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Yeah, that part doesn't seem that much different than a typical company. Some low-level employee coming in 30 minutes late for work is punished more than a CEO who loses huge amounts of money for the company.
I'm aware of that, but programming is not the same thing as hacking.
just for the quote, +1
And many of us have a lot more than just the purchase price invested in Microsoft. Maybe this is why there is so much contention.
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> "Uncivil"? "Inappropriate"? "Bile"? "Divisive incivility"?

From literally the story directly under this one, #2 over all at the moment:

> Its an appeal to the Apple sycophants who troll this web site: "oh no who dares best my beloved Apple?!? I'd better click!"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706953

As I post this, the karma on that comment is currently > 0. Comments like that didn't used to happen "back in the day". Then they happened infrequently but pretty much everybody downvoted them into oblivion. Now they happen as a matter of course and get voted up instead of down.

The level of discourse has unquestionably gone downhill.
Hi this is Tom, the author of SoloWizard. I would really appreciate any ones feedback on the product! :)
I personally find it hard to build relationships like these. They seem to be out of my reach.

What about advice for UK startups, or even Scottish startups?
We take into account (for the startup):

* Funding
* Company culture
* Technology stack
* Number of employees
* Founders
* Business model
* How well its doing right now, and what its goals are

For the developers:

* Obviously resume, experience, etc.
* We ask questions relating to work that's been done by them
* We look for what kind of stuff they've done outside of school/work
* Involvement in open source
* Code samples
* Graduated from (if recent)
* What kind of salary they're looking for
* Kind of company culture they want
* Tech. stacks that they want to work with
* etc.

We match them up by seeing how well they correlate with one another.
Not to belabor but he claimed it was a common occurence - for it to be a common occurence enough to contribute meaningfully towards the increase in S3 sales the number of people would have to approach most :)
Welcome to the life of an early adopter. It is a bit buggier than we'd like, but you know we'll receive updates before the year is up that will address a lot of the problems. I do wish that it could've been shipped with higher performance, but Windows on ARM was a big endeavor. Achieving the amount of polish that we see on Intel's chips is going to take a bit of time.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your opinion or your comments, thanks for sharing your perspective.
I agree the one of the article is messed up. The embeded video review of the note 2 is also equally terrible. Every positive attribute of that device is stated in a passive aggressive manner. This is what happens though when your brand doesn't have a coherent message. "Designed for humans" is a joke.
Another note: The icon for the current position should not be the same as the icons in the forecast track. If you turn off the 'Forecast Error' track it's impossible to tell the storm's current position.
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spaceville? ha!
I concur. HN suffers from ye olde bike-shedding: people argue about trivial things, because the hard stuff is beyond their ability and/or inclination.

I regularly see long and technically strong articles sink with less than ten votes and zero discussion, while those lambasting Apple yet again get dozens of votes and comments. Add hair-splitting with strong passive-aggressive undertones, and what's left is vacuous and mildly toxic.
How about this? pg is not willing/interested in implementing stricter filtering - it's a discussion that has come up many times in the past, but nothing has changed.

So can someone create a 3rd party site that displays HN, but removes/hides these off-topic posts? Then everyone would be happy. There are already some similar implementations (like http://ihackernews.com for a mobile version), so it can't be that technically difficult. It would also be great for users to be able to specifically block certain domains (e.g., I could get rid of all Gruber and Marco blog posts from the list of links I personally see).

Edit: this could also be done with a browser extension, but that wouldn't work on mobile devices (I think)
> It's strange that the Justice Department would have a reason to have an opinion in this court case

No, it's not. The entertainment industry has at its disposal some of the finest politicians money can buy.
What you find troubling I view as inevitable.

Tastes define what we create and how we create it. Tastes inform what we choose to compromise and what we protect in the process of making things.

So as we venture into new worlds – Surface vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Kindle may superficially be consumer products but more crucially they are platforms for building the future for a mass audience – it's natural that we're going to have to spill a lot of thought figuring out what's most important to us.

Will there be disagreement? Yeah. Will it be perfectly civilized? Almost certainly not, given rarity of good manners, social skills and healthy conflict management.

But that's life with the apes.
Oh, please. That comment is in reply to one at the very, very bottom. (As I'm viewing it.)

Cherry-picking a single--frankly, not really that rude or terrible--comment isn't proving anything.

In either case, the "good old days" never existed. See: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...

I get it, though. It feels good to be self-righteous. So let's go nuts, let's have this little drama in this thread and give PG and the mods another headache they don't want or need. As the owner of a social network for over five years, I feel for them.
Eerie silence.

