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Is it a little ironic that the blog is posted on Posterous? I only say that cause the complaint may disappear before its intended effect ring through the rest of the startup community.
Those same, clueless organizations prohibit use of Ubuntu, too, because RHEL is the only thing they've certified. None of this changes how badly misleading and disingenuous Mark's statements are.
The trees that the paper companies plant would remain standing? I think you missed part of the argument.
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I updated my question to include why the user experience will be compromised in my case.
This seems another in a category of proposals so grand and outlandish and controversial that a small team can make a tidy living for years researching & promoting something which will never happen. Conjure up a plan with a price tag having enough digits, and you'll attract enough interest to live on for a while.

Same category as the libertarian-utopia "Oceania" project, the billion-dollar indoor ski resort near Atlanta, the bridge spanning the Strait of Gibraltar, and a half-dozen mile-high skyscraper projects. 1% of 1% of $1,000,000,000 is nothing for someone who could move that kind of money, but it's enough to keep me happy for a while. So, we buy a used cruise ship, park it in international waters, and ... hey, for 1% of 1% of total cost I'll give you a workable plan.
These seem to be LIVE videos of the lectures broadcast during the workday in US.
Their previously recorded page states that they will only provide videos of the first week.
Not really doable by anyone in US timezone with a job.
It's funny, a long time ago the prevailing definition of knowledge among philosophers was "justified true belief". Then Gettier came along in the 60s and rained on everyone's parade, and it became clear that those three criteria were not sufficient.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's official position is, in essence, that you only need to have two of them to have knowledge. Which is ironically something of a step back to the way scholars were doing it in the Middle Ages.
It's irritating when these so-called "open source" projects don't have a link to the source from the home page or anywhere else obvious.
If we're worried about archaeologists, we should inscribe our blogs on stone tablets and bury them underneath our houses. Short of that, backup tapes will decay, hard drives will fail, and if the data somehow stays alive in the "cloud" in a form that's accessible to archaeologists of the future, then they'll surely have an utter surfeit of data.
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And of course you grab a copy of what everybody else says too, since things like HN and Twitter are mostly about context...
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Having to pay for Android updates would be a good reason to switch to iOS -- where updates are free.

The 3GS which was originally released with iOS 3 almost 3 years ago is still able to update to the most current iOS 5.1 for free.
Agreed. would have been great if manual testing was included. We have full time QA people who actually write very detailed test plans based on project specs/requirements and have time included in all our projects for testing and bug fixing at the end.
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Maybe, since he was willing to name his employers, who happen to be despised in liberal circles.

OTOH, there is a lot of PR spending on social media (e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/obama-campaign...), so it wouldn't surprise me if Goldman has hired people to smear Smith on forums like this one.
No, GP is right, your story seems odd. I'm not saying it's false, but it certainly isn't related to what mchurch is talking about. If you visited the perf website (which you have to do at least every year), then you saw the "Received feedback" link at the top of the page. If you were bothered by not knowing your performance results, you should have clicked that link.

Saying you didn't explore your personal profile or look at the perf website and then complaining that you never knew your performance scores is like saying you never visited your calendar page and being upset about not knowing your meeting schedule.

It sounds like you may have had issues with poor management, but the fact that you didn't know your performance scores has nothing to do with mchurch's fictional manager retaliation, nor is it common for managers to blackmail their reports with poor perf scores over differences of opinion the way he alleges.
Here's what I clicked:
We have a test suite that tests a few critical things
We are happy with the amount of testing we do

Here's what I would have clicked, if present:
We have a test suite that test a lot of things, but probably only represents %75 coverage at best.
We'd like to do more testing, and we're continually adding more, but the biggest barrier is cultural.
Can you expand on this? That sounds interesting, but I don't see any mention of it on the site.
If this was some random guy who poked at a website, found SQL injection, told the company, and then the company looked at the logs and found out that the guy had dumped their whole database (in the course of seeing whether the SQLI actually worked) and had the guy prosecuted for the equivalent of felony computer fraud or misuse, I'd sympathize.

That actually happened. This actually happened too. What happened here is not so sympathetic. If you pull down 6 figures off pirated first-run movies and get an ICE site takedown, maybe not so much with the "putting the exact site back up on a different TLD with a fuck-you to the police on it", eh?
The webpage is down, so I'll take a look at it later. I'd like to see some simple examples of things as well.

It should be a one-liner to import a CSV file and do a least squares regression on different columns.

