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Minification is overrated anyway.

1. After gzipping, which is done transparently by almost every server/client, the payload size savings from minification really aren't all that compelling.
2. Minification makes debugging your production code harder (digging through minified source) or more laborious (working with a source map).
3. Obfuscating your code runs antithetical to the open nature of the web
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I think you didn't watch the second video - which was better than the first.
Ask Sendgrid: Why not offer mr-hank a job?
Just a thought, wouldn't that be an awesome way to restore good will in the developer community? :)
This one works well on mobile devices and lets you add feeds from around the web and tag them for retrieval later. It also keeps you focused on one feed at a time instead of letting you put 100 feeds on one page which makes it hard to read any one.

http://newsfeedreader.com
Thanks! BTW, I'm far to be that is 'secure' nothing is 'secure', but we are putting a lot of efforts in that way, crf tokens, rack-protection and so on ... so jump in the community and help us to improve security aspects.

Thanks for all!
...or what your eyes see is used as a tiebreaker: http://www.moillusions.com/2011/05/mcgurk-effect-audio-video...
CameraTag: Simplified Webcam Video Recording
Just about to launch a new service to simply the process of recording videos from your users' webcams. Would love your thoughts.

-Chris

p.s.
Right now we're using flash to record with an HTML interface. As soon as WebRTC works well enough we'll switch over to a full HTML solution.
Why do you feel it was dyn? I got that email and didn't remember it referring to anything in particular. I just took another look and here is the copy:

"In today's demand-driven marketing world, getting email into the inbox and sending that email is as crucial as turning on the lights in the morning. Social media is awesome, but when it comes to the most trusted form of communication with customers, prospects and fans, email wins hands down.

See that graphic above? That's a screenshot from about an hour ago, a visual representation of where emails sent through our servers are being read at that instant around the world. At a billion+ messages sent a month, there's no better time to move your email delivery services to Dyn.

We've relaunched our packages, introducing an entry-level option for just $3 per month -- roughly the amount of a large coffee. Isn't your transactional email program worth more than that?

It's time to deliver through Dyn. Sign up now. Send today. Be successful tomorrow."

Explain why you feel that a) dyn sent this in reaction to the "situation" and b) even if they did how this was a bad thing.

By the way here is the dyn.com blog post I'm not seeing anything there that dovetails and makes them the company the OP is referring to:

http://dyn.com/blog/email-delivery-dynect-deliverability-sca...
this sounds really awesome if they can manage to stay up under heavy load. It's such a huge pain to set up and maintain the tracking of events in application code. Having everything retroactively sounds positively great.
This is a really good point - blind data analysis without any notion of multiple hypothesis testing leads to false positives. This XKCD is a great illustration of that: http://xkcd.com/882/

This is something we're thinking about and are definitely conscious of.
Okay, after some research this might be aftermath from a breach that happened last year: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/dropbox-hires-outsid...

Though I wonder why I start receiving spam now (almost a year later).

And I wonder how it hits all my Dropbox-accounts despite Dropbox claiming only "some" addresses were lost back then.

It doesn't quite add up to me, and I also don't like that the relevant threads on the dropbox-forum (that the various blog-posts link to) seem to be deleted.
> On the other hand, Danes can come across as rather crass about some subjects, especially race.

This is a very valuable piece of data!

Despite all that's great about PG's essay: Funny is not an oracle of universal good! Humor is wonderful. It's universal. It's tremendously important, but it does not make you right, and it is not license to do and say whatever you want.

Rationality is wonderful. It's universal and tremendously useful. But we all know that just because a human is applying rationality, that doesn't men she/he is necessarily right. Likewise, what tickles your own funny bone might not tickle someone else's. Humor and rationality are universal. Your own POV and your own application of those are human and flawed.

Funny is not an oracle for all that's good. Most of the time, humor is an orthogonal area of concern. It does not make one righteous, and it's very unlikely that someone failing to be funny gives one an excuse to be self-righteous.
I liked it very much as a non-tech founder that is not quite sure how to define some events on KissMetrics and regret not having qualified a particular form of sign up as an event before.

Comparing prices though, a question: is every visitor of my site a new "user" for you? If it so, then my monthly average events for user would be very low, then an "event based" pricing would be better for me than a "user based" pricing.
Comparing prices with KissMetrics, my guess is KM would be cheaper for me with an average of 3 events per visitor. But if your "user" entity doesn't consider, at least, the ones that bounced, then maybe is a good deal.
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I'm fairly certain that all those logos in their are copywritten and thus illegal for you to stick on socks and sell.
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How about not dealing with sketchy people who need hidden compartments in their vehicles? Why is that not an option from the outset?

