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Wait what?

I'm British and I've never heard this three month thing outside of the US. Surely this isn't a UK cultural thing too?

Never been married either, mind, or in a position to propose, so it hasn't exactly come up.
Like I said: yes, the engine failed, and the engine shouldn't fail. But it's unreasonable to expect that if only the engine had continued working, the test flight would have gone fine.
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Chicago. City on the make.
fyi: I can't view this page within my corp network.
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Weekend Build: Social RSS reader to replace Google Reader
Social "flow" RSS reader http://www.newsriver.ca was a weekend build project to replace Google Reader. While the front page had existed as a concept for a while we never got around to the back end of the project until the demise of Google Reader kicked our asses in gear and the bulk of the usable product was actually done with in six hours. The product soft launched on the 15th and so far has seen a user base of about 300 users so far with minimal advertising efforts.

Currently the RSS reader simply loads in URLs for feeds and dynamically updates them to a "news river" when ever a new post is made. Tie-ins currently are Instapaper and Twitter to allow saving and sharing your favorite content. By the end of the week we will also be support imports of most other major RSS Reader data.

We plan to roll out a major new feature each week over the next few weeks that will focus around social discovery of new feeds, sharing feeds, customizing your workflow, and 3rd party integration (ifttt.com + other social sites).

We also have a full developer API already in place that we plan to document and launch after a few more key features are in place.

We'd love to hear your feedback as we've already been slated for a pitch competition May 3rd!

http://www.newsriver.ca
The conversion rate that you get in Adwords. This is supposedly created by having code on your order completion page. But Adwords was showing conversions (implying sales) for sales that never existed. So either scammers were spoofing the conversions or the code was faulty. But the conversion optimization works by increasing the ads that convert. All good as long as the conversions actually are real.
Bit confused..

"A possible cyber attack temporarily shut down computer networks" ... "Operations at the two banks were back to normal later in the afternoon and it was still unclear what caused the disruptions"

So it might have been a cyber attack. It might not.

"President Park Geun Hye’s administration created a cyber crisis headquarters to investigate whether North Korea is behind the outages"

I would have thought it would have been created to see if it actually was a cyber attack before assigning blame.

In the UK banking systems have failed repeatedly in recent months. The first thought isn't a cyber attack. The first thought is banks messed up.

I don't get why tensions would rise if currently they cannot even determine if it is a cyber attack or not.
Welcome to feminism. Unfortunately, the only group which is actually trying to solve sexism through ending gender-based treatment and stereotypes is (a faction of) the Men's Rights movement, and they're a cesspit. We're all fucked :-(
I agree, it's massively arrogant to think your platform of choice was a real game changer because of your ignorance as to what other people were already doing.
Exhibit B: Defending/Denying Flash's Adverse Effect on Battery Life in 2010
Ah. I never bothered to go there, since the HN link was to github.
There’s no denying the incontestable fact that Android has catapulted Samsung to the enviable throne of being the market leader in the smartphone industry having dethroned the likes of Nokia, Blackberry and Apple from this position that they once held.

Was Apple ever market leader? They never had majority of worldwide smartphone market share. They do (still?) have majority of profits, though.
Sounds like you're looking for this: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
Really cool!

I'm biased, but the WebAPI proposals that come with Firefox OS deserves an entry in the "On the horizon" section.

If you want to hear more about them you should join in on todays IxDA!

wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI
Yeah, we have heard that from several others too :/ I have no idea why it's happening. Anyone who knows how to solve the problem?
Apart from the fact that its JS only, how is it better than HN? Why not just use HN to follow topics you like (JS in this case)?
This looks like a straight-up copy of laconic, which is already used by many (including my team): https://github.com/joestelmach/laconic

It even hijacks the 'el' naming convention for it.
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> second only to Russia and the United States.

> China supplies the technology/know how to conduct such attacks

You have your bogeymen in wrong order it seems, if China is behind North Korea in it how can they help?
reddit on the whole is similar, isn't it ?
Awesome stuff. Thanks for putting this together.
Maybe a kinda "Flag for close" button on the github interface would help with this. Than the community would be able to flag issues and the core devs could de-prioritize the flagged ones or if there are flags from enough members they can just close it without reading it assuming that many member is probably right?
I do that too. Unfortunately, the college bookstore (B&N) buys up old editions and has them shredded.
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I had to do a double take, I thought somebody had registered a domain using my first initial and last name (echolis).

Need coffee....
and using the same code base:

http://lamernews.com (programming)
http://echolinux.com (linux)
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Is it really that hard to get people don't write open source to solve your problems? What state of mind makes people believe they are entitled to someone else's time?

