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Personally, I got sick of feeling cornered whenever an authority figure and/or girl asked me what I do for fun. I never really stopped enjoying video games, I just saw one too many pairs of glazed-over eyes and almost-imperceptibly curled lips and decided it wasn't worth the stigma or the opportunity cost (lost 42 pounds since I quit!).
Three of my favorite design quotes:

"Best design is least design."

"Best design is invisible."

"Give less a chance."
I guess I'm excited that a community figure is forking/creating/updating a new-ish Javascript framework and I should focus on AmberJS in my comment, but...

I can't help but feeling that the oh-so-confusing situation with SproutCore just got more confusing. I, like many others, tried to start using SproutCore and found it to be a poorly documented jumble of code. Fortunately, SproutCore 2.0 was going to fix a lot of that. Only now it isn't. Do we have two half-baked, related frameworks? Are they kinda ports of each other? Is SproutCore 1.x now deprecated? And how confusing will it be when SproutCore 1.x upgrades to a not-AmberJS SproutCore 2.x?

This smells of politics/investor-meddling/internal-disagreements/something to me: fresh, innovative, though-derivative take on an existing codebase is forked out of the original company and is moved under another company (Tilde). Something seems amiss.
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I'd be very curious to hear more about how exactly people are using Evernote in their day-to-day lives. I installed it on my laptop and phone a year or two ago but I could never really figure out a use for it.
> There is probably a reason why most TVs come in black - it makes the colors and the picture to stand out more.

Not all flat monitors come in black thought. I actually I prefer them on white or light gray.

And for Flat TV's .. what about these ones?:

http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?scy=TH&...

http://www.techfresh.net/philips-aurea-ii-enhanced-fhd-1080p...
I've been shopping for a new large screen tellie for a few months and while what you say is generally true, ironically given the situation, Samsung TVs are noticeably different from the bulk of the competition from their ultra thinness to their silver colour. Samsung tellies are noticeably unique. When it comes to small cameras one can easily say that a camera is a 3d rectangle with a lens but if you look at Sammy's NX100/200 series you'll see they went out of their way to make the camera look unique by giving it a curved face rather than flat.

On the general topic, I remember being interested in tablets early on when they were a Microsoft thing and none of them looked like an iPad. Now almost all tablets look iPad like. Samsung in particular seemed to have gone out of their way to make a product that mimicked the look of an iPad. That being said, I'm sad that Apple has taken to the courts over these small issues. The best way to have a leading product is to make a leading product and then continually improving it so that customers want to buy it. This Apple does well. But as an Apple shareholder I'd say playing defence with court suits is a waste of $£ in my opinion but sadly Apple execs didn't ask me. On the other hand withdrawing the bulk of $8billion in parts purchasing from Samsung should have made the point alone IMO.
Most don't. Just keeping up with new DOM additions is difficult enough. Instead you pick a project and follow it until you run into problem area it can't solve and then move on to another.
I left the interview and he said, "I'll have an offer for you by this afternoon" and then he said, "We'd like to hire you on the first (of december).

So he clearly missed both of those.
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As much better as the teenage checkout girl is than I am at scanning, it's nothing compared to how much better she is at pricing produce.
Take a look at MooTools. It's built around a module/class based philosophy that makes it easy to not only configure the framework itself into what you need (the framework is built around several dozen small files), but to do the same thing to your code as well.
I found at my old grocery store that self-checkouts had much better throughput than real lines due to self-selection. People who have many items, or who have coupons / are paying by check / need special help, will avoid the self-checkouts.
I can't disagree with the circumstance, but I don't like the implicit assumption that public transport is always destined to be this way (whilst driverless cars might revolutionise their own sector).
IMHO every city that loathes public transport (and because of this they generally don't put the money into providing a safe, accessible, and attractive service) suffers greatly for it, both financially and culturally...
The clever answer is to stop worrying about the loss/gain of an insignificant couple of minutes and to use the time for introspection, problem solving, daydreaming, or whatever else it is you like to do in the comfort of your own skull. Although, for many here, that probably includes "worrying about queueing theory" so maybe my point is moot.
Yes he was.

I agree, that game was one of the best of the series, and that's a pretty strong statement considering Zelda could be considered the best gaming franchise of all time.
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I'm not sure this is the case as he is the owner. He has a business partner but I think talking with him was as much about having time to digest the interview as seeking permission.

