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Please, no personal attacks. Rather than bashing a person, respectfully show them why they are wrong.

Also, you may not have seen that under each person's comment is a small 'reply' button. Click on that to start a reply to someone - it's better than @username for organising the discussion.
Effectively, Disney's negotiation tactic was "re-sign with us, or else we'll spin up a shitty division to make shitty sequels of your movies!"

That's from Pixar's perspective.

From Disney, it was more like this: "re-sign with us or we will utilise out right to produce sequels, for which you won't be paid"

ie, It wasn't a threat to do a bad job - as the parent comment says, companies (almost never) deliberately do bad work.
My solution to the problem of studying the animated radar images was to ditch the VCR metaphor to control the animation and use the mouse or finger position. Example (Toronto):

http://radar.xinsight.ca/
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What's the difference between dirty and unethical out of curiosity?
There were also a handful of women at my high school and again at my college who men disproportionately sought. I'm not sure I see that this is a one-way issue.
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People should just be using Debian if they want a stable system with good package management with a large repository. Archlinux is very good, but its repository is tiny compared to Debian and I trust Debian package maintainers more than pretty much any other distribution. I'm happy to install the few packages I need up-to-date, like Firefox, manually.
A few million? Is that you, Dr Evil?
The reason for the convention is that there's often only one form of success, so 0 suffices, but there may be many causes of failure.
You're basically saying outside perspective and advice on moral issues is bad. How would we learn morals if it wasn't for society (in whatever shape/form)?

People make mistakes, some people are cautious enough to ask others for input before trying something to see if their own justification is reasonable. I see no problem with that.
In the context of audio or video this is usually called "scrubbing".
Ya know, a web page announcing your iPhone app should really be viewable on an iPhone. This one refuses to scroll at all.
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I agree with info comment, there needs to be some more information on what exactly this is on the front page. However, I think the orange and blue color scheme and the visuals work very well.
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As you said, "credit card or debitable bank account"; you already mentioned one way this could avoid a credit card. Now consider that Square controls both ends of the transaction. So, any payment source Square chooses to support will work: credit/debit card, bank account, some pre-paid account, line of credit with Square for which you get a bill later...
Valid point, but I don't think his blog's primary (or even secondary) purpose is to advertise his company, so it might be nice that he gets some sign ups through his blog posts, but it's clearly not a priority. I don't think having an honest, frank discussion of one's struggle with depression is way to push product.

I would much rather read about his company when it's been fully (or at least mostly) baked. Too many pre-pre-seed stage ideas get posted to HN as real companies when they're really just ideas.
Hope you're prepared for the lawsuit from Apple over your logo :)
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This is a bit off-topic, but I have occasionally had trouble backing up and transferring bookmarks, so when I add something to my bookmarks now I usually (unless it's a strictly temporary bookmark) add the URL to a text file. It's a pain, but fairly cheap as insurance.
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I mentioned it in the "this could be included but it didn't meet my criteria and here's why" section in the last couple paragraphs. Yes, it's highly underrated, but my focus was just a little narrow perhaps.
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Can anyone familiar with both this and Google Goggles comment on whether there's any notable differences, or whether this is indeed pretty much Amazon's version of Google's Goggles or Bing Vision on WinPhone?
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You subverted your argument by including the term 'low-level'. Of course, that's all written freshly in C to this day.

Assuming that you meant only 'non-trivial': aside from the embedded space, C and GCC still represent the first-tapped resource in many companies. C is terse, well-known, fast and predictable.

I'd go marginally further and claim that, done correctly, gmake and a proper directory hierarchy remain the most effective way of organizing and maintaining a large software project.
I disagree with one point. Priority Inbox tells me which email subjects to skim and which to open every time. For the few important emails that make it into the non-important bucket, skimming the subjects always brings them out. However, EVERY email in my important inbox is important (I haven't had to mark one as unimportant for months). When I sit down to go through email (2-3 times a day) I read everything in the priority inbox because I trust that.
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People understand debit card pins just fine. As long as they get labeled as such there won't be any confusion.
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I'm assuming this is trying to take advantage of the botched official Gmail app launch today.

Not so sure I'm inclined to get too excited by 5 screen mockups, especially ones which have example labels of "bullshit".
I see a couple things needing to happen, then this sort of thing will largely be dealt with automatically.

