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Awesome, very interesting article that shows you don't always have to go full client side to get a snappy app.

However, I do agree with another poster about this being a turbo charged horse and buggy. You can't, for example, deploy the app to a static CDN, or serve templates from a CDN. Templates can't be cached on the client, so you've developed what is essentially an elaborate partials caching infrastructure that is likely very brittle and must be watched over closely to maintain speed benefits (keeping all those things in mind when content changes -- what to throw out and what to keep, etc).

Also, by delivering HTML you're limiting your presentation to browser-only devices, at least with this app. I know basecamp has a JSON API, and at that point, why didn't you just do a traditional client side app I wonder? I think the answer rests in the fact that you preferred the "niceness" of server side development, which is arguably more mature than client side at the present time. If that's the only benefit, in a few years, do you think that advantage will hold true?
I'm the same way but I prefer to be humble until I actually accomplished something worthwhile.
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One noticeable thing, tho not jarring, is how the window panels have vanishing points but the bars (cross) do not.
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With the local sole proprietor knowing your intimate details, you as the customer know his. You probably go to the same, if not similar church. You also have neighbors who you both have in common. You also know about his life, his children, his wife.

In the end, he's another person (not 'person' like target) who lives in your community.

Who, perhaps, is Target? Or Wal-mart?
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Sure, grab an Arduino, a color sensor, and a speaker.

Here's something to get you started.

http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/Reports/DIYColorSensor
In another post in HN comments, he stated that their users were confused about the two different icons. That seems to be more the reason that they are changing their icons.
Far enough, anything unchanged from XP isn't terrible. And the start menu search box is a big improvement even if the rest of the start menu seems worse.
I agree. Although I do think Apple blatantly copied here.
"Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?"

I wonder how much they paid to listen to an expert ask that question when it was likely asked, and ignored, internally for years.
I so wish so called 'journalists' would take this to heart.

Although sometimes they would 'harsh the buzz' as it were. I recall a series that ABC news did on unemployment and they profiled a gal who, in their story, seemed like a sad case of working hard and not getting anywhere. Unfortunately for them there was enough PII in the story that one could do a bit of Googling and figure out who this person was, only to find they were a convicted felon (drug possesion with intent to sell), in and out of rehab, and recently 'laid off' when their Nova job term timed out and the employer elected not to hire full time. That is also a sad story but it would not have 'worked' for what the news producer was going for 'Regular folks, working hard, and unable to find work.'

I agree its quite different to omit facts to make your story more credible, buts another form of this 'info-veganism' which. Generally I've been happy with the Economist (they seem less tempted by this sort of thing than others) and it suggests that there is once again an opportunity to create a news organization. (If you are old enough to remember, Fox News was created on the back of the first Iraq War with the tagline 'we report, you decide' trying to take the editorial spin out of reporting which was so evident in CNN's coverage, of course once it was a going concern that changed.) I believe there is a really disruptive opportunity here which I'm happy to share if anyone is interested.
#2 is kind of depressing: it doesn't even matter if we are in the right, because they have more money.

Now, I don't know if trademarks need to be registered, and I'm not taking a position on whether this is valid or not -- but note that they specifically aren't saying anything like "we didn't register the trademark so it was fair game, oops". They're saying it doesn't matter.

Is this actually how it would have played out? What's the point of having legal protections if the big guy can always squash the little guy anyway?
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Paula asked us a simple question, “your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?”

I have never really asked myself that question as a consumer. I have never felt "confused" that the logo is NOT a window. I have just generally liked Windows, the operating system, and have become fond of the brand after 15 years of use.

This assumes that your logo MUST be a literal representation of your name. I'm curious to know why. Without it, it just seems like an opinion of someone named Paula.
I watched/read some of their interviews. They were interesting, and some give us a very good picture on what the process of starting a business is like in the early stages. he covers a wide range of businesses too, which I like (sites from Thrillist to DailyBurn). However, I wouldn't pay for the content because it ultimately didn't teach me anything I didn't already know.

I did like the one video talking about someone's failure, though. I think they need to do more of it: we can learn more from failures sometimes.
yeah, as much as I sometimes hate their juvenilish behaviour, this time it actually helped...
I suspect they ask for a resume so they can send it to someone else. Extracting a resume from linkedin is work (AKA an opportunity for an application or linkedin feature).

