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Note my use of the word "software".
When you say they aren't saviours, what are the drawbacks you experience? I'm curious to try them since I'm pretty athletic but they seem kind of Skymall-ish, you know? :D I have yet to meet anyone who's actually worn them and had informed criticism. Do you use them all the time now or just here and there?
Actually, there are two background layers that are constantly visible. The top one is transparent and has light and dark images on it, and the bottom one is a gradient with the same light and dark end colours.

The top layer is fixed, the bottom layer absolutely positioned, so that the latter moves under the former as you scroll the page.

Not exactly rocket science, and I guess we've never seen this before because it is way too distracting.
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Likewise the fact that the iPhone beats Symbian by only a little bit is a reflection of the browser quality and the general makeup of the user base. Symbian/Nokia is still vastly ahead of Apple in market share.
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I use a Dell S2209W 22" wide panel monitor. Its way comfortable than using smaller monitors and i don't think i can go back to using smaller ones.
For virtually any activity I would do while sitting down at a computer/workstation, I think wide screens have a much more natural fit to a person's eyesight. I think they're just more comfortable to look at.

On the other hand, I can definitely see a reason for vertically oriented screens in eBook readers and some hand-helds. I can't think of a time when I would rather have a more square screen.
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You are correct. The theory is that if the trusted domain X is willing to embed links that point to domain Y, then the browser should be ok with it to. No additional notification passed to the browser.

When EV certificates came out (the super HTTPS verification that turns the address bar green), Opera developers and the standards body had differing opinions about this very issue. http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2008/05/23/lowering-the-ev-ba... I bring this up to show that it is a tricky issue and even experts in the field disagree about it.
These shoes were the ones that informed me that I am disabled. I never considered my mutation to be a deformity because it really didn't impact me until now. It is only after seeing these shoes a while back that I wasn't able to do something I wanted to do thanks to my malformation.

My second and third toe are fused together at the skin and vascular level. They have independent bone structure and ligaments, but they never fully separated in the womb. I could theoretically have surgery to make them "normal", but I always felt I should be proud of who I was and not have mutilate my body to make it like everyone else.

For now I'll continue to have to go barefoot.
The article talks about how many embedded projects use C and the need for new developers. I have two thoughts about why embedded developers choose C.

One reason for this choice that I've observed is the very conservative mindset in those developing safety critical software. I think this is understandable given potentially fatal consequences for errors. The approach to safety is somewhat brute-force, write the code to strict guidelines, then test, test, and test. Changing a language or compiler would require extensive re-testing, introduce unknown risks, and the development of new guidelines.

The other big driver for embedded software is unit cost. The logic goes this way. Saving a dollar on a part used in 2 million unit saves $2M in costs. A cheaper part is selected if the part cost savings is less than the extra engineering costs needed to squeeze the functions into a smaller memory and slower chip. C, and C++ can be quite lean, while perhaps taking longer to develop than another language.
Doug, cutting leaves;

"Yahoo for cloudera," the groudskeepers say.

Dawn dew burns upward -- a fine mist.
I may just be really out of it and missing something obvious...but WTF?
Did he mean: "Poor product planning is just a waste of time."
Someone creates quality content and gets paid decently for it: news at 11.
I'm not sure - besides the "I told you so" suggestion of having not done something stupid like that, the only other solution is to fix a showstopper crash is to issue a patch that will blacklist (and thus not load) the plugin, and inform the user.
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Since when is Yahoo cool?
Whoa, this is possibly the first post complaining about opportunity-negative-karma, which, in my opinion, violates the guidelines by technically complaining about being down-voted.

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Correction if I may. It's more a function of how much the community values your contribution.
You never think it's appropriate to filter the words that first come to mind to say?

I have explicitly stated otherwise in a prior post. You're choosing to actively distort my words. Please don't do that. We disagree on the degree. I find the degree of self-censorship you advocate to be excessive.
You make a good point, but after so many problems with the current system, Apple really ought to introduce a separate category for such Apps. They're explicitly telling customer that that App contains "Frequent suggestive themes" and "Frequent bad language". At that point I would assume that the App was badly named and not really what I thought it was. Those are actually very inaccurate statements about the App.

However, since the integrity of parental controls needs to be maintained, I don't see why it would be so difficult to flag an app as allowing a user unfiltered access to the Internet. The problem I see with the current situation is that the statements being made in the App store are false and misleading, even though they're there for a legitimate reason.

edit: I just re-read your last statement - I guess we're not disagreeing after all. Still, I'm really surprised such a change has still not been made. I don't even follow Apple much, and even I knew about problems like this one long before the recent big updates.
This is why people who are building professional websites don't put them on $4.95 a month shared hosting plans.
Big O means an upper bound. n is also O(n log n),

In other words, while log(n!) is no worse than n log n, it is still better than n log n.
It just doesn't matter. If it's bad enough it'll be flagged. Adding arbitrary and reactive rules to the system is only going to hurt it.
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We will pay you, yes pay, to complete the backend of our site. This time will be used to evaluate you as a team member and if you fit in, we will ask you to join our team.

