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Re:Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:50PM (#5677190)
Now TSLA is up 21% (67.90 last trade)
Re:Unreal JavaScript on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @08:56AM (#5673846)
What happened to the original title "Unreal JavaScript"? The biggest focus of the article is emscripten, not asm.js.
Re:Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @09:46PM (#5672016)
Retina macbook pro early 2013, chrome 26. Zooming some of the plots is noticably slow (and zooming out of the Hopf Bifurcation plot occasionally causes chrome to stop responding)
Re:Two.js on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:17PM (#5668905)
How does this compare to raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) ?
Re:How to Spread The Word About Your Code on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @09:00AM (#5667871)
None of your statements contradicts points from my comment, my post, or the coding horror post. If you are releasing code and not putting in a license or doing so improperly, don't expect others to use it. CH focused on one facet (missing a license) while I focused on a different facet (how to add a license properly)
Re:Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:56PM (#5665577)
"... will we have to endure over the next month"

So long as people click on those pages, everyone with even the most minute point will write to their hearts' content. I'm surprised that this page didn't have a million ads on it

Re:Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users are 'frustrated' on Monday May 06, 2013 @05:37PM (#5664937)
There are proper keyboards for the ipad (this is being typed on a logitech ultrathin keyboard ipad cover)

I haven't tried the surface version of office, but the web versions of office definitely lack features compared to the desktop versions (for example, array formulae)

Re:How to Spread The Word About Your Code on Monday May 06, 2013 @02:54PM (#5664060)
It's better to be safe than sorry, as the saying goes. I've never been burned personally. I'm also pretty sure that anyone working for a large software company is warned about using third party code or snippets found on expertsexchange or stackoverflow or random blogs.

Normally people are well intentioned, but sometimes you stumble upon repos with very strange licenses (for example, a javascript repo that has operating system restrictions https://github.com/stephen-hardy/xlsx.js/issues/8 ).

It's usually not of a concern for most people working on small projects (after all, another party has to notice and then decide to take action), but if you are trying to enter an industry with a highly litigious incumbent then you should make sure your ducks are in a row first.

Re:How to Spread The Word About Your Code on Monday May 06, 2013 @11:43AM (#5662935)
I wish licensing was emphasized more in this discussion.

Including a license is the #1 reason myself and many other people stray away from code on the internet. I won't touch a project if it's not stated properly.

And to be clear, just writing that your project is MIT licensed or sticking it in a package.json or making a small remark in your README doesn't cut it. You need to follow the terms of the license you wish to use (my comment on the matter: http://blog.nig.gl/post/48848761220/just-saying-something-is...)

(always a good read: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...)

Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) on Monday May 06, 2013 @01:04AM (#5660957)
Unfortunately, the situation has only gotten worse in 2013
Re:Emacs v. Vi Is Rooted in the Love of Lisp on Monday May 06, 2013 @12:27AM (#5660884)

    set -o vi
sets vim bindings for bash (and there's a similar thing for the libreadline)
To clarify: it is an excise tax and applies to the _gross sale price_, not the profits (so even if the division runs at a loss, they still have to pay). http://www.irs.gov/uac/Medical-Device-Excise-Tax:-Frequently... I'd agree with your skepticism if it were affecting net (after employee salaries etc).

> And besides, it doesn't invalidate the ethical point that it is right to privide medical insurance, even if true.

Your original point was "There are no good reasons to be against the Act", so my response was pointing to a reason why someone would be against the act: I'm pretty sure that being laid off due to a regulation is a pretty good reason to be unhappy

There are many americans working at medical device companies that will be affected by the 2.3% medical device tax. Zimmer, for example, cited the medical device tax as the reason for firing a thousand workers a few years ago.
on OSX you need

    readline.parse_and_bind('bind ^I rl_complete')
Re:Elon Musk admits Tesla's math was wrong on Saturday May 04, 2013 @02:13AM (#5654210)
"an accomplished CEO admitting to a mistake earns 'em more karma and credibility than not."

To you, maybe. To investors? Absolutely not.

Re:Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox? on Saturday May 04, 2013 @12:23AM (#5653994)
Some people are incapable of introspection. Sadly, including some of the more active people on HN.
Re:Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox? on Saturday May 04, 2013 @12:17AM (#5653978)
"I have a problem with hypocrisy."

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one :)

Re:Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox? on Friday May 03, 2013 @06:28PM (#5653039)
Someone clearly cares deeply about HN karma. Not sure why he cares so much.
Re:The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass on Friday May 03, 2013 @03:33PM (#5652156)
The verdict is in: Business Insider is blogspam (ghostery 17, disconnect 24)
Some distros store the words file in /usr/dict/words. Debian (and ubuntu) uses /usr/share/dict/words
Re:Poll: How much money have stock options brought you? on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:42PM (#5651803)
Ultimately the only question that matters is how much money was made. Dwelling on fantasies is immaterial (until you can sell or find a way to lock in the price, the market price has no bearing on your actual value).

In your example, you can say whatever you want about how it was worth more than you actually netted, but at the end of the day all that matters is the fact that you realized 16K

Re:Ask HN: Why can't I login to HN via Firefox? on Friday May 03, 2013 @02:33PM (#5651750)
"I am bewildered at the hostility, and going away to try to understand it. I feel a bit like I've been kicked."

IF there's any hostility, it's directed at people and acts that are seen as inconsistent: You point to the rule that says "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something ... If you want to say something to us, please send it to [email protected]. " after you made a post telling them that the site is having issues.

"More, I figured that most of the other times something goes wrong at least someone posts to HN asking, and no one had done so."

That's not an excuse for you to do something which, as you pointed out, violates a rule.

"I was half hoping to head off the usual flood of posts that something was wrong and let there be just the one place,"

Incidentally there is one place that did head off the usual flood of posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650171 Are you complaining that it wasn't your post that was the one place?

Re:Poll: How much money have stock options brought you? on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:43PM (#5651439)
Depends on what you mean by stock options. I imagine quite a few people here trade single-stock (e.g. AAPL https://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL) options.
"NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn"."

popcorn? preworn?

Are any of the porn sites larger than youtube?

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