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Yes, but the main argument for the hardware back button being "broken" was that it was inconsistent. This article shows that the only thing it is inconsistent with is the iOS model of multitasking.
The name of the tool in Gimp is Alpha to LOGO. So, I can not wrong, it is the right word.
go make an app with another label's content, let me know what you think satire means then
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Depending on the context (country/period) "I'm a socialist" can signify both "I want to nationalize everything, kill the conservatives and, if possible, bring in the soviet army" or "I want slightly more progressive taxes and state funded healthcare". They don't make them like they used to ...
I am happy with gnome 2 as well for the most part.
Is it still under active development?
This website is really good for vim beginners http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...
(Sorry for hijacking)

In the new GitHub project page (e.g. https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone), it really took me some times to figure out where is the DOWNLOAD button..Please put the download button back to the top right area (next to the watch/fork buttons), and don't give your users shit work... Thank you!

(Btw, I agree what you said in your article!)
I feel the same. I would love to understand a bit more of what is going on under the hood. I did a quick research but I could not find something quick enough to work as a primer.

The best resources I found are:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2239/_i...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25636/what-is-the-best-wa...
Agreed. Regardless of whether it's fair to be whining or not, Canonical loses if they alienate their core user group. Just look at how gradually Apple is refining the OSX desktop. If OSX had gone from the classic desktop to IOS/Springboard from one version to another, I'm pretty sure they would have had some serious backlash from their users.
You are 100% correct. My apologies.

My point though, which I'm sure you'll agree with, was to preempt the idea that "my machines don't crash, so I don't need it."
I've been using one of the "Proggy" fonts from http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download for awhile now... I don't remember which one specifically, I think "Proggy Clean".

This one looks good too, and maybe it'd be better than Proggy or one of the others around, but I don't think it's $220,000 better.
I disagree with your pov. I'm putting aside the trap this journalist sprung and focusing on your contention that going after certain people in not representative.

You seem to be totally ignoring how humans inherently work on a social level.

Why do people move to the bay? To be part of the community. And if that community is racist, it presents extra barriers. Not that I think it is in any way.

There are people who hold the keys to success or failure in terms of funding as you mentioned, but there are people, like the Mikes, pg, Steve Blank, Fred Wilson, Eric Reis, Joel Spolsky, etc. who hold an enormous influence over the community just from what they write. There are also many face-to-face communities in the bay area that are equally influential. There are also key schools where a lot of startups seem to emanate from in the US, so by extension those schools are also influential.

You can't pretend these 'power' centres don't exist in the startup world and if you were to try and identify why this demographic anomaly exists, who would you ask?

Them.

The reason it's the same in business is because generally business owners end up networking with other business owners, like startups network with other startups, because they want feedback/help/discussion from their peers.

That's what a community is and that's why politicians and reporters will go talk to these people, precisely because they know what they're talking about. In fact it is/was Mike Arrington's job to tap into the thoughts/hopes/fears of the startup community.
How do you define a "system executable"? And why would you keep them separate?

In case you mean "apps" and "system management utilities" - isn't that what start menu links are for?
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Excellent point. My dad, who was a journalist for 30 years, always complained about this assumption among his colleagues. Journalists are taught to go talk to the people in charge, and the idea that there is some group in charge of an industry is just an unspoken--and often unthought--assumption about how business works. Obviously it's ludicrous, but it's a side effect of being taught to look for the "big picture" to get the big story.
While it's possible that Apple could ban non-App Store programs, I don't see this as the likely threat. More plausible to me is that new APIs in OS X will, like iCloud, become available only to App Store apps.

Eventually anything that's not in the App Store will feel like the most ancient Carbon apps feel now. Why prompt an exodus of users over a mass ban of apps, when you can just slowly and surely take over the market instead?
Yes, India is poor but the reason the infrastructure is bad is mainly because of corruption...Only about 30-40% of the actual funding goes to building it, the rest goes to the pockets of different people from the top level bureaucrat to the engineer to the party chief to the local councilman
Melbourne does feel a whole lot more .. enthusiastic shall we say? Still Adelaide has its perks if you have the right networks, and generally a decent salary/cost balance for what that's worth. Happy to grab a drink with any HN'ers that are in/stop by Adelaide btw.
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You are incorrect, it is not poor men. "Of the 455 men executed for rape in the United States between 1930 and 1967, 90 percent were African American." Although I'm sure the vast majority of those men were poor.

re: stats please provide some if you'd like some in return because you've made a huge generalization and I'd say that it's your bias speaking (not racism). In response to your question, if it is true that black men commit more crimes I'd say that the situation of blacks in america is directly tied racism, slavery and the like so yes, it is due to racism too.
There's APIs to interact with the calendar store; no calendar application should ever be accessing the calendar files directly—so apps like Fantastical are probably already OK.

