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Pixar wasn't a "money-printing-quality hit" because other studios make a lot of money on some movies too?

Titanic's studios have had plenty of flops and shitty movies to offset their successes. Pixar has had a string of commercial and critical successes.
That shows you the current DOM, not the original source.
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What bugs me is that they chose a character right next to "Return" on the keyboard. For some reason no PC keyboard has moved it.

I've had embarrassing MS-DOS moments in the past where I was typing out something like a recursive-delete on a path. If you accidentally hit RETURN instead of a backslash then you can do things like blow away entire parent directories unintentionally. This didn't exactly improve my already-critical view of PCs. :)
This is dumb. What's the point? "OH NO, I CAN'T HAVE MY HTML SOURCE GOING OUT WHEN I SEND IT TO PEOPLE TO BE RENDERED BY THEIR BROWSER." Derpity derp derp.

Look, anyone who wants to see the source will get to it. Anyone who doesn't want to see the source won't even try. All you're going to do is make people think you're paranoid about your top secret HTML. Hope you got a patent for your <DIV> and <P> tag configuration...
2 US gateways integrated currently & launching with 2CO. PayPal support is coming soon.

EDIT: 2CO accepts & settles in DKK/EUR. http://www.2checkout.com/international-payments/
I'm trying to be careful not to argue that "gains to productivity don't benefit everyone". My personal feeling is that probably sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, but I haven't researched it enough to back that up.

Mainly I think discussions of any squishy data set carry a lot more weight once we throw out some outliers and general purpose computers are a definite outlier.

Food production in the US is one of the most heavily subsidized (i.e., artificially manipulated) sections of the economy.
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And if you're interested in that, check out Paper.js, it can do path simplification amongst other things: http://paperjs.org/
I might fit your scenario as to pairing with someone with a solid idea. I'm currently looking to have my idea built. I have zero technical skills (started Codeyear) and I will use my own money to get started. Just finished a fireworks click-through prototype only after learning about it here on HN. Either way, I am interested in paying to have it built or hopefully find someone interested enough to be a partner. Would love to find a competent and trustworthy person to move things forward.
I didn't see the discussion on HN :)

it was posted to some (private) mailing lists I'm on, and I posted exactly the same thing there.
You could still do that with copy in MS-DOS, I have a feeling my mom still does it since she has a printer on parallel port. So if she wants to print a textfile it's just

copy file.txt LPT1

she can also print multiple files or results of print to file using the /b switch (binary) ignoring EOF

That also explains why you shouldn't use LPT1 as file name - it was a special name that meant first parallel port. I remember seeing a ridiculing thread about it on HN some time ago
6 months ago, somewhere in Toyota, a programmer was asked "I know this is a bit outside your job description.. but could you help us out with this little project?"
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I may not have thought this dream through that thoroughly... Off the cuff...

- Both could be railed options... Mine smaller and cheaper 100% autonomous units.
- Mine distributed. The units could live in garages under peoples homes when not needed.
- Mine expensive - rail already exists.
That doesn't matter though, even if they aren't today they easily could be tomorrow, whether through a change in their management, being purchased by another, etc.
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Why is everyone so insistent on cannibalizing science to fund science? NASA's budget should be pretty damn near the end of the list of programs to take funding from, 1) because all the others are even worse than it is, and 2) because it gets such a fucking minuscule amount of funding compared to the other things.

Furthermore, shitcanning all the non-manned stuff NASA does is a fucking terrible idea. Science without study of the universe is crazy.
> Atheists are, by nature, less violent. Not because they are somehow enlightened, but because there is at least one major grievance removed from the equation. Atheists don't tend to burn down other buildings because they are different, or ravage an entire community because they aren't secular.

Replace atheists with "people that think independly", and I could agree.

As it is I cannot. One counterexample - most of the people in the Red Army were atheists. That did not changed the fact, that significant part of red army pillaged and raped what they could on their way to Berlin (including civilians and nations they were supposedly "freeing" of Germans).

Not beliving in gods don't make you automaticaly less violent. Both nazi Germany and communist Russia were more or less atheists. They instead developed new rituals and mythology to serve the same purpose. Gods are not needed to make people kill people.

Authority and group thinking suffices.
Wouldn't you care more about energy per volume or weight? In other words Watt-hours/cm³.
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> We try [to make all code look like it was written by the same person] for C++, Java, and Python, but it doesn't work as well because the process is manual.

