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Behind an 'internet persona' there is a real person with feelings. Did edw519 remember that? For once, no. Does the community remember that? Never.

The lack of humanity and cynism in the whole edw519 bashing process showed that many HN users lack manners and suffer from EQ deficit.

Instead of protecting a person from public bashing from a very low standart publication, we jumped in the bashing wagon.
IE8 was released in March 2009. On that year, chromium 2.0 and firefox 3.5. Did you test it on those too?
> This is one reason why I will never take money from an external investor.

You could use the same logic to convince yourself never to convince anyone to quit their job and come work with you. Or to move their family across the country. Or to convince their boss that using your startup as a vendor rather than SAP is the right thing to do.

Making something work is going to require convincing others to bet on you - with money, with time and with credibility. Betting involves risk. It's unavoidable. But doing it "on your own" is largely a fiction.
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Very few medical expenses are related to life and death scenarios, so I think you're being a bit dramatic. When it comes to basic care, there's absolutely no reason why a capitalist approach wouldn't work, and work well. And insurance was supposed to be the way to protect against catastrophic life and death scenarios but it has become synonymous with basic health coverage.
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It amuses me that the US is considered the land of free markets and competition. The complete opposite is the case for hospitals. For example if you wanted to open a new hospital that is more cost effective you most probably couldn't. You would have to get a certificate of need which essentially ensures that the existing hospitals remain profitable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

Due to most health care being employer based or provided by the government (medicare/caid, military, veterans etc) there isn't really any individual choice, and you can't really take your business elsewhere.
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I believe the system we have here in Germany is quite similar and yes, I think it's working rather well.
It's woefully lazy for developers to not do cross-browser and cross-device testing. The site looks awful on iPad as well. If you don't have access to a device or browser, find someone who does or simulate it.

I expect more from the jQuery team.
Looks quite nice.

On a high-traffic site like this, I'm surprised they've not really addressed performance.

Currently:

Scripts at the top, not the bottom

CSS not concatenated and minimized

JS not minimized

GZIP not enabled on the server

Icons not in a sprite sheet

Also, invalid HTML.

I know, I need to chill out.
Really they should have handled this the same way as the other case. Sent a 600€ request (or 6000€) for a donation to KDE and a NDA and possibly a licensing agreement.

It's pretty clear Sony did not intend to do this and most likely just a placeholder image left in by mistake. Who at Sony would think saving 300$ on designing the image outweighs the risk of this.
Anyone following this scene knows all the companies are leaving the market making business. Reasons are not given, but it doesn't take stochastic calculus to guess it's an empty well. Everyone is throwing a 6 figure bucket at it and leaving with a bitter taste of dirt and clay.

This blog is maintained pretty well, http://www.amsterdamtrader.com/
The investors must have had one of those 75% off coupons.

I honestly don't understand how these sites manage to raise any money at all, regardless of valuation.
Zuckerberg had billions in losses?
Lead by example. Just because Sony is a douche doesn't mean you have to be.
What would you suggest as the right word?

I mean, theft is theft, right, whether it's 9 songs, more than 3 sentences or an image. And using the image to make money, that compounds the theft, just like getting caught with lockpicks during a burglary.

We have many important, wealthy sources saying that, so you can believe it.
I agree, this is what Google do. They change the game to suit and then play the new game well. In this case they wanted the mobile world to adopt an open, UNIX model OS with a Java stack not owned by Sun/Oracle. Job done. Let the games begin.
IE 8 still holds around 15-20% browser share last I checked. For something as ubiquitous and oft-used as jQuery, it is surprising it wasn't tested.
All of the Xamarin Studio changes were pushed upstream to MonoDevelop.

It's true that we don't currently have a version of the Mono-for-Android addin available for the Linux versions of MonoDevelop, though.
Nothing stops Chrome, or even IE, from adopting PDF.js. Not even the license (Apache). Personally, I'd like to see it happen.
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> See, if you as an outsider want to make sure that all parties are held to the same standard then you should be willing to apply that standard to your worst enemy as well.

That is a pretty difficult line to uphold when you can have no sway on said worst enemy and he's already been engaging in egregious behavior with no end in sight. Then isn't it just you being the sucker?
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I blame a large part of our problems on barriers to entry for the medical field. The AMA keeps doctor supplies artificially low and there's an enormous amount of red tape involved with providing medical services to people. The lower the barriers are for an industry, the higher the innovation and efficiency. Although, lower regulation does mean more risk for the consumer, so the game becomes making it easy for the consumer to navigate a risky terrain.
True, but even if they're not life and death - the implication is that you don't cut costs on health care, because somewhere down the line, you might regret it.

