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Did you read the link? He specifically addresses a subset of your issues:

This doesn't mean eliminate all choice. There are enough choices that users will have to make anyway: the way their document will look, the way their web site will behave, or anything else that is integral to the work that the user is doing. In these areas, go crazy: it's great to give people choices: by all means, the more the merrier. And there's another category of choice that people like: the ability to change the visual look of things, without really changing the behavior. Everybody loves WinAmp skins; everybody sets their desktop background to a picture. Since the choice affects the visual look without affecting the way anything functions, and since users are completely free to ignore the choice and get their work done anyway, this is a good use of options.

(Note this part: everybody sets their desktop background to a picture)
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Whatever happened to web standards?

background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ECECEC 50%, #D1D1D1 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #ECECEC 50%, #D1D1D1 100%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ECECEC 50%, #D1D1D1 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ECECEC 50%, #D1D1D1 100%);
background: linear-gradient(top, #ECECEC 50%, #D1D1D1 100%);

Wasn't the whole point of web standards to move beyond bullshit like that?
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There's no BIOS on ARM. BIOS is x86-only.
You have a point there considering that a few of those were considered either lunatics, heretics or idiots in their own time. And I'm not convinced that we'd be able to recognize their genius even with an additional 20-30 years with them.
Not the same.
The editor itself supports almost all file types with basic auto-completion.
SublimeCodeIntel supports a few scripting languages with more intelligence.
SublimeClang doing same smart job for C/C++/ObjC.

It's just based on your work pattern to decide which one to use.
For me, all 3 of them are all very useful everyday.
I'm going to disagree from experience. I'm a non-technical founder (admittedly versed in tech, but not a coder) and I've managed to build a stealth company that's in a very successful invite-only beta with the help of two talented freelancers. The company is on track to be cash-flow positive even before I find the mythical co-founder, and we've built an architecture that scales.

This is the second time I've created a site with freelancers and it's not easy - I've made plenty of mistakes.

But it is very doable.

Anyone who's interested in what I'm up to (making news sites better for readers and publishers) or how we operate, check out my profile.
> I'm a little surprised all the people who were so up in arms about the Microsoft "monopoly" ten years ago aren't out in the streets today lighting torches and sharpening their pitchforks to go after Google.

There is nothing wrong with monopolies, they are a natural part of a healthy economy and they are everywhere around us.

The problem is when companies abuse of that monopoly to gain unfair advantages in other markets. That's what Microsoft did. So far, Google hasn't shown any sign of doing such a thing.

Obviously, we should keep being vigilant.
I'm quite certain that most companies do not use GH. The number is probably close to 1% (of tech companies).
"Android Design"

.../index.html

It's the little things that matter. This is shameful for a company so big.
I feel SublimeClang is a must have for C/C++/ObjC developers
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BeOS had an agreement with Hitachi to distribute BeOS on some of their systems. Microsoft also had an agreement with Hitachi (and others?) that prevented Hitachi from displaying an operating system selection menu on boot. That is why we do not have BeOS today, and is only one example of the countless times Microsoft underhandedly and illegally (as determined by courts on multiple continents) harmed consumers and competitors.

Read the first page of this: http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/exhibits/1584.pdf

Relevant section:

The BeOS is bundled with the machine and is already pre-installed
on the hard drive. As shipped from the factory, your FLORA Prius
will NOT boot the BeOS...

Edited to add: We can never tell what would have happened to these competing systems without Microsoft's manipulation of the market, but Microsoft's involvement in their demise is a historically and legally documented fact.
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Can't they somehow publish the current state of things, let anyone who wants to verify it from the public record building a web of trust, then go from there forward?

Or is there some subtle flaw in that idea?
I was unschooled. My parents are great, college-educated, knowledgeable people, but they're not preeminent scholars or trained teachers. They pretty much let me do what I wanted, and there were definitely times growing when I slacked off and did nothing remotely of value. However, I was always interested in computer programming, and I devoted a lot of time to learning it. My parents helped me get books and other resources, and I learned a lot from online material as well.

I launched a startup almost three years ago, when I was 18. It's doing very well.