I haven't deeply examined the sandboxing rules and capabilities, but I think that this could improve application interoperability because they will need to work through APIs directly rather than through filesystem backdoors.
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no longer available. i guess you're trying to show us some people influenced by some western subcultures? see the words 'in general' in my post
Nope, it's still standard practice.

You're still going to be paying at least 20% corporation tax on the profits though and then probably 22.5% on the dividend itself.
"That's hubris on the part of Canonical."

I genuinely find this attitude confusing.

I gave a presentation to a user group at a senior center last night on Ubuntu, during which one person made a similar argument. (The only real difference was that he used the word "arrogant" rather than "hubris".)

I don't know your background so I can't speak to it, but this person I spoke with had contributed no code, artwork, translations, etc. to the project. He received a product entirely gratis, which he got value from. But then the product moved forward and changed. He still had what he had been given freely, of course. But he demanded that the people doing this work for free either never make changes to their work, or if they do to continue to maintain the old system as well. This work should also be given to him without charge or without him having to put forth any effort.

And for those of us actually spending our lives building the thing for him to do otherwise was arrogant.

I'm literally speechless when confronted with these sorts of arguments.
Instant short-links is a nice idea, especially if you're aiming for the Twitter market.

Progressive enhancement would be good: the background doesn't render correctly in IE9 making the main text impossible to read. That applies to the homepage and the sign-up page. You'll lose potential users who will simply move on.

http://www.webpagetest.org/results/11/11/03/JS/22M02/1_scree...
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Knowing little about trademark law, I'm wondering if you considered trademark dilution [1]. It appears to contradict most of what you've said, e.g. must operate in the same market and prove the offender is profiting.

The rules may be different for famous marks, and Apple's actions could make perfect sense.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_dilution
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Can I ask a serious question?

To me, what Arrington is saying sounds totally reasonable. It doesn't sound racist at all. It sounds like he is trying to be a part of the solution. Why are people pummeling him from every side?

Is this what America has come to? You make a reasonable and moderate statement and the people at the extremes immediately rush to the center to knock you over the head. I never thought I would see the day when most of America positioned itself at ideological extremes.

Kudos to you Mike! Keep up the good work!

Oh...

and incidentally...

ignore your friends' advice.

To paraphrase the Feminists...

"Well behaved men rarely make history!"
Interesting - Absolutley. Useful? Not so sure. Although if you're job is social media you might want to keep this up as a dashboard. I guess you could make it useful by letting me enter a big list of search terms, then display the matching tweets in the same format... companies might use that.
...with other people's money/sweat
This is not definitely going to happen. In fact it's the subject of lengthy and colourful arguments on Fedora-devel list[0].

Personally I think it's a good idea, but I'd like to see agreement across the major distros first.

[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-October...
As an iOS developer I feel that native apps will have a technical edge for a while. WebApps are built with tools that weren't designed for creating GUIs, you can do it but it is much less efficient and effective. This is especially true for complex applications like games (the ones that would benefit the most from webGL).
We have a similar entity here in the States, it is called and S-Corp. It is designed for single owner businesses and does allow the owner to dodge some tax burden. Specifically the double taxation on income that a single owner would receive if there where under the rules of a C-Corp as well as some unemployment and FICA.
"Most people hate Unity."

Can you show me the data that you've gathered on this? I'd love to see the user survey.

(Is it maybe possible that just because you don't like something, others still could?)
Bad decision to not have any anti-spamming measures. Or good decision.
> And they have created a beautiful customer experience and has spurred the reinvention of the check out process.

And if the customers were the ones footing the bill for the check-out process, it might have a market.

Until <newfangled POS> gives the merchants a financial reason to switch, they will keep doing things the way they've been doing things.
While sometimes applications on Android override the back button functionality and thus cause confusion, I always find it very hard to adjust back to the iOS-way when using my iPhone. Especially if I can not easily go back to the previous application (one has to longpress the homebutton for that).

