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This seems like more of a competitor for something like WebMethods -- a simplified way of programming complex business logic. With most business logic code, the hard part is actually figuring out what the business wants the logic to be and communicating with business stakeholders; and those are tasks poorly suited to most developers.

There is nothing technically difficult about these problems; and it's work that's really more suited to a business analyst anyway. While developers should obviously check their logic to make sure it's sound; gathering the requirements is 90% of the work in these situations.

Anyway, that market seems a lot easier to compete in than the straight up dev tools market. Dev tools are so personalized, with every person/team/project/company having different needs and requirements that it seems like the only way to succeed would be with a niche product (which naturally limits the scale of your success).
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But who hires the better people?

Presumably the previous not-so-great programmers, who are now VP of Engineering. Or do you fire those guys?
The change of focus is perhaps hard to understand without more context. Basically, there are two really different modes of programming:

Most of what we see on HN is about building applications, servers, websites etc. Big, monolithic things that take weeks to years and are deployed to somewhere else and used by lots of people. Most programming tools are built for this kind of work, where the time between writing the code and actually using it is days or months.

But the people we want to make programming accessible to are mostly knowledge workers. Their work is characterised by a mixture of manual work and automation, throw-away code and tools rather than applications. It's better supported by Excel, SQL, shell scripting etc than by the big languages and IDEs.

We realised that we can do much more good focusing on that kind of programming.
This looks awesome; the color pickers I've seen for react so far are either really minimally complete or too rigid. Nice to have a solid one to reference/use if I need it. Thanks for your work on this!
FWIW, at least in my case, the numbers here seem optimistic. I had SolarCity come out and do a proposal for my house in San Jose about four years ago. Because my single story house is surrounded by big trees and two story houses, they said I only had a small area where they could install panels with sufficient efficiency, for a 3kW system. Sunspot says I could install an 8kW system covering 1475 sq ft, compared to about 800 sq ft for the Solar City system.
Consul and Vault go a long way to achieving that.

https://consul.io/

https://vault.io
Shouldn't this be the "S" or "P" in Alphabet? Why is this a Google project?
Only a small number of those are vegan. Different diet.

Though why bother asking? The parent has his mind all made up.
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I don't agree with him at all, but probably it affects his life since now most of the innovation is moved to another framework that he doesn't use.
There's no such slider on my page, only a text box. Tried disabling privacy plugins, but they're not the culprit.
It's a lie. I knew him well enough when I worked there that I could have reached out to him personally and he would have known who I was. This is all by design.

He couldn't care less about employees. He does care about the reputation of the company, of course, because it's important for his net worth.
Not talking about the legal aspects, but, (and I really, really hate to bring up the "think about the children!" argument here) what about if I am unknowingly helping people who create and share child porn?

It doesn't matter (to me) if I am on the hook for it or not, I just don't know (ethically?) how I would feel if I knew that was going on via my PC. Drugs I don't give a shit about, and I hate how the "think about the children" people screw our rights to privacy, but still...

Honest open question.

Edit: PS, I want you guys to keep doing what you're doing. I completely believe in an open free web, and I want to play my part... I hate the idea of the open web turning into a bunch of mini AOLs... Which is where we seem to be heading at the moment.
There are some big differences, but sure, they are reminiscent of eachother.

Experts aren't sure if it would be a problem yet, and are understandably concerned they might simply make the problem worse. Don't rule the concept out simply for vague association with the failing "war on drugs". "Should we flood the market with imitation ivory" and "Should we ban cannabis" are very different questions.
It certainly isn't a chore once you're "in the flow of things," but transitioning is hard. It means making _major_ lifestyle changes, and often includes restructuring relationships around you (you may need to get a new set of friends, and potentially even a new partner).
I live in San Francisco and just had a solar system installed last week, so I have a few comments about this.

1) It vastly overestimated how big a solar system that could fit on my roof (by about 5x). It didn't care about chimneys or skylights (which are easily visible through Google maps), nor SF fire code which states that you need a 3-foot empty pathway on both sides of the crest of your roof [1]. So for almost every roof with a single ridge, this will cut out a large percentage of the best solar real estate.

2) It didn't include local SF providers in the marketplace which are generally higher rated than national providers and can offer additional SF incentives and cost-savings.

So while the estimation of sunlight potential is really cool, the 3d modeling aspect and size of the marketplace leave a little bit to be desired. This site would probably be good at quickly seeing if your roof has any solar potential at all, but if it does, I'd recommend checking Yelp and having a highly-rated solar company come give you a detailed estimate (which would be free).

