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Slightly OT extreme noob question: what is the core idea behind controllers? I've read some introductory Rails stuff but I never really got a good grasp of what the point of the controller is, most explanations seemingly reducing to "the thing that goes between the thinky bit and the user interface". I know I'm missing a lot, can anyone point me in the direction of some good reading material? My background isn't webdev so there's probably some missing assumed knowledge.
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Too late - different machine, now closed, and with 140 questions it's too much of a time commitment to do it again.
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Interesting, after load I just get a black screen. (FF5 on Win.XP)
I use it maybe monthly; but not daily.
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An IDE is not a build tool.

I use Maven for all my Android builds.
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DC Rainmaker (a triathlete) has some good tips on training while traveling as well. http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2009/03/training-while-travelling....
Interesting reading but I don't get the rant about the controllers being so ugly containing the model logic? I mean it's essentially a matter where you place the logic. The logic itself whether in the controller or model will/could be very similar.
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I think NYT launched it as Google Chrome app.
It doesn't actually start anything in my browser and the links also don't work. Without a deep analysis I don't think the link serves any good. In all HTML generations you can find a lot of crap out there. It is just normal that most people have not a deep idea about what they are doing on the web and "it works (sometimes)" and "something happens" are all the requirements they have.
Bother - correction -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806709
Reminds me of The Mythical Man Month (book): "Adding more programmers to an already-late project will result in the project becoming even later"
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I never took a single prep-class, nor read a prep-book, and went to typical public schools for my education.
I scored a 730 on the SAT reading section.
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I just tried this, it is awesome! Gratz. and to think I was just about to launch into my very own weekend project for the same reasons :) Now I don't have to, keep up the good work.

One thing, I can't see an obvious way to become a premium member. I think you might get more conversions if it was way more obvious on the front page.
works fine here (FF5 WinXP)
it's really nice with the keyboard shortcuts
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$100 million is nothing. People regularly win that much on the lottery. It's enough to do amazing things, but not enough to competitively do amazing things.
I'm an IT student in Germany and must say that there is basically nobody here who uses RSS readers at all. The only reason for RSS in Germany seems to be that tools can also read it (like mobile apps for facebook and co.)
This look exactly similar to their Chrome App: http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
.2 is way to short. Only works when you're anticipating something and have all your muscles prepped for action. The realistic figure is 1 second for an attentative driver, a bit less if there is some signal ahead to anticipate the situation, way more if distracted by something (e.g. looking in the mirror for a lane change).

And to further your point even more, machines are much better at keeping the required distance for safely stopping. Stressed-out/aggressive humans tend to tail-gate ...
Now, there are I'm sure, lots of smaller companies who don't enforce policies like that...

I wonder what the tendency is among all companies regarding strong IT policies. I wouldn't consider working for a company like the one you describe, but I suppose to each his own. At my current company (mid-stage 30-ish person startup), I decided when I started that I didn't want to deal with maintaining more than one machine, so I use my personal laptop to do all my work, hooked up to a pair of external monitors the company provides. I really like this arrangement, and wouldn't have it any other way.

Stuff like this makes biz travel easier, as I don't have to compromise between bringing my work laptop or my more 'comfortable' personal laptop, since they're one and the same.

Yes, there's always the possibility of a fuss when you leave the company; they want to make sure you've deleted all their data from your machine, but in practice this hasn't been an issue for me (yet).
How good is code completion in VIM for Android apps? I was an emacs guy for many years but since I started doing iOS I can't imagine writing Objective-C without really solid code completion. Maybe it's less necessary in Android?
This is horrible. Why can't I scroll? Why do I have to use the sidebar to go through the sections? Why do I have to click the tiny arrow thing at the bottom to get to the next page?
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Have been wondering this for quite a while, do people visit the new section, and what their reasons for going/not going are.
Yes - to flag bad posts and vote up good ones
Yes - to vote up good posts
Yes - just to lurk/read posts
No - I don't have time
No - I only come here for news, not to take part
No - "There is a 'new' section?"
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A brief explanation is in order here, but I'm no good at "brief." Here's why I've submitted this to HN.

In an earlier submission (by someone else) [1] it was being discussed how the organisers of a particular conference had recalculated the price points and decided to lower the price, appropriately refunding any who had already paid.

People commented on how the price was already pretty low, were impressed with the honesty and transparency, and added that the organisers shouldn't be too reluctant to get recompense for their work.

I'm organising a conference [2], and thought the price comparison would be interesting, but that's pointless without saying what you get. So I gave the price and listed what you get for it [3]. I then added a link in case anyone was interested, but given that it's math, and in the UK, I figured the interest would be low, and didn't think twice.

It got down-voted into oblivion. I was, and still am, stunned, but a couple of people have provided an insight into possible reasons. One said:

Your post is clearly intended solely
to generate interest in your event. [4]

Well, that's simply wrong, but if that's how it was perceived, I guess the down-votes were justified.

