

The argument against software patents does not go "if A then B, if B then C, therefore if A then C." In this context, labeling someone a hypocrite is indeed not logically relevant. Instead, the argument against software patents is couched at least in part on empirical evidence: we need to reform the system because it holds back innovation, as can be seen from X, Y, and Z observations. In that context, credibility is relevant. Why should we believe you that you're accurately representing X, Y, and Z? Does self-interest color how you're characterizing the patent reform argument? All of these are relevant because it's not a purely logical argument that can be evaluated purely on its own merits.
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The topic of the title is lovely and all, but what does it have to do with academic integrity?
the comments over there pretty much sum up my general sentiment since they went silent about IE10 on win7. every one of their blog posts has comments asking wtf.
This reminds me of the first time I fired someone. I spent probably a week mentally planning how to do it--thought about how the conversation would go in the car, in the shower, before I went to sleep. The guy had a wife and kids and I was getting ready to put him in the unemployment line. I felt especially guilty because he shouldn't have been hired in the first place; we were desperate at the time. That was a mistake I made against my better judgment.

When it came time to actually have the conversation at one point he stopped me (I was busy trying to soften the blow) and said, "This sucks, but I get it. I understand." And I realized that I had prepared him for that point for months and that what was coming wasn't ultimately that much of a surprise.

Since then I've resolved to just be straight with feedback. For most firing situations, it's simply because it's not a good fit. Being able to look forward to a better situation in a couple months is enough to make most people accept the decision.
Build and they won’t come, a different approach.
This is not hindsight.
You're really grasping at straws here to make Amazon look good.
I started that blog a couple years before Tumblr was founded. I had a Tumblr site for a while just for tech experiments ("bits on the wire"), but decided to merge them. They may have improved since then, but at the time I didn't like the sharing system (pages with 100s of "shared by bob, shared by jane), or the content ("fuck yeah this, fuck yeah that").

Has the community and layout improved, then?
Too cold to be habitable, though, surely? So it doesn't affect the OP's point.
Definitely check out Web Components. It's aiming to take many of the low-level features of the MV* frameworks, like templating and data binding, directly into the browser. Angular was created with a "what would HTML look like if we could extend it" idea, and Web Components is the "ok, let's add it to HTML now" response.
Hmmm. Interesting question. I'm not sure it could be considered a file sharing service, because technically they aren't sharing the files. It's perfectly legal to allow music and whatnot to be streamed online (assuming you own the rights to the content). Users have just found a way around that so they can rip whatever is shared there.

Using your same logic, couldn't movie studios selling DVDs be considered a file sharing service, because of how easy it is to rip the content off of them and onto your computer?

From a producer and sound design/engineering perspective, I would never consider ripping a YouTube video due to the terrible bitrate of the audio. The max bitrate supported by YouTube is 192kbps, which is really lossy. If I can't get my hands on a lossless format (WAV), the lowest I'll consider going is 320kbps.

Although, for the average listener, 192kbps is probably good enough. Especially when factoring in the fact that they're probably listening on crappy laptop speakers or overpriced Beats headphones.
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Sure. I read it as "there is something wrong with it, but I can't pinpoint what", which is fair enough in my book. It's not like this is the lynchpin of the article.
Thanks! It's sort of an mvp homepage, but we'll definitely update the scheme when it's ready to go.

To answer your questions:

- Yes, this is something we host. We host the tooltip data and positioning and who has seen it.

- Hopefully your own CSS won't override the styles we create. This is going to need testing, obviously and making sure styles persist is going to be one of the goals of beta.

- I don't know if $3 is too cheap, there will be multiple tiers, but for now we just have one that will fit most people.
Yet the idea that hypocrisy is a good reason to ignore a man's arguments wholesale is broken either way.

But yes, Bezos cannot be assumed to be without self-interests. Nor can the (former) patent lawyers sitting on patent courts.
While a horrible situation, I don't think her flashing herself to someone over a webcam counts as "covert."

(I shouldn't have to say this, but I'm obviously not saying that there shouldn't be social and legal consequences for the people who kept on posting her overt topless photos. Why aren't those draconian sexting laws we hear in other places being applied to them?)
Yes, maybe Bezos is a hypocrite. His company has a history of abusing the patent system and he's now realizing that software patents are a Bad Thing because he's just about to get on the receiving side of them [0]. So what?

