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"Burn this article in a fire" :)

Looking back through my article I agree that stating delete should outright never be used didn't make sense. It's of course used in numerous JavaScript libraries and has a purpose in the language. I've updated the text to reflect my suggestion that it should be instead, avoided where possible. This advice stands as it's more difficult for V8 to optimize objects you're changing the structure of.

For others commenting on this thread, I've also taken account of some of your suggestions and tried to update the article to be as accurate as possible. Thanks for the input!
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If I had that problem then I guess I'd use it then.
They arn't. Stephen Few wrote a really good book a few (ha!) years back called 'Information Dashboard Design' (0596100167) which addressed the issue of circular dials and gauges. Here is a good essay on the subject by Stephen Few (http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf). Basically, it boils down to the same arguments put forward by Tufte et al. It is far easier to compare horizontal or vertical positions than radial values.
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Is it easy enough to get around and socialize in english?
I've submitted this in part just to see if any on here has used this and has any experience that they can share.

Particularly what the observed overhead with real-world use, and whether you encountered any gotchas when rolling it out that you wish you knew of in advance.
Dolphins, and the right side of history
I run a Wordpress blog hosted on a Micro EC2 instance capable of handling dozens of thousands of visitors every day.
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Your working speed is limited by typing or clicking? Mine is limited not by the speed I output information, but by the speed I get input. GUIs excel at that. A graphical view of source history is much better than what you get from the CLI, which is like living life while looking through a straw.
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Singapore is English speaking. It's the first language for about a third, with about 20% having no capacity in English. It's the language of business, government and education.
It was about time!
The new dashboard is great and much more comfortable, but looking for plugins was still a pain.
Still, Heroku is an option for small/medium deploys IMHO.
I use omnigraffle on my ipad extensively - I've got about 20 different diagrams, some of which have turned into real-physical things ( a brick walkway pattern, is one example).

It's still about 5x slower for me than a whiteboard or paper napkin + pen, albeit much easier to edit once you've created something.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to link to the login screen. You can actually enter anything you like into the username/password fields.

I agree that the elements I complained about above are still present in this template, but I find it less garish than most of the other that I have seen and it isn't as slow as the one posted in the main link.

I been through (what feels like) hundreds of these admin templates recently and the one I linked too was the one that I settled for in the end. You can see a plethora of these types of templates on Themeforest's site: http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...

EDIT: I just realised that someone else posted the Themeforest link in the comments here. Apologies for the duplicate.
If you are worried about failure, then side projects are not for you. Or you don't get the point of side projects. Failures are cheap in a side project, unless your investments are huge. Side projects exist because you would not sacrifice your full time job on something you don't trust shifting to completely.

Besides, if you are familiar with the concept of iteration. Even if you fail you will improve with every iteration of failure.

One cannot decide for everybody else, if they need side projects. Personally I find side projects a nice break from the 9-5 corporate job, to try something new and different. It gives a good learning opportunity and opens up chances for some extra income.

By the way, if you are afraid of failure. I'm not talking about big risks. But if you absolutely have problems with failing. And if you are asking these kind of questions before trying anything, you are likely to do nothing substantial in life.
On my "original" on the BBC B Micro, it was in black and white, not colour?

Or is my memory failing me?
The only real goal I keep in mind with side projects is to avoid becoming consumed by them unless they justify my attention (user interest, profit motive).

Be mindful of feature creep.
I think is a newer, more recently updated plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/per-post-scripts-and-sty...
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Ask HN: At a crossroads between *NIX and Windows ecosystems
This is not a troll or flamebait, but a genuine question. One I've battled with for a couple of years.

I'm at a crossroads between *NIX and Windows ecosystems. I've been heavily involved in both for the last 15 years and have extensive experience both with administration and software development on each (c/Python/perl, c++/c# respectively). I'd say I was equally well versed.

Unfortunately I'm now getting too old to constantly keep up with the industry churn. I have a medium sized family which needs attention and I also have a couple of product ideas I want to get out of the door in the next year or so.

I want to focus my efforts on one platform for both career and product development just so I have time to focus on what is important.

I've considered the usual facets such as cost, barriers to entry, salary, knowledge, supportability etc and have come up with no distinct solution either way.

