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I've got a Touch Book [1] from AlwaysInnovating. Those guys are like energizer bunnies somehow they keep on going. Given the way the whole TC/FG thing came off and exploded I am not too surprised about them going dark. One of the quotes Scott McNealy made at Sun has stuck with me over the years, he said "Running a company is like running a gauntlet of windows that are slamming shut. Trip just once, and the window can slam shut before you pass it." That really resonated with me and Sun lived with the mindset that tripping was death. The tablet market has had some early folks in it, but they have not been able to use their small size to run faster than the big guys. And Apple of course threw everyone a curve ball.

[1] http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
I got married at 21, had my first child (of 4) at 21, and had the idea for Stormpulse at 23. I've now worked on it for 7 years and turned 30 last month. I feel like I've accomplished a lot in terms of having a very full home life and a very interesting project, but I still feel a lack in terms of having things "solved"--Stormpulse is just now finding its legs and I'm nowhere near being the father or husband I hope to become. I think I assumed I'd have these things more figured out by now, so I can relate. But I remain confident that each year holds better things than the last.
>> But the other reason is that, for all the reasons that SOPA may be bad, I don’t see people in the technology community making real and productive proposals for how to solve the problems of copyright protection and piracy.

It's not that simple to "solve" piracy with technology. Technology inherently makes it easy to copy and share things. The changes will have to come from the businesses that accept that they have a failed business model. They must accept that have no realistic way to continue.
According to the Downloads page, "The licensing of the product is under active design and development." Aside from the license, there's no code available either that I could find. Kinda disappointing.
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I think being involved or attached in such an inspiring community is really important. True, too many people out there have never ever dreamed of creating anything. However, here, after reading so many articles about the passion to invent, I am too influenced to do something.
Or at the very least, if nobody owns it (as some people seem to believe), then content creators shouldn't be deceived into thinking that they own it and that society won't just pass it around. Whether or not IP exists, society at large needs to mostly agree one way or another, or a lot of people will put a lot of effort into something they wouldn't otherwise, and they won't be reimbursed in the way that convinced them to put in the effort in the first place.
I don't believe that. I believe that lying is wrong, but I don't believe it's stealing.

It costs money to make music. It costs money to make films. It costs money to make art.

The way one is able to make those as a living is to sell the finished products and/or distribute them. If you consume the good and do not recompense, then you are depriving the artist of their means of making a living, which takes away their ability to make more art.
I call bullshit on your Drupal FUD. You can't code effectively for Drupal without a robust grasp on basic PHP, SQL and the Drupal suite of hooks. You better have some serious OO chops too or integration with stuff like Views is going to eat your face.
The sad thing is, you tell someone "Someday you're going to suddenly wake up and realize that 10 years of your life has gone by and you've not done anything you wanted to do." And at the front side of those 10 years its really hard for them to hear, at the back side its catastrophically depressing for some.

It is the essence of the mantra "You are going to be dead a year from now, so put your affairs in order." kind of motivation that folks use to force them to finish things they start. Life is the journey, at some unpredictable time the journey stops.
Isn't that achievable by using a symbol that just causes the next adjoined statements to be considered an indent block? Like the inverted or tilde arrow often brought up:

async.knead flour, water, (err, dough) ~>
return log err if err?
async.bake dough, (bread) ~>
eat bread

BTW, was looking back at the original announcement here at HN, and found this:

CoffeeScript + node.js + V8 could produce one amazing
language and implementation.

Little did he know... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080
"... and found it gave a lovely light", in his words.
It's hard for me to take you seriously when you continue to misuse the words "theft" and "stolen". Intellectual "property" has few of the attributes of property; concepts rooted in exclusive use of something don't work well for things that are intrinsically not limited to single users.

What you really seem to have a problem with, though, is your inability to separate mechanisms from goals. The goal of copyright is to incentivize production. The mechanism is government-enforced monopolies over intangible things which, for legal purposes, are treated as property.

The main problem is that the mechanism is breaking down because citizens are becoming more powerful. They have access to technology that permits copying and distribution. This makes cultural IP less property-like, and more language-like.

The correct response to this is not to make the mechanism more powerful, especially not a response that actively increases the (necessary) tyranny of government over citizenry. The correct response is to create a different mechanism for incentivizing creative work, one that is robust in the face of increasing citizen sovereignty.

