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Very annoying. Also, clicking on the background did not kill the window.

New visitors are unlikely to sign up before even viewing the site. You may want to popup that modal on the 2nd or 3rd page view.
voting for 'doesn't matter one bit' with the exception that if you want to work it into your existing site, it might be a bit easier to have full control with self-hosted.
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Wow, thats really something. The problem that apps face: to gain visibility in the first week.

This solves it. Would love to see an article on the backstory of how the idea struck you.
I’m amazed that the postal services decoded that!
I agree with the article, but I can't decide if sugar is should be the catalyzing factor or the plethora of other toxic chemicals they put in food.
Look at other countries. In Europe for example, many families drink wine with their meals. I knew the taste of wine and beer as young as 10 probably. My parents would have wine and beer with their meals and it never turned into a drunken debauchery as many American expect it to. I could tell they got drunker because they talked louder for example. I never got really drunk that young and never really wanted to binge drink later.

I got drunk on occasion with friends (and regretted it) but it most often happened with American friends (who were more likely to binge drink I think). So this bad attitude towards alcohol has somewhat rubbed off on me as well after many years of living here.
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It seems to me that RBS was very clear about the issue, they simply don't want to deal with gambling. It's a valid debate whether this is a reasonable or acceptable thing to do but it's massively misleading to conclude that this has anything to do with the company being a startup.

Personally, I think it should be obvious to everyone that gambling is a rather low profile business and anyone who decides to do business in such an area should be prepared for obstacles like this; I don't see how running to the press would help at all when the public opinion about your industry is not exactly very high.
That statement means: "they can only show the presence of 0 or more bugs, not the absence of any bugs". That's not just his opinion: that's a fact.
Reading around one paper's abstract on testing the after effects of prolonged tDCS, suggest there might be a migraine risk, I dunno, I never have much headaches, so it could be a risk I would not want to take.
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Wild guess at where it might come from:

32ms divided by 4 is 0.008s which gives us 125Hz (the typical mouse sample rate). So my guess is that some form of mouse movement analysis (like mouse smoothing) is working on at least four samples (so that it can statistically mean something), rolling.

Why it does so might be that 32ms is the right time to evaluate the intent of a typical human interaction with a pointer, maybe even using some form of inverse kinematics, so that when you move your hand towards a small button aiming is smoothly assisted, and/or click target is helpfully adjusted in size to enhance Fitt's law compliance (like iOS keyboard keys dynamically changing sizes depending on the sequence of letters, hence words you type)

Of course this bites hard outside of this environment. It seems Mac OS X needs an API to provide some form of raw value access to the pointer so that arbitrary software (notably games) can conduct its own analysis.

Anecdotally, my personal experience has been that it never bothered me, neither in games (FPS and RTS) nor in WIMP.
This is not for/against Ron Paul, but an observation.

Historically, the news has been very liberal/democratic. As FB/Twitter take a more central role in getting the polls or should I say "pulse" of the people, it will be interesting to see how that changes individual prospects of candidates.

For the first time, anyone can win with way less money. I like that!
I believe that people should be free to make their own decisions.

I do not want to live in the kind of authoritarian society the author lusts for. In fact, I would not.

This article disgusts me to the core.

To those of you who want to be free to produce, build, and create (whether tech startups or something else): If you think that people who claim that human beings need to have their choices made for them, and their freedom limited, are on your side, you are deadly wrong.

These people are not our allies.
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I read a neat book that partially covered this topic, called "Click" : http://books.google.ca/books?id=RK3OHBGj2SkC&printsec=fr...

The book talks about how interactions between people/things/events work. The author talks about how we can feel more connected based on vulnerability, proximity, flow, similarity, and environment.

The part on flow discussed how a champion racecar driver gets "in the zone" or "flow". As someone who's done programming competitions in the past (in a room where others are writing code against you) I could absolutely relate, time outside just washes out of sight, the curly braces become an extension of you, it's a down-right magical feeling.

There's another concept I feel is related to this, and I don't want to jump the shark here but, if you think about how we reach mastery of things we know (or, in other words, you can read sheet music, but can't play the guitar like a pro because every few notes you make a small pause and think about the next few notes), we're focusing on our impulses, or rather, eliminating them. This TED video does a much more fun/elegant explanation of impulses: http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passio...

