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CSS so complex you need a <strike>compiler</strike> translator (these things aren't compilers) is doing CSS wrong.
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I don't like the snarky tone of your comment. However, I do want to encourage learning. So if you are genuinely curious, try asking for a better explanation here: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
I have used domainmonster for several years and have had no issues at all. They have an excellent customer service too.

The only practical technical difference with Godaddy for my purposes is that they do not support catchall addresses for email forwarding for security reasons, but this is minor.
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I sense some sarcasm :) Luckily these things have nice geometrical
interpretations, let me try to clarify this better, hoping that I can
stimulate some curiosity on the subject.

Imagine a linear transformation in the 3-dimensional space; that
means that rotations, "flips", and scalings are allowed. For example
take a rotation: points that are in the axis of rotation remain on
that line. Likewise, think of the plane orthogonal to the axis of
rotation, then points that are on that plane rotate, but they stay on
that plane. The axis of rotation and its orthogonal plane are both
invariant subspaces.

In a 3-dimensional space, and in general in every odd-dimensional
space, every linear transformation has an invariant subspace. This is
not true for even-dimensional spaces, such as the 2d plane: a
45-degree rotation for example has no invariant subspace (except for {0}
and the whole space, of course). However, if you allow the coordinates
to be complex numbers, instead of real, then there always is an
invariant subspace, although it is harder to visualize.

To express this in linear algebra terms, every complex matrix has an
eigenvector. This is a fundamental fact that has applications pretty
much everywhere in mathematics.

The Invariant Subspace problem generalizes this statement to spaces
that are infinite-dimensional. Infinite-dimensional spaces are
infinitely messy, so we restrict our attention to spaces that have
some additional structure; for example Hilbert spaces, those addressed
in the paper, are those where a formula very similar to the
Pythagorean theorem is true.
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I could see it being a cruise missile of sorts, but I honestly don't see them pushing that thing into space as is anytime soon and it certainly wouldn't withstand reentry.
I agree. I don't normally think or behave like this, but you're right. I have to take the risk if i want to move forward.
DO you have a link to 'PD3's O2 Academy campaign'?
This is weird - if Dell was a woman, everyone would comment on his (her) ill-fitting two-piece. But this is either a nice balancing of the sexism divide we have seen recently, or its bike-shedding.

I suspect that bike-shedding is the major issue.
Not Mersenne Primes, because they have a special structure that can create weaknesses.
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Basically, it got them a lot of recognition for fast ad turn around time, on black swan event. No one expected the power to go out at the game. Heck, Entergy (the utility) didn't expect anything like that to happen. Everyone expects event appropriate ads for the easy to predict or contingency stuff (e.g. post game ads for appropriate for each team's win, even post game ads differentiating between blowout and close conditions for each team) - we all know that those are all ready to go. But a decent add responding to the unpredictable,
in a timely way opens a lot of new possibilities. This ad would be downright stupid if it happened after the fact. Further, the later into the event it happens, the lower the amusing aspect of it is to people. In situations like this, the timing is everything. You know that "oh it would have been funny to say $witty_comment" feeling? Advertisers get it too.

So the big deal is oreo just showed the general public that you can have big corporate response to real-time events (for smaller step sizes than before), in a way that the public just didn't think possible.

It's Tuesday morning, and I'm still talking about a superbowl ad. This doesn't happen. I've never discussed a super bowl ad any later than monday evening happy hour, no matter how good. I've written and said and read the word oreo more times in the last day than I had in the month prior. Even assuming they paid 15 people overtime, I'm pretty sure the cost of this compared to the amount of airtime they get over this beats the cost/coverage numbers for almost any other superbowl ad. So, how is it not a win for oreo?
Thanks both of you for the explanation
Thank you all for the recommendations. I'm going to check out each of them.
You should probably raise your prices on all of the plans. You're going to attract customers you don't want to deal with at $10 a month.
In this case the window makers are probably web startups.
If college kids weren't buying all these iphones what would be the value of geolocated picture dating services or whatever?
(1) Time value of money. Shareholders aren't getting $13.65 today. If DELL traded at $13.65, I could short it and earn a risk-free yield on the short proceeds between now and when the payout is made.

(2) Merger risk. Did I say risk-free? I lied. Deals fall apart for reasons ranging from shareholder litigation to antitrust issues to Michael Dell getting pissed off because his socks got wet. The difference between the forward stock price (stock minus time value) and payout is the expected probability of the deal closing.