However, Python, because space is significant, tends to look fairly similar "in the wild". Add minimum adherence to a style guide and you're pretty close to that goal.
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there is no way to solve it because it's not a problem. it's a set of not-defined behaviors by defining which in regular ways you get absurd results. if he managed to define them in a way which doesn't produce nonsense and still useful for solving some real problems - it's cool. but i still don't see the problem itself - mathematicians know how to handle fractals and calculate their properties for decades.
PEP8? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
No, it's their highest bandwidth residential plan. Technically, I still have bandwidth caps (http://imageshar.es/4f675654998b758611000b60) but they don't enforce them.
> Companies are unwilling to do it because sometimes it means jettisoning people, which is hard to do.

The newspaper industry has been quite happy to do this. I survived several rounds of layoffs (plus furloughs and a wage freeze) at Gannett. (Meanwhile, the CEO got a $30M+ retirement bonus...)

The problem is, they've mostly been doing it instead of adjusting to the information era, rather than in conjuction with adjusting.
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Actually, it's available throughout the Bay Area. Bay Area today, the world tomorrow...
You're right. Apple has so much cash that the only thing that makes sense is to both pay out quarterly dividends AND buying back their stock. Even though AAPL is still considered a GROWTH stock.

NOTE:

Apple earned ~$13b profit last quarter and it's only going to grow. $15b x 4 quarters = $60b PROFIT PER YEAR.

They can easily afford $45b over the next 3 years considering they have more money than God.
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Dribbble.com is fantastic, clicking on the user to find their personal website makes it approachable.

There is also Forrst.com, though the quality has been slipping over the past year but they have a directory of designers.

Don't forget builditwith.me who make it incredibly easy for you to search for designers specifically.

If it's a startup and the budget is small then finding a like minded individual is your best bet, who is willing to help out or potentially swap services, rather than approaching a freelance designer directly.
Don't know how much I an really disclose, but, for us (small-ish daily, ~20k circ), once we went to a (partial) paywall, circulation defiantly went up. Our model is that you must be a subscriber to get through the paywall, all print subscribers get online as well - you can get online e-edition/pdf access without home delivery, but it costs the same.

Our circulation is higher than it was two years ago. Not sure many papers can say that.
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Furthermore, except for AT&T, Verizon, and possibly ARM, none of those acquisitions would be strategic for Apple. Intel is doing exactly what Apple would want them to do anyway, HP and Dell offer nothing Apple doesn't already have and a bunch of stuff Apple doesn't even want, Facebook and Amazon are overpriced, Google is probably overpriced and doesn't fit into Apple's strategy, and Oracle, Cisco, and TXI don't fit into Apple's strategy either.
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A big chunk of that is classifieds, so the (no longer any) money is going to Craigslist.
Cool - it's open source as well. You may want to link to the github page from the app.
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By many definitions of "open standard" H.264 isn't one, since many groups tried to brand that term in echo of "open source" to mean royalty-free (and therefore open source compatible). That definition seemed to generally be catching on until this web codec spat flared up with both sides wanting the cachet of being "open standards" rather than debating the actual policy implications of being royalty-bearing.

And factually there's several independent WebM implementations now, some would argue that it's easier to be compatible with an open source codebase than a spec, though having (at least) two independant codebases developed before finalizing is better for finding spec bugs.
I've always felt the better question is "Why is the UNIX path character "/"?

People use "/" as a date separator as in 12/25/1979 so effectively banning that character as a character in filenames seems a really poor choices. By that metric chosing "\" is a much better choice because "\" is used no where I know outside of computers. I've never encountered it anywhere outside of computers so arguable it's the perfect choice for a path character.
As someone who works with Newspapers and direct mailers daily (advertising agency) I can confirm that things are not looking good for the industry. There is a palatable desperation in their marketing and they are fighting tooth and nail for business. There was a recent article of how they dropped from 60bil in revenue to just over 20bil, the worst numbers since the 1950s.
Outside of professionals and core contributors who write performance critical C, most folks haven't done a whole lot of work with a profiler with C programs. One doesn't get performance for free. It's paid for in some way, shape or form. The only thing that's up for grabs is how and when you pay for it. The costliest form of payment is developer hours, which you try not to pay if you can avoid it, though you sometimes can't avoid it.
* python is ill-suited to many (might I dare say a clear majority of?) production environments *

A bold statement, considering the broad range of production environments that have come to the opposite conclusion.