I find it interesting that when I'm personally in a state of "flow", I'm working without any "impulses". To me it appears like the two are related: you need to be able to work without impulses in any given skill before you can enter flow (otherwise, you break out of flow). Now, this isn't enough, and I feel this is where we get back into the "connections" or "relationships" discussed in Click. To me it appears we as programmers have a better predisposition simply because the computer can create for us a synthetic reality free of normal distractions, we can tweak our proximity to a machine should we need to (mod your PC case and feel proud, love your mac book, set up your desktop just the way you like it), we know how vulnerable it can be to different things (viruses, long running programs, leaky memory), we experience it enough that it's very familiar and similar to things we've experienced before (try switching editors or color themes for a day, you'll understand how your similarity impacts your ability to get into flow), we can control almost all of the environment. In this synthetic universe we are better predisposed to making all the mental connections we need to feel like we're using an extension of ourselves rather than a machine.

This goes back to what we've long known: programmers need to know their stuff in and out, and need to work in an environment they have control over.
Not a new term at all. See:

http://www.quora.com/Brogramming/How-does-a-programmer-becom...
There are very few rational reasons to be using utf-16 instead of utf-8 and I would be as bold as to claim that the two aren't even close in popularity for non-ascii texts, utf-8 is clearly well above. Regarding memory consumption, latin texts also primordially use ascii characters, with only the occasional non-ascii glyphs (cedillas, accents, tremas and other such characters), the difference between utf-8 and 16 is that the former uses 1 byte to represent characters in the ascii range and 2 bytes for the occasional â, whereas the latter always uses 2 bytes, which would explain utf-8's popularity in latin based alphabets. Also, because having ordinary characters whose code points are padded with zeros is just wasteful and inefficient, utf-16 and its brethren utf-32 introduced funky attempts at optimizations such as Byte Order Marks. Why would anyone wanna deal with this stuff when writing an internationalized program?
> The problem is caused by a bug somewhere at the windowserver level
> of Mac OS X, and not by a mouse driver. You can supposedly avoid
> the issue by disabling QuartzExtreme.

So not hardware-level, but UI level. So it would make sense that it would not happen in games that don't use the windowserver's cursor.
I think that was Henry VIII that set up the COE
How is this not spam?

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

The site rips a story already on front page adding nothing. User works for Ziff Davis.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrsebastian
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I must be missing something. I've tried clicking on "Steamscope", billed as a free download, but it opens iTunes and lists the app as $0.99
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There are a lot of ways for mouse input to be annoying for a particular OS / user. The bug described by the article, though, is not an area of "preference." The article claims that every device input to the mousing system takes [an extra? at least?] 32ms to be reflected in the state of the window manager.

To the question of whether it's "noticeable" or not, it'd be cool if someone wrote a driver or extension to intentionally add some additional lag. So even if we couldn't tell whether 15ms felt "snappier" than 32ms, we could at least report on whether 64ms feels "floatier" than 32ms, for example.

Not totally surprising that QuartzExtreme was mentioned. Flowing everything through a resolution-independence engine (right?) doesn't sound like it'd be free, even with fast procs and graphics cards.
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Is it that you think it is intrusive?
While I'm not sympathetic to the tobacco industry, this is a dangerous argument because it depends on some agency's definition of "healthy". The article points to sugar and alcohol as being unhealthy, but what about saturated fat or fluoride? There is plenty of debate on those as well as many other foods and ingredients.
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A polemic is an argument leaning toward attacking a person, I do not know you at all and make no claim to be able to attack you and expressly disclaim any desire to engage in polemic or ad hominem. Some things are simply accurately described with negative labels.

Religion itself, as well as the ideal of moral absolutes defined therein being the sole source of wisdom for the world is just as accurately described by these words as fascism or North Korea's implementation of their Juche ideology.

Some things simply really are that bad. Religion is one of them. If after all the water that has passed under the bridge of this particular debate has not managed to sway your opinion at this stage of the game I am well aware that my simply stating it is unlikely to do so now. However this does not change the fact of the matter that all the labels that I used to describe the position you put forward are simple truths.

For the record, I am an anarcho capitalist, not a "liberal", and I do not take my positions wholesale from anybody else, I think about them extensively and decide for myself.
I was the same way when I was shown Mosaic, neat, but what is the point of it?
At the time I was perfectly happy with the following text based applications:
email,newsgroups,MUDs,ftp.
I'm a little surprised that mouse state is something that a modern OS would be sampling (as opposed to, say, getting events 'pushed' by the device up through the driver). Or is this one of those "all event systems are really sampling once you look deep enough" things?
Tell that to the Japanese, whose glyphs are always 3+ bytes in UTF-8!
You are not considering the case when a private picture is shared by some other person. Should allowing anyone to take a picture a themselves be a permission to do whatever he wants with that picture?
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I imagine you are talking from a US perspective.
I don't believe there is a negative perception of gambling startups in the UK / Europe, especially if you consider success stories such as Betfair.