In any case, I think I'm going to decline even seeing the offer.
I would agree with you even if I came up in line behind you.

But I would fully expect the majority to find fault in it. And reasonably so. The system is in place and it is multiple queues. The consequence of bucking the system is, at its most polite, a sneer and a scoff.

Leading left hand turns at a vehicular intersection may be the wiser alternative, but to flout a trailing left hand turn and jump through at the green is dangerous, rude and illegal.
If they aren't profitable now, I don't see how they will ever get to be. There are no network effects where a tipping point would make them profitable, and hardware is already customized and costs are directly dependent on number of users.
Immigration lines at various international airports do a remarkably good job at this.
You obviously didn't read the book. His parents had to move to get him a proper education.
> If I could take a pill to skip meals or sleep in a healthy way, I would.

Multivitamins and melatonin?

The only real question I have is: will this super-entertainment world be better than this one outside of the entertainment-sphere? I don't really care if people waste their lives in WoW or equivalent, so long as I'm not forced to join them or support them living in that world. (I'd like to see the day when basic needs like food/shelter/water are next to free in costs so people could waste their lives without burdening anyone else, if they wanted to.)

Even if I could be convinced that joining them would make me feel so good about the decision afterwards, I'd resist in the same manner I resist buying/making meth today. I'm still fascinated by reality, and I want to continue to be the sort of person fascinated by reality, so I'll refuse your drug that would make me say the same things about your virtual reality.

Others here have noted that the prediction pattern-matches against lots of older ones, it certainly goes back throughout the ages. It would be amusing if Star Trek got it right in the end: a holodeck used as occasional recreation (and for other things) in the same way our t.v.s and games are used as occasional recreation, rather than something real that many people spend their lives in.
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This is not new, search for "MM1 queue" and you will get a lot of mathemathical results explaining why this effect happens. Is a study case of queueing models.
The only company that I was working for that did offer stock options required that we rescind them (two years short of when most of us were to be considered vested) in order to participate in the new company matched 401K program.

They never wound up going public and got bought out by a larger company.
Ah, but you see, anyone who writes checks (hellooooo, slowdown!) and anyone who is scared of technology (I think the two groups overlap a lot) will go wait in another line. So at least at my store, the self-checkout lanes have a lot of young people buying one or two items and paying with credit cards, which works out to a pretty good speed. Occasionally you get somebody who sits and stares at each screen of instructions for a good 30 seconds, but in general it moves well.
Socket.io benchmarking - how many messages can you send per second?
Except there are reasons for CPU affinity, such as the cache.
I guess everyone is different since scaffolding always scared me when I was a beginner. It felt like entering an existing code base not knowing where things should go and what you are allowed to edit, except unlike a real code base none of the functionality is there making it even harder to figure out where to put things.

I have always preferred to start simple and localized and add complexity as the project goes. Especially when I am learning something new.
Don't forget apps that use measurements like lbs, inches, etc rather than metric ones.
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Yeah, I agree. I'm really happy for the author to launch his product. It's an amazing feeling. However, I think it's important to stress that quitting your job to do this is not the only way for us to do this (as he says in the article.)

From the article:

> [Staying with your job and working on your idea at nights and weekends] seems to be an option because you always hear about ventures starting out as side-projects built on late nights and weekends. Well, I only have a few hours of focus every day. By midnight, I just blankly stare at my screen. Maybe it works for you, but it took me 2 years to figure out it does not work for me.

You know, some of us make it work for the same reason the author quit his job: We don't feel there is another good option. I have 2 kids, wife stays home, and we have a mortgage. I don't feel I have any choice but to keep my full time job. So we make it work. (Yesterday I worked a solid day at my company, came home, ate dinner, spent some time with both the kids and my wife, then put in a solid 8 hours on my own product trying to touch up the marketing site and get a major new feature up for some new customers. I got to bed a little after 5 AM. It's hard work, but again, I feel it's this or nothing.)

The only recommendation I would make to someone who feels they must quit their job in order to do a project like this: You may want to try and find a better company to work for that is more compatible with this sort of work and your goals. Flexible schedule and an understanding manager, for example, makes a huge difference. That allows you to work all night when you've got the urge, motivation, or potential customer, and still be successful in the job that pays the mortgage. In 4 years at my last job, I was never able to get a product of my own out the door. I had one out the door within about 7 months of joining the consulting company I work for now.
"Social Responsbility" is an inherently universal phrase. You should expect push-back if you use it.
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Ok, well that particular one is from reddit
Apart from evaluating the APIs yourself, and reading the source, the best way to decide is by looking the apps have been built with each framework.

