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Best Buy is not "no longer permitting employees to work remotely" -- it now has to be discussed with your manager [0].

[0]: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/technology/best-buy-work-fro...

What drove me away from Firefox to begin with was the crashing, memory usage, and (lack of) speed. Mostly the crashing -- I was willing to put up with the other stuff.

I'm a backend/systems developer. One thing that would be awesome for me would be a fully featured web debugging proxy ala Charles/Fiddler. This is where I spend most of my time debugging/testing.

I watched your video with the new webconsole (jsterm.v2). Looks pretty slick -- but I'd request code completion. It was hard to tell if you had it or not from the video.

Another comment in this thread mentions you are working on Firebug AND dev tools? Firebug functionality must be part of Firefox by default.

Russians have been doing this for years, without any company involved. Don't want to wait for taxi or trams? Just put your arm out, and someone will stop, and you tell them where you want to go and ask 'how much'? They call them private drivers.

Want to make some extra money on the weekend? Be a private driver. Hang out near tram stops and you will get customers..

personally I thought it was a horrible choice. didn't fit the theme at all. that music piece is incredibly sad, whereas the video has an upbeat/interesting feel to it. the contrast was bad enough to almost make me stop watching. the only thing that saved it was when the guy started talking.

The problem for me is you cannot 'buy HBO'. You have to have cable first, which I don't. I'd buy an independent streaming subscription to HBO in a second, but they are not making that option available...

I worked at a place where the hardware in one rack easily exceeded 150k. We started saving money vs. a cloud solution in about 6 months. You can pack a lot of firepower in a virtualized environment.

I just moved to CA from OK last year. I moved for a few reasons. 1) family -- more stuff to do here (understatement) 2) I don't fit in with OK culture (red + religious) 3) career -- I'm a programmer

Games Workshop is worse than Disney when it comes to protecting their IP. Just search google for games workshop lawsuit.

I've been to Costco. It's a madhouse, and quite unnerving for an introvert like myself.

But that's not even the main reason I like Amazon -- it's for the product ratings. How do I know what I'm getting at Costco is the best quality for the price? I can get a very good idea of that at Amazon. Not to mention Costco can't even being to compete with the product selection at Amazon.

That's awesome.. it shows michael.org as available though, which it isn't :( got my hopes up!

SquareWheel explained it very well.

As for the difficulty, you'd be surprised how easy it is. I started picking a few weeks ago for fun and I've been able to pick your basic store bought locks within a couple minutes with the hook tool (where you have to lock each pin individually).

There is another tool, called a 'rake', that tries to set several pins at once -- it basically has several jagged edges, much like a key. With rakes I can beat these locks in a matter of seconds, and I'm a newbie! I'm working on the lower end of locks, but even still, it has made me more wary of home security.

You can lose your spot instance at any time if you are outbid...

Very true, but I do end up learning a lot from the HN discussions. I'm a C guy myself, but I try not to be biased. I always tell new programmers to try and not favor any language, as they all have their uses.

HyperPin, from the guys who make HyperSpin (MAME frontend)

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/

example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCKLGL-HLUs

The article was very poorly written -- I couldn't even finish it..doubly surprised to see it at the top of HN.

How does the carpool lane relieve traffic congestion? If people could actually use that lane instead of it being some kind of elitist lane (which is what it feels like, I drive it in all the time (family)), traffic would be better.

The times traffic IS bad the damn carpool lane is just as backed up as the other lanes. And then there's the whole problem of needing to get off the lane, which you can't always do (you can only get off at specific spots), and then you're swerving across 4+ lanes of traffic causing a classic 'shockwave' problem.

I assume you'd be interested in startups if you've come to hacker news, so my simple answer would be "San Francisco."

I don't know why you don't consider web development a 'programming' job. My favorite language is C and I develop in it for my own projects, but I've had just as much challenging work in designing PHP applications.

I've interviewed at several startups that had very difficult and interesting challenges -- and working in Java, Hadoop, etc. So I either don't understand what your real problem is, or you aren't looking hard enough.

Also you might consider mobile development, as Java/C++ can still be quite heavy there -- although, things seem to be moving towards multi-platform frameworks such as Adobe Air / Corona / PhoneGap etc.

