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Lazy competition isn't what makes Chrome fast, it's what makes Chrome exist in the first place.

By shifting people's expectations of speed, security, stability and capability in a browser upwards they also move the lower bound that Microsoft can lag behind (in order to prevent the internet undermining their monopolies) without publicly embarrassing themselves.

It's like a technical version of the Overton Window:

http://www.correntewire.com/the_overton_window_illustrated
My takeaway was this:

"The third lesson I learnt was that you don't need great code to make a great product."

I really believe this to be true. Coders are far too analytical for their own good. If a product works great, then the poor code can be fixed later.
Classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) was created exactly for the purpose of freeing up subnets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing.
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How is noting that the hottest thing around is still tiny petty and mean? It's stating the facts and provides a useful point of comparison. Everyone knows what twitter is, has heard of its valuation, and FB is saying using it as a well-known (and very much loved) point of comparison.
No, that's not correct - you can see here that the route is being advertised through no less than 11 intermediate ISPs (and there will be more, that's just from one perspective on the internet):

http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/lg/index.cgi?rrc=RRC001&...

They're advertising 8.8.8.0/24, while Level3's route is 8.0.0.0/8 - the more specific route wins.

Google is effectively a tier 1 ISP now, so buying transit off Level3 for those blocks would be a lot more costly than routing them themselves.
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Way too many geeks use that for 4 digit codes.
AWS Launches the Northern California Region
Hey Ian from Songkick here, bands in town didn't plagiarise us, we launched around the same time back in 2007. They're good guys.
Ask HN: Commenting on own link submissions
It seems I cannot comment on the link I just submitted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976048 , the one about the pushups book). Is this normal? I seem to be able to comment on other people's new submissions, and have been able to comment immediately on my own older ones.
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No one gets fired for hiring IBM - how our pitch was stolen from us
I'm sick of the radio ads already.

"Bing! The NEW search engine". Not a mention that it's a rebrand of a crappy microsoft search.
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>> Bing is not doing as much business as Google

Understatement of the century.
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The real portfolio url was on HN two days ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971844 and the link:
http://blog.coleran.com/category/portfolio/screendesign
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Google Expands Its Reference Section With Its Own Dictionary
It's quite funny. Search for bing on bing, and you can see how ridiculously incompetent they are:

"Bing - Search. Explore. Decide. ... Pardon the interruption. We ask that you view the characters in the following picture and enter them in the box below.
www.bing.com · Cached page"

That's not a good summary.

Search for 'google' on google:

"Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages"

edit: Do you seriously think the above summary of bing, by bing is good?
It seems to be a silicone elastomer covered in a European patent: EP2089465, equivalent to the WIPO patent WO/2008/065406: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008065406&IA=GB2...
Funny. The German in the Bourne Identity UIs is full of errors and fake words. Then again, it is still a lot better than the "German" spoken by Nazis in Hollywood movies.
>He does what he does out of personal ambition to improve the world

Well that, yes, and a bit of vanity I am sure.
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Wow. I had no idea; that goes way beyond what I expected based on OpenDNS's promotion of their free servers. No more OpenDNS for me.
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How much different from say, JB Weld is this?

I know firsthand that JB Weld is horribly messy, and smells bad as well.

Maybe they fixed those problems?
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To me "legacy" connotes flawed, not merely old. If a rewrite would end up slightly modernized but basically the same, what you have is an investment. If a rewrite would end up completely different because the old version doesn't meet the current requirements, what you have is a legacy problem.
I do admire the ability to ship.

But some of the ones with that ability would be better off a little bit less goal driven and spending just a few hours a month reading up on their tools. (And the rest of the world would be better off, too...)

Edit: (A bit clearer syntax.) I might add -- it is OK to do evil stuff if you are in a hurry, but at least isolate those part so they are easily replaceable. (Yes, most everyone should know this.)
Tautological.

It's just as "great for everyone" if they aren't financially sound, don't continue their funding strategies and don't get emulated.
"We have apps with more users than Twitter!"

Edit: They could be emphasizing the scale of themselves & Farmville, but it can also be read as a casual swipe.
Well as a user of Chatterous; yeh it is still alive if "running" translates to "alive".

