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3d modelling is not exactly noob-friendly, not in any software. Google's SketchUp may be a slight exception, it's pretty easy to draw buildings in it but once you start to do more complicated things, it too gets really hard, really fast.

Blender's new (introduced in 2.5) UI is pretty cool. They try to have all operations available through a widget in the UI (with a tooltip), a shortcut key, a quick launch menu and through a Python scripting interface.

My favorite feature is the quick launch menu. Hit spacebar and a menu pops up, type in what you want and and it searches for operations using a fuzzy text search. It's also nice to see that you can adjust parameters to your operation and see your results live. Previously you had to enter all parameters beforehand and couldn't see the results, now you can e.g. draw a sphere and adjust the number of vertices in it, when you see the sphere.

Blender's UI has gone through a vast improvement and it's great that the UI devs have done their job well despite all the bashing they've had - I'm sure they would have done a lot more if they would have gotten more positive feedback.

Back when I started using Blender, when it was still a proprietary shareware software, most operations were only available through keyboard shortcuts that were mostly not documented. That was not a barrier for me, I quickly fell in love with the software.

Now let's hope that someone has the time to translate (more of) the manual to the new UI.
I wonder if this is because Microsoft is becoming better and better at embracing open source when it sees a business advantage to do so, or if it's simply a last-ditch effort to keep Messenger alive as more and more people use it less frequently or not at all because the likes of smartphones, apps, and Facebook (Chat) are becoming more widely adopted.
I'm sorry, but why is this on Hacker News? The app looks like crap! Yellow folder icons? Come on! It seems as if it was written at the time where iOS 2 was new. Not bad, but just totally not able to compete with fancy apps like FlipBoard or even Reeder. If this would run on Android, maybe. But iOS? The bar went up.

So, do I miss something here?
What does "with intelligence" mean in this context? The website has that tagline, but there's no explanation of it, or why this is a better feed reader. Given that there's no dearth of feed readers, they will hopefully do a better job of selling it on that page.
Granted it wouldn't work in many other classes, but my teacher for assembly language did something like this. First, your code had to work or you got nothing. You also had some time limit, to avoid ridiculously slow, yet working code. Finally, each working submission was graded by the number of additional bytes you used above the reference implementation.

And he knew all the tricks. I don't think anyone ever beat him. And he didn't show anyone any of the solutions until after the final.

I felt like I learned more from the few minutes I spent reading those solutions than I did during the rest of the course.
I'm glad! It was about the product, as it should be! Not about me, any funding, etc. It _should_ be all about the product, that's what will ultimately make or break your company.
9.5% is pretty damn good in Europe, I haven't really seen low APRs here.
Plus, grace periods are a rarity(more exactly I do not know of any Nordic nor Eastern European banks which would offer them). You use the credit card and you pay the interest from the moment you put something on the card.

I think US has the most competitive credit card enviroment.
Nope, Switzerland. The people here don't have the concept of having your back. They figure, if it doesn't affect their person directly, they're better off keeping to themselves. The neutrality of the country matches the way they deal with day-to-day problems within the country. This is an over generalisation, because there are some wonderful people here, like everywhere, but the general attitude that I've seen is the one I've described. If you don't fit the standard mould, or can't fake it, you won't be very successful here, and the standard mould is extremely conservative.

One of the important lessons I learnt growing up in Australia was that you have to be there for your mates, even if you have to put your body on the line. I've seen what can happen when you don't and I'll never allow that again, if I can help it.
I tried to download it using my 3 free downloads - failed miserably (got about 10k/s for the first 100MB).

So I'll be one of those leeches shortly...
Be sure to look at Knockout Model too - it provides similar capabilities to Backbone e.g. for things like REST/JSON APIs.
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It still looks a bit rough, e.g "Roster management is not supported".

I wish it would not end up being just a client concern but also impact server-side at some point thanks to XMPP federation. Google Talk does federation but last time I checked Facebook Chat did not. Such a shame.
Slightly misleading title - it's not scaling in the sense of REDIS MONGINX 2.0, it's more about balancing different aspects of your business.

I was about to say, i'm doing a startup on a $15/year VPS and sqlite. Does that mean i've got a good chance of succeeding?
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A true statement that looks carefully crafted to have huge loopholes.

Loophole 1: apparently they're OK with building software that is designed to allow public sector entities (bad governments) to obtain non-public information.

Loophole 2: I guess they're OK with building software that is designed to allow private sector entities to obtain public information [and... the part left unsaid: distill it to create insights not readily noticeable by others with access to the same public information, thus giving these private sector entities overwhelming advantages in things like figuring out how to manipulate politicians].

That stuff, from reading the quote, I am left believing they are OK with. Which means the statement just comes off as PR-speak, and disingenuous.
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What is Fab.com? The article didn't explain and the site is apparently by invitation only.
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VLC does use VA-API on linux, though. I guess the rationale is that people with high-end AMD and nVidia GPUs are likely to have plenty of CPU horsepower, and acceleration is mostly needed for people with those intel IGPs that VA-API supports.

