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Not to mention that it doesn't scale well with screen size (I can't see the bottom below tokenization on slide where it shows structure). It looks nifty, but that's about it.
No extension necessary. Just open chrome://settings/content and check the "block third party cookies" option. Anytime you navigate to a page with blocked 3rd party cookies, a cookie with an X will show in the address bar. Clicking it will let you add an exception.
> No. In my experience it's not the ad companies that ask for them. It's usually the advertiser

That is a distinction without a difference.
Furthermore, this article's entire argument seems predicated on the idea that the remote workers in question are all above-average star performers:

> Having a great team with distributed members still far out perform a co-located average team

No evidence is presented in support of this basic assumption.
I haven't signed up for New Hive, I've just watched the video. I'm not sure if it suits the purpose of a blog well. Are there templates available? Otherwise, it'd be annoying to have to 'design' your page everytime you post a new page. Also, everything is positioned in absolute, which totally breaks the flow of a regular HTML page.

I'm obviously talking from a outsider's point of view, considering I haven't used it yet. I'm just wondering how it'd feel like for a regular publisher, posting content on a regular basis.

Anyway, the interface for setting up a quick design seems more suited for 'landing' pages, where the layout is almost as important as the content.

It really looks great though. I like the creative results this kind of interface yields.
Thanks!!

It would be so cool to have campus groups. I'll bring that up to the other organizers. There are a handful of students who already come to the Portland group. We should figure out some ways of capturing the imagination of more students.
Doesn't look like it. Clicking "Try It" does nothing, so I guess it has no single-threaded fallback.
If you pull up the web inspector, this site actually dynamically changes the font-size property of the body text when you zoom in/out to maintain the same size. It's very bizarre, I don't understand the intentions of the designer at all.
Very nicely done!

I think a precedence parser could be even shorter, though I don't seem to have one handy in Python. Pratt parsing is similar, though: https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/parsing/pra... And here's precedence parsing in C: http://wry.me/~darius/hacks/dcalc.c (I learned this method from Dave Gillespie, author of Gnu Calc.)

Finally, using a small parsing library very similar to the scheme in this post: https://github.com/darius/peglet/blob/master/examples/infix....
Should we avoid pages that need special javascript functions to scroll?
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You can use stuff like Ghostery or WidgetBlock, and they have options where you can specifically allow Disqus. I've still ran into some blocked pages early on, but after figuring out what was wrong, and allowing that stuff, now I rarely have any problems and I still block 90% of the rest.
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I don't disagree that overpenetration should be a concern for a lot of people. It isn't for me, so I like the AR15 for home defense. I've got a cabin that is even more remote, and comes replete with occasional threats from various wildlife, and I like it there too -- but that is with the knowledge that the nearest human being should be no closer than 50 acres away.

Regarding the ammo, for a small caliber weapon, and the accuracy of the average person who shoots, your odds of stopping an assailant with 10 rounds is pretty good, at about 85.1%. If there are multiple assailants though, 10 rounds doesn't provide particularly great odds - at 35%. 12 rounds gets you 50% odds against 2 assailants.

The main reason I argue against ammunition capacity restrictions for citizens though, is that generally speaking, criminals have the advantage of preparation in their crime, and aren't going to respect magazine limitations -- especially those of the more ludicrous nature like found in New York, where there is a 7 round limit. You can have a larger than 7 round magazine, but may only fill it with 7 rounds. No criminal preparing to engage in criminal activities is going to observe that restriction, while there may well be law abiding folks naive enough to obey such a law and find themselves out of ammunition when they need it.

Further, according to the Supreme Court, bans on arms "in common use" are effectively unconstitutional, and banning down to a 7 round capacity limit is a violation of that decision. As you said, there are numerous handguns containing 10 or more rounds, with Glocks generally fairing on the higher side of capacity, and older weapons like the 1911 being 7 or 8+1, but standard capacities are usually somewhere between 12 and 18 rounds on the most common of firearms. For the AR15, 20 rounds is the norm, and as such, should be protected.

Per Alan Gura (the attorney of record for DC v Heller and Chicago v McDonald), you can't make what is "in common use" a result of a restriction either, so that they can't ban all but five found magazines, then rule that as a result of that ban, a five round magazine is what's protected as common use.
... that wider screens are better.

That might kinda sorta almost even be true, except that 1080p (1920x1080) is not wider than WUXGA (1920x1200).

It's just shorter.

But "wide screen" just sound so much nicer than "short screen."
it's more that it happens a lot in very concentrated periods. There's are things like 3 day blocks in the summer where it happens a lot, and outside of that it disappears.

