Ask HN: In your career, what are you most embarrassed about?
In your career, what are you most embarrassed about?Have you made a fatal mistake that you, of all people, should never have?
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Re:After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong
on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:41PM (#3141590)
TIMN/Verge also has this note[0]:
Note: Our initial performance observations were focused on touch response and not system-wide performance, and were based on a Galaxy Nexus being used by one of Google’s staff. The demo units during the show were definitely smoother in operation. All of them featured an early build of Ice Cream Sandwich, however, so we’ll make our final calls on the phone once we have a review unit in hand.
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-...
Re:80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives
on Monday September 12, 2011 @08:25AM (#2986920)
The other 20% loudly despise their lives?
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @05:59PM (#2967464)
List of comments I have upvoted - Similar to saved stories.
I may upvote comments which are valuable, but not the story itself, making it hard to come back to those valuable comments later.
Re:Facebook doesn't like privacy countermeasures
on Saturday September 03, 2011 @06:33PM (#2958294)
Yes, but nobody knows about it.
Re:The lost world of physicality
on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @09:21AM (#2941283)
And here the physical world comes to the rescue - get yourself a new computer when your old one is infested with malware!
Re:Linear algebra for game developers
on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @06:58AM (#2940888)
note that this is just part 1 of 4.
(I am assuming you didn't read all four parts, because that material would have to be covered impressively quickly to fit in 20 minutes)
Re:Mari0 - Super Mario Bros. + Portal
on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @06:09AM (#2940790)
portal: the flash version seems to work well enough.
The directions are constant, but the momentum gives you time to shift your heading as you enter/exit portals
Re:How Google can still become the greatest company ever?
on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @04:53AM (#2915888)
So, what is the current "greatest company ever"?
What defines it?
Re:Poll: Which smartphone platform do you own and use mainly?
on Sunday August 07, 2011 @02:11AM (#2855959)
On my SGS (not II) I can use volume-down as a ctrl key in terminal emulator.
Re:How I explained MapReduce to my Wife?
on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:28AM (#2849626)
Like all good lessons, this one starts with a little lie and tells you the truth later on...
"Supriya : But how I will create different types of Chutneys?
Shekhar : Now you will see the missing phase of MapReduce — Shuffle phase. MapReduce will group all the outputs written by every Map based on the key. This will be automatically done for you. You can assume key as just a name of ingredient like Onion. So all the onion keys will be grouped together and will be transferred to a grinder which will just process onions. So, you will get onion Chutney. Similarly all the tomatoes will be transferred to the grinder marked for tomato and will produce tomato Chutney."
Re:Putting "Search" into Google yields a surprising result
on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:38PM (#2819273)
Yeah, I did the search, saw google.com.au first and wasn't surprised at all.
For those interested, but not interested enough to visit the AU site the results are: 1. www.google.com.au 2. www.bing.com 3. jobsearch.gov.au 4. www.dogpile.com 5. www.seek.com.au 6. www.search.com 7. www.webwombat.com.au 8. au.altavista.com 9. www.peoplesearch.com.au 10. www.search.org.au
Basically a bunch of search engines, a couple of job sites and a couple of sites with search in their name.
Re:Apple Finishing Up Work on an Ultra-Thin 15" Mac Notebook
on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @06:12AM (#2811533)
some more context from http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray-...
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."
I wouldn't take that as apple never supporting blu-ray. Although given the quote is three years old, I wouldn't say it's likely either.
Re:Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14
on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:16AM (#2750327)
"it’s worth noting that Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome’s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox’s 2D performance is actually better than Chrome. JavaScript performance is also virtually identical."
Fx8 vs Chrome 15 might be very very similar...
Re:Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future
on Sunday July 03, 2011 @01:48AM (#2723181)
Matz starts talking about 2.0 at about 14m30
Re:Why Your Form Checkboxes Need to Have Label Tags
on Sunday June 19, 2011 @04:46AM (#2670568)
I think in this case "the text" refers to the label's text, not the text in the input that the label is @for.
Re:Top Missing PostgreSQL Features
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @08:50AM (#2602330)
previous discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445164
Re:ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down hi...
on Monday May 30, 2011 @09:11PM (#2600912)
"First and foremost, our takedowns have nothing to do with any sort of open source licensing violation. Both Yong and I handle developer relations behind the scenes. We give cuts to original authors at times, and I have posted sources to my source repository. Though there is a lot of rhetoric surrounding this, it is not an issue."
Re:Angry Birds' Cross-compiled Java Versus Native JavaScript
on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:47PM (#2585867)
Illumination Software Creator: http://radicalbreeze.com/
Target Flex, Android, iOS, maemo... in a visual "block" environment.
I haven't tried it myself, but could be useful for you. It's available in the ubuntu software centre as well.
Re:Firefox 5 Beta is available for download
on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:40AM (#2579441)
The list of bugfixes is hardly nothing:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/bu...
Re:The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers
on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:42AM (#2520019)
Re:SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
on Monday May 02, 2011 @08:19AM (#2505982)
On the contrary, it's new every time you generate a paper!
Re:(Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward
on Monday May 02, 2011 @06:59AM (#2505831)
On the contrary, Unity broke all my keyboard shortcuts. I gave it a fair shake (used it during the beta, tried not to mark it down for bugginess) and am back to classic.
For my settings, multitasking with the keyboard is very easy - just press super and the relevant workspace number - just press super and the relevant character to launch a particular application
Re:Anime Site Treats Piracy as Market Failure
on Thursday April 28, 2011 @05:48AM (#2492740)
I feel obliged to say that I've not had spammy emails from crunchyroll, either. Their "notifications" are quite spammy, however.
Re:The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins
on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:39AM (#2435924)
You're being disingenuous here. Anybody looking for information about jQuery's selectors will google "jquery selectors" and find that five-word phrase front and center.
Or take a look at the jQuery front page and hover over "CSS3 Compliant" to see "Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more!".
If you want to pick on something that claims compatibility, try Sizzle itself - http://sizzlejs.com/. In that case, you'll find a summary of alterations right at the top of its documentation https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/wiki .
Re:The jQuery Divide:Understand where jQuery ends and JavaScript begins
on Monday April 11, 2011 @08:00AM (#2432245)
http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/
"Borrowing from CSS 1–3, and then adding its own, jQuery offers a powerful set of tools for matching a set of elements in a document."
The Australian Housing Bubble Has Popped
Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?
on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:21PM (#2397624)
Even if we, the community, agree to stop April Fool's submissions. This submission is largely useless as April Fool's has already started (and ended in some places).
Next year, everybody will forget, people will be new and this submission won't change a thing.
Re:New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck
on Sunday February 13, 2011 @04:02AM (#2212404)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_%28software%29
1983 with talk. Anybody got anything earlier?
Re:Google 2000 vs. Google 2011
on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @01:28PM (#2198640)
From my results with that search, only 2 of the top 6 are How To articles, and they are the last two of the six.