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Everybody else is doing it? Seriously? That's what discourse on HN has come to?

C'mon Sebastian, you've been called on building a whole argument on an anecdote, suck it up and admit your mistake.
good.

But I will say open this registration for everyone (in turns maybe)! Let everyone understand where they are and where the "world" is!
I expected this to be a rant or flame, but in fact he has described wonderfully what needs to be said.

Besides from all this pro features that GIMP lacks, in my opinion its biggest flaw its the UI. Its poor and raw, and makes sense if you are a programmer...
Mainly this is what keeps it far from the regular users I know.

Hope It doesnt die, its a very good open source multiplatform editing tool...
This might be a minor point, but being self-actualized means determining for yourself what's meaningful. Almost by definition, trying to be #1 isn't that, because you're basically living for #2, trying to get them to realize you're better. If you're #1 at something, and then suddenly everyone with a lower rank decides to stop trying to beat you and goes and does something else, you've got nothing. You depend on them to believe that the game is worth playing, and if they stop doing that, being #1 means nothing. You haven't achieved real meaning when you're dependent on other people to believe in it. That's why status is not the same as self-actualization.
Not really. The nice folks at Adobe would have you believe otherwise, but at low color depths, low image sizes, low skill levels; the difference isn't worth 5$, much less (googles) 999$ (before 100$ rebate. Unless you are making a lot of images, _and_ relying on them to make money, gimp is more than enough.
god bless those poor iranian people!!
Reasons for Transitioning to Vim (from eclipse/notepad) - what do you think?
Congratulations! $100k in 4 months is definitely a success. Also, thanks for sharing your numbers and crafting an excellent writeup.
I used to drink 5-6 cups of coffee every day for a year. Around christmas I took a 4 week vacation, and I cut down coffee usage to half of a cup a day and got at least 8 hours of sleep every night. It has transformed me into a different worker now that I am back at the office and it is so nice, I try to re-arrange everything around me in my life to make that feeling stay. I get things done a lot faster, my overall productivity has definetly risen.

I can only encourage people to try the same. Coffee is cheating. You cheat your body and yourself that is telling you "I am too tired for this, stop right now". Drink 1-2 cups at maximum per day and make sure you get at least 8-9 hours of sleep.
I prefer:

PS1="\[\e[1;31m\]$PS1\[\e[0m\]"
You should leave in the "fuck you". That emotional response is apt in to convey how much this screws up people.
they actually come in earlier, but if you're a fast typist and not too slow on the uptake, you can manage to shoot those before they shoot at you.

I agree, the game is a tad too simple if you're a reasonable typist. Perhaps stressing the accuracy multiplier a bit more would make things more interesting.
wikipedia://ion says:

An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons…

The H+ ion (i.e. proton) is an instance of atom under this definition, as are all ions.
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Really? I've seen clinical trials published with far smaller samples. I am not a statistician, but is there a layman's metric to determining appropriate sample size?
It's a good game and an interesting way to work on my typing. I only noticed that accurate typing gave a score multiplier around level 30. As a player, it would help to have more feedback on accuracy. As a quick suggestion, maybe some text could appear by the player's ship that says something like "50 keys!" or "100 key combo!".
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Excellent graphic describing wordpress theme file structure.

It would be very interesting to know if other CMS's share a similar file structure. How does this compare to Drupal or Joomla for example?
Charlie Rose interviews Jack Dorsey (PBS, or extended version online)
I use and love it, but I sincerely wish they'd change the name and the UI. I'm a programmer, but even I didn't realize how much they were hiding in context menus at first until I had to search online to find documentation on how to do the few simple things I can do.

The multi-window thing I really don't have much of a problem with, though, even if it was hard to get used to at first. I don't have much use for the higher bit depths and such, but I can see his point about quality and why others need it.

Incidentally, a lot of programs have problems with gamma. I think this link has been on HN a few times: http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
It really does nullify the point. If, as he claims, Harvard were trying to actively prevent the "asian clones" from invading, they would not allow a minority that makes up only 4% of the general population take almost up almost 1/5th of the slots, especially when you're underrepresenting whites, blacks, AND hispanics in the process (again, as a percentage of the general population).

But, to answer your question, 23% of total applicants are Asian-American, and 18% of total accepted are Asian-American[1]. So, yeah, little Johnny Violin is likely getting into Harvard.