I wonder whether folks are more likely to keep their linkedin profile up to date or their resume.
Something interesting to me is how the Windows 1 logo looks like the old ethernet 10base2 icon. A bit ahead of its time, in that sense --I don't think windows 1 was networkable.
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As opposed to an opinion of someone named zaidf?
20 years is on the long side, but I find it a reasonable amount of time to make it happen. And the point was more that it happened, and that it wasn't exactly an isolated case.
I must disagree with everyone. MS's downfall was not the Wizard of OZ style problem. The problem is investments. You see any good investor will tell you the same thing: DIVERSIFY YOUR PORTFOLIO. Sure if I invested into google day 1, I'd be rich. If I bought Apple stock when it was $80 a pop, I'd be rich. Etc. HOWEVER knowing that a-priori is impossible, so you diversify.

If you think Microsoft, what do you think?

> Microsoft Windows

> Microsoft Office

> Internet Explorer

> .Net

Let's tackle them:

Internet Explorer -- Use windows. It only works on windows. If you leave windows your browser is no longer available. Originally intended to make even the web work on windows only. Basically Macs were crippled to all hell. Counters -> Firefox, Safari, Chrome are all cross platform, most people who use that suffer nothing switching.

.Net -- Its Objective-C for windows. There are more uses for it, yes, like writing servers as an alternative to java, except they work on windows. End of the day it serves the same purpose.

Windows -- The flagship product. This is what MS wants you to use, and on your server, because this makes MS money. The problem is that MS makes zero dollars from a computer that can run Windows. It makes money on windows. Piracy is a real problem. If I was to install a pirated windows on a computer, MS is quite furious for good reasons. Compare that to Apple who will give you a copy of OSX if you ask them really nicely, and does NOTHING to prevent piracy. The only thing they care is that it runs on Apple hardware. More later.

Office -- The other flagship product. They convince businesses that sharing information is only possible with this. Period. As Google Docs, LibreOffice, Confluence, Basecamp, etc start to become more and more popular, the office stronghold is being chipped away brick by brick, and MS can't lay bricks fast enough to counter.

Let's compare that to Apple's model:

iTunes -- Initially shipped with DRM to prevent using anything other than iPods to play music. By the time they removed DRM it didn't matter, iPods were here to stay.

App Store -- You can only run the apps on iPhone/iPod/iPad/OSX

OSX -- If it's pirated, who cares, it only runs on Apple hardware.

Garage Band -- Eh, its cheap. Whatever, use it if you like. Its OSX only so we'll give it practically for free.

Safari -- Runs on windows and mac. They don't care about linux. Just to get people used to the "mac way"
There are some legal advantages, but it's largely optional. Note, for example, that Apple doesn't use it anywhere other than their written materials.
Okay, so I've read the comments here and I am the only one who really likes the new logo.
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I wonder if I could write a bot to game this in time. Pick an app with a known size and see how much the counter changes in the time it takes to download it.
Seems it's a highly refined version of what was done in the "old" days. I remember doing something similar for an old project in ASP.NET. (Well more similar to pjax)

As to performance on mobile, i think it might all depend on how large the html fragments are.
First: Pricing is set too low; margins get squeezed.

Fundamental flaw: eBooks have lower production costs than print books, so their prices should be lower. The article mention "warehouse space" as a constant cost, but if the purchase of physical books goes down, just print less physical books and reduce the amount of warehouse space you're using, which will reduce costs.

Second: Piracy runs rampant.

Fundamental flaw: The article says that piracy numbers will go up, but it's wrong. Piracy is high when the consumer has no legal alternative to get the media in the way they want it. Right now, eBooks are confined to a device or service, which is dumb. If I own a Kindle and download a bunch of kindle books, I've paid for those books and they're mine. But if I want to switch to the nook, I can't take my library with me. How does that make sense? Piracy is rampant because people have either (a) already bought the physical copy but now want a copy on their e-reader (completely reasonable) or they bought the electronic version for another device and want it on their new device (also reasonable). When the book industry gets together and stops being stupid, and offers the books in the way the consumers want them, you'll see piracy go down -- just as iTunes reduced the use of music piracy.

Third: à la carte sales whittle down revenues.

Fundamental flaw: The argument here is based around the concept that people no longer have to pay for 13 crappy songs they don't even want. I can't even comprehend what type of logic brought the author to think that this model was fair to the consumer -- this was a pure rip-off and consumers got fed up with it, that's why there was a change.

Fourth but not last: the loss of a product's brick-and-mortar distribution outlets reduces consumer consciousness of a product.

Fundamental flaw: What? What?? Because you don't get the e-mails from B&N or Amazon every week talking about their new releases and they're not advertised everywhere on those services and many others?

