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A few things that make LaTeX docs look good:

- quality justified paragraphs making use of inter-word spacing and hyphenation
- font ligatures (tex uses quality fonts have special characters for sequences like fi fi fl ffi ffl ft etc)
- good heuristics about where to cut pages (e.g. flexible spacing around heading)
I tried out evil some time ago, and while it was very nice, it glitched out regularly - I would (mis)type a key combination and suddenly I'm dropped to Emacs and feel completely lost. Has this happened to you?

On a side note, one of those days I'll just have to drop everything for 2 weeks and just learn Emacs.
And the Amstrad CPC had 3 millions units sold.

This just goes to show how regional the 8 bit markets were.
You, and the guy mentioning the BBC Micro, are obviously talking from a UK perspective.

I grew up in France and the Amstrad CPC (a British computer!) was the biggest 8-bit machine here by far. Same goes for Spain, I heard.
There were also many Thomson TO7 and MO5 in classrooms due to the government supporting this French manufacturer in the same way the UK gov did for the Beeb.
And just a few people I knew had a C64, but felt left out. Never, ever heard of Spectrum or anything else at the time.

The 16 bit era was different : the Amiga and Atari ST managed to be extremely popular all across Europe.
It shouldn't. The nanotexture pattern we used on the preliminary testing was super-hydrophobic, the texture pattern we are going begin testing in a few weeks should be ultra-hydrophobic. These high phobicity rates mean they are slick and minimize friction. Tissue should slide across the nanostructures with minimal friction and no damage.
The future is never, then, because you'll still have to pay for how much copper (and everything else) is tied up in the delivery of power from the free power plant to your house. Which isn't free.
The text looks readable but the formulas are missing pieces since the TeX fonts arent loaded. Printing to PDF worked for me
And visual design is all about understanding how layouts, colors, typography etc contribute to a larger sense of what the thing is about, its values, history, community, etc.

If Couchsurfing looked like Airbnb, that would be a design failure, probably. Or at least it would alienate many of its existing users.

Couchsurfers typically don't mind a reasonably messy room, because it's all about thrifty hospitality and this student/traveller community.

Looking at Couchsurfing now though, in fact it does look like Airbnb... Like they "modernized" the design... and indeed I've heard from former big fans of the site that they don't like it anymore, that it's changing culturally, and that they now prefer BeWelcome... and their site doesn't look like Airbnb at all.

With a lot of SaaS landing pages I just wonder who they imagine as their target market.

Maciej at Pinboard seems to be doing good and earning respect by designing the site he and his friends would actually like to use.
Introduction To Statistical Learning:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

Is an excellent statistical learning reference.
I actually question how much interest there would be. Nostalrius reported 150k active players, with over 800k accounts. That is much higher than I would have thought.
Just saying, but if you want to hop onto the ML bandwagon (for instance), then don't bother going over linear algebra or probabilities first, and instead just learn what you need as you go. For example, the first sections of this book are already devoted to getting you on the right track, and it's somewhat standard to do so. And besides, there's no need in learning what are rotation matrices if you won't use them.
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Craiglist is already an established player, and its minimalism is part of a well-known brand.

Suppose you were to pitch a new startup today, at YCombinator or Product Hunt or a VC meeting, and your web app copies the Craigslist aesthetic. Would you be taken seriously or laughed out of the room, even if the functionality and content was top-notch? Would you take that chance?
The title is too grandiose. I clicked on this expecting a comprehensive book backed by serious experience.
You visited the US and "weren't impressed"? Where did you visit exactlY? Its a very large country with over 200 milion people. What weren't you impressed with? What was lacking? Also where are you from thats more impressive?
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Nope, when they told me my diploma was "ready" and I showed up, the person just walked off, then I heard inkjet noises, and came back with a half-assed official looking normal A4 printed paper.

No seal, also the Rector signature is obviously just a printed JPEG file on what is probably a word document.
Tack is a wonderful way to feel like a local in a city, anywhere around the world !
My point is - there are AST-based editors and languages (e.g. Emacs with Paredit and Common Lisp) and you can see that even in that mode of "thinking" about code, you can't beat the speed, efficiency and flexibility of the keyboard.

> Data structures are shapes. A shape is better drawn than described in text.

Draw me a linked list. Tell me how much faster it is than typing:

(list 1 2 (foobar) (make-hash-table) (list "a" "b" "c") 6)

Even on a visual keyboard on a tablet, it's faster to type than to draw data structures. A flat sheet of glass maybe gives us the ability to get the (x, y) coordinates of a touched point easier and with more precision, but it sacrifices many other important aspects - like tactile feedback and the ability to feel shapes. With physical keyboard, you're employing more of the features your body and mind has, and that's why it's faster than a touchscreen.