What makes gambling low profile ? Its a business, that has a unique model that turns a good profit. Why should it be treated differently from any other startup?
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Disclaimer: I'm a Smarkets employee.

Well it's not entirely clear that it's just related to gambling - Betfair, the UK's largest betting exchange, do all their merchant transactions (customer deposits and withdrawals) through RBS as well - given they're directly linked to credit cards the risk of chargebacks etc. is clearly higher than a day-to-day business account that is mostly used to pay employee salaries (as presented in the article, Smarkets client funds are ring-fenced in a Maltese bank). The obvious difference to me is that Betfair is a multi-million pound company and Smarkets isn't.
> Actually now that I think about it, UTF-16 probably makes sense for non-Latin languages

It actually doesn't because of all the HTML tags being ASCII.
The more I use jQuery, the more of a mess I see that it is. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather use it than rolling my own cross browser solution, but it is not the library that Id choose first. I simply do not like the api choices, the lib works well, the api, as seen in this article, isn't too pretty.
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Mice don't send a continuous stream of information to the computer. Instead, they send samples at some rate. It's that rate that lloeki is referring to.
also, any API with a comprehensive developer community like facebook or twitter is a good place to start looking for inspiration too.
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So what?

It's like geek, artist, human, Minnesotan or whatever. It isn't a term meant to be precise. In fact you can also program a channel on the radio or on TV.

I don't think it's true that most people will consider themselves programmers, because they learned programming. Everybody learns science, writing or mathematics still only a small fraction of the people call themselves scientists, writers, mathematicians. In the last two cases it is something everyone does every day and be it just to calculate how many minutes you have to wait for the bus.

Also system administrators also use programming skills, still they are not programmers or consider themselves as something like that. Same is true for web designers.

I think it's a bad idea to say someone is a foo programmer, foo being something like "web application".

The author seems somehow mixes up programming, algorithm design and computer science.

Last but not least I don't think studying computer science makes someone a computer scientists, just like you don't become an artist studying arts or a philosopher studying philosophy.

I never heard of anyone having a serious problem with the term. There are occasionally discussions about programming and scripting, but that's usually to boast in one way or the other.

A more serious question usually is how much you need to know to call yourself a programmer, be it in general or be it something like <insert language here> programmer. It's rather funny to see that you can more quickly become a guy "knowing" assembly, javascript or C than for example Perl, Python or Ruby with Perl being interesting for you can easily get into basics, but most likely learn everything in your whole lifetime. Another example is whether you can call someone knowing just Rails or just LÖVE a Ruby or Lua programmer, no matter how much that person is able to achieve using such frameworks.

But for all these things one can usually just talk to people. It doesn't seem like a good idea to limit someone to a small number of terms, no matter how board or specific they are.
seems like they used copper coins and no resistor, not surprised that they would burn themselves.
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The article didn't include this information, but you set it up under Preferences > Personal stuff > Add new user.
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Actually, the whole web is unicode today, AFAIT. Unicode is defined as the character repertoire of HTML and XML. In olden days we had different charsets (like ASCII, ISO-8899-n and so on), but these have simply been redefined in a html/xml context to be character encodings. So ASCII, ISO-8859-n etc. are considered unicode encodings which happen to be only able to represent a subset of the full unicode character repertoire.
I have seven machines in my office. My most recent system build was a year ago when I ordered from NewEgg these principal components:

Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler (too big for shuttle case but very, very quiet)
$89.99

GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD4-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
$189.99

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($45.99 ea)

I bought an Antec 300 case, a 1 TB disk drive and USB DVD drive - for OS install - from my local Fry's store.

I overclocked the 4-core CPU to 4.2 GHz turbo mode. The motherboard does not support the built-in Intel video, so I used an ATI 5770 board that I bought on eBay for about $120.

I am considering upgrading the memory to 32 GB RAM using four 8-GB DIMMs.

I run Lubuntu without virtual machines for Java AI software development. I put two monitors on this graphics card. If you use the big Noctua cooler, it blocks one of the PCI-e slots on the motherboard, so you might need an ATI card that supports three monitors, or use a smaller video card for the third monitor.

