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I wonder who is trying to pull strings and get board votes. and for what i might add.

Yahoo is going through a dark time and to have something like this brought to light is so low.

I was part of the beta and really enjoyed working with Firebase it was like working only in the browser, i could forget there was a backend.

Once you start playing with it you realize that there are so many apps that can be built.

the team has a few things to work on, and trust me many of us in the beta flushed a lot of those out. they have their work ahead of them. what's there is polished and ready for use. give it a try. use this as a chance to explore what can be done when you can forget about the backend.

Firebase, Burn your servers, you don't need them any more. Firebase is for app developers that don't want to worry about building real time scalable back ends.

micro-formats have fallen to face-books open graph and google's social snippets. i'd start with those and worry about hCal later, nothing consumes it.

Quite eloquent and perceptive of you. My parents are going through a divorce, and in many ways I have had this happen at jobs as well. I feel like this is on point.

I guess we know who has Facebook shares.

Maybe he should focus on hiring the best engineers for his own business rather than trying to optimize his value in something else.

two points

-localStorage works on the background.html page

-when content scripts access localStorage, they do so at the domain level of the url

maybe the world is big enough now for multiple internets

San Francisco, CA ( Market and California )

Twitvid is a leading social video network with millions of users, millions of videos, hundreds of millions of video views, and over 150 use our service to broadcast their videos to their millions of followers. We have Celebrities using our service to break down the barriers; making the internet just that more intimate.

At Twitvid we found a product that people like, and now we are looking for smart engineers to make it better.

If you are a smart engineer, we want you. Don't worry too much about this role in specific, we have a number of needs as a backend engineer, javascript, and as3.

http://ongig.com/jobs/twitvid/Back-end-Developer--twitvid-Fi...

I flagged this because it's just Microsoft trying to flame war with Google. These headers have been an annoyance every time I have had to consider them.

This is a clear example of Microsoft's 'extend' and 'embrace' strategy that destroyed so many platforms. The MS series of browsers were the only ones to adopt this before being recommended as a spec. The spec was never adopted.

Sounds like the movie 'The Island'

I will politely disagree with your premise.

This is one of the reasons I find it hard to talk to my mother. She is beholden to grief about her father and is doing everything to prolong the life of my grandmother even though she can't walk, needs help eating, and constantly falls asleep. On top of that she hardly knows who is around her. it's sad.

Watching how my parents have dealt with my aging parents really puts pause on me and has me thinking about creating a living Will to make my own wishes very clear.

Ray Kurzweil should read this article.

San Francisco, CA (SF) - PHP Backend Engineer

I work at a small growing startup in Downtown San Francisco. We have a nice office and are working on a site with millions of unique visitors a month.

The site is growing by double percentage points every month, so we need to hire a few backend engineers to help us refactor the code and to implement some great new features. The company is very open and is a great place to work. Your ideas and code will have an impact on how this company grows and launches features.

If you would like to find out more here is what we are looking for.

Someone who has worked deeply in PHP on at least one project and has worked on a a site at scale with at least one project. We would prefer if you were the one who brought the site to scale, but it's ok if you learned a lot while you were there.

We are also looking for someone that had worked in a test driven development culture, but it's ok if you always wanted to. We want to be able to release daily and to know that our code is well covered.

I am at @jdavid on twitter if you would like to grab coffee or lunch. We are near the market and california.

One of our founders is extremely inspired by how GitHub is able to launch new code.

Sometimes I wonder if the biggest reason media companies are pissed off about piracy, is because they can't add their own free political messages to any content they want. they are loosing the power of distribution, which is fundamentally more important that loosing a revenue stream.

HN stories get copied everywhere, with HN dark, how will the other tech blogs know which sites are going dark?

Maybe HN can just invert the colors on the site.

most of the meet-ups either have people that are not coders and are looking for a technical co-founder, or are developers very interested in their own projects. it's nearly impossible to find someone with the right skills, and the right interests.

this is one of the shitiest parts of 'absolutely' needing a co-founder.

i wish there was a y-combinator just for single founders.

I am going to try to push more work and make it open source.

1st WebOS is better than Chrome OS. 2ndly, WebOS is not just for phone's and tablets. Think TV, Netbooks, Printers, etc....

WebOS is about the cloud, not the devices. It's about sharing data as a user between many cheap devices.

you read this wrong. they were going to open up crowd sourcing of funds and make it easier to legally start a company from 'crowd sourced' funds.

I don't think you read the article.

it's $1Billion of tax payers money, the other $1billion is in private services, fees, and software provided. This is like the Microsoft BizStarts program.

this also includes funds to reshape american schools, to include entrepreneurship programs for k-12.

finally this looks like Obama is finally trying to reinvent SBA loans which are great for restaurants to start up, but not great for tech startups that are creating a massive number of new jobs.

What is HP going to do with Synergy? Can they open source that too? Or will they allow you to take your account to a different platform?

I also wonder with #spacepunk tech brewing if it's possible to actually overpower a satellites signal. There is someone on kickstarter working on low earth orbit satellites that would stay in orbit for 2 weeks.

You should prioritize the list bases on population.

It's sad to say, because I hate unions, but in this case Unions would solve this problem.

Evil likes this, creates a need to create a counter force.

when i was running the site http://unity3d.com less than 1% of our visitors could not properly render an html5 doctype.

Who are these clients and why are you not firing them?

You run a business, they run a business, and everyone is trying to make money. How much money do you think an IE6 user has? the browser is like a decade old. It's why we target iPhone and not Android in the mobile world. ( because iPhone users out spend android users. )

Tell your client the truth, tell them that you keep up to date on the latest trends and if they want to use someone else let them, and then tell them exactly what your work will do.

I would not even offer to support IE6 anymore. Maybe IE7. There are a few reasons.

#1 you can't download IE6 legally any more

#2 you can't install it legally on linux or mac systems to test.

#3 IE7 in quirks mode does not work exactly the same as IE6.

#4 web development for legacy browsers is less about building things, and more about working around problems. and i just don't find that fun.

It is your duty as a web professional to turn down this work. Microsoft does not even support his browser anymore.

they bought palm for $1.8billion and packaged up a few hundred million in a few product launches. If they want to sell palm at a profit or break even, it might be really important to add 1-5 million users even if there is a $100 loss per device.

I think the next file explorer I want is more like a Graph/ DB, with search, stats and files resting in multiple folders like tags.

I think windows is so set in how they do things that they can not think out of the box ( window ) at all.

With 3d and ssd becoming standard there are plenty of new ways to visualize the files on your drive.

Even photosynth an ms product would be a cool bolt on to file explorer.

This should be standard contracting policy, with net terms and in the base contract.