Unless you can find a completely different way of designing UX, then a tablet won't be a suitable device for creation. None of the currently existing solutions come close to beating a physical keyboard and a mouse.
@davemel37 I think it starts with smaller jobs but I plan on also allowing for releasing escrow for completion of labor on bigger jobs (with video documentation on each stage)
You might also enjoy Hookpad (https://www.hooktheory.com/hookpad/new) and Theorytab (https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab/view/daft-punk/get-luck...) for examples. Hooktheory taught me a lot.
It's not on Ubuntu on Windows, right? It is Ubuntu bash on Windows via a compatibility layer.
Or you can purchase one of those cheap Win8/Win10 Pads for less than 100$ and connect them via vnc to your Linux box. Works pretty well for me with an 8" Dell Venue.
A "bug" in relation to the functionality of a layout software is also vastly different from battle-hardened code in the field of security.
It's less of a "culture" and more of a "deliberately engineered desire resulting from decades of covert marketing in mass media". Worth reading up on if you're curious how things we think "just are" got that way...
It depends on the rigor of your institution, of the program you're in, and what constitutes "full time."

At the institution I attended, FT was 12-18 credit hours in a semester. You could take up to 21 with permission from the administration and your professors, and up to 24 with permission + paying additionally for the 3 credits.

The difference between 12 credits and 18 in terms of work load and scheduling hassles is astronomical yet both are full time. Our professions always said 1 hour in class = 3 hours outside of class. Assuming that held true (it rarely did on an individual class level but on a semester level it was pretty close), 12 credits = 48 hours a week and 18 = 72.

If you're only taking 12-15 credits you probably should have a 10-15 hour/week job. If you're taking 18 I wouldn't even do work study on campus for gas money, you just won't have the time unless you want no social life.
> provides a way of paying for convenience

That's the problem: 10 bucks a month, ad supported or simply torrenting...it hardly matters unless people keep buying (not renting) content. You're not going to save any artist who depends on it, no matter how good you feel about your legally flawless Spotify subscription.

Furthermore I don't see how the availability through torrents is of any importance - with the same argument we might as well stop paying for any digital goods...including software, apps, you name it.
I expected the last sentence to read "And I was born in 1980."
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Labeling everything in their gzip size (without the real size) is a bad new trend in my opinion. It feels like an unfair marketing practice since older projects won't mention gzip at all. I use gzip, but I don't think of my project in gzip numbers. The biggest issue I have with it is that now if somebody explicitly does not state whether or not they are talking about real size or gzip size, is likely that both of us don't know which size is being talked about. It feels like Fahrenheit and Celsius both being used unlabeled. I still think in real size, so it's an extra conversion for me when people use gzip only.
> "More code means more bugs" implies there is no opportunity or freedom for improvement.

This twists a bit the meaning of what I have said. This particular feature is made to be throw-away and is useless. Programmers should strive to make their code as simple as possible while keeping all of the _necessary_ features of the software. This feature was not necessary.

As for the Microsoft policy here is the source:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/10/21/wh...

Personally I would hope that the programmers' personal freedom is not expressed in easter eggs in mission critical software
"obesity" is an objective label. It's difficult to look at a photo of people who are overweight (and he's clearly overweight in the photos I've seen) and call them obese or not obese. Especially for men who tend to have visceral fat.
Interesting ideas (even though your prediction regarding the next five years seems rather... bold).
Where is this vision sketched in some more detail? Any links?
And RISC-V target low power usage.
The easiest example to show the difference is big int computations: they aren't very easy/efficient on RISC-V as it doesn't have a "condition code register".
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My biggest regret is, I could have been a lawyer or doctor easily but i choosed to be a "programmer". I worked at New York(appnexus) and SF (yahoo, ebay). Now I work as Director of Software development for a very large org.

Programming is hard. really hard. I hope we can all agree on this. It is not easy to develop proper software. There are always changes along the way, hence we choose to be "agile". But still there is always something missing. I guess this is the nature of it.
I will take butter every time over margarine and other spreads. Simply on the grounds of how they are made. One is a food, the others entirely chemical processes.

Nearly all the butter is bad is funded by the spread industry.
I had the 'benefit' of coming in to a low pressure job early in my career sitting next to colleagues in a high pressure situation. Seeing the cognitive decline worsen day after day convinced me very early on that working all those hours provided only downside, not upside, and in the ensuing decade nothing dissuaded me of that. I'm not even convinced that the 40 hours i work myself is itself not too much. Less hours worked means you can't power through but have to replace endurance with wits, which leads to much better decision-making. Of course, sometimes there is no substitute for hard sustained work, but if you're too tired to see the substitutes, then many problems end up needing that hard workload to solve.
You're confusing knowledge and application of that knowledge in a personal situation.

