I'm wondering about wordpress - especially migrating to posterous from an installed wordpress site (rather than having a site on wordpress.com). One thing that is missing from posterous is the ability to put ads like google adsense...anyone know if this is coming? (I haven't seen any hints on their blogs)
Nope. Google uses a ton of WebKit code, submits a lot of code back into WebKit proper, but they're doing their own stuff too. IIRC they wanted to have GPU acceleration for 3D CSS which apparently WebKit proper doesn't offer at this point or Google thinks they can do it better. You can't safely assume all WebKit based browsers are going to be equal.
I've got a radar open with Apple about Safari's performance (that I know WebKit people have at the very least seen) that essentially boils down to this reason.
There is one problem with Ballmer being on Dancing with the Stars - he would have to dance with a partner...I think that's part of the rules. As we all know, Ballmer can only dance by himself (and yell "Developers, Developers, Developers").
Come on - you haven't seen Dexter? That's an ethical serial killer show.
Your points are all well stated but he is quite funny ("nerdgasm"...come on). Otherwise - just add healthcare reform and Wallstreet debacle to your list and then build a bunker and never come out.
> a company rips us off to the tune of hundreds of billions that don't even feed any children and he admires it
You seem to think only the 'good guys' are worthy of admiration. Ethics and self-interest aside, I think it's perfectly acceptable to admire an impressive feat or trait, regardless whether it negatively or positively impacts you. Notice, he was not admiring the theft of billions of dollars, but the character trait behind the action.
My favorite quote on the subject is funnily enough thanks to J.K. Rowling;
"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great" -Ollivander
I keep having an image of Donald E. Graham hovering over Zuke and waiting for him to complete the article in long script and then handing it off to some flunky to be typed. Then Donald says "good job Zuke" and pats him on the head and Zuke smiles and says "yeah...privacy - my ass". And both leave the conference room they were in laughing manically.
Didn't know about this flag - thanks for pointing it out. As for the post - doesn't seem offensive at all.
PG: Hacker News improvement suggestion: for any post that gets deleted - show the username of the one who deleted it so when "showdead" is set to "yes" it shows this. An explanation would also be a nice thing to have as part of this mechanism. I'm going on the assumption that you follow Guido's BDFL model.
Well - if we take a big leap here and assume that one of WakeMate's founders is a mod and this person deleted the post then the policy is not so good.
A possible approach is to allow the mods to have aliases to their usernames (and PG and company can be the only ones knowing the correspondence of alias to username). This way - HN users could see the history of deletions of a particular mod without knowing the actual user.
Granted, HN users are smart and someone could probably create a data mining app which would find the actual user by looking at pattern of deletions, topics of posts, etc... but that's life and that's what you get for having a lovely place such as HN.
Maybe an irrelevant data point, but I am in the top 10 users karma-wise, and I have never heard anything about being a mod. So it must be the super-secret elite that get to be mods.