1 - determining the type of content based on words, size, etc. based on the type of content the system would automatically filter it on the receiver's end. if the receiver has typically ignored or deleted 'history of unix' type stuff from me, the receiver/reading app will file it away, and note to the receiver that something's been received, but it's probably not important. Like 'spam/ham' filtering, but as another dimension. (yam? tasty for some, untasty for others?)

2 - using signals of other people in the ecosystem as more signals in the 'spam/ham/yam' algorithm. If I post something that all my geek friends read/share/comment about, those interactions should count towards an 'interest' score on that piece when it's presented (or not) to my mom, for example.
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Is google allowed to display its own ads in iphone? Just curious since I thought apple had some restrictions about them. I am honestly curious, I dont know a whole lot about this subject.
It would be interesting - but a lot of work - to add "time to modify" and "time to debug" metrics.

Each task would come with a modification, and an error to make in implementing the original task. You'd recruit undergraduates, who hadn't used the language before. Some would be given the original program to modify, others the broken version to fix. You'd measure how long they took to do it.

This way, language communities that gamed the machine benchmarks would pay a price on the human ones.
I think he's alright. Relevant link: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...
Unthink: 100+ dev's, $2.5m funds, Swupa: 19y/o, pocket $. Guess who I like more?
> from what my Mac owning friends tell me it is just as bad on Macs.

Who told you that? I just launched iTunes on my Lion machine, it started up in 5 seconds and started syncing with my phone wirelessly while I scrolled through 18,000 tracks without stuttering & a track played.

iTunes for OS X is arguably a little bloated and lacking direction, but it's still hands down the best library based music player/jukebox for OS X. Nothing else even comes close.

To be fair, you come right out and say you have little experience on the topic either way, so why cast an opinion? As someone who uses Apple's software on Macs and PCs extensively, there is not even a debate to be had about where Apple puts its effort.

You can even test it yourself. Take any Mac, put Windows 7 on it. Launch a clean copy of iTunes in OS X, then reboot and do the same in Windows 7. The OS X version will start up instantly, the Windows one will stall for at least 10-15 seconds. This is just one obvious example, there are plenty more out there.
My problem with all of these systems is the same: I'm disorganized, I forget to charge my phone or bring it along, and so the chances of me having a fully charged, working, switched-on phone with me when I want to buy something are far lower than my chances of having a wallet.
I think it's glorification that's the problem. I would consider medicine a hack, hacks aren't divine achievements.
I put my throughout development environment on my linode for couple of years and think that it's a good for availability.

As an example, I developed MultiplayerChess.com is on my Linode server. I don't have an IPhone or IPad yet but I see that it's great to access a full utilized development environment from anywhere...

Let's turn this topic to a usesthis.com for CLI lovers.

CLI apps that I use are tmux (In addition to the previous comments not recommending Screen, I highly recommend Tmux), Emacs, VIM (I use Emacs as an IRC and Twitter client, an IDE and a self-organizer, VIM as a file editor), newsbeuter for RSS and links for browsing. My choice of distribution is Arch Linux.

if you wonder about my Emacs configuration, it's in my Github; github.com/azer/emacsfiles
> Google wins on algorithms and loses everywhere else.

Android's notification system is widely considered superior to the one Apple came up with. (I only bring that up as a single counterexample, because that's all that is needed against "everywhere".)

Speaking as a techie with his first Android phone, I'm completely pleased. I have a device that doesn't seem to treat my engineer self as some kind of enemy intruder.

But I'd allow that to fit sensibly with your claim about "not being used by humans".
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Let's turn this topic to usesthis.com of CLI lovers.
I did a simple test of Amazon Flow vs Google Goggles. The main difference was that Flow linked to the product page where Goggles gave a link to a picture of the product.
I used ubuntu for 5 years or so and finally moved off of it almost 2 years ago. I was a huge linux fan until i used ubuntu. Which intially was great but soon became nothing but marketing hype with one buggy broken release after another. Which just became tiresome after a while. Especially since with each release they act as if THAT release will finally fix all the bugs theyve had and linux hs had. Only to find out it hadnt done any of that.