Also, of course, a lot of the things that may be minor in comparison to true life-and-death scenarios have very real consequences concerning the ability to take part it everyday life or being able to work.

Having two fingers cut off might not kill me, but I'm quite sure how I would react - even if somebody offered me a hefty cost to reattach them, I'd choose that over spending the rest of my entire life with only eight fingers.
Maybe they found Wordpress to be simpler and easier to extend/use than Drupal? Drupal can be pretty unwieldy sometimes, esp. on big sites, here's one that moved away and why:

http://erickennedy.org/Drupal-7-Reasons-to-Switch

If all you need is a few template variations, a theme, and lots of editable content, Wordpress is a good choice as a basic CMS which is user friendly. You can easily cache the results and performance is fine; it actually makes a pretty good CMS for basic sites.
I found it rather creepy (yet cool) that I could easily read a number plate miles away.
Perhaps it wasn't their aim; but it's certainly a victory: they caused society to start punishing itself in some quixotic overreaction.

The billions of travellers since the attacks are now constantly nervous - not of an attack anymore because the odds of that are so vanishingly small you don't seriously consider it - but of saying or doing something that some over-eager security policy has irrationally branded dangerous. It's like passing a pack of dangerous animals: you never know what's going to set em off, but whatever you do don't draw attention.

So yeah, they have won. It's not hypothetical; it's a fact of everyday travelling life.
Until Google encrypts there .crx file that holds the source code I don't think anyone can use this to sell apps. Right now the only protection Google offers is a signed .crx file and that can easily be by passed. http://stackoverflow.com/a/4493712/1231

Google needs to encrypt all .crx that come from the Web Store.
Another incredibly common cause for odd system behavior is disk being full. I wonder if there's any checklist with common system problems.
Kids aren't really a recognised London .... ohh sorry I see what you did there. ;)
Because this is an issue in Samsung's software. The Nexus devices run pure Android by Google.
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I wonder if you say that SDK was a mess (implying it isn't so any longer), what minimum Android version do you target?

[edit] this was a sincere question. I can elaborate on it a bit more. Based on the previous submission I reasoned OP is behind the blogpost. If not, my question doesn't make sense.

Why this question? Recently I have the experience, for Android, that developing in a 4.1 world while supporting at least 3.2 is a tricky thing (and since there's quite some version fragmentation on Android, this supporting at least 3.2 is still more than reasonable). For instance, you should/want to use Fragments, but 3.2 doesn't know them. Compatibility library helps of course, but there's gaps in it and if these gaps pose a problem, you're bound to write it yourself or revert to using deprecated code (and not leveraging the 4.1 benefits there). So, no disasters there, but still tradeoffs to be made and I simply wondered what tradeoff was made here (or what part I have been overlooking, of course :). [/edit]
I think a more interesting perspective on this article would be "there's no such thing as a quick buck, or if there is, this is not a story of it."

Sure, he made 2,500 guilders in 5 minutes, but the author says of his early QnX days: "After a couple of visits there to talk over strategies on how to solve certain problems using QnX [...]". So to me this anecdote is about how guy spent an amount (several days? months?) learning QnX, getting involved in the (1-man) community around him, and became somewhat of an expert in QnX such that when the time arose, he was the guy they called.

The way the story is told is akin to patio11 saying "an easy way to make a quick buck is consult with a BigCo!" True... but that ignores the time, effort, and experience Patrick has put into building his skills.

TL;DR: "Invest time in learning something valuable" is a better takeaway from this article, IMO.
Small talk is extremely important to build relationships.

See the book The Relationship Cure. They analyzed the interactions of tens of married couples and found a correlation between relationship hapiness and what they started to call "bids" - frequency of any contact made and the response of the other partner. Small talk was an important part of the bidding.

Don't underestimate small talk.
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This is Microsoft XP's latest version of IE, as 9 and 10 don't run on XP. Note that XP is still ridiculously prevalent, particularly in large corporations: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
I hope they carefully ponder the coding convention they use in the examples, because so many people will reproduce them.

