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> Shu managed to hover for 10 seconds at about 1 meter

He would have probably done better if he had read a detailed article on the Wright brothers first. Successful flight is a matter of control, and eight engines do not compound well with a lack of background in electrical engineering.
I've never used it; is it really /just/ a text editor?

Edit: to clarify, my use of "just" wasn't meant to be dismissive or diminutive in any way...
Being ashamed of buy discounted software is kind of stupid.
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"In it is day, IE was not an inferior browser. [Making little or no noise] the opposite, actually."

Putting aside the snarky remark about IE's apparent target audience, there are any number of contemporary sources which give examples of how your intended statement is factually incorrect.

For example: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/v-e.pdf
IE is out of step with the other browsers and no longer has a majority market share.

So there's two options:
1. Innovate quickly and have access to amazing new browser features, but only cater to 60% or so of the market.
2. Support 100% of the market, but with considerable more effort (slowing you down).

Both approaches are legitimate. I prefer the first one, but the users who can't use my sites are going to want something equivalent for their outdated browser.
People may have different motives then you do. It is not stupidity - just one developer appreciating the work of another.
Pretty much...
A bit tangential to this particular announcement - but i've been musing about using Riak, though so far put off by their (seemingly) open-core, rather than open-source implementation. Are the paid, enterprise functions stuff you eventually need in most use cases? the lack of multi-site replication in particular is curious; would this mean I can replicate between nodes on the cluster, as long as they are in the same datacenter, but not across the interwebs until i hand over some $$$?
Yeah, I just tried it, and apparently typing a protocol in front replaces the hidden 'http://.

As long as you can assume that the protocol is always http:// when hidden, I think I'm ok with this.
> "I've never used it; is it really /just/ a text editor?"

It's not a text editor in the scheme of Notepad or TextEdit; it's an editor for text. That is, it's a tool for programmers, with all the searching, syntax highlighting, and whatnot that goes alongside. Sometimes even writers use it.

What makes TextMate good is that it executes well, and doesn't (at least to me) try to be an IDE. Which is why many of us like it, or at least liked it, before things stagnated.
Giving TM2 as a free upgrade probably does make a lot of sense to the developers. Textmate is hugely popular, and I wouldn't be surprised if he gets more than enough to finance what he wants to do off of its sales. And by making it free he makes sure that no one has a reason to use TM1 anymore, keeping his userbase unified and easier to handle.

It's also worth mentioning that licences from one discount bundle (MacHeist) will require an upgrade fee, a smart distinction to make.

Buttt, this is a case where he is severely undervaluing his software, which isn't helping in a market where software is already too cheap. The developers are doing less harm to themselves then they are the Mac software community.
I have a lot of trouble understanding this mentality.

I totally get paying when you don't have to in order to support fellow developers. I've got a nice collection of apps on my phone and desktop, all purchased, that I've acquired over the years to support my friends' development efforts. So if Marco wants to help out Macromates, that's fine. More power to him.

But I don't understand this mantra of, "We'll forgive you; just charge everyone." Let's ignore entirely whether that's a contract violation and just focus on whether it's fair.

Zoom back several years to the era Marco's talking about. TextMate 1.0 ships. It's a nice editor--really nice, actually--but it has a lot of rough edges to it. But, Allen promises, buy now anyway; upgrades through version 2.0 are completely free. So a lot of people, including me, slapped down money to buy version 1.0 on this promise. (And in my case, also to support an upstart dev who was daring to take down the 800-pound gorilla of Mac text editors, Bare Bones' BBEdit.)

But that promise never materialized. TextMate got a lot of improvements initially, but there's now a relatively large collection of third-party plugins you need just to achieve parity with the now-native versions of Vim and Emacs that can be had for free.

And in exchange for not shipping anything for literally years, you want to reward him by paying him more?

What am I missing here?
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> You should never use null in JavaScript for the value of a yet-to-determine number. Always use NaN.

Actually, it is more idiomatic to use undefined for this purpose rather than NaN...

var determineLater; // undefined
var blah = 5;
blah += determineLater; // blah is now NaN
It has everything to do with the third world. DDT is the cheapest and longest lasting insecticide. Was used to virtually eradicate malaria in China, and is effective in India where it is still used today.

