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.cat is registered by Catalan organisation puntCAT. According to Wikipedia, its intended use is to promote the Catalan language and culture, these pages notwithstanding:

http://nyan.cat/ http://lol.cat/ http://crypto.cat/ (hey, at least it has a Catalan version)

puntCAT can be found at: http://www.puntcat.cat/

Looks like FJ's been excluded from the Internet Archive. Is there a trustworthy caching authority, you know, for this kind of situation?

Microsoft is a behemoth of a company with presumably layers of bureaucratic and historical debris all over the place. Short of a very profound, top-down remodelling of the company, it's actually refreshing to see that new voices are popping up inside of MS and being allowed to advance this quickly.

That is not to say they don't have a lot to make up for, just that there might still be hope for Microsoft.

But also IE/Windows. And at the bottom of the article, there are links for additional resources in Windows and UNIX-like flavours.

It's a shame this comment got downvoted. Be it serious or tongue-in-cheek, it was very enlightening.

The way you phrased your comment can only lead to arguing semantics of the word “terrorist”. As risk to the establishment, a “subversive” can always be framed as a terrorist with a little bit of creativity.

Can you volunteer a significant difference between Franklin and a modern-day terrorist from the establishment ruler's standpoint?

“Apologies to Hans Christian Anderson” — with the whole TED PR thing just starting to cool down, I found this typo actually quite charming. The surname is spelt “Andersen”. :)

EDIT: I wonder, did you write this with anyone in mind or is it a patter you're seeing everywhere? I sure see this kind of nonsense as a plausible scenario in many big-name companies, and I see it in the company I currently work at, though it's dealt with and hopefully will be over soon.

> The online version is free and it's available as a PDF, epub, and mobi.

To disambiguate: ebook versions are also free (at least as of 2 minutes ago!).

Windows for work. iOS + Linode [1] for personal use / on the go.

[1] h/t to yegg, http://gabriel.weinberg.usesthis.com/

Nor to me. Interestingly, using http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 redirects to http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2 !

I'm at a loss here.

I'm very careful not to reject this kind of "My Success Story" thing straight away. Too often it feels to me like the kind motivational self help with no insights or real lessons to be shared — until I find out someone who watched the same video (or attended the same event, read the same article) got a real insight of some kind from it. [1] That said, I watched a bunch of these videos and got nothing from them. :-(

I'm not subscribing at this time because I'm genuinely concerned I'll be subscribing to videos of people rubbing their success in my face, and not much else.

[1] Here's something another member of HN fished from one of the videos: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617651 (though I support the spirit, I don't particularly agree with that sentence).

EDIT: to be sure, I'm not claiming this website is going to offer lousy content, but I am claiming that they're doing lousy advertisement to that content (well, as far as I'm concerned at least — I'm merely a data point here).

Next up: a list of lists that do not contain themselves

(Punchline drumroll.)

The juxtaposition of the "A better way to blog" and a gallery of censored layouts is beautiful. Congratulations to the team!

I'm not sure if Mr Hyde's definition of a personal possession was a (well-played) PR trick or simply a certain lack of accounting intuition. Which is a shame, because his putative balance sheet should be a fascinating thing to think about.

If we were to take a look at his assets and guess reasonable values for each category of asset, I wouldn't be surprised if all 15 items he listed (give or take his wallet and computer) ended up in a catch-all 1%-of-total-value "other assets" category.

In reality, Mr Hyde's own description of how he lives (and how he manages to get around with so few 'objects') suggests that the most valuable things he has, by far, are (and probably in that order): his contacts, his reputation, and his cash.

Close to these three, his clothes, iPod and sneakers, however annoying to replace he imagines them to be, should be next to meaningless.

I'm not a security guy. I don't know what reasons other people might have. I actually started it as an experiment, and grew fond of it for no specific laid-out reason.

Actually seeing what trackers and other such spyware are embedded in most pages these days is interesting, but I could live without the granular control. I think what I'm most interested in is just really seeing how different pages will break (or degrade gracefully) confronted with the missing functionality of javascript.

If you haven't yet, I suggest you give these add-ons a ride for, say, a week, if anything for the sake of learning.

I was actually complimenting you for setting the spotlight to the centre of the page by default, not criticising you. :-) What did you change now? I revisited the page and it looks the same to me.

As user of NoScript [1] (and its Chromium sidekick, ScriptNo), I'm often let down by pages posted to hacker news that have poor or no graceful degradation [2], and that often makes me feel like writing a comment complaining about it (which I haven't, won't, at least as long as I don't start offering quick fixes along with the complaint).