I think I speak for the silent majority when I ask:

"But can I rewrite it in Go with goroutines?"
> I get it, though. It feels good to be self-righteous.

This is, to put it mildly, uncharitable. If you're only interested in being part of the problem, I don't think we're going to find anything useful to say to each other, and I'll bid you adieu.
I felt similarly. And that first statement by Kevin Packingham made me gag. Yea, he works for Samsung and made a statement saying he was shocked to see uptick in their sales after iPhone5 release. Plus the article is fileld with too many statements from the company or description of the party.Analysis, comparison, user survey...stuff like that would have been more relevant.
> There's a difference between personal first-sale and wholesale distribution.

I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know, legally, there isn't, and shouldn't be. You should be able to build a business or nonprofit to give away, sell or lend secondhand games, books, CD's, videos, etc.
I've never been able to truly differentiate between what some people would call hacking and what others would call programming. Most of what gets called hacking is "tinkering" that directly involves programming.

I sometimes see people use "hacked" as in "I hacked the city bus to give me free passes by only paying X amount on X day after I told the guy I'm eating ramen noodles." In those cases hacking is about some kind of process or tweak that caused an unexpected or rare thing to occur. It's an ill-defined word to say the least.
Being an Ubuntu user is required? or can be run on any other distro?
Good job. JavaScript has needed something like this for a while. I'm still kind of confused as to why they don't have good native support for URL parsing.
Yes, courses alone don't presently make anyone an expert programmer. Neither does reading open source, from BSD to GitHub. But in both cases we've seen or can expect this free availability of quality material to increase the supply of better programmers.
I think that this perspective certainly has validity. But I've also noticed a tendency towards making it too simple and this can lead to the sort of seeing-your-interlocutor-as-one-dimensional that OP is referring to. When it comes to ceding control of our devices to an authority, the choice hasn't always been between controlled and open, it's between Apple or HTC/Motorola/Samsung/Huawei and the mobile carrier. The situation may be improving, but it's still not great. For a host of reasons, some of them aesthetic and/or idiosyncratic, I'd rather give up a lot of control to Apple, because I know they won't give an inch of it over to Rogers, AT&T, or Verizon. It's true that buying an unsubsidized Google Nexus device sidesteps some of these problems, but large parts of the installed Android ecosystem seem to be more like feudalism than anarchy.

Too often I think the people on the Android side of the discussion assume that iOS folks just lack an entire collection of values around openness that they personally consider really important. The reality is that the market is big enough for similar values to be catered to differently. I don't like that I can't delete Newstand.app from my iPhone, but just seeing a pre-installed and undeletable "Rogers Anyplace TV Live" icon on a friend's Android phone makes me die a little inside. A lot of folks don't seem to mind so much. There's no point in trying to convince each other which is worse, it seems mostly dispositional.
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I heartily agree with the statement that competitors provide proof that demand exists, but I disagree that you should have a product "10 times better than any competitor" to have a hope of succeeding.

If there are competitors, then you know that 1) there is a market for a service that does exactly what they do, 2) that not all customers even know those competitors exist, 3) that there are some customers that are unhappy with those competitors/not well served by them, and 4) that there are probably related similar markets that are not being fully tapped by those competitors.

Certainly if you can make a product 10x better, go for it, but I wouldn't delay in order to super-optimize it. You are already running behind, so why delay more? Look for other ways to differentiate yourself, such as different marketing, different customers, or serving a narrower or wider niche.
Obviously Earth will only be habitable for a finite amount of time and our solar system / galaxy (not quite sure about universe yet) for a finite amount of time as well. Therefore, I think our ultimate goal is to learn to survive outside of these systems. Or at least spread to multiple systems to prevent extinction. There are even more immediate threats such as global warming or nuclear winter scenarios.

Putting our environment first is shortsighted. We should be investing as many resources as possible, as fast as possible, to invent things such as Mr. Fusion, or missions to Mars (yay Elon Musk!) to prevent something like an Olduvai future, as mentioned in the article.
I believe that such sale conditions aren't binding in the US, except for software licenses. At the dawn of the recording era in the early 1900's, the music industry -- surprisingly similar to today -- tried printing on each record, "Not to be resold for less than five cents" or something similar. And this was struck down by the court system.
These articles just serve as arbitrary entry points into specific topics. The article itself is irrelevant, it could just as well be a (link-less) "Tell HN" post saying "Discuss product/event X".