SproutCore (1) has a list of apps halfway down this page: http://www.sproutcore.com/

You can scroll through a long list of Backbone apps here: http://backbonejs.org/#examples

I'm not aware of app lists for the others you mentioned.
But how can this be? Steve Jobs himself said:

"iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices"

Clearly, JooJoo was copied from Apple.
Don't forget to take a look at your site without your custom font. Firefox, for example, doesn't load it at all in 3.6 or 8, and it looks like crap.
FYI: This is an example of the branch of mathematics called queueing theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory

It's a fascinating study requiring a good knowledge of probability to use beyond the simplified models. It turns out from the math that throughput using a single queue is better than using multiple queues.
What I didn't see in this article is why retailers don't do this today. I see a lot of positives listed and no negatives, so it seems like a no-brainer, right? Yet the biggest retailers like Walmart and Target have tons of lanes, and even do staggered front/back lanes which are terrible for the customers. Is it because there are negative feelings to seeing a long line, and that people do not expect it to be fast so they abandon their purchase?
All of these points look good, except for the following:

"Require a cost-benefit analysis of proposed regulations with an economic impact of $100 million or more to determine the efficacy of the rule and its potential effects on the formation and growth of new businesses;"

This seems like a bureaucratic nightmare waiting to happen. Typically, these clauses are often used in partisan ways to throw the brakes on seemingly unrelated initiatives.
The appearance of TV's have converged upon the current form of minimalism and simplicity given the current technology available--all screen, small black border. Isn't this simply what's happening in the tablet market?

Why must the courts protect consumers from potential confusion among competing tablets but not among competing but similar looking TV's?

Seems like an abuse of the legal system, which has soured me to Apple's products.
Following this train of thought, it might be worth exploring if this would work best as an SAP or Jive add-on or some such. . . Getting a sales channel would be helpful in the Enterprise world.
The HP Slate didn't come before the iPad, in fact it came to market 10 months later. Neither did the Joojoo, unless you think Apple developed the iPad in one year's time.

This doesn't look like an iPad to me: http://www.rainbowskill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hp-50...
It also has an engineering analogy in Apache Passenger Global queuing. And this article explains why it works the way it does http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/10/29/phusion-passenger-now-with...

As an aside: The Fry's Electronics store in my city does this and the line does move at a pretty brisk pace, but I had always thought it a rather odd setup till I read this and made the connection to global queuing in Passenger. fascinating.
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It's really important at Fry's, when often as not you just get an empty box or a piece of paper saying "Give this man a monitor" and they have to send somebody out across the store to actually pick up your item. Or when you bring out your government purchasing card and they don't believe it's real, so you have to stand there for an hour while they try and figure it out (true story).
4 downvotes and no comment to even suggest why my thoughts might be off. This is why I love HN.
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I am definitely not insinuating every job is soul sucking. I think every job that doesn't challenge you is soul sucking.

As for self-justification, I don't think my blog post is any more self-righteousness than your comment.
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Self-checkouts don't have to suck, though. The version where you scan all your items at a single location is clearly crap, but there are systems where you get a small hand-held device when entering the store so you can scan your items as you go along.
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Illusion of choice.
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5 actual car seats

Are current parents really buying 5 car seats as their kid grows up?
Email works really well for most if not all that Path does. The interface is pretty bare bones, but the utility has stood the test of time.
With my comment, I just wanted to add one more anecdotal point :)

I'm aware of the difference between miles and km (though I instinctively tend to minimize it and believe the difference is less than it really is)

I know of that Volkswagen because a million km is headline-grabbing here (on the "anecdotes" section), there are probably cars with a million miles but 1,609,344 km is not a headline-significant number, much like 621,371 miles isn't for the US.
Thanks everyone. insightful responses. i think the main true statement is truly: The valuation is whatever you and an investor mutually agree on. Or : As much as i can get!
"Everything is just a stream of bytes (of text)?"

Neither grep nor diff operate on a stream of bytes in their most common form. They operate on data structures called "lines" extracted from the stream of bytes according to a pattern hardcoded into the tools themselves.