FYI, the compensation paid by the airlines is decent (new ticket(bumped to business) + 800 dollars for an int'l flight). These are FAA rules, not EU. I am not sure of the EU compensation scheme but I think it's around the same idea.
> the only thing stopping a woman from joining the tech industry is herself

What about the fact that we, as a society, are biased against women in technology (all of us, even women)? For example, tech resumes with a female name will be rated lower than that same resume with a male name. Not only in competence but in other categories like "bragging too much" or "how much you would like to work with this person".

How is starting pyladies "playing an under-represented" card? That implies it requires an "excuse". Women ARE underrepresented in technology.

Yes, women can legally join the tech industry, but we as a society can do a lot to make that easier. If you ask young girls their gender before they take a math test, their scores drop. Should we tell them to just get over it and do better at math? Bias is society-wide and can't be solved that simply.

One way to help is to support groups like PyLadies. Keep up the great work Selena!!
Ghostery is quite efficient at blocking Disqus, Facebook, G+, and other stuff that people seem to include in their websites nowadays.
Honestly yes you're out of touch, and it heartens me. It took me up until about 2007 to realize that all this talk of funding websites with ads referred to a working business model. Having continuously run adblock, I simply didn't know how much advertising had invaded everything.

I was getting ready for the top-voted HN comment to be something defending advertising, and was probably saved because this move by Mozilla isn't so bold. It seems most developers these days are happy to be on the take of advertising and DRM companies and will trot out all manner of justifications for why their code should run unhindered on your device.
The reason wider screens are preferred is because of human's field of view. We see 180 degrees horizontally yet only 135 degrees vertically.

So why on earth would you build a screen that requires people to expend more energy to use ?
Mostly true, but #1 is still necessary. You just made a cool thing. You want people to know about it. How do you tell the world?

Ideally, it'd be nice to have a thriving community of independent journalists and reviewers covering just about every topic and using their experience to evaluate new things. Consumers would know where to go to get the information they need.

But reality is so much messier. It's February 2013 and I want to buy an X that does Y and Z. How do I truly make an informed decision to buy the absolute best product that meets my needs? Who the hell knows. The resources just aren't there, at least not in a convenient, comprehensive, and objective form. Consumer Reports does some of that, but they're limited in scope. Therefore, advertising and branding.
I don't understand why there's this myth that there are no rules in the US.

http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/dots-new-rules-%E2%80%...
Regarding MonoDevelop, it never worked for me on Linux, it just flaked out completely.

If you don't need .Net, OCaml is practically the same language and has lots of vim/emacs support.
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One of the things we like to think about in ux design is how we can design at the intersection of user goals and business goals. In this case the business model is to drive a high volume of impressions to a broad audience. Therefore this is a viable ux, since the business goal is to drive volume, not engagement. A site like qz is going to have to command a much higher cpm and as a result will need to focus on retaining high value users as opposed to just driving high volume impressions.

A great analogue to this is in eCommerce sites. Compare the number of products presented on an amazon product page to the number presented on Barney's New York or net a porter. Amazon moves higher volume of product, and generates more revenue, but does that mean they present the best ux for shopping? Certainly not, but that's not their focus, nor is it Forbes's priority to provide the best possible ux for readers.
" I am not going to share something until I have read the article - put all the social nonsense deeper down"

Dude, your site has comments and sharing at the top.
Maybe this guy should take his own advice...

http://i.imgur.com/ieNUA5Vl.png
How do they not mention Hacker New? I'm not sure Y Combinator would be as popular without this site. It's an incredible marketing tool.
This is a matter of opinion, and I imagine probably highly correlated with which device you own.
any reason why the font is 38px?
I am working on a project which is, essentially, fully client-side. We decided to use the browser's built in search function to handle searching until we could implement a better search method. We also have tagging in place because that's how we handle our most basic of searching. Having a fulltext search library that was would allow us to search through our data more effectively. Now to test this on the mobile browser.
[*.]disqus.com

Add this to exceptions.
Wow, that is simultaneously saddening and remarkable. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'm not sure of the trademark ramafications of setting up sites with others trademarks.
Really. The only thing not making it a 'great' device is the battery life ?