As for your solutions, wow, is this guy wrong. First he talks about fixed prices -- the cost of something should be what the market can bear, and right now, the cost of what the market can bear has been reduced. People no longer want to pay $25 for a CD or $40 for a book. It doesn't make sense to them. These things are too widely available to still cost that much. You have a much larger supply and either the same demand or a lower one (due to people not wanting to spend money in a down economy).

Publishers colluding to set prices??? Is this guy freaking nuts? That's an easy way to guarantee that every college text book costs $1000 and ENCOURAGE piracy of books. If you charge more than what the consumer is willing to pay, you're going to cause more piracy. If they want any money at all, they need to find a price that more people are willing to pay.

Everything in this article is completely wrong.
Hmmm, I think I've seen it somewhere. Indeed: http://stocklogos.com/topic/past-and-future-famous-logos
That does indeed seem to be the sense in which infoveganism is meant: You consume information according to a strict set of ethical standards (which you feel is superior) rather than what is most pleasant or convenient. Just like with veganism, it is mostly defined by what you choose not to consume, but it is also important to replace the "bad" things you discard with enough good things. It isn't just about "actual content being present in your media" any more than veganism is about veggies being present in your meals. It's about only taking in good content and eschewing content which (by the philosophy's standards) is bad.

When I first heard it, I didn't like it because I thought it was based on the popular conception that vegans practically starve themselves. But having read more about it, I think the concepts are indeed similar.
LISP and Buddha-nature... ;)
The arguments are weak, but the message is strong. I use Microsoft to play Skyrim, the rest of my work is done with open source.

Not everyone can/will take this route, but they've certainly lost me as a customer for anything other than video games.
You made a great point. Why did you have to ruin it with an emoticon?
Right, all libaries need to be compiled with -fPIC in order to be randomized. That tends to be much more common than -fPIE.
Does the kerning in the new logo look wrong to anyone else? That 'o' has an awful lot of space around it.
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Sounds a lot like JCL.
This is a contradiction. Either you believe the action is ethically superior or you don't. It makes no sense to believe it's ethically superior except when you do it. I would very much hope you believe you're doing the right thing.

I think you're confusing the belief that your actions are superior with the action of being a dick. They're not directly related — it's just that the latter is likely to reveal the former.
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Too late to do that. Apple is patching it in the next iOS update.
Because they're common speech patterns on the internet these days, where it's difficult to show emotion via text. You could have just as easily said "why did you grin after saying you ate pizza?". A better question might have been: "Why the 'sticks tongue out at in silly manner' face?"
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previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694
You don't really do a hobby like this because it will save you money, or because you need the end result, you do it because it's fun. I've just started building a reprap (3d printer) not because I need low-rez cheap plastic thingies, but because it's fun and challenging.
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"Modern JavaScript code", like I was saying, uses an ES5 shim and functions like Array's forEach, map, some, every, Functions' bind, etc. I just didn't want it to sound like I thought the only thing ES5 provides is forEach.

Regarding your other question, jQuery/JavaScript is a false dichotomy. jQuery's just another DOM library with a few utility functions.
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Why would you include ES5 shims instead of using code that's well tested, already written, and bundled in a neat package.

jQuery is the de-facto DOM library (whether it should be or not), failure to see this is ignorance.
Unrelatedly, here at Zite we use HipChat and it's pretty awesome, especially since we have offices in two countries.

Obviously, any kind of IM will "work" as a collaboration tool, but having a polished experience really matters. The persistence is key (start up hipchat and it'll show the conversation before you joined). Also, tons of little touches like being able to copy&paste images from your clipboard directly into chat.
Is it really legal to Trademark such an image? There must be a thousand prior iterations of such a thing.
Good god, it's about time this hits the mainstream dev community.

The W3C box model is IMO one of the worst design flaws in front-end dev. It's a model that doesn't follow that of a real box! When you have padding (stuffed newspaper, peanuts, etc) in a packing box, the actual width and height of the box doesn't change! Border-width(or the thickness of the cardboard) is also included in the box dimensions.

I've only heard very weak reasons in the past for the W3C version and I'm surprised we haven't gotten past it. I think border-box will become more important as we head towards cross-platform responsively designed apps and sites with tons of layout decisions to consider. With simple sites up until now, you could afford the loss of control or the cognitive overhead to figure out workarounds. But now, I don't want to think the unintuitive way every time I'm making a layout decision for different screens.
Why on Earth would someone use dark gray text on a darker gray background.
Aha, gotcha; I didn't get that part. Thanks for the clarification!
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You are right, I meant to use "bashing".