Right now, we are in discussions with angel funds and are also aiming to make it to YC winter 10’.
If you are a dedicated and energetic technologist this is a great opportunity to hop into something that works.

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Hm. I found it far more efficient to trim what you read instead of trying to read faster.

At first, filtering at a paragraph level is something I found myself to do. Usually, I just read the first few words of the sentences in the paragraph (most of the time even just some sentences in the paragraph) until I mostly see what the purpose of the paragraph is about ("Ah, he is telling me about injective", for example). Once I know this, I either skip the entire paragraph or read it slower and deeper.

Second, it is sometimes a good idea to rather start in the middle of something and read to the end, just backpatching from the first chapters whatever you still need. This works well if you are reading papers about things you are familiar with. You usually just don't need those 12 definitions again, and again, and again. I think, this is also what Knuth referred to as 'batch reading' of papers (and it being much more efficient).
Same here. In fact, if I'm looking for information on a specific subject I will most often go straight to Wikipedia as they have an article on what I'm looking for in 99% of the cases. Especially if I'm looking for just a general overview of a subject, even technical ones. If the subject is more general, or loosely defined (sentence, error message etc.) I use Google.
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Ignore the Hungarian haters.

Joel's stance on Hungarian notation is laid out here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
What kind of question is that? Of course fast > slow where all else is equal, the problem is that that isn't the case. I made more than one point regarding the use of FP style where applicable and there's others as well (including maintainability which is a huge money hole).

Whether or not you think the performance implications are worth the benefits is a personal, contextual decision. But you just grossly misrepresented the entire point by saying that both styles are equivalent except that one is slower.
Likewise, beekeepers often lose their fear of bee stings just by being stung so often. They say, "eh, that wasn't so bad".
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I prefer one widescreen next to one widescreen turned vertical. this way I can view plenty of code on the vertical monitor, and yet enjoy the benefits that the widescreen monitor brings.
Wikipedia is stocked full of FOSS fundamentalists. Selling ads on Wikipedia, or trying to buy it (from who?) would only force some combination of a fork and a mass exodus.
As a friendfeed user I must say: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I know this is off topic, but IMSafer is a great application. Please add the ability to "Mark All As Read" or make your AJAX-ey site run faster. I have 1000's of alerts to go through and have given up on taking the time to clear them all out!
Sydney, Australia (Western Suburbs.)

A recent American addition here, still confused about directions and I don't leave the house without a train map and enough cab-fare to take me to Tasmania and back, just in case I am lost.

I have been to the City, St. George, Ashfield, Burwood, Newtown, and Lidcombe. My working from home 15hr/day doesn't help my exploration of the city either :-(
I would change a few things if I were you. People are going to give you a hard time for (a) using the R word, (b) the implication that writing your actual app is merely a matter of "wiring up the back end," (c) the email address.
This link should get you past the registration: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/business/economy/11expats....
Get a google apps account for a domain, it has shared contacts. Bonus: If you have an android phone, it'll integrate seamlessly...
Can't someone just scrape all of tr.im's ids and archive everything on their own?
Maybe it is just me, but at least to me, a loop and an if (and an accumulating list) is far, far, far simpler (and thus, clearer) than... creating a new anonymous subclass from a templated class with an overriden method and invoking some other method? (at least, I think that's what's going on, I am not sure. A bad sign). And this is not because I don't get filter and functional programming (coming from pythons listcomps, having used haskell and lisp)
"today's unskilled workers aren't going to be the robot owners of the future"

Careful with your crystal ball there; you might end up sounding like the people who predicted similar things about computers. Robots will become very cheap in the future; they won't be exclusive to the "bourgeoisie".

"You can't just start making everyone work less"

Who said anything about making? That's far too authoritarian for my liking. People will choose to work less when they can achieve the lifestyle they want with less work. It will take a while for this to become socially acceptable, but I think it will happen.

I am less than 40, and I would be happy indeed if this became a problem during my lifetime, but I'm still skeptical.
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So:

Clojure was born as a hybrid of FP and CL for the JVM, as that seemed perfect to the authors personal experience...

Sorry, but I'll not abandon my own way for such a personal preference style (if I only could remember where I already saw this pattern... hm [...]).