Are there any views, trends or ideas that I am missing which will support either case?
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I agree, and we find the same thing in A/B testing. There is stuff that has worked historically for other people's products and their customers. It might work for you and your customers but it might not. You have to test it. The idea with A/B testing is to follow what actually works for your product and your customers, not what you think will work. The idea of producing smaller chunks (reducing batch size in lean startup speak) is to make testing cheap enough to be viable.
All the comments so far have been with regards to modifying a site's appearance based on the device.

A totally separate use case is for business intelligence reporting. It's not so bad with the iPad 2 vs iPad Mini because they have virtually identical hardware other than the physical screen size (same CPU, memory, CPU, etc). However it's more important with, say, the iPad 3 vs iPad 4. Although both are fairly similar (both are branded as the "new iPad"), they do have different CPUs.

For our business, it is valuable to know which physical devices people are using, not just which OS or browser version they are on. Our product is one which heavily relies on the CPU performance - knowing which devices our customers are on tells us which devices we should prioritise the testing on. Yes, we may be able to optimise the product to work on an iPhone 3G (picked as an example of a lower end iPhone), but if the number of customers who use that device is low enough, then the business case won't stack up. When it comes to device testing, it seems only prudent to try and mimic the device profile of our customer base.

Also there are other, perhaps less tangible, use cases for understanding the device profile for our customer base. For instance, if iPad Minis are more popular for a particular demographic (perhaps rush-hour commuters), this may inform business decisions about development priorities, feature roll-out, or marketing campaigns.

In summary - please don't assume that the only reason for device detection is to change the appearance of a site; the data can be valuable in other ways too.
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I am a vegetarian and agree with most of the article up until the very last sentence - "where would you have stood on the issue of slave labour" or words to that effect.

I feel like that confuses the issue and makes it easier to argue against - humans are very clearly different to dolphins and equating the two does noone any favours.
A lot of people are saying that you can't really make any significant changes because that would make a lot of plugins and themes incompatible with it. Well I say, keep Wordpress as it is but create a new version and invite some of the most popular theme and plugin authors to create their most popular themes and plugins for it before 'Ghost' goes out to the masses. Once people see how great it is, others will follow.

I personally think this is a really good idea however, I wouldn't remove the comment system.

I'd like Wordpress to be more flexible than it already is. I see websites like The Verge and Polygon, how they have different styles for different kinds of posts. They create beautiful reviews, very magazine-esque, how it's supposed to be. Giving this amount of control the users would allow authors to be a lot more creative and create even more beautiful and better websites than ever before.
Even big sites such as wired.com and Youtube get it wrong, both refusing to serve certain videos for your flash-disabled desktop Safari unless you fake iOS UA.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
Even though they're the two largest shareholders, their combined holdings are around 8% - he doesn't have that special a position.
From a technological point of view, is there any reason this is only possible now? Or would it have been possible decades ago, if only there had been enough interest in it or someone had had the idea earlier?

This seems like a really smart feat of thermodynamical engineering, but it does not reference explicitly any technology that would not have been available 30 years ago. I could imagine that being hidden in the subtitles of getting the process efficient enough - e.g. in computer-based component design and CFD simulations.
It used to be that people would say:

"These savages are clearly different
from civilised people"

and I can easily imagine them saying:

"... and equating the two does no one any favours."

There's the point of the entire article: In the future, perhaps people will find it incomprehensible that we, today, considered humans different from dolphins in a significant aspect.
Hi, My account was hacked at the weekend and although it is locked the person still keeps changing my password and I am not able to get into it. it wont let me reset my password as keeps coming up with an error message. I need this sorted and have had no help from fb even after reporting it numerous times
Humans are certainly different to dolphins, but I sure hope that some alien race doesn't land on Earth some day and say "It's ok to kill and enslave humans indiscriminately because even though they are sentient and intelligent, they are very different from us Xlarblargians."

This is very simply an extension of the Golden Rule to other sentient species beyond humans, starting with the ones that we know about and are closest to us.

And as Colin points out, the "equating X to humans does no one any favours" line has been used before in history.
Yeah, but as soon as they need to bridge the gap, they have to enlist help from someone else.

And when they find that person, they have to communicate their needs using voice or text rather than raw thoughts. Need to change requirements? Send another email or walk over to your partner's desk.

Never underestimate the cost of communication.
Nature is cruel, animals are food, we are animals.

I don't see why any animal no matter how cute or intelligent deserves more rights than any other, but it's a messy philosophical argument.

