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Was there any standardized feature out there that canvas displaced? Heck, given that Flash didn't do generated bitmaps and Java applets were largely dead by the time canvas hit, was there anything that it displaced? Or even a similar competing feature in another browser?

By contrast, Dart is squarely aimed at competing with a feature that's both a defacto and a formalized standard for web browsers. Not an abandoned and aging feature, either: JavaScript's proven far more capable than most of the industry gave it credit for, it's been growing and changing over time, and there's currently very active development, discussion, and collaboration underway to improve the language and its performance -- and expand the features exposed to it by various APIs.

There's a world of difference between those two situations. In the former, you're introducing a new feature a platform doesn't have yet. In the later, you're splitting the industry on an existing feature.
That's actually really good to know. I'll have to look into that further.
Great idea. Haven't heard of this being done.
> E-books obviously make import regulations of books irrelevant so I don't think Amazon would bother setting up a retail operation in Australia.

I have a Kindle for this exact reason.

> But if Amazon Web Services set up shop down under, well now, that would be quite disruptive!

I don't see why they would. In terms of global traffic, Australia is a minnow. But in terms of cost-per-bit, we're one of the most expensive locations in the world.

It makes more sense for Amazon to sit offshore and send bits in, where they'll be paid for by the end user with an ISP account.

About as close as you'll get is Singapore, I think.
Has anyone even tried it? At first glance it tried to run a quicktime plugin through flash but you have to explicitly allow it with the default settings of modern browsers. Not much different than explicitly downloading a virus and executing it.
The overturning of insiders by hungrier outsiders is as old as civilisation. It didn't work out for the outsiders most of the time, but it did eventually.

Maybe that's you, maybe it's not. But you've got to play the hand you're dealt.
Don't confuse Microsoft's teams with the flatulating buttheads in the executive office. Most of the people working there now weren't around when MS was a dominant company.
To see what's wrong with UIs, we need look no further than X. Consider the myriad of UIs which run on X, many of which aren't compatible with one another: starting with Athena, through Motif widgets, through competing Gnome and KDE, GNUStep, and so on. There must be dozens of major toolkits historically.

What caused this mess? Openness and the hacker nature did.

A UI needs a bully: someone who says that you will do text fields this way, and if you don't like it, tough. Consistency is absolutely crucial in a successful UI. In Windows, the bully is Microsoft. In OS X the bully is Apple. Open systems by their very nature don't have a single dictator.

A UI also needs a bully to force simpler designs. X is replete with applications that have every single possible configuration option. It's part of the tradition. The problem is that this makes the applications extraordinarily unfriendly to the 99% of the population who want to get work done, in favor of the 1% hackers who like to tweak. It's a rare X application which doesn't suffer from this malady: indeed X does itself. There's no one to tell these application designers that their propeller-hats are screwed on too tight.

I don't know if there is a way to fix this. Simplicity and consistency are the two most important features of a UI, and the open nature of Linux, X, etc. simply run against them. When a bully arrives to the Linux world (such as Google in Android) you start seeing quality again. Without it, you wind up with Maemo.
no reason to be snarky

Really?

Until very recently Microsoft did actively fight the OSS movement with claws and teeth. Now they suddenly embrace us and we're not even allowed to be snarky?

Sentiments aside; as Antirez points out, supporting a win32-port would be a ball on a chain. If Microsoft really suddenly wants to be friends then they should step up and maintain a fork on their own budget instead of throwing a half-baked patch on the floor and expecting someone else to gift ongoing support to a for-profit company.

Otherwise, in my very personal opinion, they can just go to hell.
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The phone apps are pretty good (I use the iOS app on an iPhone 4, and the Android app on a Galaxy and Transformer), but the desktop apps still needs improvement (on Windows anyway).
Other than networking, check out http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs and select the "Only telecommute jobs" option.

Also try http://jobs.37signals.com and look for "Anywhere".

You could also use http://www.dice.com or http://www.authenticjobs.com/ and select the "Telecommute" option but I've never really had success with them.

The first two have been a good source for me. I'm currently in Japan and am still able to get interviews so being that you're in the US, it should be easy for you. (I also get a lot of people telling me that Japan is just too far away for working remotely with them).