A cosmologist may know all about the orbit of the planets but still say 'The sun rose this morning'.
For probability/statistics you could also use the MIT Course https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-probability-science-...

Same course if you prefer the classroom lectures http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Or if you want more rigor you can go through these notes that cover the same material but in a more formal way (via sigma algebras and measure theory) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
As I mentioned elsewhere on this page, the developers are interested in serious discussion of a better name.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11391931
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Do most VC's think this way and is this actually a "rule", meaning it's the way you succeed?

I'd think VC investing is like most other types of investing where you can take on different strategies depending on your goal. Some investors will take large risk in order for large reward, where other investors would rather take lower risk for a higher probability of some positive return.
>There are so many factors at play like lack of alternatives you don't take into account

He already covers that, but it seems you didn't take that section of TFA into account.

He says about how alternatives created to be more minimal, nicer to look etc. fail because they don't offer the same functionality, information density, etc. -- and how that is a necessary tradeoff.
> only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund

No it doesn't. If the investment is likely to break even it makes no difference, or can at least reduce losses. So long as there is a certain, critical number of potential high-earners, compared to total investment, you're ok.
The manual verification steps are basically impossible for any non-trivial gem. I wonder if it would be possible to re-build (from git) the impacted gem versions and check their checksum against the downloaded version to detect differences?
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He picked two examples that came from a time where UX/good graphic design didn't matter. They are still popular today because of their incumbent status.

I'd wager that neither application would be as popular if they came out today as our standards have been raised.

Shout out to Basecamp for getting attention for another one of their link-bait-y, contrarian articles though. They are so good at that and it keeps their name out there.
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> And users will want this in droves

Of course. What can possibly go wrong always having copied all the work the user does to some servers?

> keeps you in perfect sync

Actually keeps the company servers "in perfect sync" with the work of the user. And some of us worry about the telemetry and copying what user types -- it's actually presented/accepted as a big feature?

I understand that I'm probably a minority, for me, it's scary.
But that begs the question why web browsers don’t implement this. Is
there a technical reason or did at some point some people decided that
decent text rendering is irrelevant one should focus on other
gimmicks?
That makes sense, I just mentioned it as an example of how the result is easy to achieve.
I dig it. StubHub and others don't seem to be innovating much and appear to be designed for scalpers instead of fans.

Doing user acquisition for this product would be fun. Given tickets are inherently event based and each band (hopefully) has passionate fans, it feels like you could run some good experiments here.

I've purchased and sold tickets for some of my favorite bands through band-specific forums. I've purchased 7-8 times and sold once or twice. I've never had anything go wrong, but there's some anxiety leading up to the actual meet-up to exchange. This one time, I was selling an extra pair of tickets I got stuck on the Boston T and was 20 minutes late to meeting up with a guy. He insisted I should sell him the tickets for half the price because of the 20-minute delay (we will still 3 hours before the event!) and was pretty rude about it. I ended up giving him $50 off but didn't feel good about it at all. If I could've, I would've left him a bad review somewhere. Maybe he would've left me a bad review, too, but I think the world would be better if there were reviews about these exchanges.

If you go to any big, sold-out show hours before you'll see guys walking around asking "Got tickets?" which is apparently scalper-speak for selling tickets. I've purchased from a scalper once or twice and remember being pretty worried while waiting in line, wondering if my ticket would be real. I've heard horror stories of scalper tickets being fake.

I've gone to at least 5 shows where myself or others with me ended up having extra tickets. It's a huge pain selling the tickets last-minute. Actually it's a huge pain even if it's not last minute because you have to figure out a time to meet up with the person. (I guess this is why some people like selling on StubHub.) It'd be really neat if there were some way to just communicate with everyone in the parking lot (aside from the scalpers) about the tickets I have. Because this doesn't exist and I'm too lazy to walk around the parking lot for hours trying to sell $100-200 in tickets, we usually end up walking up to random people, asking if they have lawn seats, and then offering them upgraded seats for free. There's been a few times where we've had a hard time just finding someone to give the tickets away to.
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I don't think that it's a closed standard either. Rather, like Perl 5, it seems to be a non-standardised, or, perhaps less pejoratively, implementation-defined language.

