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Fantastic!

Any particular reasn to only list DHH under "Authors"? (I assume the plural means more are possible...)

Perhaps a link to http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/ ?

Interestingly DHH is only #2 contrubutor overall, and number 9 this year... (by number of commits; and no, that isn't a perfect measure of contribution)
I saw this coming. I saw it coming HERE, I mean.
I've started collecting some useful methods from classes and am turning them into traits. You can see the work-in-progress here: https://github.com/dave1010/php-traits
Angry Birds itself is pretty much a direct clone of dozens of predecessor flash games.
I don't want to live in a world without Microsoft and neither do you
Totally agree. In fact, I've been wanting to get into game programming for a while. (Okay, my whole life.) But I never have.

The recent Ludum Dare competition has inspired me, though. Especially Notch's incredible entry and live broadcast of his programming.

So the first thing I set out to do was to practice. And by practice, I mean write games. My plan:

Write games. Lots of them. Every week until the next Ludum Dare.

It's the best way to improve.
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I would of checked out ST before, but I was thinking it was an Apple product based on the screenshot the article uses (I went back to the beta announcement and it shows the Apple interface as well). I see on the home page you use Windows screenshots now, but I didn't even think about visiting that page last time.

Maybe add some Apple/Linux/Window icons or text on the top somewhere so they show on all your pages? Looking forward to trying it out!
"Disgustingness" is a subjective measure. I'm sure they were disgusting to the detective but not to the intended recipient.
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The GPL binds your hands.

What if you put your code in the public domain? No clauses, no contract required, no problem?

"Open source with obligations" is a better nomenclature for the GPL. Avoid it where you can.
The only real thing that is required is functionality. And it will be most likely the only thing that will stand in time (among many other things that any given useful application might have). The author, the target platform, the product philosophy, and all the other little things are just attributes meaningful for enthusiasts (that goes away with time).
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That's some serious blog spam. It adds absolutely nothing to the original and doesn't even have the decency to provide a link http://ianbarlow.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/firefox-for-tablet...
You're paying for the recruiter's database of programmers. I get calls from recruiters who first contacted me 5 years ago, from time to time. That database is invaluable in most cities, where programmers are more sparse than in the west coast. If you have to rely only on people who are applying or putting their resume on Monster, CareerBuilder, etc. it can take a long time to find someone competent (I've seen it first hand). But recruiters have no problem calling up people they've placed as recently as a year ago.
It amazes me how long this console generation seems to be lasting. The XBox360 was released in 2005, at this point you would have thought we would know details about its successor, yet we know virtually nothing.

It is almost as if Sony and Microsoft have made an agreement to keep the current consoles going.
outliers, even by a small amount

Looks like you're getting the hang of it: good steganography relies on having better statistical models than the opposition.

Things are weighted in favour of the concealer, however, as (unlike the attacker) he doesn't have to worry about false positives/negatives
"I just hope Amazon is able to give their Android tablet a clean and modern design. I still think that the Amazon Kindle is one of the most ugly gadgets on the market, despite its mega success."

First the Windows Explorer and now this. Design is not minimalism. For something that is not touch-based, the Kindle is actually a very clean and modern device appearance-wise. And it also has great design. A good design is one that is easy to use for a given context, something the Kindle gets right most of the time. If Windows Explorer can get my mother to stop asking how to copy mp3 files from one folder to another than their redesign is a good one as well.

Looking good is only a small part of designing something actually.
HP's WebOS may yet live (but probably not with HP)
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Power_cord

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Power_chord

I assume electric guitars are not involved[1].

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[1] Although Gibson do make an Ethernet capable guitar: http://guitarist-gear.blogspot.com/2006/04/gibsons-ethernet-...
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I truly think this is the best possible approach: there is clearly a fine line between being a dedicated follower and being a dedicated participant of something. Not that there's anything wrong with the former, but if your goal is become an active participant, you have to engage in what ever it is you're seeking.

Everyday I make sure I spend as much time as I can working on what ever goals I've set out for myself. It's not always consistent. Some days are very unproductive. But overall it's been effective.
I should have reworded this - it was pleasant as could be and typically about 10 seconds of conversation as they're scanning the boarding pass. It was more curious to me that 2 of them referenced a 'study' done - almost as if it was a talking point.