1: http://www.sf-fire.org/index.aspx?page=1232
Firefox supports said password-protection out-of-the-box, IIRC.
My experience has been pretty close to that; if I hit #1 then the peak is usually around 500-1000 simultaneous visitors according to Google Analytics, and the total number of visits is around 30-40k. Being around the middle of the front page is around 200-300 simultaneous visitors, and a correspondingly lower number of total visits; I don't know if I've ever had less than 10k total visits from a front page link.
So many similar stories like this - Amazon sounds like a place without humanity which originates from the highest leadership roles. However, what does this say about those who support and buy from Amazon?
Just about every human endeavor out there tends toward hierarchal structures - ones that do not are statistical outliers, and even then it's questioned whether all that's happened is that the hierarchy is implicit rather than explicit.
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I find my best thinking is done when I'm having lunch with friends/coworkers or dinner/drinks with family/friends.

When I hear new ideas or bounce thoughts off of others, it relieves my concerns I've built up on, or confirms my suspicions.

So it does recharge me in a way - my creativity well.
Jobs was a good guy who, under it all, had engineering skill and design chops. He was compassionate and intelligent. Jobs built a great company that makes real profits by selling real products.

Bezos is a psychopath, a hack who only cares about manipulating the situation in his favor. He has built a shell of a retailer whos only profitable product is its own stock.
There is a set of tools here that allow for a hyper-efficient lifestyle based on a new kind of wheat bread superfood:

http://breadflower.com/
My mom had ALS, and used single-switch input for a while, after typing and writing on paper weren't possible. She wrote out little notes about what she was thankful for, prayers, practical messages (she had Type 1 diabetes, and told folks her insulin doses), and recipes this way. Eventually she had to switch to giving messages to a human holding a letter board by looking towards them for 'yes' and away for 'no'--cameras or Hawking's infrared-laser-based system weren't really feasible.

We looked at some software called EZ Keys from a company called Words Plus. (I don't think she used it specifically, at least for long--I know she used another program, a DOS-based one called Living Better that ran in 40-col. mode that I can't anything about on the Internet.) EZ keys looked more or less like Intel's thing -- scan rows, scan items in a row, completions/predictions over at left. It even had an option to use a frequency-sorted keyboard like the Intel one, with the common letters pushed to the top left (since those are the first rows/cols to be scanned). Hawking apparently used EZ Keys, so it's possible the Intel folks intentionally gave their thing a similar interface to make the transition easy.

It is worth remembering that no user cares if it's WinForms or whatever. Some folks might like a nicer voice if they haven't gotten used to theirs like Hawking ;), but the main concern is just getting the message across. Intel seems to have worked on the right stuff: better prediction (Presage http://presage.sourceforge.net/, which looks interesting) and context-sensitive controls. The infrared-laser-based input method sounds cool, too.

This is a neat space: an optimization/prediction problem where improvements can be a significant help to someone. (There are also practical optimizations that don't have much to do with the general word-prediction problem: sometimes people have to say things about their care, food, etc., or generic 'hi' and 'bye', and it's good if those are fast.) A Web page or Chrome extension can do a lot--how close can you get to smoothly operating the Web with just the spacebar? the arrow keys and Enter? or plain old typing, but slowed down and using 0-9 for completions?

I've heard that nowadays, people with communication trouble and enough movement use text-to-speech on mobile gadgets with their nifty and highly refined predictive input and that's awesome.
Are you American? White collar unions are basically non-existent in the US private sector.
Every version of OS X prior to Tiger (2012) dropped support for something (e.g. x86, PowerPC, G4s, G3s, !Firewire etc). Every version of OS X since Tiger has supported Macs as far back as 2009. The only systems supported prior 2009 by post Tiger OS X are the Core 2 Duo units were only in the high-end. If you happened to buy an x86 ( not x64) Mac then you got upgraded once from Leopard to Snow Leopard and that was it. iOS has even spottier support for hardware with older versions dropped at almost every release.

The reason for this period of longevity isn't that Apple dedicated itself to supporting these legacy systems, that's a decidedly unApple thing to do. When Apple adopts a new technology that changes something fundamental about their operating system (e.g. PPC->x86, 32bit->64bit), they dump support for legacy systems in 1 or 2 versions. The reason for this long period of stability is that hardware performance reached a plateau and the focus shifted towards smaller and lighter systems with increasingly longer lasting batteries.

Let's also remember that if you counted up every Apple Mac regardless of OS, they would account for less of the PC market than the number of machines running Windows XP (a 14 year old OS that Microsoft still supports). Or that Microsoft Windows 10 can run on any x86 or x64 CPU 1Ghz with 1GB RAM made in the last 15 years.
What is the domain in question? Have you run into issues where the power users who are non programmers want to do more programming like tasks over time to exert more control?
I respectfully disagree. People who are not programmers use abstract reasoning and modelling skills all the time in their daily lives. They more than have the skills to solve this problem: You have a list of friends and where they are, you have your own location. Find the list of friends that are near your location, and send an alert (text, e-mail, whatever). How hard is that?