I'm lucky that I happened to get into programming. It's cheap, (relatively) easy to learn on one's own, and it also helped me to learn bits of other fields. I honestly don't know how I would have turned out if I had gotten into something else, so this might be a testament to programming rather than to unschooling.
Yeah. Ventrilo is used by online gamers to coordinate game play that requires tight and intricate cooperation... not unlike software development. Rather than being always on it works "walkie-talkie" style requiring you to push a button to speak OR it can self activate once your mic volume exceeds a threshhold you set. We've found it doesn't have the friction of a Skype call because you are immediately connected to everyone in your room, and you get complete visibility into what all the rooms are and who is where... much like a real team room.
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There are two different "we"s here. There's "we" as in constituents of a government this article wants to regulate this activity, then there's "we" as in potential consumers of these products. I'm merely arguing that, unlike this blog/article/whatever, we should not be pushing government to deny Microsoft's right to enter into agreements with manufacturers to make secure boot a requirement for certain Windows-certified devices. The other "we" can make moral judgements of the practice, I have no problem with that.
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Yes. But forward-consistency and early access are both valuable for site-makers, so pre-standardized features are prefixed in case they change when the standard comes out.

If you want to use standards, you need to select what's available to you by your target audience, and ignore the non-standard-compliant cases. If you want to do things, and keep as large a target audience as possible, you need to either hack them together with old tech or jump through hoops to do it with new tech. Especially given the web's rocky past, many developers would prefer to use the new stuff. And there are tools to help - Less or Scss, for instance, make those prefixes essentially free.

But that's just a fact of programming in general - you could write a web-app and get it on any computer with a modern browser. Or you could write it in Ruby, and get it on any computer with a Ruby interpreter, and include an installer / instructions for those that don't. Or you could write it in C, and get it on any computer with a C compiler, and you may have to write your own library code / preprocessor controls to handle strange architectures, and change things based on your target OS. Or you could write it in assembly, and have it run on almost anything, but have to handle multiple flavors and an endless variety of available memory, and input and output devices.

Or do any of the above, pick a subset of the devices that are technically capable of reading your code, and screw the rest. Porting Doom 3 to Commodore 64 probably isn't going to work, despite the code being written to the standard of whatever language it was written in (probably C, which I will assume for now), and compilers adhering to the same standard for targeting the C64. That you can't run Doom 3 on your C64 doesn't mean the standard is broken or useless.

--

The nice thing about those prefixes is that, in general, it means you can use new features and know they'll work as you designed for years to come. If a re-design every year or so is cheaper than vendor prefixes, then yes, they're a pain - wait until the standard comes out. If not, they're a time saver to get handy new features a couple years early, and free switch-over to the standard when and where it's implemented.
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It didn't topple java but it created a viable altenative. Think how many more MS shops would be looking at Java if C# didn't exist.
You're not thinking big enough. Imagine a rewinding debugger that records a complete execution of your program. Then whenever your cursor moves, the debugger could step to a point when that line of code was executing and give you autocomplete suggestions based on the state of the program at that time.
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Interesting how they make sure to say that you shouldn't use bottom tabs like in iOS. For my project I decided to do exactly that instead of using an Android standard action bar, because:

1:The bottom bar fits 5 items. An action bar needs to have the app name as well, which means it can't have 5 items anymore. Having a "More" option is just dumb.

2:The iOS bottom bar has text underneath its icons and the action bar doesn't. I'm afraid the icons I have aren't obvious enough without text.

3:This is a conversion from iOS so the images are already made

4:Getting an Android action bar to work on older versions is very difficult. The Android compatibility library doesn't help here, and the third party libraries I looked at were not mature enough. I'm doing this work as part of a fixed price contract so I can't waste days getting it to work reliably.

Bottom line: Android apps would look a lot better if doing things the right way was also the easiest way.
If you don't have a deployment strategy then you probably shouldn't be using FTP in the first place, it's a sign you're doing something wrong.

Capistrano, as you mention, and tools like it, are the only way to go now. You can't just slap a few files on the server and call it a day like you could with some static HTML sites.
"Why did SimpleGeo fail?