For instance I don't love the ( parens spacing ), is there a good reason for these added spaces?
It doesn't matter. Demand your value or you're lowing the market for yourself and everyone else who does what you do.

You only have so many productive days in your life. Wasting them being exploited is throwing away money you can never get back. You think actors don't enjoy doing movies? Of course they do, but they expect to be compensated for it. You think sport players hate their sport and only play for the money? Of course not, they just recognize that without them the managers wouldn't be making any money so they demand their part.

Never feel bad about demanding what you are owed.
This story underscores something that I look for when I'm interviewing for certain kinds of support roles. Basically, it's really hard to teach someone proper troubleshooting. It seems that people either "get it", or they do not. You can give them a flowchart, and lots of training, but it's not the same.

Bas troubleshooters have a hard time assessing just where to start, do we look at the immediate problem as reported, or do we track back through dependencies to a non-apparent possible root? Also, in a stressful situation like this it seems that it takes a certain amount of resolve to change 1 thing at a time and have a way to (quickly!) test your results so that you can actually solve the problem, instead of just pushing out the next occurrence a few weeks.
I've got another less exciting reason how it ended up there... someone at Sony or one of their contractors found it on here:

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/oxygen-icons-by-oxygen-icons...

It says there "commercial usage allowed". They probably didn't even know it was from KDE.
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You spent the first three paragraphs excusing its failings, and then the last one taking lot shots at Chrome/Google.

Since when has it been more important to meet some developer ideal (JS everywhere) than to provide the best possible product and experience to your customers?
A significant step forward would be requiring hospitals to disclose the cost of each procedure and then aggregating those data at the state and national levels. The marginal cost for this compliance should not be astronomical, given they're already itemising receipts. Or is there a Medicare cost database?
However, it also says:

If you don't use the Samsung Keyboard, items are still copied onto their clipboard - but you're unable to access them.

Which suggests that the issue should be affecting me, but it's not. Nor did I see it for the few days after getting the phone when I was using their keyboard.

I'm not suggesting that he's not experiencing the issue, but it's obviously not as universal as he suggests.
Do I hear the sarcasm in that post? :)
Ok, here's my 2 cents

1 - If you are so sure you're failing in a couple of months, shut down now and return the money that's left. Simple as that.

2 - Startups fail. Investors know that. They don't talk to you because they know already (rude of them, but I understand).

2a - Don't worry about this. It's part of the business. Priced, accounted, etc. It's nothing personal, just business.

In university I had this Economics teacher. First class: "Why are you going to build a business with your money? Don't be stupid, do it with someone else's money". Very true words.
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I'm not a professional player but I also noticed back then that harvesters walked through each other! I thought it was done on purpose for this reason - and this confirms it :)
People take 30+ day breaks from HN all the time.

The 'edw519 bashing thread was extremely stupid and aggressively rude, but nobody who's been on HN as long as he has can really be unprepared for atavistic shitshows.
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This is one the reasons I quit as well. Even though work is interesting, the general sense I got was that there are too many players trying to chase the same little pot of gold. Also, it is getting fairly easy to setup a basic execution infrastructure and the barriers to entry have reduced quite substantially as a result.
Haha, not exactly what I had in mind.
As long as it's internally consistent, I'm OK with it; that space is common enough (WordPress core style employs spaces like that).
Or from the Shard: http://static.guim.co.uk/interactivestore/2013/2/1/135968391...
I think an outsider's view point is useful. Especially if they don't say, "hey, have you put the semi-colon in" alllll the time. ... though it's suprising that 1 in 20 times that is actually useful.

Especially you're a ruby dev doing a bit of PHP haha.
One of the major reasons PNaCL is "non-viable" are the comments like this one, calling it non-viable, and insisting on a JS-everywhere future.

If Mozilla et al spent half as much time trying to work with Google as they spend badmouthing everything that isn't JS, we'd have some solutions by now. These are political problems, not technical ones.
Legit criticism I guess. However, the audience addressed by the jQuery website is definitely not the same as the audience addressed by websites using the jQuery library. And the jQuery library is thoroughly tested against tons of browsers.
I don't recall there ever being much branding effort on Android. Perhaps there is less today, I won't try to argue that, but from the start it was the HTC G1 with Google. Manufacturers have never wanted to embrace the Android brand as that turns them into mere part assemblers. The only time I see Android brand being used is on low-end phones where they want to get the point across that it is backed by a good ecosystem.