There is absolutely no inherent complexity to this problem.
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Agreed. Top Thrill is great for the "thrill" of hitting 120 mph and dropping ~400 feet, but it's over in a matter of seconds. I think they nailed it with the drag race metaphor. There's very little anticipation, and the payoff is immediate.
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Another reason not to trust these services. Next week this could be dropbox.
> once code touches the DOM it's poison for reusability

source? In reality, it's quite the opposite. You can't easily convert a React component to another framework. The key to writing reusable code is to remove dependencies.
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Basically, everyone not currently at amazon is admitting how much it sucks. People currently there are pretending it doesn't suck. The company does have a good reality distortion field and seems like a great place to work for the first 6 months.

Then you find out they were lying to you.
Is anyone using LightTable on a daily basis?

I sponsored the kickstarter but never really followed up on what happened to it.
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I started looking for freelance jobs on Elance at the end of June for fun. I've since completed 7 super simple tasks and made $1200. It's definitely a race to the bottom and I'm lucky to have a cushy fulltime web developer job because it'd be hard to live off of Elance earnings alone. But as a hobby it's not bad. Completely agree though, clients tend to be super vague in their job listings and their budgets are miniscule. Every once in a while I find a gem though and it can be satisfying to help someone out remotely for some extra cash.
That is the question.

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer

The Churns and Reviews of a Freemium Launching,

Or Call-to-Action against a Sea of Funnels,

And by so closing, sell them: to die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep, to say we end

The Startup, and the thousand Natural shocks

Free Work is heir to? 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,

To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,

For in that Startup death, what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this failed toil,

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes Calamity of unpaid-for work:

For who would bear the Whips and Scorns online,

The Harassers pr0n, the troll man's Obscenely,

The pangs of despised Launch, PayPal’s delay,

The insolence of Coders, and the Spurns

That patient merit of the spammers takes,

When he himself might his Quietus make

With a Paid Signup? Who would Zuckerberg,

To grunt and sweat under an ad-free life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn

No Traveller returns, Puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ads we have,

Than fly to others that we know not of.

Thus Freemium does make Cowards of us all,

And thus the Native hue of PayG

Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment,

With this regard their Currents turn awry,

And lose the Call to Action. Soft you now,

The fair Dropboxia? Nymph, in my Support Mails

Be all thy sins remembered.
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You missed one word - "politely".
One can be polite and still convey the intended message :-) She obviously got it, hence the revenge.
I don't get it why Americans stand for this.
It's not like this is happening to minorities and the masses are just turning a blind eye. When I lived in the US and was in contact with a cop every single time I felt like I was in danger. Even though I did absolutely nothing wrong. And then the cop image is portrayed on TV as the badass sheriff from the 1800s, no wonder these individuals get all hyper ego in an emotional situation.

Back home our cops #1 priority is deescalation. This does not just happen. There is training for this, a lot of training how to handle other people. For example if someone is fleeing in a car, let him go. They will catch him later, don't drive that dude in a corner in a high speed vehicle with 10 armed people chasing him down in a manhunt. It only endangers people.
"If that failed, I'd just clap every time the person in the song said a word. For children's music, that was usually close enough."

It's not just children's music. Most songs you find today, if you listen closely enough, the words follow the beat. I.e. every once in a while, a word starts on the "one" beat.

And we take it for granted. You'll very quickly realize something is "off" if that's not the case. That's usually what you find in "artsy", "look at us we're weird and different" type of music. Annoying most times, and incredibly difficult to get right.
you are assuming that men don't also face this issue or similar?
not dressing hipster enough, not being a mac fanboy, being older then the rest of your team, preferring one programming language over another, etc. Men have issues as well, and I've seen men catch much worse hell at work in IT then any woman i have worked with.
until you have worn another's shoes, you cant state that they have it any easier with any more certainty then picking a keno ticket.
This seems to be one of the things Web Components aim to solve. I expect webapp frameworks of the future to be nothing more than wrappers around Web Components.
In the meantime I can recommend the RequestPolicy[1] add-on for Firefox. It's not exactly what you're asking for; it blocks cross-domain requests entirely instead. Since it uses a whitelist you'll have to add exceptions for the sites you use (images and stylesheets are often placed on a different domain). This takes a bit of time but I think it's worth it.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/
(the developer happens to have the same lastname as my firstname, but we're not related in any way)
Terrifying because there are cases with poor interoperability, or terrifying because the metal model is non-trivial?

