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It's an OSX menubar application that collapses your less frequently used menubar apps into a tray activated by a single icon in the menubar.
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Does anyone know what they did in 2011 from a sales perspective? They are a marketplace for small retailers, so I'm curious what their margins are or commissions they take. What % of the total online commerce for that day was this? Also are these all credit card transactions or are they COD? Other forms of payments? Is taobao handling all the payment transactions? sorry for all the questions, I don't read chinese so I can't find all this info on my own.
Waiting patiently for the Nexus 10 to be available here. Anyone else looking at getting one of these?
Programmers are self employed engineers (but not limited too...)
Gripping read. Its really rare to read battle ground stories especially from people who have already 'been there' on the ground.

Its really great of you to stand up to what you believe and go that way. I think that's the reason why you are the VP of blekko now.

Any advice to young folks like us, who dream to make it big some day?

P.S: Read your HN profile just today, although i've been reading your comments and replying to them for a while on HN. But that's the beauty of HN isn't it?
I was hoping they will reveal the name of the employee who came up with the idea and give him the credit he deserves. That's what made me click on the link at least.

Anyways, if you are curious this link seems to have that answer (Ben Black): http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-game-changing-cloud-w...
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You can make petroleum out of literally air. All the necessary atoms are available in air.

What you need to do is join them in the right way - and we know how. All that is necessary is input of energy.

Plus peak oil doesn't mean it has run out, it means we are producing less and less - but we will always produce some.
Interesting to read your comment and
dmoy's.

On the one hand, compared to Amazon.com, Taobao sounds like a horrible shopping experience. On the other hand, compared to a shuk (or whatever the Chinese equivalent is), it is a vast improvement.

Context is everything.
The tech community in Redmond/Bellevue is limited, but in Seattle overall its actually quite rich; and the young kids can commute east on a connector right?
Reading on a low-res tablet, I couldn't see the right half of the screen. Thought you might want to know.
Engineers at job tend to use Java, C++ in their projects.

Engineers at home tend to use anything they like.... From Haskell to Brainfuck. Even all the interesting softwares were born from the minds of The-engineers-at-home, ie the programmers. Example is Linux, Git.....
Clickable link http://www.redguava.com.au/amazing-developer-job-rails-or-io...
Pretty difficult to be the CEO of a tech company without founding it.
It's the Wall Street Journal, so of course they would say that regulations are the root cause.

To put it in WSJ-speak: The present situation is evidence that we have exhausted the marketplace of people willing to fly airplanes for poor pay, eroding benefits and lousy job security.
Chromebooks use a trusted boot path which makes the devices more difficult to tamper with, even for someone with physical access. (Remember http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...)
Same on my netbook. Needed to [ctrl]+[-].
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StartMate in Sydney has produced some pretty awesome companies. They are worth checking out.
You know that part of the reason that Google's interviews are so difficult is that they can hire younger people that have bright minds, no families, and that will work crazy hours?

The side benefit is that they have geniuses working there.
While this project looks really nice - that's not entirely different from:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

is it? (Not that that is a bad thing, just saying).
So, for every new Chinese startup, are there hordes of people crying about why they haven't rolled out to America?

(I'm sorry, this comment isn't like me, but I couldn't resist.)
Some of those titles really come across as an engineer taking potshots at programmers. Seems very passive-aggressive to me.
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>>Did people remember I being a team player and helped the other team and the company overall?

Screwed if you do, and screwed if you don't.

Generally happens in companies where people don't have what it takes to own things up. Keep shifting blame on people until they take responsibility, take credit for wins. But when there is a failure conveniently announce if wasn't your responsibility at the first place. And if they don't take responsibility name them as bad team players.

The game is set to use you and throw you. You can only lose in such a game.
If you didn't read the comments, they're kind of the highlight of this submission.

edit: uh, sorry, this isn't meant as any sort of commentary other than "Hey, if you don't normally look at the comments, I think you're meant to on this one." :/
What matters in this case is the number of units that were available (now sold) - it's likely a small amount on purpose, since selling out fast is great for publicity.

Though unlike Nexus 7, the Nexus 4 pricing is competitive to the US price - the AUD is worth more than the USD and the Australian price is only $50 more (most of which is accounted by the 10% GST tax.)

Australia still has to pay a little more than the US than justified by tax differences, but it's better than the huge price differences it normally has.
I don't know revenue/profit (I think they're listed, so you can check them online). Sales on this day last year was something like 5.2bn RMB from memory? Again, not sure about commissions either - I've only ever bought stuff from the site.

