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Global Google ad revenue surpasses all of U.S. print media, as acknowledged by the linked article but not by its title.
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Whoops. Well, they've sold about a 100 million iPads, so it's more like 20 cents.
Does the mobile version of Skydrive do this too?

"I don't understand how I could have hit my wireless cap again?!?"
I agree that it is possible to get too passive, and I wouldn't advocate that. I guess it's a matter of learning what to push and what expectations to have. Honestly, what I do is rarely that different between pushing it and not pushing it. The primary difference is how I react to it.

I still hope I can get my side project to a reasonable level of completeness and people will have some interest in it. It's just that, now, my identity isn't tied up in it.

And maybe that's what it comes down to: is my identity tied up in what I'm trying to accomplish? Because if it is, and I fail, that makes me a failure.
Doesn't this really raise the question of Forum Postings being public domain, and specifically blizzard removing anonymity for their forums? It seems less based around her gaming than her comments (weak though that particular line of attack was).

I mean, I love to post - but if I was aiming to be a politician I'd be desperately hoping that some of the drivvel I've spouted over the years was unattributable to me personally. I mean, my fascination with Goatse might not go down well with the electorate at large...
Wow, an entire article based on a vague non-promising comment. Internet journalism at its best.
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>The Linux Desktop can't stand still to accommodate some minor platform.

The current strategy of charging backwards at full speed doesn't seem like a great plan though. We're not getting closer to linux on the desktop being plausible, we're getting further and further away. Making a typical linux desktop system even more complex, brittle, and fragile than windows is not a good way to compete with windows.
I can't speak for WP8 but Blackberry still has customers who although have switched to Android/iPhone, loved their blackberries. And there is a case of, many corporates still using Blackberries. The land has been sliding but if RIM can win those users back, there is hope.

Now I see the ecosystem problem,but for RIM (or anyone willing to enter Mobile OS market), it is a chicken and egg problem. They can't move onto next step, unless they have a strong phone. So nobody knows if BB10 is going to work, but at the moment, it seems like a good idea.
Does w3C Validation still matter?
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I'm open to alternatives. What would you suggest?
I guess IANA should have given them a protocol number like they requested then, instead of playing politics because cisco employees run the organization.
It's better to have a few people love you than lots of people kinda like you.
The article addresses that, domestic use is down. We already export quite a lot of refined oil as it is to countries that don't have refining capacity.
Wow that would fit right in the middle of Catch-22.
Well, nothing is ever guaranteed. Remember Fahrenheit 451? Such kind of vision while seems far fetched can happen if people let it happen.
I think Chrome does a similar thing, it groups together tabs from the same origin.
That's not hard to imagine, people did it on MySpace and Friendster. These days, Facebook isn't really much better or different from those earlier social networks.
Or, they varied the spelling, punctuation, spacing, or other attributes of every copy, so they could uniquely identify whoever leaked this version.
All mobile devices use TCP/IP and have browsers. But they also all have specific add-ons: cases, plugs, add-on mics, tie-ins with devices - medical, etc. Just like all cars have a lot of after-market parts (spoilers, rims, etc) that all only fit specific car/models.
It isn't a choice between "do it wrong A" and "do it wrong B". There are a whole host of options, one of which is "do it right". Relying on a non-standard shell to be in /bin is bad, relying on non-standard shell extensions to be in the standard shell is also bad. So either use the standard shell as the standard shell, or use whatever nonstandard shell you want by calling env to find it.
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I think stopping the destruction of our planet's climate is more important than becoming oil independent and having cheap petroleum, personally. This is troubling news to me, I was hoping that peak oil would start people down the track of dealing with these problems.
The once from Mixergy, Im afraid I might have deleted mine, but it was unique and offered a lot of customised value.
Hi scoates,

I look forward to seeing your article.

I haven't tested it too much, but I believe the dictionary is read at each turn not at start.

I think you're right about the constraints for client validation, but it's probably possible to raise the bar for cheating a bit without leaving the GameCenter architecture.

Not that I'm an advocate of security through obscurity, but it is after all just a game.
I'm not a doctor, but I've dealt with these before. You may be burned out, depressed, or both. While taking a good break and changing up your life can help if your burned out, it will often just mask depression.

I would encourage you to talk to a doctor and find a good psychologist who understands cognitive based therapies. The best responses to depression include both pharmacological and brain hacking (which is what CBT is). They can help you understand if you are burned out, depressed or both.

