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Music in general, perhaps surprisingly, is one of the areas where European startups tend to fare rather well.
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I feel that any design trend out there has its place in the web design community and this one is a trend that I hope NEVER goes away.
Interesting. I could not have even imagined, that someone would run heel first. It feels painful.
I like the second idea, but I don't see where you'll make money with it (at least in 6-8 months).
Yeah that's exactly what it is! In probability theory, the expectation of a random variable is just its integral with respect to a probability measure.
Your patronising tone is a little silly. Newspapers may be dying out, but there will always be a place for "media companies". Few people are willing to depend on Twitter and the blogosphere for news, and Yahoo is one of the few companies that are successfully meeting the changing news needs.
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Search for "Prime" on this insanely fun page, to see where it came from:

http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh

(Hmm... I'll use that as a fortune file. Just need to remove extra '%', if fortune barfs on them. Ah, haven't had fortune in my login since the 90s.)
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This article shows current trends in CMS development industry and probably can help someone to find the right CMS for any occasion. The purpose of this is not to describe all cons of pros of each product but provide general roadmap for those who trying to find a right CMS for the specific requirements.
If you're an undergrad then your full-time job is to get your degree. If not, then you probably shouldn't have gone to college in the first place... Why take on all that debt if you aren't going to take it seriously?

PS I didn't know this when I was an undergrad.
I think the anecdote he shares (in 4HWW) about becoming a National Chinese Kickboxing Champion is a nice example; he exploited a little-known loophole in the rules which stated that a combatant who leaves the ring forfeits, and racked up a series of victories by pushing his opponents out of the ring, sumo-style.

In my book, it was a "victory" in name only; it was clearly unsportsmanlike behavior, contrary to the essence of the game, and devoid of any of the skills the sport is based on, and yet he seems pretty damned proud of himself.

He's all about claiming the glory while avoiding the work.
Hey.. we are hackers, were are the technical details? Language, hosting, APIs, architecture...

PS: Thanks for sharing.
Very useful thank you.
I've given up on trying to convince others of the usefulness of automated unit testing. It works wonders for me in my own projects, but the hassle of trying to police my co-workers just isn't worth it at work.

I feel the same way about strong inferred typing.
Abigail! Bingo, that's who I recall posting it.
I like to treat tests as extended compiler warnings. E.g. in Haskell the type system is so strong, that once the compiler stops yelling at you, your code is more often than not correct. To catch the latter case, I like to write properties in QuickCheck.

QuickCheck is a Haskell framework. It allows you to formulate properties about your functions. Like --- given any list of comparable items, `sort' should conserve its length, produce an ordered list, and conserve the occurrence (and non-occurence) of each item. It should also be idempotent.

QuickCheck then generates a lot of random inputs and tests whether your properties hold. You (almost) never have to write test cases by hand. And since Haskell is pure, you never have to care about setting up the right state before invoking your tests.

This approach allows me to code with success, even when I am not intensively focused. (Of course Haskell helps with this even without QuickCheck. Not having to worry about state, assignment, order of execution, loop indices or recursion keeps the number of items I need to hold in my working memory low.)
I really don't like getting searched. I used to travel a lot, and often am in a really big hurry leaving the airport - sometimes I overnight somewhere, landing at 6AM and a meeting in a city center at 10AM. I've gotten searched maybe a dozen times, on something like 300ish flights (including connections) in my life. It's always a royal pain in the ass.

But it's happening less! Being into testing and what not, I tried paying attention to how much scrutiny I got from security and border officials based on how I was dressed.

Gregarious clothing - white jeans, boutique stuff, baby blues and purples and pinks and such - more attention to me.

Neutral clothing - less.

Business casual - very little.

Taking it a step further, I got a new passport about 20 months ago. I had the passport photo taken in suit and tie, replacing my old casual passport photo I got in my late teens. That combined with dressing upscale business casual-ish means way less searches. I used to get searched all the damn time when I had long hair and was wearing gregarious clothing. Last year I made 20-some round-trips with however many connections, and only got searched once - when I accidentally was wearing a knee-length, blue Japanese synthetic fur-trimmed ridiculous jacket from a Shinsaibashi-Suji boutique. And I looked down at myself and sighed, because I usually change to a more casual/upscale jacket and pack the rest. I was just being careless that day.

They mostly search people on gut instinct - I've never had any real problems, except I don't like having 20-90 minutes of my life wasted.
I do, and as an added feature I can blame the trackball for playing bad, but in reality I am just as bad when playing with a mouse
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oh my... just find the nearest apple store and direct your sharp eye at the displayed 15" and 17" macbook pros.
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don't tell me you run your own search and mail too...
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A couple more pointers.