I'm perfectly OK with my chosen Lisp system (no, I won't tell you, no war fan I am).
Wikipedia exists for a reason.

Or were you being sarcastic? Because if so, please explain why you think he did not achieve much.
Chris and Malcolm are both wrong
It took 13 years and a shitload of computers to sequence the first one.
Could be because of come problems connecting to The Deck ads servers -- happened to me once. Check if http://www.northmay.com (ad server) loads fast/loads at all.
How much power is wasted worldwide by misguided programmers doing premature optimization? All else is never equal.
Has anyone had bad longer term experiences with these or other "barefoot" shoes?
Yeah, I think it's interesting alright, especially when the browser is becoming the OS.

I didn't realize that Google plans to implement Google Voice on the iPhone by writing it in HTML 5. Thanks to This Week in Google podcast for telling me.

The Google purchase of On2 last week really makes me think Google plans to round out the HTML 5 spec for video by open sourcing all the codecs and patents they now own.

If they do that, the only OS I'd need would be eerily similar to what Chrome OS is rumoured to become.

What fascinates me is how quickly this is all coming together. Linux has been around for years, but it's growth accelerated with the Internet exposing more and more people to the platform.

But what's happening around HTML 5 will do far more good for me as a netizen than the total of what the open source movement has brought about so far.

The HTML 5 demos of audio and video and gaming are very expensive from a processing point of view today. My newest Mac breaks a bit of a sweat when running some of these demos. But processors will get better and browser performance will improve.

I'll be interested to see if/when Apple launches its tablet whether it contains a 3G chip. If they're prepared to sell those things without a voice contract to go along with the data contract, it means they see what Google sees too.

If they don't, my next phone may run Android (2.3 years left on existing contract). HTML 5 with a robust specification for audio and video means I will no longer need iTunes. I will simply stream to the browser from my cloud at home or on someone else's farm. The only time I would need stored content is when I'm off the grid, and Google's figuring that out too with Gears and parts of HTML 5.

It's suddenly a Web world, and we all live in it. If I'm Apple or Microsoft, I'm scared to DEATH of Google, at least in the consumer market. And the ironic thing is Google's not actually competing directly with either of them. Their deaths will simply be byproducts of doing the right thing.
I think the redesign is great - but the background, while awesome and creative, is distracting and adds noise to the UI.

The rest of the design is awesome though - there are some decent improvements to discoverability.
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In fact, Python appeared around 1991, while the official Java Programming Language appeared around 1995 ;)
Blisters, knee and ankle pain, and now surgery inducing injuries. I think I will stick with my over-padded, waffle sole Nikes

I guess I am lucky and never have had running injuries, but why are people giving these things such good reviews?
It's the same link?!
Can I expect real performance benefit for a single server that does some SSH and HTTPS transfers as well as encrypted filesystems?
Since they hired Doug, gave us Hadoop, Pig, YUI etc? Since their home page started being a great portal for normal people? Since Yahoo Labs started churning out the awesome? Since they've given more to FOSS than any other company, ever?

By any standard other than 'Web 2.0 Douchebag' - Yahoo is SUPREMELY cool, whatever you think of their long-term prospects or what might have been.
He's defining a context-free grammar for sensationalistic news headlines about AT&T. It's an elaborate pun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar for more information.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the UserVoice folks started it. When we added it to Dawdle (still there), the GS folks didn't offer one.
Any problem you want to throw a lot of computers at, its now pretty easy to do that.

Kinda a big deal, yeah. Major changes coming to computing in general as new opportunities present themselves.
Oh, global like GLOBAL. I see. I thought he just meant non-methods.
For those struggling with messy Android contact importing (via Gmail): http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/07/gmail-contacts-notes-conver...
This is a fascinating visual example of a conversation I had with my wife the other day. She referred to an "inner narrator", when reading, and was very confused when I didn't understand what she meant. Apparently I've always done this and never realized others didn't.

Note: I don't consider myself to be a "speed reader" by any stretch. I seem to read about 50% faster than my wife if we're scrolling through text on a page (judging by how often she complains I need to slow down ;), but I have no idea how either of us compares to "average"
"The author prefers it" is suddenly a problem with a language? Have a look at Clojure; it's a very nice language on its own merits. (I particularly like the combination of software transactional memory with by-default immutable data structures.)
It's gotta be tough when your last name is a participle
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Nearly every high school cross-country runner goes from zero to five days a week of running instantly. I built up to over 62 miles and six days of training a week in the first season and I know plenty of others who have done the same. Not only that, but I did the same thing again 15 years later and 60 pounds heavier.

