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Before embarking on LiberWriter I would have thought you were exaggerating for comedic effect.

OTOH, the flip side is that you can accomplish things that for these people are essentially 'magic', and when employed to save them countless hours, earn you vast amounts of gratitude, as I'm sure you're aware.
I think it's a losing battle. I've come up with my own way to judge reviews, and if everyone did it that way, it wouldn't be nearly as useful. I'm going to share it anyhow:

I mostly judge by the negative reviews. Reviews can be good or bad for ridiculous reasons. It's easier for me to filter out the bad ridiculous reviews. (UPS didn't arrive on time, item was the wrong shade of blue, etc.)

With the remaining bad reviews, I read to find out WHY they hated the product. If the reasons are things I don't care about (toaster oven doesn't make eggs well) then there's probably nothing about the product I would hate.

I do read the good reviews, too, though. Sometimes there's a good, but hidden, feature that trumps a bad feature. (Toaster oven is perfect size for baking an RROD XBox 360.) But this is pretty seldom.
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It's not available on the Dev channel on Chrome OS, sadly.
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It looks very similar to a certain other online agile tool. How is it better, other than being open source?

The name 'fulcrum' is a word that brings to mind physical force... I think you meant it to bring to mind that you put a little effort in, and a lot of work gets done... But for me, the idea that force is needed at all seems like a negative.
Have you ever used anything in the ML family of languages (e.g OCaml/Standard ML/Haskell)? You barely ever have to write types in these as long as your program makes sense..
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Ah, but consider how much easier a sell this niche is than Convore was. I have read exactly one sentence about Can't Wait and I already know who it is for and what it does. I have signed up on Convore and I still have no idea what it's really best at. In my short time there, I saw it used for HN meta-chat, and a bunch of Ruby chat. And I watched tptacek try to start a conversation about his field, but it kind of died, so I guess it's not the go-to place for that.

Branding is important. Marketing is important. Far, far more important than novelty or impressive technology. Novelty is fleeting - my god, we're already used to Google, and it's literally an epochal advance in library science - and impressive tech tends to confuse people for the first few years, which may be more years than your little startup can afford.

EDIT: I see that Can't Wait also has a revenue stream: Affiliate fees from Fandango.
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They'll have to rip my IBM model M out my cold dead fingers!

I have a tablet. So often I try to type on it & use a terminal, and it is terrible. I get used to the size and key configuration but what I have problem with is hitting my fingers in the glass surface repeatedly. Doing it for a minute or two is ok. Doing for an hour is painful.

Also noticed on a tablet I become more of a passive consumer of a information -- I read mostly. On the desktop I am more inclined to produce -- I write code, type comments, write email.
I've heard this thesis before, but I can't find a link. It was put in terms of patriarchal versus matriarchal societies. It posited the same sort of cycle.
An armed society is a polite society

Go check out sub-Saharan Africa, and see if that aphorism holds.

If you can think of more than just guns, Switzerland is a counter-example because of its politics - instead of the OP's suggested "Japan should just join in the next war, it's necessary to save it's society", Switzerland has pursued a long policy of neutral politics. It doesn't "simply join in on wars on whatever side looks stronger". It specifically avoids doing so.
Thank you so much for that framework. I just started implementing it in my latest app. Looks great! I'm struggling a bit with the modals implementation, but I'll get it to work.
I wonder how this will fit to people who type on a keyboard 10-12 hours a day.

The advantage with virtual keyboard is the infinite reconfiguration capabilities w.r.t. repositioning of keys for reasons of ergonomics.

For the same reasons, though, keyboards designed with ergonomics in mind (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic_keyboard) can't be replicated because of size and three-dimensional profile.
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Having lived in China, I agree. There is gender inequality there, and there's a lot of gender stereotyping (girls like X, boys like Y), and there's a deep-seated preference for sons (which is gradually changing, as the gener imbalance means men can't find wives unless their parents buy a house as dowry - and people are realizing that propagating the family name is getting a little overpriced); but the roles of women are much different than in Japan and Korea. 70 years ago, that wasn't true - China was even more inequitable (think foot-binding). I think China's improved, while Japan and Korea stayed conservative.