If your taking "not updated" to mean "dead" your probably right; we were waiting to see how they would monetize and nothing seems to have appeared... so "in limbo" is probably a better bet.
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Yes, it's not that unusual for DOS programmers to "fall back" to assembly; inline assembly was much cleaner and far more effective than the disparate OS-hooks built into the various compilers. You could do asm { pushf, pop ax } to save the flags register, and do whatever you want with the machine (e.g. masking interrupts) but to do the same in pure C you would have had to use MS, Borland or Watcom extensions (yes, inline assembly was more portable and stable than the various levels of C standardization supported by the compilers.)

Other fun ones were variable length structs, and bitfields. http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403480
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-private_partnership
How many run of the mill $50k average-or-less developers or programmers do you know?

Now, how many $500,000 programmers do you know? Outside finserv quants & algos, not many. But THEY can make millions and tens of millions.

Unfortunately our industry tends to grant incremental compensation increases against geometric performance & value increases. Which is true in a lot of engineering fields. And the same can probably be said in design fields as well.
As I commented on Bray's post, Enterprisey Java, loaded up with as many spaghetti abstractions as can be interposed, has lots of stack frames to spare. Aren't each of the extra dispatches and dependency interjections going to have tail calls to the next such abstraction?
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Your link seems to be dead. Perhaps it was flagged as spam?
"sometimes the worst projects are the best teachers."

That's so true. At least for me.
I think the current problems will be good for the industry. Magazines I consider true investigative journalism is the Economist and CSM. The others I really don't care for and could get my news through Google anyway.
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How about: http://www.tolkien-online.com/images/eyeofsauron.jpg

Failing that, something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/1256063209/
Just deleted and resubmitted with a verified link. On deleting HN insisted the item did not exist. On resubmitting, I still cannot comment. Can someone check if the link works?
So, instead of fixing the root problem (dealing with the companies behind domain squating) we should keep adding redirects on the dns?

...from someone that already had his 2.0 cool domain redirected by a dozen isp because it was too close to another domain.
For me the best no-go sign are Dilbert strips pinned to the walls (though you have to visit the office to see this.)
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I've had similar problems with other API contests in the past, either being canceled or the rules being changed post-deadline.

Generally this happens when the contest is run by marketing people as opposed to those from a developer background.

You've just got to build something you'll enjoy making and using regardless of the chance of winning.
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Im not sure I agree to be honest; indeed it looks like salvaging the situation rather than diplomacy.

In that situation they handled it really poorly and both sides lost an incredibly amount of face. My understanding of cultural stuff in Asia is above average but not complete: I do know enough, though, to say that a continued business relationship was an incredibly lucky outcome all round.
Interesting.

I just had cause to have a lengthy, off-the-record chat with one of our newer employees. He said that he was stunned over the atmosphere in the office. Everywhere else he's ever worked there's been underlying, very gentle grumbling, even if people were generally happy.

By contrast, he says that the overwhelming feeling he's getting with us is one of enthusiasm, interest, engagement and general contentment with the work, the people and the place. He feels welcome, part of the team, and is amazed at the general sense of good will.

And we have Dilberts strips pinned up in lots of places, partly because some of them are funny, and perhaps partly because we are pleased they're not us.
Oh god, in case I have missed something super obvious, where is the website? Are we supposed to hunt for it? Is it some kind of treasure hunt?
Look up "acrostic" and work it out. It's not hard.
Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View
I think they tried very hard to make the place look organic, but you if look carefully everything just seems contrived. I think it's sort of the uncanny valley of interior decoration, which I see quite often these days.

It probably serves more as a function to impress clients than to actually inspire creativity.

If I were them I would've let the employees decorate their own spaces. Could've saved a bunch of money that way. I would've also chose a house with garden over Manhattan, but then again I don't run a consulting company.
However what it resolves to depends on you search domain. If I shared http://www on twitter everyone would most likely see a different site. People should really be using http://to. to avoid conflicts with internal servers called 'to'
Maybe it got automagically marked as spam. I wonder why. I don't see how a book about getting in shape ( http://www.lulu.com/product/download/the-little-book-of-push... ) would be automagically spammy.
Lucky you :)

I've mostly seen offices where people were using Dilbert strips to illustrate their own life in the office.