I like the Antec cases because they can stack, have quiet big fans, are easy to open, and assemble/access. I build/upgrade a system about once a year and I am waiting for the 28nm Intel CPUs before upgrading one of my four Antec-based boxes - the three other machines in my office are laptops and not otherwise upgradable.

I dedicate the machines for various purposes: (1) primary dual-monitor software development, (2) continuous integration / subversion repository server, (3) windows compatibility, (4) simulated production. The seven machines are networked using Samba. I have monitors, keyboards & mice for each one and have arranged my office to easily observe five monitors so that I do not have to switch virtual desktops on my centrally located software development monitors in order to see notifications - e.g. email.
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Unfortunately this is the reality of healthcare for a great many of us in the states.

My experience with one of the larger HMO organizations here was very disconcerting.

I was bedridden with spinal joint pain for several days. They were unable to see me in a reasonable timeframe (2 week wait minimum), which meant by the time I was able to come in for a blood test the acute inflammation I was experiencing had passed, preventing screening for the condition I was concerned about (my dad and brother both have ankylosing spondylitis, making it extremely likely I do as well).

Worse than that, I found I had to educate the RN that was responsible for interpreting my test results (specifically that ankylosing spondylitis shows negative rheumatoid factor).

In addition to this, I've watched what's happened to friends with serious but not readily diagnosed diseases. One was in advanced stages of liver failure. In the end she only got a diagnosis by going to a hospital, making herself a bother and refusing to leave until someone took responsibility for actually finding out what was going on. The result was she avoided an unnecessary liver transplant. Her diagnosis was an uncommon but easily treatable autoimmune condition.

There's roughly 50% odds the transplant would have killed her by now (this was some 10 years ago). Taking an adversarial approach and having the support of a friend's mom who worked for the business side of the HMO in doing this probably saved her life.

It shouldn't have to be this way.

It's abusive to doctors that things are set up this way as well.

In any case, I don't mean to rant, but I just wanted to provide some counter anecdotes to to your feeling that the callousness and incompetence of medicine in the states was being exaggerated.
> a PhD, a statistician, and a Risk Management Quantitative Analyst (level II)

As an aside, I really wish that intelligent people would refuse to use their capabilities in the service of evil.
Exactly what I did too. Pop ups that require my email address before I can see what the site does? No chance.
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You can make it illegal but you cannot make it unpopular.
In the last decade torrent, emule, kazaa made p2p downloading easier and popular, but search was not very good so people did use websites to search the files.

But before that we used to have warez ftp sites with upload download ratio and other checks.

there is tamil proverb which means "Thief would be always ahead of the Cop"

these things would go underground and mutate into a system which will fix vulnerabilities and would become impossible to detect and penetrate
This article by the Heroku guys also does a good job of explaining the core concepts of a modular approach to writing your app: http://www.12factor.net.
Backward compatibility.

Millions (if not hundred of millions) of websites rely on jQuery, switching to a newer version that breaks old code will wreak havoc and make these sites unusable.

But this shouldn't stop jQuery from improving. If you have read the article from the beginning, you'll see how the jQuery team was improving the binding functionality. It has a cost, certainly. Maybe there should be a jQuery version with no legacy code.
Previous discussion on this subject (two years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073405
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Why should it be treated differently from any other startup?

A lot of people have the opinion that gambling does not produce "value", and that it makes people addicted to it, while running them into the ground financially.

I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but here in The Netherlands it's not even allowed to start a gambling site, as the state has an absolute monopoly on it (Holland Casinos).
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Thanks! I hate OSX mouse. If it's not for the good trackpads on MacBooks and the new trackpad, I could have gone back completely to Windows.

Bought Logitech/Microsoft/Cheap store brands, none of them gives a smooth mouse movement on OSX. It feels like someone's holding ur hand while using the mouse.
USB is a polled system. Doesn't mean you can't "push" data through it with some kind of supersampling, but you need to hit a rendezvous with the host controller.

32ms is FOREVER for game input. That's two whole frames of a 60hz game.
Not a terrible idea probably, but sophisticated users might be put off by the popup signup.

I don't care enough yet about your service to give you my personal information OR to even bother disabling Javascript which I assume defeats the popup.

Let me poke around without signing anything.
How do the mechanics of it work? Is it to sort of thing where the app is technically free now but will eventually switch to paid?