I mentioned in another comment here a tax redistributed based on popularity, as measured by fingerprinting playback. That's just one idea.

But when you say that I, or people like me, support theft or stealing, or suggest that artists shouldn't get paid, you're simply wrong; worse, you're deeply misguided in what you're attacking. You are defending the mechanism. You should try standing up for the goal, with the rest of us.
I am afraid that I don't see advantage compared to php, at least not such that would warrant new language.

And you left curly braces in :) if I wanted anything from php out, I would make it like coffeescript with python style indentation.

I will check it out more but, it kind of leaves me cold so far. Sorry.
He also assumes cheap transportation of goods. Economics & business is poised to change as we know it when oil production starts flagging, if comparable alternatives are not found.

"Buying local" may one day no longer be the luxury option at the grocery store ;)
ICANN would be a start.
You deprive them of nothing. You make the classic mistake of assuming that somebody who is willing to consume media for free would also be willing to consume it for a price, and that therefore anybody who gets it for free is a lost sale. This simply is not the case.

This whole conversation is amazing actually. It really does feel like I've been teleported back into the late 90s when normal people still actually believe this kind of crap. It's like HNs has somehow turned into early slashdot.
So... you worked with Paul Ekman?
From the article: "Flex/Air seem pretty solid [work venues] for the next three or four years at least."

Not a good plan; then again, not a good general attitude from a technologist.
That's a pretty poor security question :)
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About 50% of the things on this page aren't HTML5, but chrome-only features.

Bleh for standardization, really.
off topic: Which is correct grammar -- "an HTML" or "a HTML" ?

This question has always bugged me.
You deprive them of the sale, which I've said.

If you aren't willing to pay for it, then simply don't consume it. If they aren't willing to give it to you for free, then it isn't yours to take, any more than it is okay for me to steal... I mean 'copy' naked pictures of your girlfriend off your phone and distribute them to the world.

After all, it deprives you of nothing, right?
You don't need 5 years of experience in any single language to have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of computing and programming.

I'd rather hire someone that can give you an approximate assembly of a C function (as executed by a CPU), understand how XML documents are stored in memory for efficient querying and parsing, know how to avoid cross-domain browser security problems, have an understanding of multithreading (locks, semaphores, race conditions, etc) and an application of recursion in some other language. I wouldn't care what the knowledge is, as long as it is well rounded and demonstrates that the candidate is capable of pulling apart complex systems to gain a deep understanding in a short period of time. The ability to reason (with passion and authority) about which language or pattern is best suited to a given scenario is also vital.

Time is a terrible measure, partly because it fails to recognise that 5 years of bad/shallow/incorrect experience is worse than 2 weeks of gaining a deep understanding of a new language/pattern.
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This is so true - for the past 5 years I've been working on web apps, but this year most of my time was spent working on a java server / client with the client being a web start applet.

It has been so pleasurable to not have to worry about HTML / JS - if I want a dialog box, I can have one very simply with no messing about.
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Why is using a solid platform not a good plan?
Unfortunately it doesn't work with Airs, since they don't have an accelerometer. I believe the only reason MBPs have them is so they can lock up the hard drive if a computer is dropped.
"an" -- the sound of the H is the key. It sounds like ay-ch.
Your problem is that you think you have the right to your idea. You're wrong. You don't even have an original idea to begin with.

"Oh this guy is a jerk, I'm just gonna take his album." Is that how natural markets work?"

Yes. The guy doesn't even have to be a jerk. What if I said:

"This guy is just going to charge $20 a copy for his albulm that costs nothing to reproduce? What a jerk. Is this how the world works?"

Well, not any more. The world never worked that way to begin with. We made it work that way for a short amount of time.
I may be wrong, but I'm assuming that the author is using "HTML code" to mean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

As for HTML and CSS, I agree that they're difficult to debug and that it takes a lot of experimentation to become comfortable with. Developer tools like Firebug and those included with Chrome can take a bit of the mystery out of HTML and CSS.

Since breakpoints don't exactly make sense to apply to markup and style sheet languages, I'll assume the author was complaining about the lack of breakpoints in JavaScript. In fact, you can use breakpoints in Firebug.