I hate to say it, but I find the range of "legal" uses for a hidden compartment in a moving vehicle to be vanishingly small. I'd put them in the same range as legal reasons to wearing a full facemask/helmet in a bank.
And so continues the attitude of "why should I take care to keep myself healthy when the federal government will give me checks to be unhealthy"?

Nevermind that it's a sure path to continuing the cycle of poverty for one's family and their kids' families. Sigh.
I didn't see this drama. I usually try to avoid the dramas, but, wow she took their pictures and posted them on Twitter?
She thinks of herself as 'being a hero'?

What a cowardly overreaction.
"Lump of labor" is fallacious, but there's a demand curve at any given time, and demand for most of the stuff that being have been doing for decades is softening and will continue to do so.

The long-term, progressive solution is to train people up. Give them the resources and autonomy to learn the skills they need to rise to a higher level of work. If this is done, then we break out of the zero-sum labor regime, people graduate to more creative, high-yield work, and we can all be happy.

But... someone has to pay for these people to survive while they learn, which takes far away from our original-sin (work, or don't eat) economy and closer to the basic income concept.
His complaints about the router also plague Backbone apps - how do you cleanly deal with users reaching the route through your app, and users navigating to a route directly?

I have had some luck with Backbone.routes (http://siong1987.com/posts/introducting-backbone-routes/) but it is still not quite where I want it to be.
I disagree. I don't know Wildbit or who their competitors are. All it took for me to figure out the "shitstorm" that was referenced was to hover over the link.

The same message could have been made with no reference to SendGrid but they chose not to. Whether that was a conscious decision is unknown.
They don't have to make it impossible to get movies/songs without paying. They just have to make it hard enough that Joe Random-User doesn't make copies for all his friends

People talk a lot about the analogue hole. Imagine they've got it locked down all the way to a trusted screen and speakers. Now, to make a copy, Joe would need to set up a good camera and microphone in a quiet room, and let the movie play for two hours. All of which is possible, but he won't put that much effort in.

Of course, someone somewhere in the world will bother, and it will end up on file sharing sites. That's why they also go after those sites, and pressure search engines not to list them. Again, they'll never stop it entirely, but they want you to hit dead links and slow downloads, to worry about viruses from dodgy Russian websites, and to imagine that the police are tracking your downloads. Sooner or later, it's just easier to cough up for a legitimate service.

They don't need the unbreakable system that we rightly point out is impossible. They just need to make free copies unappealing enough that people will pay a bit for legal content.
So the poor get disability and welfare. The rich get bailouts and subsidies. Guess who comes out behind?
> I absolutely detest having to touch the text for editing.

Their existing system is embarrassingly clumsy. I think a touch-based cursor selection could be implemented a lot better, particularly with regard to loupe placement and auto-scrolling the viewport. Moreover, they could have implemented "virtual arrow keys" using swipe gestures while in loupe mode.

See, for instance, this alternative implementation of cursor management: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/05/07/slidewriter-bringing...

It'd be one thing to damn them for poor iterations for these features. But they've made very few changes at all to these core components since iOS 2, and there's no evidence that they're even trying.
This is one of the big criticisms of unpaid internships. It favors people who already have the ability to work for something other than subsistence. There may be more room for paid internships than companies are willing to admit, and encouraging them to pay might be a useful stopgap until we come up with something better.
I plan to make my next website for mainland China, I really need to know that IE is going to work fine here and which versions thereof.
Looks like it's not exactly the same, e.g. robocode had a separate scanner and turret, while fightcode has the cannon act as the scanner.
That looks awesome! I definitely try it out.
Show HN - Bucketio uses your own S3 Account for requesting and sharing files
Anyone who complains about how they can't trust the Posthaven team because Posterous was shut down has to put $10 into the 'poor reading comprehension' pool.
How is this not gaming?

"Scott tried school for a while, but hated it. So he took the advice of the rogue staffer who told him to suck all the benefits he could out of the system. He had a heart attack after the mill closed and figured, "since I've had a bypass, maybe I can get on disability, and then I won't have worry about this stuff anymore." It worked; Scott is now on disability."
I signed up for an account today. They don't give much away on their homepage, so here's a preview of the current post editor for those interested:

http://d.pr/i/189H

You can sign up today for $5 and you won't be billed again until they're out of beta. I felt it was worth doing because I support their vision and I'm keen to see how it develops, even though the actual product is very bare bones at the moment. (e.g. No template editing, no pages, can't save posts as drafts.)

What they have so far seems fast, clean, and easy to use, though. The environment is refreshing compared to WordPress and more suited to medium-to-longform writing than tumblr.