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Sorry, that's not a browser, it can't even run Javascript. It is basically a web proxy.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
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Browsers like Firefox and Opera Mobile are explicity banned by Apple.
I don't know if anyone cares, but Wikipedians have been discussing a SOPA action for some months now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative

The Wikimedia Foundation will support whatever the community decides. And the community is not waiting for a "money bomb" or whatever. So I don't think donations are going to matter in the slightest.

Activists' support for a boycott may influence it a little bit, but it's really going to be a matter of consensus, and then someone in the community stepping up to the plate to implement something.

The proposals have "triggers" attached, like, "if SOPA is going to a floor vote, trigger blackout 48 hours beforehand" (that's just an example). Nobody has yet talked about a trigger in sympathy with a site like Reddit.

In my opinion, while it might make sense for Reddit to go dark when kn0thing is testifying before a committee, I think there is some risk of weighing in too early. You can't do this sort of thing twice.
It's almost as if being Right On The Internet doesn't mean anything in the real world!
You'll find out quickly that off-the-cuff humor isn't tolerated on HN. Humor only very occasionally survives the downvote democracy, and usually when it's an extraordinarily nerdy joke by someone recognized. This may seem hurtful or annoying at first, but it keeps the signal to noise ratio very high here.
There are no "distributions"
There is bias towards Java platform.
No, not really... according to the snopes link:

"""Does this mean that everyone who warbles "Happy Birthday to You" to family members at birthday parties is engaging in copyright infringement if they fail to obtain permission from or pay royalties to the song's publisher? No."""
The benefit of being able to use prefixed features sooner outweighs the cost of having to wait for the standards process to complete, then for browser vendors to implement the features, then for those features to ship in some future version. Prefixed features are about creating value sooner, and they do, but it is unfortunate that the standards process can't keep up.
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Where do you get no prior contact from?

The fact that SolidCoin had stripped the copyright notices from the fails and were fraudulently claiming to have rewritten everything (as part of their process of closing access to Solidcoin and putting it under a restrictive license) was a popular discussion subject on the AltChains forum and had come up multiple times.

They also apparently violate the Berkley DB license.
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The industry term for what you're (approximately) looking for is CNAM, a search on that should be fruitful.
Whatever the solution, buy your own domain name, and point the MX records to whatever you end up choosing. Then you really own your email address, and even if you have to jump from one server to another, at least you won't ever have to change your identity.

I'm still happy with Gmail (google apps standard edition with my own domain name, but basically still gmail) but I've used fastmail.fm in the past and it's great.
Microsoft is nowhere close to being a monopoly on ARM tablets. x86 programs(that make MS dominant on PCs) won't even run on Windows 8 ARM tablets. You seem to have misspelled Apple.
Vendor lockout is not the worst part.

I'd worry much more about the executive branch.

http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/139791
http://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/4957
See also the time ASCAP went after the Girl Scouts for royalties over campfire songs, which can hardly be construed as "commercial uses" under any reasonable definition. You will note their concern is over "public performance." Maybe I wasn't nitpicky enough when I said everyone, but I don't know any people who have only sung "Happy Birthday" privately and never sung it in school, a restaurant, or any other public place. Anyhow, as for the Girl Scouts:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/17/nyregion/ascap-asks-royalt...

"Things heated up in March [1995], when Ascap sent a mailing to 6,000 camps (out of 8,000 in the United States) and informed them that they had to pay royalties for public performances. But Ascap did not specify what it meant by ''public performance,'' and of necessity did not include a list of its four million songs. (Ms. Bergman says they are available on the Internet; a computer printout of the material is five feet high.)

It did, however, include a schedule of annual fees that went as high as $1,439 for large year-round camps."

And yes, ASCAP eventually backed off after the bad PR nightmare they generated by demanding that Girl Scout camps either pay them fees or tell the kids they're not allowed to sing. From the same article:

''What does the word 'nightmare' mean to you?'' she said. ''We're fighting for our lives. We have to do a lot of work to tell people that we're not greedy songwriters.''
>C# has yet to drive meaningful business value for Microsoft.

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The least hassle way I've found of doing what you're doing is to just purchase a theme from ThemeForest (http://www.themeforest.net/) and then customize it from there. Look under Site Templates and they're all just HTML/CSS/JS and around $10-$20.

