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FYI, if you have the IMDB ID for a movie, then you can link to Rotten Tomatoes using that IMDB ID.

Using the IMDB ID number, "0079501", you may access the Rotten Tomatoes Mad Max page using the following URL: Mad Max: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid&s=007950...

I know you probably can't display the rotten tomatoes score, but it would be interesting to have that data internally.

I challenge anyone to find a movie with an RT score below 40% or IMDB score below 4/10 that was worth watching.

It's an interesting series of articles.

You made a mistake with your submission and put the link into the description box instead of the URL box.

it feels like a good idea, right up until the point where you cd into a directory with 100s of files while you're using a slow vpn collection.

I got into a 20 minutes argument with a coworker once about why it isn't a good idea to put spaces in filenames (my argument being that it can sometimes break handcoded argument parsing in homegrown unix scripts when the escaping of the spaces aren't passed down properly).

I assumed it was A-nonymous when I read the article, but on re-read I think you are correct.

That probably explains why the story hasn't exploded more like other stories about Anonymous or Lulsec have.

title didn't convey the content of the article, or why it would be of interest to HN. I thought it was political stuff at first vs tech news.

A better title might be:

Anonymous' steals Romney's tax return for blackmail extortion

"monkeys mindlessly following a script" -- social engineering is a script that is ridiculously successful at achieving its goals.

Humans are always the weakest link.

What's ironic is that if it hadn't been for all the FUD in the 90s against PGP, maybe PGP signing of messages to verify identity would have become the norm for email and it would be much more difficult to spoof.

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of an option in gmail/googleplus for supporting PGP?

It was a huge time sink. I stopped blogging when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and getting away from "trying to be popular on the internet" gave me the distance to see that I wasn't getting anything out of it.

I also changed jobs to something more interesting and now that's where I put my passion instead of a hobby.

I understand why they put the responses on the left and right, but that really made the article hard to read, especially since the candidates often had different text lengths for each of the questions.

No, Swords and Sourcery is "retro". This is ugly.

But ugly has nothing to do with good.

There's time, you just have to figure out where else you're spending it.

Cut out any free overtime at work, cut out TV, cut out video games and books... and there's a lot of time.

I think it would have been a different story for the Luca Redwood if he had a toddler vs having a pregnant wife

Aaron SW's latest series of articles have informative about tackling the hard problems. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve

Made to Stick is an excellent read on the subject of branding and marketing. http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/

I used to run a blog in 2008 and I got it to 6.5million page views before I quit it and I was featured in the book "Blogging Heroes" along with the founders of Lifehacker, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Boing Boing.

My key strategy when I was growing my blog was to find existing communities that would like what I was writing and then build relationships with those communities.

visualmess was informative, thank you.

the save file thing is a huge issues for their platform

One of the best mods I have installed for New Vegas is CASM, which saves the game every 10 minutes with a rotating number of autosaves. Very helpful if the save file jumps from 500k to 10mb.

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/36730

this should be "Ask HN"

Very well written, although given that it's a commentary versus thesis I don't think it'll make it to the front page.

and don't even get me started on that we need to be able to resell "used" content as individuals.

The current fiasco of "losing" all your electronic purchases on death because they're non-transferable is criminal abuse.

There's a big difference between paying a monthly subscription to stream versus buying digital files that are hosted on your hardware and you can't transfer them after death.

The reason why piracy can continue to exist is licensing agreements.

Content providers need to offer a flat rate for resellers, and sure, they'll have the occasional exclusive and better deal to specific online stores.

But compare this to a real world store: they can sell anything they can buy. Yes, they have to negotiate with a distributor but it isn't nearly as ridiculous as the digital marketplace is.

I should be able to set up my own ebook / movie / tv-show / game online store and be able to sell anything that isn't locked into an exclusive agreement.

With content deals, I feel like Can-Con is to blame.

Can-con is the law that a percentage of content must be Canadian in origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content

I personal hold Can-con responsible for the fact that Call Me Maybe is played so often on Canadian radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_me_maybe

I too have used that approach, and the only problem I've found is because I'm still used to taking in a large mass of low calorie raw foods, if I'm in a situation where the type of food I'd normally eat isn't available, then I have the capacity to really pig out.

trying to write out documentation on how to use something is as helpful as TDD in some cases for the "making you figure it out before you start".

Where TDD shines is giving you a tiny testbench to see that your implementation is heading in the correct direction before you get too far.

YAML is the easiest combination of human and machine readable that has been implemented (so far).

http://yaml.org/

I wouldn't use it, but I think that getting the domain name and setting up a demo site like that is great idea.

Good execution.

Kudos.

MacAffee thinks it's ok

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ureddit.com

Trend Microscan reports ureddit.com and it's favicon.ico as suspicious.

URL Blocked

The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy. URL: http://ureddit.com/ Risk Level: Dangerous Details: Verified fraud page or threat source

I had a hard time understand it as well. I interpreted it as the Peter Principle also applies to software rising to the level of it's incompetence, not just people.

I hadn't realized that autoconf used M4. M4 is amazingly hard to work with, mainly because it uses ` and ' as delimiters, making it very hard to even read unless you have syntax highlighting set up to show those quotes as different characters.

Here's an example from the web:

   define(`START_HTML',
   `<html>
   <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
      charset=iso-8859-1">
     <meta name="Author" content="D. Robert Adams">
     <title>$1</title>
   </head>
   <body text="#000000"
     ifdef(`BACKGROUND_IMAGE',
           `background="BACKGROUND_IMAGE"')
     bgcolor="#e5e5e5" link="#3333ff"
   vlink="#000099"
     alink="#ffffff">
   ')

I've often thought that Starbucks should sell fractional shares a long with their coffee, thus becoming the biggest ponzi scheme in history.

The movie analogy is interesting, because you can see the way people have evolved techniques to handle the grossly different movie products:

rotten tomatoes aggregates professional reviewers to give a general score

imdb lets people see the entire body of work by directors, writers and actors. So people will see a movie by a director they like the same way they'll pick up a book by a writer they like.

and then you have companies like Pixar and Disney (same, I know) that exist on brand. People will see the movie because it's a Pixar movie and they know what to expect (or not expect).

but what is even more interesting about the movie analogy is that with all these tools for discovering movies, box office take seems to be a function of advertising budget than anything else (to the point where they believe that movies have to hit a certain take on opening weekend to be successful at all).