[1]http://www.asianam.org/2006.htm

PS, yes, my math was totally mucked up. Thanks for pointing that out :D It should be around 8% acceptance, which is actually less than the acceptance rate overall. Hmmm... so I guess they are rejecting them in droves.
I'd love to "bump" cash registers for my receipts (straight to an accounting app).
Though the qualifier "functional" is often used in a discrete sense (either a language is functional or it is not), I think that it is useful to consider degrees of functionality. Compare the properties of a language to those of the functional programming paradigm described on Wikipedia to see how functional it is.

When using "functional" in a discrete sense, I consider a language functional if it (1) encourages programming with higher-order functions and recursion and (2) provides library functions that are pure.

Ruby and Python, for example, do indeed support functional concepts (first-class and higher-order functions, etc.), but I would not consider them functional because their standard libraries rely on side-effects and iteration.
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Are there any arguments why a non-commercial product (not necessarily Gimp) will never be able to reach "that level"? This looks suspiciously like "open source software is always worse than closed source!!!!!" which has been refuted more than once.
Obviously admission requirements will have to change.

My understanding of levels is like the Euler challenge.
http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&page=...

For example, leveling up in Calculus would be about solving problems, putting calculus into practice, writing a project using learnt concepts.

Determining if a student has leveled up is easy, they just do. They solve the problem they're given, they complete their projects.

-------------

The idea of customized education, choosing levels and perks and having a clear organization of how things are connected e.g how many levels do I have to complete before I can do project X or understand concept Y

Levels can help understand associations between subjects. Student would build mental models of how things are connected instead of applying formulas on equations like calculators.

I never understood why some subjects were more important than others. You could live your entire life without understanding physics or economics.

When it comes to education, I would rather take choice and exploration over enforcement and standardization.

PS: Reply to your comment is the first part. The rest is just my plug
People keep talking about the GIMP UI, I find it quite good. I love the concept of "everything available from a right-click", alla Maya -- the top menu bar is a kludge that was added quite recently.

The technical aspects mentioned in the article are more serious.
> the difference isn't worth 5$, much less (googles) 999$ (before 100$ rebate).

I think Photoshop, like Windows, is a beneficiary of piracy in this respect: if there were no way to get Photoshop for less than $999, there would be a lot more people using alternatives for a lot of niches where Photoshop isn't absolutely necessary. But students, people starting out, small-time freelancers, and even some random home users editing their Christmas photos just pirate Photoshop. Although, Paint.NET is gaining some market share in the home-user category.
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"Important progress towards high bit-depth and non-destructive editing in GIMP has been made. Most color operations in GIMP are now ported to the powerful graph based image processing framework GEGL, meaning that the internal processing is being done in 32bit floating point linear light RGBA. By default the legacy 8bit code paths are still used, but a curious user can turn on the use of GEGL for the color operations with Colors / Use GEGL."
http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

Clearly this artist was not a curious user.
I actually had one of these years in 2010; whilst my main business - WooThemes - continued to grow very nicely, I just kept adding to my list of new ideas, without executing on a single one of them.

Change it is for 2011 then.
WTF is with questions these days ?
The 8-bit color limitation issue is well-known and has been for a long time. The solution is GEGL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEGL), which has been under development for a (very) long time now and is partially implemented in GIMP 2.6, the latest stable version. It is a problem, but it's important to put it into perspective: almost all monitors display 32-bit color (EDIT: or less) anyway, so if you're doing work targeted at a computer screen, it probably doesn't matter anyway. If you need to do work at color depths higher than 8 bits per pixel (that is, if you're doing serious print work) then yes, you need to be aware of these limitations. If you're almost everyone else it's probably not an issue. (I don't mean to imply that it's not a problem at all, but I think it's important to keep it in perspective.)

For the people here asking whether GIMP is good enough for what you're doing: Ars Technica did an excellent review of GIMP 2.6 about a year ago (EDIT: 2 years, but it's still the same major version). It's long, but well-worth reading and will answer your questions. It's written from the perspective of a professional who uses Photoshop, but does an excellent job of remaining balanced. This quote summarizes the review (and also my opinion) pretty nicely, I think:

I may seem to skew negative since I talk so much about what's missing, but
it's hard to dwell on what a program does well and not sound like a fawning
idiot. Most people who sit down to get image editing work done with GIMP
will not be disappointed. There is a ton of room for advanced work here.

It can be found here: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/01/gimp-2-6-...