Now that the camel's nose is under the tent…
In my experience, the slow down is the cost of the extra features of the self-checkout system running on (I'm guessing) weak hardware. There is a rather large delay when choosing payment sources or in between bagging items.
Understood. Thank you for the explanation. ;-)

I wasnt trying to be inflammatory in any way.
I guess it depends on the quality of the self-checkout system. At my Stop & Shop, there are four or six self-checkout lanes staffed by a single person (Go go union job elimination!) If you get through a purchase without running into "wait for attendant", sure it's fast. But if you do have to wait, because their fundamental distrust of the customers makes the system get many false positives for stealing, now you are in a secondary line of people waiting for the attendant, and the time for checkout is terrible.
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In motorcycle racing nowadays the vehicle is governed by the computer to a surprisingly large degree. Yet this has allowed levels of performance thought unachievable not too long ago.

The same technology is now trickling down to street legal sportbikes. It's interesting to watch the public's reaction to it. Some disagree vociferously, saying that it will take the fun out of the hobby. Others acknowledge the life-saving intervention of throttle control when you're leaning in a turn on wet asphalt and mistakenly give it too much gas.
Thanks and for the most part it is correct, though many people come back and say ok what about Zuckerberg. Which is valid but a different case all together, Zuckerberg was a freelancer who was hired to implement the idea, he is not the type of person that you would go out and validate an idea against. If anything Zuckerberg is an example of why you should seriously consider a tech-cofounder over hiring a freelancer.

I say that as a freelancer, are most freelencers going to steal your idea? no. Could a situation arise in which they fell they have put in the work and are not getting paid, then decide to take the code, they have an investment in and run with it? Sure. I can't say that if, I was 10% from completion and not getting paid that I would not be tempted to recoup the skin I have in the game.

There are a lot of ethical grey areas and a lot of fall out that can happen after the idea phase, and that is where most of these my idea was stolen horror stories come from. But at that point your idea is actually worth something, because someone has some skin in the game, by putting forth some effort to make the idea happen and if it's just their skin and not yours they may feel justified in seeking compensation for their part.

Please don't take my commentary as weighing in on the ethics or as a critique of Zuckerberg, I am just highlighting where and how, ideas get stolen and it is generally never when it is just an idea.
That's amazing - this site managed to come up with CSS that prevents the font from getting bigger even when I ctrl-+ the page. Thanks for making it impossible for me to read, asshats.
I always figured it was because of the layout problem of getting many cashier stations clustered together at the end of a long queue area. I hadn't thought about the psychological effect of a single long line though.
That's actually exactly what I was doing in the full context.

I can see 16 calls over the lifetime of the request, but what was confusing me was how they could have 16 nested calls forming some ob_start();ob_start();...ob_end_flush(); Maybe some crazy way to avoid having to return text up the tree through function returns. But I read the post again and it said nothing about nesting them, so it's probably just something like 16 sub-templates or whatever as you suggest being processed at different intervals, not necessarily nested, with the gc not collecting frequently enough.
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I really hate that motto since it's so good at blinding otherwise intelligent people. It has nothing to do with anything. Google's polices aren't "good" and Apple's aren't "evil". They're both engaging in trade offs. Apple can make sure every user has a nicer experience at the cost of some freedoms. Android offers more freedoms at the cost of some people having ridiculous battery life, trojans stealing people's credit card numbers every so often, etc. Google has taken the exact same trade off that MS took back in their day.
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"I prefer math contests where any kid who can reach the library has a downtown tty good opportunity."

It's funny that you mentioned math, because I thought about it while reading the rest of your message.

In my university I know many (over a dozen) people who had their math degree (or most of it) done in high school/are in high school and are currently pursuing it. Virtually all of them (all but one) have a parent who's professionally into mathematics (most have parents who are PhDs or professors of math, another parent has a PhD in electrical engineering, etc.).
My favorite quote, and my motto when making anything

> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Also, that thing about the margin matching the color of the content sounds awesome.
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At least there's feedback, and you can immediately see what's happening! In the current configuration, Bonin's stick inputs were nearly unknowable to the other officer.
I am new to web development and have just started using/learning javascript and so my knowledge is limited, to say the least. But isnt what you are saying easily achievable through backbone.js.(by calling a set on a model and triggering an event which the view catches and updates itself.)
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Great to hear. Cant upvote this enough. Thanks for replying and encouraging a beginner like myself. ;-)
This is a great comment. I definitely missed this in my blog post, and I think you bring up a very important point.