Dubai I've gotten searched a lot, something like 1/3rd of the time I've gone there. I always say, "Salaam malakum" to the searcher ("Peace be with you" in Arabic), and they get a bit friendlier after that. Same with most countries. A polite salutation or a few words goes pretty far in most places. Ironically, and unfortunately, the two nastiest countries I've been, with the meanest and most capricious officials, are the USA and UK. And I'm an American.

Now, caveat emptor, but I've found a slight bit of condescencion and skpeticism - very, very slight - works well with American officials. Mix it with the utmost politeness. When I'm pulled aside by an American official, I'm friendly and polite, and then I drop, "Pardon me, sir, could you tell me a little about why I was selected? Is it random, like every few passengers, or do I fit a profile as a young person traveling, or some such?"

The guy always gives me attitude back. Always. Well, not always. Some guys are friendly, and I drop it, and they let me go soon. But the hardasses always give me attitude. To which I drop, "Okay, I understand, I know you're doing your job and respect that. I'm just always curious how our country is being run - a couple members of my family are with the government, and they encourage me to ask questions like this." That tends to mildly put the fear of God in these petty, powerless bullies who like to go on their crazy airport power trips. The key is the slightest, oh-so slightest tone that you're better than them mixed with the utmost politeness. Caveat emptor, but it's worked well for me.
I've had Five Finger Sprints for about a year now, and have been heavily evangelising them to my friends. Running barefoot really does feel liberating, especially going off-road through parks, fields and trails. It's like being a kid again and definitely bought the fun back into running for me.

It took me about a month of a few runs per week (20-30 mins) to adjust -- so not long at all. One of the mistakes I made at the start was going too far, too fast: I tried to do my usual 1h+ runs straight away in the Vibrams and was pushing-off from the ground, concentrating on staying on the balls of my feet. Bad idea.

Anyway, here's some tips from someone who has been through it:

---------------------------------

- Relax, relax, relax.

- Don't push off from the ground, rather, concentrate on lifting your thighs.

- Don't aim to balance on the balls of your feet. You're not running on tip-toes, and that's going to put insane strain on your calves. Instead, get the general area of the top half of your foot to land first, almost flat-footed is fine.

- Aim to tap the ground with your feet about 2-3 times a second, as if your feet are going in a circular motion, and passing by the ground. It's like you're incidentally propelling yourself along with gentle touches to the ground.

- Keep hips relatively low, legs relaxed, leaning slightly forward. If your calves start to hurt, then relax more.

- You will get sore calves as your feet and leg muscles get used to the new style of running. Stick with it, and don't overdo it.
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mail yes (postfx + horde), search = google.
Marred only by the fact that half the people I know can't even get it to work.
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I use their more open API's for langpop.com and other stuff where a search API is handy.

I also use my.yahoo.com, I still like it more than google's iGoogle. Especially as I don't want the overhead of loading iGoogle every time I hit google.com, where I just want to search.

Yeah, flickr, too, although sooner or later I'm going to get around to putting up my own gallery thing for my pictures. I'm paying for hosting anyway, might as well use it.
I read it the other way around. Calling somebody that you're not acquainted with by their last name in writing is pretty standard practice, and doesn't carry any connotations (at least to me). On the other hand, using a title like Mr. or Mrs., especially when your tone is negative, makes you sound like a prick. It's like saying "With all due respect, my good sir, you are incorrect".

Obviously, YMMV.
And their frontpage is a imiatiton of Co-Op http://coopapp.com/ vs http://www.net2invoice.com/
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My evil grocery store (Tesco) already sells packets of 5 and 3 so you have to buy too many or not enough.

They offer price comparisons (a legal requirement) in 100g or 1kg (to make the expensive stuff look cheaper).

I don't think for 1 second they would use it to the direct benefit of a customer.

So, er, fuck them and btw., you :>
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The kind of people who read Hacker News are very, very unrepresentative of the canonical Yahoo user. The real page views and money come from sites like Yahoo Sports, the home page, games, personals - destination sites intended for the average Jane or Joe. Yahoo serves that audience well, even though they do many other things terribly.
The funny thing is that I like the guy. I like both of them. I don't think that they are great hackers, but I enjoy reading their blogs and I respect their efforts.

I also believe that StackOverflow is great. I tried contributing but almost always someone hits submit before I do so I gave up until I have more free time.