IN my personally opinion ubuntu completely destroyed linux Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one. In fact OpenSuse was my favorite but that became just an also ran distro that people would compare to ubuntu and but say sorry but it doesnt compare and then stick with ubuntu. Which sucks. Of course OpenSuse also had the kde problem but thats a whole other topic of discussion.
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Wow, VIM is just months older than I. Had the impression it was much younger.
Anyway, I'm starting the topic.

CLI apps that I use are tmux (In addition to the previous comments not recommending Screen, I highly recommend Tmux), Emacs, VIM (I use Emacs as an IRC and Twitter client, an IDE and a self-organizer, VIM as a file editor), newsbeuter for RSS and MOCP for music. Finally, My choice of distribution is Arch Linux.

if you would like to see my Emacs configuration, it's in my Github; github.com/azer/emacsfiles
From a stability perspective, I'd agree. I did want to note that Arch's AUR does put it closer to the Debian package count, but of course the AUR quality is less consistent.

I have really come to like the AUR and consider it one of the strengths of Arch, despite the AUR's shortcomings. Doing recent work on Ubuntu I was really missing my AUR packages and the ease of contributing to the AUR.
Sure, how about this one:

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But I heard that Square was totally irrelevant because they were only "innovating" based on the outdated paradigm of the credit card system.

/sarcasm

Don't confuse where a startup is today with where they're headed. Sometimes you have to tack against the wind to get to where you ultimately want to end up. The best startups are those that can make money while also setting up for a huge play that no one else is positioned to pull off.
Apparently not, but I also see lifetime use of heroin also nearly doubled due to legalization, and there is still question on what effects were caused by the legalization and what effects weren't.
Hey, I have a friend who might be in need of this. I will coax him into trying this out.

Send me an email? (address in profile)

It looks nice! Hopefully I'll be of more help shortly.
I like this better. Also shows you the speed of light.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Speed_of_...
UI conventions established by what? Other Linux desktop environments? Established among whom? Old-hat Linux users?

Perhaps that's not who they're targeting.
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The really annoying thing here is that Apple's process is broken. There is no way to test the binary that you submit to Apple before downloading it from the App Store.

Loopt had this problem a few times, despite an explicit item in our submission checklist to manually check the manifest file in a text editor. XCode often, but not always, messes this up - and in my experience - only for distribution builds.
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Interesting to see him mention the 'Live each day as if it would be your last...' quote here (and again a decade later in the 2004 commencement speech)
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Not that this isn't neat, but regarding the opening:

Wait a second: Why is this supposed to be any better than pulling out a credit card? It’s not faster, it’s not more convenient, and it’s not any safer.

Yes it is. Just having an RFID card + POS reader is awesome. Putting the chip into a phone is even more awesome. If you don't believe me, move to Japan for a few months and live the dream. ;-)
i get alerts from chase within 5 minutes of using my credit card. Now if only that would ask my approval before paying, that would be even better.
But what are you going to do about merchants billing you incorrectly anyway and sending you to collections or ruining your credit for not approving the transaction ?
This is the logical extension of the peek-a-boo fallacy.

The moon doesn't stop being closer to the earth simply because you can't see it from a particular point on the Earth.

About the only thing you can say is that if you were to proceed outward on a linear path from the opposite side of the Earth from that which the moon is currently positioned, then you would reach something other than the moon sooner than you would reach the moon.

But that would be saying nothing, really.
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Thanks. Contracts are an AWESOME idea and I would love to see them make it into a language that everyone uses.

The ideas behind powerful contracts / type systems have been around for a long time: provide properties that are checked such that you can rely on them.

It seems an interesting and difficult problem to try to add a general enough contract system to javascript, which would support things like const and private and "account balance is always positive". But I think that if done well, it would be the single defining feature which would draw me into using a language. Man, would that be awesome.
We don't need more Apples. There is one right now, doing very well at being Apple. Google could take some cues from Apple, sure, but there is more than one way to skin a cat. The fact that MG thinks Android sucking at first and slowly iterating to a solid product is a negative is mind boggling. That is great! We are talking about a search company that in the span of few years became the dominant player in mobile operating systems. And that never would have happened if Google took years and years to create one "perfect" phone.

