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Dude needs to google SASS or Stylus if he's considering this a problem. So many other CSS features are only supported by a limited subset of browsers. You have to start treating them like "extras" for the most up-to-date users and gracefully degrade for those who aren't.

The problem is solved with creating great designs and mark-up from the beginning with browser limitations in mind, not addressing limitations during development with some hack.
Extremely good comment, just a minor important point here -

> Basically plan for 4.5% ROI

Warren Buffet notes that a nation's ROI overall basically can't exceed its GDP growth for an extended period of time. So if your country has a 1% to 3% growth rate and you're investing in an unsophisticated way, then 4.5% might be optimistic.

(It's still a thoroughly good idea to do the rest of your comment. I'd save most of my income even if my ROI was -10%, because money is more useful in large quantities, especially when you break certain thresholds like "can take 2-3 years off work when it's a good time to do so" and "can mix cash and and labor when joining a company to get a big equity stake" and "can buy tools and gifts without even looking at the cost if there's a productivity benefit" - cash is more useful/leverageable in large numbers than small for most middle class-ish people.)
it's very common for people to be as compliant as possible during the hiring process so as not to jeopardize the job, especially their first job out of school.

that tends to be the result of years of people saying "you're lucky to get a job at all" combined with a long search and endless interviews.

and while yes, she did sign the non compete, it doesn't mean it's not bullshit, which is the entire point of the article. of course you can be a hardass and say "she signed it", "should have read it more carefully", "her fault", etc, but now she's on the dole until the clause expires because someone had a hissy fit and threatened to sue her employer. it's a crappy, stifling situation all around which is what the article aimed to point out.
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You are being too emotional about this conversation between you Nyellin. Your original post was flawed - whether it was your understanding or the way you wrote it (I don't know which).

- both require a large investment to achieve mastery.

You don't have to achieve mastery in order to be productive in Emacs and Vim!!! Use Emacs for a solid month and you will be productive in it (like wise for Vim).

- both deliver excellent return on that investment. Proficient use "looks like magic."

This is true (of more things than just Emacs and Vim).

- both include (seriously underrated) tutorial software to get new users up and running.

This is also true (of more software than just Emacs and Vim).

- both are still described as "hard to learn" by people who don't use them.

Because most people have commitment issues and would prefer their IDE's (just like people who don't know how to use the terminal all of the Unix tools (sed/awk/grep/&c... complain it's "hard to learn").

- both have more popular competitors that are less capable but easier to pick up and use without thinking about it (various IDEs for Emacs, pico/nano for vim).

There are no competitors to Emacs and Vim that I'm aware of (the only one to Emacs I can think of and it still isn't a competitor is Yii); IDE's aren't even in the same camp - IDE's are more project management than editor.

[edit] I take this back, there's one piece of software I remember vaguely that is trying to be an IDE with Emacs/Vim style editing, I'm not sure if it provides the type of editing functionality Emacs and Vim do though.

I don't know what your problem is here, but you'd do better stating it outright. As it is, you're just embarrassing yourself. If age and community are the only similarities between Vim and and Emacs, the one of them is not a Unix text editor.

You're actually the one embarrassing yourself, not because of your lack of knowledge but because of your response! Nyellin gave a perfectly good comment to your flawed comment and you reacted emotionally instead of rationally.

Your reasons above for why they are similar are very much moot points - most of those points can be said for many things other than text editors. See my comment for why they ARE DIFFERENT; Nyellin could have gone into more depth as to why they are different, but ultimately he's kind of right. They have both been around forever, they both have HUGE, vibrant, and passionate communities, and they both edit text.

Please note, we are talking about "text editing" and not the gobldegook that is IDE "project management" (IDE's aren't proper text editors, they are stunted text editors).
What I do regularly is to record a macro that combines some action with a movement. For example, I have some file with many many lines that need to be changed in a very similar fashion. (Recent example: ten comma separated numbers per line, all wrong by a factor of ten, 100 lines of those).

I will record that macro, then repeat it 100 times. Since every command includes a movement at the end (say, a "j"), this will change 100 lines (or words, or regex finds, or whatever).

Damn, I instinctively hit <ESC> after writing that last line.
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I can't think of a better place that exemplifies this than Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.
Like Facebook, they're only using XMPP for client-to-server. That is, you can use any run of the mill Jabber client to talk to your friends on MSN. I'll be impressed if they choose to do federation (server-to-server) like Google does so that you can use your Gmail account to chat with your Hotmail friends. That would be handy.
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Thanks for the feedback. Letting arbitrary levels of nesting is one of the things that keeps me, and the JIRA product manager up at night.