Do you have anything in specific to back up this claim or is this just name-calling?
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If you are going to create a headline that ends with ", period." the content of the article had better contain a cohesive and very strong argument that supports the emphasized statement. You could have easily posted - "Go is amazing." That is a statement of opinion -- which pretty well describes the article and the author's place as an expert. "Go is amazing, period." claims something much deeper, which the article completely fails to deliver.
So I'm sort of nitpicking your comment here, but the purpose of @"" for verbatim strings wasn't created just to deal with directory slashes, it's just a handy way of writing string without the need for escaping in general.

Also, if you really want to make portable C# code, you should use Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, as it's not platform specific at all.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.direc...
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It is a bit annoying having to press 3 keys using two hands instead of just one.

With '=' I can "hyperthread" my typing. While I'm finishing the LHS and pressing space I can move my right hand to press '=', while keeping my left hand thumb in place to press the space bar for the right side.

With ':=' I have to stop everything to press shift with my left hand, then press ':', then release shift and press '='. It's very inefficient for something that happens often.
Yes, openness is multidimensional, and few things are perfectly "open" in every dimension.

But one of the key aspects of the open web is that it is a platform that is open for anyone to access and participate in -- by creating content, or by building software to publish or consume content -- without any gatekeeper who can withhold permission or demand fees. This is why the W3C, for example, requires royalty-free licensing of members' IP that covers its standards.

This is the type of open platform that Mozilla and others were trying (but failing, so far) to create for video on the web.
Why is that "insane"? Do you believe I'm mentally ill?

How is it "nitpicking" to talk about whether something uses violence or not?
> It use reference counting which should have a more predictable memory handling behaviour.

Correct reference counting in multi-threaded code running on a multi-core machine adds significant cost to a simple pointer copy (aka "add reference").
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Ask HN. Torn between two ideas.
I have funding and a group of individual to work with. I have two ideas,
1. A calendar app
2. Social bookmarking
Both with a simple and minimal look and feel. iOS/Android app and web app.
I don't know which to choose to develop, they both really excite us.
What would you choose. 1 or 2 ?
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Then I must say you're either not writing very good code, or you're writing C and calling it C++.
With $100B in the bank, I keep thinking that Apple could do a lot more to disrupt of lot of industries.

They could afford to build an entirely new wireless carrier, from scratch (I understand spectrum might be an issue). They could create an entire newly kind of music label that redefines how artists are compensated and how labels make money. Or they could create their own new book publishing company that breaks with the traditions of the big publishers to make e-Books the focus and more affordable. They could probably buy up most of their entire supply chain.

So they must have good reasons for not wanting to use those funds to distrupt those other industries more than they already have. I'm sure they don't want to get out of their core competencies, but setting up subsidiary businesses would seem like a good way to get what they want.
What's an example high-discharge-rate application where Lion could be displaced?

Toy helicopters? EMP weapons?

Weight would be an interesting graph axis!
Yes, I am a flaming moron today. Carry on.

Edit: I'd like to personally thank everyone upvoting the previous paragraph. You are the wind beneath my wings.
Well IIRC, he's employed by Microsoft Research, which is not really the same as Microsoft proper. And they have used some concepts that are core to Haskell, such as LINQ being a monad, and F# is definitely related (though I don't know if that's an official Microsoft language).
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"Tesla was bailed out with government loans."

Respectfully, can you please cite a source for this assertion?

Emphasis in italics is mine:

"The loans are part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which provides incentives to new and established automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. Created in 2007 and appropriated in September 2008, the $25 billion ATVM aims to reduce America's dangerous dependence on foreign oil and create "green collar" jobs. The program is entirely unrelated to the stimulus package or the so-called "bailout" funds that General Motors and Chrysler have received." [1]

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-gets-l...
Could you elaborate on the jist of your point? I'm genuinely not getting it. Keep in mind than Windows 98 is a 15 year old, crappy legacy OS. And we were all running FVWM and AfterStep.
> Programmers should know what their objects are doing.

Programmers "should" do lots of things, but designing as if they actually do is usually a mistake. (If vehicle passengers behaved appropriately, air bags wouldn't be a good idea.)

It's better to design wrt what programmers actually do or get new programmers.
You're taking a slippery slope from "out of control to some degree" to "a society where people are discriminated based on things they cannot control (at all)". In the vast majority of cases, obesity can be controlled by a healthy lifestyle.

Right now, it's unfair to the skinnier among us, where the prices for overweight luggage and overweight pax do not compare at all. People search all kinds of justification why being obese is ok and needs to receive special attention. I do not argue with that.

