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Would you suggest testing this theory by just applying at extended locations?
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Yes, to be more clear, I should have said all the attempts to replace code with some kind of a graphical representation, ends up reducing expressiveness.

Augmenting the text with graphical representations is a wonderful idea, that IDEs already perform in many ways, with many more yet to be discovered.
> Maybe 40 of them would.

The point still stands then.
This has probably been asked before, but why haven't any browsers worked on natively implementing CoffeeScript (not compiling to Javascript first)?
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Irrespective of the relationship slideshare has to Ycombinator or HackerNews, the "buried" article simply didn't gain traction - it happens all the time.

200 visits is just a small slice of HN users and reflect a response to the title of the article, not the quality of the article itself.

Anecdote is not evidence, but the article wasn't compelling enough that I would be likely to upvote it - upvotes are the only thing that keeps new stories from being buried and flagging only comes into play once a recent story gets upvotes.

New articles get just one point all the time - indeed I've seen cases where a story had no votes or comments the first time it was posted only to make the front page and generate lively discussion when reposted later with a slightly different URL.

Odds are that any new article will be ignored. A conspiracy is not necessary - and since the article was buried by a lack of points and the weight of time, it's hard to believe that there was one.

Consider it editorial feedback in regards to style, timing and relevance.
I don't understand how the author of this article thinks this could be applied to an audience or protestors.

For this to work, the audio output to each individual person has to be exactly what each individual person is currently saying. If it's a combined audio mess of an entire audience's voices, it's not exactly going to screw up anyone's speech patterns.

So the only way this could work in an audience would be if the back of every chair in front of people had one of these devices on it which could filter out the noise of everyone else around that person and only output their voice.
> If you don't accept these facts about email marketing, as annoying as the situation may be, you are an outlier.

I probably am. That said, why not offer both options?
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We're looking for several technical positions (check out the jobs page) and are looking for engineers with skills in Ruby, Node, Python, C, PHP, .NET (to name a few). H1B welcome.

Thanks
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I'm looking for a freelance designer with a solid grasp of User Experience and Usability, capable of creating product/site identity for social and business websites.

Ideally you should be familiar or be able to figure out things like Git, LESS and Django templates.

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I'm of two minds on this. One part of me agrees with you 100%; artists shouldn't have to "compete" with illegal trafficking of their own content. That's not even fair competition, because it didn't cost the file-sharer anything to create the content. You're trying to "compete" with someone who had no up-front expenses.

The other part of me thinks that there needs to be some force to counter the insane overreach that copyright holders increasingly take in the digital age. For example: 10 minutes of previews that can't be skipped on a DVD/Blu-Ray that you legally bought, DRM that makes it uncertain whether you will continue to have access to your legally-purchased content, or arbitrary restrictions on what devices/software you can use to view your own content. The natural market forces that should work in favor of consumers are greatly diminished by the fact that a single entity has control over every sales channel for a given work. And the DMCA gives legal teeth to whatever technological measures content producers use to implement these arbitrary restrictions and controls.

There are other cases where the government intervenes to restrict this lopsided distribution of power. For example, "compulsory licensing" requires copyright or patent owners to grant licenses for certain uses of a work at predetermined rates that are set by the government. For example, this allows musicians to record "covers" of existing songs without having to get permission from the original song's author (though a royalty has to be paid).
That's some ROFLscale right there!
"I can't just steal something from an Amish person's business because "their business model is out-dated.""

For a correct analogy, make the Amish a billionaire who makes money by exercising a monopoly. The monopoly is legal, it was even expanded by congress thanks to his lobbying efforts, and the government actually spends taxpayer money to enforce it. And I'm not stealing from the Amish, I just found a more efficient way to distribute copies of his products, copies made at my own cost. And users find my service not only cheaper, but much more convenient: it is not riddled by silly restrictions, and I have a much larger selection. Somehow I make tons of money with it, and all this money would go to the Amish, if he could adapt his business model, because he has a natural advantage to provide the best service: he gets the products first, and with the best quality.