When I write software, I'm solving my problems. When I write open-source software, I'm still solving my problems, but I find whatever I'm writing may be useful to someone else, so, feel free to use it and, perhaps, even join the effort to continue better solving our problems. I will not solve your problems for you.

What's wrong with these people?
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Great stuff. We're going to check it out as soon as we can :)
Technologically, yeah. The community? Not a chance. And as far as the code goes, one is way better off creating a couple tables and making their own clone than re-using reddit's code.
Lots of people use this thread to spill their hate about Agile. But I actually think this is a good article. A lot of small companies have no process whatsoever. Most don't even have a list of requirements or bugs.

I think this article gives you a good start with creating a decent development process for your company.
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Should have beend added „in USA”
Did you report this bug to the IE team?
el was shorthand for element. I wasn't aware of laconic until after I wrote this... I'm simply learning javascript and thought this would be a nice way to do it..
> bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable

Isn't it a bit of a contradiction?

He ran a company that engaged in actions that harmed society. Doesn't he deserve some credit?
More often than not, recruiters couldn't care less about what open source code you have out there. They only ask because they believe that amazing developers spends all their free time writing open source code for free, and being able to market this will get them their commission.

If you feel it's holding you back then just build a basic tool for yourself and a personal website. I wrote a basic blog script and my own site, hosted it on GitHub and in-house recruiters often eat it up. I've never used a recruiter myself, but I've been sold "open source developers" that just happen to have a GitHub profile.

If you just want work then I would highly recommend that you either find your local Rails user group (if you have one), or find any local companies that use Rails. If you have a local user group take a friend and you'll find plenty of opportunities to hear about who uses Rails, and possibly even talk to people that may be interested in hiring you.
Understanding... how to sell software, the future of personal computing and its scale / importance, how to leverage markets, how to create a standard, how to hire top engineers, the importance of software and the margins in it, how to bootstrap and be financially disciplined, how to bundle, that productivity suites would rule, the way products can reinforce eachother, and on and on and on and on - yeah all that is exactly where his wealth came from.
Seven years ago next month, Tim Bray predicted the End of SOA...
Used my (Dutch) scholarship for it
I do not see OP mentioning "better" and neither on the website it's mentioned.

>>Why not just use HN to follow topics you like (JS in this case)?

It's a very subjective question. One answer can be why there's HN or why there's StackOverflow or why there's both.

It's actually good to have a dedicated JS forum, even if there are already many out there. Besides, on HN everything is posted - everything. People participating here are https://twitter.com/thejayfields/status/235074734163898368
I've got a browser based notepad using local storage as the key:value store. I needed a way to 'open notes' and in turn create various tabs, etc.

HTML wasn't an option in something so dynamic.

I guess all I'm saying is, there are use-cases where it's fine
Because this is exactly the scenario that plays out every time North Korea "attacks" South Korea. No one ever owns it, just like with the submarine http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10129703. It's an "accident" or it's inconclusive.

Also, neither side wants to conclusively blame the other, because hey, they're still at odds. Stepping a single foot into the DMZ without permission can get you shot at.

SK is probably trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but is relatively sure it was them.
I just found this thread so it's 'a bit' late but... A very useful service, I use it myself. I also couldn't fail to notice lots of supportive comments on Criticue (while moderating). Keep up the great work.

What have you written it in if it's not a secret? PHP?
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Source? I'd be very interested to read more.
The described scheme has nothing to do with popunders really. A hidden iframe is loaded in which the advertisers ad is "displayed" and the publisher gets payed on cpm. The user doesn't even get to see the ad.
I'll ask Stuart (the author)
If you're doing it only to solve your own problems then why open source it?

Obviously, the motivation to help others, contribute to something as a community, show off your skills, etc. are drivers besides just solving your own problems. For some developers, solving their own problems has very little to do with why they work on open source projects.
And for life in general.
There it is again, that 'Agile is better than waterfall'. I can take any two turds, draw up a criteria by which to measure their quality (consistency, length, brownness) and arrive a valid conclusion that proves one turd is measurably better than the other.

But they're still both turds, and you shouldn't eat them.

Agile does not have a monopoly on process. But Agile apologists repeatedly offer up that concept. That somehow, a world without Agile is a world without process. That's an absurd thing to think.

If you want process, tell me what you want to do first, and we'll work together from there. Agile supporters tell you how you're going to do something, then ask what you want to do, then tell you what you want to do is wrong.

As for what makes someone 'good' or 'bad', you offer up a straw man argument that tells me more about how you think than how I think.

