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Some 14 year olds can design pretty well. Plus - logo matters, but not that much. Look at Hacker News...it looks like someone taking beginner programming made it. Nonetheless, the content is fabulous - that's the point
This line really stuck out to me, adding a hint of perspective in a world where A/B testing and the like are par for the course:

"Xerox had been infested by a bunch of spreadsheet experts who thought you could decide every product based on metrics. Unfortunately, creativity wasn't on a metric."

I shouldn't need to say this, but this in no way should be read to indicate that such metrics and testing are not helpful; they're just not everything.
Couldn't agree more. The fact that so few developers are willing to pay for good tools is why we end up with tools like Eclipse.
You're making the same faulty assumption that Marco does: that everyone who bought TextMate is a fellow software developer living in a wealthy nation. Many of the "cheapskates in here" are happy to pay twice, but recognize that it's a privilege to be able to do so.
Thinking about it. I'd like to see where this app will go. As a true geek I use Android so I sort of built the app for myself since there's anything good out there to read HN natively on the phone
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He'd know it's not worth finishing before he made it to 2.0. People effectively knew they are paying for both versions, so what's the problem really? $60 is not free - some would spend it, some wouldn't.

Why do you think you know better what other people want or don't want to do?
> I figure if I get big enough where I want to be running out of multiple data centers, I'll be big enough to afford Riak ES

I was thinking along those exact same lines, but a big unknown was pricing on their enterprise offering. That information is unavailable on the web, and despite my skepticism in contact-us-for-the-price situations, I filled out their online form, which is a request to be contacted by a representative.

I haven't heard from them, but they did put me on a mailing list—I got an email about this 'milestone release' today! Not quite what I wanted to know, though :)

Nirvana, or someone using their Enterprise offering, perhaps you could fill us all in on the price?
> Imagine a curious older relative asking a physicist what light is and receiving "Well, it's sort of like one thing, but it's really not" as a response.

Hopefully he didn't ask Feynman! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
Then you can't say you're truly living. :P
This is the greatest site I have ever seen
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Looks great. If I had the time/ability, I'd love to fork it and see commit and branching command support. Being able to commit straight from ST2 would be fantastic in terms of workflow.

Commit after each new function, perhaps even with a way to pull the text of the line you have selected into the commit automatically. Would be useful for pulling the function name into the commit.
Wow, that's quite a compliment. Thank you. :)
Too much cool new stuff, why not just work out the bugs in the existing projects instead?

This may not be a popular opinion, but I have a suspicion that the high degree of wheel reinvention in the world of Ruby and Rails libraries is due to two things: NIH Syndrome & the professed preference by employers for people with active GitHub projects. This causes all kinds of people to make their own gems and such where existing implementations could be improved without such a division (diffusion?) of labor.
Nicely done. I'm looking forward to seeing more web-stores that just link to other websites for the checkout process. Does this have a name? Product curating?

Question: do you make money from affiliations and if not, do you plan to?
Overall, the NYPD is pretty respectable. I just wish the 36,000 of them wouldn't cover for the few.

OK time for links. Here's the best video of the women being pepper sprayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6m_w7K8XM You can see he accidentally gets a fellow officer in the eye. One of those women tells her story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/nyregion/videos-show-poli...

Here's the NYPD's response to the protest so far, which seems pretty low-key. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/nyregion/wall-street-demo...
There are many companies doing just this (sunrun, solarcity, etc). There's currently some loophole that as a business they get paid more for their electricity than a homeowner would (due to subsidies to encourage businesses to use solar). So they get a price that you alone could not get. I think that's why it works.
Huh, the temperature-sensitive glass [1] featured on the home page seems backwards. The coolest parts are red, and the hottest parts, blue. (This violates color theory and standard heat maps.)

[1]: http://www.inventables.com/technologies/temperature-sensitiv...
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It would be more interesting/relevant to hear if you had any specific beef with the particular article on PARC rather than rummaging up unrelated complaints.
Word of warning: DO NOT buy the rechargeable USB batteries. They are very cheap and leaked acid (I owned two). Also, they do not hold a charge for more than a day in my experience. You'd be better off with regular rechargeable batteries.

Nice site, by the way. Has some very cool stuff.
The problem with a strategy of only buying stocks when they're clearly undervalued is that it's generally extremely rare for companies to actually trade at an obviously undervalued level. Generally, when their price is depressed below the level you'd expect based on their dividends and/or earnings, it's because there's some other black cloud hanging over their future earnings potential.