Again, AFAIK everything goes through ZhiFuBao. It's an escrow service in fact, so the buyer must confirm receipt of the item before any money goes to the seller. There's no COD, and that's part of the success (people in China are very worried about scams and had zero faith in online shopping before Taobao setup their system). You can pay using most mainstream credit cards/banks in China, although I think things like AMEX or mastercard aren't supported.
When (what time) does it go for sale in the US?
This is a really great program from an excellent team. Despite going to a great high-school (IMHO), no teachers new CS, so we never had the option to take any CS what-so-ever. It would have been awesome to have something like this to bridge the gap between the hacking my friends did outside of school and real course credit in school.
You must be watching different physics research than me. I see a huge variety of crazy-ass physics proposed all the time. Unfortunately it all keeps turning out to be wrong.

The problem with physics these days is that no "sharp" new data is turning up. Instead of turning up a new family of particles in an accelerator, we find big invisible blobs of dark matter. We are getting loads of fascinating unexplained data, but there are few bright line tests that can use it to rule in or out new theories.
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Did I miss something in the FAQ for tutors? What kind of commitment do you want? Any compensation (other than the joy of teaching, and the learning that comes with that?)?
I can't say I disagree with not having dedicated R&D. The notion of having an R&D department is stuck in the 1950's where the geeks and the worker bees didn't mix. Everyone should be able to and be encouraged to innovate.
No one ever considered Sinofsky a product visionary. He just picked people he trusted. J is another story.
Wow. That was a load of crap. Engineering looks dull. Please check out whats going on in the technology/art community. I would say that compared to that, version control looks a bit dull.
Right, but what percentage of the esoteric features technically supported by PDFs are actually in use? With the exception of forms, the huge, overwhelming majority of PDFs never use things like embedded objects (which, funnily enough, can sometimes be Flash files). And forms are definitely doable in a JavaScript PDF reader; they are, in fact, probably easier than in a native PDF reader since you'll be able to use HTML. So in JS, they can display almost any PDF in the world with no trouble at all. How many Flash programs are more complex than that little car demo, which runs slowly on my top-of-the-line hardware?

Why are we so afraid of native code these days? Firefox already runs plugins in a sandbox, and has done so since 3.6. There is more complexity and opportunity for screwups in unmanaged code, yes, and for a PDF JavaScript is just fine, but for something that requires a powerful, fast VM capable of real-time graphics and real-time user input without lag or freezes, it is silly to write off the benefit of performant native code just because Adobe's plugins are rife with security holes, which I believe is what is happening here.
There is something called 'hacker' culture... Any comments?
There's also a much more obvious difference in "fatness" (e.g. width/length). Humans are much better at judging that kind of relative difference quickly and from a distance....
There are a number of similarities. Khan's working on making a very slick tool with a really nice interface to let people experiment with coding.

The focus of CodeHS is much more on the instruction from teachers, and it has more structure. We have tutors that give debugging help and feedback on all programming exercises and projects, so you learn much more about programming style in addition to functionality.

I think Khan has a cool tool, but it's only a tool, whereas we're giving the entire learning experience, teacher included.
Some specific complaints I have about the software: no Wacom drivers (I like resistive touch), no CAC smart card support, no Citrix support, no Juniper (all things I need). I haven't touched ChromeOS for a while but I use Chrome all the time.
They own their own version of PayPal which lots of people use, which easily links up with all of the major Chinese banks + debit cards. They also do a lot of pre-paid business where people go into the post office and put money on their account. Sounds weird but it's huge over there.

Don't know about commissions but given how fiercely competitive the market is (and most of the competition is on price) there is no chance the fees are anything like ebays (taobao is chinese ebay/amazon).

Side note but interesting: most of the sellers there offer live chat customer service. You see something you want and you can immediately IM the person through taobao and ask questions, make modifications to the order and bargain on the price. It's awesome and so common that it's basically expected.
You're trying to decide on your end how many upvotes/downvotes should trigger nofollow - have you talked to Google about a standard (which presumably sites like Reddit could also use) to expose that information so Google's crawlers can reach their own conclusions on a case-by-case basis if need be?
The best code is readable. Readability includes comments. If you're going to comment anything in your code at all, RegExes should be at the very top of that list.