And anecdotes aren't evidence. They're anecdotes. You may have had just as much success with those projects if you'd made everyone wear cowboy hats on Thursdays. You can't prove that you wouldn't, just as much as you can't prove that Agile works.

And your final point is ludicrous, bordering on delusional. If I understand you correctly, you estimated how long something would take to build using Agile methodologies, then moved that stuff into an environment where Agile wasn't implemented, and it took longer than you estimated.

All that tells me is:

- You're terrible at estimating
- or unable "re-evaluate project plans" (your own words)
- or both.

I might say I can cook a chicken in half an hour with prayer. Then I put the chicken in the oven where it takes 1 hour too cook, and then I claim that prayer is a better way to cook a chicken "because, look! the oven took an hour, and prayer would only have taken half an hour!"
Trying to implement Scrum in a $VBC is even more fun, especially when senior management are so entrenched with waterfall based processes where there is much more information (almost) set in stone upfront/earlier.

"What are you going to commit to delivering in this project?"

"points This stuff is pretty much guaranteed, unless you change your minds on the priorities."

"But that's only about 40% of the dev time we've got until our planned release date[1]."

"Yes, that's all we can commit to definitely doing. They'll be more, don't worry, but what depends on what the priorities become at a later date and where we get led with customer feedback[2]."

"But I can't go to my management team with this, they won't understand why we're not committing to much!"

"They should understand, they told us to do Agile in the first place[3]"

Project starts...

"Can I get copies of the detailed design docs?"

"We don't have any detailed design docs, you can have a look at the design docs we've got but just remember that they're 'Barely Good Enough'."

"But I can't go to...[4]"

1. Ok, we can handle an upfront release date.

2. Ha, like we'll be able to get any of that.

3. With little or no actual understanding of how it works. But it's a nice buzzword to spray around with customers...

4. etc, etc, etc
I would never put up with DRM and EA's business practice, but it is hard to resist a new version of SimCity.
Of your fixes, did you need to do all of them or was any one on its own suffice to fix the problem?
I don't understand that sentence. What is a pivot?
1. If I go to the trouble of writing a textbook, I'd do it because I felt there was something lacking in the other available texts/materials.

2. There is really no way to force a student to do anything.

Disclosure: I list some printed texts and reference books as required on my syllabi. I do this because I give open-book, open-note exams; but I do not allow the use of electronic devices (except pocket calculators).
Trying to understand where you're coming from here... I should write tests for every portion of the .NET Framework my app uses because it might break on a security update?
Finally something that developers using Windows want. Command-line is good, but when it comes to Windows I think people expect to have some GUI in place for all tools. Great work!
Dozens of "max_user_connections" spammed in the page (error handling anyone?) and garbage characters in the content?

Well, I think I'll wait for another source.
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People stereotype people. For instance I am just fine with Gates but sort of don't much like Jobs(don't hate though, or maybe I do).

I love my Mac and hate Windows(though MS is credited with many others to put computer in the hands of many people).

I can't stand anything written/said by GrubIgler but that doesn't make them &&&& and morons. They have a huge following, they must be good.

This is how it works.

I am sure all are(were) good.
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I needed it, maybe you will need it. Have fun.
Contributing to a community or showing off my skills would also fall under "solving my problems". It's perfectly logical to assume I may want better communities and recognition and the lack of either to be problems I may be inclined to solve.
It's not me choosing to use shitty tools. It's a symptom of agile non-thinkers.
In the same vein as how Microsoft sold IBM an OS that didn't exist, one of my favorite stories is Excite bidding $3 million to be on Netscape's browser circa 1996 or so (while having $1 million in the bank), prodded on by Vinod Khosla (they didn't get the deal, but it's still a great move).

http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2004/09/persistence_pay_1.h...
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In your .md file, specify that issues should be researched, follow a certain formatting and include certain key words.

The formatted research should include the search terms used when looking for previous issues and list the results found, including a short reason for why those issues didn't apply.

Any issues submitted that didn't include the formatting, research, and key words are put into a bin where volunteer users can go through them and correct the problems.

Basically, I'm saying to demand better from the people you're looking to help, automate as much as you can, and delegate some of the work to those who can't code but can contribute in some way.
I think a trial or atleast a demo will go a long way for brombone. Also, it doesn't look like you are selling something from the first look at the website. It looks like an article or a blog post to be honest.
I don't understand your argument. You said that alt.med methods are effective. I and Nursie point out that the methods which are effective for alt.med are also part of std.med. They are not unique to alt.med and therefore cannot be used to justify the validity of other alt.med practices which are not part of std.med.