(EDIT: the real reason VA-API is used over VDPAU or XvBA is probably pragmatic and related to driver stability)
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Have you tried it? NewsBlur isn't your average feed reader.

Also, Flipboard et al serve different use cases. NewsBlur is a writer's reader. Flipboard is a news reader. NewsBlur, with its intelligence, helps you follow authors, and on the web it shows you the Original Site. It's also entirely open-source, being developed solo by me: http://github.com/samuelclay/
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They say premature scaling, but what they actually mean is a lack of customers for their cost model.
Doesn't this basically summarize Microsoft's entire business strategy these days? Wait until some piece of tech is firmly entrenched, then move to implement your own instance, more often than not with an enterprise angle. More often than not infuriatingly incompatible unless your entire stack is Microsoft.

This happened with iPhone, cloud hosting, touch/tablet OS's; the list is endless. The only surprising thing is it took them this long to realize that Live Messenger needed to get onboard with Jabber if it's going to survive.
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That's not misleading, it's just an additional definition for the word.
would they merge in head to their build before committing for code review?
Maya has multiple scripting facilities. It has its native language, MEL, but for a long time it has also supported Python scripts, more recently with a new API. In fact, much of its GUI is built using scripts that come with it.

There is some lack of consistency between the different approaches, not just in the languages but in the presentation of the underlying data model, which isn't always helpful. Still, as a guy with a programming background, I actually found it easier to figure out how Maya works by playing with scripts and the underlying object model than by experimenting with the user interface. :-)
I was involved with the effort [to avoid] standardizing instant messaging back in 1999-2000. One of the products the company I was with at the time was offering was an instant messenger (with a twist that is not important for this story), so we tried to support all the prevailing protocols of the time (AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, PowWow, IRC, ... I don't even remember). And I was eagerly following the instant messaging standardisation effort at the IETF.

What became painfully clear to me after a while was that the big guys (AOL=AIM+ICQ, MS, YAHOO) who were running the show were all actively making sure that no standard would be decided upon. It was all dressed up in technical arguments, so it didn't look that way, but it was. Perhaps the engineers participating in the discussion weren't even aware -- it's easy to miss the big picture -- but as an outsider it was painfully obvious that the effective mandate that was given by the respective companies to their representative was to NOT standardize anything.

What ended up being the IETF standard was Jabber -- which was way too complicated and wasteful. And the reason it ended up that way was that while the big guys were avoiding standardisation, someone just put out an open source / open spec product which -- with all its deficiencies -- eventually worked well enough to gain non-trivial adoption, including by the IETF. And all of that happened awhile after the instant messaging working group was disbanded because of "irreconcilable differences" -- those differences being that every participant would only accept a standard that forced others to concede defeat and implement that participant's existing system (always in a way that limited everyone except said participant, of course)

Watching those discussions was an eye opener about how things supposedly work (and even look that way on the surface), and how they really work.

EDIT: REMOVED claim that Jabber/XMPP is still too complicated. I'm sure it still has 90% bandwidth and parsing overhead compared to comparable protocols (unless it's become backward incompatible), but standards have changed, and I guess that's no longer considered wasteful or bad engineering practice.

EDIT: ADDED: Just to be clear, this is an anecdote about the distant past (as in, 12 years ago now!). I have not been following Jabber/XMPP closely since 2004 and not at all since 2006 or so. Back in the day it was ill-and-under specified, ridiculously chatty (as in >90% overhead before you count TCP headers, both in bandwidth and parsing). What is acceptable has changed since then (no one cares about 95% overhead anymore), and for all I know all the kinks have been worked out.

And for the good parts - it is out there, there are multiple server and client implementation, and it works. That's a thousand times better than the product I was working on at the time, which was proprietary closed source, and though it was super efficient in every way, was discontinued and is no longer available.
I'm guessing it's the former. In the past 2 weeks I've heard MS submit a patch to Redis, they've helped bring Node.js to Windows, Phil Haack joined GitHub primarily to bring C# into that open source community's limelight,...

and now this. Seems to me like someone's been pushing the open source agenda within Microsoft.
I think these are fantastic finds and I'm even more shocked at Google's response to be honest. Companies like this are usually really defensive and threaten to sue you and cut off all your services.

It takes a bigger man (company), to admit they are wrong and reward people accordingly for helping them.

Although I would never be able to understand security on this level, it has always interested me since the days when hacking guides were galore across the Lycos and Yahoo directories
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Ah the beauty of capitalism; always trying to expand and grow and force people to accept its logic.

It also seems like the problem here is that the government is in control of things rather than the community themselves. You don't need private property to fix this problem.