Does an animal have the right not to be made extinct? The scientist in me says No, the naturalist says Yes.
Yes, and one more thing: make commitments. Don't be afraid to make some of these modest promises. And then over deliver.
They didn't then try to eat the savages did they? It's comparing apples and oranges..
Is this supposed to be on Redtube or Youtube?
Thanks for this link! It's filled great laughs. Like this one:

#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers

I imagine what the guy who wrote it must've been through... :-P

PS: I wish Jeff hadn't shut down the thread.
I don't know about the tech scene in Singapore, but I recently visited Singapore and here are some random excerpts about Singapore.

1. As with any other country which isn't your own, familiarize yourself with local law first. Littering is a punishable offense; watching pornography is not an offense but possession, creation and distribution is; there are limits to free speech but considering you are a tourist or evaluating the place for business feasibility, I don't think that comes into play.

2. It's expensive. And the currency conversion isn't going to help you(1 sgd is 0.817 usd and 0.63 euro). If you are going to stay for long, the best option is to crash on an acquaintance's couch. I don't have any clue about budget hotels since I was staying at a friend's place.

3. Rents are crazy expensive. The rents for a normal 3 bedroom apartment will cost about 3000 sgd and a decent condo will cost you 5000 sgd. Considering that average salary of a techie is about 5000 sgd, I will consider it very high. Most of the working people share houses - it is normal to have 3(or sometimes more) people sharing a 3 bedroom apartment.

4. It's hot and humid, and this is coming from someone who lives in India(though in Bangalore, which is on the cooler side).

5. Taxes are low to non-existent for people on EP(Employment Pass). I don't know the details but my friend hasn't been paying any taxes. As suggested elsewhere, Entrepass will be unreasonable for small companies, and you are better off registering a company with a PR(permanent resident) and getting EP yourself.

6. From what I heard from my friend(she was working on Singapore Exchange's migration from mainframe to unix), the work culture is kinda high ceremony viz. be on time(I was a bit surprised); leaving early will raise eyebrows; seniority is based on how much time you have spent at a place and the work relations are generally formal. I have never been to China and Japan, but the description sounds pretty close to how people describe it. Anyway, this is an anecdote and I haven't seen the whole picture.

7. People are generally friendly and understand and speak English.

8. Public transport is good and affordable. Get the transport smart card(they call it MRT card I believe; you can buy it at any tube station).

9. Cabs are on the expensive side. There is some sort of surcharge for morning and evening peak hours.

10. The city has decent nightlife and I found it safe and secure.

11. There won't be any touts bothering you.

That's it as far as general Singapore information is concerned. If anyone has any specific questions, feel free to mail me.
Maybe it's a national security concern to have millions of people in government positions using some obscure code that could be tracking data about, I don't know, defense prototypes for example?
Just a comment on the site design ...

It surprised me just how long it took to find the beautifully crafted, totally undifferentiated "BUY" button. It's below the fold, it looks just like everything else on the page, and there is no clear, clean, call-to-action.

Maybe the only people they want to have attend are those who will actively search for the button, but maybe they've ignored all the advice here on HN about how the design of a site massively affects the conversion rate.
It really makes one wonder about the fragility of the internet.
Is Your Video Interactive?
Facebook is nothing without "Like" button
I don't believe it is comparing apples and oranges. It was once considered by some slave owners to be a mere trifling problem occasionally to beat one of them to death, or work them to death, or otherwise behave in ways that are now considered unacceptable.

In the same way, some people put dolphins in captivity, and consider it an inconvenient side-effect of tuna fishing that dolphins are regularly killed in large numbers. And yes, some people eat dolphins, and that supports an industry that kills them for profit, just as slave traders used to capture people and ferry them across oceans. For profit. Deaths of a percentage were considered acceptable losses.

It seems to me that the parallels are stronger than the differences, and I also wonder how people of the future will judge the actions of today, and silence of those who didn't speak up.
Are you affiliated with Rikvin? You can register a company in Singapore at $15 one time charge. All these company maintainers are scams, offering EP, tax filing and what not. Singapore is so very business friendly and have e-governance. No need to hire such firms there.
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Absolutely hilarious, lots of gems there, like:

try {

} finally { // should never happen

}
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think everyone who licensed with moto initially was given a 2.25% rate, but they cross-licensed patents to bring that down. Apple doesn't want to cross-license hence they're whining about how they think FRAND(non-discriminatory) terms aren't being followed, when in reality Apple's getting the same negotiation everyone else gets, but Apple doesn't want to play ball and cross-license patents like everyone else.