It's great in theory, but in practice it's not realistic to believe you can reliability know what a company's "reasonably projected future cashflow" really is. Even if they're in the most reliable business in the world, if someone comes up with a lower-cost alternative next year, all those future cash flows go poof.

Conversely, it's damn hard to tell when some stocks are overpriced. I remember folks saying in 2007/2009 that Apple was wildly overpriced at about $90. I heard the same things about Amazon over the past few years.
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Is this how one might build a vapour startup corporation and cash out. I am not advocating this. I am curious.

I start by listing a vapour startup corporation. People who like to gamble, I mean invest, buy stocks in the corporation. I pay the "brass" (CEOs, etc... and me the founder) high wages and pensions, just like most other corporations. Then the corporation, having no revenue (other than those "investments") declares bankruptcy and delists.

Is this how the game works?!? What am I missing?
There's a bunch of java applets that do this (popular hobby project I guess), and one commonality among them always bothered me: Why don't they make the screen bigger? Not that much of a performance hit.
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Bro, c'mon now. I hate using this argument, but if you can afford a macbook you can definitely pony up $60 for your main development tool. Dude's running a business, not a charity.

Shit, I use vim. If you're so screwed for cash there are a couple of first class alternatives.

EDIT: I use a macbook too. I think it's a great dev platform. It only represents about 5% of my yearly income, though. I doubt I'd be using it if it were costing me 20% of my yearly income.
Thank you, and I didn't know the batteries sucked. I'll remove them in my next update. Don't want to show off crappy products.
Back when I was doing Ruby I was always fond of Vlad the Deployer: http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html No idea if it's aged well.
That's what happens when a major voting machine company publically states that they are going to deliver the election to the Republicans.
bigethan -- that's not necessarily how it works. It does work differently in different state & local markets, so it's possible that there's a market that works that way. I don't know of any, personally.

Usually the deal is something called a PPA -- Power Purchase Agreement. It's usually set up that you agree to pay some fixed price-per-kWh, and that price escalates by some regular way over the life of the contract. That price could be higher, or lower, than the prevailing rates for electricity in that market, and that escalator could be higher or lower than rates at which energy prices increase -- but either way, they're locked in from the start.
Heh, so the list by BusinessWeek isn't very quantitative then, is it?
Hi.
Can appreciate the breadth of listings on Flippa can seem difficult to navigate - it very much reflects the breadth of both buyers and sellers on the marketplace. However its worth trying out our recently enhanced search to uncover the sorts of projects you seem to be describing.

This is how it might look if you were just looking for apps that didn't harp on about "potential" but was at least 12 months old: https://flippa.com/buy/search?sort_col=relevance&sort_di...

You can use the facets to drill in further or otherwise hit the "Advanced" link beside REFINE to get really specific ...

Hope that helps.
If as a current TextMate user I'll have to pay for TextMate 2 I'll just switch to MacVim.
This is pretty neat, but it'd be more useful if it had some basic category filtering. That way I could filter out all the electrical engineery stuff from the other stuff, for example.
Which just makes it even more tragic that such bright people are working for the king of patent trolls.
Using Firefox with NoScript produces (OS X 10.6):

"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 27,775 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."

But turning on Javascript, but leaving FlashBlock on, produces the same message as yours. Interesting...
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Propaganda is everywhere with regards to any Israel/Palestine issue so you can't really believe anything because every issue has rabid loyalists on each side. But the fact is that before 1967 the museum was outside of Israel territory and after 1967 Israel claimed it for itself. There's no denying that.
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You, sir, are a genius and a scholar. This site is going to hit my paycheck every week for months.
Glad you like it! True, the app may not reveal any big news, but it will at least confirm existing assumptions (i.e. the king isn't wearing anything at all and licenses more than 10 pages are really too long).
That's in the works. Well, not yet but I do plan on it. The site is pretty bare bones as far as features are concerned.
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Also, Unicomp Customizer 104/105: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about this one ;)
Whoa! I had no idea, thanks for sharing. This needs its own submission, so that more people can see it.
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Under "existing uses" on that page they show examples of how it really looks (which should be correct I think). Inventables photoshops a lot of their images. They might have just touched that one up as well.
Then here's an idea that may make everybody here happy: the price for the software new is $60. The price for the software with a code from the previous edition is what you want. You can put in $60, or $0, or $256. How 'bout that?
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Seriously people just use Sublime Text if you can't figure out Vim (I use both). Author is super responsive, cranks out really awesome features every week, totally someone who is worth throwing money at.