This feature request is our second highest voted issue (JRA-4446), and one that I personally want to see fixed. For the moment, there is a 3rd party plugin that solves most use cases (Structure Plugin from ALM works).

The key for us as a vendor is making it work without degrading the overall experience. We have seen plenty of other issue trackers implement this, but it really detracts from the overall experience when you don't know what is a task, or a project, or a feature etc.

But we're definitely trying to find a solution.

On FishEye - we have it working on code bases that have hundreds of millions of lines of code, but it often requires some tuning. For example (and one of many such examples), in older versions of Subversion, there was no real way to tell what was a branch, and we rely on 'conventions' such as /branches/ to tell this.

Unfortunately, every code base contains 'mistakes' where someone copied the entire tree into /branches/ or created a branch somewhere else.

There are some easily configured settings that usually make FishEye run a lot faster but explicitly telling it about some of these cases.

But - even saying that, performance was around 50% of the last few releases of FishEye, so the latest versions do run significantly faster in all instances.
A second vote for the edge-case above. I used JIRA for six months until a few months ago and 'remember me' never worked well for me either.

What is the default timeout on 'remember me' in JIRA, if you'd know please?
You might want to consider not showing a user a site that he/she has already reviewed (i.e., don't let me review the same site twice).

Great idea and nice simple execution, just reviewed a few sites!
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I doubt Gen X is stymied.much. It is the younger generations that are going to suffer due to fewer employment opportunities.
If that's the case then it would be great to hear the reason from one of you who are on the C# design team and reading news.yc :)

I'd second that. Maybe someone @MS could send this to the Async team?
I don't understand how she is able to collect unemployment benefits... it says in the article she left her previous jobs on her own.

We can't really guess from this article how much proprietary information was involved in her line of work, but the other examples in the article (gymnastics instructor and hairdresser) made me sick. Non-competes are supposed to be used to protect intellectual property, not to take away someone's entire living.
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For me, this is a really interesting point that this article doesn't fully get. When you use WinRT you might be using the C# compiler, CLR runtime and .NET string & collection classes, but there are huge sections of the .NET BCL that now look like a lame duck. WinRT is the new way to do XML, JSON, HTTP, networking, security, globalisation, threading, printing... (more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br21137...)

You can still use the full .NET class library when doing ASP.NET, but who wants to use different JSON classes for App development vs. Web development? Won't the WinRT version gradually become the preferred way of doing JSON in both environments, with the .NET BCL existing to fill in the server side only gaps?
I know them! We used to share workspace at H-Farm (http://www.h-farmventures.com/). Great job!
Its not that bad. Maps are fine cross browser in my experience, eg look at:

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/choropleth.html

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/AtlaszurEuropawah...

Funny you mention flexible canvas size, just looking at trying to do that right now....
Hang out at the monthly NYTM or any of the other tech related meetups. Blog about what you're doing and where you need help. Talk up Charlie O'Donnell, Nate Westheimer, either of the guys at New Work City (Peter Chislett, Tony Bacigalupo). Go to the monthly Digital DUMBO event (next is 9/29). You could try posting to any of the area mailing lists (NYTM, nextny , wwwac) but job postings are getting little traction these days.

One other thing to try: organize an event (either under the NextNY umbrella unstructured/free event format or…pretty much whatever you want) in an area of interest to you and invite the world (or some subset of the world which you can handle/fit in a space legally).
I really so no reason why a debate would be remotely interesting.

Both have made their positions abundantly clear, both would be rehearsed and prepared and trotting out basically the same arguments and refutations and both are utterly closed minded on the matter.

So what you're left with is the intellectual equivalent of a bare knuckle fight - an unedifying spectacle, of interest to relatively few, which changes nothing and reflects badly on everyone involved.

I have no idea whether Dawkins' reasons for not debating Craig are honest. I can certainly see how Dawkins would think it beneath him - even if he weren't crashingly arrogant on paper he's on a level above Craig and Craig is a self publicist - though lets be honest, Dawkins is hardly a shrinking violet.