EDIT: For example this one appeared in one of my previous companies after owners hired a "visionary" CEO: http://www.dilbert.com/2004-04-17/
Reminds me of Polymorph - looks like useful stuff to have around the place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfcBWnOqr6s
You gotta love forced alliteration!
I love Enlightenment. Used to show it off to friends during presentations just for kicks. ;)

Other than that it's pretty usable, though takes a while getting used to.
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99% of programmers don't know what a tail call is, so why do you need them?
And a post was up on rockpapershotgun this monday: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/11/30/tapitty-tapitty-t...

Who started all this one may wonder.
Burning bridges can be cathartic, but keep in mind that it is virtually impossible to only burn one bridge at a time.
Yes, some fields have a lot more women than men. The thing is that men can choose a lot more freely (although it is true there is prejudice against men in some areas, like male nurses), while women are facing a lot of prejudice, sometimes very hardcore prejudice, like death and sexual threats (and you can find a lot of incidents well documented). Men need not worry about such things if they choose to engage in a female dominated field.

The main issue, I think, is not whether women opt more or less for CS, but rather that many many are compelled/driven to opt-out of it. Something is clearly wrong if they can't opt freely without suffering prejudice or without having to, as some say, "grow a thick skin".
Actually the period at the end is part of the DNS standard, without it, your machine's search path is searched first (e.g. in resolv.conf on Unix/Linux)

So if your ISP is AOL, you might have a search path of aol.com
so looking up "to" will first try to.aol.com if that exists it will go there. Putting a "." at the end will let it go straight there.

This isn't normally a problem because it's not like aol is going to set up google.com.aol.com. But really everyone should have periods at the end of domains.
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Aren't FireFox extensions based on JavaScript? Wouldn't faster JavaScript in FireFox directly benefit the extension developers who are trying to push the browser UI into new places? I agree that speed isn't the only important factor but the Mozillia folks are working hard to keep up with WebKit based browsers on performance so Google's focus on speed will ultimately benefit Firefox users as well.
What does this mean in this particular situation ?
Yup. This situation must be awful, and Matthew Evans has every reason for feeling so much more terrible even then he lets on in this post.

But he just pissed off IBM. And Faberge. And in all likelihood scared away a whole number of potential future customers who suddenly think 'if I talk to the Solid State Group, and then use someone else, are they going to bad mouth me to the whole world?'
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Isn't it more like -- 'if I talk to the Solid State Group, and then steal their idea to use with someone else, are they going to bad mouth me to the whole world?'

Which doesn't sound like such a bad bridge to burn. Consider it a preventative measure to getting fucked over again.
I've always typed "define: <word>", but this seems to be superior.
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I've been a Hacker News reader for a couple of years under a different username - but for this submission, I've created an account under my real name for full disclosure that I'm linking to something I wrote myself for my work blog at SAP. It seems like a reasonable topic for the site, since it involves a new product that's currently in limited beta, but if this crosses the bounds of appropriateness, I'm happy to cease and desist from submitting similar topics in the future.
You don't think Faberge will have a different version of events? After all, they gave what seems like a fairly detailed brief - in their mind they may think SSG added something 'simple' or 'obvious' to their own work, and they were entitled to use it.

I'm not saying that's the case - I really have no way of knowing. But the potential future clients are on the Faberge side of the pitching table, and may therefore see the story through that version.
That's great! I've usually used answers.com or dictionary.com, but they're slow and cluttered compared to this. Also, answers.com often gives you a Wikipedia entry when you want a simple dictionary definition.
How about just a bulls eye. Maybe add a bullet hole in the center.
I've been a Hacker News reader for a couple of years under a different username - but for this submission, I've created an account under my real name for full disclosure that I'm linking to something I wrote myself for my work blog at SAP. It seems like a reasonable topic for the site, since it involves a new product that's currently in limited beta, but if this crosses the bounds of appropriateness, I'm happy to cease and desist from submitting similar topics in the future.
I'm sorry - I should have been more clear - I _get_ that you inline assembly when you need to do something your Compiler won't let you do (or makes difficult), and that clearly people sometimes will tweak some inline assembly to get a bit more performance - But has anyone ever seen a developer "Struggle with C's casting rules" - and switch to Assembler to over come that challenge? That just seems like an unexpected approach to that problem of understanding a kind of fundamental C concept...
I'm Matt's business partner.