Even if he doesn't have the moral high ground, it doesn't change that he's right. And that's a good thing; it's better to have one hypocrite in power with ability to change things for good, even if he does it for selfish reasons, than to have one hundred morally pure [1] people who don't have the power or means to do anything else than whine. Google, Amazon, and others may not be white like snow, but they would serve good as temporary allies in fixing things for everyone.

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(In general, I hate when people throw around the label of 'hypocrite'; quite often it's just an distracting ad hominem.)

[0] - but hey, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (Upton Sinclair)

[1] - then again, how many of us are really so innocent? How many would stand to principle if offered a chance to patent some silly software "invention" and thus speed up career development?
at that rate, (1000 users per hour) it would take 114 years to get to one billion users.
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Epic game. I used to play the trial version on my PC with my friends. Golden.
There is also an employee making off with a ton of snacks: http://goo.gl/maps/MIE9g
Didn't Microsoft introduce something similar in Windows Vista, where it tries to keep the system cache occupied in order to have a better response time for the user?
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In my experience, medical technology solutions tend to be geared toward desk workers and bureaucrats because no-one else has the time to champion their needs and 'default' enterprise assumptions map so poorly to the needs of doctors and nurses.

So you get doctors and nurses who hate computers and computer-based solutions reflexively because a few more clicks, or minor Windows-cruft-based annoyances are just irritants for an intake clerk, but often tip the scales of "what's faster and more effective" for nurses and doctors back toward pen-and-paper.

Those workers tend to have UX needs that run more toward mobile users [1] and medical software is very rarely designed to meet those needs.

And the general aversion to computers -- again, in my experience -- is an act. Honestly saying they hate a given system has political costs and asking for changes again takes time (they rarely have to spare) to define and follow-through. But saying they simply aren't proficient with computers often has no such costs and can be very effective in getting overhead tasks pushed off to other workers.

This is also why you see those same types of users take so quickly and eagerly to the new wave of stripped-down mobile companion apps. They don't necessarily want to carry a tablet instead of a clip-board. They just really want to use a focused-task, minimal, responsive interface instead of another windows enterprise UI.

All of that is to say: Hospitals do care about IT. They just have a not-altogether-unique situation where the people who would most benefit from computerization rarely make time to see the projects done to their specifications and the overhead in 'typical' enterprise solutions can make-or-break feasibility. [2]

[1] half-seconds count. size of click targets counts. data unrelated to the current task is wasteful noise. etc.

[2] law and cpa firms can be similar, due the inaccessibility of the partners, the political situations and the resistance to anything that introduces overhead they can't bill for. These places, not unlike hospitals, often only see successful technology projects when they're limited to improving the speed/accuracy of administrative groups.
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As a python newbie, I couldn't disagree more.

I would have saved hours while working on (and possibly completed) the recent Stripe CTF. Frankly, I started to dislike the python docs thoroughly. However, I'm very much looking forward to the much-rumored new docs--I very much dig the language.

As an example to my point, however, look at the two side-by-side as an aspiring tinkerer with the desire to send data over a socket. To me, the aforementioned tutorial is miles ahead of the python docs.
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They gave up Windows XP with IE 9. Keeping the same trend, they are giving up Vista with IE 10. In fact, Microsoft is actually getting worse. They are already treating Windows 7 users as second class citizens. IE 10 for Win 7 will only get a preview release in mid-november. Final release will probably come a few months after that.
In comparison, Opera still supports Windows 2000, although it recommends at least using Windows XP.
A slight deviation of topic, but I think this point is too-often ignored: "VCs apply money to fix problems and risks in order to increase growth." VCs want you to increase your risk profile, while entrepreneurs focus on getting capital to decrease the risk of going belly up from undercapitalization. Your last point seems like the way to avoid those two from coming in conflict from the outset.
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Really that's what this is. We basically offload the logic that would additionally go with creating a product tour (who has seen this tooltip, where does this tooltip go, what triggers when someone clicks next, etc).

It's something we built internally for a separate project, but figured others might want to use.
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Well that's great and all, but sexually suggestive photos of minors are already banned on reddit (and are prohibited by law in a bunch of places)

This thread is about the /r/creepshots debacle, which has nothing to do with compromising photos of minors.
Seeing as mainstream support for Vista ended in April of 2012, I don't see this as a big shock.