It should also be a one liner to open an image, compute it's 2d FFT, and display it.

It should also be one-liners to do numerical quadrature integration, compute the solutions to some ODEs, and maybe even backpropagation training of a neural network with just one layer.
The scenario where paper seems to have a serious advantage over digital is when people disappear or lose interest in maintaining digital copies for a few decades. Paper just sits, relatively inert, in libraries or boxes in peoples attics. Meanwhile, finding a reader for the Jazz disk with your thesis has become impossible.
People write and play with test frameworks because they are procrastinating from writing actual tests. Think about it.

Just use Test::Unit and move on with your life. Write some tests. That's what counts.
Firefox is single process (mostly – some plugins run in separate processes), but multi-threaded. There's one thread for the main UI, but as much work as possible is done asynchronously off of that thread.

Browsers are very complex software and there is a lot that goes into browser performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-17-firefox-10-ubu...
Prof. Ng's class wasn't watered down. CS229A(http://cs229a.stanford.edu/) is the Stanford equivalent of the online ml-class. Ng also teaches another machine learning course at stanford(CS229) which focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of ML.
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And here I am, just wishing someone could sell me awesome $10/mo email without feeling the need to leverage my presence on the mass media cognitive battleground.
I mentioned commenters and comments because I wanted to discuss the roles either party could play, not because I wanted to highlight their value. That said, some bloggers do have highly interesting discussions in comments, in part because they see value in them and spend some effort moderating them.
This is getting absurd. Many sites cache images. Maybe somebody should come up with an images/content cache agreement that content owners can opt into. Not opting in means no love from Facebook, Google images, Pintrest, and the thousands of other traffic sources.
It’s time to look beyond iOS vs. Android
I'm not sure where you got your anime from, but I've been watching fansubs for the last 10 years. On Windows, VLC has always worked for hardsubbed anime. Once softsubbed anime started coming out, there were some cases in which the font styling wouldn't work correctly, but then you could just use Media Player Classic Home Cinema. As for codec packs, I know some people have recommended installing the CCCP[0], as it includes MPCHC along with some other stuff, but MPCHC by itself has always worked for me.

Perhaps you weren't using a reliable website. I've definitely heard of sites out there that try to trick you into installing spyware by saying it's a codec. I always used torrents to download releases listed on AniDB (I searched using the CRC checksums, which anime fansub groups include in the filenames), so I entirely avoided that problem.

> Usually it would be open source but still not be practical to build yourself (if you wanted to watch any anime that evening too).

As for this, I've never seen any codecs that you had to build yourself, particularly on Windows, so I have no idea what you're talking about.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Community_Codec_Pack
Online teaching is not so much about watering down than understand that your audience will not usually and probably cannot have the same level of focus that your on-campus students will have. It's not a judgement of skills, but a simple observation of psychological incentives.

Online is a great place to learn, but it's absolutely the wrong place to learn the exact same curriculum as offline.
Why would anyone bother committing to one of their products again if they just arbitrarily shut things down when they are working on the next big thing?!
And specifically an application used to view satellite imagery, rather than the company that produced the imagery. They might as well credit Internet Explorer instead of Facebook. Taken to an extreme, they could have credited Windows XP for the reunion.

Somehow Google Earth is often credited for anything involving satellite imagery. He probably actually used Google Maps.
> I don't believe Apple is doing this out of altruism for users or developers. I think they are honestly going after Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, et al. at the same time. And the most effective way to do that is to have...80 million users on day one.

Isn’t it beautiful when a company’s self-interests are aligned with their customer’s?

They get users and money, I get an updated OS and new features on my old phone. Everybody wins!

(iCloud useless? you might think that documents on iCloud is useless, but iCloud is also the brand name for email service, contacts, calendar, photos sync and automated daily backups. seems hardly useless to me.)
What you say is IMO correct. But, I think there is something more fundamental. A company cannot function to full potential when beholden to 2 masters - customer and investor - with opposing needs. The customer wants the best product/service possible; the investor wants the maximum ROI.
Agreed.

I think it's actually quite telling if other institutions feel obliged to ridicule efforts (by Coursera et al) to make online learning a new experience, rather than just copying existing concepts as exercised in traditional universities.
Well, from a hypothesis. Not a theory, really, because it didn't really have a body of evidence supporting it.