Considering that the monopoly is harmful to cultural exchange, freedom of speech and other essential rights, I see moral value in any contributions to bring it down or transform it into something more morally acceptable and less expensive for society.
Startup Patent Report for week of February 28, 2012
Companies profiled include Rebit, Cross Loop, Zoombak, Roundbox, MeLLmo, Talari Networks, Perceptive Pixel and OnLive.
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Cons: Not needed because all the stuff will be included in a next iteration of JavaScript. This does not leave room for any "pro".
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If nothing else lispreader.py will be useful for reading Clojure data in Python. Think communicating with nREPL and reading the forms that come back
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I don't know, but I'd be interested in conducting an experiment. Everyone on HN google "string split". My first and second results are for C#, which I program in my day job. JavaScript, which I also use, is 5th. However, Java is #3, and I don't use that at all.

I'm just wondering if it's possible to search for programming tips without even specifying your language any more, because Google knows us so well.
Potentially Unaltered Indiana Jones Blu-Ray Collection Announced for Fall 2012
The author seems to be under the impression that 200 visits from a link he posted to Hacker News automatically means "people were discussing my article and engaging", and there was a "lively discussion" about it.

Discussion about a posted story is not a given, even if you get many visits from the site. Personally, I've often visited the posted links, and not been bothered to up-vote the story, let alone comment. And I've often seen stories on the front page with many up votes and no comments.

I think the OP is jumping to conclusions when he says that "Hacker News had buried my submission, precisely because it was getting rapid traction." That's a pretty strong accusation. I didn't read the post the author is referring to, but I think it's more likely that the post was just not that interesting to Hacker News readers.
Show HN: Event-finding website for New York City
My friends and I built a website and a mobile app called Spotster (http://spotster.com) for finding things to do in NYC. Basically, we couldn't find a simple, go-to source for events in a city where there's constantly cool stuff happening every day, so we made one. We’d love to hear your feedback on the concept and our execution -- and any suggestions at all for making the site better. Thanks!
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Facebook Releases Timeline for Pages: Be Ready by March 30?
Wikipedia says he's got Finnish citizenship as well, and he has not one but two Finnish passport, so hey, majority rule ;)
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If you look at the HN ranking formula, it's (p - 1) / (t + 2)^1.5 where p = points, t = age in hours. The older your article is, the smaller the rank. Done to ensure the freshness of links.
He renewed in time, it was Apple that made the mistake.

"Three days later I was able to get a response from Apple that verified this was, indeed, a problem with their internal software and that there was nothing I could do about it."
Quoth the article.
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I appreciate the idea and love the crowdsourcing model. However, if I need to invalidate a patent, there might often be more urgency than hoping for the crowd sourced solution. Not to say it isn't viable, but maybe it's something best used in conjunction with a team of experts?
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Clickable wiki page for those that want to an image of the insect:

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis/
I wondered the same thing but according to the article, the eggs are pea-sized which suggests they are not elongated.
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Which Shortening Is Best? Ibid., Op. Cit., Loc. Cit., Etc.
It's an educational exercise to take something like Joel's essay, try to understand it in the way raganwald advocates here, and then go and edit it such that all the caveats, simplifications, etc are all explicitly enumerated. After you're done doubling the length, ask yourself if anybody would actually have read the end result.

Having gone through a phase where I tried to write like that, I can tell you two things: First, "no". Second, it's a complete waste of time. Add in the caveat that you don't literally mean that there are 0 software packages sold in that price range, and you will still get flamed for the claim you just disclaimed. A lot of people are sloppy readers and putting in that level of detail is like putting fine detail in your painting for a farsighted person without their glasses.

I've come to view this sort of misunderstanding as an unavoidable tax for trying to communicate with humans. I say "humans" because it's not "English's" fault. Natural language is fuzzy mostly because human ideation is fuzzy. Noticing when English creates fuzziness is a noteworthy event precisely because it is an anomaly in the vast sea of fundamentally fuzzy ideas being expressed in English.
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Dart can optionally compile to Javascript, so a program written in Dart will run in all browsers, albeit with a fair bit of overhead from the translation (exactly how much overhead remains to be seen, but Dart code compiled to Javascript will certainly be suboptimal, or else Google wouldn't bother implementing a virtual machine solely for Dart).

As far as native support in other browsers, it appears that Mozilla currently outright refuses to consider it on the principle that Dart is not developed openly and is not standardized, meaning that implementations in other browsers would have to reverse-engineer the Chrome implementation and would be at the mercy of Google with regard to compatibility. Unlike Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft appear to have rejected it out of pragmatism rather than principle. Specifically, Apple's Webkit engineers appear to object to the complexity and overhead a new virtual machine would add[1], and Microsoft has publicly stated that Dart doesn't solve any problems that can't be fixed in future iterations of Javascript[2].

