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I think it's a pretty pissy thing for al3x (http://twitter.com/al3x/status/1786897274) to publicly denounce a controversial feature change like that... at least wait until the backlash is over! He needs to support his company's decisions, instead of being so eager to divert blame from himself.

Although my comment could be completely void if Techcrunch is overplaying the entire situation, which is probably the case...

Yeah, I know you discuss that the tradeoff is "worth it", but if you're writing CSS classes like that you lose a lot of the ability to redesign your site in the future without restructuring markup. The whole point of using CSS in the first place is to separate style from markup. The classes might still be "descriptive", but you're definitely putting style right there in your markup.

If you're set on using a CSS framework, I really think Compass (http://compass-style.org/) is a must. However, the syntax is so wacko I can see anyone's aversion to it.

A definitive solution to this problem has yet to emerge.

Try Ruby in Your Browser - http://tryruby.hobix.com/

Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby - http://poignantguide.net/ruby/

Offical Ruby on Rails Guides - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

If you're interested in the Rails 3 side of things, here is also an hour of your time:

* New Router can route other Rails apps, Sinatra apps, and possibly apps from non-Ruby frameworks (he mentions Django)

* New Javascript agnosticism uses HTML5's data-* attributes

* ERB's html_escape on by default, <%=raw to escape escaping

* Lots non-public-facing stuff being refactored

Anyone else underwhelmed by the keynote? I was hoping for some new material regarding Rails 3, but if you've been following the commits there should be no surprises.

Except when he was alluded to mounting Django apps through Rails 3 ;)

Never ever ever ever __ever__ do a fixed amount for a project. You will get screwed.

I've made this mistake twice in my life; both times at the end of the project it worked out to something crazy like $5/hr along with sour relationships with both clients.

An hourly rate is always fair, for everyone. The client gets what he pays for and you get paid for what you give. No more, no less on either side.

I'm pretty sure we've (or was it on reddit?) had this discussion before. Porn sites have to deal with extremely high traffic, must have great performance, have to constantly change to compete in a cutthroat industry, and you are working for people who really know the cost of downtime.

I personally think it's one of the most difficult types of sites to tackle as a developer, and takes a great deal of experience and responsibility.

Absolutely. It also matters where you apply-- obviously everyone here would want to work in an environment where they value open source, and we actively seek those workplaces out.

What do you mean less crufty? I think this is just your perceived vision of Debian.

We use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS because it is committed to be supported for a very long time. Traditionally Debian releases have been supported with security updates and the like for one year after the subsequent release. There's no guarantee or date for Debian. Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition on the other hand is supported through 2013... and that very well might turn out to be longer than Debian 5.0.

Does anyone else consider this spam? Submitted by ossreleasefeed to ossreleasefeed.com, and is a question that could be very easily be asked as a self-referential submission here. There's no additional substance on the submitted site either-- seems to me like the author is simply trying to drive traffic to his/her site.

This should probably be retitled; after playing with it for a bit BrowserCMS is really nothing like Drupal, nor is it meant to be a Drupal clone. Instead, it's a powerful general-purpose CMS that will easily manage both static and dynamic content. If you've looked at Radiant but thought it was too simple, take a look at this.

Grab the source at http://github.com/browsermedia/browsercms.

You mean I'll finally get to meet Paul Graham?! No wait... that's not TechStars...

Sensationalism. If you're looking for a faster Firefox look towards the 3.1 betas. If you're willing to use unstable software (alpha Chrome), there's no reason not to check out 3.1. The new Javascript engine is just as fast as Chrome's.

rsync... it will basically do everything you just listed for you, while making sure everything gets over from server to server OK with multiple checks. If your transfer fails halfway through, you can just pick up where you left off.

I would not recommend gzipping 11GB of files into one archive... it will take hours to compress/unzip.

Good luck!

It's not even 3 browsers. It's IE6 and IE7 or IE8... depending on which one you have installed on your machine. Which you can test anyways.

So really, it's a 250MB trial to test IE6. But not really test IE6. Just render images from IE6. Unacceptably slowly.

Sometimes it boggles my mind that software can be written this badly. I think this is a new low, even for Microsoft.