What compound do you propose treating those mosquito nets with? I assume it is something more expensive and shorter lasting. Untreated mosquito nets don't work very well, and other chemical treatments only last 3 months, and cost 3x as much. DDT is cheap and lasts a year.
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Didn't see one, so maybe an area for comments, suggestions for the next one, meetups, desperate pleas for co-founders!
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Topics would range across the different technology stacks
Your zip code lookup is bad. I typed in 11214, got Boston, not Brooklyn, NY.

However you were not kidding about being ZocDoc. Its the same f-ing interface.
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You say “should” but I wonder “why?”

If the goal isn’t to certify HTML5-ness so much as increase buzz about pure-web technology – and the W3C has, I believe, confirmed the latter to be the goal of the badge/logo — then no one is harmed by the status quo and a licensing scheme would be counter-productive.
"Given the value that we get out of TextMate, it’s already grossly underpriced. Please let us give you more money"

The value for you isn't probably the same for all the customers.

Some people make millions from the work of the Apache Foundation for example but others use their web server to run little websites. Some would probably pay tons of money for it, others won't.

I am not saying that a upgrade fee for TextMate 2 will not be fair, but that is solely at the author's discretion.
This is something I would be interested in using. Right now we use either email or Google docs. I drive to the grocery store and my wife puts together a list and beams it to my phone.

What would the process be for sharing a list created on the web with a mobile device? Emailing the generated URL? I don't see an option to send an SMS with the URL. Can users sign up for updates when a list is changed?
I had no idea Textmate 2 would be a free upgrade for Textmate 1 users. I would gladly pay for Textmate 2 as well.
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That turd already stinks so bad the banksters will give it a wide berth upon flush, lest they be slammed with lawsuits for negligence.
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Something tells me you didn't apply the scientific method here...

Actually, I've created an alternate universe to serve as a control...

Social sciences, unfortunately, aren't generally amenable to experimentation at the scale we're talking about here.

That's implying the pretty optimistic assumption that we're capable of solving any problem that we create for us.

There's a long string of data points supporting this assumption. (And I'm sure that survivorship bias isn't playing any role whatsoever ;) )
Flagged. This is nothing but politics and stupid politics at that. Obama has done nothing but make things even worse than Bush left them.
One solution could be to use several points for each label (color name). For instance, we could use a limited set of color names (red, green, blue, etc) but have a lot of points associated to this labels. For example, different points like #07250b (that is, in my opinion, missclassified) and #51f665 could share a same label: green. The main problem is that I'm not sure It is possible to find such a dataset on the internet. Maybe we can build one from sites like http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm, removing the numbers from each color name.

With several points for each label, It will give us the possibility of using a 3NN, for example, instead of a 1NN classifier. It should impact also on the results, but I'm not sure it will really improve the results.
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> I have a lot of trouble understanding this mentality.

Like, say, tipping at a nice restaurant.

You may not like the food, but it seems others did, and they want to demonstrate that to the chef.
I find it depressing that some people in the comments here wouldn't want to pay for a _key tool of their trade_ - assuming they work with texts professionally as programmers, bloggers, designers etc. Even 10% increase in productivity will pay for Textmate license in 10 days, assuming you get at least a minimum wage.
Confusing 0.05 and 5% cost hundreds of millions
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Here you are getting into the difference between the quality of the designer and the issue of setting a budget range.

After all, to put it in those terms, you can rent a Rolls Royce for a day - or you can buy one.
30% faster, because it's a rewrite?

SWF is a very compact format and text rendering is optimized for speed (animation). I doubt their flash viewer was built on decent code...
The assumption here is that TM2 is better than TM1. Lets see if that holds.
For a very comprehensive rundown of all the awful things about electronic voting from someone who has been researching it for 12 years, see the following hour long talk given at google:

Electronic and Internet Voting (The Threat of Internet Voting in Public Elections) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY

It goes through all the highly nontrivial challenges around holding an election, and discusses the major failings of the technology over the years. (Mostly diebold gear as you might imagine.)
Bethesda doesn't need this kind of publicity; they're one of the biggest and most successful studios this side of EA or Activision. Skyrim has been hotly anticipated (and its release date announced) for about a year, now. I can see this having a minor effect on Skyrim sales, but I certainly can't see it having a positive one.
not necessarily. i have multiple friends who authorized migration whose accounts disappeared. not just locked out, the delicious.com/USERNAME goes to an error page.
Understandable perspective from a successful independent app developer.
Haha, "float is a monad" is the first thing that popped into my head when I read that.
Contrast the TextMate situation to that of Sublime Text. Jon Skinner has done an amazing job of shipping something compelling early, updating it often, developing out in the open and giving his customers a good reason to buy the product even though it's still in beta.