Maybe you'd be willing to empathize with me, then? :) The business I work for lives off ads, and is actually a good business and supplies a lot of fun to millions of people a day. And as far as paying customers, most of our userbase are kids, so that's not going to work very well.

Also we are a global site and get a good deal of traffic from overseas, so this French ISP is actually affecting our business (it's not going to get anyone laid off though).

Just something to think about -- the internet is working relatively smoothly as it is. Playing around with the basics like this will have more effect than you may realize.

Nice work, but these types of videos always annoy me. Anyone with the basics of athletic skill can perform these stunts with enough tries -- which the guy admitted to taking several tries. Some of the pure-power moves are out of the question for a lot of people, and those are definitely cool, but kicking balls into trashcans and basketball hoops is not.

The exception would be doing several difficult moves in a row without fail.

Mostly scifi and fantasy. I've never been much of a reader, so I'm trying to catch up on classics.

* Hunger games 1-3 -- not bad, would probably recommend

* Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy -- good, surprised how short it was. really liked the style of writing, fun to read. recommended

* Stranger in a Strange Land -- currently reading this one, interesting, but nothing ground breaking. one character seems to dominate the book. don't know if I'd recommend.

* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep -- interesting, a bit boring. I kept comparing it to the movie, and in the end I like the movie better. they each focus on different subjects, but I like the movie's subject better, and it felt more professional/solid. would recommend.

* Ringworld -- pretty good. the 'Teela problem' is fascinating to me and got me thinking a lot outside of reading, which to me is a sign of a good book. the 'spacey stuff' in the book was not that great. even the ringworld itself was not that interesting. would recommend.

* The Mote in God's Eye -- my favorite book of the year. so much to think about (moral problems/dilemmas). the realistic part of the space travel was new to me (like the consideration of g-forces in constant acceleration), and so that was more to think about. definitely recommend.

* Cryptonomicon -- a close second. Neal Stephenson goes into wicked detail in his books and always blows my mind (never heard of Van Eck Phreaking before this book, how is that possible?). definitely recommend.

so, spam.

https://ifttt.com/wtf hmm

I wonder what would happen if you designed the page a little bit differently, and gave them an option to pay, and a separate option to download it for free.

At first glance I want to put in $0.00 just to see if it works, not necessarily because that's what I'd be willing to pay.

Looking on the Amazon Kindle store I don't see an app for Amazon Instant Videos, unless it's simply on the Fire by default (and not removable)?

Maybe it doesn't tell us directly and the title is a bit strong, but so is the word 'nothing'. Cloudflare tells us quite a lot. It is unlikely the terrorists cut all the lines, so that is out. That is information I didn't have before this blog post.

That leaves a few options of how to shut off the internet of a country, and they give a pretty plausible one, and who would have the authority/power to do it. And they back it all up with evidence.

It's a cliche thing to say, but hey, you don't have to participate.

If you truly support Humble Bundle and what they do, then you would support them in this endeavor as well -- you are giving them some tip as well (and charities if that's your thing). Does anyone really think that since they are doing this with THQ they are going to simply stop supporting the indie community?

THQ made some bad decisions, and they are desperate. This is a pretty clever move for them, and one can only hope a kick in the butt to pay more attention to what gamers are looking for.

Are these still "64gb" as in it's really 45gb with the OS files and such installed?

I think you've touched on the base problem of both sides of the argument -- it's a UX issue.

Facebook has given too much power to the 'like' button. There should be a different 'follow' or 'subscribe' button. If you subscribe to a page, you would expect to always get updates from it.

I only subscribed to facebook to be able to watch some dev videos. As I slowly became more used to it, I wanted to know how to get updates from the company page I work for. When I asked how to do this and was told to 'like' the company, that made no sense to me. What if I don't actually "like" something, but I still want to watch its activity?

Agreed, there is simply too much to know, for someone who programs as a day job. At my previous job, I was becoming the DBA, and I actually quite loved it, as it was a fairly complicated setup w/high traffic.

At my new job as purely backend developer, I found my previous software skills rusty. A couple months later, I am a strong software developer again, but ask me a DB question and it will take me a minute to bring it all together. Sadly, the area that was once my strongest has become weaker. If I wanted to keep up on my DB skills, I'd have to be studying/reading DB on the side, which I don't have time to do considering I'm a family man.

where does it say he is wearing google glasses?