I wish you well. It's a hard spot to be in, but one you can get out of. Feel free to email me (in my profile) if I can answer any questions (or do much of anything else) for you.
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I don't see much of a downside as long as Reddit gives a price quote in bit coins and convert it the main currency Reddit uses, probably USD. The main problem for main-stream business using Bitcoin I think is the volatility. Losing money because the currency fluctuates around 10% every 30 days is horrible.
Despite the lack of love by many of those that consider themselves to be "true" or "hardcore" programmers or developers, JavaScript much like VB before it has a place and it does a good job at what it is designed for. JavaScript much like VB serves the purpose of gluing together apps that are close to the user and doing so rapidly. There is no denying that developing an app on a HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end and a Node.js back end is fast probably one of the fastest stacks to develop in that I have seen in my career. Probably the only thing that was faster was back in the days of CGI/Perl but that is comparing apples to oranges as back in those days interactivity was minimal. It is almost as fast as building a traditional VB desktop app, which is pretty amazing given the infrastructure needed for web apps. There is definitely a place in the mainstream for JavaScript but it does not get all the credit, projects such as Node, Modernizr and Dojo have done just as much work to make JavaScript a rapid development choice as the core language guys have.
Could it be layered inside clothing, to generate power from body heat?
A few months ago I saw my mum browsing a website with a horrendous number of adverts. I asked to borrow the computer for 30 seconds, installed AdBlock for Chrome and refreshed the page. I handed it back triumphantly only to be told that she couldn't see the difference and wasn't sure what I'd done. I suspect this will be the response of most people - either you're technical enough to install an adblocker or you don't really care.
Why is this a PDF? Why isn't this a page on your site?
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I have come to the realization that oil prices do not translate directly to gas prices we pay at the pump. Even with a glut of oil, the gas prices at the pump depends on refineries which are controlled by the local companies. I think the $4 gas is the new normal. Also, the Saudi economy rely a lot on high oil prices so they wont dump more oil in the market.
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I think he meant he gave up on Opera and went to use Firefox.
To get thing done quickly by 1 or large groups of people. It's inspired by what I did as a firefighter dispatching trucks & teams to emergencies.
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Keep in mind that IE8 goes back to the Vista days. That was when there were still computers with just 512 MiB of memory (which might be fine with Windows 8 but Vista would chomp on it hungrily). At least this could be a reason.
This really sounded more like Yishan was just acknowledging that he personally knew what bitcoin was. Notice that he didn't "distinguish" his comment as an Admin?

Generally when an admin is speaking "as an admin" they turn their username red, and get a letter A next to it.

Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/12v8y3/now_is_the_time...
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To consider engine generations as separate and discrete entities stems from id software. The engines from Wolfestein, Doom, Quake, Q2 and Q3 were written from scratch each time. Once Carmack abandoned C for C++, throwing everything out stopped.
Going with the flow doesn't mean not trying to improve myself. I think it's more about not getting my identity wrapped up in what I'm trying to do to the point that, if I don't succeed, all I can conclude is that I am a failure.

It certainly doesn't mean I don't have dreams, aspirations and goals. It doesn't mean that I didn't spend most of the day yesterday working on a side project that I hope to bootstrap. It just means that I won't pursue that bootstrapping in a way that, ultimately, is damaging to myself and my relationships with others.

It is complicated and not at all easy to write out.
> Most of your 101 tabs should be idle, not active, so my guess would be "not much".

Keep open in the background a few js-intensive websites (e.g. gmail, twitter) and your tabs will be flickering like the proverbial Christmas tree. Depending on your hardware, the paradigm difference can be very noticeable (also, have fun on a laptop's battery).
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You can always be assured that predictions based on extrapolation in systems like energy are always wrong. The claim (that we'll out produce Saudi Aramco by 2020) is bogus.

You read comments like this "U.S. oil imports will drop to about 4 million barrels a day in 10 years from a current average of 10 million because of new production and stricter fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, which will curb demand, Birol said." and you want to say 'Bzzzt! And thanks for playing' as you consider that people with better gas mileage drive more, they don't 'not drive'. The reason is not intuitive (see the Jevon's Paradox [1]) but it is also not unexplainable either.

It will be interesting if significant chunks of our driving population switches to electrics. That is because the electricity production facilities are built on coal, gas, and nuclear and that could shift our consumption needle off oil toward those other forms. But nobody is yet extrapolating even 10% electric car ownership by 2020 much less the 20 - 30% that would be needed to move the numbers on a national scale.