Disclaimer: I have an outstanding position in DELL.
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We've got a very high profile client with a scrolling bug in an iPad-focused HTML5 site - and despite a lot of work, my team just can't solve it.

The client is getting desperate.

I'm to the point of begging for help on HN. I'm looking for someone who really knows their Mobile Safari stuff to do a bit of consulting on just one scrolling bug.

Of course we'll pay hourly for your help. Contact info is in my profile.
I work with Java every day. Java and Spring pay my bills at the moment but that doesn't lessen my contempt for the platform. Overly amateurish nature of the community/ecosystem is a huge issue when you are building enterprise level applications (but have no choice really, because it is your company's technology of choice - usually because they are too cheap to pay for decent dev tools).

The whole community is full of de facto "standards" and half baked libraries which are usually results of someone's summer project.

The language in and of itself is alright (although massively outdated compared to more modern alternatives like C#), but the virtual machine and the nature of the ecosystem make me want to blow my brains out on daily basis. Don't even get me started on the recent security debacle.

I don't know a lot about these new *.js technologies but if they are right tools for the job, then yes, I wouldn't have anything against using them where appropriate.
Post dot come melt down the rules and requirements around financial reporting were substantially strengthened. Some of that was a good thing but in general it was an over reach. C level people now signed their names and risked prosecution. The way revenue was recognized became so conservative as to be nonsensical in many cases. The costs layered on to manage this became significant. In short, it became more and more difficult to innovate if you were a public company due to the costs and potential backlash from public markets.

Facebook is a victim of this on one end. They delayed their IPO as long as they could as Zuckerberg loathed what having to please outside investors would do to the nimbleness he requires. They then waited too long and so are now trying to excite the markets with a company that's already past its most exciting part of the growth curb. Add to that obvious greed and ego in terms of pricing as high as possible and you have a huge web blanket thrown on the ability for other tech companies to IPO.

Dell is on the other end. They decided it was better to invest 6 months of their lives into going private so that they too could innovate for the longer term.

At the end of the day we've gone from the go-go days of the 90's where nearly any tech company would IPO to a point where very few IPO either because they can't or don't want to. That will fundamentally change how companies are funded going forward and will likely impact the amount of returns being generated at the critical (for VC's) end of the funnel. My hope is that public markets realize this and begin to roll back some of the more arduous regulations.
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Because people enjoy making things.

Your question makes it sound like there's a central planning authority on the state of CSS frameworks.
Shattered it seems, with quite a bit of mushrooming.

http://www.gizmag.com/how-to-build-a-supersonic-ping-pong-gu...
Don't you trade for a different type of complexity in yield/resume?

Also you will lost some of the scalability advantages because you have to store context for all of the idle fibers.
The stock price doesn't effect the company, the company's actions, products and more importantly future prospects influence the stock price.

"To me It seems that stock has almost no relation with the company anymore. It's a game of buy and sell that is dangerous for a company."

Unless the company needs to raise additional capital, which apple does not, the stock price cannot be dangerous for the company.

"Apple lost a load of money within hours. I don't think there will ever be a company which is flexible enough to handle changes in value that fast."

Apple's shareholder's lost money within hours. The company is still profitable.

"So I think this is good for Dell. Breaking free of shareholders who just play the money game."

You may be right, private companies can change management incentives to be longer term rather than stock price based which can allow for high risk, long-term strategies. We won't know for several years until the company goes public again (assuming the deal closes).
What makes the original post not tongue-in-cheek, and your reply not a troll? Telepathy?
It's used in field of cryptography. http://www.claymath.org/posters/primes/ http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
Seriously, that's some of the best feedback I've gotten from anyone. Thank you. I'll definitely look into implementing those changes.

You can get to the shipping settings from the general settings page. Right now you create shipping rules which are based on price and weight that you can assign to specific countries. There is no integration with FedEx, UPS, or USPS yet but in previous versions I had spent some time integrating their shipping rate and shipping label api's which I plan on adding back soon.
> “People shouldn’t leave it to Google to define who they are based on an algorithm,” Mr. Conrad said, adding that there is not one place that defines a person’s identity online.

I know this is just marketing speak, but it is still deliciously ironic...Isn't about.me's success dependent on Google rewarding it for its SEO friendly title,h1 tags and short links?
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1) putting pure cleanup code into different functions is unwieldy. It doesn't make code readability, thus maintainability, better in any way, so why use it?

