Of course the same 3/10 Americans will not flinch when they buy Chinese manufactured iPods and other gadgets. Since, China doesn't own the brand. It's clearly not about nationalism, but about a general distaste for China. The same Americans will probably snag a BMW or a Mercedes without a second thought.

For those of you defending Chinese made goods, that's understandable. I don't think anyone should take a nationalist viewpoint on these issues.

However, you should note that political prisoners in China's Laogai are often manufacturing some of the Chinese goods you consume, which are not labeled as such, and made in violation of Chinese law. A quick google turns up this: http://laogai.org/system/files/pdf/inland_web.pdf More googling will inevitably turn up that products such as sesame street (tm) slippers, toilet paper, and other big box store staples are made this way. See also: http://laogai.org/blog/laogai-museum-window-china%E2%80%99s-...

Though the term "Laogai" is dated and China stopped referring to them that way in the 90s, a documentary by Al-Jazeera English (Which got the news network EXPELLED from China) makes me think a lot different:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/05/201257195...

One major caveat: word of mouth will lose the extension in translation. People still assume .com first if they can't think of anything else. Scale up, and that's a sizable portion of lost users.

I once got $500 through network solutions for a domain I didn't even want. A year later the buyer let it expire.

The way network solutions even found me? WHOIS.. Did you try whois yet? Their contact might be right there.. they might go lower.

Not too long ago, opera was one of the best mobile browsers for Android... That was before google released a decent mobile build of chrome.

In cases where something is fundamentally broken but something "needs" to be changed now, I do this.

i.e:

// This is how it should be // foo(...) // But, since the code is horribly broken, we'll have to do: bar()

>a) delete the code. It'll be in version control anyway right? You do do version control right?

If only digging code up from a previous version was as easy as uncommenting it.

It's a shame that we give attention whoring journalists like this guy any attention at all. More sensational bs. If I wanted sensationalist, I'd be on reddit's /r/politics.

It must be nice to be so established as Zed Shaw such that all it takes to get to the top of HN is a couple C exercises. It's almost like if a mathematician could get publicity for talking about addition and subtraction.

With that said, when I first saw Learn Python The Hard Way, it immediately reminded me of the time I spent reading K&R2. Its exercise rich style is what programming books are lacking these days. K&R2 taught me how to program.

Agreed, this stuff is lame.

Most CS students worth a dime could write programs to do these things.

Cool stat. I don't use extensions normally because I just don't feel like I have time to install them or care. I have a million ideas for serious life-changers, I swear. But at the end of the day, where do you fit in installing a browser plug-in to your schedule?