Even if I can figure out what the regex matches (with Google or something else), that doesn't necessarily tell me WHY I'm matching on that particular pattern, or why I needed a RegEx in this spot, or what the intent was at the time of writing it.
I mostly look at paid apps in both the (German) iOS and Mac App Stores, and I find the reviews to be surprisingly good. I often read them, see bugs described by clearly smart people, and feel good about making a buying decision. For everything worth more than $10+, I actually find Mac App Store reviews to be more helpful than the fluffy crap that bloggers love to write.

It would be a great first step if developers could at least opt in to an easy feedback channel.
My bad - the front page looks a little better after allowing javascript through no-script :-)
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Right now, we're just looking for volunteers who are interested in helping out on their own schedule without any required commitment.

As we grow, we will begin to structure it more and have more options for being a paid tutor, but for now, it's for the joy of helping and inspiring beginners (and sharpening your debugging skills as well).
Apparently the answer is JB Quik Weld

http://cr-48.wikispaces.com/Cr-48+Hinge+Reinforcement
I think HN is written Arc, which is not very Unicode friendly.
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with all due respect to Tsagadai, I disagree. Taobao is an excellent shopping experience and I've never been ripped off there (perhaps my wife is an expert taobao-ista, which helps).

(1) Shops are absolutely crap scared of a bad review. Shoppers avoid bad reviews like the plague, and there's normally so much competition that you can always find an alternative. The 1 time we gave a bad review, we had a call from the seller within 1 hour offering all manner of things for us to take it back.

(2) Delivery is excellent - next day courier services. Taobao practically revolutionised the postal service in China because the national postal system was so bad. So, 10RMB (around £1) can get you national, next-day delivery for most small items (eg. a small parcel).

(3) The mobile site is awesome, full stop.

(4) There's just so much choice. I can buy official, full price products from the brand (ie, not a reseller, but the actual company), or 2nd hand, or knockoffs. Most knockoffs are clearly marked as such.

(5) Safety - it's not a direct payment system per se, but an escrow service. If you aren't happy in any way with your product, you click a button and the seller gets nothing.
Not sure what the tax difference would take the amount up to, but it was probably priced to just be "near" a round number (with the obligatory 99 suffix).

Also, unless you're planning to peg the price to currency fluctuations, may as well round up to cover that.
My father is a software engineer. I am proud of him. The problem is.... His boss is not an engineer.
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I want to learn this amazing programming language "AJAX"
Yeah, Google would never ship software where "Password is stored on disk in plain text"
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10809#c48
I prefer a company that admits they aren't giving attention to a product and stops taking signups, than a company that is happy to let people keep signing up even though it's left to quietly die in the background.

I would say this is acting with integrity.
"1hr after the promotion opened, the first package was received."

I think that is the most interesting part. It's pretty incredibile how efficient taobao is in such an inefficient country.
I noticed some metric irregularities when Tranquility was supplied with the masterwork entitled, "The Fortitudes of Ancient Testiclies" (an obscure Greco-Roman poet), written by the equally obscure Roman poet Platitudinus.

10 For strength I turn to ancient Testiclies!
10 Few cantos of his Gonadology
7 survive: he influenced Hippocrates!
10 Dualities, another work, contrasts
10 constipation with gastroenteritis.
9 What would the Poet Testiclies have said?

10 Science must be pursued for its own sake
9 And never to impress potential mates!

But it is a great project.
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Let me start of by saying thank you!
Your feedback is great at any rate
The near matches are there to guide you through
Tough words you may face that leave you stuck at the gate

But alas near matches help give you a clue
To help keep your poem straight
This tool is still yet a hack and much too new
Have a bit of hope and we will help you create
Great poetry for all to view

I don't believe we are doomed in fate
The poem you created was amazing and true
I see it as a victory that you found time to try and operate
So please let us try to make your experience less blue
By letting us know what we can improve to ease your current state
I think it is just a figure for advertisement or PR, please do not take it seriously. Does anyone remember the news about "Alibaba Transferred Alipay Ownership Without Yahoo Approval", by the way, Taobao is owned by Alibaba group.
I want it for the screen. I really want a keyboard dock with it (like the Asus Transformer) and am going to look into designing one or having one designed and having it printed at something like shapeways if they don't bring one to retail.

The thought of putting Ubuntu on that, with that screen, is much too much to pass up.
Seems like no one is sure, but there's a lot of people on twitter (#nexus4) who are planning to wait until 3am EST (12am PST)
1. Not all 3rd parties will have Google's level of resources.

2. Not all 3rd parties are going to care enough to do anything other than just roll over and do what that government asks of them.

