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Designers are only part of the design product pipeline. Their clients provide legacy content in Adobe formats. Print shops demand certain file formats for their print workflow. The ends of the pipeline are reluctant to invest in new or different software for the designer's convenience.
Right:

1) Create unfortunate speed hack so browser written by you is faster with servers written by you.

2) Declare it a spec without other existing implementations.

3) ????

4) PROFIT
Nice work, glad to see heroku API gems getting some love.

I wrote a similar gem back in January and have had good luck with it: https://github.com/freerobby/middle_management

It's fully configurable via environment variables, so you can make changes without redeploying. It also lets you specify a minimum number of workers (even if there are zero jobs) so that you don't have to wait for workers to spin up if you don't want to.
Not remotely serious.

To be quite candid I forgot that there are languages that use the equal sign as both equality and assignment depending upon context. VB I think does that.
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StarOffice and Microsoft started work on XML formats at around the same time, and most of the subsequent histories are largely parallel. There was no EEE here.
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The last thing you wanted any programmer to do is mess with internal state even if presented figuratively

This is an argument against publicly accessible internal state, not stateful programming.
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This stuff is all free, and is all fully capable of allowing you to do work. The only things you're going to get with Adobe's products is support for their proprietary formats.

Actually, the one thing i think most people are paying for when it comes to indesign is adobe's type engine, which behaves predictably and also supports the kitchen sink of opentype features. It's easy to dismiss ot support as a convenience function (it is at some level), but it's the killer feature for any typographic application where you want to use the full range of type available to you in the font (family?) you paid oh so much money for.

I once designed using a version of futura that had the small caps & osfs in the glyphs menu (untagged!) and was livid when i had to set nearly a paragraph of text by inserting each one at a time. Since the last time i checked when i was in grad school [1], this was still an outstanding issue in scribus (shaky opentype smcp/dlig/salt support) and it's really the one that kept me from ditching indesign. As it was, i would probably have jumped ship and used latex/xetex had i not been trying to individually rag each line.

It's not like you can't make nice work in scribus, but it may also be more convenient to do it in a program that has solid support (and mostly tuned ui) for the features that many typographers use.

[1]: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1413
How are they not portable when translated to javascript ? Granted, this will probably never run Quake in the browser, but if you want a SHA256 hash translated to javascript ... I seriously doubt there's a better tool.

All the difficult C stuff instantly useable from javascript, from GWT, from ...

That's got to be a boon, right ?
Were women really the first computers, or just happened to be in WWII? This is far from cite-able, but I remember reading in Cryptonomicon mentions of Japanese "computers," people calculating trajectories for weapons. I imagine this was done by men as well. (maybe I'm being too literal)
Are you using SSL on the appspot.com app? IIRC SPDY requires SSL.
>sheep

Someone who trots out such hackneyed clichés should be careful criticising others for following the crowd.
Security is different from certification, which is the article is about.
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Why not just use const references as parameters? No excessive copying, immutability. Seems like a win to me.
You're right. There are some quibbles I have with the way he sets up his essay though. He begins:

There is an interesting kernel here, but it's less about Apple's focus on clean aesthetics than about the seamless interoperability and user-friendliness of the entire Apple product line; clean aesthetics are just one part of that.

But modern architecture and designs' famous slogans are "form follows function" and "less is more." Following that, Steve Jobs has said:

People think it's this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

So the opening dichotomy set up by the Economist writer is slightly misleading, as if he's revealing something about Apple and design that wasn't already implicit in their aesthetic lineage and public statements.

The point you're highlighting, which I think is relevant, the authors sums up:

In many areas—health reform, financial reform, urban-planning reform, and more—efforts to make life more user-friendly for citizens are targeted by both libertarians and by vested commercial interests as vaguely fascistic efforts to centralise control or limit freedom.

Again, the effort to rationalize complex systems doesn't really have a political valence in the way he's set it up—it's not libertarian or corporatist or fascist.