I do not speak english natively. But that has nothing to do with the bashing title. There is no "jQuery tax", that's a misleading statement.
How many people use Office to do Office-style work? Most people use 1% of Office's full capabilities.
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You're suggesting that Microsoft has brainwashed the global business community into thinking they need a single suite to perform those tasks? I'd say it's more plausible that they arrived at that conclusion on their own since it just works better
or "HiipChat points out controversial move that noone knows but now that I found out about HipChat and this move I won't use it now"
I've always wondered why it was a flag. I've never liked Windows, and the logo always struck me as creepy, like they're trying to make you choose a side: "Come march under our banner!"
Nope. n-d-o makes it right.
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Ever since Windows 3.1, I viewed the faux 3D window decorations as an insulting waste of my processing time. The Windows logo was merely an extrapolation of MS's attitude that "Now that we have such powerful computers, we can merrily waste all that power with this increasingly bloated but supposedly impressive OS."

That attitude was not unique to them, at all. Apple has been equally guilty of it for longer than Microsoft. It's that attitude that (in part) led me to move to Linux a decade ago, where I could merrily work without suffering the overhead of a GUI.

This new Windows logo is, in my view, the sexiest thing I've ever seen come out of Microsoft. I stopped caring about Windows long ago, except to note that minwin sounded awesome (but never shipped?), Windows 8 Server could run headless (What an innovation!), and PowerShell actually does seem brilliantly innovative (although it's unfortunately integrated with all that .net crap).

Now if this logo accurately reflects their change in attitude, to a minimal OS that stays out of my way, then I've got to say I'm a fan. They're unlikely to win me over from Arch Linux, but for once Microsoft seems to be on the right track. At least with respect to that logo.

Edit: I'm amazed that this post is bouncing between 0 and 1 points. In a discussion of the new Windows logo, I described why I like it so much. If you disagree, feel free to comment. Down-votes should not be used to express disagreement.
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And iChat's use of the speech bubbles for IM dates back to 1997:

http://jens.mooseyard.com/2008/03/the-origin-of-the-ichat-ui...

A very novel UI at the time.. here is a cached version of the broken pic: http://6.media.tumblr.com/MitMvSO0c6w81bbgrsKunjNE_500.png
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"but does it feel like a sustainable approach going forward"

Maybe you are right. However it it too early to do a big rewrite in JS. There are many JS frameworks but no clear leader. I am sure that in 3 years decision how to design you client side web app will be much easier.
Why would you include ES5 shims instead of using code that's well tested, already written, and bundled in a neat package.

I'm not sure how much you really need to test an each() loop. It is a very simple thing as are most of the other features introduced in ES5 that can be shimmed. jQuery doesn't include many of these new features, and I disagree with you that you should just omit them from your code because your DOM library, of all things, doesn't include them.

All the ES5 shims do is implement these functions exactly to the standard, and doing so is a very simple thing. Further, the code in a shim is only run in old versions of IE: New IE, and pretty much all running versions of non-IE browsers, implement these functions in native code (which obviously is much faster). jQuery does not defer to Array.prototype.forEach if it is available.

jQuery is the de-facto DOM library

No, it really isn't. There's a huge distance to travel from being the most popular to being "de-facto."
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This might have been a better page to choose then: https://github.com/liebke/incanter/wiki#getstarted

I get a bit put-off when the first thing I see on a project website is a source tree, unless that's what I was expecting.
The comparison with Intel's highest performance chip is irrelevant. Yes, Intel will always maintain a lead in raw performance. But the point is as ARM chip increase in performance to become good enough for laptops, they will still be cheaper and more efficient than Intel chips at that same level - so it makes buying ARM almost a nobrainer. ARM will keep pushing Intel up-market and away from lower-end devices, until there's little market share left in the mobile/laptop market for Intel.

Intel won't die. These things take many years or even decades. You could argue that the PC didn't "kill" the mainframe for 30 years since the PC first appeared, but what happened is that mainframes became increasingly less relevant, and PC architectures increasingly more relevant and popular in more than one market.
He is trying to explain patters and how to use it in real world solutions; that means cross-browsers solutions that do not rely on ES5.
Wow, I didn't know this! Cheeky buggers :)
Wouldn't 'avoiding the drama' be not making a post about this at all?
One of the neater features I've seen Google implement is that if you click a link and then hit back within a short period, a little link shows up next to that search result that says "hide everything from about.com?"