So the the next question is, "OK if this is bogus, why even write it?" and if I had to guess I would say it was a 'feel good' piece about Fracking to try to offset the ever growing evidence that the dangers of hydraulic fracturing require much more oversight and regulation if we want to do it safely. The extraction companies have not shown a particular willingness to choose 'safety' over 'get it done' yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Most windows are poorly placed to collect sunlight – ok, don't use it on most windows. Sloped isn't really important. Southern facing and shade free is.

Vertical, southern facing isn't bad for high latitude folks. For instance, I have my non-tracking panels at the optimum angle for this time of year at 45°N latitude for 2.8kWhr/m^2/day[1]. If they were vertical it would only drop to 2.5kWhr/m^2/day. Going the other way, a 2 axis tracker would get 3.1kWhr/m^2/day[2]. So that is about a ±10% range for mounting options. Vertical loses more like 40% in the summer.

[1] November is my worst month. It is cloudier than December.

[2] Trackers never work out at my scale, ~600 watts of panels on a pole mount. It's always cheaper to just add another panel.

[3] Standalone footnote: It is an island. Grid power is not an option. This time of year it is just running telemetry, cameras, and keeping the batteries from freezing, but during the summer I get 6.1kWhr/m^2/day which gets me around 3kWhr/day (woo hoo! 25¢ of electricity!) and that takes care of four people. I choose a generator over a battery bank big enough to ride out more than one cloudy day. It gives me redundancy if the solar/inverter system fails.
> I still do believe that the author meant no harm

His intentions were good, his delivery was poor. Ironically, the article itself makes for a great argument on why comments (here on HN) can be good, if you consider the article the code itself.

Of course, I'd argue that the comments here represent code review more than anything else.
We'll fix this http://www.sigwann.com/didthis/simonsays
TL;DR

The title of the article contains all of the useful info in it. Very appropriate that it's a spray since it is likely vapor.
I'm sure this is a great personal tool for quick prototyping, but I'd really like to see people who are building products around the premise of design to actually care about and understand design instead of compiling bad assets from free resources to charge for it. The default Bootstrap layout is preferable to bad textures and typography laid on a custom non-grid.

https://www.easel.io/bootstrap is a free alternative for people looking for a WYSIWYG approach to Bootstrap, but in any case - like with the previously mentioned Frontpage and Dreamweaver dilemmas - I'd advise against using these tools for anything other than a functional mockup.
This looks awesome. It's amazing to be able to add this kind of functionality to your application with just a few lines of JS.

https://www.intercom.io/ is another example of really great functionality with just a few lines of JS (in this case, user-level analytics and support/communication in your app).
You assume I'm young! How nice!

I read tonnes of code. I've formed my opinion by reading and reviewing tonnes of code. I'm cautious about jumping to conclusions.

In my experience the kind of code that requires comments to act as "guideposts," (if I've correctly interpreted your meaning) is suffering from symptoms of a larger problem: poor design. When I read code that comes from people who use this style I often find that their functions go on for ~70 LOC, use at least 3 levels of nesting, and are littered with comments to explain what is going on.

More often than not I was able to show them that they could break these procedures out into compose-able functions and drop the comments. With the right data-structures they could avoid excessive loops and conditionals. And with the right unit tests if they ever needed to change the implementation of a function they would know right away if they broke something. Suddenly they didn't need so many comments because their functions were < 10 LOC and self-explanatory -- the name of the function gave its meaning and the higher-level code read more like an explanation of the process without all of the details of how the machine should perform it.

That, of course, is the best case scenario. I've worked on a gnarly C++ web application that was more than a decade old and survived several attempts to port and extend it with Python. But you can deal with that too. Just try not to touch the legacy code. ;)
I don't think University is a waste of time. However...

It doesn't seem completely accurate to count all the time spent at university as equivalent to the same time spent working in the trenches.

And it seems extremely harsh to say that there is no reason to hire people who didn't do CS in university, because they were "asleep at the wheel." Figuring out what you are going to do in the future is not the same skill as shipping software.
There are services (e.g. Bitpay) which remove the currency risk for the seller. The seller can set their price in US $ or whatever and receive the payment in that currency while the purchaser has the option to pay in bitcoins at the going rate at the time.
I wanted my "backend" to be always-on, power efficient, and powerful when headless. The MacBook wasn't a good option because I often close it or leave it uncharged, and OS X doesn't have as many command line tools available as Debian or other Linux distros. It's also a huge waste of power to use the MBP as a server, whereas the RPi sips power from a cellphone charger.

I could have also used an EC2 Micro instance or a Linode, but those are both much more expensive than an RPi for something I don't even use every day.
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Staying productive - what do you cross off your to do list first?
Trace amounts perhaps. Generally speaking radiative heat scales as T^4 where your temperature is measured on an absolute scale like Kelvin. In addition most of the heat flux being radiated by a human falls in the the 10um range which is somewhat difficult to detect and most certainly difficult to convert to electricity.