I mean, would you really want to marry if that meant giving up your career and becoming an unpaid cleaner / cook / babysitter, while your SO worked 70 hour weeks to make up for the fact that you weren't contributing? Weird choice.
In general mastering German is harder than mastering French for an English speaker

I've heard lots of people say this. I don't know any French, so can't comment.

I guess I don't notice the letter differences so much. I suppose having German family corrupted my sense of how letters are pronounced ;-)

As for "eu" and "äu", could this be a thing similar to "ss" vs "ß"? In any case, when reading German, I don't find these pairs a problem. Of course when writing German, they obviously are, so I stand corrected on this, though I did say "generally" and not "always". As others have commented, its probably a one-way thing: reading is definitely much much easier than writing.

for instance I live in "Treptow", which is pronounced as it would be in English, not with a "v" sound on the end

Place names don't seem have as regular pronunciation as normal words.
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The stream has started, but notch hasn't begun coding yet at the time of this writing. Those of you who don't know what Ludum Dare is, can check their website at http://ludumdare.com/ - but TL;DR: rapid game dev competition, in 48 hours - Notch (maker of Minecraft) is streaming his participation this year.
I may have made that jump too quick.

First note that the childless already massively subsidize parents through taxes that pay for education. Also note that I am considering replacement levels of fertility desirable.

The cost of being a mother, biologically, is vastly higher than being a father. This is further enhanced by cultural expectations for the mother to do most of the child raising.

In other words, female parents take a far greater hit than male ones. (Indeed, child raising explains almost all of the male-female wage gap). Subsidizing parents effectively subsidizes women far more; it's basically an affirmative action program to compensate a disadvantage dealt by biology and society. (How the subsidy flows is tricky. As most people end up having kids, this subsidy is effectively mostly a transfer of wealth from fathers to mothers, across generations).

Some policies that may be clearer are government promotion of fathers taking care of kids via both advertisement and paternity leave. This breaks down traditional gender roles (promotes equality), while reducing the burden on the mother.
There are exceptions to any saying.

I would still be curious to hear exactly what yaix was trying to say. Your assertions don't necessarily cast any light on what they had in mind.
Arrg. I don't want one of these. I don't. I've mocked this tablet for two months. I'd rather keep my $99-$149 and apply it towards another iPad or the ASUS Eee Transformer.

But it's only $99. Wifi, IPS display, an OS that isn't completely horrible? I would be too ashamed to use it at work unless I disguised it as a photo frame. But the kids would love it.
If a manufacturer can produce a virtual keyboard that I can type blind on at 100wpm, without slowly drifting off target, and correct typos that I've felt rather than seen, then we might be getting somewhere. Until then, no way.

Which might, I suspect, be up there with affordable tabletop cold fusion.
Ah, this is true, I can read German pretty well, but writing it is.. hard.

How did you learn to speak German?

I originally learnt as a kid, having German family, and actually spoke German before I spoke English, but living in Ireland, I obviously needed English more, so we exclusively spoke English since I started school. I've always known enough German to understand spoken (and make out written) German, but speaking it myself was more difficult (and writing even more so), but mostly because I forget words, rather than not knowing the rules or pronunciations. When I learnt German in school, I was pretty much fluent and non-Germans found it difficult to realize that English was my main language when I spoke German, but I've forgotten most of it due to disuse. I really should relearn it...
The stream has started, but notch hasn't begun coding yet at the time of this writing (so don't be scared by the still screen).

Those of you who don't know what Ludum Dare is, can check their website at http://ludumdare.com/ - but TL;DR: rapid game dev competition, in 48 hours - Notch (maker of Minecraft) is streaming his participation this year.
Sending data by SMS is several times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope (~$10/Mb). 'Nuff said.
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What does a wrench have to do with searching? It's no better than Ctrl+F and filing cabinets. I usually associate wrenches with configuration screens, so that would confuse me. I would assume the find menu under the wrench is to look for configuration options, like the configuration search in Chrome.
The article is a bit old, but I bring it up again because it was just played on the ABC (Australian Network).