Allan Odgaard has made promises as to the quality and ship date of his product, and that's about it (to be fair, there have been 1.x updates). At this point the promise of a free upgrade combined with the boatloads of cash TM1 made are almost certainly what put future product development on perpetual hold. Far from just avoiding that promise, he should have avoided talking about future versions at all.

For me the choice is pretty clear. I finally deleted TM from ~/Applications a few weeks ago and haven't really looked back. Sublime Text 2 isn't perfect, but it is already very close to being everything I need for my day to day development and general editing tasks. Even though it isn't stable, I use it nearly every day, and it just keeps getting better.
Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple.

An advantage of electronic voting is that the machines can be designed for use by the blind. This is in fact one of the goals written into the act of Congress which funded the development of the machines originally.

Political advocacy groups for the blind oppose using paper logging, because it would mean that the only authoritative record of the vote is the one that blind people cannot personally confirm.

A machine could read the paper out to the blind vote, but that just changes which electronic device you have to trust to report the vote correctly.

A sighted person could confirm the ballot for them, but that was already possible in the past (and was how the blind voted until now). Electronic voting was an advance for the blind specifically because an individual could vote on their own with no assistance other than that provided by the machine.

From a security perspective, it is at least as plausible that the sighted assistant would manipulate the vote of the blind person as it is plausible that a hacker would manipulate the votes on an electronic system.

It can be argued that although both scenarios are plausible, hacking is more likely and has a larger impact, but arguments based on relative costs and benefits are a poor match for an emotional debate on civil rights.
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As I said: I can understand Marco wanting to pay. I didn't like my meal, Marco did, and he should feel free to give a great tip.

I'm focused on the people who are saying that Macromates should charge users for the upgrade they said would be free. This would be equivalent to someone saying that, because they enjoyed their meal at the restaurant, the restaurant should charge a mandatory 25% tip to all current patrons of the restaurant. That's a very different situation.
"...based on the evidence in this report ,as well as information we have decided not to release, we believe Chaoda may face delisting."

Read: this report is bullshit.
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"The value for you isn't probably the same for all the customers"
Definitely right on. If this person is so set on paying for this product the creators of TM should just have a donate option. Then he can pay all he wants.
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This is worrisome. Along with my sibling commentors on this thread, I am seeing a bunch of stuff in here I am fairly sure I never authorized - all with the same date range "more than 6 months ago". I wonder if Facebook did some kind of mass update to all of its old oAuth tokens to make them all accepted, even if we had never actually confirmed them via the dialog?
The server routinely slows down, then has to be restarted by PG. We may just be in the slowdown period.

As for traffic, http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-9feb11.png is the traffic on the 9th of Feb 2011.
"Some Risk Model components sent information to the Optimizer in decimals while other components reported information in percentages; therefore the Optimizer had to convert the decimal information to percentages in order to effectively consider all the information on an equal footing. Because proper scaling did not occur, certain decimal information was not converted to percentages and the Optimizer did not give the intended weight to common factor risks."

And the impact:
-- AXA Rosenberg had to make clients whole for $217 million in losses, plus pay a $25 million penalty.
-- Barr Rosenberg had to pay a $2.5 million penalty and is barred from the securities industry for life.
-- AXA Rosenberg's assets under management fell from $70 billion to $29 billion (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/business/ex-axa-rosenberg-...)
Several commenters here, and on other threads and across the web have complained about no progress since forever ago. And while the core product may not have changed, bundles and plugins have continued to be created/updated, so it's not like things have been completely stagnant all this time.

Sure, there's angst at a lack of communication, but that doesn't mean the TM community has stagnated the entire time.
It's useful for allowing non-technical users to do something like setting a cookie when you're trying to help them debug remotely.
"proven through history to be correct"

Pretty sure you mean partially correct. The wolrd has a long history of famines that show we quite often bump up against Malthusian limits.

In the long run yes production can potentially keep pace with population but what's more relevant is the population growth rate itself will naturally fall once a certain quality of life is achieved.
It sure is no Vim/Emacs, if that's what you're asking.
Bitcask can guarantee one disk seek, whereas LevelDB will do one disk seek per level, so at least from that perspective, it can't be better.