When the author talks about the apparent complexity of various languages and platforms, he should know that this is entirely subjective. I've been goofing around with HTML/CSS/JS since I was very young, so by this point most lightbox tutorials and similar articles look fairly simple to me. Step 2 in the tutorial he mentions looks quite simple to me. The only things that I suspect would be confusing to a newcomer would be the weird vendor prefixes.
Were you just reading the tutorial in one go, or were you working through it at the same time?

When I was ten I thought HTML was too complicated because I tried to read a tutorial in one go, then make a website. Turns out you can't do that.
In 2002 you could get in with a GED. From my 9 years' experience, there is a disproportionate amount of people with a GED in the Army. It also helps when you test in the top 1% on the ASVAB.

Also, the military has been increasing their requirements lately. As the war draws to a close, and the economy remains in shambles, more people start thinking about joining the military. This means that the Army can be more selective about who they accept.
The thing is, it's the copyright holder's right to do whatever he wants with what he owns. If he wants, he can put it online for free, with Creative Commons license, for everyone to enjoy and reuse. Or he can go and sell individual songs for 50 dollars each.

And it should be his right to do so, and this right should be protected.

If you write software, you can put it under GPL code and demand that everyone, who sells and re-uses your code, also release it under GPL. And that's OK, you wrote the code, you are the author, you can do whatever you want to do with it, you can set your own rules (within the law).

But you wouldn't like some corporation (say, Microsoft) to take your GPL code and re-sell it as closed-source without you seeing a dime of that money. But that's exactly what is going on at large with music and other culture today. Sites like MegaUpload, that is now seen on here like almost a harbringer of free speech, is making giant amounts of money on other people's work.

Now I like that Louis CK is selling his comedy online without DRM. But conceptually it's not that much different from bands selling their music on iTunes, only that Louis is well known from TV.
Flash and Flex seem safe for 4 years? Are we putting money on this, eh?
You can absolutely modify the body of not only an existing method but the very method you are currently breakpointed in. When you do that, Eclipse drops the frame, which means it restarts the method from scratch.

Invaluable for debugging.
I felt too lazy to be a Flex programmer. After years in HTML-land, MXML programming felt like an absolute kludge and Adobe's flex tools were slower than molasses. I was miserable enough doing it that I rejected multiple flex jobs that came my way.
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This article is on the cutting edge of technology, and absolutely correct, once you give it some leniency for some semantic errors.

For too long we've assumed the solution is tightly structured data, when nature shows us that this is incorrect. Yet we ignore it because it's hard.
That's funny. I used to do backend stuff in C# but about 1.5 years ago switched to front-end development. To me it's so much nicer. I really enjoy using JavaScript, even after C# got all that handy functional/dynamic stuff added to it.

Anyway, maybe it's just a shitty tutorial, there are a lot of those out there. Doesn't necessarily say anything about HTML.

Regarding the specific point about breakpoints -- yes, you can set them. That's really not an issue at all. Come on, it's almost 2012.
It is based on the first sound of the word. If it is a consonant sound use "a" if it is a vowel sound use "an".

That is what a professional copywriter told me.
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> 'can you set break points in your code and do object introspection?'

Not sure about object introspection, but setting break points is pretty straight forward using console.trace()
I think a lot of times it is more helpful to see things in terms of normative and liminal models and narratives. The problem at present is that even with this opening up, you still see male victims of DV as liminal (at best!) figures in the conversation. Self-defence defenses in DV however are still very gender-biased, and I still run into lots of people who deny that female on male DV is even a problem.

I don't see this changing right away in any fundamental manner but you are correct that there are slow positive steps in the right direction.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm not against commercial software. I develop commercial software myself. Where I was in agreement with Stallman was when he was talking about the "empire of the corporations". Looking at what's happening with SOPA, it appears that corporations may get this law past because they have been throwing money at the political parties. This isn't anything new, but watching the debate and seeing it happening before my eyes brought home to me just how corrupt government can be.
It may be technically solid but still a bad bet. Flex/Air are essentially deadend platforms as Adobe jumps on the HTML5 bandwagon with its toolset. If he puts his effort into developing his Flex/Air skills, he's targeting a shrinking install base and future market for jobs. If he puts it into HTML/JS/CSS instead, he's targeting a large and growing install base, for mobile, browser and Win8 desktop apps.
The whole thing was a sad farce from the start, really. I feel bad for the people who were sincerely anticipating this device, hanging out on forums about it and everything.
To echo your sentiment, It's a bit like measuring writers not by the books they have written, but how long they've sat in front of a keyboard.