If you mean the former, that's certainly a pain point on the web (although it's worth noting that some of the specific issues Jake mentioned are already fixed in at least Firefox nightly). For that reason tests like these are being tested in the web-platform-tests project [1], which is part of the Test The Web Forward initiative [2] aiming to create a common, cross-browser testsuite which all vendors can run in automation so that they are able to detect this kind of issue during development and avoid compat-affecting regressions of the kind seen here. Firefox runs (almost) all the web-platform-tests in its CI system already, Chrome runs a subset and are looking to add more, Servo runs the cubset corresponding to the features it supports, and what Microsoft and Apple do is a mystery to me. I believe the Jake is going to look at submitting his testcases, and I hope that in the future web authors will see the value in investing in their platform by submitting tests and bug reports when they run into interop difficulties.

If you just mean that the lowest levels of the web-platform are quite complicated then yes, but it's not that surprising (and the things that are complicated to implement are not necessarily hard to use; document.write is a tremendous pain to understand in detail and implement, but people nevertheless use it with reckless abandon).

[1] https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests
[2] http://testthewebforward.org/
Thanks. Right now, we have the basic free version plus we've white labeled the platform for a few sites. Debates.eu is an example, they are launching soon. We also consult for a few non-profits and help them get the most out of their use of ReplyAll. Ultimately, we'll build those services in, but it's been a good way to keep cash coming in at an early stage, plus we helped one non-profit use ReplyAll to secure two grants.

But what we're experimenting with now (with one big publisher) is the software for free, but they pay us for repeat visitors and/or we advertise inside the emails that go out to people who subscribe to the conversations and split that revenue with the publishers (this is the Outbrain model).
Very nice work. Sincerely, thank you for the writeup! I'm still trying to gauge whether React is good for me or not, and this is very readable :)

I noticed that it is trivial to break the whole thing in a way that would probably put off average users. (See Bug Report at bottom.)

I would like to read ideas here that weigh the merits of Web Components and other compartmentalized (web) programming techniques and their ability to still have the ability to fail globally, especially if they promote an environment that gives the (perhaps false) notion that 'What I do in this will not be a problem for you'. Is this a function of React(and similar), the programmer, or other? Is it even a thing at all?

Bug Report: Changing an integer value to "g" in the R field of "Sketch" breaks ALL widgets with the only apparent way of fixing is clicking a swatch or entering a valid hex where available. Clicking Up or Down arrows in 'Chrome' does not fix. Clicking in color areas of 'Chrome', 'Sketch', or 'Photoshop' does not fix. Inputting Valid RGB values into any field does not fix but reverts to NAN.
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I have a couple netbooks with the latest Windows 7 patches and they run just as bad as they did when I first got them with Windows XP. I've been debating upgrading them to Windows 10...
If by discredited you mean lots of React fanboys whined about it then yes. If you mean anyone showed actual evidence to the contrary, then no.
I put in my Medford address and got results. I don't own, but it's still interesting to see.
Can a mobile app become even cooler by switching to desktop?
I think we're saying the same thing, but with different slants. The perception of Amazon right now (again, I don't know first hand) is that the work there is extremely intense to the point of maddening, and that can make it very attractive for certain people, and very unattractive for others. If you want to gain good experiences quickly and build your resume with a big name, it's a very viable option for you so long as you are willing to make the trade-off in work/life balance and stress. If you're no longer at that point in your career, it's not going to be for you.
If I remember the catalog correctly, there are a number of Chebyshev linkages among Prof. Nguyen's videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPVcL0fMBCk. I haven't found the paradoxical 6-bar linkage, though.
Excellent. Thank you for this. Perfect timing.
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I had spend a lot of my youth playing those games. Elite was fun to play. It even had SimCity. Remember being so impressed I could get SimCity on my puny 3Mhz/48K machine since before I had only played it on an IBM desktop at scool.

But the good thing about the platform is that there quite a few programming environments, there was a C and Pascal compiler. You'd load the compiler from tape for 5 minutes, enter your program, compile it, run it, it would crash, rewind the tape, do the whole thing again. Remember writing my own assembler as well. Good times...

All in all ZX Spectrum platform is almost entirely responsible for me picking programming as my profession.
They are the only technical department. They do dev.
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Ahhhh! That's the thing. That makes total sense, thanks!

It was a matter of age. I was just a kid. No wife with a hobby or digitizer for photos of a family I didn't have.

As a kid I was mainly interested in music, porn, games, and weird stuff.
Is "Olympic Games" copyrighted? Even if so, what's to stop the Greeks from claiming prior art, and establishing an Olympic Island themselves, sans-IOC?