I think it's funny that we do all these things to increase our productivity, and then some people use a text editor that hangs on loading files :P.

I would honest-to-god rather be using Notepad then Aptana. Being slow loading text files is just unacceptable.

I always update when the first RC comes out. I figure I can do my part and submit bug reports that way, but I've never actually run into any bugs. The RCs have been totally stable. Go figure.

Wouldn't this mean a lot of extra, cross-platform development of the "Flock enhanced" features? Wouldn't they have to re-develop all of these features for each platform's GUI toolkit, instead of just a single XUL codebase?

Nevermind the regression of features that Firefox has which Chrome doesn't. Seems like a lot of work to me.

Most likely Techcrunch just up to it's usual ways: authoritative headlines with mysterious, anonymous sources. Oh, and with this nugget thrown in at the end: Flock hasn’t yet returned a request for comment on this story.

SwellJoe, I wasn't trying to knock Linux. I was just talking about my experiences regarding why I made the switch. It's great to hear that your experience has been more positive. I'm happy that you've found your groove in Linux, and I've found my groove in OS X.

Before switching to a Mac, I was a Linux user for years and years.

I use a Mac simply because I feel OS X is the better operating system. Linux has made strides on the desktop but when push comes to shove, it's just not "there" yet. I'm sure I'm going to be downmodded for saying that, but I really feel it's the truth. Desktop Linux is unstable. While it doesn't crash often, it does sometimes, and I feel that one crash is too many. Multiple displays are wonky. Flash still doesn't work properly. Etc. Etc.

I use OS X because it has the UNIX underpinnings I need to do my job with the stable desktop and cohesive UI that I feel Linux is missing.

Unlike many Linux zealots, I don't feel that there is anything "wrong" with closed-source software. I didn't use Linux for years because it was free as in beer or free as in freedom. I used it because I thought it was the better tool.

And that's why I use a Mac.

Here is my biggest concern though: Apple is an evil, proprietary company. In my opinion, worse than Microsoft. If you use OS X, you are legally locked in to Apple hardware. You cannot legally run OS X on anything but Apple-bought-and-branded computers. At least, with Windows, I have the freedom to install the software on any bloody hardware I want. Yeah yeah, you can Hackintosh or whatever, but it goes against Apple's EULA.

Just because Apple releases parts of OS X under open source licenses, doesn't mean OS X isn't completely proprietary. You can only run it on what Apple lets you run it on. If you need to upgrade your workstation(s) and want to stick with OS X, you are completely at mercy to Apple's products and prices.

In the end, I suck it up. Hopefully one day this will change, but right now OS X is a pleasure to use, and that outweighs the dislike I have with the license.

Good news for you, reddit itself is open source. Why use a clone? http://code.reddit.com/

Because TechCrunch is in bed with YCombinator, of course ;) http://uncov.com/ycombinator-techcrunch-butthappy

(Yes, this is a joke)

It seems that this article is wrong-- today Twitter confirmed that there are no additional fees. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/02/bell-mobility-and-twitterno-...

I still think 1.0 should have been named 2.0.

I would barely call some TechCrunch comments "controversy". That site has some serious youtube-style lowest-denominator-of-society commenting going on. The troll to constructive comment ratio is like 9:1.

It's not up to Justin.tv to ask for an age: it's up to the site that actually displays said pornographic content. It's their business and their responsibility.

Btw, after trying out the redirect, there is in fact no "pornographic" material on the entry page.

EDIT: this comment was not meant to be a reply to your comment, jackowayed. (oops! sorry.)

I consider myself to be a hobbyist more than anything else. Unprofessional ;).

The title here should be: "How to setup 2 monitors on a Macbook and 1 on a PC along with an example of how not to submit misleading titles on HN, please."

I was going to say-- without Modules, Procs, or Blocks, it's not really Ruby, now is it? :P Still, a ~2000 sloccount makes this a neat and succinct little piece of software, so grats to the author.

Just a heads up: Wine is not an emulator, so software running under Wine is infact "native" software. There is no reason why it should be slow, so saying "Wine beats Linux Firefox" should not necessarily imply that Linux Firefox is particularly sluggish.