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> why make the same (or rather opposite) mistake on purpose?

The thought is that it's low effort to click a button on a computer to change the font of something you're reading (vs high effort to do the analogous thing to text you've written). The intention is to augment latin text in a small way (you can use it when you feel like it) more so than to replace it.

> Wait, what problem does this solve?

It's helpful to consider the extremes. Let's say the convention was to represent the "A" sound you were supposed to draw a tropical island, including palm trees and a peaceful lagoon and a volcano. (And for the "B" sound, you draw a herd of buffalo, etc.) We would probably all agree that the palm trees are superfluous and should be removed. We'd probably further agree that maybe something even simpler like just the letter "A" would be an even bigger improvement. Desert islands take up a lot of space on paper, are a lot for the eye to look at, and when viewed en masse are less visually recognizable than simpler shapes.

Along that line of thinking, why not simplify even further? Whatever your objections, you'll probably concede 2 or 3 dots is simpler than most letters.

A valid objection would be that there are some detractions that outweigh the benefits of increased simplicity and efficiency, or that the benefits aren't significant enough to bother with. But, I think the jury is still out on that.
> Note that a valid critique of the many possibly mappings without patterns compared to the many possible mappings with patterns is that they are harder to learn.

BS. You don't read in alphabetical order. Just because you can reproduce the dot pattern doesn't mean you've "learned" it for its purpose. That the letter e comes between d and f is not relevant to trying to read.
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A unified OS experience is hardly the same as a unified OS.
Here's an interesting chart I came across recently: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_a4WNAMuCEdDd... (via http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/11/porting-from-jquery-to-zep...)
What you just said is this article summed up I think. Getting to read the content before the jQuery is parsed is the key and solves the cache issues. The other part where you collect all the jQuery functionality and you push it to the array/.ready loader at once, forces you to be organized.
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There's some previous discussion on this point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990 Someone noticed there are less and less GPL apps being distributed with Mac OS X.
I expected yet another “synesthesia—isn’t it interesting!” article, and was pleasantly surprised. As a synesthete (grapheme→colour and sound→colour), I find that the topic has been done to death, and non-synesthetic writers tend to romanticise it to the point of outright misrepresentation. Anyway, the brain’s peculiar propensity for conflating senses seems to have proved useful for once. Props to this guy for hacking his brain to get around a stroke of bad genetic luck.
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I certainly don't presume there's only one pattern. I assume there are 2.63 × 10^35 patterns.
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Very cool!

Somewhat related: my main research area is actually in sonification (representing data through non-speech sound) - imagine listening to changes in the stock market through changes in pitch, or loudness, or tempo. We can use sonification for the visually impaired, communicating data and patterns in new places, as this guy has done. But we can also use it to revolutionize how we interact with computers - we can be mobile, multitasking, visually overloaded, and still process data through sonification. IMO a potentially revolutionary technology!
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But I'll add that to my bag of tricks when I start optimizing.
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I plan on using MongoDB as the main datastore of the application, and storing files on S3. I was thinking I'd like to add Redis into the mix so my first thought was to use Redis for caching.

What other features/aspects of (pinterest) would you move away from storing in MongoDB and move to Redis? Would it advantageous to store user follows/followings in Redis over MongoDB?

Would using Redis for more than a cache store be overkill in my application?
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> This is a fun experiment, and I commend you for trying it. I look forward to seeing vs 2.0 :)

Thanks! I may code up something to let people pick different mappings and preview how it would look on some text. If I do I'll post it on HN.
When you eliminate the reblogged duplicate content, that stream would just be a trickle. ;)
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Whenever I have to drop images on a webpage see something happen, I close the tab.

I don't have a bunch of images lying around that have the right size and that I'd feel comfortable sharing.
What Engadget article?
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Maybe Gruber was the only one who keyed in on how big of a deal it was.
Link to the relevant Blog: http://joelgrus-hackernews.blogspot.com/

--

I had a go at scraping HN myself a couple of days ago (in PHP) and here's the output:

http://thequeue.org/api/frontpage.xml

http://thequeue.org/api/new.xml

http://thequeue.org/api/best.xml

The trouble is that sponsored posts, i.e. We're Hiring (YC 11) break the code. If anyone can help, there's a question on Stackoverflow about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9301215/scraping-hn-front...
OK, so how do I opt out of their hacky workarounds?

This is worse because I turn off third party cookies in Firefox. On an iPhone, I would have no way to turn off third party cookies (the ones that are submitted using the hack).
> invasion of privacy

Like most, you have a naive and non-legal concept of what privacy is. Analyzing public behavior (shopping) and sending mail to your public address isn't even close to the realm of privacy.
Somehow I don't see it. I'm going to use a functionally single-tasking OS through a touch interface on a 12 core Mac Pro with dual 27 inch monitors? It seems to me that they are making their full spec OS look a feel a bit more like their mobile OS to help along the halo effect, and make it more comfortable for their mobile users to make the jump to their desktop OS.

I don't like it, but that seems more likely. Also because iOS on the desktop would need a massive amount of expansion to be useful with much of what desktop users need to do--unless you are a very low needs user that runs a web browser and few internet dependent apps. Autocad on iOS? Protools on iOS? Maya on iOS? InDesign on iOS? Illustrator on iOS? I don't know that touch will be very good with the deeper parts of those and many similar apps.
Making a modern condensed character set is a nice idea, but this is a really, really bad execution.

Many letters are the exact same shape, shifted vertically 1/5th of a character height? A-E are completely identical but for position. This is terrible enough to be a show-stopper on its own.