What I can say is that this debate not happening seems a pretty welcome relief from the bickering.
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Or maybe the people who want the Tape doc made are passionate enough to put $250 toward the project :) I think it's amazing that the $250 option has more pledges than all the $100 ones combined.
This should have a (1986) tacked onto the end of the headline. Hard to believe it made its way onto the front page of HN. I guess if you've never seen it, it's new to you. There must be more Internet newbies on HN than one would imagine.
I hate Jira and Confluence too. Most in our team hate it. I'd rant but I've wasted too much time on that.
Tomorrow they (Oracle) will decide to "slash the costs, do restructuring and refocus on their core businesses" as Cisco recently did, and guess what? ^_^
Also important for founders not to leave the customer with the impression that the customer's solution will be the one implemented
The shape seems identical to the LG Optimus Black.

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http://www.connect.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/lg-optimus-...

Oh my. What will the Dusseldorf Court say now?
you can never control all of the parameters yourself, true, but think of it this way:

the cockpit of an airplane has hundreds of switches and nobs. suppose we want to ask the question "is there some way the pilot could toggle switches or flip knobs that would open the doors in flight?" you're never going to be able to guarantee that the doors won't open, but you can guarantee that the circuit alone won't cause them to open.

or, consider that many games are np-complete. if you are playing such a game against another player, whoever gets the better solution will win.

in addition, the original author's claim that the 95% solution is "vastly easier and entirely sufficient" _may_be true for the numerical optimization problems given in the example, but there are most certainly np-complete problems which cannot be approximated to any degree of accuracy.

for example: given a graph, the max-clique problem asks 'what is the largest fully-connected subgraph?' this problem arises very naturally in social networks; it's equivalent to asking 'what is the largest group of people who are all friends with each other?' This problem cannot be approximated within ANY bound of the optimal solution unless P = NP. The same problem arises in computational biology and chemistry as well.
I've love to ride a blimp, but it's hard to forget the imagery of the Hindenburg. Just like Adolf isn't exactly a popular name for kids.

I'm reminded of the Archer episode "Skytanic" and the main character's failure to grasp that the blimp they're on isn't going to explode from every little spark:

---SNIP---

Sterling Archer: Jesus! You want to blow us all to shit, Sherlock?

[Archer slaps the face of a man attempting to light a cigarette]

Malory Archer: Sterling!

Capt. Lammers: For the last time, the Excelsior is filled with non-flamable helium!

---END SNIP---

While Archer is a silly comedy, in the end, that's the mentality we'd have to face to get something like this mainstream again.
No offense intended... but I don't understand you, or people like you. The upgraded version is better in every imaginable way. It's like you have a dirty old Honda Civic in your driveway, and someone is offering you a brand new 3 series BMW, for free, with zero effort (and they will even transfer your change out of the driver's console, and swap your radio stations for you).

Is it just laziness, or distrust of "new" code, or something I haven't thought of yet? If you stumbled on a website that required a recent browser, would you actually leave instead of upgrade?
I'm afraid that's really not an option if you want to target all Windows 8 devices, as (I believe) many new Windows 8 devices would be Metro UI only. The Microsoft folks already use the word "legacy" with the desktop UI.

In other words, Microsoft means to say "please use Metro, but if you have legacy code don't be angry with us, 'cuz you have the desktop UI option... but not on all devices"
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From the perspective of a web app, how would PiCloud be better than, say, running Celery on my own server and sending all background tasks to it?
No, Case-Mate is speculating about the next iPhone design and is collecting the email addresses of credulous hipsters.

You have submitted over 70 bgr.com links in the past 3 months. Why are you spamming HN?
I'd love to be able to swipe left or right to navigate pages on a tablet.
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Fantastic. I look forward to using it in 5 years :)
Indeed, I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "mainstream movement."

I get the feeling that most of the the movements for human rights and democracy have little direct justification in religion faith, at least not in the broad strokes where "moderate Islam" is meaningful.

By that I mean that I see many strongly religious people who use their faith as justification to prevent voting or public participation from women and minorities. Just like I see those using tenants of their religious faith to justify human rights and democracy.

It's hard in the US to make sense of a large portion of the Republican Party - which must certainly be representative of a mainstream movement - without drawing the conclusion that don't have the same sense of human rights as I do, and would prefer that the poor and others in the US have fewer rights and less democratic say. While Martin Luther King Jr. strongly based his views on equality and social rights in his religious faith.