3. Not all 3rd parties are Google, nor should they be. (as in Google shouldn't be 'the web')
I am.. Hopefully, get the 32GB, if I can purchase it during the window. I wish, however, if they offered an unlocked 3G model too(I can live without LTE). I will have to use freedompop for now.
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> Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.

Commitment and accountability to the person how bears your children, or who supports you through medical school or your startup years, has everything to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.
Mine too :)

To be fair, it would have required truly heroic fact-checking to catch this error.

+cough+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 +cough+
Anything in particular? That seems like damnation by faint praise as far as I was willing to read.
Ok you both said underwhelming, but I'm curious in what ways you think so?

Personally I think the product is incredible in many ways, and overall very overwhelming/impressive relative to my expectations, however to me it has two very core faults:

1. Performance. Many actions are perfectly fine, however v things like videos can be choppy, and even reading a Kindle book is choppy.

2. DPI of the screen. It's a nice screen, and the responsiveness even beats the iPad (incredibly), though after using new high-res displays, the Surface screen looks pixelated (primarily when rendering text).
Thanks for the compliments, I've found that advice tends to be situational and so hard to transfer generically.

I am a firm believer though in three fairly general things; follow your passion so that you don't find yourself regretting today what you didn't do yesterday, seek out contrary views to help you understand your own ideas, and choose not to take things personally. Doing that won't necessarily make you popular or successful but they will let you stay centered and happy with yourself.
I think that most sampling profilers like oprofile (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/) or perf (https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page) will give you CPU-level profiling and performance counters. The UI of those tools isn't super-friendly; if you're on OS X the "Instruments" app gives the same information with a far superior UI.

I have written a JIT that uses LuaJIT's dynamic assembly language engine DynASM (http://luajit.org/dynasm.html). DynASM is an incredibly piece of engineering, it lets you write really readable code for generating machine code at runtime, and is extremely small and low-overhead.

I keep meaning to write an article that demonstrates how to use LuaJIT for a small but interesting JIT. I just never quite get around to it. I always wish that I could use to implement the Universal Machine from ICFP 2008 (http://www.boundvariable.org/task.shtml), which is absolutely the most delightful problem ever, but as I recall it makes extensive use of self-modifying code which makes JIT-ting much more difficult and less effective.
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> Disclaimer: Not from the US, but married (~2 years~) and kid (~2 weeks~):

You have more important things to be doing right now than hang out on HN. Take care of your baby, take care of your wife, and sleep when you have a moment off from those.
Ask HN: Is getting a visible tattoo a terrible idea?
I've done a bit of Googling, but I would like a more IT related response.

Does getting a visible tattoo (hand, lower arm, neck) mean curtains for your career? Does anyone have any anecdotal evidence for or against?

On a related note, is it bad form to get a visible tattoo while you are at a job (hired for 5-6 months now) without mentioning it first?
Makes me wish I could read/write/speak the language.
Will they ship anywhere? i.e. will they send an individual item to North America? or even a whole container?
Compared to "X-30 years", for all values of X, when the speaker is over 30, or quoting someone who is.
It's a blog frequented by employees (albeit mostly disgruntled ones).

Most enlightening comment to me:

"I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the EU mess yet. Sinofski was given responsibility by the board for ensuring that MS stayed compliant with the agreement regarding browser choice in Windows. Now, MS is facing a possible 10 BILLION dollar enema by the EU because Sinofski couldn't be bothered by something as trivial as a check box in Windows."
The stench of drunkenness, sweaty whores, and bad decisions
From hardcore punk to the hard core of country & western.
Yup! The one day courier service is one of the big draws of the site besides there being a shop for just about anything.
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I had fun with it. This work-in-progress poem came off a little too depressing though. :)

hello world, I'll finally display
Those conditions that I might live one day
and given my arguments local and global
I cannot say where to be is my focal
so sure of my halt but not the end of my efforts
overflowing with input or gridlocked in semaphore?
Although I still wasn't sure what "singles day" is (some sort of reverse of Valentine's Day?), it's a little clearer by itself than "double sticks day" (a phrase which yields all of 3 results on Google).

Googling "singles day" explained everything.
Great introduction.
I am an Chinese and I use Taobao really a lot while I was in China. There is no such things like physical Taobao shops at all.
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A puppet who bends to Ballmer's whims. I wish I was joking. Every indication is that he can't handle anyone in a position of power that puts up any resistance to him.