While I don't follow it closely enough to really discuss GIMP's current development status, development does seem to have slowed significantly (purely from a user's perspective) in recent years. This is a real shame, since I think that for the most part it's an excellent program and in general I much prefer to work in GIMP over Photoshop. For all of its many flaws, I think it's a fantastic piece of software.
This is the second link from seeinginteractive.com in as many days that didn't say much of anything other than 'work for us'. I wonder how much fake controversy they are going to keep throwing at HN in order to recruit.
I am trying to fit this in with what I've seen in college and at work.

I attended computer engineering college in India, and here it gets extremely competitive. You've got gazillions of students fighting over a college seat not because they love programming or because they love software, but because being a computer engineer is key to financial success. So, they slog over their grade 12 scores and IIT-JEEs and CETs, and secure a seat.

Once they get into college, it's all about getting 'distinctions' - grades higher than 66%. Consistent results mean they get placed in-campus and escape the monotony and the soul-drubbing experience of a fresher's jobhunt.

And what then? It's all about the next appraisal, the next promotion, the next overseas opportunity. Better pay means better marriage prospects, a better lifestyle and a better social circle, whatever their definition of the latter term may be.

And in this pursuit of lifestyle comfort and material excellence, the only time they really, really care about code quality or software design is when it has a real and direct bearing on these prospects.

And that bugs me - not the pursuit of material comforts, but the relegation of software craftmanship to a second order of priority. I have an inkling that in their upbringing, the economic and social aspects of success were ALL that that was defined. Often to the detriment of every other aspect of quality. And it is this unbalanced focus that I take issue with.
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Make something that is noticed. They will find you.

6+ years ago I went from knowing nobody in the valley to almost everybody within a few days. Just generate buzz and build a good product.

Silicon Valley is tiny. You are only an email and a single intro away from almost everybody.

Ron shows up to the YC demo days, but you can definitely meet Ron and other angels without YC (it has been happening for years, after all). He invests very early and tracks most of the tech blogs.
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Parents have a mere 0-10% influence over a child's development? Clear delusion there, farcical right on the face of it.

One wonders if you get any social development done at all before you significantly interact with a peer group using that formula. Here's a simple example: language. Pretty much everyone learns the basics of language from their parents before they toddle off to anything representing a peer group. Genes don't give you language. Is there a gene for French? What about English with a Mancunian accent? Apparently the ability to talk and what that conveys is somewhere between 0-10% of your development. Not to mention dozens of traits that are formed from the people you interact with daily for a couple of decades.

This range of numbers is simply the result of someone who has a hobby horse and has plucked figures out of the air to reinforce it.
I would be curious to see similar posts for Octave and OpenOffice. I am really happy that they exist but "inadequate" would be a fair word to describe both. Comparing of course with Matlab and MS Office .
Could you comment on how often you update your app and how this affects the sales?
Assuming that people actually use the "down" buttons, I can envision visiting a spammy link and wanting to go back to the search results page and kill a result.
Poor choice of OpenSocial community board seat candiates, is it all over?
And with that...
> Ars Technica did an excellent review of GIMP 2.6 about a year ago.

From the article, seems like it was 2 years ago: "Last updated January 13, 2009". Might seem like an insignificant detail, but 2 years is an eternity in OSS. Are you sure things haven't changed significantly since that review?
> UI... makes sense if you are a programmer...

Nope, maybe if you are the programmer of Gimp
I think that vim/emacs against the rest of world question is becoming unbelievably boring. For on, we all have heard those arguments over and over again, so no reason to write another blog post about it.<br />
Vim is fast? Great. How fast are you guys typing while you code? For me there is always enough time, to switch to the mouse. Plus I nearly never use any of those great automatic formatting features all those vim people talk about. Tab key works for me. (Though some editors are really bad here, so I avoid them or turn auto formatting off)<br />
Maybe I'm just a slow programmer, but I mostly type a few lines of code, then think again if that's right, often enough compile and run. There is just no time to be saved for me by smart keyboard shortcuts. Sorry...<br />
Though some knowledge of Vim is helpful in case you don't have access to a gui. So I can use vim good enough, to edit some config scripts and for similar tasks.
Technically, yes. But for convention, no.

Your question also applies to alpha particles.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle

Some science authors may use doubly-ionized helium nuclei (He2+) and alpha particles as interchangeable terms. Thus, alpha particles may be loosely used as a term when referring to stellar helium nuclei reactions (for example the alpha processes), and even when they occur as components of cosmic rays. However, helium nuclei produced by particle accelerators (cyclotrons, synchrotrons, and the like) are less likely to be referred to as "alpha particles" because the high energies produced by these sources highlights the striking difference in behavior of their particles from the classical alpha particles produced (and originally defined by) the process of radioactive alpha decay.