The human body really is designed to run. Most injuries are due to pushing to go too fast. If you keep your heart rate at about 60-70% of max, you'd be surprised how quickly you can ramp up mileage without hurting yourself. The key is to never push yourself so hard that you feel like you couldn't do a workout the next day.

Cycling works almost as well from a cardio-vascular standpoint, too. It's not weight-bearing, though, so it won't help improve your bone density or strengthen your joints like running will. You could probably compensate by doing a bit of weight training. In the end, it comes down to getting off your butt and moving.
i hear trent reznor as some free time on his hands, as he is reknowned for being both a rockstar and as a preeminent technologist within his current field i suspect he would fit your needs to a t.
AA, 2 certificates (one professional, one the equivalent of graduate-level work) and I'm a few classes short of a bachelor's. I voted "other".
Odd headline, didn't see how it matched the story, maybe I missed it. Nevertheless, this is an insightful article about why one should continuously re-evaluate the way they are doing things vs the way things are getting done in the industry.
Y Combinator startup Listia breaks the mold for giving free stuff away
My CPU's idles most of the time.
How to sound like a Parallel Programming Expert III: Parallel computing issues
Interesting: Friendfeed has 12 employees, and all but one are engineers
Another slice of π ? (generating the digits of π in Common Lisp & Haskell)
Yay another LA person!

Anyway...I honestly couldn't say. I don't surf, I only swim, and I've never gone swimming with mine. Other than that, I don't think I've noticed anything weird about how they handle sweat or moisture compared to other shoes...they get wet when you're wearing them somewhere wet, although I find myself sweating less on my feet with these because I'm not wearing socks with them (although you can wear toe socks) and they don't smell yet (they're only about a month old). The upside is tossing them into the washer to clean them.

I have the sprint version though, vibram makes a "flow" version made of neoprene that might be more appealing to you if you surf.
Not really.

If one throws an hojillion low-quality posts up in a day, a few of those will be ranked +1. That grants frequent posters a ludicrously high karma score for what amounts to little overall contribution to the 'community'.

In a way, it's almost an MMORPG -- the longer you stick around and 'grind', the higher your score gets.
I can't agree. I almost certainly don't "deserve" the amount of karma I have - I've just been around a long time.

Karma accumulates automatically over time - the only thing quality might affect is how fast it accumulates, and even then just posting more would probably get you there faster.
Nice! I've been waiting for the Clojure A-Z serious interview for while.
The 'price' of robots as well as computers could be greatly affected by increased scarcity in materials. A lot of the base materials in today's electronics aren't exactly abundant.

I think this is one of the problems with a lot of technological 'forward-thinking'. Issues like this tend to be swept under the rug as if supplies of crucial building materials were not a concern at all. I would say it's a very real possibility that we could run out of a particular material with no replacement/alternative, especially as the march of progress causes us to consume more and more and more of these source materials.
Not off hand, but maybe that's a reason to have one.

Is there an interest in having a Minneapolis HN meetup? Maybe something like beers at Brit's? There might be some momentum at the moment: Y Combinator was mentioned in the Strib's business section today.
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In any case, its definitely in six figures, and that is a good achievement for a one man blog. Purely from a financial point of view, the other blog mentioned in the article, Dooce, is even more interesting, she makes $40k per month
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4836738&page=1
(and that figure is a year old)

Very satisfying to see one man armies getting so successful.
ASIMO robot impresses by navigating changing terrain
Possibly. If your SSH and HTTP daemons and encrypted file systems use /dev/random, and you're running Linux, then possibly. Look in /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail, and possibly graph this over time. Also, some modern Linux distributions use data from the random pool at exec() (to randomise linkage), and so it's possible you could be running low already. TLS email also consumes huge amounts, and anybody running virtual servers might be having a problem.
And, you know, killed a lot of good startups, wasted a lot of engineers' time, etc.

"gave us Hadoop" -> let Doug do what he wanted.

I'm not convinced they've "given more to FOSS" - significant examples other than Hadoop and Doug's work?

Perhaps I spent too much time inside that particular sausage factory.

Would you go work there, right now?
Okay, that would solve my personal problem (so would seting up an LDAP server), but for the general population, getting a Google Apps account is using a canon to smite a gnat.

I was hoping somebody would say "There's a start-up for that...." :-)
The tone and word choice of this posting will probably alienate more people than it attracts.

"Rockstar" might have been appropriate 10 years ago, but the bubble burst, and nobody buys into that anymore.

In most worthwhile enterprises, the CSS and xhtml are a thin veneer on top of the site's value. Your posting makes it sound as if the guts of your app are an afterthought, "wired up" in two weeks (simple!), but requiring a "rockstar" (apparently not simple!).