It's a pretty tenuous claim on Apple's part.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. This helps me understand the performance issues better. Thank you for making Wordpress what it is.
That's really great. Movember is such a great cause and it's great to see organisations such as BritRuby contributing.
Ha - Plus the logo on their site is hilarious!
Great tip, didn't know that!
It's a privilege not a duty.
A video would be a really good idea, and I'd also recommend a trial that doesn't require a sign-up: if this were in any of the languages I'm constantly trying to pick up and it had a way of engaging me immediately without a sign-up I would have spent at least 20 minutes on the trial - I went down the site and did the english tests and it wasn't clear whether I got all the answers right! So, I would put a really clear call-to-action above the fold that takes you through a basic test and asks you to login/sign up on each step to save your progress.

I liked the format and variety of the questions: if you do well with this consider making french/spanish/portuguese/chinese/japanese/russian versions please!
In brief: If you're running Sophos, anyone can make your computer do anything by sending you an email you don't even read.

I've just sent this paper to the security departments at the universities I'm affiliated with, both of whom provide and recommend Sophos.

I would really hope that as a security company Sophos couldn't possibly survive this.
Thanks Colin. We will get right on it.
But I am usin git?
this is targeted for Japanese people who are learning English right? seems like some sections overview aren't fully localized. and why is the free tier called "Stowaway"?

seems pretty cool though, would love a similar service for people learning Japanese..
"we are animals"
&&
"I don't see why any animal ... deserves more rights than any other"

I think that's his point. We are not too different from dolphins.
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You forgot the sign up button! :-)

It has a form (missing a submit button) and then an "OR, sign up with Facebook".
I often do it just for the fun of solving a particular problem. The problem I find is I loose motivation in finishing the boring bits when the fun stuff is completed.
Am I right in understanding that your service only offers tests? Does it actually teach any english or is just a way to track your current level?
Why wouldn't PCCW preventing its customers from publishing routes outside its whitelist work? It has been a long time since I worked on BGP but that was common practice from back haul carriers to ISPs even at that point (2003). Given the same back haul provider has allowed this twice, it seems like a reasonable ask.
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I don't think you quite understand. As the devices have different physical characteristics, they require designers to know the screen sizes and pixel density.

The iPad 2 has a screen resolution of 1024x768 with a density of 132 pixels per inch. The iPad mini has a resolution of 1024x768 with a density of 163 pixels per inch.

This means that if you design for an iPad2 you are guaranteed to have smaller fonts and elements than on an iPad mini. If you design for an iPad mini, then you are guaranteed to have fonts and elements that are too large. If you design for the middle ground then your design stinks when viewed on both devices.

As for the iPhone argument: people use media queries for a reason - they design differently for the smaller screen sizes of the iPhone than they do for an iPad.

It's essential that on a touch based device that you can work out how big things will be. Perhaps I can put this in a more concrete way: if you have ever tried to upvote a comment on HN via an iPad and accidentally downvoted the person, you will immediately see the issue of tiny fonts/UI elements.

Now make those down and up arrows 20% smaller.

As you can see from one of the links in the submitted article, even Apple's own website is hard to read on a mini. Not exactly inspiring. I'm quite surprised that such a design focused company didn't realise this was going to be an issue!
Yes, you are correct. Right now (our MVP) we only offer tests. In the future we have plans for some other tools that are more geared toward teaching. We also hope to be able to teach through the results of the test (i.e. we offer explanations and tips for each question a user gets wrong or skips). With other tests, you typically only receive your score, but we want to offer transparent results that you can check every question and answer set and try to learn from your mistakes.
I don't think anyone is assuming that that's the only reason but just because something is valuable to corporates doesn't mean you have the right to have that information.

After all I'm sure that it would be useful to you if my browser told you my age, sex, salary, where I live and how many kids I have but that doesn't mean it should happen.

Besides in this instance the hardware is remarkably similar to the iPad 2 (which is the thing you can't tell it apart from). It's unlikely there's anything the mini can do that the iPad 2 can't from a performance perspective so you really don't need to distinguish them.
Surely the primary purpose of TPB is to facilitate lawbreaking? Does anyone really doubt that?

Look at the top 100 torrents in any section. I just looked now at the top in films and I am positive that the copyright owner of every file there does not want their files to be on TPB.
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Sad, but not surprising, to see this flagged off the front page and into oblivion. It took some time to find it, but it's now at rank 1181.