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Most people who are interested in making objects as a hobby have machine tools so that they can be hands on - the idea of sitting in front of the computer rather than a table saw just isn't attractive. It's analogous to artists not running out to purchase HP Designjets and other large format printers - it's the craft which brings most people joy. Abstracting the process onto the computer only attracts a certain segment of the population as a hobby - work of course is another matter.
Komodo IDE does a great job with the Vim key bindings.

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide
I love me some textmate, but the lack of split window editing makes me sad, every time I start really working in it.
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I am no fan of Apple - mainly for their closed architecture, but I am also a cold-hearted economist when it comes to these types issues and this article is a bit of a one sided hit piece.

I would like to throw in a few counterpoints so we can all maintain a proper context.

1.) When companies become as large as Apple and begin purchasing products from vendors. It is not possible for them to guarantee the safety and operation of every vendor. Just as when you go buy oranges at the grocery store, you might know what country or farm it came from, but you don't know working conditions at that farm. Even if you could know you don't have time to dig through that info - you just want an orange. You, like everyone else, just respond to the major media outrages and exposés and blindly avoid Wal-Mart, etc.

Apple has more leverage here since they are a large company, but when it comes down to it, Apple ordered more screens and the vendor made the bad decision to use n-hexane. All Apple can do is lean on the vendor to make it right and not let it happen again. Believe me, even if Apple hates the workers and secretly wants them to die a horrible death for their stock holders, they don't want this bad press and would have avoided it if they could have.

2.) Outsourcing has real costs. It's not just cheaper because labor is cheaper. When you outsource you have to worry about the government, the infrastructure, shipping, recruiting talent etc. If you paid the Chinese workers American wages, it would not be worth the other costs to outsource at all.

3.) You can't compare living and working conditions between countries. As bad as a 3rd world outsourced job is to us 1st worlder's it's still generally BETTER than what they would have otherwise. In fact Apple and other 'outsourcers' are the one and only reason for the breath-taking trend line that is China's per capita growth: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china+income+per+capita

Just read about living in China in the 60s. It's horrifying to even think about and makes China today seem like paradise. In short the Chinese are better with Apple than without.

4.) There are not a fixed number of jobs in the world - there are only a fixed number of resources. If China can make us a product cheaper than we can make it WE benefit. Our resources are free to build other things for China when they want to cash in some of those US Dollars they so graciously accepted from Apple in exchange for real goods. Voluntary trade benefits both parties by its very nature or it doesn't happen.

Also, the US unemployment issue is bit off the main topic of an already lengthy comment, but it has much more to do with sticky wages and our past decisions than it does outsourcing.

5.) Finally you can't not outsource. It's impossible. In this age of globalization everything is from everywhere. You can't even build a toaster by yourself:
http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toast...
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Not that I know of. I mostly use tabs when I run out of room with all the splits I have.
You are confused?

LOL. Kids.
Ask HN: why can't other webmail providers filter spam like gmail?
I keep looking for a Mac text editor that supports Lion auto-save...
The system is the way it is because somebody benefits. In this case it's the big software companies, who will end up cross-licensing patents the way the chip makers did in the '90s and create a legal cartel. They'll be able to crush newcomers with patent litigation. And the great thing about suing a small company is you don't even have to win - you just have to make defending against your lawsuit very expensive.
I have had a standup work station for over 6 years now, I used to also have an architect chair so I could sit for short periods during the day.

Over a year ago I finally got an adjustable desk - GeekDesk http://www.geekdesk.com/ - recommend it!
If this technology is legit without problems with animation and lighting etc, what will it mean for the costs of game content creation? You still need artists to create the models, textures etc, and higher detail generally takes much longer with diminishing returns. I also find that environments with highly detailed objects also need far more objects to be convincing which compounds the issue.

In short, the tech sounds great, but will it result in better games or just more expensive games (and in turn, fewer games with more innovative but risky design)?
Airbnb changes a first step, don't go far enough
If anything, excellent use of Steve's turtleneck as background texture inspiration.
Good point about Ruby. I forgot that it's the good looking and smart bastard child of Perl.
I agree that it's a great looking looking site. But I don't see many detailed feaures. Can I ask you what you think makes this look to be an awesome editor? I am a Vim and Komodo user so I am admitedly hard to please but it seems the other new kid on the block, Sublime Text 2, offers more than Chocolat.
No one has mentioned it yet, but the authors are also the ones who have created the Ingredients documentation viewer: (http://fileability.net/ingredients/). If there is integration between Chocolat and Ingredients, it could be a compelling text editor for people like me, who do iOS development.
There are disruptive innovations in healthcare. You can use medical tourism and save a lot. There are other.