And if you want to see inconsistent or pretty lame use of a back button, just use the facebook app on iOS ;-) ... I don't know how often one has to click it to get back to it's main screen, but it seems to depend on how often you opened the app from a notification. That works far better on the Android version ...
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And it works

Apparently not on the Mac.

The font looks quite terrible in your own Mac screenshot, there is visible blur at least in the letters w,m and T.
The social media buttons to share an uploaded file don't seem consistent. Mail pops up on mouseover, reddit and FB on click. (Using Chrome)
Indeed .. is /sbin/ifconfig a system executable.

Well, yes because the sysadmin can use it to modify interfaces.

Or is it a user executable. Well yes too, it is frequently used by non-root to list interfaces.

In any case it makes no sense since in Fedora for about 4 years the PATH has contained /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/bin for everyone.
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> you can still distribute

I think "still" is the important word here.
Let's delay arguments about whether one should change fonts or not [0] and think about crowdfunding applied to design work. We should be more interested in whether this will work, and why or why not.

Last summer, Hyperakt [1] crowd-funded a beautiful radial depiction of the 2010 World Cup brackets [2]. I paid $25 for a great poster [3], and now Deroy has a new fan.

That project worked for the same reason all Kickstarter projects work: if the project succeeds, users and producers exchange money for goods. If the market doesn't validate your project, consumers aren't committed to pay and producers don't reap any benefits. This is a great model for project planning and idea validation.

On the other hand, this project extracts consumer rents immediately. If Fabrizio doesn't hit the $220k goal [4], users only get an option to purchase a license for $100 minus their contribution. No repercussions for the producer--he gets paid regardless. This is fine for licensing an existing font, but it sucks for spec work or otherwise non-existent work.

I'm sure everyone has a few questions about the amount he's charging. [5] However, we should focus on how Kickstarter provides a consumer-friendly market while this project exists on a producer-friendly market. These are some great introductory economic concepts.

EDIT: actually, each market has its own benefits. With Kickstarter, you can obtain market validation for free (or cheap). With IndieGogo, you can guarantee payment on existing products.

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[0] I took an hour to switch from Monaco to Anonymous Pro; now I wish I hadn't wasted that hour but at least I'm set for life.

[1] http://hyperakt.com/

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperakt/2010-world-cup-...

[3] Even more beautiful after La Furia Roja took the Cup!

[4] Btw: ouch.

[5] Are we paying for the 4 years of work he's put in? Hasn't he made money from other licenses already? There are probably some obvious answers I'm missing out on.
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I'm not really concerned about spam or usefulness :)

Just throwing a link out there
Nor is it very likely that he worked four years, every single day, on this font.
This doesn't seem to work in Opera
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Black people are incarcerated more because they commit more crime. Proportionately, they commit about 8x as many violent crimes as whites. It's not really a statistic that you should try to use to combat "racism".
I'm pretty sure if I wanted to get a primary contributor to any open source database software to consult on a project, it would be far far less,

Of course you could. But there's a bit of a fallacy w/r/t hiring consultants, if you hire someone directly (ie not through a company or agency) you can expect to pay about half of what you'd pay for the same person through an agency . The benefits of going through Oracle (as stated above) is if your consultant disappears you have another a phone call away, and because "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". However you pay for this privilege.
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I don't think Riak does. I believe its architecture is masterless.
The argument in Fedora is that split /usr doesn't work.

It does in Debian, because they actually test that configuration. But you need to keep testing it because it keeps getting broken.

In any case, just about any minimal embedded device has enough space to put /usr on the root partition. I'm sure you'll point to a BeagleBoard or whatever where this is not true, but then off-the-shelf Linux desktop distros don't run on these either.
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great way to beta test a product!
There's two of us in this company, we are conflicted on the issue. I wanted more opinions.
I don't get what makes it better than like a Minus? I would like one of these drop.io replacements to offer encryption or passwords to get to their shared content. Similar to what dropsend does.
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Why is this gettting downvoted? It's good security practice, and the fact that Android needs better sandboxing was a foregone conclusion.
Forget #ows, voter supression is much scarier
> This is probably not something I should talk too much about on a venue filled with potential employers or coworkers.

Having concerns about your abilities and taking steps to improve them is a very positive trait.