Sorry for not being politically correct, I thought this was HN.
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I use Yahoo finance many times daily, much more often than Google finance or other sites. Yahoo offers real-time update of broad market indices and delayed update of my favorite stocks on their main page, along with headlines and videos of the top business stories. It's a nice information packaging job.

Of course my broker supplies all that data and more, but they don't understand the complexities of corporate firewalls and http tunneling. Not to mention information stovepiping -- you know, one page for news, a separate page for quotes, another page for charts ... Yahoo integrates all that for free.
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Maybe I'm a little to obsessive with the original source thing... I was going to complain again about the link being nytimes.com instead of the original from gigaom.com

(From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." )

But then this really leapt out at me:

"Yahoo News is the No. 1 news and information site in the country, with more than 50 million monthly unique readers,
ahead of The New York Times network’s 45 million."

Wow, that says as much about The New York Times as it does about Yahoo News. Does the broad readership of the NYT surprise anyone else?

The New York Times certainly was big 15 years ago and by some measures, the number one paper by reputation, but no where near this big. A few things that made me really surprised at 45 million:

1) Like all the other newspapers, it suddenly needs a new business model. Isn't everyone going to blogs, aggregators, and their niche sources for their news? I know part of this is the inability to monetize the online readership in the same way as their traditional readership, but still.

2) NYT is written at a fairly sophisticated level and its liberal slant doesn't really appeal to a lot of people. Its understandable obsession with its hometown, New York City, both draws, but also repels a lot of people.

3) Hey, what 'bout CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc? Those seem much more generally appealing than the NYT.

Thoughts?
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Dunno, I like the advice of what I think is one of the most reasonable contemporary English style guides, The Economist Style Guide: http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=...
I stopped yahooing after I was signed up to hotjobs through a newspaper and there was no interface for unsubcribing to their spam. So I canceled yahoo whole hog and haven't missed it.
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Fair enough, I misunderstood what you meant then. I still don't think that using surnames only is a very nice thing, but maybe it's just me.
Nope. The article mentions that it's better to give the key to somebody "you have a privileged relationship with", such as a spouse or a lawyer. Then you can even tell the customs officials who has the key - the catch is that the process of getting the key (legally) out of the person who has it is between hard and impossible.

Sure, you could call that person and ask him to email the key without saying you're still in customs - but that is something they cannot tell you to do.
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What's the difference between running on concrete vs running on rock? It's overly smooth?
I like the Economist's style as well, mainly because it rings of old intelligence. But they have a large, overarching identity backing them, while as individuals most (usually) don't. Similarly, they publish in a formal medium, which Hacker News is not.
Poll: Do you own a working television?
At the start of 2009 by accident rather than design I stopped having a television at home. Since then I've failed to buy a new one and I've been happy with the overall experience. A handful of times I've watched some old program using the BBC iPlayer, but haven't felt the need for a permanent TV.

I'm wondering what percentage of of HN people don't have a television.
No, but I watch a lot of television online
I need it to watch bicycle racing:-) That's already more or less on line, but it's nice to not have my laptop's fan whirring and net connection used when there's a device that can do the same job so easily.
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If he has no idea of the rough form of his password then perhaps it isn't his in the first place.

Or perhaps he wants you to go back and tell that it is impossible so that he can be sure that full disc encryption really is secure.

Sorry if any one finds that overly cynical.
Even his old MacBook Pro 17" has a 6bit display.

Moreover, different batches have different monitors.

Manufacturers keep lowering prices (remember how much the Powerbooks did cost?) so they must use cheaper technology, and most people are mostly ignorant about specs anyway.

Glossy screens are another example (they're cheaper to make and they look better at first sight).
Maybe they could tweet "having technical issues"
Yahoo! has lost its reputation within geek circles. Google have not only put out really great products, they also go to great lengths to boast about their vastly superior technologies (BigTable, MapReduce), which gets them a lot of (well-deserved) geek love. Then there are Android and Chrome (with V8), both of which are pretty exciting to hackers. Also, Summer of Code, Code Jam etc. get Google a lot of street cred.

So, from a tech standpoint, Yahoo! isn't very exciting. They're still the same old portal website from the 90's. But for the average guy, Yahoo! still gives him what he needs, when he needs it. Non-tech people don't like to hop from one place to another.

I haven't been to any of Yahoo!'s services for over an year now, but that doesn't mean they're irrelevant.
Hmm.. can aqua socks take that kind of treatment?

(You are talking about the kind for divers? I also have them for kayaking. And I've always been very careful with walking on stones, etc.)

Do you mean the kind of new "shoes" they discuss in the article?