And both of them are cross-platform ie. Linux, Mac, Win, you rule them all.
I switched back to Emacs from TextMate. Never looked back.
It sounds like they are trying to create a market. They are providing financing, so they will actually make money. The initial money plus the interest can be applied to the next 12,000 homes, for example, then to 15,000 home, then to 25,000 homes... This can be done indefinitely...or at least for a couple of decades.

The market of suppliers will grow to meet the consumer demand, and suppliers will invest some of their profits into R&D and manufacturing. And I believe Moore's Law applies to the manufacturing of solar cells.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/ph...

Create a market and let private industry handle the rest. Space, robotics, cheap energy, etc.
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If you don't mind me asking, why on earth would you do that?

1. Your existing copy of TextMate will continue to work just fine
2. Have you used MacVim recently? Assuming TM2 has a totally painless upgrade path from TM1, you will be spending weeks getting used to vim. Surely, it is cheaper to invest in TM2.
Or can explain what has happened in the past.
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Perhaps the growth of HTML5 will save it.

I fervently hope not.
I believe you're referring to thorium reactors. Though I remain optimistic about future developments in solar (particularly if we can capture it in space and beam it back to earth), I agree that building next-gen nuclear is clearly the best plan for humanity's energy future.
I think Mac version gets a ton of attention :)
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I haven't used Riak, but I did look into it for a project short while back. One problem I had was that the documentation on their website is heavily focused on what Riak is, vs how to use it. It's great that you can get such a fundamental understanding of Riak as-a-dynamo-implementation, and they do a great job writing that stuff, but its completely out of touch with what I expected/needed.

Technically, what eventually put me off, is that I couldn't figure out how to maintain a clean secondary index. If you have a: SiteId, UserId, Data, and you want data to be accessible by SiteId or SiteId+UserId, I couldn't figure out a nice atomic way to maintain the secondary index. This is pretty basic stuff. I'm glad to see 1.0 will support native secondary indexes, but I think my inability to figure it out shows that their documentation is poor (or it could be that I suck).
Stuck in the App Store review Hell.
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Yes I can see that. But you don't seem to have thought this through very well.

If sprayed promiscuously as the Americans did, how much DDT would even the smallest third world tropical country need to make a dent in malaria rates? How much acreage would have to be oiled (and thus destroyed as a habitat) to do the same? Assuming they could afford it financially, how would they afford the ecological costs? Remember, many of these countries don't have industrialized agriculture to insulate them from damage to native habitats.

And forget oiling wetlands -- that's not how the Americans did it. Americans did most of the work by draining wetlands near populated areas. So tell me how that would work in a country like Nigeria? I'll give you a hint if you need one.

There are many intelligent ways to fight malaria. Exporting some clumsy, ham-fisted methods that Americans rejected forty years ago is not one of them.
Did you receive the update automatically, or did you download and install it manually? If you are using automatic updates, Firefox should ask before updating if any of your add-ons will be disabled.
I agree, I was speculative when I read this. Google is making a push for a cloud based OS - so why would they roll out a product based on local file syncing?

Perhaps, this is a transitive product that will eventually be the foundation for Chrome OS file storage?
Try RubyMine from JetBrains, a very slick product, and worth paying for (I don't pay for much but JetBrains IDEs I make an exception for).

In true HN tradition, I must urge you to try Vim. I found this very helpful when I first start: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...
I thought about this as well. I am going to leave boric acid laced juice socks out at night. BTW this has worked as a solution for cockroaches terrifically well at my place for the last 20 years.
Ask HN: What to use to build an intranet/extranet - OSS CMS or DIY?
I am an experienced programmer developing my own startup and am doing some part-time go-tech-guy consulting.

My boss wants some kind of publicly available, secure site for hosting internal documents (like hr docs and company news) and links to webapps used within the company for about 200 people in different locations.

He would like a groups/permissions model to control who can see what documents and what links they get.