I echo the comments Github. You don't have to put everything up, just a little bit to give people the impression of your skill level.
> how such a dismal political process has managed to consistently produce competent leaders

I find this a strange comment. I find the Australian electoral system (if thats what you mean by political process) better than most of the other large western countries (USA, UK, etc.). As for the 'competant leaders' part - I'm not sure the leaders have much to do with Australia's success at all. Sure, the politicians do some good things, but also some pretty terrible things, just like most other western countries.... I think the economist article misses the point too of the natural wealth (not just minerals), and perhaps also a quite worldly attitude, being at the centre of Australia's economic success, rather than specific politicians...
Australian economic performance is a testament to the power of protectionism. Nobody likes to admit it but Australia's relative isolation in the world as a developed nation it the best trade tariff the world has ever seen and helped them develop local industries that are more labour intensive and thus provide better income distribution than most other nations. The relatively recent revolution in container shipping is eroding the effects of the high cost of importing goods into their market, but that has dovetailed perfectly with China's hunger for their natural resources.
It is exactly the kind of perfect storm that every politician loves to crow about their policies being responsible for when the reality is that geography and external forces have more to do with it than anything else.
Wow. I was wondering how the hell TickTick.sh "extended" the bash interpreter grammar, because there is no obvious way to do that. The key is on lines 171-189:

awk -F '``' '{\

# ... jibbery awk-ese ...

}' `caller 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3` | sed "s/^/S/g;s/$/E/g" | __tick_fun_parse | bash

exit

So what this is doing, by Jove, is using the "caller" bash builtin + "cut" to print out the filename of the currently executing script, pass that as an argument to awk, and use awk + sed + the "__tick_fun_parse" function to re-parse the script into something that can actually be executed by bash. The "exit" command then exits the current run-through of the script, because otherwise it will reach all the stuff that would normally cause a syntax error.

This is legit hax.
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Title might be more accurate as "efficient encoding for HTTP Live Streaming." Also, from the article, it's with "a similar level of optimization to Apple’s own [encoding] tools."
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We also acquired a single word domain bitch.net - we thought it would be a good brand for edgy fashion or perhaps a counter culture feminist site, but the only people interested have been in the adult industry. What would you think the value could be?
I just went to the CloudContacts order page and seeing that I type my credit card info straight on that page scared me. I'm pretty sure it's because I'm an engineer but even if it said "Powered by Stripe", I'd still be suspicious...

I was really hoping I wouldn't react that way because I like what Stripe is doing.
I think the implication is that many would give you back 10 pages. And that's why I generally don't trust the products of most of today's "professional software developers" for doing anything important.

But I trust UNIX and the shell functions I write.
More of a benevolent dictator really
They would probably find out. By now, there is probably very litle in that drone they don't understand.
He's in college so relocation is probably not an option for him at the moment.
Not all planes are stable in a full stall, some lose longitudinal stability and will be almost impossible to keep level.
"most of these sites look stuck in a much older paradigm of thinking about web design"

This needs some explanation. The vim site looks dated, but clearly I'm not enough of an insidery web guy to know why some of these sites are stuck in a much older paradigm.

In fact, I'm kind of lost on the purpose of the entire rant. UI is important? Is that the takeway? Why even write an article about that?
I agree that UI in FOSS is often terrible, but as munaf mentions below, developers are becoming more design-minded and it's slowly changing.

It's hard to get designers to contribute to FOSS, I don't know why. A lot of developers simply don't care or do care but don't know enough about design to do a great job (I fall in the latter category but I think I'm quickly improving).

The recent trend is that FOSS projects want to have good UI, but they need help. Designers don't need be involved with a specific FOSS project, they can for example create beautiful icons and openly release them.

Toolkits such as Bootstrap by Twitter and Foundation by ZURB have been a big help.
Folks who believe everything are fools. Society needs fewer fools, so making fools take a huge hit for being foolish is a good thing for society

Not at all. We bailed out the financial industry because we like having a functioning financial industry. Moreover, said bailout was profitable. (Then there are the folks who argue that the bailout was unnecessary.)

I am interested to hear how you reconcile those two points of views, society needs fewer "fools", but yet the financial collapse is a case study in foolish exuberance. Do you draw a distinction between the individual and the institution or is foolishness excusable when we may have to take a hit for it. Even if we did not participate.

In my view, the repercussions of the foolish actions on the part of the financial industry where not allowed to happen, even if it would have been painful for us. One could argue that we need to be empathetic and learn from their mistakes and that we needed to bail them out for the greater good.