In addition, the article highlights a move in indie film making to crowd funding, and distribution through social media.

A further bonus was that the film was quite good too. If you want to see it, which I quite recommend, it is still available as a LEGAL torrent...
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> Also noticed on a tablet I become more of a passive consumer of information

As I mention in my upcoming book on blogging, my workflow works exactly like that and I definitely recommend it. I mostly produce on my MacBook Pro, while I use the iPad to consume information and stay up to date at night, thanks to apps like Reeder and Flipboard. This way I keep work and "play" (well, less crucial work) separate.
Interesting. I also find that when I read Wikipedia, for example, on my laptop, and I see a typo or something, I'm almost always inclined to fix it. On anything with a touch screen, however, it's just far too much bother. Could the rise odd theipad see the decline on the participatory Web 2.0 and the rise of the consumerist Web 3.0?
This is patent nonsense. Every society has its day in the sun, military or not, and then collapses. The US is doing this as we speak - despite having the most powerful military the world has ever known, and almost spending more on its military than the rest of the world combined. It's been far from peaceful in the timeframe that Europe and Japan have been (several official wars, quite a number of unofficial ones). Far from renouncing war, the US both pursues and idolises it. And yet, despite it's magnificent military geographic isolationism, monster GDP and supreme military, its economy is tumbling - the exact opposite of what you're saying about a country that pursues military excellence.

Then there's all sorts of peaceful native societies that did fine for hundreds to thousands of years before the colonial nations came, with no implosion.

Your statement reads far more like you had a predetermined conclusion and decided to simply shoehorn your observations into it.

On the other hand, I'm wondering if you're just trolling - "studied a lot of history" and then saying "exceedingly good relations with China" combined with "japan remilitarises". I don't think you've read enough history there...
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You're thinking in way too much detail here. What I proposed is such an abstract idea to interact with the internet, and you're talking about phishing attacks.

Don't be so critical about crazy ideas; people who invent are only successful if they think outside the box and don't carry much concern for the constraints that currently exist in present day systems (like phising, url structures.... forget about that)
The feed and search functionality is present in the API. Data is accessed through a URL, and results are return through JSON, though other data formats will be added.

Furthermore, I am willing to work with people if they have their own ideas. But there are limitations on what I can do with the data.
This is actually already partially implemented. If you insert a snippet that includes a method/class (e.g. search for "screenshot"), a comment uniquely identifying the snippet is included in the inserted code. We currently aren't inserting these comments for the smaller snippets because we thought it would be annoying (but we could implement an option to enable it). It would be pretty easy (once versioning is up and running) to notify programmers when newer versions of the identified snippets are available.
Arguably the dollar price of gold reflects the dollar's instability. You see run-ups in the dollar price of gold after the inflation / stagflation of the seventies and with whatever the Fed has been doing the last few years.
They just partnered with Nokia that still makes 1/3 of all phones globally. They just purchased the fastest growing telecom company in the world (Skype).

Microsoft is a battleship. It moves incredibly slowly, but once it turns, and sets its guns on something it brings an immense amount of firepower to bear.

Years ago, people complained about Microsoft's take on security. Win 7 is now one of the most secure OS's on the market. People a couple years ago were complaining about how ugly Windows was... Win 7 mobile is gorgeous, and previews show that Metro is going to be prominent in Win 8. I'd bet that Windows is going to be a force to be reckoned with in mobile, but it's going to take a couple of years.
Brilliant! Given my sadness today around HP destroying the mobile platform I love (webOS), this has really cheered me up ;-) I especially like the cheerio() function.
>- Values: That's why religion works, it keeps values deep inside and transmit them from a generation to another.

More people have died on armed conflicts in the name of religion than for any other reason. National Socialism, for example, is a drop in the bucket compared to it.

In the 'States, non-religious people are much less likely to be in jail.

Religion is great at transmitting values, no doubt, but it's usually the wrong ones.
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And herein lies the problem with patent reform.

