TweedHeads

Your whole life recorded on video.

That much.

In the comfort of my privacy I want to see what I am typing.

There is nobody shoulder surfing, no cameras recording me.

A check box for unmasking will suffice.

Cool hack nonetheless.

Javascript can do it all:

  function entropy(x){ return sum(p(x)*log(p(x))); }

"Politicians are after votes, not money."

HA!

Too little, too late.

We will never forget.

Yes thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu and we want more options.

Better options.

JPEG, GIF, PNG are used as long as nobody threatens us with patent lawsuits.

Just make H.264 free for the world to use (without fine print legalese) and we will adopt it and support it inmediately.

Meantime, theora is the only free and viable option.

Cool hack.

In the future, when network speed is not an issue, we should be able to send the whole web app (or page) in one packet.

One request, one response.

"most modern web servers handle pipelining without any problem. Exceptions include IIS 4 and reportedly 5."

Color me surprised.

Ian Hickson should continue supporting Ogg Theora as the only free solution. It leaves a lot to be desired from his decision to drop the ball right now when firefox 3.5 just released, knowing that more than 100 million users support Theora.

Ian, you're on my watch list, I don't want to ever know you were bribed by greedy bastards or criminal monopolists.

It just takes a million dollars to buy a soul.

I would like to see just one example where a real goto is needed.

Just one...

HN is my newspaper, I read it everyday to be up-to-date in the tech world.

I like interesting news, but I don't care if:

- gmail is down

- somebody got shot at the apple store

- the iphone burns my cheeks

- yahoo will never recover

- payperpost

- propaganda

- PR submarines

but above all, I hate FUD

This is just an indicative that HN should go back to the roots.

Why not just a watch?

Or a keychain, or a ring?

Or an ID with rfid in your wallet?

Why the intrusiveness?

No mayday call? How weird...

I have a dream that someday JS will be the only language on the server and the client.

I hope Google implements Server JS in AppEngine next to Python and Java to give it the push it needs to completely take over the world.

No, I haven't tested any server JS flavor yet, I hope they are as easy as the client version.

  <b><% i=2; print ['sucks','dunno','roolz'][i]; %></b>

lovely!

Phones don't get the url, just the LINK placeholder, you can not navigate on a cellphone.

Now, smartphones, they use browsers, browsers can read html, then they get the url under the LINK placeholder.

No, the message is still limited to 140 chars, for cellphones or browsers, the link handling is done behind doors.

Not necessarily, take a look at both examples:

- I saw an iphone clone at httq://tinyurl.com/blahblah here is the pic httq://twitpic.com/blahblah compare it to this httq://tinyurl.com/moreblah

- I saw an iphone clone at LINK here is the pic LINK compare it to this LINK

See? more room for cleaner, longer messages.

Cellphones get the LINK word, browsers get the clickable LINK

The word LINK only takes 4 chars in every cellphone in the world. What's underneath the link (the url) is only available to html readers.

And the users DO NOT submit link titles, they submit urls (which are not part of the 140 limit, only 4 chars for 'link') and urls are recognized as such an replaced by the word LINK.

* users still not allowed to post html.

I've said it a million times and I'll say it again:

Replace all urls with a "link" enclosed on an <A> tag

  <a href="realurl">LINK</a>

No need to reinvent the wheel, it's been there since the dawn of the web.

Go with 3.

Being a trailblazer can reap rewards in the long run.

A checkbox for mask/unmask will suffice, masked by default.

Fact: there is a lot people in the world that in the comfort of privacy would like to see what is being typed.

Solution: give them the option to decide.

Everybody else can have their password masked anytime, no compromise.

The future implementation of WebSockets will simplify things like this incredibly.

Irrelevant to hackers, how is this different from a shot fired at mcdonalds, walmart, etc?

Fear and violence are eye catchers, but please...

Taxes are evil.

The bigger the government the more taxes they need to collect to sustain themselves, making it a vicious cycle, where the only one who gets fucked is the people whom the government is supposed to serve.

End all taxes, minimize government, serve the people.

The author doesn't know/understand SQL and he should be kept away from databases.

Yes.

If you want to have a beautifully crafted full-fledged computer in your pocket. Yes.

Bonus, it also makes phone calls.

Tell that to Walmart.

RDBMS era will never end as long as corporations need to store data efficiently.

Most web pages don't need the power of a RDBMS and they go well enough with whatever is fashionable.

An invoice is a row, a purchase order is a row, an employee paycheck is a row, a product is a row, etc.

Hmm, a better way to expose and consume this information would be highly appreciated.

No, NASA is not user friendly.