Case in point: I just spent $14 on a theme, and then spent a couple of hours trading sections around, putting in custom graphics, changing colors, spacing, layout, etc. Doesn't look much like the original, so not a total copy.

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I initially agreed with you. Pragmatically, as everyone said, HN already is aware of SOPA, shutting it down will be useless. However, at an ideological level (we want internet freedom), the tech community must manifest its protest in a form of coordinated show of disapproval, we cannot be silently and passively opposed to something, and expect the bill not to pass. The OWS movement would be the obvious example of such coordinated "show".
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Furthermore, death comes at a huge cost of losing the accumulated knowledge of all those people.

Really, "cure aging" is the same as "cure cancer" or "cure diabetes". Disease prevention is just a shortsighted version of curing the problem of aging in general.
Why is it not anti-competitive for Apple to ship their hardware with a completely locked bootloader?

Because there is a large market for non-iOS based phones.

The market for non-Windows based laptops is much, much smaller (basically OS X).
Ah, ok. Going to have to look into it more then.
Yep, it does make you wonder, doesn't it?

I thought ... tiresome browser-compatibility fixes were a thing of the past

Not by a long shot. One thing to keep in mind are browser half-lives. IE's decay rate, in particular, is horrible. IE 6 is still a problem in some sectors, and IE 7 & 8 still linger just as much, if not more. IE 9 is a huge step in the right direction, but still, more advanced features such as support for local databases, ES 5 strict, web sockets, and web workers, won't land until IE 10. The same is even true for lesser features that other browsers have had for years, like text shadow.
Since Win32 programs won't even run on ARM tablets

Actually, they will if they are recompiled to target WindowsARM: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8254846/does-windows-8-ar...

Also, .NET applications will run on ARM.
Getting started is really the best and easiest way to acquire design skill and taste.

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As for getting started, do whatever is fun for you. Photoshop some satirical ads for PETA. Recreate the Nike logo. Etc. etc.
That's a really good question.

Microsoft Labs has been among the more phenomenally unproductive corporate R&D operations of all times. The amount of talent that was sucked in there ... never to be heard from again, boggles the mind.

I'm not convince that this was a deliberate strategy, but it seems reasonably plausible.
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>Because there is a large market for non-iOS based phones

What about tablets?

>The market for non-Windows based laptops is much, much smaller (basically OS X).

ARM laptops are way different. For starters, they wont run any programs that run on other laptops.
That sounds like some of the posts on this blog: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/

Also, related to source control but not Git, a few years ago Google had a tech talk about writing a Mercurial storage system on top of BigTable: http://www.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/MercurialBigTa...
This idea gets worse everytime it's brought up.
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I think the lesson is not that TCP should not be used, but rather that service-affecting code-paths should not block inappropriately.

I disagree with the conversion to UDP, and consider it an anti-pattern. In general, whenever you have many front-ends sharing a back-end service (in this case syslog), some flow-control is necessary - and UDP with no flow control will one day come back to bite you.

Consider an attack or peak load event on the front-ends, now in addition to the direct capacity problems that that may induce, you also impact your backend and control-planes by flooding a network or service with uncontrollable UDP.

As others have noted; it would be better to use non-blocking TCP I/O with some bounded queuing for retries. It's also generally a good idea to use a LIFO queue, so that when the backend is restored after an outage, the recent data takes priority over old data (for logging information the health of the live system is most important).
sorry -- I missed your comment until today. You've compiled a great list there! If I had that list when I first started using js(actually coffeescript) for data visualization, it would have saved me a lot of time and effort. I really can't think of anything to add. As I was reading it, I was thinking you should mention cube, but then you did. That will be a great resource to people as more and more web datavis moves away from ActionScript and to Javascript.

Regarding Raphael, I think g.Raphael is a pretty high level interface for creating charts. It's find of on the level of protovis, which was what Mike Bostock was working on before he started d3, basically a declarative approach to chart generation. With d3, he went much lower level. And while this approach offers much greater flexibility, the learning curve is quite steep. It's not a framework you can pick up in a day or two unless you're already quite comfortable with Javascript, SVG, and the DOM.