It's really refreshing to see a page of such a design complexity having given thought to scenarios where javascript might not be available. Kudos! (I actually have a hunch this default state was crafted with mobile browsers in mind — but it was nonetheless a thoughtful thing.)

[1] http://noscript.net/

[2] http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/g...

It looks you changed the URL of your blog post too?

I got two different RSS items for the post and the update, and the original post's location (/articles/relationa-algebra-in-bash/) no longer resolves. Was that intended?

Buses are pretty much ads on wheels, --- and in some buses of the green variety [1] there are TV sets broadcasting most relevant content such as government propaganda, the horoscope, news and events, and yes, advertisement.

[1] I'm yet to figure out what the colours mean on buses.

I'm curious about how your experience compares to mine: more often than not (say four times a week?) I see at least one of those indoor media terminals blue-screen dead. At any rate, their content is 100% generic (the only exception I ever saw was at the Daslu megastore's elevators).

Doing indoor media "right" seems to be a yet unsolved problem in São Paulo. And still I'm not sure how relevant these terminals are in the smartphone- and tabled-filled environments they're usually spotted.

1. Brown (touristic) signs are still a bit rare here, but they're always bi- or tri- lingual. Most other road signs are pictorial and follow international standards. Street signs show the name of the street in big, readable type. That said, even São Paulo denizens get lost here pretty often (and Brazilians from other towns even more so).

2. Ads weren't that localized to begin with. Billboards usually advertised appliances, commodities, magazines... not nearby places of interest. So they could have been anywhere, really, they were just "visual pollution" really. (I suppose by saying this I'm confirming your hunch?)

Concerning #2 still: when the bill got passed, the government started selling advertising space in the back of buses and inside the metropolitan transport system (trains and stations). I'm not sure if this is on purpose, but these ads have usually been far more localised (relevant to the route of the vehicle or the vicinities of the stations) than the billboards they somewhat replaced.

In the simplest terms, this bill:

   - outlawed billboards anywhere, period
   
   - regulated the size of "corporate totems" (such as
     McDonald's distinctive pole thing with their logo)
   
   - regulated the size and number of times one can use 
     corporate branding on their business's façade

It's also important to note that sites that had been protected by previous acts as cultural heritage are exempt from this bill, which means we still have a few (rather charming) exceptions around.

São Paulo wasn't horribly polluted by billboards to begin with, compared to every other large city. This bill, on the other hand, had such extreme impact... we grew used to it very quickly.

> PHP already landed a change (which will ship with PHP 5.3.9) which will add a max_input_vars ini setting which defaults to 1000. This setting determines the maximum number of POST/GET variables that are accepted, so now only a maximum of 1000 collisions can be created.

Wait, where did we establish that less user input = less array insertions?

I've been in the financial consulting business for a while and I'm still sometimes stunned by the kinds of things clients will send me as unencrypted email.

What's the legal status of email? Is it treated as if it were "just like snail mail"?

My point being: wouldn't it actually be better in terms of fostering awareness and better processes if cleartext email bore no presumed privacy whatsoever?

Then, say, a couple standards might get updated, and companies might need to update their internal processes in order to comply.

EDIT: Rearranged some paragraphs. Taking the opportunity to acknowledge the alternative to my "simply stop legally blessing people's treating email as if it were snail mail": to regulate the internet further and try to impose "Intel takedowns" and/or stricter protocols than the ones that outline email today.

There's anecdotal evidence, a little bit further down, of this actually happening: someone mentions Facebook thinking that their pictures of a trip to London were taken in England, Arkansas!

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/nkktm/facebook_is_reall...

I heard that, once asked about which guitar model was his favourite, Keith Richards said "give me five minutes and I'll make 'em all sound the same." [1]

[1] Couldn't verify that he was saying this in answer to the question, but here's an attributed citation of the same quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith_Richards...

As a financial consultant, I get a lot of graphs with downright preposterous aspect ratios on a weekly basis.

I interpreted the title as "'famous last words'-material that my bosses tend to say."

And here's Aaron Sorkin's first attempt at a hommage to The Network (his second attempt being, of course, The Social Network): http://youtu.be/5zyOhZsvIzI (warning: lots of cursing).

> The problem is that many governments, also in Europe, still see the USA as a shining example which to follow.

I've read this same argument all over the place here on HackerNews. I don't see it. And yet a lot of HNers seem to be pretty confident about this idea. What substantiates this?

Edit: to be sure, my question is concerned with policy making, not with nationalism or anti-nationalism toward any particular nation.