I try to be as fast and polite as possible in those moments, simply because I see many other people being rude/short with them.

And to the other point, yes, I understand they're not making the rules.

re: being measured by "turn around" time - I'd end up quitting if I was measured by a process which I had no control over (and even in low/minimum wage jobs, I've ended up doing so).
When ReactOS will hit a stable version, it will be the end of Microsoft! Or at least of the Microsoft as we know it!
No, it does not. It's what the application DOES that sells the app. I can almost guarantee you that you would sell more if you didn't have such an ugly (in my opinion) UI. I bought MotionX because it was only $0.99. A few weeks later I stopped using it because I could not stand to look at the UI any longer. Now I'm just back to using the Maps app that comes with the iPhone despite it not having turn-by-turn directions.
Could just be me, but it seems like there's a decided bias against PHP on a lot of HN threads. As someone who uses PHP on a regular basis, I'd love it if you could point out some of these "eye stinging bugs". I experiment a LOT with other languages and I don't find anything lacking in PHP that I need in a scripting language. I've never been unable to accomplish anything that I needed to in it, and I personally don't recall ever having to resort to unsightly hacks. All this whining is getting rather old. PHP is not Clojure, Ruby, Node or [insert your favorite language/tech here], and guess what? Some of us like that, a lot.
"There is no try, only do" - Master Yoda
To me the look of the Kindle 3 is pretty good, but the feel of the case and buttons is of extremely cheap creaky plastic.
Yes.

Business logic as far as possible must be expressed in declarative way.

Java have very poor facilities for declarative programming.

SQL (not PL/SQL) on other side - is pure declarative language. It's already powerful DSL if you master it.

And yes, I agree with you, that writing logic in PL/SQL (as in imperative language) is equally terrible as writing it in Java.
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Sorry its unintentional. I am not a spammer. I just missed it. Now I have added it. Please check it. Thanks for the notification.
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Lots of Test Projects
Not a "clone", but there is an India version and it seems to still be active:
http://hackernews.in

HN Thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1908893
A good bunch of them, most certainly.
Now that I finally found out about remember_open_files, Sublime might grow into a viable TextMate alternative.

I had real trouble finally finding a reference of the configuration settings. The official documentation on version 2 on sublimetext.com is still in its very beginnings and it wasn't clear to me that sublimetext.info is actually valid documentation for version 2.

As a hint: Maybe add a comment to the global configuration file poiting to http://sublimetext.info/docs/en/reference/settings.html for a list of possible settings plus a note to add the settings to the user configuration file.

On a related note, the reason I want to turn off remember_open_files is because for me Sublime is not the editor I'm doing most of my project work in (I'm using IDEA with Rails and PHP plugins), so Sublime (or currently TextMate) is just something I use for quickly opening a few specific files on the command line or from finder.

Seeing all the old files open alongside the current one is just distracting, so I really need it to forget about previous incarnations.
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coming from a lisp background, and now working on a 'mid-sized' php CMS, i've been pretty happy with the reflection and other features (dunno if they are 5.3 or not) like closures to build something which has around methods, reflectioning on the docstrings to generate a REST api, etc...

good fun indeed, you still have to be aware of a lot of php quirks though to make your code secure.
Indeed. How does crap like this make the front page?
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That would actually be quite sad. I personally can’t stand customized apps. I think they are a possibility in theory but they have to be extremely – and I mean extremely – well done.

The likelihood that somewhere something is screwed up or not as good as the default is just so high. I have found that my personal standards are nearly always higher than the developers’.

I can’t believe, though, that I’m typical in that respect so ugly apps that stick out may well sell better.
Your definition of 'essential' and my definition of essential are vastly different, and we are both very interested in science. Imagine the difference between your definition and most Americans who wind up paying for the thing. I personally would rather see the $8 billion go to medical research or energy research with a closer time horizon than physics research.
It always puzzled me that a simpler algorithm has never been considered.

