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Not entirely true. They are ditching it as a java write-once, run-everywhere for the web platform. Windows Phone 7 relies heavily on it/WPF. And in a corporate environment where everyone will be running IEx, it makes sense to develop applications in it.

Would it? Part of the joke is that it may never get there ;)

Nobody said that you have to read the top articles. If the title looks like 'something from digg/reddit' to you, skip the article, and the thread. Complaining about the article's relevance to HN contributes nothing to the discussion. If you are unhappy with HN, nobody is forcing you to stay

The device torn down was one given to them by a woman who kept it after being tracked in 2005: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/

So we should just store the password in plain text then!! Or we could use the honor system, with no password!!

Wisconsin was the state the looked to take the power away from unions

This happens between Chrome windows, because you are still within Chrome if you have one of the windows in focus, so Chrome can determine which window you want to scroll by figuring out which one you are hovered over. On Mac, it scrolls even if the application in question is out of focus.

How would one get into finding vulnerabilities with no prior security knowledge? I've always been interested in white hat security

I'm not planning on just learning one, just trying to pick one to learn first

As a newb to non-relational databases, but planning on learning one soon, what is the advantage of MongoDB vs Redis? I'm planning to use ruby with either, but was interested if there was a reason to pick one over the other.

Sitecore (proprietary, .Net CMS) has had Page Editor, a in page editor, for years now. They've been adding to and improving it.

http://www.sitecore.net/en/Products/Sitecore-CMS/Editorial-T...

Grooveshark has an HTML5 version now, im pretty sure

If you're installing linux, why not just re-install windows? A fresh windows install == no third party bloatware. My biggest problem with windows is the lack of a proper shell (without install cygwin)

What exactly does this mean? Running game backups?

Apple has been using the "left moving ripple" progress bar for a while, which makes it look like the progress bar is moving, even when it's not

When you get a gift card from Coinstar, you are not charged the 10%. So when I'm feeling lazy with a bunch of change, I just dump it in the Coinstar machine for a Amazon gift card

Ok, I take back my point about the NY Times

I listen to talk radio from time to time, and it still gets me how uninformed some people can be at times. I heard one host talking about how Wikileaks hacked the US government, and sperading fear in the way of saying that the US could be hacked at any moment and we are screwed. Of course, the US Government and infrastructure could be (and probably has been, in the the past) hacked, but the Wikileaks problem is one of a LEAK from someone who had ACCESS to the cables.

I still don't know how I feel about the cable leaks and the war logs leaks, but I do know that the media is spinning this in the wrong direction, with some calling to have Assange arrested for espionage. If they are going to prosecute anyone, it should be the person who gave teh cables to WikiLeaks, as WikiLeaks is the medium that the cables were distributed. As Schneier points out, years ago, the newspaper would have leaked the information. Would the US gov't go after the NY Times if they were the ones leaking the cables?

>Very common things like commiting and checking the status and log are much faster and cleaner than in the command line...

git st, git add ., git ci seem pretty quick to me. I set aliases for status to st and commit to ci, but tab completion work pretty well. I've been stepping away from GUIs lately when the command line is available. It's quicker for my hands to stay on the keyboard than it is to switch to the mouse and back

It should be optional, because there will be questions the span a few releases, and the number of tags on a question is limited to 5.

Canonical partnered with Stack Overflow on AskUbuntu.com: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/ubuntu-stack-exchange-...

you could always set up a super stripped down user with a random password. Not to say that I'm about to do that

It does, but I think Instapaper randomly grabs articles from your backlog. My idea is to have some sort of priority attached to articles

Create then iterate ;) Thats further down the road.

I know about kindlefeeder, but my thought was combining a prioritized Instapaper with a prioritized Kindlefeeder, to give you a daily digest of articles you'd like to read. Backlog and lower priority feeds would fill the digests when you dont have new, high priority articles to read. If you used Instapaper + Kindlefeeder, you'd have 2 digests to read.

I have a huge back-log of articles in Instapaper, but there are definitely articles that come up that I want to read right away, so I think the priority system would help for me. Another thought was to add RSS feeds as well, with priority filtering on them as well.

I've actually been kicking around the idea of making a web app similar to Instapaper, but specifically tailored for the Kindle. I was thinking of adding priority articles (articles you want on your kindle next), with other articles as filler (ones you want to read, but will be bumped if you find a more important/interesting article). Does Instapaper fill this need for most people?

2010 Startup Bootcamp thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617168

You might want to update this page: http://redis.hobsonfiles.com/about/

You should go to a local bike shop and make sure your bike is fitted properly. It definitely should not hurt your knees at a higher cadence