If that is the case, why does it differ for the individual "fool"? because we don't have to share in repercussion so we can therefore be selectively empathetic. You see from my vantage point, the "fools" that did not do their homework on wall street are no different than the "fool" that did not do his homework before getting into student loan debt or mortgage debt. You can weigh in on either side of the morality issue that we need to help them or not help them, but they both acted foolishly and other fools in the system helped perpetuate their foolishness, we have a systemic issue of anti-intellectualism and intellectual laziness. Whether you are for or against helping or are in favor of selectively helping the ones that will cause us pain for their foolishness, if we don't act, the fact remains that both sides are culpable. I know that you don't see that vantage point which is fine, but I am genuinely interested in understanding how you unify the two positions for different classes of fools, which from my vantage point looks like an argument for situational ethics. Which is what many in the financial industry used to justify their behavior.
I'm not sure if Australian consumers of the past 2 centuries would share your sanguine view of protectionism.
Some of the things don't add up:

The aircraft probably can't turn back if the GPS signal is also jammed. If they jam the satellite control they probably jammed the GPS too.

Turning back without error without GPS require either better image recognition than what is publicly known today (I highly doubt it has that for navigation, plus its 4 years old), or very precise magnetic heading, plus a map, and track the position relative to the speed. Thats doable, but, I'm doubting it.

More likely, once all GPS and control signals were jammed, the plane went into fail-safe aka going straight til out of fuel.

I also doubt that the manual LOS control was unencrypted, but hey, who knows. AFAIK one earlier drone got issues because the video was analog non encrypted video...
Terrorists do not threaten the power of congress. The freedom to share any data you want over the internet does. Digital rights, saving the children, pornography are all just smoke screens for the government to acquire a "thumb of smite" button to squish anything on the global internet that challenges US congress's authority.

Congress just got done bankrupting this country 800 times over, you think they are worried about some pennies lost by some company due to copyright? It's about power.
>a bit quicker

That's a ridiculous understatement. Have you ever done laundry, or dishes by hand? What about waking up to start all the fires around the house?

Or have you ever attempted to cook a meal from scratch, how about 3 meals a day.

Modern conveniences easily save 8 hours a day, on daily chores.
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Sounds like one of the main advantages of stripe is the API.

I wonder if anyone is working on making payments platform-independent so it's easy to switch between payment providers.
I think this is one of the better reactions in the Australian blogosphere:

"As much as I am wary of discussions of national character, there’s another aspect of cricket that I think relates to Australian character. This is the fretting that comes from unfavourable comparison with the unattainable."

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2011/12/09/australia-f-yeah/
Wait until, driverless cars are mandatory. Do you have any idea how many people die each year in car accidents. The vast majority of those are caused by human error.
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I think that makes it more likely it had a soft landing. Loses propulsion systems and the computer continues to keep the craft level and in control as long as possible which means gliding right up to the point the collision detection pulls up for a nice gentle belly landing.

edit: And to continue the baseless speculation, I think the drone has a transponder on a timer that is set to go off in 72 hours. Some hidden Iranian installation is going to light up like Las Vegas.
Oh sure but most passenger planes are pretty docile a stall.
Is there any case in the history of America where the FBI was found to be corrupt or in violation of human rights? What would it take? If the FBI starts murdering people and taking them away in the night, is there a process to check that power?
Why, with no need to maintain driver visibility, you could easily divide the seating into private compartments.
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Hey Jason, I'd like to help you out. This seems like a really cool idea. I lived in Europe and traveled extensively while living there. Can you send me an email? It is in my profile..
I agree, and that's where I start looking for the PayPal button.

It doesn't have to be one payment processor or the other -- many major ecommerce retailers, and you, too! can have a credit card form on site and a PayPal button on the page to skip it.

I offer it on all my sites and >50% choose PayPal, both for one-off payments and subscriptions.

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Not to mention that if I publish 100 articles, you still don't know whether I have produced a single useful idea.
> 1) The US's overestimation of its own technological advantages; 2) The US's underestimation of its enemies' technological capabilities.

Doesn't the cold war disprove both of those points?

The United States dramatically overestimated the USSR's military capabilities. For example, there may not have been any real "Missile Gap" http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/27/gap-missile-cia-...

I can't find a link at the moment, but the CIA grossly overestimated Russia's long-range bomber fleet from what it saw during a military parade - it turns out the Soviets had the same aircraft fly the parade route in a continuous loop.

Perhaps the real problem is our Military will often overestimate what technology is capable of, and is blind to some of its downsides.
Telephone support is not an adequate substitute for sane API design and good documentation. Or, for that matter, electronic forums where I can write complicated questions and get complicated responses.
> Consider the myriad of UIs which run on X, many of which aren't compatible with one another

If you are referring to window toolkits, they are all compatible in the sense that you can run different ones side-by-side. If you are referring to window managers, you only need one. If you are referring to a consistent look, the two major ones (GTK and Qt) each have themes which render their widgets in the other toolkit (GTK-Qt and QGtkStyle, respectively). I can vouch for GTK-Qt. It works.
Who told you that B2B sales was easier than consumer sales? I was working for a large tech company doing B2B sales before I left to start my own consumer focused business.