Passengers with heavier hand luggage or more than one piece (say hand-luggage and laptop) should be given back-seats. Anyone without hand luggage should be placed at the front seats.
After this update with indent guides + Vi key bindings I can now consider using this all the time instead of Komodo Edit..
There's a reason she doesn't link to anyone who says MS is about to 'suddenly go out of business' - because nobody thinks this. Honestly, what a silly strawman.
I have only recently started writing and found the HN community very friendly. Just get it out there, submit it and get feedback. Just write about what keeps your mind occupied. You will notice that once you start you'll continue to have new ideas.

Best of luck!
> I don't feel I have good subject matter to write on.

Don't write publicly if you don't want, but:

What did you have for breakfast this morning?
How did you get home from work today?
Tell me about the last time you went grocery shopping.

Etc. Pick these or any other asinine, boring topic and try to make it interesting. IMHO, it's good to do this in two steps. First, just sit down and write, continuously, without judgment or editing, write a lot. Then, figure out how editing can make it better.
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Sorry, but I just can't take one person's armchair quarterback opinion over hundreds of thousands of paying customers. If you have actual sales data to back up your theory I'm all ears but your opinion seems to be an untested hypothesis. I've A/B tested my UI many times and I have 16 months of sales data to back up my argument that app store customers love "overdesigned" UIs. This is not mutually exclusive with good UX btw.

EDIT: I realize there are less "overdesigned" fantasy apps that rank higher but one is sold by the NFL and the other by MSNBC (I think I actually outrank Rotoworld on iPad). Hardly a fair comparison from a marketing muscle point of view. I can only make judgments based on my own sales data. And all of it points to the fact that all else being equal, users are more willing to buy apps with interesting looking UIs.
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octopuses are going to build blue boxes to hack into underwater enterprise servers to talk to their friends half an ocean floor away ....
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Not sure if this is the (whole) reason, but obviously no one is going to have a scheduled induction or C-section on a holiday.
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You could be sued by the copyright holder if you redistribute it. So it's illegal.
Have any idea about how long is that going to take?
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How does the fact that the app sells well disprove the fact that the app is badly designed?

Being well selling doesn't mean that it's not badly designed, it means there's a financial interest in not changing it.
Why should I read this on your blog instead of the original source?
I think he's referring to bugs such as breaking crypt() when using an md5 hash as a salt, and other things of that nature.
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If you compare the Kindle to Ram's ten principles to "good design" it definitely qualifies as a well designed product.

Something that I learnt from my fiance, who is a designer, is that most people don't understand design. They understand trends:

"This looks similar to all the other popular things that I see, therefore it must be well designed."
Based on my experience, your tastes are definitely not typical (at least of app store customers). Customized UIs are very popular, and in my opinion they are definitely not ugly. But opinions matter very little in the marketplace...
Silly article. Microsoft won't disappear overnight. Unless, perhaps, they decide to hire Leo Apotheker after he finishes HP off. ;-)

Now, seriously, browser-based interfaces to cloud-based apps and data will be Microsoft's demise - they'll make the OS irrelevant, commoditizing its cash-cow. Will they be able to reinvent themselves? Probably yes. Will they ever be a dominant player again? Certainly not.

Would I be happier in a world without Internet Explorer, Sharepoint and Exchange? You bet!
My not humble opinion: so called "Object-relational impedance" is inevitable.

Why?

Because on one side we have Relational Algebra - simple clear theory (I can explain it to 8 year children).

And on other side we have something amorphous, defined in nonexplicit terms. I mean OOP.

Objects are bad for data. So, just drop "O" completely.
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Yes. I'd say at a price of $60, you should definitely double-check to make very sure the laptop isn't stolen, because there is a pretty good chance that it is.

Given that the laptop was "messed up" and needed to be "fixed", even more so. Who "fixed" it btw? Not her, probably.

I've had stuff of mine stolen often enough (bikes, mostly) that I don't really care whether the law would say I should have known or not, but morally, I just think it's disgusting to profit off theft of other people's property and I think it's just the right thing to do, to consider the possibility.

