I recently noticed that a surprising number of people around me don't know that middle click opens links in a new tab.

Most of them use the right click drop down option.

I always used Ctrl-Left Click

I would like to take you up on your offer, but I'm incredibly nervous about applying to colleges because (despite taking honors classes) I screwed around 9-11th grades, and my GPA isn't 3.0 or higher.

Does anyone know what the browser market share of HN is?

My recent traffic from HN (a few hundred hits):

Chrome: 55% Firefox: 30% Safari: 9% IE: 4% Other: 2%

Like r7000, my recent blog post featured on HN had this data for 1680 hits:

Browser - hits - percentage

1. Chrome - 805 - 47.92%

2. Firefox - 521 - 31.01%

3. Safari - 270 - 16.07%

4. IE - 45 - 2.68%

5. Opera - 23 - 1.37%

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Also of note, here's the OS breakdown:

1. Windows - 636 - 37.86%

2. Macintosh - 562 - 33.45%

3. Linux - 382 - 22.74%

I'm would also be interested in this email, if it's not too much trouble. My email is on my profile page.

Fanboys and bad journalism.

Something tells me you just read http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/apple-religion/.

(I'm in a similar situation) I've learned bits of PHP and Java in the past, but I wouldn't call it being a programmer.

Thanks to HN, I've decided to properly learn to program.

I'm buying a book on Python (http://amzn.to/bUMPCP), and I'm taking C++ in the upcoming semester.

1) Learn python with these two resources: a.This is for absolute beginners http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput....

b.Do these exercises for some extra oomp - http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/exe.... there are some video lectures if required

They're much more better and practical than any ole paperback.

Finishing with .../electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ works for first link (although google also shows a much longer link for a python course from the same url) http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ works for the second. Thanks.

Cool, hope your journey goes well.

This is going to get worse.

Walk into a high school classroom, write a sentence on the board, and ask the students to label the parts of speech.

Don't be too surprised when only two or three students even bother to raise their hands.

While I have sympathy with this comment, it's not the same thing. Knowing the names for bits of a sentence is different from being able to comprehend a sentence. You might know what an adverbal phrase is, without knowing the name for it. To say otherwise suggests the strong form of Sapir-Worf, which is generally discredited (while still actually being contentious).

This article isn't even talking about the ability to name the different grammatical components, though. It seems to be talking about comprehension of sentence forms. There is a hint that using "every" can sometimes be misinterpreted.

But we see that linguistic shift anyway. Things like "I could care less" are regarded as conveying the speaker's meaning, while the linguistic analysis of the form suggests a meaning opposite to that normally inferred, or implied.

"Every" is frequently misplaced, and people seem to assume they know what the speaker means. Following logical analyses we often find that the speaker didn't actually say what they meant, and the listener understood something different again.

Right, kick ass. Well, don't want to sound like a dXXX or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fXXXed up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your sXXX's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like...

Not sure if that's supposed to be informative, clever, funny, or something else. It's certainly not communicating anything to me, except something about you - something I'm sure you didn't intend to say.

His comment is a quote from the movie Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/).

Of course I can't speak for him, but the premise of the movie is a slow steady decline in education leading to the above quote, which is given to the protagonist (after he wakes up in the future) by a doctor as a diagnosis.

It's a quote from Idiocracy; a Mike Judge film from 2006.

-there isn't enough contrast between #ddd and #fff

-Disable keyboard navigation while registering/logging in (I'm in Opera, so it could just be that)

Otherwise this is really great! I like the minimalism.

input:

http://www.twitteraccounthacking.com/hackmeplox ; http://www.facebookaccounthacking.com/hackmeplox

output:

http://p4ge.in/twitter/t ; http://p4ge.in/faceboo/u

It's an interesting concept, though it's not without its potential abuses.

It is not supposed to be safer - it's only purpose is to help you let your friends know what kind of content they are going to see - I hate clicking bit.ly just to see it's a TechCrunch link, which I usually don't like reading, same goes for video links.