For example, libertarians often argue for the elimination of byzantine statutory systems and requirements. They argue for tax simplification, the repeal of complex or unused laws that remain on the books or that are open for arbitrary application, and in general argue against prior restraint or over-broad criminalization of behavior. To wit, Ayn Rand:

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The rationalizing effort also extends to fascist regimes that rethought urban architecture (e.g. Speer), and 'made the trains run on time,' and inserted the state into the middle of capital-labor relations in order to achieve social harmony. It extends to socialist countries that simplify consumer choice by restricting market entry and simplify provision of welfare by providing uniform national systems with guarantees and remove volatility from the economy by socializing investment. It extends to the arguments of classical liberals who sought to rationalize the whole system of society to sweep away arbitrary powers and customary rights, and reorganize spaces and cities (whether Hausmann redesigning Paris or Henry Ford rationalizing production or Fredrick Winslow Taylor rationalizing management).

The effort to rationalize and simplify crosses almost all Enlightenment era or modern political ideologies. The only difference is the focus of the rationalization effort.
I would argue that someone assuming you actually know the definitions of the words you use is assuming the best in their conversational counterpart. It isn't like you made a super complex point and he's nitpicking and straw-manning and the like -- it's a pretty well understood word.
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Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves

You might be more productive working for yourself but that doesn't necessarily translate to making more money/wealth. Companies are like big socialist states where the productivity of the few is transferred to the rest. Most of the wealth in companies was created when the early team figured out how to make money. Figuring out how to make money is incredibly hard to do. It's probably a better bet (financially) to siphon off this wealth than to try to go out and create more yourself.
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Trading and buying unknown goods is considered bad practice. Build a system that matches people building similar things and I will be your first user. (SO is not modular enough)
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> What would go wrong in society if the internet and phone system were totally un-tappable by government and people could easily communicate in complete secrecy?

Uhm, terrorism?

I'm not saying it's a good excuse, but it seems to have been the primary driver of, well, pretty much everything for the past decade.

> ... against the people's wishes.

Not so much, no. You'll be surprised/scared to learn how widespread the "if you haven't done anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide" line of thinking is outside our circles.
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About once a year I go to AltaVista.com and Lycos.com to see if they still exist. I wonder sometimes if people go to work everyday at these companies, or if they're just a server somewhere now.
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For Photoshop, Pixelmator, a paid Mac app, has definitely undercut them. It's $60.

And it's not just cheaper, it's less buggy and faster.

Adobe CS isn't just unpopular because of its pricing, it's really inconsistent, painful software.

To anybody reading this: I highly recommend Pixelmator. It has a free trial, check it out.
Not quite that strong: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/altavista.com/
The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight. Under current privacy laws, providers may voluntarily disclose customer information but are not required to do so. The new system would require the disclosure of customer name, address, phone number, email address, Internet protocol address, and a series of device identification numbers.

Wow. The key phrase "without court oversight" is indicative of, at every conceivable level, a massive, gaping hole for trucks of corruption to be driven through. Ridiculous abuses.

The second prong requires Internet providers to dramatically re-work their networks to allow for real-time surveillance. The bill sets out detailed capability requirements that will eventually apply to all Canadian Internet providers. These include the power to intercept communications, to isolate the communications to a particular individual, and to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions. Moreover, the bill establishes a comprehensive regulatory structure for Internet providers that would mandate their assistance with testing their surveillance capabilities and disclosing the names of all employees who may be involved in interceptions (and who may then be subject to RCMP background checks).

Double wow. It seems unnecessarily close to turning each Canadian ISP into another branch of the Canadian government's surveillance agencies. These politicians want to force providers into restructuring their networks and systems so that they can be used as a tool for the Government's every covert whim... AND subject the employees of these providers to background checks so that they can be trusted with this unnecessary, malevolent work shoved in their laps?

Insane.
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It seems the settlement documents are available on psx-scene.com
I miss when AltaVista was at altavista.digital.com.
Yahoo made it pointless when it removed FTP search, which was basically the point of that site when it started.
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I think 400,000 uniques is amazing for a site that's nothing more than a skin on Yahoo search.
This still looks like a win for geohot though. Unless there is something missing from the agreement, a 'permanent injuction' on one person hosting information that has already spread virally is basically worthless to sony.