That said, even though I'm of the opinion the women was definitely in the wrong and should have known better, the police also definitely crossed the line the way they handled those photographs.
It' just a matter of efforts involved. I don't see it very promoted in the open-source community, but it should! That's the thing that will set free the masses owned by Proprietary Software. The Linux is fine, but it's used mostly as free enterprise solution, and only in a small part as a thing for everyday use. ReactOS needs a little more attention from the community, that's all.
These days it doesn't surprise me, it seems like doctors are willing to induce at the drop of the hat these days. So why not to keep their holiday clear.
Hmm, didn't take long for the griefers to show up. Pick the largest NPC blob, spam it until you die, respawn, lather, rinse, repeat :/
Interesting, and disturbing. I sure hope that after every air disaster or near disaster, a new scenario is added to the mandatory simulator training.
I think the actual quote was "do or do not do; there is no try".
It’s not the customized apps themselves that are (to my eyes) ugly – though that may sometimes be the case – it’s the inconsistencies, the lack of polish and the lack of thought that usually comes with having a customized UI.
I'm doing something similar.

We migrating billing system with Hibernated business logic into pure SQL.
in my little knowledge , haskell is one of the most cryptic language I ever seen.
If you're on Windows, I recommend you try Notepad++ which has this feature along with a host of others. I find it to be pretty similar to ST as far as features go.
Integrate an emergency energy unit and you do not even have to reboot for changing your location
I'd be satisfied with a standards-compliant IE10 ... And I avoid companies that use Sharepoint and Exchange.
"People writing CFML today use MVC frameworks, use ORM and the cloud."

But why? If they had to energy to create those frameworks, why didn't they invest it into moving on to a better technology?
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You are right about promotion I have not heard about it before.
Sure, but my point is that buyers don't know whether the UI is consistent or not until they actually buy it. All they have to go off of are screenshots, and if they see screenshots of standard looking SDK components they'll gloss right over it. The app store is essentially window shopping, that's why overdesigning sells. So given a choice between pleasing UI snobs and actually making money, it's not a tough decision to make =)

EDIT: Re trials: most paid apps (mine included) have limited free versions that you can try.
The two fantasy football apps above yours in the iTunes store (Rotoworld and NFL Fantasy Cheat Sheet) are less "overdesigned" than your app. Doesn't this suggest that you're making a spurious correlation between the level of an app's sales and its level of "overdesigned-ness"?
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Well, the landing page is just awesome. Good work.
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Sherlock? :O
Thank you. This is the exact same sentence that was bothering me. The kindle would be nerve-wrecking if i had to slide for every new page view. I hope that they don't strip the new kindle of its physical keys.

People don't get usability but they get how to impress others. That's why people think it's an improvement if typing on a phones takes thrice the time. It looks cooler. That's why people like driving those new mini coopers, that look cool from the outside but are just a mess in usability.
Is it too late to explain to the PHP designers that PHP is a huge success, and that much of the reason for its success is that, for all its faults, it is not over-designed?

I guess the Java envy is strong. But why would I want to read and write ersatz Java, or ersatz Ruby, when I could use the real thing?
That was fixed pretty fast though (Notwithstanding that it shouldn't have happened in the first place, but hey)
Sure, I can understand that.

The app store really needs trials. I have more than once bought an app that turned out to have a horrible UI.
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Except it's not a good idea. It's never been about price. Otherwise Apple would've never succeeded with the iPhone. There are tons of cheaper smartphone options out there yet people are still flocking to the iPhone. Consumers today are trending towards quality and usability, even if it costs them slightly more.
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well good points but what does it have to do with intuition? wrong word perhaps?
What's the harm of just a soundex? If you name is on the card anyways, it's not that secretive.
Yes, he does spend time to think. Even when he's saying that you can please some people some of the time, you can tell that that is not the real answer, he's still thinking. I think that's his method, say some fluff to fill the time while thinking about the real answer. I saw this another time recently, and I quote from the article in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2924987 :

The first part of his answer I've completely forgotten because it seemed to be a canned spiel that he had used before. It had something to do with Apple's products or mission. I started losing interest because it sounded like something I might have even heard Steve say before at a keynote. I felt a bit disappointed that my one chance to learn something new and unique about Steve was probably about to end.

But then, as if to try again at my question, he added a second part to his answer.