The same goes for a proton beam.
By your logic, Natascha Kampusch's astonishing spiritual triumph over a childhood spent in a dungeon becomes an argument for the salutariness of child abduction.
you might want to check your math...
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Compared to quality of last year's community board seat candidates [1] (and certainly 2008's [2]) this year's set seem very poor. I wonder if this indicates the community is dead?

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

[2] http://blog.opensocial.org/2008/10/rock-vote-opensocial-foun...
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Bit of a negative sentiment - pity. Beautiful is a rather subjective thing. It looks not too shabby and there is the core api if you want to make it look really different. The big thing to me is - it is here NOW, it seems to work in the hodge-podge of browsers I've to support, nicely falling back with decreasing browser smartness. And it uses jquery - which I happen to use as well.

I've an application shipping in a few weeks, which has some minor features which require uploading files. Those are not that often used, so I've not spent much time on the upload part yet - just a basic file-upload form.

Things like this however allow me to make those file-uploads look way nicer (from the point of view of the end-user) with very little time investment from my side. And it allows me to do it NOW. And if I want to be cheap, I can get it even for free! (I know, I know, GPL is not about being cheap, leave the torches at home please ;-).

Given the above, I'm not overly concerned as to how it works out over 3 years from now. I've to ship in 4 weeks. And whatever solution I choose now is not set in stone.

So a big "thanks" for a) putting in the hard work and making the tool in the first place and b) bringing it to my attention.

(having said that: I also tripped over the large plus sign in the header ... - but that is easily modified of course, not a major thing).
Try opening up Webkit Inspector console and type:

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After college I lost the ability to code for long nights. I usually don't bother getting out until I got 8-9 hours of sleep, otherwise I'll be useless.
Do you (or the people voting you up) realize that the K8 processor mentioned was exactly the first AMD64 processor? Your comment seems quite redundant.
Actually most monitors are 18-24 bits. Tons of cheap TN panels are actually 6 bits with dithering to emulate a 24 bit panel. There are 10 bit and extended gamut panels, however.
My high school sociology teacher implemented a point-based system that everyone but a few complainers loved. (And so he was forced for the next year to axe it or quit.) It was simple, clear, harmful to procrastination yet beneficial to laziness at the same time. Everyone starts at 0, an F, you optionally do various assignments throughout the term and gain points, and if at the end you have enough points you can cruise. Oh, and points over 100 rolled over to the next term.
A few years back one of the ministries in Turkey decides to go completely digital and use electronic systems instead of paper as much as possible. The guys scan all the documents copy them to severs, make backups and when everything was finished they decide to destroy the paper version of the stuff and you need permission from the minister himself for that. The head of e-government department walks up to the minister and says 'sir, we made all the documents digital and we want to throw away the paperback documents' and the minister says 'that's good, before you throw away make a photocopy of all documents'.
Indeed, by todays standards it's pretty weak. Then again, 200 years is a long time, and back in the day all the grunt work had to be performed by humans instead of computers. Brute forcing was not a realistic possibility.
>> almost all monitors display 32-bit color anyway

Actually, I was surprised to find out that this is not the case.

"The inexpensive twisted nematic display is the most common consumer display type."

"Also, most TN panels represent colors using only 6 bits per RGB color, or 18 bit in total, and are unable to display the 16.7 million color shades (24-bit truecolor) that are available from graphics cards."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD#Twisted_nematic_.28TN.2...
1-3 minutes. I open the front page, glance through the stories I haven't read yet, open them in new tabs, then click on 'threads', check if there's any replies to things I posted earlier, then click on 'new' to see if there's any interesting posts in the 'new' queue that are about to be overlooked.

I then ignore the HN tab until I've read through the articles I was interested in (in some cases, I've opened the comments... not sure if that counts as strictly an HN visit). Usually the whole thing takes about 5 minutes including reading the article (I read fast and I'm very harsh at skimming and discarding stuff that had an interesting headline but no substance... working on swombat.com has helped hone these filters even more).

When an article makes me want to comment, I go back to HN, find the article, and comment. Also, sometimes (rarely, I think) I'll get quite involved into a particularly heated discussion and spend a sizeable chunk of time on a thread (e.g. 30-60 minutes). That's a bit compulsive and I try to do that less.

For reference this comment took me about 2 minutes to write. It's on the long side.