The patent system is horribly broken, no doubt. But now that everything -- and I mean everything -- is turning into software, what does that mean for patents?

The capitalist answer is that we should let ideas freely grow and fight each other in the marketplace, but having an idea and selling an idea are two completely different skills. We will reward the salespeople, marketers, and business creators at the expense of the ideas people.

Perhaps that is what we want. Perhaps all ideas, not just startup business ideas, will become worthless. Execution will be the only thing that matters. If so, that's going to have some major impacts in the rest of society. It'll be interesting to watch this play out.
static typing isn't worth all of the visual noise it adds to code.
Thanks a lot. I really hope to be able to complete this project, although I'll need a lot of help. I will post some more details explaining the entire concept to get more people interested in the project and perhaps contributing to it.
'exceptions to any saying'?

What I'm pointing out is that it's not the guns that make the society polite. Sub-saharan africa is a vast conglomeration of countries and tribal societies, bigger than the US and Europe combined, and there you are calling it an 'exception'.

And nice job dodging someone trying to help you be less 'baffled'.
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So in the midst of a global recession you are advocating military expansion to increase birthrates even as resources are dwindling. There has been no greater self destruction in recorded history than the second world war, and that's what results from what you advocate. Conveniently, you fail to mention any of the self destructed nations. God awful.
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Cheers Colin,

Seems like hackrtrackr is showing all of the pointers for a city on top of each other ... so there is no way to find the ones below :-S as I just added myself and now I appear to be the only one there.

If only HN included something as simple as a location field in the profile.
I use Snap on one small project, it is pretty awesome. Snap applications have the terseness and simplicity of, say Sinatra or Rails, but with type checking. As is often the case in Haskell, if your program compiles it is usually correct.

What I also like about Snap (and Yesod) is that it is integrated well with the enumerator package. Simply said, the enumerator package allows you to implement composable data sources, manipulators, and sinks. Since many web applications consist of extracting data from a source, manipulating, and sending it, it allows you to write applications short and simple.
It looks very similar to a certain other online agile tool. How is it better, other than being open source?

It does indeed, but the author isn't hiding that in any way. Here's what's on the page at Github:

Fulcrum is a clone of Pivotal Tracker. It will almost certainly never surpass the functionality, usability and sheer awesomeness of Pivotal Tracker, but aims to provide a usable alternative for users who require a Free and Open Source solution.

I think this looks pretty good - particularly because it's hosted and a lot of companies still need that today (a day doesn't go by when I don't get requests for hosted versions of the service I run).
Nice read. Some excerpts:

Francis Norton, Simon's middle brother, works in a shop called SJ Phillips, the oldest family-run antique jewellery business in the world. It's because Francis keeps the family firm alive and profitable that Simon has never had to have a job or a mortgage and, despite using 17 different variants of bus, train and visitor-attraction discount cards, doesn't actually need a single one of them.

Simon is so close to a satisfying stereotype: the famous mathematician with electrified hair living in indescribable mess; the fallen and lonely genius. Yet every time you try to pin categories like these on him he steps firmly aside: he's not crazy, there's nothing tragic about him, his life is full of purpose.

To my mind, Simon has achieved something else that is truly important – perhaps even more so than genius. There goes a happy man.

So he has money without working and therefore doesn't have to conform merely to survive, no one understands how he gets his jollies and almost everyone tries to judge him in some negative fashion. To quote Madonna: "I'm not your bitch. Don't hang your shit on me."

I'm glad he is happy. Really glad. I've seen enough complaints about how miserable it is to be smart. It's practically a trope.
"Health Care will be more difficult."

A few years ago I visited Phillips. They are the biggest makers of MRIs in the world. As it turns out their software department is bigger then their hardware department.
Remember not all HP employees agree with this utterly boneheaded, pointy-haired decision.
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I too thought it was brill. Next, lets play "if PHP were cockney"
I had a feeling the policing of this was stupid, but I didn't think it would be downright incompetent. If you can't police a policy properly, don't have it in the first place! Especially one that serves no real purpose and incites so much anger. Jeez.