But disruptive innovations are usually pretty slow. they take a decade or more.

Just invest carefully.
The problem isn't funding. We spend more per student than ever. The problem is that a lot of that money is being wasted on things like excessive administrative staff and whatnot.

What we need is a system with proper incentives toward actually improving the quality of education. The system has become so broken that we've tried to force it by relying too much on standardized tests, but that just makes the system worse.
Why would you comment on this like this... when you worked on it?
"Do you seriously think the only evidence linking UBL to 911 is a single video?"

Can you link me to where on the web it is that the U.S. government has outlined the main evidence that OBL was behind 9/11? Because the official FBI page does not even list him as a suspect in the attacks:

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden
Emacs user.
The icon is pretty nice. Reminds me of the Front Room screen or whatever it is on the Mac. Glad you fired that other joker who did your icons.

I had problems (probably not you) installing it directly from the phone. I got the usual "Terms and Conditions have changed!" but when I clicked agree it gave me a weird session timeout error and dropped me back to the app store.
I'm not suggesting there's any merit to any particular conspiracy theories, but Afghanistan is a key region in the oil industry, specifically for pipeline routes. If the Afghani government won't play ball with Western interests with a stake in moving oil from Central Asia to Asian markets, the story goes, then the US will presumably do what it takes to replace that government.

All the tinfoil you can handle: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=...

Again, don't downvote the messenger, I don't agree or disagree with any of these theories personally.
(australian here)

counter-point first: I've heard good things about Sears stuff, but it's not available here

I've never considered American manufacturing to be high quality or premium. My experience is mostly based on American cars - which tend to have appalling build quality and reliability - and a few "made in America" bits I have, all of which are pretty average.

I tend to associate American manufacturing with things like welding huge bits of iron together. durability? sure. attention to detail and care? not so much
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Those types are comparisons are fundamentally worthless. You generally can't compare averages across school systems as often systemic things are quite different, such as who is even permitted to take the test.

Additionally data I've seen puts the US at the 75%ile once you adjust demographically for whites (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-EMpadQx4hM/TRKVzaSdWnI/AAAAAAAAAY...). That means the US isn't bad, but it's certainly not stellar. Considering how often I see on the news people saying the US is the best country in the world I'd think we'd rank above Germany, Canada, and Switzerland. And we're not even playing the same sport as Finland.

Judging teachers without accounting for the students they happen to teach is rather unfair. But because race and ethnicity are totally essential to understanding this it's unmentionable.

Who doesn't talk about race? Every major conference I've seen on this issue discusses race. After unions, it's probably the single biggest issue discussed among policy makers in ths US.
Buffers are truly amazing - combined with powerful buffer naming patterns, it's a breeze switching between buffers blindly (included with autocomplete) and if you forget about which buffers are open it's a keystroke away to see an overview of the buffers open...

20-25 buffers open at once? Easy!
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I think their point was if the same amount of research and money went into improving their technology, then future games would be amazing.
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On a similar note, don't watch the show until you read the first book (if you intend to, eventually). Some characters in the show are spot on, some are way off.
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I'm curious to know what are some other TV series that you really liked. Maybe I could decipher a pattern...
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I can't speak directly on Vim since I don't use it much. I have only used it for very quick edits and am no "Vim power user" by any measure of the spectrum. Ever since switching to OS X, I've been using TextMate. As everyone has been assuming, TM seems to be slowly dying. With the upgrade to Lion I've come across many bugs and quirks with TextMate. Chocolat seems like it's going to be something fresh and inviting for users. Coming from TextMate, I think this will solve the need for a nice, new editor that will embrace new OS features and actually be supported.
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> Why do you assume Americans are more deserving of Apple's manufacturing jobs than the Chinese?