It's definitely much harder to acquire 1 "B" customer; however, their typical spend is much higher than 1 "C" customer. Perhaps that's what gives the illusion that B2B sales is easier.

As you stated, the sales cycles are long. You are at the mercy of the cycle. You gotta know where to invest time. It will kill you if you're not focused. Stay focused, take sales training, read books, have a mentor. Take my word.
This author understands that PayPal offers this service, but does not explain why, despite seemingly being positive about their past experiences with PayPal, they opted for Stripe instead; the factors they actually considered would have been very interesting: without it the article lacks.

I am also curious why their list of alternatives was so short... no Chase Paymentech? no Litle & Co? There are numerous players in this space that handle large clients, not just the three being compared here. The article only states that they did research, and ended up with that list. :(
RQ-170 Spy Drone impossible to bring down with electronic hijacking
The Iranians claim to have captured a top secret US unmanned drone using electronic warfare. This represents a major loss of stealth and sensory technology for the U.S. However, if the aircraft is indeed stealth, it would have been impossible to "hack" into the airplanes controls and take it over remotely.

A stealth craft has to maintain radio silence to avoid detection. Therefore, the craft must fly completely on its own, guided merely by its AI. Thus, the aircraft has no need for ground control. It would be impossible to hijack from the ground using electronic interference.

More likely the craft suffered a mechanical failure or fuel loss and gently crashed.
I meant AWS opening up in Australia would create severe problems for a lot of local high-cost hosting providers. But Amazon may not bother as US west coast latency is often good enough. (Keep in mind that Australian ISPs might route traffic to Singapore via the US, so although it may be closer as the crow flies, it's not necessarily closer on the internet.)
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I'm not enough of a developer to integrate completely with stripe, but we've been making the change to Dwolla.

Anything is better than PayPal. I appreciate their contributions to epayment, but their time has passed.

Other great options out there include Square, MoneyBookers, and Dwolla (if anyone is looking to leave PayPal after this article and the recent Regretsy one).
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We did an RV actually. Main problem is loading up all the gear needed for Burning Man. Between 5 people's gear we literally stuffed the RV. The water alone weighed a few hundred pounds. Most Greyhounds and similar are pretty limiting for luggage in that respect.
hi - I decided not to post the entire list in that bulleted list because it would be too long but I can assure you I did look into a lot of providers including Chase - I plan to post about all of that in another post hopefully next week. Thanks for reading the post and giving me your feedback.

I think one of the big factors in going with Stripe over PP Payments Pro was the strong technical side that Stripe offers.
The striking realization for me with regards to PayPal usage (and how both reasonable it is to provide the option, as well as how many people must actually prefer to use it) was the day I noticed that Apple, a company that often is described as having the valuable asset "millions of customer's credit card details on file, ready for one-click purchase of anything on their Mac or iPhone", actually supports PayPal as a payment option in their iTunes suite.
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I'd love more input here - the page is SSL - I purposely don't want to put "powered by stripe" on the page - so far the only one I have seen doing this (i did ask) is Kickstarter. If you have ideas on how to overcome your concern, I would totally love to hear it - thanks!
Even with a Kindle (or Kindle software) you still can't get the same books (in ebook format) as you can overseas. There are several fiction books that I just cannot get in Kindle e-book format because the local distributor hasn't authorised it or some such.
It all depends what you're into. I've been in Perth for 5 years and love it. The weather is excellent almost all year around which is great for cycling, and there are some beautiful rides along the coast-line / rivers.

Even though we are so isolated, we get some of the best house / drum & bass music acts in the world coming here, and combined with the great weather = awesome music festivals.

Additionally, I love the fact that I can drive to work in 10 minutes and the CBD in 15. I've thought of moving elsewhere, but in my opinion Perth (and Australia in general) has excellent quality-of-life.

Being able to make very good money as a developer is just the icing on the cake.
Interestingly, that is the reason I would go with PayPal over Stripe. Stripe's API is touted as "awesome", but I see no way to automatically reconcile chargebacks (the word "chargeback" isn't even present in their API documentation), and their "webhooks" feature is explicitly missing the critical functionality of "retry if the server failed the response" (making it totally useless to rely on: you are going to have to drop to polling to trust your data). I would thereby additionally be very curious to know what technical factors you found lacking with PayPal in relation to Stripe.
> Trying to logically argue with me on this is a waste of time.

As such, I found reading your comment was a complete waste of time as well.