What I have difficulty disambiguating is the effect of specifically Saudi oil money promoting the Wahhabism, which seeks a pure Moslem faith, vs. the other Moslem faiths. I also have to believe that the history of British and French control (eg, the Sykes-Picot Agreement) plus the US involvement in Operation Ajax hasn't helped promote democracy. As a comparison, perhaps Turkey or Indonesia are useful ways to see more secular Moslem majority countries.
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I don't know the details about the US but for Spain and most European countries the baby boomers are going to create dysfunctional states as they will be the majority of voters for the next couple of years and have the highest benefits accrued in history. Basically gen X/Y will be relegated to paying their pensions with higher taxes and cuts in benefits as the boomers protect their benefits.

I think we are looking at a generational war or a complete revamp of the welfare systems across the entire west.
Why do you think they will not be the future? I'm not saying they will, but I'm getting very tired of people shooting ideas down without giving a reason why.

Follow the lean, rational approach that we preach for our businesses - replace your assumptions with experiments and research, and don't take anything for granted.
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"Girly" what is that supposed to mean!? I don't find it girly as much as I find it fun, and different from the mess of homogeneous tech and software apps out there, if you must know. Feels approachable to me.
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Thanks for the input! I see you mean about why a small business would choose us. Our advantage is our dead-simple UI, so we should push that more.
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"In the cloud" has come to mean "on the internet" nooooooo. God help us all :-)
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Actually that is not the case.
In SmartOS you have two options for networking. You can run a zone in "IP exclusive" mode which will give the zone full control over its networking stack. This means you can run a firewall or even change the IP addresses, etc from within the zone. SmartOS makes that apply to VMs as well. There are also anti-spoof mechanisms built into the OS to ensure that you dont get unfriendly neighbours.

Here is a rough overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris_Network_Virtualizat...
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Hey Scott, I guess you don't need to spend too much time asking your customers for feedback when they so freely give it. Good skills!
Thanks for the shout-out. It was lots of fun :)
That's what I first thought but after looking on the Softlayer site, I think he specifically meant their cloud services, as opposed to the dedicated servers.
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It's amazing to see just how much Apple is driving the industry. Microsoft is making an app store, completely rethought their UI and programming model for mobile devices...
TETRIS VERSION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zi0_4xHS40&NR=1
Jira is the Microsoft Office of SCRUM teams, but that's not a compliment.
Summarizing his points:
- Start with two founders
- You need a business model - freemium has serious advantages
- Use your own product
- Measure everything
- Test everything
- Always be closing marketing
- First idea will fail
- Think long-term
- Know when to switch gears
- Build something you want to work
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Their regular pricing page and their EC2 comparison page don't seem to match. One example - On the regular pricing page, XL has 32GB of memory, 760GB of disk, and costs $1.12 per hour. On their EC2 comparison page, in two places XL has 16GB of memory, 480GB of disk, and costs $0.64 per hour. In another place on that page it has 8GB of RAM and 240GB of disk and costs $0.64 per hour.
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Wow thanks for your excellent critique.
We do have a video, so we should get that on the front page.
Test drive is a great idea. Like I said elsewhere we have a great UI/UX on our app so a test drive could really sell people.
As for the superhero thing we're going with a comicbook theme..the app is called sidekick, its supposed to help you. So our paid account is superhero. The free account is mostly for tryouts, its limited to 2 users/100contacts which is pretty useless for actual businesses other than freelance.
Also good tip about pointing out support with the paid version.
Congrats! I've been looking at a way of jumpstarting my piano learning (or re-learning) and this looks like a great way. Would love to hear any other recommendations from HN musicians.
OVH. http://www.ovh.co.uk or http://www.ovh.com

It is a crazy team, they are fan of optimization, they build their own datacenters with a PUE below 1.15. The good news, next year they open datacenters in the US/CA.
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I think it is just a viewpoint shift.

It is, but that doesn't mean they're the same. Left and right are just a viewpoint shift (they are mirror images). Yet they are definitely distinct.
What do you mean by "relatively easy to create"? If anything, I'd say that an MMORPG is probably the hardest (and most time consuming) genre of game to create.
First comment on this story is "'press the Windows key and start typing the name' Who on earth does that? I don’t want to TYPE anything. I want to point and click as much as possible! Even on a PC"

Which I think precisely differentiates the user model here on HN and the general public.
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This guy is a badass and solved some huge technical problems in implementing the app. If you're hiring and you need a badass, talk to him!
Um, it sounds like 'mobile' is driving the industry. Apple is a player too, just like everybody else.