Because the consumers of every nation on earth, deep-down, are superficially patriotic. We don't want to recognize that the global economy is post-nation state. We want to pretend that when we buy an American company's products it is, American. Just as if we decide to buy an Italian sports car we want it to be Italian. Companies prey on these emotional ties to our identities in all manner of ways. In the parent thread's example, Apple does that by labeling their products' packaging, "Designed by Apple in California."
I don't think you read what you're responding to. How can they all have an "unparalleled extension ecosystem"?
Depends on real estate agreements, power costs, etc.
The worst part of reading this post is encountering this search result - http://www.google.com/search?q=Alucar+shell
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Indeed. I would gladly pay $50 bucks just to be able to split windows in my textmate.
Enumerable ids are an unfortunate weakness in the Rails + MySQL stack. This is good. I'd also like an easy way to use UUIDs instead of incrementing integer primary keys.
TextMate has been acting very wonky for me on 10.7.
That's a fantastic essay. I saw it when you posted it, and just got done reading it now. Thanks for sharing.
How do you do that in other languages? Whatever language that you will ever use will require you to understand and to a degree memorize your usual keywords, operators and syntax elements and rules concerning interplay between them.

Regarding other stuff, building good software requires understanding a lot of things which have nothing to do with Perl. Understanding concepts like recursion, closure, OO, functional programming concepts etc etc. These have to be first understood in theory. The Perl syntax is only a notation in which you express your ideas. Besides that designing good software requires people to understand design patterns, designing maintainable software requires people to work on large project under sound practices. Writing fast and efficient software requires people to learn Algorithms and data structures. And so on...

These principles remain the same regardless of the programming language you use. Then why is it that only in case of Perl people hold the language responsible for everything. To be frank, I have seen crappy code more often in other languages than in Perl. I have seen over abuse of certain element like XML in Java, and now these days Python.

The fact is if your technology community is huge you get a lot of crappy people along with your usual set of good people. This happens for various reasons, Everybody wants to learn something that is famous as it helps for Job reasons.

Perl's strength apart from your usual language kit is CPAN, language tools to produce highly useful rapid scripts in time. Heavy data lifting, data munging. A gentle glance at things like Moose, Modern Perl, Devel::Declare and all associated software with them(Catalyst, DBIx::Class), will show you the genius of Perl community in coming up such great stuff in time.
^ Ido mode user!
preferences are subjective. If someone is buying something you claim they don't need you need to, at the very least, get them to agree with you before you have a plausible case.

you aren't being trolled, get an introductory microecon text.
Get one of those patents, start suing politicians. Refuse to license the technology, insist that the website be taken down.
Wasn't there a piece - by Malcolm Gladwell - in the New Yorker a few years ago that had a section about how great Intellectual Ventures was? I guess that's another point against Gladwell from this crowd..
I started using Bing recently and I noticed that I was getting error pages intermittently, and then pretty frequently.

phpbb and topic view are returning error pages for me (on latest ff, cookies enabled).

Another way I'm reliably getting an error page is adding parameter &first=201, e.g. http://www.bing.com/search?q=stuff&first=201

This is the paging parameter, indicating you're at the 20th screen of results.
I can understand that adding dynamic objects/shadows is difficult and their videos do not show them being capable of doing that yet. However, why can't 90% of the objects be rendered in the new static way like they do (statues, buildings, tree trunks) and dynamic objects be added on top of it using whatever method game devs use right now? I don't really care if the cactus is moving or not but I sure would like to see it in much higher detail.

Why can't we take the good from both and get better results?
Apple is an international company. They sell stuff outside of the US. Why would someone living in Europe/Asia/Africa give a shit about American jobs?
When will somebody produce a text editor built for remote editing of text files? The vast majority of programmers that I know do all of their work on a remote build-server, and thus are relegated to using emacs, vim or some extremely ungainly combination of TextMate+FtpServer/Remote Filesystem Mount.

Could some intrepid developer create an app that would allow me to easily a) open and edit remote files b) open arbitrary terminal windows that are already ssh-ed into my build server so I can grep/find/make/whatever else I have to do. This would be the killer editor for me and most people I know, and it pains me every time I see a new editor that doesn't do this.
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Pretty sure the Economist has already run something along the lines of "For %%%%'s sake, let's decriminalize marijuana already." Don't count on government doing the sensible thing after the Economist runs an article on it.
I'm in Brisbane. Mmm I'm nearly tempted to apply for a job there.
Open Web Browsers Now Majority Of Web
General consensus last time this rolled around, which I see no reason to change, is that once you add "dynamic objects [or] animation", it completely stops working, so... it probably won't hold up at all.

Most obvious comparison comes in right at the 4:00 mark, where you can see the "polygonal" grass waving gently in the wind, then at 4:22 their "unlimited detail" grass appears to be carved out of some sort of grass-colored rock. Also observe how at the end they are excited about their improvement in "the lighting", by which they mean, the lighting that you will get.
Well that sounds like a serious defect, stemming from the assumptions made when writing Xcode.