Braille has all the advantages of this, but is FAR more readable, since each letter has its own distinct shape. You say in a different thread that "Braille has the same proportional shortcomings as normal text". This is false. Braille characters are a grid of a fixed number of dots (6 or 8), and every character is the same size. It also has numbers, punctuation...
Wow this is great! I was actually thinking about something like this the other day. Any chance on releasing the source?

Edit: Found it - https://github.com/joelgrus/hackernews
For all his alleged fanboyism, Gruber is a good enough student of Apple's business strategy that his analysis as to how Apple isn't merging Mac OS X and iOS is worth a hundred times as much as this ridiculous linkbait.
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> When COPPA was passed in 1998, Target wasn't data-mining customers' purchase histories.

O'really? Got a reference for that? I would be stunned if they weren't.
It's kinda hard to see, but there's a link at the bottom of the article:

https://github.com/joelgrus/hackernews
> Also the pure dots present just the base system, typography and different typefaces can evolve from there with more aesthetics, redundancy, readability

Absolutely. There could be several improvements in that way. Maybe along the lines of turning a square of 4 dots into a circle, a line of diagonal dots into a smooth line, etc. Some words can be drawn out pretty simply with a pen, as if the line were passing through the positions of where the dots would be. This is even more pie-in-the-sky than using it as a font but is fun to speculate about, though I fear it may ruin the afternoons of a few HN commenters to see it mentioned.
And since ordinary users will never figure that out, Apple needs to change the dialog or accept that they have now, officially become the big brother they fought against.
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This is inspiring, a client side tool like this to compose press-kits would be nice for media O.o
Not to mention even the most basic Foundation data structure classes are different. iOS's Foundation comes with less data structures than OS X's and has different performance characteristics tailored to mobile hardware.
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I feel like I am out of the loop on something here. Is this person insinuating that capitalism is a sort of masked evil that's propped up as a good thing in our blind western/democratic society? If so what is the recommended alternative?
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There's 30 videos on the front page. Mousing over the image preview of a video displays a series of preview images.

There were 76 requests made as observed from the net tab in Firebug. The majority of these requests seemed to be for those video images. Note that I'm using an adblocker and refuse to check out the site without it.

Note also that they said 300k queries. There could be constantly-running background jobs doing conversion, pulling those preview frames, and crunching numbers on the metadata.
If color correction isn't being done on the image, then the image you see has essentially had its color space compressed. When displayed on a wide-gamut display, the "TN" part of the image will match how the "wide-gamut IPS" part looks on your TN panel. (Ignoring dithering and the color inaccuracy of the TN panel.)

If the image was being properly color-corrected, then all the parts of it would look pretty much the same, since all but one of them has the signal clipped when it gets displayed by your monitor, due to the colors being out of range. (This is, of course, assuming that your TN panel has roughly the gamut and color response curve that are being emulated by the image, and that your TN panel has been calibrated to display colors accurately within the achievable gamut.)
And what happens when Apple starts revoking the code signatures of grey-market apps like emulators, BitTorrent clients, and so on?
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>Imagine if by default, all software most users install on their Macs will be traceable to a real entity - be it a person or company.

No, sir, I do not like it.
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I'll disagree on this point. I've used my 3GS for two years, and it served well as a quick and dirty way to develop in... unusual places. I'm not even talking about SSHing into another computer; just to localhost, quickly using vi to change a file, then running a git commit is ridiculously convenient for someone who doesn't own an Air and doesn't want to lug his laptop around. The only problem, really, is the speed, which I agree isn't the fastest, but the iPhone 4 is really usable. When I upgrade to the 4S in a year or so, it'll probably be ready for most stuff I want to do in a pinch.
> Does that mean that /all/ of your apps will now fail to run in the "signed apps only" mode, rather than only the nefarious one?

Probably. From what I've read, it sounds like Apple's revocation mechanism more or less involves simply pushing a blacklist of keys. Thus, if your key appears on that list, none of your apps signed by that key will work.
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The most worrisome thing of this, to me, is that it may increase differences between groups in society. Imagine a refinement where a shop splits the 'just pregnant' group into a 'looking for abortion' and a 'looking forward to having a child' group. Sending them targeted adverts based on that prediction may/will make that prediction come true (and that is the 'accidental effect' case. Think of what a racist shopkeeper/data miner could do)
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Most of these look like spaghetti to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phrase_sanskrit.png

If I scoot my chair back 4 feet from the screen discerning anything is hopeless, despite the font size being somewhat large. Whereas at the same distance much smaller English text is discernible to me.
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It's 2AM so forgive my skimming of the article, but that is a heck of a lot of work and looks to be quite good. Will take another looksee tomorrow when I can think-straight.

Hopefully when I get back to hackernews sometime tomorrow this will be frontpage where it belongs. :)
You've probably gotten all your answers based on the other comments. MM or mm should (if at all) only be used within finance. There is enough confusion on units already, that this can't possibly contribute to the better.

A few arguments as to why this is such a lousy notation:

* m and M already exist in the International System of Units, which is used by pretty much everybody else (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Non-Metric_User.svg). 'm' is either milli (10^-3) or meters, depending on the context. And M is Mega, or the number in question: one million.

* If the reason is to use roman numerals. M, for mille, means 1000. However, MM would mean two thousand, the same way XXII is 22.

* "Million" isn't ambiguous, unlike "billion", which either means 10^9 or 10^12.
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I wonder if anyone can throw some light on this matter if there's a way they could be doing this "by mistake", or "unintentionally" or something else. For example could the +1 button be a cause? I don't know but I'm curious.
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The bright side is that Android won't be infected with the user-unfriendly finger-straining slide-to-unlock gimmick.
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Yes, it is (no tracking == huge draw).

I'm also a believer in competition. If we can create a competitive market for privacy and respecting personal data, so much the better.
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As long as no one comments out that checkbox, we still have a general purpose computer...
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