Also worth pointing out, to anyone who might wonder if the ideas behind homeopathy might actually make sense -- that this was pre-germ-theory. I.e., he didn't know microorganisms existed, or that they might have something to do with illness.
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I used to work in a integrated circuit debugging lab. We had a pulse laser that we would use to ablate the layer of glass on top of the metallization so we could probe the die.

While goofing around I discovered that I could vaporize the ink of dollar bills. The largest area per pulse was pretty small, 25 microns if I remember right. Maybe 100. So it wasn't very practical, but it worked.

I don't remember if I tried it with pen ink. It might work okay for ball-point as that mostly lays ink on top of the paper. You'd still have the impression in the paper from the pen though.

Ink that didn't soak in but lay on top of the paper would probably stand a good chance of working. Maybe gel ink?
I wonder if the Milk team will tackle actual problems the next time around?
OEMs already 'get paid' for updates..through the MOs..

They are playing both sides of the coin by locking things down.
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Agreed. If I were a user, I'd feel pretty burned getting attached to an application then have the company "shut down" to work on something better.

Maybe oink just wasn't driving the engagement they wanted (or something).
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the link to "solarized" just links to iterm2's website...
This is well said and reflects my experience. These days I look for services that a) take money, b) probably won't get acquired soon. (a) is easier than (b), but if you look around you'll eventually find something.

Good examples are:

* Instapaper — Marco's one-man-shop, stable and profitable,

* Smugmug — family owned, users pay them money, stable and profitable,

* Dropbox — which I also pay for — but is still unlikely to find an acquirer.

I recently decided not to sign on several new services because I couldn't see a business model.

I'd like pg to address this in one of his essays, given that YC is all about building stuff people want without paying too much attention to the business side of things (e.g. actual cash flow), and with the explicit goal of reaching an exit for the founders.
alpb I use iTerm2, it just uses the system sound as I explained. Make sure you didn't enable "Silence bell" under iTerm2 prefs, Profiles, Terminal (the tab), Notifications.
If they are saying IE9+ only then that is a rather daft decision both technically and commercially.

If they are meaning "something not from the stone age" (i.e. you need FF3.5+, Chrome or Opera of similar lineage, or IE9+) then I can understand not supporting IE8 or less. Increasingly people are deciding that it simply isn't cost effective to continue to support IE8 and its elder kin, the few lost sales that result being worth less than the cost in time and other resources committed to testing those environments (i.e. people are taking the opinion that someone using IE8 is a cost not a customer).

It is a decision that should not be taken lightly of course. I wish I could refuse to support IE6 and IE8 but our clients are large banks who really are stuck in the stone age in that regard. I assume that they fully considered the pros and cons of telling IE6/7/8 users to get stuffed before taking that path.

If you are stuck on IE8 or less then you have no choice but to vote with your wallet. If enough people do the same then they were wrong in their assessment and will have to reconsider. Given the target market, as I understand it, though: I don't think they are likely to be wrong.
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This isn't your typical "high density living" though. You need to transport food and water out to the ship, and you would need to transport trash and human waste back to the mainland to be processed. In the process, you will burn an ton of fuel. This thing would also need some pretty substantial power generating facility to handle a boat full of computers, so they would probably be running the cruise ship engines 24/7 to generate the power, which is also terrible for the environment.
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You're asking this of a casual user.
It's too bad that the article did not measure how long it takes for the action to fire when the user does perform the action after refactoring.

I would think that it's a bad user experience to experience a big pause right when they want to do something. Sure the page loads faster but a noticeable pause after a click would be tremendously annoying and contribute to the "laggy" feel.
Asking if the tests are correct is really asking if the requirements are correct. If this happens a lot it means developers are writing code before they really understand the requirements. If developers have to re-write behavioral level tests a lot, it probably means the product owner/project manager/managers/stake holders/etc. are changing the requirements. A lot of pain should be felt gathering and verifying what the customer wants before a single line of code is written. Really, code is bad and as little of it should be written as possible. Developers should yell loudly when they have to re-write behavioral level tests.

Testing at the behavioral level/systems level/UX level is really verifying a lot more than just "is this code right". It provides a way to check correctness on the specifications, correctness on the behavior, complete coverage of expected usage by the end user, and assures that only the code necessary to get the behavior to work is being written (to name a few).

The carelessness I see are developers writing code without fully understanding the needs of the stake holders. The industry would be in a lot better position if managers/product owners/stakeholders/etc. were expected to provide a good set of behaviors to develop against (as an example, Gherkin or similar tools) before they start pushing developers to "deliver something on time". Note this is at the systems/behavior level and not at the Unit level.