My advice to the creators: show actual mockups of what you're hoping to build. (e.g. http://john.onolan.org/ghost/ )

Promising never to sell out is great, but I would much rather see a visual pledge in the form of, "This is what we plan to make [screenshots] and this is the order we're building those features." Even if you don't offer a definitive schedule, at least your beta backers will feel more invested in the journey you're on.
That problem does exist, but happens to fewer people. And in my experience, those legacy kids tend to be quite well prepared, and from what I saw were judged to the same standards as other people. (They did, of course, have the option of choosing easier courses if they didn't want to work hard. But so did everyone else...)

Furthermore it matters less in the work place. Because if your parents can donate buildings to get you into a school, your parents generally can arrange to help you get employed. Hence I as a random software developer am unlikely to be in a position of deciding whether a random rich kid should be hired as my peer.

Unlikely, but not impossible. Several jobs back I worked fairly closely with a couple of "legacy" kids. They worked twice as hard as anyone else because they were afraid that they would be seen as just spoiled rich kids. Anecdotal, but it did not leave me dreading working with legacies in the future.
Can someone explain why this is broken by minification? I'm not seeing it. Something about the parameter names ($scope, $attrs, $element) being re-written by the minifier? Does Angular require them to be named in a certain way?
Advice to startups: list your price at its yearly rate, not monthly. I see the words "per month" and I think yet another thing sipping on my bank account every month. It's silly but it's easier to accept that I'm dishing out money for something that I won't have to think about again until a year.
Love seeing college students taking control of their careers!
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Open source can also be a way to get the same job "interview" you'd get from moonlighting. This isn't an option for people who work on a highly proprietary code base, but if you can find the sort of job where you are allowed to release portions of your project as open source or make contributions to an open source project, you may end up creating a large network that is already very familiar with your coding ability, what it's like working with you, how you present information, and so forth. That's a lot more valuable than standing at a white board explaining how to detect cycles in linked lists.
We do not oversubscribe memory and we do not provide SWAP space by default. Since its SSD based and memory is so cheap we recommend users size the machines according to their needs/requirements.
First: The service sounds great. Something I would sign up for.

But I don't really get the pricing structure:

What if I have less then 2500 unique users/month? Do I pay $25? Is it free? If it's $25 what then if I have more than 2500 but less than 20000 users? Is it $150 then?
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"Get a FREE account" Note that free account != free product. Just give then login details.

Wow, that's really sleazy. I really hope nobody actually uses that idea.
This is a really good point and something we thought about when constructing the pricing model. Right now we're not a very affordable option for sites with a lot of bounced traffic or low amounts of user interaction. However we'll soon be amending our prices to better accomodate customers such as yourself.
The target market for this sort of analytics solutions is going to have vanishingly small numbers of IE8 users.
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? It certainly does have their own code. Look at the second script tag in the head.
Unfortunately, we're not tracking those events now, mostly because they don't fit neatly into the event-based analytics model (i.e. they're not as "graphable").

But that doesn't mean they aren't important. Agreed the data can be very useful.
I like that quote - Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
Even though our pricing is low we still generate profit on every unit that we sell, therefore we will be around for a long time. We have a ton of expertise in the server industry and we've already been around for 18 months. Here's looking forward to the next 18 years :)
The ICO in the UK has issued guidance specifically on this topic, saying that licensing shouldn't be tied to use of CCTV without due cause.

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/topi...
The great thing about Ember is that it is NOT all all-or-nothing proposition. We have several apps that don't use Ember Data or the router, several that don't use one of the two, and some that use both.
Hi Thrown,

This is Greg from AngelHack. Everything you said is valid and I thank you for your feedback. We'll organize over 100 hackathons this year and while we work with venues for 8 weeks to ensure they're up to speed, train organizers on weekly calls, and oversee that everything is A-grade, we still have some problems. We've scaled fast, re-placed organizers that weren't top notch, and cut ties with venues that couldn't handle Wi-Fi caps that they promised us they could. We're a startup, and like any startup, we move fast and cut the shit out of the way as soon as it forms.

What you went through last summer was the first iteration of our pre-accelerator. We knew there would be holes and we knew the only way to truly understand it was to do it. We took no equity from your class because we wanted to make sure we added enough value first. At this point we're confident that we are.