Should I a/ install an off the shelf CMS, and if so which one? This is a business which mostly uses .NET as a tech (and indeed I am a highly experienced .NET) dev if that makes any difference.

b/ As a developer with some nifty RAD frameworks I can knock together a simple landing site with authentication/groups pretty quickly. Install a simple blog engine as well and I'm done?
Haha same, I cannot wait to assemble the mini rocket engine.
Dude don't wait :) Use MacVim today.
How about including a mechanism for reviews like this on the site? (I know most of the linked to sites have review areas as well but having it all in one place in your curated venue might add some value).
Just curious why 2000 is the magic number? Just scratching the surface of that now with 5 years experience in IT post-college... middle America salaries are rough
It looks like some of the old configurations on the update server have not been updated to reflect the latest release; some details at http://bugzil.la/689004
I'm still going to be mostly using git from the command line, but this is wonderful for looking at diffs and logs.
We're talking about people who already ponied up $60. From that alone, you can't infer (a) that another $60 is a pittance to them, (b) that they own a MacBook or any computer at all, (c) that they are professional developers, or (d) that they are capable of using vim. If you think that any of those is a given, you're spending too much time on HN.

And how the concept of "charity" is relevant to paying customers of a product, I do not understand.
I really recommend it. I bought that one myself a few months ago. It's very cool! The guy who runs the site is awesome and he'll help you out if you have any questions. He can't ship the N2O canisters outside of his country though (or maybe it was just to the US) so you'll have to find a place around you that sells them. Not too hard to find though.
List comprehension is one of those things I miss every I use another language. I am not sure what you mean with: it looks like a kludge around the lack of multi line code blocks could you provide and example?
Hm. I get changing background colors when scrolling, maybe because the cache color hint is set to white? You should disable it if you use a non uniform background.
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Briefly: facebook timeline is terrible. Even Chrome can hardly cope with all the javascript and reflowing as you load a profile page. There's no way in hell IE6 on XP will be able to cope with it -- the rendering engine, OR EVEN the cpu. Maybe that's the whole idea - Facebook could be Microsoft's best way of forcing people to abandon IE6 (and so XP). Semi-seriously, semi-approvingly I ask: Conspiracy?
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I understand where people who write comments like this are coming from, but I think if you take a step back and think about what Marco is saying, then as a response to Marco this argument is irrational.

The fact is that Odgaard has many more lucrative options open to him than living up to an unfavorable pricing commitment from 6 years ago.

Meanwhile, your own interests are poorly served by telling him to shove it and watch you switch to Sublime Text. At least if Odgaard can be happy building TM2, you have a choice. But sticking to your sense of entitlement actually wins you nothing.

Building commercial products that serve programmers is a risky and painful proposition for the same reason that there isn't a lucrative business to be build selling ice to Inuits. Consider carefully that Odgaard is in no way captive to your judgment. If he himself was more rational, he'd drop TM2 today and start building iPhone apps for many times more money than anyone is ever going to pay him for a text editor.
this one was taken a bit higher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsqyphVERA&feature=relat...
That's a great idea, I'll definitely look into it.
Am I missing something?? If you can find people that prefer to view it on a sexy wooden background and can affiliate link them... WHY NOT? Amazon's pages are super busy.
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So can we expect some Aonony Pony Rating Agency anytime soon?
Like as a replacement for Moodys and S&P?
I downloaded it. Nice. Some quick feedback:

1. It looks like you are querying out real-time to bring back the list of stories. Why the need to modify/delete SD card content?

2. The default action, when clicking on a news item, is to take you to the website of the article (or here, for ask). You have to long press to see the comments. I hate to say this, but I often read through the comments BEFORE going to the outside link for the story details (ask is the exception). Can you give a preference of what you want to be the default option when selecting a news item?

3. Nice touch - to put the icons of the website (e.g. blogger) next to the article title. Hard to see, but still decent.

Anyway, nice job!
Yes, I'd go as far as suggesting pure terminal vim-full install with its help files and a minimal config.
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This may be because roboform proper isn't hosted on addons.mozilla.org, so they can't vouch for it or bump the version for you. The Roboform Lite that is on addons.mozilla.org is properly marked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/roboform-onli...
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I'm definitely feeling the push to show that I'm doing something on my 'Hub account. I can see why it'd be tempting to go and reinvent a wheel to give that impression.

To make it worse, GitHub only occasionally shows commit activity on repos belonging to other people. I have plenty of side-projects going over on a communal account at http://github.com/smashcon. If I work on some of those repos for a couple of weeks, however, to the casual observer it appears as if I haven't been doing anything at all.

(The canonical answer appears to be "fork and use pull requests", but at this point in the project they're just too clumsy for little benefit, particularly each only has a single committer.)
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