I feel like listening to a chef discussing wine and then ask about the color of his shirt. :-)
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I've been on both sides of the hiring table in different professions (staffer, co-founder) and that article made my stomach turn. Anyone who puts up that much of a fuss lacks the courage to lead and manage people the right way - through inspiration.

To the youngsters out there: the more difficult they make it seem, the less they actually have to offer.
> 2) NYT is written at a fairly sophisticated level and its liberal slant doesn't really appeal to a lot of people. Its understandable obsession with its hometown, New York City, both draws, but also repels a lot of people.

About half the country has voted Democrat in the last three Presidential elections. The Congress is now >50% Democrat as well.

Conservative voices are just the loudest and most annoying.
I haven't had a television since about '95 or so. It started by moving from NL to Canada, somewhere in the bush. We would have had to get sattelite but never got around to it, and after a while we realized that we really didn't miss TV at all. Upon moving back to NL several years later the 'need' to get a TV somehow never materialized.

It's funny though, because people around will be talking about some soap or sports event and I'll literally have no idea what they are talking about.

I'll admit to spending more time in front of my computer than most people spend in front of their tv...
If you don't deal with HTML/CSS, someone else will. Which means your app will look like what someone else decided was good.

That's not good enough for me.
Essentially bing replaced msn search. If it is really better than the competition it will be a game of attrition to get people to try it and switch permanently.

It is very very hard even for a company with the marketing power of microsoft to unseat an established competitor that offers something that most people are happy with.

Sure google could be improved, but to switch you have to have something more than just a little bit better, you have to do to google what google did to altavista.
Can someone explain whether we might in theory watch the video using moonlight?

From Ubuntu I tried installing moonlight-plugin-mozilla (I assume this installs Microsoft Media Pack), and spoofing my Agent as IE 8; that got me a different version of the page where I can only click to "Install [Silverlight] and go to Project Tuva".
This is a brilliant book. I loved it, have the hard copy and read it so many times.

I'd also recommend the Devil's Dictionary (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972) for another good old read.
YAGNI. seriously... the curse of premature optimization is a deadly one.
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I did say "in my experience"! I also called the story out as an anecdote, not anything statistically useful. The 95% figure is an estimate based on lots of people I know, not just the one story.
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Hadoop is essentially a Yahoo! project, and has serious cred in geek circles.
It doesn't abort the operation, though. Just leaves it running in the background.

Canceling arbitrary operations is a bit of a hard problem. Automatic garbage collection helps a little, but even so, handles and locks would be left open for an indeterminate length of time.
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Pfff, real men do their own crawling.
Grammatically speaking, the name is incorrect. The site should be called CelebritiesWhoTwitter...the correct domain name is still available (and one character shorter!)

Sorry, I can't help myself. Cool site.
Those are state capitals, not US capitals. Though I guess you could make the case that America has 3 capitals: U - S - A!
"Works" is not the same as "works fabulously." Import statements and public main void() are not, in my opinion, "fabulous" in any way -- except possibly "fabulously bad."

I started with BASIC. I learned PERL and did some CGI stuff with it. Then I learned PHP. I used PHP for a long time, and would rate myself as expert level, especially based on writing good solid OOP code and using good OOP principles. Now, I was happy with what I could do with it... until I wasn't. It worked, but not fabulously.

Then I saw some Rails controller code, my jaw dropped, and I knew I had to learn it. My growth as a PHP dev had been, in retrospect, largely about mitigating the crappiness of PHP. Ruby is a different ballgame altogether.

I haven't had that experience with anything else since. Probably some day it will happen. But til then, the only complaint I've possibly got against Ruby/Rails/Sinatra is that deployment is not the easiest thing... and that's an ancillary problem I rarely have to deal with.

Most of the other things are new for the sake of being new.

I looked into Seaside over 2 years ago. I find it cumbersome, and I asked a question at a Seaside talk, similar to one of the other commentors here, about the templating -- which has to be done that way for the object/state serializations -- and Avi Bryant was a dick to me, to boot.

I'm sure it works great for what he's doing, but it doesn't appeal to me. I don't need or want to write revolutionary data transformation software. I want to write the best damn webapps for "boring, simple" problems that everyone else thinks are solved -- that have yet, in my mind, to ever be given a thoughtful, amazing UI.

So Ruby and Rails are practically custom-made for me -- and, as I said, they work fabulously.
I have one, but I don't have cable, nor can I get over-the-air broadcasts of any value. It's hooked up to a mac mini and an xbox.
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On Demand uses SQL Server, but yeah, licensed FogBugz can run against mysql.
I think he is hiding something in his article. Interesting.