Anecdotally, Not only is time a a poor measure of ability, those who use it as such demonstrate a lack of accomplishment. Compare those who write "N years of Language X" vs "Wrote A,B,C in Z using ...".

I find "I've used X for N years" to mean "I've done one year of X over and over and over" :-)
This is very important.

Code that is simple is easy to maintain. This is not to say that simplicity wins over the use of complex design patterns and abstractions in every scenario. It's a trade-off that needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis.

This is especially true in the open source arena where it is critical that new developers can come along and read, understand and improve existing code. Code that is too complex will not be understood and will almost certainly lead to errors.
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I had recently launched a site called http://okshr.com. As posted here last week, the site' main use-case was for site owners to snoop on the usability of their rival sites (test how good conversions are there on the rival vis-a-vis their own site,etc.).

Now I realized that the way the site is scripted makes it also a good tool to help people create mirror of webpages that are likely to be taken down.

Now these are two entirely different use-cases. As a new site just off the mark, does it make sense to highlight both the offerings and go with the flow, or should I stick plainly to one offering at this stage.

What are your thoughts?
Yes and no.

It's one of those things that are obvious in retrospect, but computers have had accelerometers used for sudden motion sensing for decades now, and most manufacturers employ this tech in some form or the other in their upper-end modules.

Yet it took one bright individual to figure out that there's no point in using the accelerometer just for SMS, when in fact, its API can be exposed to the world for whatever other accelerometer-related needs. I don't know why other manufacturers haven't followed suite, but given the state of the industry I would not be surprised if patents are, in one way or the other, to blame.
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A language used by beginners is not the same as one designed for beginners.

I would wager that a language designed for beginners wouldn't have so much inconsistency, nor dump the user in a world of security issues with little or no support (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection).

Other people have worked around these issues, but that demonstrates the lack of support within the language.
It depends on the robot.

A Roomba can be had for the price of a few weeks' groceries.

Industrial assembly robots run about $60k, though deployment costs are over 3x that. Curiously, reprogramming a robot is considerably more expensive than the robot itself, according to one source.

If you have a well-defined, and reasonably attainable task, costs are likely predictable and possibly finite. If you've got a poorly defined and hard-to-reach goal, expenses will likely rise to meet resources.
He is, by choosing not to learn some new skills.
When ever a new language is released I feel like it should come with a list along the lines of

"Taken from C: Comments, semicolins
Taken from C++: Classes
Taken from <insert here> : weak typeing"

or something of the like. Just so we know what were getting into.
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Yeah, but mainly because Drupal is a pile. CCK & custom forms seems about four times more complicated than just doing it in raw PHP. So that is not necessarily taking anything away from the intelligence of the developers, only pointing out they are coding against the abstraction, not the plumbing.

Still I'd bet the majority of 'Drupal developers' are just folks who know what the right modules are & some customization tricks.
I looked in to it. While technically possible it looks like you'll have to include a script to implement the python-like objects. That's a bit more than I wanted, just to write javascript in python syntax... so I guess it's not very practical.
Please don't embed videos coding videos so small that you can't read the code. And please add some commentary rather than a techno track. I got no information at all from the video.
Actually, this criticism is true when you use HTML for what it was not intended to do : Make pretty renderings. The core functionality of HTML is to provide hyperlinked data. It does that concisely and efficiently. CSS and DIVs are a mere kludge added on top of a language that is supposed to transmit mainly semantical data.

I really wish xhtml would have won in place of HTML/CSS. This kind of things would have been far more easy
I think we're getting at the same thing. The time example is used as a comparative generalization that there is a need to focus and understand the fundamentals. The point being that given some period of time, if an average individual chooses to learn 10 languages at once, they probably wont master the fundamentals, compared to mastering those in one language. Of course there is the side case that comparing different languages and their patterns will actually be even more valuable in overall understanding, I would have to side that one first needs a deep enough understanding for that to be an advantage.
I know, I just was joking around :)
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I don't think I've ever seen public relations people burn a bridge like that. They must be annoyed.