To be honest we thought long and hard about going public with this, as it all happened quite some time ago now.

We've built our company on being open, up front and honest with people. I was sick of working for companies that would be economical with the truth in front of clients, and say whatever needed to be said in order to win some additional work. I think that being honest really is the best way of building long-term relationships with people. Eventually they respect you for it ;)

We know that this goes on all the time, and up to a point we just suck it down as it's part of the industry that we work in. We absorb the cost, so in the end people do pay for this sort of work, just not directly.

The reason we decided to write about this was due to the audacity of what had happened. Our ideas were pretty unique, we felt, and so it was clear to see what had gone on when the site eventually went live.

At the end of the day, if we lose business because of this, then it's probably the sort of business we would have no interest working on in the first place.
True, but anyone can see that those bridges needed to be burned. Companies that behave this way should be outed.
I have friends who work in the advertising industry, and they tell me that this is the situation with most clients.

One friend told me Google did this exact thing to them a few months back. Now, if Google's not above this sort of behaviour (and whatever you think about them, you must admit they tend to have a higher standard of behaviour than most other companies) you can imagine that others will also be willing to stoop to this.
Just curious, do most people here use the email client as the primary interface for the group sites?

I personally use the web interface for busy listings just to keep things separate from my actual email, and email client for only very low-volume listings. Am I missing out on something?
That's writing a whole routine in asm, though. Embedding a couple lines of asm in a function can have the opposite effect - the optimizer can no longer make assumptions about some things disabling a large number of potential optimizations for that routine.
I'm liking the interface, they even include IPA transcriptions!

I bet this will get most online and many offline dictionaries out of business.
It happens - indeed it happened to me a few years back. I was part of a business that was asked to pitch a system specification to solve a particular business problem. We worked hard on the spec and felt sure we had covered all the bases - well we must have done because the business we pitched handed the whole thing over to their "preferred supplier" and asked them to build it - just as we specified it.

Lessons were learned. No more free consultancy. We got much more cautious about pitching to new prospective customers and made sure that any specifications were high level and trod carefully around key technical issues.
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My favourite quote: "where people can take a break from their computer screens, or stimulate creativity by changing their environment."

Stimulate creativity? What?
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Games are somewhat of a special case, though - as long as it works enough for the vast majority of players to complete the game without hitting a roadblocker issue, it's good enough. It doesn't need to withstand longterm maintenance.
Will it be possible to play Spaceward Ho! with this? Dropbox wouldn't sync the game file because it was "in use".

Spaceward Ho! 4 (for PC) has this ancient networking code: it communicates with the other players via a file on a network share.
It gives up all possible safety for performance gains that haven't mattered on the desktop for years. "volatile" is not enough of a memory model to write portable threaded code for I/O bound multicore machines. And it's missing an awful lot of modern conveniences that are painful or unreliable without language support: AOP, closures, currying, invariants, reflection, serialization, remoting, extensible syntax.
This still seems a bit cluttered to me and as usual it doesn't even look like the visual design was given any though below the page header.
Clean interface and ability to save favorite words, nice but after a few tests i'm not too confident in the quality of the translation (e.g. some related phrases with eng<->ita are just wrong). A good start,btw.
Thanks for the comment. These are exactly the learnings I am attempting to get across by writing this article.
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There's something that always amuses me in movies and series: something happened/is about to happen, a taskforce is created and they're running software very specific to that thing right away, with graphics, simulations, etc.

Who writes all that? No one ever mentions the programmers that save the day.
quite shocked this was down-voted to the ground. i wish people would express themselves outside of pressing a button.
maybe it was just me but i thought the tone of the blog post was negative, or perhaps it was just because he opened by stating ycom lacked transparency and it came off accusatory.

furthermore, i understand the importance of performance metrics but I always felt like ycom's purpose was more altruistic than just being about the return. (i'm a realist, i understand bills need to be paid and money to reinvest, but yeah...)
Document fully your pitch work and if possible, put in place NDAs

this.
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