Coming out of the gate with a great product is overrated. It can work. But more likely, cause you aren't Apple, you will flop. By starting with the basics instead of a complete product, you also give yourself a much more interesting place to grow (the iPhone 4S could be mistaken for the original iPhone; no one could mistake the Galaxy Nexus for the G1).
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Google+ doesn't tap into any of the 7 seven sins. Facebook does. Case closed. I'm willing to do shit work if it taps into my desire for vanity.
Berkeley startup (YC S11) is hiring its first user experience designer 
We're an unlaunched startup from the most recent Y Combinator batch that is working on changing how a $200 billion industry prices their product. Our smartphone based solution is vastly better than the current approach. The impact we can have is analogous to what the introduction of credit scores did to the financial services industry 30 years ago. The core technology was developed by the founders as part of our research at UC Berkeley. We've been funded by investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and others.

We're a 4 member team and are now hiring our first full time user experience designer. Though one of our goals as a company is to always work on very hard technical problems, we know from experience that good technology is often worthless without a great user experience. We deeply appreciate the value of good design and you will have a big say in what we build and the future of the company.

What we're looking for:

* Experience with user research.

* Experience with the iterative design process - research, design, prototype <-> test.

* Interaction / interface design of the product.

* Strong prototyping skills - low fidelity and high fidelity (Paper, Balsamiq, Keynote, Photoshop etc.)

* Deliver high fidelity renderings of interfaces for development.

* A strong portfolio of past work.

* A bias towards shipping the product.

It would be great if:

* you have experience designing for smartphones

* you can take your high fidelity mockups and actually convert them into working prototypes (HTML, CSS or on smartphones)

* you have a background in Human Computer Interaction

A market salary, equity, health insurance and relocation are a given. We're happy to give the right person a lot more equity than what the typical 5th team member would get.

Write to us at ucbstartup@gmail.com to learn more about the company. Please include links to your portfolio / projects and tell us a bit about yourself.

The job is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
> For example, let's say I have diabetes. Then let's say some genius finds a complete cure for it. Ok, so it's not going to kill me now. But now I'll probably just succumb to heart disease. Let's say we cure that. OK, then cancer will get me.

Just wanted to point out that the diseases you mention, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, many cancers, etc. are diseases of the western world and in many cases preventable.
So to prevent clogging the feeds of the rest of my friends, I submit it to a specific group like "Biking Buddies." Facebook can't learn this or automatically set it up.

I think Facebook already does this. No, they don't setup actual groups, but the ratio of stuff your friends (and pages you've liked) post to what ends up in your feed is probably 10:1. That might be way off, but the point is that FB is filtering the feed based on your relationship with the person, how often they post, the content of the post, etc. At least this is what I've gleaned from reading about this in various places, but I'd love to be corrected or get more detail if anyone has it.
"I've got a better idea: how about we mark the variable in some way" — if all you need is a mark, the Python convention to add an underscore in front of your private method or variable works just fine, as does the convention to make constants uppercased. I've seen quite a bit of JS code use these conventions too.

The trouble with true private/protected variables is that you never really know how your code is going to get used and which parts of your library people may want to mess with. In that case, you can either play around with things you aren't really supposed to touch, or if that's not possible because everything's encapsulated, being in a hurry, you'll just fork the code and turn private methods into public ones. Both approaches suck, and the problem exists regardless of whether your language supports `private` and `const` keywords or not.
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I mentioned ARRAY support in the context of complex types, but it could definitely get its own entry. I haven't played much with hstore, but there are a few places LedgerSMB might be able to use it in the future.

SQL/MED is also worthy of mention, but again kind of fell outside my focus.
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I just bought buffalo wings from next door using LevelUp on my phone. It's fantastic how they offer that service, you'd never expect it because they're a little pizza shop. LevelUp uses QR codes and you can quickly scan it. They have this phone-looking thing set up with the camera facing out, and you just hold your phone in front of it to pay.
Agreed.

1) I'm not sure what made Apple feel that their video codec warranted a home in the control panel. I don't forgive DivX for this, either.

2) They put their personal aesthetic before usability in a big way. E.g., iTunes was unusably slow, though it's improved. Quicktime ran horribly. I am assuming this was in part due to wanting to use MacOS-style brushed-metal chrome.