In short, think microwatts.
I have not found it easy to install Ubuntu or Debian on the JellyBean Transformer. Since I had already ordered an RPi, this seemed altogether easier. The RPi also has the advantage of being able to serve as a single-user server when I want to quickly test a rails project or a backend for one of my apps.
Wonderful - we'll be living in an oil rich utopia - right?
Um, Adblock Plus is free and near perfect.

Am I missing something?
Sure, but OpenBSD could have chosen some reasonably safe number that would not be in obvious conflict with Cisco equipment and would make users life easier. Instead they decided to have a childish revenge on Cisco.
MU was the only site that allowed unregistered users to upload large files with unregistered downloads, making it a great way to distribute customized Linux live CD images.
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Ask HN: YC Rejectees from 2005 to 2012; how did your project go afterwards?
I am curious to learn the experiences of YC Application Rejectees from 2005 till 2012. Any successful launches, re-applications, exits? Any failures, lessons. And finally anyone who didn't follow up their projects further and gave up early?
@ChuckMcM is correct - this is an advertisement for fracking.
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Do yourself a huge favor and develop on Linux. VirtualBox + Ubuntu 12.04 = Free.
These promises are incredibly vague, the most specific thing I saw was in another thread: "Alternative payment features are in the works" (http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/12v8y3/now_is_the_time...).

Does reddit have the manpower to deal with a non-mainstrem payment system like bitcoin?
Personally I'm more than a little annoyed at their journal-type "quotes", especially because they put the quote directly under the paragraph they just quoted, so you're basically just reading the exact same sentence twice, one after the other. And they do this 9 times. It's just... horrible.
>> I am much, much faster at parsing and reading English than I am at code

Perhaps, but then you're parsing and reading what the comment says the code does, not what it actually does, today.
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I'm considering that, but I still haven't managed to understand just why it isn't supported on Windows. Perhaps I haven't delved deep enough or perhaps it's my lack of solid experience with Python.

Of course, I could simply fork it, remove the "not supported on Windows" check and use it, but that feels lazy and dirty ;)
I have no problem if they want to raise the speed limit. I have a big problem if people are passing me 15mph faster than the speed limit. That is not safe. I can speed up but it's against the law and I know people that have speeding tickets for going over 50 in the area in question. 1 ticket = $1000 ($100 for the ticket, $300 a year in increased insurance premiums for 3 years until the point disappears). 2 tickets = $3000. 3 tickets = $7000. 4 tickets = loss of license.

So if you want to go faster lobby for faster speed limits. In the mean slow the F down!
What you're describing sounds a little like Flattr[1] to me.

[1] http://flattr.com/
A good compromise, to be sure.

But the problems with systemd aren't an isolated case, and they aren't technical, they're political. And political problems generally don't get better when a technical solution is applied; in this case, waiting it out just silences OpenBSD's voice in the potential discussion. So I'm glad they're making an effort to engage the community and look for alternatives to the political problem.

I'm deliberately not saying exactly what the political problem is – I'm not "framing" it one way or another.
Aren't they both just modeled after the 2007 paper Events Can Make Sense that outlines Tame http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/tame-usenix07.pdf
-1. The Reddit comment has almost no context. The BetaBeat article explains Reddit, Reddit Gold, Reddit Gold pricing, Bitcoin, contains a full quote of the comment, and a number of other things that random Hacker News readers might lack complete context on.
It'll be interesting to see the extent to which this ends up being good or bad. In direct economic terms, most likely good: lower energy prices make some industries more competitive, and direct fuel exports (like any commodity export) are a source of income. On the other hand, technological advancements tend to come from constraints, so the U.S. could be setting itself up for 10-30 years of easy living on cheap oil/gas, but fall behind places like Europe, or perhaps even Asia, on R&D and production of more energy-efficient technologies, or other sources of power generation, which might eventually turn out to be important. Hard to say.
This is not a property of TDD, but of plentiful tests.
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Apparently, neither does Amazon, it's up to the publisher:

From http://www.tierslivre.net/spip/spip.php?article2693 (a publisher against DRM): "avec ou sans DRM, ce n’est pas Amazon, c’est l’éditeur qui prescrit si oui ou non, comme il prescrit le prix" Which means
It is not Amazon but the publisher that choses whether or not to put DRM, as it choses the price. Maybe it is a local policy however (as is the fixed price).