However, both replies mentioned making a separate submission, and that's this one. I still believe that for this audience the most interesting and relevant thing is the pricing and content, and not the event itself, and hence that the original comment was more appropriate, but maybe I'm wrong.

And so here it is as a separate submission. I watch with interest.

================================

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804115

[2] http://www.mathsjam.com

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804792

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805905
Agreed. More: Back/Forward doesn't work; When you're in the first page of the first article of a section, the 'back' arrow sits there but doesn't do anything (if you've been browsing backwards, you might not know you're in the first article).
It seems to be more suited to tablet use.
That's the kind of stuff I want to read here on HN!
I think Andy's design is very stylish and presents the content in a tasteful way. I have no significant qualms about his design in any way.

When he goes into business territory, however, he loses his shit. This is the money quote:

"Since news is accessed only via subscription, most of the ads can be eliminated from the pages. Story pages could still have one or two tastefully-presented ads, but preservation of the content is what will keep readers happy, engaged, and willing to continue paying their subscriptions…just like in olden times."

People didn't pay for news in the olden times. They paid for printing and distribution, and then the advertisement covered the rest, with some tiny variations on that theme. Not significantly different from today.

If you were to make the content subscription only, and some publications have tried this recently, you'd lose 90% of your readers. That means also losing 90% of your ad revenue. Now the remaining 10% of your readers need to make up for that loss. That makes it a rather expensive subscription, losing a lot more subscribers, and around it goes, the vicious circle.

That doesn't mean digital news isn't horribly broken, it is. Just that making it subscription only isn't the solution.
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This is not a redesign, it's their Chrome app.
This is the point where the browser should take provide the operating system color picker and the os vendor is responsible for adding the right functionality.
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Stretch. Stretch and stretch. Stretching is the most underrated fitness routine in the book. Professional athletes will have fitness sessions where all the do is stretch. So let me repeat. Stretch, stretch and stretch.
from playing with it on my ipad I think it's optimised for tablets, where it's easy to move left and right with a swipe.
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Only when submitting my own posts
Could there be some deeply ingrained idea, possibly derived from Genesis, that leads to dimished care for people as they approach 120, and hence increases mortality? I doubt it, but I wonder if this possibility has been explored.
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Flash animation by Warren Harper.
Android’s Dirty Secret
Bing is another example of the Microsoft philosophy: compete in everything; excel in nothing.
It crashes my Android browser.
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So that Microsoft can collect tax on Linux and that SUSE Linux will be the safe choice for people that dont want to be sued by Microsoft ? I dont trust it
Skimmer is there since early 2009
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And why is it slow as hell? It reminds me of the days when all sites where converted to Flash.
If I read this, I get the suspicion that that you have to be a lawyer to make money in the Valley, not a developer/founder.
So people now downvote if they don't agree with you? sw33t. I would love to know a reason.
I use Liferea, it came with the system. Tried Google Reader once but its import feature messed up the order the feeds were in and treated hierarchic folders as a flat tag space which, after years of being accustomed to my feeds in a certain way and next to one another, killed my enthusiasm for it.
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Amazing work!
I don't know, maybe with a touchscreen you can move it without the buttons.
if we ever want to move on from this weird intermediary half-state between nature and intellect

I don't know if I follow correctly. Do you feel that solving the life extension puzzle is tantamount to intellectual nirvana? I'd say there is still plenty more to talk about (say [1] and [2], for example), and arguably deeper from a strictly intellectual viewpoint. In fact, I'd say that the fact that I happen to be mortal or not does not tackle any of classical intellectual conundrums.

Then again, the subject of life extension meets with so much hostility it's actually easy to argue that we as a culture are not ready for this yet.

I'm not sure about life extension, but effectively ending retirement would be met with hostility! But then again, we're getting both things (end of retirement/pensions and the resulting unrest) without indefinite life extension.

[1] http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl

[2] http://www.claymath.org/millennium/
VTOL? Sounds like you need a jet pack :)
Looks so dangerous to me.
That's more or less the same interface that their iPad app was (and maybe still is, I don't have an iPad anymore).
I've been using Time Machine over an open VPN (Tunnelblick) bridged network. I also backup really important stuff with Arq to S3 at reduced redundancy. This ends up costing me about $25 a month. But I can sleep known that if my house burns down or a burglar steals all the computer stuff in my house, I won't lose anything.
The point of controllers would be to glue together front-end protocol (HTTP in case of web apps) code and hide this from back-end (model) code. Models should be written so that they could be reused in a desktop or mobile app for example without issue. A model would know to check auth or authorization, but would not know that the username and password were coming in through HTTP forms. The controller is the thin layer that hides that.

IMO, the controller is not reusable between frontends. A web user controller would need to be rewritten for a mobile app. The view and templates too, of course. Current technology makes it so that this is mostly a non-issue, as webapps (think: Rails, Django) are written in different languages and use different libraries from mobile apps (think: iOS apps, Android). But we must recognize this is an artefact of current technology that could change, and is not an ideal case.