Do you agree with this argument? If not, why not? If both std.med and alt.med make the same recommendation then what's "alt" about alt.med? Otherwise I continue.

You point out that prayer is effective. I respond that intercessory prayer has not been shown to be effective, despite several large-scale experiments. Yes, prayer can be part of palliative care, since it might make some people feel better. But palliative care is not treatment.

It also leads to questions like, is reading a good book on the topic of death or dealing with terminal cancer (as with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotherapy) a better, more effective palliative care than telling people to read the Good Book?

You point out that the ACS says that prayer is effective. I point out that you've misread the page, because the ACS page does not say that prayer is effective. It only says that prayer is a visible aspect of how some people carry out their 'spiritual life', and that a spiritual life may help some people feel better.

Furthermore, the definition of 'spiritual life' on that page is so ill-defined that it includes, say, the hobbies of a dyed-in-the-wool hard-core reductionist, atheist, anti-CAM person. Which might also be hobbies that a std.med practitioner would suggest. There is nothing "alt" about a doctor suggesting that someone relax by taking a holiday in the countryside, away from computers and phones.

So no, it's not good enough me as evidence that alt.med is effective. Nor should it be good enough for you.

Yes, there are perhaps a dozen dietary supplements and herbs which might be useful. These are overshadowed by the array of supplements on the market that have no redeeming quality except perhaps to enrich the pockets of the multi-billion dollar supplement manufacturing industry.

Which means that yes, Nursie and I are wrong in that there is a thin sliver of possibly useful treatments to come from alt.med. Most interestingly, these tend to be for anxiety and depression, where effectiveness is much harder to evaluate than "can cure a staphylococcus infection." Thin evidence, I say, but I'll concede that sliver.

Your argument though is that those dozen possible treatments justify the entire alt.med industry? Color me doubtful.

You say that I ignore the evidence. What I ask is that you present the evidence. The ACS page does not seem to provide the evidence that you say it does. The ACS page is, of course, a summary and cannot be held up to full scrutiny, which is why, in order to strengthen my argument, I've made references to some of the experimental research papers on the topic, and they concur with my position.

Surely if there is the good evidence that you say there is then you can either find more experimental research with conclusions that strengthen your viewpoint, or can highlight the flaws in the papers I cite, yes?
Basically html = view, javascript = logic. Following from separation-of-concerns, you want to decouple the two.
North Korea has money for such projects it appears, they are higher priority than feeding people.

For example their nuke program is estimated at $1.5bn http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130212000939

I would have thought buying expliots on the open market was good value.
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Yeah indeed.

Another option would be to use something like mustache and precomile your templates to javascript functions which you could use.
Did you work at the Metservice in Wellington? And run the Erlang user group?
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Would be useful if there's a simple testcase page for this.
How did Microsoft harm society?
I hope they did not infect any medical device e.g. a ventilator.
The text doesn't mention if the bug remains in Internet Explorer 10. It would be interesting to know if the bug has been fixed in the latest major version.

Does Microsoft send out non-security updates for Internet Explorer 9 for those who are unable or unwilling to update to the latest version?
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echolinux.com doesn't work for me, I either get a domain placeholder site or I get forwarded to affiliate sites.
Yeah, what is with the very light grey text on a white background? Might as well make it invisible, at least then it won't hurt anybody's eyes.

Edit: okay, it looks like the site looks differently depending on which monitor I have it up on, weird. On one monitor, there is much less contrast which is why I had issues with the grey text.
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Sometime ago there was news "North Korea under cyber attach" or sth like that. Now this.

So, this is an "attack" or "counter-attack"? Anyway, am I the only who who is smelling that that sense of retaliation was routed from some other country as one can actually doubt North Korea's cyber prowess.

South Korean Internet is micro-monitored like many tyrannies(though not on the same scale" so I guess the attack was sophisticated and of some calibre.
Huh? Having the money to splurge on a ring is a signal of financial fitness because you have the extra money to spend on something that will 'have no return' (so the speak). It's hardly a case of 'burning of your ships.' If you have the financial security to splurge on some ridiculous ring, then it's also possible that you have the ability to just absorb the cost if you don't like the marriage.

Besides, depending on the cost of the ring, and the length of the marriage, it would make you more likely to terminate the marriage over time as the cost of the ring gets amortized over the length of the marriage.
I never said it claims to be better and it isn't. Let me rephrase the question: why would anyone want to be on echojs instead of HN, given that it's essentially an HN clone for JS and HN community is bigger at the moment? Why would you use it?

I am just trying to understand its value for myself.
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I hope there are no medical devices(e.g. a ventilator) accessible from the public internet with a default password.