Markets will make things just as bad, or worse. The reformer in this article wants to join the democratic-capitalist system. That's fucking stupid. What he wants is freedom and autonomy. You don't need capitalism for that.

The residents don't need incentives to improve their own housing. They need access to resources without being forced into adopting a consumerist lifestyle or a capitalist mindset.

Coal and natural gas mining are harmful to the environment and I applaud the natives for slowing down the development as much as possible.

The comments on the article are more sane than the article itself: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoppisch/2011/12/13/why-are-...
Lesson: a working, usable idea + Techcrunch promo = adoption.

And adoption is all that social services really need to get going, even if they're a joke. Longevity is a totally different matter of course.
Interesting insights you give here.
Do you still think XMPP/Jabber is too complicated?
Apparently Messenger does link with Facebook and Yahoo, but I don't see anything indicating a general federation.

It occurs to me that IM services have established a twisted, mutant, incompletely-routed version of an IRC network amongst themselves. And as far as I can tell, they still haven't gotten group chat right...
I agree. The new gmail looks great on high-resolution, large screens. But on my laptop, it's terrible by default too much empty space; luckily they allow configuring the spacing.
There are 2 parts in writing good GPU code, parallelizing the algorithm and writing the kernels. Automatization of one part will not save time on other.

Based on practical experience the compilers are pretty good nowadays. The fine details of the kernel do not matter that much. The performance issues tend to float around usage of local memory, bank conflicts and how much one kernel instance does work, which require hand tuning and in these cases the compilers are underperforming. Thankfully the poor kernels are 'just' constant factor in the general time complexity of the algorithm.

On higher level the most important thing is to describe the actual algorithm. If the algorithm is described as serial one there is no automated way (and most likely will not ever be general way) of parallelizing it, except running it to check data dependencies after which you already have the result, and the dependencies can change based on inputs so result of one run cannot be generalized.

This could probably be proved by similar method as with halting. The program calls the autoparallelizer and if the parallelizer says there is no data dependency between 2 parts it will make them dependent, if it says there is it will make them independent.

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There is no way whatsoever to take the hard parts away (thinking in parallel). Nothing will take bunch of serial code in and spit parallel programs out.
Seems like Microsoft is becoming more likeable recently. I hope this happens for their main products, too :)
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I'll have to skip on this one.
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Filed:	May 11, 2011
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Wasn't that Microsoft's playbook from the very beginning? Industry writers were commenting on that behaviour in the 80s and 90s. Microsoft was always better copying other people's ideas and outcompeting them in the late game.
What do you see as the main problems with Jabber?
If there is a discussion where troll bait might be appropriate it is this one. I actually read it as a sort of half-troll, half-satire on the original post, and thought it was actually pretty good. Though if I had written it I would have added stuff to obviously mark ti as satire like:

Because Linux is dying, BSD is set for world domination, and Microsoft writes the world's most robust software in the world. After all they write database servers which are used to run nuclear reactors!

(How many classic trolls can I satirize in one post? I don't know.)
What about Asia-Pacific? We have a service in AU which currently we're serving from our US-East servers, and I just assumed we would want to move to AP when we could, but is it not better than US-West?
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Well, meh. It doesn't scroll when pressing the spacebar, so this is quite bad from a usability point of view.
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Yup, there's only one implementation. But doesn't in change? What will the compiled code be like in 3 years from now?

The compiled code's prupose is to be optimised, not consistent. This is my point.

By restricting yourself to think Javascript when you're coding in CoffeeScript, you're producing a code that sucks in JS and in CS.
Why not? The people you trust to moderate on HN are really the some of
very best candidates for being trusted with a greater weighting on their
votes/flags. Some might claim it's elitist or unfair, but it is
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Additionally, just about any algorithmic way to assign greater trust,
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Pure "common sense" (cognitive bias) speculation suggests the two
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I haven't been following it since 2006 or so, but unless it got simpler since then, yes it very much is still too complicated. It does get the job done, and is in widespread use, and has multiple server and client implementations, which makes it a gazillion times better than almost anything else out there. Hats off.

It was unbearably chatty - to the point of being unusable as a server-to-server protocol in a high-load environment in 2003. internal protocols (and even external protocols such as OSCAR, ICQ, and MSN Messenger) required 10% of the bandwidth and 10% of the CPU power. Jabber was usable but very expensive as a client-to-server protocol.

Nowadays, CPU is much cheaper and so is bandwidth, so these problems are gone. And perhaps clients are better behaved and standardised now (I have no idea how video, file transfer, etc are handled these days; the answer back in the day was "not at all, or in a complex and non standardized way").
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Who said anything about refactoring? Chop it up into 10 files verbatim. If that is indeed all it takes to cheat the algorithm, it's not very useful.
Has this always been the case? He seems to have a point with scribd, but then it could also be that there were just a lot less people voting over all back then.