Anyone writing mobile apps in "web" scripting languages ? AFAIK, the iOS app store forbids non-Objective C apps. I could be wrong.
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Reading through the new section of news.ycombinator reminds me of reading through digg or reddit.
Fully agree. I wish they'd left Spaces in, maybe just enabled Mission Control by default. I would pay to have spaces back, rather than MC.
I agree that provocative regular columnists and guest feature writers are the equivalent of bloggers, and his bold use of regular columnists' names is one of the things I like about his design. I guess that my original point was more that the tendency to editorialise in and around news articles themselves is widespread in modern news media (my perceptions being shaped by a UK print media that wears its biases on its sleeve) and the readers seem to demand it; it seems odd for a designer to come along and assert editors ought to separate anything with any semblance of commentary into a distinct section "separated from news" and apparently subordinate (at least in page position) to it.
Mostly to flag bad/spam posts, for the good ones the HN crowd is a good filter for the worthy stuff.
Up/down arrow keys to scroll sections (vertical), left/right to scroll section pages (horizontal). I think it is brilliant.
Between cat, cut, grep, sort, join, uniq, tr, and awk there is so much data processing one can do with text files if only one has:

1. some text files to process,
2. the patience to read through their man and info pages,
3. and a healthy appreciation of unix philosophy.

For learning awk at the highest level, the man page will not be enough, and I suggest reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/AWK-Programming-Language-Alfred-Aho/dp...
> Why would anyone ever want an OS that does nothing but show a web browser?

I can say for a fact my Mother most definitely wants this. She's never been technically inclined and finds computers incredibly frustrating.

She has a desktop that she uses 100.00% exclusively for browsing the internet/checking email. As soon as the computer starts the browser opens, and she gets very nervous if she accidentally closes it somehow.
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This article makes absolutely no reference to any sources to back up it's claim. Flagged.
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My original answer was longer, but this is hopefully clearer. Small programs are often split: Input Parsing. Process. Output presentation.

We can think of MVC where the View is the output presentation. The Model does the processing. The Controller does the initial input parsing, determining which part of the process to pass control to.

The Controller as "dispatcher" or coordinator.
We now know that human biochemistry is the result of an evolutionary process which when faced with a problem consistently comes up with the worst possible solution that is still workable. It's 3 billion years worth of crufty spaghetti code, literally.

As someone educated in theoretical biology and learning theory, I object to this kind of characterization of the evolutionary process. There is no evidence for a superior magical learning algorithm that would have done better-- see the no free lunch theorem. This characterization also lacks respect for the difficulty of many-dimensional optimization problems on non-fixed fitness landscapes, which is what evolution has to deal with. (Mathematically, the problem tackled by natural evolution is effectively infinite-dimensional. By comparison, the problems tackled by human engineers are toy problems.)

It would be more accurate to say that evolution, when faced with a problem, finds a working solution. There is no way to know how close or how far that working solution is from a theoretical optimum, since the theoretical optimum is non-computable. (If it were straightforwardly computable, evolution would find a gradient to ascend and discover it rapidly.)

"Life doesn't work perfectly. It just works."

That being said, it is likely that our mortality represents a hard compromise between the survival value of longevity, adaptations to prevent cancer (many of which have aging side effects, like telomeres), and the species-scale (or selfish-gene-scale) survival value of getting oldsters out of the way to make room for the next generation.

The fact that humans can live substantially longer than is merely necessary to reproduce is due to the fact that we're a K-selected species rather than an R-selected species. (Cicadas, for example, are an R-selected species. Dolphins, Elephants, and Humans are K-selected.)
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Time Machine has other issues. My wife's hard drive crashed last year and we thought it would be no big deal because of our Time Machine backups (since we had other copies of everything we wanted, mostly photos, since the last backup).

Only, it turned out that one of the things Time Machine didn't backup by default is iPhoto (apparently because there's some special Time Machine / iPhoto integration, ironically enough). Since our photos were the most important thing on that hard drive, we ended up paying $$$$ to a data-recovery service to get them off of the broken drive.

Now we have different kinds of backups for the important things like photos, but we both totally understand why Time Machine / Time Capsules are some of Apple's most poorly reviewed products.
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He had me up until the part about models talking directly to views. I was nodding along until then.

While I agree that the application business logic should be in models, but the controller needs to be that traffic cop, only asking for what the view needs and then handing it to the view. Having the view get this giant dump of things from models, skipping the controller entirely makes for confusing code as views can (and should) be reused for multiple data sets on different pages. The controller doesn't have to have much in it, but it's the traffic cop for the page (like a boss).
That's not strictly true, you are more likely to die at age 2 than 10. And even if you have a ~50% chance of dieing at 100 there are people who make it to 120 or so.
I think one of the original ads for the iPhone used nytimes.com to show off how it could browse the "real" web.
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