For a more detailed technical and political perspective of why Mozilla won't implement Dart natively, see Brandon Eich's comments on the original Dart announcement[3] (it's actually quite an interesting read).

[1] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/22/evolving-ecmas...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982497
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Are you really trying to say it should have been obvious in 2003 what Google would be today?
Ask HN: is there a Kickstarter platform for existing product development?
New product features can be a terrible pain point. They always come from your current customers, submitted via email, phone or social channels. They need to be curated, often by more than one person in support or product management, and then dumped into a central repository. After that, the product team has to go in and prioritize features based on criteria that links back to ROI: 1) how many of our existing paying customers will continue to pay us because of this feature, 2) how many new customers could we acquire if we included this feature, 3) how much time and effort does it cost to implement this feature

Why hasn't anyone built a Kickstarter tool that essentially funds new features based on customer demand? In essence, a secure web portal that uses the Kickstarter model to crowd-fund new features.

This solves the problem discussed in the old adage: "Always ask the customer if they are willing to pay for it [new features] when considering before developing them."
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> Dart appears to be reasonably competent and technically sound

Really? I got exactly the opposite impression.

All types are nullable (lack of null safety). Why are they using a type (String) for a constant (''final'' variable)? Mixing up lists and arrays. There is a separate string builder class ''StringBuffer'' (which does not share the interface with ''String'', I don't know why not, while ''int'' and ''double'' are unified under the interface ''num'') that doesn't really work. You can't iterate over maps using the ''for...in'' syntax (at least the overview does not mention it).

This document, to me, screams of technical incompetency, or at least of language design from 10 years ago.

There are also some other weird design choices, like optional non-typing (i.e. there are no safety guarantees, types are not enforced), all values but ''true'' are ''false'' (this feature might turn out to actually be useful, but as far as I understand, they want to force people to write proper boolean tests in if statements - why then even allow non-boolean values in boolean contexts?). The ''[x = 1]'' syntax for parameters with default value is really weird, I guess its purpose is to be consistent with the optional argument syntax, but why not just copy what Python does, with all parameters with default values be optional, and you can always set it to ''null'' yourself, if you want...

Julia, for me, is a recent language that is really well designed!
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I mostly code in Python, JavaScript, and C.

When I search for "string split" while I'm logged in my Google Account, the first SERP returns these results:

- 3 about Java;
- 4 about C#;
- 2 about JavaScript (towards the bottom);
- 1 about Ruby.

When I'm logged out, I get the same exact results.
one selling point of Dart would be tooling and IDE support: I guess what you could be hoping are great refactoring tools.
That's wrong too though: if I get 1000 people who love professional cycling news to sign up to HN and start upvoting articles about Alberto Contador, that doesn't mean it's on topic.
Using Insights for Search, http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=node.js%2Cruby%20on...

You got more accurate data.
TweetMyJobs.com and Internships.com are currently recruiting for summer interns onsite. Both sites also operate in the social recruiting world and list many job opportunities. Good luck to all.
I think the way it works for most most (maybe even all) insects is to use air to blow themselves up much like a balloon to get out of the egg or cocoon.
This is the very first UI release, only a month after the core framework release, so there are certainly alot of minor areas like this that can be improved. And also core widgets still to be done - Lists, Panes, etc.

Development is now in the open so you can see it progress, and you can easily fork it, make these minor adjustments, and potentially contribute back.
It's anecdotal evidence at best. Are rails programmers any more musically inclined than other types? Are programmers as a group more musically inclined than the average person? I don't know, but his statement and you playing an instrument don't mean much in terms of evidence one way or another.
Buttons do not have cursor:pointer I was actually surprised that they werent images.
From my own experience with posts to Hacker News from my own blog I can tell you 200 visits is about what you'll get from time a post lasts on the front of the "new" page. Then, if no one is interested in the story, it drops off that page and so do the visits.

I don't understand the basis here for any accusation.
This is a problem.

ie- Can't be productive in another language... Finds Rails, thinks he/she is a genius. Anyone can consider himself or herself a professional artist, but that doesn’t make it so.

I'm trying to fight being mean, but Ffff!!