If there's a insightful article worth reading about X, good, post it. But I think people often actually prefer to have articles that aren't inherently worth to serve as a blank slate for all kinds of (stricly speaking) off-topic debate about a certain product.
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Nice. And prezjordan has a good question. Why is it a jquery plugin?
>I think that the reason is the same: when you spend money on one, you buy into a community and an ecosystem. You become a part of a tribe and naturally begin to see the world in an us vs. them paradigm.

This effect is much more pronounced if you actually have income or success riding on one of the platforms. The alternatives become, essentially, a hassle.
Hi Brent,

I trust the Office team, and they have been very clear to call this a preview (it shows in the top of the document) so I expect some issues. I obviously can not know if your specific problem is already fixed in the RTM version (that released a couple weeks ago) but usually the Office team releases high quality products.

I did not experience your CPU/word problem yet, you asked for a video, and I posted it here:

http://youtu.be/104W1g94tIM

As you can see, I enabled the new task manager, that is really cool and you can see how the Tegra 3 CPU (4 cores) does not even notice the typing, even with tons of spelling mistakes to force a worst case scenario.

It is really a pity you did not have it a bit longer, I have an Ipad 1st gen, a galaxy tab 10.1 1st gen (yes, I had it even before I could install ICS, my lord) and now a 1st gen surface and man, this device is impressing me so far. When I connected my Galaxy nexus to it and it opened the windows explorer so I could use it to transfer my videos to You Tube I realized how huge is having Windows in a Tablet, it is not a PC but boy is powerful, full USB not only client, but server support.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this "kid" was not utilized correctly.

He had a valuable "1 in a million" skill and instead of finding a way leverage that skill in a new and innovative way the team pigeon holed him into a vanilla software engineer role. Perhaps he should have been responsible for building alpha releases for new customer features, understanding that the more detail-oriented software engineers would come in afterward and make the code production ready.

I see these two types in my job every day. One type can put something amazingly valuable out there in no time flat. The other type is meticulously detailed oriented and can perceive every possible permutation of a use case and ensure that the system is coded to handle them. Unfortunately the streams rarely cross, however we expect both types to do the same job due to our close minded view on roles and responsibilities.

In short, possibly, it was not the kid who did not "Give a Damn". Instead it was a rigid team who probably did not realize the value he could provide.
I don't think it's useful to ask people to talk like someone else. Patio11 and grellas are but facets of the conversations that go on here. I personally, and I stress the personally bit, rarely find any value to either of their views or writings. I, again personally, think they are the echo chamber. I frequently find myself almost diametrically opposed to their viewpoints or find what they say to be inane or obvious or just a brain dump of nonsense.

But that's not what's this is about. I understand others find what they say to be enlightening and excellent. I understand that there's plenty of people here who enjoy what they write and there are lots of people who highly value their contribution. And I completely admit they'll write something that I find thought provoking and interesting. Something that might challenge my world view. And so I appreciate reading it even if sometimes I think 'stop upvoting these HN celebs just because they spoke'.

What I'm trying to say is that you and the OP shouldn't presume to say what the HN audience wants. The point I'm trying to make is that we all like different things.

What determines what we like is upvotes. That's just the way it works. Some things get upvoted that you don't agree with. Hard luck. We have no better way.
I've run into exactly this issue took many times to count. Adding this to the toolkit!
RTM for months.
What's with the refer.ly link? I prefer to see the domain of the site I'm actually going to on hackernews posts.
More than likely it is difficult to disentangle the fact that Samsung made an incredibly heavy marketing push for the GS3 right around the time that the iPhone 5 launched, so there are no statistics that will tell you whether it's because of the iPhone 5 launch that sales rose or because of the marketing timing.
Well, it hasn't saved Microsoft yet. Yes, the Zune's UI has had huge influences on both Windows Phone and Windows 8. However, Windows Phone hasn't been very successful, and the success of Windows 8 has yet to be determined.
It gives an option on distro, and it seems to be anything that uses debs.
If the url doesn't contain the required component, it will throw errors. Why not return an empty string like urlparse does?
Well, then we're at our point of disagreement. I value HN primarily for discovering high-quality writing and thought that I might have missed otherwise. As for discussions, there are lots of technical posts on HN in which informed experts come and participate, and those discussions are great. But I have no interest in either participating in or reading "off-topic debate" about a new consumer electronics device, which is going to involve a lot of people who are no more informed than me rehashing arguments made five years ago. I doubt I am speaking only for myself by saying so.
Hi Tim! Nifty animation on the front page! I've played around with rotations / border radius animations, cool stuff. It looks a bit funny on Gingerbread (Android 2.3). You could try adding a fallback for browsers that don't support transitions. Probably a lot of people will check your framework on a Gingerbread device.