2) speed. sometimes, when it comes to optimizing hot loops, there is a point where one needs to manually inline code, in order to avoid potentially unnecessary scope cleanups. Ever looked at assembler? Seen how many instructions a typical function call causes?

Of course, (1) is usually only relevant in systems programming and (2) is only relevant in HPC, where going that extra mile can actually save more than a few 100k$. Nothing the average programmer needs to worry about - however that's also one huge problem of that field: Lack of people with said know how.
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We completely agree. Reading it, you can almost feel what they were feeling - sign of a great story.
I think you're seeing package.json and leaping to Node.js. I think they use the Node package management to help during build.
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> Dell has probably been the biggest vendor of Ubuntu machines, mostly in India and other poor countries. For $2 billion Microsoft gets to tell them to kill any such Ubuntu or Android product line-ups, and any research involving them

In my experience, the vast majority of such devices are wiped and loaded with pirated Windows.
It'll be interesting to see if this fails like all of the many other general purpose micropayment solutions that have been offered in the past.

I don't think that any micropayment system will take root unless it deals with the mental cost of transactions (a term coined by Clay Shirky).
Then what was your explanation behind your previous statement?
The size and shape of the pressure chamber are important as they determine the escape velocity of the air into the nozzle, especially if it relies on a scavenging type effect (which it may judging by the vacuum line in front)
Back in 2005 at Bloomberg we decided to move all Terminal app development to server-side JS, using a homegrown system built on top of a custom GObject (GObjectIntrospection didn't exist at the time, so we made our own) and SpiderMonkey. IIRC, GNOME was starting to experiment with JS around the same time. JS isn't for everyone, but it certainly makes app development faster than writing apps in C/C++.
He's basically saying he's voting for the transaction to go through. He'll still have his ownership.
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I hate to clog up HN with this kind of request, but it's the best place I can think of and I'd like to think I've contributed enough over the past few years to call in a group favor. :)
Well, I am not a fan of GoDaddy, and have transferred all my domains somewhere else last week, but in their defense, 30% might be a convenience fee, which is justifiable.
You make a good point, but it is not uncommon for engineers to use English around the world. There are so many text books and source materials available in English, especially in aerospace. They claimed to use CATIA software for the design, which is originally French but has an English version. I'd be shocked if there is a Persian version of the software.

The flip side is that you would really want ground crews to be able to read warnings and such. So while one could justify english on the engineering front, native language makes more sense on a production version.
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Swap out the ICBM for a cruise missile and you might be on to something.
Agreed. Modern laptop and desktop monitors are shameful regressions in technology. I very strongly believe that a large portion of any real or perceived market weakness of PC manufacturers can be traced to an utter failure to innovate in displays.

I also blame the "HD" moniker. My rant on HD: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/hd-sucks
Wolfram Alpha needs to update:
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The article hardly offers any new insight. Its just a rant on how the author perceives most young people are spending their money on 'useless crap' and exhorts them not to do so.

Move on people.
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Didn't notice that until you pointed it out, but indeed - that is a terrific little bit of functionality on the website.

Nicely done OP - I'm sure that's one of the many little details you worked hard on and it's appreciated.
I know all of the math you discussed, so for me what you said makes perfect sense.

I very much doubt that it makes much sense to anyone who does not know linear algebra reasonably well.
My bad. It also mentions node as a test harness: https://github.com/systemed/iD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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> Highway Robbery takeunder price

In what way? The stock was trading at $8 in November and at around $10.30 before the deal was announced.

What about $13.65 seems off?
If Apple is planning an investment, they really don't need to worry about their own share price. They have over $100 billion and can do what they want. Apple is so far removed from needing its share price to be high that they don't care. I think when it gets too low they buy their own stock thus destroying it and adding more value to the current shareholders.

I think if the shares were higher they might be able to entice future employees perhaps, but they have so much money, they could have even paid Tim Cook billions in cash and it would be rounding error.
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It was curious when AOL bought About.me four days after About.me launched. 4 days. That's insanely fast. Tony Conrad must have friends at AOL.

What's curious is buying the company back. Maybe Conrad is returning a favor?

In the end, what About.me brings to the table is pretty boring. You want a personal site? There are 10,000 ways to do that. I don't see the value in it personally...and maybe AOL doesn't either, but the host of VC's lining up for About.me's $5.7 million financing round must.
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In my profile: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drothlis
So maybe a petition to get Oracle to stop bundling JavaFX with the rest of the JDK...?

