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"In design terminology, ‘chrome’ refers to the non-webpage parts of the browser’s interface – the toolbars, tabs and buttons – because our design philosophy was “Content, not chrome” – putting our focus on minimizing the amount of browser UI present, we felt it cheekily appropriate to name the browser Chrome"

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/google-chrome-reason-revealed

kaeawcon Stripe Open-Source Retreat

I had the same reaction as well.

kaeawcon What Happens to Older Developers?

You interview them, just like we do for every unknown person. If you don't want to take the time to do that, then you do a quick search for work they've done, and then come back to the 'do I want to interview this person?' question. Ask them what their timeline for having a job is. Tell them that the interview will involve coding on this specific thing, give them weeks or a month to prepare for it.

Help your candidates do the best they can. Don't set them up to fail at a task they weren't expecting.

kaeawcon MVNRepository Contains Malware?

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

This says that "suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days", but also " third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message". Have there been cases where new submissions to it have contained malicious code?

kaeawcon Google Play Store Ratings Drop

Has this been fixed? The post is dated Jan 1st.

kaeawcon Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

If they do not comply we will be forced to rebase all your mails, they belong to us.

kaeawcon Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

aoh SNAAAPP

kaeawcon HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data

Maybe HealthCare.gov is just a honey pot by design, except poorly cloaked?

kaeawcon How to Get a Job at a High Frequency Trading Firm

Maybe they already have.

kaeawcon How to Get a Job at a High Frequency Trading Firm

There are quite a lot of companies out there, I don't see how it would be so hard.

kaeawcon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Indeed, it must die. Please kill it

kaeawcon Meatspace Chat

Wow... pretty damn neat

kaeawcon Uptime Robot

They seem to be having some odd errors in the signup that prevent it from showing it actually processed. Did get an email asking to verify the account so it sounds like its only a client side problem... seeing an error from jquery validation.

kaeawcon Github For Everything

Please do share, would be interested to see it.

kaeawcon Just go home

Seconded on the hours bit. Its not about working harder (more hours), its about cooperating and coordinating with the team. We all require communication with our teams and reports etc, but that communication only needs to happen for part of the work day -- most of the day should be spent on work unless you have meetings or need to get together as a group to discuss and plan the work.

kaeawcon Ask HN: What should I learn next?

It doesn't sound like you have mastered any one particular language. I would recommend pursuing one of the ones you have some experience in (Rails, PHP, or JavaScript) and making projects from scratch. Being able to build an entire application or utility from nothing and understanding all the parts is a great skill to have. I would not recommend learning any particular framework (web or otherwise) except as a tool to gain mastery of a language. Frameworks are scaffolding to allow you to use your understanding of a language to effectively build your idea into working models, they should not be treated as the be-all-end-all of a language. Limiting your learning to jQuery or Rails instead of trying to learn JavaScript or Ruby themselves will not get you the mastery you need to grow as a developer.