You do realise that ALL it does is surf the web ? I don't understand why anybody would buy it over an iPad or a refurbished MacBook Pro. I personally think it is one of the most pointless devices released in the last few years.
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(seems like I can't change font size in the comments, spaces and caps will have to do)
I'm no expert, but compared to the Weimar Republic it looks like Nazi Germany relaxed gun control considerably, unless you were Jewish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Germany
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Write negative feedback about the product, at the movie you where watching. Please do so, its the only way to stop such irritating marketing.
Note that the Kickstarter has gameplay videos:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1544851629/throw-trucks-...
It is a great machine crippled with 32gb hard drive.
This is essentially the same thing you find with Java and Scala. There are still a few benefits to using the base language, but for the most part you can get the same results in much less code with comparable performance. The only difference is that if I remember correctly F# has a _faster_ compiler then C# and limits where you can put code in your files while Scala has a slower compiler and lets you put your code any where you choose.
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I'm guessing most of the wide screen "haters" are windows users that are used to the "one maximized app at the time" workflow.
It's not symbolic...
But then you look at Daily Mail[0] and see they do nearly the opposite of Forbes. They have a lot more content than they have ads, and they are profitable.

0: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Eh, wide ratios aren't a new creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)
Many of us have users (actual valid users) who live in and visit China and other countries in the world. So we don't block a IP because we think it is in China.

Use rate limiting and block bad IPs that are brute-forcing services (don't lock accounts) then you'll be able to serve your users while keeping the bad guys out.
Forbes isn't crafted by UX designers for reading pleasure, it's mangled by SEO experts to optimize user-hostile metrics for better placement in the Google.
Yes an no. I don't know that pg is any better than average at picking winners and losers, but he's found an efficient way to put a little skin in the game with a lot of players and set himself up as an arbiter of quality. "If Paul's invested, we [insert A-list VC] should at least give them a meeting."

Also, there's YC, then there's pg's personal portfolio. I would guess that he personally invests in companies that get big A and B rounds, but that's only a guess.

The seed-funded companies are like the minor leaguers. The institutional rounds allow him to bet on the major leaguers. Dropbox and AirBnB are the All Stars, and it wouldn't surprise me if he doubled down again on those guys. I certainly would.
This is an attitude that treats users like cattle.
It's not a permanent solution but I use Evernote Clearly to get rid of all non-content related material and it also highlights and save in Evernote.
It's more correct to say that the ways to opt out are esoteric.

And it's also disingenuous. If the default is opt-in (and that's never OK, regardless of your rationalisations) and opt-out is hidden somewhere on the 8th subpage of a company you've never heard of or will likely never know about without view-source. I can count on one finger the number of times I've seen the source of a targetted ad... the middle one.

Self-governance does not work when the power of technology is asymmetric. Whether it's cookies, spam or nuclear weapons, deterrence is the only effective solution.
I've been looking things similar to top coder for a while. The time-constraint-ness to their contests make them feel more effective.
The ratio makes it wider, proportionally.
I forgot to mention also that banning high capacity magazines is an extra-special futile endeavor since I can make them with a 3D printer.
They just need Android Repair..hmm wonder how long will it take for iCracked to move to that market? Android's device fragmentation makes it harder.
Marketing is a different job than developing that reuqires tottally diffrent skills. One is logical and one is usually based on soft skills.
You think you could have condensed this down to your best 3 points instead of a wall of text that includes a good portion of the original article? I understand you want to be thorough, but a handful of good retorts is better than a whole load of mediocre ones.
I thought you were just nitpicking, but then I tried to change the font size on TFA and was unable to. Cmd-minus and Cmd-plus in Chrome on OSX does nothing to the body text, just changes the size of the logos and social buttons. What's up with that? I don't think I've ever seen something like that before, is it some CSS gone bad or something worse?
It seems incongruous to me as well but it's not my country so my opinion is of at most academic interest. I'm not that interested in the literal meaning or etymology of words. In the same way that Charlize Theron is not an African-American but Morgan Freeman is, Zainichi Korean means persons of Korean nationality who have been born and raised in Japan, not Koreans resident in Japan who were born in Korea.
It's a responsive layout. Change the window size, and the font size changes with it.
etags, png image, something about tcp stack tracking... there are work arounds and there will be more workarounds... blocking cookies is stupid... they are part of the web
Is it retina? I'm worried about how tiny everything will be... I haven't found anything concrete about how Unity handles high dpi

Edit: you said MBA, I read MBP... Nevermind, no retina :)
Perhaps this will one day be so widely implemented that the great firewall of China will become obsolete, and the censors' dream will be realized.
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If you actually want to, you know, read the article, you can run this in the console once the page loads:

a = $("#abovefold").find("> .fleft"); a.parents().andSelf().siblings().add(a.find("hgroup, h1, .contains_vestpocket").siblings()).add(a.find(".vestpocket, .controls")).remove(); a.css("width", 900).css("margin", "0 auto");