We've built a new system for identifying good mentors, following up with them, and have hired 2 new members to oversee things for you. Sorry you had to be a guinea pig, but you lost nothing in the process and got a free trip out to Silicon Valley and the chance to show top VC's your work...
Did you really just say that it's easier to write a large number of windows-only programs than it is to either:

a) fix the websites that have ActiveX dependencies
b) modify a single web-browser to support ActiveX like IE6 used to

If true, ... wow.
Ehh when integrating with the Dropbox API you're given a choice of "full Dropbox" or "app folder", the latter option creates a folder in your Dropbox which is all your app can access. For an app like this "full Dropbox" is probably more useful (so that you can edit existing files), but in O'Reilly's case it seems they should have chosen "app folder".
Thank you -- that's what happened to me. I got seriously creeped out by the first video and wrote off the headline as misleading.
Awesome idea to help make capturing data more easy, but how will you deal with the problem of the curse of dimensionality? As you start to capture more variables you data begins to appear far apart leading to less meaningful results.

Also, while 'capturing everything' sounds like an awesome idea it can lead to worse performance if you don't take into account that your data now has more variables that can each introduce noise.
I'll give you another example.

I don't find the dongle jokes offensive, but obviously Adria did. My advice to guys at conferences would probably be, don't make dick jokes in public, because it seems somebody might overreact and you might get hurt. That has nothing to do with whether or not I think the dongle jokes are appropriate or inherently offensive. Similarly, I don't find rmrfrmrf's comments to be super inflammatory, probably because I don't feel like my position, if any, is being attacked, but if I was way polarized on the antagonist's side of things I almost certainly would.

Do we want to encourage crazy volatile feminism at conferences? Obviously no. Do we want to encourage even crazier volatile misogyny on the internet? Obviously no. Is it unreasonable, or unkind even, to encourage someone who is complaining about the negative attention they are receiving, who I perceive to be actively encouraging that negative attention without realizing it, to tone it down a little? Personally, I don't believe so, but if it falls on deaf ears, it falls on deaf ears. I just don't think that the anxiety of receiving death threats is good for anyone, and that level of anxiety can cause people to make choices that have big long term consequences. Adria has already demonstrated a predisposition to overreaction that has already led to long term consequences, and death threats are significantly more serious than whatever happened at the conference. It is not unreasonable to assume that someone actively defending her position might also overreact.

There are lots of things that I do everyday that I wouldn't do in an ideal world, but that nevertheless make existence tolerable, good even. I was simply trying to share that experience.
I believe she's referring to the fact that if you are the owner of the domain with the erroneous information, you can make a request to Google to re-crawl the information using Google's Webmaster Tools. Regular users can't make that request, so under normal circumstances, she would've had to wait until Google gets around to it on their own schedule.
Did you read the whole thing? The system pulls the rug out from under people the moment they start making progress. The scaling that exists is too abrupt.
I wonder if natural language parsing will pick up this article and soon her profile will read that she was killed by Google. RIP Amy Wilentz, you will be missed.
"That's because few outside the main cities can afford high-end iPhones, and most opt for low-cost Androids instead."

A statement like that absolutely needs a citation.
Hmmm, how about we try to stay together so China will not be broken apart by the West like the former Soviet Union? Yes, maybe the average citizens don't necessarily think this way and they are brainwashed by the government. But it's not like we don't understand the government has bad deeds. We think to ourselves, what more can we do to make better if we were to reign China instead of the communist party? Yes they are the ones that are corrupted, and they are also the one that did the Tiananmen massacre, no need to flat out deny that. But it's ok, they are the one that also made China stronger. Don't argue saying that but all those things we are ok with are wrong on principle, when US was becoming stronger or any other country for that matter, did they do nothing wrong? Don't get me wrong though, from individual levels, I do not agree with the government's doing. However, from a national and cultural level, the party's interest is to see China grow stronger so they have more power, while we don't necessarily want to see them having more power, but we are on the same line of thinking that we want to see China stronger. Even though they may do things that harm individuality in process, I'll refrain from speaking for all of Chinese population, but at least I buy it.
IE8 is perfectly fine, and also somewhere between 20-30% of your users.

If you have an analytics software that doesn't work in IE8. You lost analytics for 20-30% of your users.

And since array.prototype.slice.call is not supported in IE8, this analytics software is about 80-70% useful. And maybe even less if you have a large IE clientele.

Seems strange to me that one would limit themselves that much.
Right now the way we price is pro-rate it for people who are between tiers. For example, if you have 3000 uniques per month, then you'll pay $28.75 ($25 for the first 2500 users, and then $3.75 pro-rated for 500 additional users on the next tier). If you have below 2500 users, you just pay for the portion of that $25 that you use (a site with 1000 users would pay $10). We're updating our pricing page to clarify this.
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If you actually have the infrastructure and ops to withstand a freak DDOS, you've got a leg to stand on. Taking advantage of a freak shitstorm to steal clients is dishonest because you have just been lucky enough to avoid a shitstorm. In all reality, the people that just went through the DDOS will be better prepared to stand up to one in the future than a system/team that hasn't recovered from one.