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It is incorrect that using CSS to hide it makes the site unusable. You can use a noscript tag to add the CSS that shows the div again.

The search really is terrible though. New apps don't get placed in the results at all, even if they have the keyword in their titles. I can say this from experience. If you actually go to page 8 or so, you even get to see popular apps like angry birds pop up regardless of the search terms. I just think for a company that made it big due to a search algorithm, the play store should at least be decent at parsing titles and descriptions. My app was called Cyclic Timer. Perform a search for "timer" and it doesn't show up at all in 20 pages, yet irrelevant stuff like angry birds does.

My God browsing that page on an android phone is ridiculous! No I don't want the damn app, I want to read the perfectly legible article instead!

Sharepoint has its uses. I think that unless you're committed to deploying on SP, you are probably better off not using it for a prototype. It takes a lot of configuration just to start out on it, as by default it is hard wired to look like SP. Swapping out the master page to a more useful one and creating a new style sheet with resets takes a lot of work. If you can find someone that has already done it then it might be viable, but IMO unless you are specifically targeting current users of SP (a surprisingly large number of Fortune 500), it is not worth it. The flip side to this is that there are very few products for SP and you would have a large base for each product unit sold. I am a SP developer, so I can help out if you need it.

It should be entirely possible for them to use a modified version of Android like the NSA one. Starting from scratch again with QNX does not seem to be going well for them. The blackberry OS was based on java, so I presume it should be easier to keep some of their old code base than to start over.

I definitely don't want to be in that guy's shoes!

You created an account just to say that?

I think that this could have been a poll. It seems that some people either don't have the time, or don't take the time to write a comment. That's why the arrows are so tempting. We should remember though that you don't get access to the down vote until your karma is at a certain level. I don't know what that is since I haven't hit it yet.

Why ate we still ok with resumes and degrees when we can instead have a full-breadth breakdown of skills and accomplishments?

This certainly would explain a lot. I don't even see the option to block that site, though I have blocked a few others before. It doesn't seem to do anything at all. Bigresource.com is my nemesis.

Actually it seems that the article was changed before you read it. One line in particular was "We never meant to offend any woman and are very sorry as we clearly have" instead of "person." Someone went through and corrected most of the language to be gender-neutral but the original was actually an interesting read in itself.

I'm pretty sure that in a community of entrepreneurs and developers, this story is actually one of the most pertinent. It deals with PR and culture and I don't see why anyone should flag it. The comment thread on that story was really interesting - you might want to read it. Sometimes it is not just about the story - it is also about the discussion on HN that I come here for

There was a really good discussion brewing on that thread. Does this not factor into a decision to kill a story?

I thought it was generally accepted that NOSQL actually meant "not only SQL" as in use the tool that is best for the task and not the whole problem.

It's absolutely shameful that it has taken this long. In fact this is the same thing we've been told since it was released. I gave in and did the manual update in February. I just received the update a few days ago on my 1st Gen Asus Transformer. It's really ridiculous how long it has taken to update their own phone from just the previous generation. It makes me apprehensive to get another nexus any time soon, especially since the one reason I did not go with Samsung and Motor was because I thought that Nexus phones would be first in line. /rant

By technical, I meant in my own field of web development/mobile development, but I'm sure it applies to other fields as well. I can give a few general examples of where I've noticed that results are worse:

- Stack overflow and other forum-type pages don't show up with relevant content, though if you dig deep enough through the pages you will find it. It used to be that I never needed to go past page 2.

- As a corollary, there are sites like bigresource.com that show up all the time and they only exist to scrape content from other sites, and these guys show up near the top. I thought that this was a big reason for the update in the first place, but I only noticed them after the update. I also can't seem to block them when I hit the back button (this only shows up sometimes)

- Way more aggressive auto-correction. This should be an option that is adjustable. There are many technical terms that are spelled a certain way that the system attempts to auto-correct and if I go with verbatim, it seems that this hurts results quite badly. Maybe the indexing itself does some auto-correction?

I don't remember specifics, but the most recent one was trying to find information on SIP and SIP trunking - it's taken me 2 weeks and I'm sure it would take me less if I had better results (like I had in the past).

All is not gloomy though. I love that you can now use some special characters: this has saved me many times.

"Catch up to Siri in mobile search"? That must be some kind of hidden advertisement/typo/fanboyism.

Unfortunately though, there is definitely something wrong with Google results ever since the Panda update. It is very difficult to get any meaningful technical results now. I feel they had to dumb down search to be able to serve up a bigger variety of results.

It's still a foundation. Why would they change it?

This one

Yes, but what value is this on this site? We would be interested in how you were using machine learning and the framework or what made this site different. I don't think ShowHN is meant to be an ad. I've always seen a description attached.

Are you serious?

Kitchen sink too?

I think it is probably you-DAH-city

I put in the minimum of $50 and had it going from Thursday morning Eastern time to Saturday. I had a limit of $10 the first day and $25 on Friday, leaving $15 on Saturday. In all, I had about 80 downloads. Since Saturday, I've only had about 20. I found admob good for traffic, but there were no ratings and feedback at all. Total impressions were about 290k with about 1250 clicks.

I know this will be an unpopular comment, but my whole problem with it is actually the attitude of those that use it. After reading the article, I was really impressed and imagining all the ways it could help me after what, 8 years of coding into an IDE; and then I got to this:

"Do whatever you want. Don't learn it if you feel it's too much effort just for nothing. Learn emacs instead. Or stay in your IDE using a lousy editor. Whatever. But in any case, don't ever claim again that those 'vi guys are nutheads' - I hope that I have succeeded in showing you why they (we) stick to it, and you should at least be able to understand its power, even if you prefer to stay away from it."

I wonder if this is setting some kind of precedent to MAFIAA claims in future

HN needs a pub sub mechanism so I don't need to rely on RSS any more.

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I have the original Transformer and love it. I don't ue it as often as I used to now that I also got an Android phone, but it is still very useful. The keyboard that prolongs the battery life, fast typing and even the trackpad are all useful. I am surprised that they don't sell more of them. It is wifi only but I am able to set up a wifi connection to my phone when I am on the road.

I have been looking for gigs here to for a while but I realy feel that most of the action is still back in Calgary, where I moved from. One thing you can try out is to go to the coworking spaces downtown and around to meet others like yourself. A search for coworking spaces should pop up some results. It's really taking off now in Toronto.

I didn't know these slideshows still exist or that people still click through all of them.