I mean, what the hell are they thinking anyway? That we're going to be so awed by it just because it's rammed down our throats? Nobody is ever going to use JavaFX any more than they're going to use Silverlight. They should get over it already.
I used to suffer from RSI quite badly but since I've taken to using my laptop more it's not been a problem. Typing on crappy desk keyboards seems to cause me more problems than my Macbook keyboard.
I generally agree but from first hand experience, I know this isn't always true. Before, I'd be happy to announce/show prototypes of stuff I was working on but it's clear that there are developers out there who take parts of the concept and release it. It may not be as full as the original app since it's a case of rushing something out but it undermines my USP. Of course, it could've all been coincidence, but I personally doubt it considering similarities and timing.

Having said that, that's what the market's all about so I'm not really complaining but just saying that the article isn't always true from first hand experience. I think a lot depends on the nature of the app (i.e. web app, game, smartphone app etc..) and what parts are "copied".
I actually agree with you on this one. My only thought on it (from my perspective as a front-end developer) is with all these "do-everything" frameworks, I think I'm more interested in seeing a more minimalistic approach to these frameworks. I've used Bootstrap and found it often times to be incredibly bloated. I think people just want to able to do more with less.

Also, as developers, it's pretty natural if you can't find something (be it a tool, framework, plugin, etc) that you like to use, there's a feeling you can build something better yourself.
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At least if you died during WWII you were done. Now you can volunteer to rack up $200k+ in debt that will take you 10-20 (or more) years to pay off. It's not slavery in that it never ends but many students end up being very nearly indentured servants for a long time. Which is worse, death or debt "slavery?"
I'm curious, but I think I'd need a practical example
I love working from coffee shops occasionally, and find that I'm pretty productive.

As long as there isn't someone talking loudly about their personal problems. Or talking loudly about politics.
No reason?

I'd say their ham-handed approach to security and their contentment to sit with their thumbs up their arses, while vulnerabilities whose magnitude compare favorably with the US national debt are being exploited widely is more than enough reason to hate Java.

At least Microsoft has the good sense to issue OOB patches when something serious enough comes up!

The current state of Java means that running the browser plugin paints a huge bullseye on your back. It got bad enough that the freaking department of homeland security recently issued a warning to disable the plugin for your own good.
Anyone interested what we had to say when it was purchased in the first place:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025764

Still, bubble's been going a while now hasn't it! I think this was when a lot of people here started saying 'bubble!'. Me included. If it's a bubble, it's becoming a big old one.
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Offering to take insane amouts of (bancrupcy-immune) debt is a bad incentive for someone wishful to get a college education.
Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to, I have seen them all as nofollow on the latest new section, however on the front page only that one is nofollow even though all of them are external links. But as you just said maybe is because it is a YC job post.
Include less.js while developing and it will compile LESS on the fly [1]. Then you just have to compile/minify the LESS files into CSS when you build your project and push to the server.

[1] http://lesscss.org
Why don't they just shut it down, and give the money back to the shareholders?
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Most of the money is passed between central banks and technically insolvent[1] banks, helping them repair their balance sheet and dispose of toxic assets.

http://dailybail.com/home/chart-of-the-day-feds-balance-shee...

Some of the money seeps into the economy and may be inflating stocks and other assets. For example, banks are given loans at zero interest[2] and they can use that money for whatever, e.g. proprietary trading, bonds/treasuries, etc.

Perhaps some of that money finds its way into investment funds and eventually tech start-ups?

[1] http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/02/fasb-sells-out-unsurpri...

[2] http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e7...
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I had a similar experience with Ayn Rand at age 12. So glad we both grew up!
>We are carrying around phones filled with spyware to track what we listen to, watch and read an where we do it.

That's some great FUD. In fact I think I've heard it somewhere before..

Isn't this the reason that RMS refuses to carry a phone?
Oh, just look at the pictures! Look at the fiberglass seams on the body and the shoddy finish of the skin and moldings in the cockpit. Look at the edge where the canopy seals. See any structural attachment points for the canopy? Compare to a real airplane [1] and see if you can spot the differences.

1. http://www.airforcetimes.com/xml/news/2009/01/airforce_pilot...
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The statement isn't anti-Google or anti-SEO for businesses or individual websites. It's just pointing out that googling someone isn't useful if their online identity is spread over a bunch of websites.
At the same time, this type of hyperbole makes it way too easy to dismiss arguments like these as whiny and lacking perspective. It's rhetorically unsound, and it doesn't do its side much in the way of favors.
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