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murzon Congressional Support for H.R. 3261 (SOPA)

More like "Los Angeles and the entire east coast vs. San Francisco"

murzon Here is Godaddy’s statement in support of SOPA

This "fact" sheet was the most disturbing document for me to read:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/Stop%20On...

More like "opinion" sheet, there isn't a single fact on there.

murzon Adam Savage weighs in on SOPA

After seeing these pages:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_RogueWebsites.html

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/Stop%20On...

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

I'd guess that the chance is very, very, high.

murzon Trouble in Node.js paradise: The mess that is npm

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ is one way the Ruby community solves this. I'm not a huge fan of their font choices, but the interface provides an easy way to see which gems in a given category are the most popular or most active.

For example, if we were looking for an asset management package like the OP, we would quickly see that Jammit is the most widely used: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/Asset_Management

murzon PHP: Cracks in the foundation

> In most of the frameworks I've seen, to do so means to hack around the base framework.

ActiveRecord [1][2] and Django [3][4] both feature logging sql and dropping down to custom sql out of the box, so I'm not sure which frameworks you had to hack around to accomplish that but those are the two examples you used in your OP.

> It's also much faster to just write the correct query in the first place rather than logging every query from the framework and trying to change them for each situation that requires optimization.

In my experience, 90% or more of the generated queries are fine, there's just a few that need rewriting. And it's not like it takes a lot of cognitive overhead to glance at a console to see what queries are being executed while you're testing that new feature you just added. For me, it's certainly less overhead than writing all of them myself.

[1] http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/8/watching-activerecord-d...

[2] http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#me...

[3] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/#django...

[4] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/#django....

murzon PHP: Cracks in the foundation

I've never really understood this argument. Yes, it's a disadvantage to "have no idea how things work underneath". But why can't you know how things work underneath and still use the abstraction layer? You can even log the SQL queries it generates, and drop down to custom SQL queries if necessary. If you're paying attention to what's going on "underneath", what is the problem with using abstractions that remove some boilerplate?

murzon Sproutcore 2.0 renamed to Ember.js - GitHub

Thanks, I missed that. It's interesting that they opted to go against the feedback they received from the HN majority :P

murzon Sproutcore 2.0 renamed to Ember.js - GitHub

Kind of odd, it was announced as "Amber.js":

http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/08/announcing-amber-js/

murzon Ask HN:What are best online sources to learn JavaScript?

http://eloquentjavascript.net/ is another good one.

murzon Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More

Chrome adds sites that you visit to your list of search engines [1]. It's not built in.. typing in what.cd and hitting space does nothing for me.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/276069/google-chrome-automati...

murzon Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team

The original youtube link was posted on HN three times in the past day...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257547

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258750

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258731

Apparently reading HN is all it takes to be a breaking tech news blogger theses days =P

murzon Grandmother knows best about Crohn's Disease

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease a little over a year ago. I went through pentasa, remicade, all the usual medications and they semi-worked but for the most part not really worth their side effects.

My Dr. told me that diet has nothing to do with Crohn's disease, but like the guy in this story, I read Breaking the Vicious Cycle and got started on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. I've been following it strictly for the past ~6 months and I am literally symptom free (with no drugs). Besides the strict diet, you wouldn't even know I have the disease.

The few times I've cheated on the diet, symptoms noticeably come back. So at this point I'm pretty sold on the benefits of SCD for Crohn's patients. Regardless of what my Dr. says.

murzon Ask HN: How to 100% turn off Google personalization for search?

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...

murzon Blogger’s fresh new look

The new Blogger uses Closure, not GWT.

murzon Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

> 4. Stypi might be better as Google+ done right!

Maybe I'm confused, but how is an etherpad clone "Google+ done right"?

murzon Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents

They cited the "explosion in patent litigation, often involving low-quality software patents" as one of the reasons why they argue "in favor of real patent reform".

murzon Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents

Is that not what they did back in april [1] or march 2009 [2]? I'm surprised by the implication that Google hasn't publicly opposed software patents.

"It's for these reasons that Google has long argued in favor of real patent reform, which we believe will benefit users and the U.S. economy as a whole."

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/patents-and-innovatio...

[2] http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/03/patent-reform...

murzon A new kind of interchange eliminates left turns.

Reminds me of Michigan left.

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

murzon I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"

I think requiring a log-in is actually against the CAN-SPAM regulations.

FTC.gov's web site states: "an e-mail recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her e-mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply e-mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page to opt out of receiving future e-mail from a sender"

http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-complia...

murzon A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

"We take it for granted now that the most popular online publications rely on search engine traffic for their survival."

"..blindly approve any headline that name-checks a trending topic or two."

"..we are reminded of the grimy truth: making money with online content is a question of attracting millions of eyeballs, whatever the moral cost."

I can't believe I just read that on TechCrunch.

murzon I’ve been suspended from Google+

The G+ names policy doesn't say "name on your birth certificate". It says "the name you commonly go by in real life", see: http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271

Even if Skud does go by that name in daily life, I don't see how it comes as any surprise that he is suspended pending review for that name. He even says it himself:

> I knew I was at risk of my account (under the name of “Skud .”) being suspended

murzon I’ve been suspended from Google+

Not for name violations. For name violations users just get their G+ profile suspended.

"When an account is suspended for violating the Google+ common name standards, access to Gmail or other products unrelated to the Google+ profile are not removed. (Of course there are other Google-wide policies (e.g. egregious spamming, illegal activity, etc) that do apply to all Google products, and violations of these policies could in fact lead to a Google-wide suspension.)

It is not our intention to shut off access to all Google services when an account is suspended for violating our Google+ common name standards. This is a misunderstanding, and I wanted to clarify it."

murzon Google+ for iOS is out

https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/dESepcDj...

"We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version. "

murzon Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network

> Who knows what violates their community standards

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...

murzon The Hacker Matrix

> Note: If you're using Internet Explorer 7, the dots on the chart will not appear in the correct place.

Go figure.

murzon Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too

> You also have to annotate your code with type information (a la javadoc) to take full advantage of the compiler

I consider this an upside, especially on large JavaScript products with many engineers contributing (like the ones Google builds). Having your JavaScript checked at compile time helps ensure quality code, and helps to avoid errors at run time.

murzon Antitrust officials probing sale of patents to Google’s rivals

> they're a giant company who is using their search monopoly to undercut smaller competitors in the smart phone market.

How exactly is Google using their search monopoly to undercut smaller (or larger for that matter) competitors in the smart phone market?

murzon Learn jQuery & JavaScript for Free

> Out of curiosity, what is the excellent reference for Javascript.

I've always liked:

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

and

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference

murzon Clojure on Heroku

Scala and Clojure can both be deployed to Google AppEngine.

murzon Tom Anderson: Google+ makes Google a better, more integrated set of services

> 'Social' is the new 'cloud' buzzword.

New? What rock have you been hiding under?