But: please explain to me why I should pay E100 for 3kg overweight, while the obese person on the seat next to me pays nothing for a 40kg weight difference. How is that fair?

Regarding what you call "discrimination":

It's really really easy to exempt the obvious (wheelchair etc.) from the bill. No one is asking to become inhumane or discriminate. Where did you get that idea from? This is not about private profit but about the conceived asymmetry in the pricing structure.
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I think the calendar space isn't nearly as flooded as social bookmarking.

The most interesting proponent I've seen in the calendar space is [TouchBase](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchbase-calendar-1-touch/id...).

I haven't seen a social bookmarking proponent that I really liked, and something like Instagram for links would be really interesting. I say this because it's not a social sharing app that blasts everything you do out to your entire social network on facebook (unless you set it to), and you don't automatically follow every one of your friends that's on Instagram. That's really nice, because the apps that make those assumptions are immediately filled with garbage from those with whom I have not interacted in years.

I'm sure you already have your ideas, but I figured I'd throw this out there for you to add to your melting pot of responses.
Well, to be fair, according to the article it was two compiler flags.
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I think a large portion of online life is already ruled by Google. I will never use Go only because it comes from Google. A mobile with Google's OS, a Google browser and Google for email and now we will also code in a language controlled by Google?

I have nothing against Google, but as a community of web developers our interest lies in diversifying and ensuring that no one gets more powerful than us.

Also looking at the features of Go itself, it seems to me that the languages caters to many needs of Google and not many of us may have those needs.
The only time Apple had a dividend before was the time when Jobs was not there and innovation left (87-mid 90s). Let's hope this does not signal that.

As a shareholder I'd preferred if they just kept and invested the money in new products. Why not use that money to speed up the real Apple TV? Screen tech? Storage? There are still lots of advancements left in handheld and this levels the playing field a bit. Apple hoarding cash was intimidating to competitors.

Jobs would not have done this. It was the first thing they did when he left in the late '80s and the first thing he ended when taking back over in the mid 90's.
a huge one time dividend in Nov 2004, $3.08 / share or about 11% of their stock price at the time.

That's what I don't get about the excitement over this dividend. It's like 0.5% of the cost of a share.
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This is an issue (even in the US and Europe, where laws are going to at best protect you from some of the possible abuses). I wrote on this also from a similar point of view: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2008/03/do-not-let-your-medic...
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I'm in favor of this proposal. Having "git push" just push the current branch and something like "git push --all" would push all current local branches to their respective remotes branches.
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The app prompts you to give it a five star review at various points. It presents you with a button that says "rate this app five stars" or something along those lines. I haven't pressed it so I couldn't tell you what process comes after that, if any.
Glad to see that even Samsung is moving to the stock ICS look, if this is real.
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Interesting to note that they are going for a web-site first strategy. I've been waiting for things like this (basic data entry, search, etc) to move to a mobile first strategy. At least for this use case, we aren't there yet.
This gave me a chuckle too. But hey, if the guy wants to display his lack of C++ knowledge, he can go for it. His skills and experience are probably just in different areas, that’s all.
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Impressionist UI Free kit contains PSD elements with rasterized layers, exactly as there are all the other free or paid UI packs. If you would like to have the full set containing all the elements in in Photoshop using shapes.
Pixar didn't enjoy iPhone-like profitability (edit: that's not the same as revenue, everyone knows that, right?). And the reason is that it had very successful competitors. The Mac likewise. That's not good enough. Apple investors can make their own decisions about buying into new products like that. The GP post was implying that the "leadership team" was likely to do better.

My point is that (1) no, they really can't product another iPhone-like hit (that's a once-a-generation thing) and that (2) Jobs is dead, so there's a serious question about the "leadership team" that investors need to see as a risk. Is it really "safer" to leave your share of that $100B egg in one basket, or just to put it into a mutual fund?
Thanks a lot for your response.
The social bookmarking app that we are think of mainly addresses the issue of noise. We are envisioning a closed network for sharing content.
You really shouldn't "think" which one is better here. Do your homework, analyze the market, do the math and let the numbers tell you which one is the better pick.
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VideoLan does not have a presence in the USA, Mozilla does

it boils down to software patents.
I certainly wish that 'git push' was symmetric with 'git pull'. Several times I have had people ask me why 'git push' is complaining about unmerged branches, when 'git pull' says there is nothing to do.

It gives me hope for the future of git that unlike many projects, they are willing to make these kinds of breaking changes to improve usability.