You are spot on with using bright colors for the buttons. Bright colors work much better on mobile devices, since lighting conditions are usually terrible. High contrast in general is a must due to the lighting problem.

Have you thought about disabling zoom? You can run into a lot of weird issues with zooming for mobile devices. Zooming should be mostly unnecessary for a responsive design, as long as contrast and font size are large enough. For example, if you look at http://aerialmachineandtool.com/distributors, I have used the following HTML in the header to prevent zooming on mobile devices:

> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" />

Can you elaborate on why you use data attributes for styling? I have used data attributes for functionality before (to bind functionality correctly onto content loaded via AJAX). However, I'm mystified as to why this should be used for CSS. It's certainly an interesting idea.

I had a picky issue on Chrome. When I shrink the browser width to 432 pixels and nudge it a little wider again, I see a strange black column on the right. I'm guessing that's an artifact of Chrome -- I see a lot of issues in Chrome rendering under resizing.

There is a misspelling. (sorry to have to mention this!) You said that "Crystallo is talking over the world." I suspect you meant to say, "Crystallo is taking over the world." In other words, "taking" instead of "talking."

Thanks for throwing this one into the lion's den ;-). Hope I didn't seem too critical. There are dozens of CSS frameworks out there. You do have a start on a nice framework that emphasizes clarity and contrast. If you have trouble getting traction, I recommend that you "pivot" and try to aim at a specific market. I think there's a market for CSS frameworks where I can drop it in for a specific application and it just works, without requiring too much modification. E.g., a CSS framework designed for map apps like the distributors map that I linked above. That's just a thought, anyway. The market of general CSS frameworks is crowded. Bootstrap and the Bourbon Neat frameworks have gotten a lot of traction, but most frameworks don't get very far.

Thanks for your submission!
Just FYI, most, if not all, of this is built into javascript already, via the DOM. http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...
I have had great difficulty getting an iPhone 5. This has been compounded by the fact that AT&T have screwed up my iPhone order twice.

I am thinking of getting a galaxy because of the nonsense. The main reasoning for not doing so is the loss of my apps. 4 years of app purchases are effectively going to be wasted.
Mmind - thanks for the update, but this doesn't replicate my scenario. Can you have multiple pages of text (at least 2) and then go back up to the first page and start adding text? That's what really nailed mine.
Looking at the source, it looks like there's only one line that calls jQuery on line 37 (and I don't think it should be using the short calling convention without a wrapper -- if you rename jQuery to '_' or something else it won't work):

else if($.isNumeric(arg)

There's no native JavaScript equivalent to it if I recall correctly, but there's a bunch of alternatives to it as well.

It should be easy enough to extract out the logic and repackage it. Maybe I'll fork it tomorrow and do the changes myself.
"The spike after the iPhone 5 launch suggests that consumers hung around to see what Apple had to show off, weren't impressed, and went with a Galaxy S III instead."

I don't know how they can make this conclusion. It could be that iPhone5 was sold out and since they were already at the store they bought another phone that could give them similar options. The difference is it has less to do by being impressed and more to do with iPhone actually brought customers to stores and helped sell the Galaxy.
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. I see a lot of The Kid in myself in many ways, and I don't think that this individual is striving for some local optimization point which is going to make them extremely valuable, but is instead headed for mastery of his or her discipline. This might be presumptuous and even a little pretentious (apologies!), but I honestly don't think simply sticking to one side of the fence is the path to mastery.

Giving a damn is mostly about pursuing the end goal, which is pretty much just to ship incredibly high quality software which meets the demands that that piece of software is responsible for meeting.

Sometimes that means applying formal verification techniques or running nightly static analysis runs over your build. Other times, just enforcing code review is enough. On the other hand, in those insane, crucible, diffuse-bomb-with-paperclip moments, all you really have time for is the awful hack. There's a huge spectrum, but the point is context is everything.

Having experienced both ends of the scale spectrum, from the ivory tower of spaceflight software verification into the heart of a fast-paced, scrappy startup, I've only really realized how much more experience I need practicing software engineering principles to master my craft and profession.
I don't quite follow you here. Can you explain this more explicitly for me Patrick?
Maybe people simply prefer the GS3 to the iPhone 5? Could it be that simple? Yes, it is that simple.
The meta-commentary on here has become a parody of itself. Spend more time with your family, or outdoors, or doing just about anything else.
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