> OSS is something I want to be a core part of my job, because I use and appreciate it so much.

I'll challenge you to find a single job on those hiring threads where you won't be steeping neck-high in open source software. Whether you'll get to contribute back is a different issue, but if nothing else you'll gain loads of exposure that you can use to contribute on your own time.

> I'll go over to the two jobs threads from the other day and apply to some places. There were at least 3 or 4 that I would LOVE to work at.

Awesome! Good luck!
Copying someone else's about page idea is valuable?
FYI. It can take zip files but is limited to 32MB. Looks good. Good luck!
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Of course there are influential parties in the Valley, but that still doesn't make it one thing. What the OC seems to have reacted against was the reification[1] of the industry into a single thing. Of course you can influence an industry, but the key to understanding what that means lies in the the "fluid" part of "influence." The whole thing is a dynamic, swirling mass of people and groups constantly interacting with and reacting to one another. An industry isn't really a thing so much as it is a convenient way for us to refer (somewhat nebulously) to a collection of companies that operate in certain fields.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
> he background doesn't render correctly in IE9 making the main text impossible to read.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll love into it and fix this asap.
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Will be very interesting that's for sure...at the moment, there aren't many I read regularly at all, hence the possible opportunity I think.
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Just wanted to chime in: I paid Fabrizio for PragmataPro last year and haven't regretted it a bit. Maybe paying $100+ for a font isn't for everyone, but my entire life revolves around looking at fixed-width fonts and it's important to me. After trying almost everything else out there, Pragmata/PragmataPro feel much better and make me happier looking at lots of text.
Is it windows only? A shame if it is. I would love to hack around with it on a mac.
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Therefore, it's insecure by design? ;-)

I'm wondering how good the IPv6 support is.
How does a country's political stability affect what domain names you will use?

The nameservers for the .so domain are not physically located in Somalia: http://www.zonecut.net/dnsgeo/SO..html
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Please elaborate. Do you mean the drag uploading?
I agree. Most modern OS monospace fonts (Consolas, Monaco, Ubuntu Mono) are more than enough for any kind of programming. I don't really see the benefit of going out and trying new fonts. IMHO font size and color highlighting (color schemes?) play a much bigger role in making my work on a text editor be faster/better.

Of course, it's a matter of personal taste, I did see one guy using Arial as a font on his text editor once...
Most surveys show Android as much more popular with youth, with iPhones more popular with those in their 50s and up.

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Section-3/Pl...
See it in action here http://blog.soundcloud.com/2011/11/03/html/
I'm curios, what is (under normal circumstances) supposed to go into a string hash function?

The biggest problem I see with this hash function is that it will produce very many collisions (because most common strings will probably produce only small numbers).

I have seen other very simple string hash functions which just take the 4 first bytes (or 4 last or some sort of other pattern) of the string and use them (interpreted as 32bit integer) as the hash.
Yeah these are either old, or special rates for US Federal Whatevers.

I know quite a few senior (ish) consultants in Oracle who were billed at 3x this.

It makes sense that they give the feds a different rate though - I would assume federal contracts last much longer than a lay customer (3x longer?).
Found the English page, now ... where's the download link?
The economics for pro apps are completely different than anything an app store customer can reference. A lot of the market leaders (Pro Tools, Adobe Suite, Avid) have succeeded despite being orders of magnitude more expensive than competitors and erecting barriers for the average user accessing them (byzantine copyright protection, proprietary hardware requirements). There are always lots of cheap and even reputable alternatives, but the leaders usually capitalize by being early to market and basically owning the leaders in the field. Once you have a community of the best and brightest using/evangelizing your software, distribution is a pretty secondary concern.
Yes? But it presents a much smaller attack surface (as compared to the attack surface presented by the set of applications you might otherwise run under a sandbox). And it's maintained/secured by one vendor instead of the set of vendors that distribute the applications you might otherwise run under the sandbox.
To all the vim people I have one question: how do you deal with multiple buffers?

I'm so attached to the emacs way of buffer handling that I just can't get comfortable with vim. It's really the one thing that I just don't get in vim.
I wonder how does it compare to NSD?

http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/
Drag & drop doesn't seem to work for me (Debian GNU/Linux, dragging from Thunar file manager to firefox). So I second the request for a file select button.
Different random url I suppose...