On the other hand, somewhat like Perl, it is also a language intended from its beginning to be extended. Knuth has said that he never expected things like LaTeX to be built on top of TeX; he rather thought that people would hack directly on the TeX source as necessary.
Yeah but it doesn't pack up into a suitcase
A, uh, personal eccentricity of mine is to treat dollars like any other unit written after the amount and optionally taking SI prefixes (At least in any writing I can get away with it). It's doubly nice because it plays well with rates/other composite units.

So:

$1,000 -> 1 k$

$1 million -> 1 M$

$1 billion -> 1 G$

$100,000 per year -> 100 k$/yr

I'm sure it'll never catch on broadly, but it's conceptually pleasing to me.
If a joke is worth making it's worth being pilloried for.
I think that's still a lot of blanket judgments that programmers who can and have built other things with Node than web things, and with Perl than text monging tools, have to disagree with.

Node, for example, is a high-performing and fast-starting interpreter for a dynamic language with a base runtime that includes good tools for building network servers, system utilities, etc. There are many, many uses for which it's just great.

So when you say that Node is "awful" for anything except "web development" it's just inviting disagreement. Why make this kind of strong value judgment about a general purpose tool?
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>but you have to install it and I think even accept a licence in a graphical window

You can -accepteula from the command line and the "installation" is downloading and extracting a zip file. If there's an internet connection, you could even run it straight off of Micrsoft's servers via SMB.
A fairly high percentage of the fruits and vegetables you're eating are man made, insofar as they've been genetically engineered through selective breeding to produce things more palatable to the average consumer. Fruit in particular should probably only be eaten in moderation like any other sugar-filled treat.

And exercise, while useful for building muscle mass and increasing your capacity for physical exertion, isn't particularly useful for covering up a poor diet - it would take more than two hours of jogging to burn off the calories in a small Big Mac meal from McDonalds, for example. If you want to lose weight, it's far, far more efficient to simply eat less.
It's practically impossible that that is all body fat. 1kg is over 7000 calories.

The body is more than 50% water, so weight is highly variable based on water retention, and fasting causes the body to excrete a lot of water.

For one, no salt intake will cause you to lose water. Secondly, glycogen depletion also causes you to lose water. The metallic taste in the mouth is ketosis, proof of glycogen depletion.
> And then complain about evil government not doing enough about half-ton metal bricks falling out of the sky and killing people.

I believe that the class of people who complains in this case is rather disjoint from the class that wants less regulation.
I actually version control my config files (https://github.com/tombert/dotfiles) after reading this tutorial:http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...

Obviously you should change that to git instead of CVS.
The fact that semantic commands are available in TeX doesn't change the fact that it is, unabashedly, a display rather than a semantic language. Knuth's goal was to create a language to facilitate beautiful typography, rather than one directly for expressing mathematical meaning.
That sounds fantastic.

Very often I find myself editing outside of vim and wishing vim style editing were there. Recreating optional vim key bindings for every app that has text is clearly not realistic. Getting as many things inside of vim as possible is just tantalizing enough that a lot of people (myself included) try it. It's better than nothing, but results in some very hacked together tools.

Embedding vim (or in this case, vis) inside of other things would be a much better solution.
I'll summarize: Many startups fail. Don’t throw good money after bad.
We still use VRML at work, lord knows why.
Yes but they gave money to the Linux Foundation so that makes it all betterer...

/s
> Most people really do not care enough to learn past a 'just use it' detail.

True, but there is still some learning to do. The only way you can reduce it (barring solving general AI and making a system that actually knows what you mean) is by reducing the things a device/piece of software can do. That's what the industry is doing - cutting out features, turning software into shiny toys. Because from the market perspective, is enough that the people sign up / buy the product - it doesn't have to be actually useful.

That's why software for professionals look complicated - because there the company actually has to make a useful tool. This state of thing is sadly a big loss for humanity - if the only way to make stuff "sexy" is to make it barely useful, then the general population is in fact missing out on all the amazing things technology could allow.

(And the tech people are missing out too, because they're too small a niche. It's more profitable to target the masses instead. That's why all mobile devices are getting dumber.)

> It's not the IT world... for years, we were outcast as geeks and nerds (they were insults in the past). It's that the average person doesn't want (or need) to know about this.

Oh but it is the IT world. We've been invaded by the "normal people" and we've lost the battle. Most programmers employed nowadays are not much different from your average non-tech person, and have nowhere near the technical expertise you'd associate with the "geek and nerds" of the past.

> How many people service their own car ?

I'm not talking about servicing, but about driving. You have to spent 30+ hours in training to be allowed to drive on a public road. Nobody complains because people understand that to use the car well, you have to learn how to do it.