Level also has to look down the entire tree if a key is missing. This means inserts end up being more expensive than reads or updates (which are all just a hash lookup in Bitcask).
Looking at the features, it looks like they're fashioning the UI after Chrome's. The reload/stop button and tabs on top are new, and what is an "Awesome Bar" but an omnibar?
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I WISH I could remember who said it, but I applies here and in so many other areas: You must offer the consumer something MUCH better than what they already have to get them to switch from something they like. Google Maps dis this when Mapquest was the standard.

Does GDrive do that? Not yet.
Is this credible news? Building GDrive seems completely incompatible with long term vision of Google (Chrome OS, Android, etc.) (at least vision implied by listening their earning calls).

Also sync'ing with local storage means allowing users to use non-Google Docs editors (MS Office) and all these cool collaboration things Google Apps are useless when you move in Gdrive mode.

Maybe building a good iphone/Android app to edit google docs online would be better investment of their talent?

And, on side note, as cloud storage becomes integral part of our lives, the companies which will win are not the cheapest one. But the ones with the best customer service and quality of product.
Secondary indexes are currently only supported on levelDB.
There are 3 comments in here speculating that the '1' is specifically about one model of an iPhone. There are at least 2 comments praising the magicalness of Assistant. The notifications misconception is one that is popular around here and even amongst the "geekier" people I know. I knew it wouldn't be a popular opinion, but my comments are not a terribly unfair depiction of the reaction to iOS announcements on HN.
Given the relationship that coders often have with their editors, this is like saying to some parents "It's just a boy"… If you spend a lot of time in one program voluntarily, it's hard not to develop some feelings for it, beyond pure utilitarian reason.

TextMate is certainly one of those programs. It embraced the programmability of a Unix-based environment, coupled with a very simple design and actually introduced some new concepts (or at least made existing ones more prominent and/or easier to use). It also came at the right time, filling a niche for developers that wasn't satisfied by the pure-Unix breed (vim, emacs), nor by the entrenched MacOS editors (well, BBEdit mainly). Being introduced in a quite hip Ruby on Rails screencast didn't hurt, either.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not even a hardcore TM fanboy, as I switch a lot between editors, while secretly regretting that I can't just stick to emacs…

But I certainly understand the appeal, and if a bit of money (that most developers who buy Macs certainly can afford) helps keeping the momentum of a resurrected application, I'm all for it. Whether I'm buying it, is another matter. Right now, it doesn't fill an interesting niche for me, and I'd much rather spend the time customizing my .emacs file. Never mind that where I'm really missing good editing functionality isn't HTML or Ruby, it's Objective-C (or Java, when that was still job-relevant), where an IDE really helps. Well, let's see what AppCode[1] can bring to that particular table…

[1]: http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
It's very likely that the original promise ("upgrade to version 2.0 will be completely free") was a huge factor in 2.0 shipping delay: Allan would need to invest a lot of effort to ship the new version to get only marginal return, as TextMate penetration of the relevant market was already high at the time the promise was made.

Charging for 2.0 would seem like a breach of contract for people who only bought TextMate 1.x because they were expecting 2.0 soon. But for people who thought that $60 is a fair price for 1.x (I myself belong to this group, and so seem Marco), it's just a promise of a generous gift that was taken away.

I for one would gladly pay for all hard work that went into rewriting TextMate.
Comments that don't really add anything to the discussion, even if they are appropriate, usually get downvoted on HN.
Agreed. There are ropes tied to the edges. He won't go beyond a meter without some serious flight control software. Even with software, this octopus will be a tough beast to tune.
This is exactly what I was thinking. If Macro wants to give someone more money than power to him. There are developers who I've bought additional licenses for friends in the slim hope that they would use the app but worst case I supported the developer.

Forcing everyone to support your love for a developer is asine. Macro may be head over heels for TextMate but there are a lot of people who are extremely frustrated with broken promises from MacroMates. Forcing them to pay more is a slap in the face.
I believe (and imagine this is what grandparent meant) that this looks more like a case of "every table will leave a tip, so just charge more than the original menu price when the bill comes".

IMHO If Mr. Pink does not want to tip he should have the right not to do it, since that was the original agreement.
"From a security perspective, it is at least as plausible that the sighted assistant would manipulate the vote of the blind person as it is plausible that a hacker would manipulate the votes on an electronic system."

No it is not, because you cannot manipulate the actions of hundreds of thousands of sighted electoral assistants undetectably, instantaneously, remotely and anonymously like you potentially can with electronic systems. This is the same thing that makes postal voting a lot more secure compared to electronic voting than it might seem at first analysis. See the talk I linked elsewhere in this discussion.
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