Here's the Nexus One sites, also no Android to speak of: http://web.archive.org/web/20100319002511/http://www.google....
I think the real headline should be "Proof that at least one person at Sony has used KDE"
From claim 1 it appears that the screen will be of variable size depending on the "appendage" on which the watch is worn.

I can't wait to see a keynote where the speaker will be wearing the iWatch on his thigh.
>If you don't like these deals, then don't use

When all your competitors are? Go make a business and try that strategy.

>50% off a meal is a great offer!

So great the company who set it up went right out of business despite an insane amount of funding.

>I think the biggest problem with these deals (for the wait staff at a restaurant) is that people think they should tip based off the discounted meal, instead of the full price.

I don't think people should tip at all. Tipping is just a sneaky way of having the customers pay the labor costs directly. It's ridiculous to say a steak costs $7 when I'm paying the the server as well.
Possibly based on the implicit assumption that there's no intersection between the set of people who use jQuery ie. developers and designers (who are sane enough not to use IE) and the set of people who use IE.
A friend of mine works for an Apple store and says people still come in asking for the square iPod Nano and TikTok watchband, even though Apple stopped selling the square (7th generation) Nano some 6 months ago.
Not sure whether I'd prefer to have this or the swipe-to-enter-text that I've got on my stock(ish) JB keyboard. I suppose two fingers to scroll might be a nice compromise :).
I live in the US and am currently in Poland with my wife and 1-year-old visiting friends and family. Shortly after arriving, my son got a bad enough fever that we sought medical care. This past Monday night, at 9PM, an hour after the call, in the suburbs of a mid-sized city, a doctor came to our house and treated him (he's fine now). Cost us 140 zlots, or about 45 bucks. No bullshit paperwork where you fill out your name and address 4 times either...quick, professional, in and out.

I experience situations like this again and again while travelling abroad from the US, but this one put me in shock.
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There's a difference between doing the wrong thing right, and doing the right thing. If people wouldn't forget that rules should be encoded for their own benefit instead of being dictated by some people above as some holy scripture we wouldn't have TSA and all this airport security nonsense to talk about.
Maybe it wasn't entirely obvious, but there is a transcript at the bottom.
The title is wrong. There is no specific threshold for the bug: all that is known is that the clipboard crashes at some point if you use it and it becomes disabled until you wipe the /data/clipboard directory. (This directory doesn't exist in stock Android, so it's a problem with Samsung's software). Any attempt to copy something results in the app crashing.

Another possibly related problem is that spamming the setPrimaryClip function will cause a reboot. I haven't been able to cause the permanent lockup using this method, but running a program that runs an infinite loop seems to reboot the phone with 100% success.

You can see for yourself:

http://rojekti.fi/samsung.apk

Or if you don't trust random APK's off the internet (this one has no permissions, though), just write your own test app - it takes 5 minutes:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Clipb...

Once again, this doesn't happen in stock Android or on any other manufacturer's device.
I'm interested in the White House's response, but anticipate the issue basically being blown off.
You could probably make an argument that it's for similar reasons that scientific advancements often (though I'm not sure exactly how often) come from people outside the field.

I'd expect such an argument has been made by people - perhaps someone here might know of some examples.
... and it is indeed rather slow for such a simple site.
My mind instantly goes to the worst case scenario. It's unrealistic and unproductive and a bit sick. I'm working on it.
i wonder if it will be of any use if one doesn't use other apple products...
If this is the future of computing, then I quit. I don't want to play anymore.
Agree, the examples are not great. I started the post to highlight the possibility of looking for irrationalities but ended up quoting the wrong examples. Will do a follow-up soon.

Thanks
maybe 3D vision without glasses?
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I think a lot of people assume Linux pro means kernel dev or someone who writes software for Linux but my take, here at least, is that Linux pro encompasses server admins and people familiar with Linux on a networking / infrastructure level.
Nothing new here. This design is up for at least a couple of weeks already.
Yes, commercial use is allowed, but the LGPL requires attribution. The site you give does link prominently to the LGPL license.
I think the distinction he was trying to make is that UNIX skills are those that are transferable between UNIX modelled OS's e.g. shell programming, administration, application development. Whereas a Linux pro would be someone whose skills are specifically on that platform. The most obvious reason being kernel programming expertise which is almost the epitome/definition of Linux.