I'm sure his idealism faded sitting on the wrong side of a table of lawyers, though.
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Get out of your office and find people like this first. Ask them, not us, what they want.

You make it sound much easier than it is. Getting out of the office: easy enough. Finding the right people who can tell you the right things at the right time: difficult. Very difficult.
Which is now nothing more than a skin on Bing search ;)
Agreed. For the generation currently in elementary and middle school, it will be interesting to observe in the next 10 years or so their ability to actually handwrite an essay or letter, to name a couple. So many schools, even for the youngest ages, are slowly evolving towards the complete use of technology for education--homework assignments, papers, forms, etc. I handwrite all posts and essays/papers before I type them, so I feel that something is lost in the gradual devaluation of a simple pen & paper.
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You could have gone to the courthouse in California and announced yourself as one of the Does who wished to be represented fairly in court if you felt that this court case involved you just as much as it involved him.

In another context, GeoHot saying "Together, we ..." is much like his saying "if you want your console to be secure get in touch with me, any of you 3", and SCEA interpreting that as extorsion. If anything, it goes to prove that GeoHot is not an English major and has difficulty being succinct and direct in writing. Assuming that he actually is going to band the community together to "stick it to the man" is fairly naive. He was the one being sued, and his number one priority was to stay out of jail and not get his paycheck garnished for the next 65 years.
This comment threat came out of nowhere, HN, and it just made my morning. I had no idea these topics had such currency here. Savvy eclecticism FTW.
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This is like opening the hood of a car that requires a key that the manufacturer will only give to authorized dealers.

Yes, that's exactly what it's like. Indeed, auto manufacturers have already been abusing the DMCA to prevent independent repair shops from accessing computer diagnostic codes.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/05/right-repair-law-pro (The bill mentioned in that article that would have addressed this died in committee, by the way)
For all you freelancers, this is a good opportunity to change your billing -- I think you could probably add an Adobe subscription fee to your work; don't get greedy, just pro-rate it over the number of days you used a product for the project. You'll make money, and your clients will have a hard time complaining about it.

So, $4k project, 12 days, used Photoshop, = $49/(12/30) = $19.60.

This would be hard to complain about as a client. For you, on every project you do, if you're a typical small design shop where net income is roughly 10%, you'll be adding 5% to your net income. Or, if you need two or three programs, then 15% to your bottom line.

Of course, if you're a freelancer, then you're adding $19.60 to your bottom line. But, I bet it would be nice to add those up, especially since projects tend to run long in days, not hours.
2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves.

I'm a hacker. I work at a company that employs sales people, marketers, and support staff. The software I work on makes my company money--far more than my salary. Without sales, marketing, and support, however, that software would generate no revenue at all.

I could quit my job and go into business myself making the same software. Now I need to do my own sales, marketing, and support, none of which I'm any good at, and I have no time to work on development.

Working for a company makes me significantly more productive than working for myself, because I can specialize in the things I'm good at.

This doesn't mean that I might not do better financially by going into business for myself. I absolutely, positively would not do better technical work, since I'd be constantly distracted by non-technical tasks.
(Bit of context: the Quicktime plugin now has to be enabled on every site you want to use it with; there's no global way around it. Comes in wake of Google's dumping of h.264, which Quicktime handles natively).
You, sir, have nailed it. I wish I could upvote this a hundred times.
Nice, thanks. In combination with this extension (which highlights the actual unread comments) it works out great: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/imeeonmdbakdmiln...
Yeah, it's kind of depressing that he cannot even reveal the terms of their settlement agreement. How can this even be legal?
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Aside from voting you can start using bitcoin, freenet, public key encryption, tor, and anything else that will let you stay anonymous/safe from prying eyes :-/
More to the point, have his readers? Assuming they haven't (a safe bet), its metaphorical value in framing a larger political problem is nil.
The japanese I know don't need auto-translated moral support, they need petrol. Or, if north of tokyo, they need petrol and electricity. Or, if even further northeast, they need a time machine so they can go back and tell their past selves not to live anywhere near the damn sea.