Unit level tests provide robustness. Developers can never assure that software has no "bugs".

Behavior level tests assure completeness. Developers can assure they are meeting the requirements (Developers can't assure they are making what the customer wants: but that is not the responsibility of a developer. That is the responsibility of product owner/project manager/etc. I'm not saying that a developer can't ware that hat, but a developer not wearing that hat should not be held responsible for failings to provide for the wants of the customer).

All that being said, I can not emphasis enough how important I think Behavior Level testing is.

My 3 cents.
Joel Spolsky and Stackoverflow is a good example. They build a quality product, treat users with respect, and (I guess) are on a good track financially, and make their money in an aboveboard way. They even go so far as to build in some defenses (like Creative Commons licensing) to proactively preempt future possible evildoing.

Stephen Wolfram (though an egomaniac that has picked some unfair fights against his employees) and his company Wolfram Research built a rather solid offering in "old style" proprietary commercial software with Mathematica and now Wolfram Alpha, making his money on incredibly high quality and pouring decades of revenue back into product development and offering a generous free tier of access and deep discounts for educational and personal use.
My approach to testing is not to be obsessed with the latest, greatest framework or 100% code coverage.

I try to start with just one or two tests to actually help do things that are tedious or require multiple steps. It takes some time to automate a good test but once you do it immediately starts saving time because you don't have to run the same sequence a thousand times while developing. You can think of it more like a macro that saves you time.

Once you write the main test it's easy then to run it with all combinations of good and bad input. By doing that you'll often wind up hitting a pretty good percentage of your code.

Then as bugs are discovered due to unexpected input you can just keeping adding more input situations.
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Of course we support browsers other than Internet Explorer.

Here's the full list of supported browsers: https://basecamp.com/browsers

And way to miss the forest for the trees, guys—this article isn't about IE at all. I've come to expect no less from the Hacker News crowd these days.
I agree that the original shared vision is crucial, but I don't see why they can't come up with that after acceptance.

If a team knows how to go quickly from idea or concept, to market definition, to customer discovery, to validation very quickly it's not a problem. Most people don't even get out of the building to talk to customers routinely. They build something and see what sticks.

I would rather take a team with no idea but were really good at customer development over a team with a concrete idea but no customer development experience. The no-idea team can quickly figure out if an idea solves a problem for a big enough market and if they are willing to pay it.
The thought that someone like Steve Jobs would have been rejected or looked at oddly for wearing a suit is disconcerting.

Clothing is one of those odd and weird things that humanity might just shake out of the culture eventually. It is only of meaning to small minds.

It's like the priest who wears dignified religious clothing while hiding a darker side. Or the executive sporting $3,000 suits while causing financial damage to a nation. Or the clean-cut white kid wearing nice jeans and t-shirts while selling drugs around the corner. Or the cop wearing his uniform while committing a crime. Be careful about using clothing to judge and form opinion.

Now, I happen to think that a nice (not too expensive) suit can look really good. So can a nice pair of jeans and a t-shirt (particularly on a woman that can, shall we say, enhance the garments --call me a pig). I had to wear a suit my entire young life because I was sent to private schools. What this means is that I am just as comfortable in a suit as I am in jeans. I like wearing a suit for the right occasion. But if I have to code for 16 hours straight you are going to find me in sweatpants, and old t-shirt and sandals.
For the record, when I refer to capricious laws, I'm discussing from the viewpoint of people outside the US who, even though they may be doing things legally in their country, are suddenly at the whim of the US government.

Certainly, O'Dwyer should be subject to UK laws. I have no problem with his arrest. I have a problem with his extradition, which, given he could be prosecuted at home, one can only guess is happening because the penalties are so much more severe in the US. Why take an ounce of flesh when you can get a pound...and show the world which government is really in charge.
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I will admit that there are lots of "spammy" infographics running around on the web. A lot of people use them without good reason.

However, I feel that they are a great way way to visualize data and communicate to an impatient audience.
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To me, that's just reallocating resources. Any efficient system of capitalism will see that happening.

However IPO's with unreasonable valuations, and investments greater than what's needed is a pretty good sign of bubble. So i'll let linkedin, and facebook make me scared of a bubble. Not to mention the startup Color.
I used "and also..." as my second answer, because none of those others applied. My real second answer is "We'd liked to do more testing and we're working on it as fast as we can consistent with producing the new features and products demanded". There's a decade of code that has very little testing, still...
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