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Space Monkey's wording maybe could have been better, but I understood it as they intended and they appear to be dealing with a customer issue in a very reasonable manner.

It's a little discouraging that public "exposés" of startups seems to be the cool new thing on HN and that this is so high up on the front page.

All his short stories are worth reading. My favourites are this one, Story of Your Life, and Tower of Babylon.

I can't imagine anyone stepping onto an autonomous passenger aircraft for a long time, not until long after cars and smaller commercial aircraft are regularly driven using computers only. And even that seems like a stretch. I don't see how pilots use or non-use of some automated systems is going to influence popular opinion on that one way or another. But maybe there's a perception among pilots that it will.

Isn't this a lot closer to dwarf fortress?

Since the exploit lets you easily root the install, couldn't zamfoo just patch all his users machines themselves?

That would make about as much sense as everything else they've done....

I have a lot of problems with this article.

> What there is is a shortage of ultra-elite American-born talent, and Silicon Valley wants to hire the very best in the world. The view from Silicon Valley is that a lot of the US talent, while bountiful in number, just doesn't stack up.

So you're saying that the US has a shortage of the world's best talent? And that Silicon Valley wants to be able to hire the world's best? Those 2 suppositions seem too obvious to bear mentioning. Are we supposed to expect the majority of the ultra-elite of anything to come out of the US?

Then the article looks at average salaries for STEM workers over time to "prove" that there's no shortage based on "the fundamental laws of supply and demand." OK, but average price would only rise if the supply-to-demand ratio was also shrinking, not if it was relatively constant. I don't see this brought up in the article.

Agreed. Surprised "Symbian Down By 80%!" didn't make it into the headline.

Agree with both points from the author. The other 2 big ones that I can't get Chrome to do as well as Firefox are Type-Ahead Find, and the default behaviour of the location bar to match on any URL in your history. The Chrome version tries to be too clever. I just want straight text-to-URL matching.

This is the same behaviour as Safari has had by default for years. App developers that depend on 3rd-party cookies should in general already have the work-arounds in place to support Firefox 22 assuming they already support Safari.

Common in Lua, Ruby, Python. In fact, ruby gives _ a minor amount of special meaning to make it more convenient as a throw-away variable, e.g. it can be specified multiple times in an argument list without an error and generates no warning if left unused.

How convenient that all the examples use digits in the 1-3 range. This looks painful for normal numbers with a mix of large and small digits.

This method always made more sense to me: http://www.ehow.com/video_12244670_solve-multiplication-prob... as it combines the idea of the diagonal lines in the "japanese" method with the mnemonics of the [1-9]x[1-9] multiplication tables that everyone should also learn.

I like how it's laid out from the most specific tools that are easy to understand and eventually leads to the pocketknives of sed and awk that beginners might not need until they've exhausted the potential of the previous commands.