william42

On the other hand, there are things that you want to make difficult, like stealing credit card information.

Have you heard of GoboLinux[1]? It revamps the directory structure for exactly this reason.

[1]http://www.gobolinux.org/

A google search gives a lot of results, but I think you mean this: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Moon-Rising-Sputnik-Rivalries/dp/0...

Is this true?

The problem is that the simple and quick solution has to be hacked around when the problem set changes and that's how we get all these hacks.

Isn't Google incredibly famous for their dedication to A/B testing?

The main thing the journals produce is prestige.

Which just makes it even more tragic that such bright people are working for the king of patent trolls.

That's what happens when a major voting machine company publically states that they are going to deliver the election to the Republicans.

At least Google is an OpenID provider, so you can provide Google, Yahoo, etc. buttons that are actually OpenID buttons, and then have a general OpenID field, and let your users choose.

This so very much. Although I'd like one that does the same to twitter and G+ buttons...maybe I should take a look through the code for Facebook Disconnect and do it myself...

YC uses HN usernames internally.

It's why Microsoft Bob was released, IIRC.

http://www.fairsearch.org/about-fairsearch/ Microsoft seems to be one of many. Looks like it's mostly Microsoft and plane seat booking sites.

Does Lua not have the startup time issues of Python/Ruby? If it does, then to counteract the lack of threads you'd probably use a coroutine-based system like gevent and Python's greenlets.

No, the difference between MySpace and Tumblr is that the latter has a dashboard that gets rid of everyone's theme and by extension their autoplaying music, etc.

Didn't he initially use some proprietary tool called BitKeeper?

If the code is that different from the paper, why was that paper published?

HTTP, HTML, and Javascript. (I will say, though, that I'm holding out a sliver of hope for Google+ becoming a federated platform.)

My guess is that Bing users tend to be less tech-savvy(default on Microsoft Windows and all that) and thus more likely to pay attention to ads.

In general, the country with less of a constant trend towards mass censorship gets the benefit of the doubt. And for all the United States' faults, they have a significantly better censorship record than China.

Benford's Law is pretty well-known in mathy circles.

I thought Facebook's video chat was still only one-on-one, and frankly, multiplayer video chat was the only thing about Google+ that interests me.

Dead Like Me?

I can't help but get a sense that the author is mythologizing and mystifying Apple. Is Apple really that unique?

I thought the point of the Acid tests weren't to reflect reality but to encourage web developers to support useful but unsupported parts of the standards.

If he had stuck with BASIC, he might not have had the protocols he needed to write what he wanted.

Using vi keybindings in dvorak is an exercise in pain anyways...

The problem is that revolutions tend to be more harmful than their predecessors: see China in the 60s, for example.

Photoshop doesn't have a scripting interface? I'm surprised.

> we have to acknowledge that programmer devices are increasingly going to be distinct from the mass market devices.

Actually, this creeps me out more than anything else, because where are we going to get new programmers? The prototypical childhood story of most of us is that of discovering a programming language on our computers and learning through experimentation. Will that be possible in an iPad world?

Though this brings me to an idea I've had for a while; a website where children can learn to program from their browser, since every modern browser has a JavaScript interpreter built in.