Gets rid of all the crap.
I've been exploring different logging options recently, papertrail, loggly, logevents and now splunk. Papertrail was definitely winning for simplicity but I felt the first three really fell short when trying to filter the returned information. I'm using scrolls to generate the logs so they're in key=value format. I've just tried splunk and it blows the others away for analysis. The big difference is in the way you can filter the information, it understands the key=value format and lets you search and then filter based on those. With the charting and dashboards I can build views that really allow me to see what's going on at a glance.
This would backfire. The goal, I suppose, is that the Chinese government go after hackers in China more; but even if this happened on a mass scale, the Chinese government would /love/ for more services to be run domestically. They don't need Google or Facebook, what makes you think they won't survive well without any of our sites?
Youtube, Facebook, and Wordpress.com already have their own tracking systems so they won't be affected by this change at all.
I don't doubt what you say, but would that mean that once you've used up its ammunition an empty gun is no longer considered a firearm in US law?
It's probably related to having it adapt to the screen size - changing the size of your window also changes the text. Again, don't understand the intentions of that either.
Should add a web worker polyfill like http://code.google.com/p/fakeworker-js/source/browse/src/jav... to the live demos ...
They have enough varied content to effectively provide re-targeted ads.
A (clueless about he web) designer creates a bealtiful page design with gorgeous picture and plenty of different fonts. Then, a manager (clueless about the web) likes it and aproves the site, and it falls on a developer's desk to actualy create such a site.

Take a second look at the Forbes site, and think about how you would create that design. I can think of two ways, one of them requires some insight, and the other one requires reimplementing every functionality of the browser (or living them out).
this is short cited. we don't even know or can imagine the type of interesting applications we are eliminating by saying no to third party cookies. I remember building a reservation widget that loaded via an iframe on a third party domain. Perhaps we would want to maintain some of the reservation history on the users browser (e.g. third party cookie). I believe this would still work, but as we continue to focus only on the use case of advertising and blocking re-marketing ads... we should remember there are other legit use cases for third party cookies.
The website linked is satire right?
I am a woman. I have been in plenty of groups which are mostly female. If there is a single male, he tends to become the central figure with the most social influence. Women will turn into backstabbing bitches to compete for who gets to align themselves with the sole male.

I do not engage in such behavior. Commenting on its existence tends to not go over well with anyone, male or female. I have often been the sole woman willing to stand up to such a man in a largely female group. It is a great way to make enemies all around.

I am sure there are complex social reasons for such patterns. This is probably not the time or place to discuss it. I am only trying to suggest that a good reason to have some "ladies only" groups is because of the way a lot of women behave around men, not because of the way men behave around women or because "men are all sexist pigs".

If this works for some women to help them have a healthier relationship to their career goals, I think it's a good thing.
In contrast to Bootstrap and many other CSS frameworks we tested, Susy really enables you to write semantic, non-bloated HTML which can be strictly independent of the CSS you throw at it.
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How do you skip the ad that invariably shows up when you try to access the article?
You're right, that's really strange though. It looks crappy on my phone, the font size is too small there, but it's too large on the desktop.
Don't forget that once you're in, you still have to login into the actual machine. I'm willing to live with that probability.
if you are near-sighted you can.... I think.
Could you also use it to load test a web app?
He doesn't put the article's photo in green, but photos for articles are very important. So much so that studies have shown you are better putting the photo above the title. He may be a techie who prefers words, but that's not the site's target audience. He may even say he prefers words, but still be more attracted to an article with an image at the top sharing space with the text.
The real joke here is: how much of the content on Forbes.com is "real" or interesting (and not merely sensationalism or rehashing others' articles)?
Thanks Steve, these are wonderful points. I agree about the style and like the way you mention the conversation style interview. In a company I used to work for, we'd make sure to invite the candidate to team lunch too to feel out the group chemistry, and instead of using conference rooms, when we had time, we'd take them to a nearby coffee joint next door to give it a more casual feel. I'd personally prefer a non-Q&A oriented method and feel coding challenges can only uncover so much. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I think 16:10 is a great aspect ratio. In OS X on a 13" screen, it's perfect for two 80x25 emacs buffers side by side.
I'm waiting for Dalton to complain about the use of the Svbtle theme...It seems to happen to every post that links to somewhere not svbtle that uses it.
The floating social buttons and banners on this article's page are possibly worse than Forbes' layout. On the iPad they take up significant screen real estate
the difference is it's the website you're using and enjoying that is demanding this extra information. it's what they get in return for giving something to you for "free"...
No worries. It's kinda flattering.

Plus "Jacques" is an uncommon name in the anglosphere, apart from South Africa.
Hmm, I don't see any ads, even with adblock turned off, once I run that line.