Though to be honest I tend to close down any IDEs that I have open when updating such files, especially if there are dozens of projects in a workspace/solution.
Skype for iPad goes live, has video and audio calling over both 3G and WiFi
Every time I see a new shiny text editor for mac, I'm like "meh". I would have been excited in my pre-vim days, but now? Nothing touches vim, unless it improves on vim.
>when is that ever better than a dedicated app?

Obviously when it integrates well with a web browser. :P
Polygon engines work nice with physics and animation. I'm trying to figure out how they could have a dynamic world based on particles.
Visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser
Not sure if you'd have any thoughts on this matter...

The JavaScript community as a whole (seen especially in the direction of node.js + NPM) is moving away from global namespaces and toward the "module pattern" and dependency injection (note: I had no idea what those terms really meant 6 months ago).

Presently, Joose3 goes against that grain. For example, if in a node.js script you:

require('joose')
if (Joose) { console.log(true) } // prints true!

Basically, the global namespace gets auto-populated with "Joose" and a chain of namespaces below that. This is very Perl/Moose-like, of course.

When you define classes, roles, etc. you get similar behavior:

Joose.Class('MyClass', {...})
if (MyClass) { console.log('effectively stubbed in a global namespace!') }
// does log that text to console, as Joose.Class() behaves that way

And in fact, Joose3 encourages you to embrace that behavior (with `use:` builders and lots of discrete files) to arrive at a network of cross-referenced namespaces which altogether form a library, and API usually.

To go with the flow, and especially to take advantage of emerging module specs like AMD (commonjs thing), a redesigned Joose (i.e. Joose4) needs to eschew global namespaces entirely:

var myJuice = require('joose')
...
// There should be no tie to a "Joose" namespace as such

But how to do that, and elegantly?

Any wisdom from the Perl community in that regard? Maybe someone else has been trying to port Perl stuff to JavaScript/node.js and has found the perfect formalism for translating from global namespaces -> module pattern + dependency injection? Know any Moose wizards that would be willing to help explore this matter?
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For something like this, is there a way that you could provide an overlay grid for an already existing website?

Can this be done with a javascript console?
I was thinking something along the lines of https://gist.github.com/1119539
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I'm not sure how well "relegated" is going to go over here since Vim and Emacs are considered by many the best editors.

If you're on a Gnome-flavored Linux, then many "lesser" editors can use GVFS to remotely work on files.
I'm personally a little annoyed with the "the user is not the customer" meme.

I used to work on a product search engine. I had four, count them four distinct groups I had to please with my shopping search engine.

The first group was the user. If the users didn't like our site, find the item they were looking for, and buy it, we didn't make money and I got fired.

The second group were the merchants. The merchants wanted our fire hose of traffic to always be pointed at each of them individually, all the time, always increasing. If the merchants didn't like the traffic we were sending them and ended our relationship, we didn't make money and I got fired.

Also up there was the Googlebot, a customer of its own. If the Googlebot didn't like our site, it wouldn't send any traffic to us, we wouldn't send any traffic to our merchants, we wouldn't make any money and I would get fired.

Finally was the sysadmin. The sysadmin was the only guy who actually had to run the software I wrote. If he wasn't happy with it, our site would go down in the middle of the night, he wouldn't be able to get it back up without waking me up in the middle of the night, and I would feel really bad, and maybe even get fired.

The world isn't black and white. You can serve many masters. Some days what's better for the user takes priority, some days what's better for the sysadmin takes priority. Some days you smack a giant ass banner ad on the top of the site, other days you take down the giant ass banner ad because it's slowing down your site and driving users away and costing you more money than it brings in. There are gradations between the white-gloved consummate servant to the user and packing your users into the chute to get sheared, chopped, battered and fried.

The "users are products" meme is just so goddamn emo-sophomoric-simplistic-annoying. Blarghch.
Legacy?

I hear about new Perl projects starting in large enterprises everyday!

Unless you are in the web programming domain(Somehow web developers think their's is the only software being written in the whole world) where your Python and Ruby frameworks seem to be famous. Perl is pretty big in the backend.

Perl is here to stay, and its simply too useful to be going away anytime soon.
Wow, you have a real story before launching Eureka.

I can't really judge the app itself cause i don't have an iPhone, but from a UI perspective- it looks below par. Maybe its time you get a designer on your team? Which is where i might be of assistance...

Are you still running this alone?