I don't know, maybe I'm just cynical, but .. what is the point. This is the equivalent of the school dance committee deciding on a "save the environment" theme. A PR exercise that you can't criticise because how dare you disrespect the dead/the whales/whatever. I just hate this kind of thing.

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Assignment and mutability aren't quite the same thing, but they're pretty close. If a.f() has the effect of mutating the internal state of a, how does that occur? By assignment!

In Smalltalk, there's a fairly common pattern of immutable objects. Their state is set when the object is created and then never changed. There might be getter methods, but there are no setters, and in fact the only method that makes assignments to instance variables is the initializer. It's not hard to see how that could be extended from "fairly common" to being a fundamental part of the language.
No, I won't back down from that. Those people all sound like they've gleefully sucked down the kool-aid that Sony spoon-fed them. I'll burn a few karma points to stand by my opinion.
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I'll give you an idea that I've done in the past consulting. Create a web-based reservation system for small tour operators. Part CMS, part inventory system, these operators need to create bookings for passengers, reduce inventory, generate invoices, update their website (that's the CMS part) with new inventory, sales, deals etc.

You'll make much more than $5K / month if you can pull that off. Heck, I'll send about 5 companies your way on Day 1.
You are right. The difference between consoles and the rest of those product categories is that people do not typically have them as a core part of their identity in the way that children often do with video games, and the way that many people do with political parties. Well, maybe they do for operating systems.

However, while politics remains a defining factor in peoples views of themselves well into adulthood and parenthood, console/OS choice does not.

Those people for whom it does are probably less likely to breed so the effect will likely not be measurable.
The author constantly refers to "Google" as if it's a single person. I think the most reasonable explanation will involve some large amount of miscommunication between several people who work for Google. The author seems overly aggressive, and assumes that whatever "Google" did, it did rationally and intentionally.

Nevertheless, Google's response will be interesting.
When I was a fresh out of college programmer, I used to think that many people at my first job didn't do real work. Now I'm more careful about it. Now I think, perhaps I'm just too dumb to see the value in their work, so I try to look harder to learn something about business. Not saying you're wrong, just saying...
I really resent this. I don't know about you guys but I don't think of myself as a 'geek' or a 'nerd'. Having a high level of domain specific knowledge doesn't mean you need a label, it just means that you are good at what you do. I am a creator, I don't feel the need to define myself in terms of my tools (and how well I know them).

When I first ran across HN I was refreshed by how little of these terms I saw.
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Most probably the settlement includes a clause not to talk about the settlement. Also, the second clause of the club^Wsettlement is... well you get the point.
Looks great. Hoping to see resque support on it soon.

One thing this really shows the need for is a real api on heroku. Having to hardcode your username/pass into env variables is pretty ghetto. Hopefully heroku devs are watching and listening. Oauth plz??
When the "Dry erase HOPA" slideshow was revealed as a myth, the subsequent interviews with the Resig brothers revealed how they always got two waves of traffic from such hoaxes. The first is the hoax traffic, the second wave is the wave of traffic about the hoax story.

I'm interested to see the increasing frequency of the "HN stats followup article" describing the numbers from the traffic to the first article.

Despite the frequency this may still be an under-utilised property of HN. Why not follow the recursion down the rabbit hole - and tell us how many signups come from the followup article too? Perhaps bonus points for publishing a chart of signups v. derivative index of article? I jest but honestly only slightly.
It seems unnecessarily close to turning each Canadian ISP into another branch of the Canadian government's surveillance agencies.

Only if you consider Bell Canada to be a branch of CSIS. None of the requirements being proposed for ISPs go beyond what is already required for telephone networks -- and unlike phone conversations, it's easy to encrypt your internet communications.
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I really think non-Americans have to either step up to the plate when it comes to doing business with US or just STFU about all the issues we see over there. We complain about human rights violations, lack of freedoms etc but then continue to give this machine our money.
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