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No - thanks for the pointer. (Typo in my last comment - s/know that I know/now that I know/.)
Comparing the general static analysis in Visual Studio 2010 and PVS-Studio
I'm of two minds about this.

a) Yes, there are quite a few articles about vim that show up on HN's front page.

b) I am a long time -- 20 years now? Really? Gah! -- vim user, and some of the articles have shown me things that even I didn't know.

Insofar as emacs is concerned, I'm not sure why you are mentioning it. It is a good, respectable editor.
Awesome product, I can see this working very well in the online shopping industry. A very impressive part of the article: "[...] she interviewed about 800 boutique owners around the country, trying to understand their frustrations, and how an e-commerce site could help, and why this idea didn't exist already." - I'd say a very key advantage which Shoptiques will have in the future.
My pleasure. I worked on the visual effects team for a movie with a _lot_ of compositing. This is cut-rate stuff. Can you imagine what sort of things we will believe if someone were doing this sort of fakery with a real budget?
> People need to fucking lighten up.

>But then there are other things, like the stuff Sqoot said on their event page. Psh, just a harmless JOKE. Pick your battles people.

I have a lot of problems with your rant, but I wanted to respond to these in particular.

When I saw their flyer, it didn't read as a joke. It read as “One good reason to attend this event is that there will be women there who we're paying to serve you beer.” I guess I might have missed something, but this sounds like it was something they planned to do. So, not a joke.

What does this tell me? The target audience for this event is men. Of course others can come, but really it caters to men.

Why is that a problem? Because the development community has historically been dominated by men, and has various cultural elements that are not very welcoming toward women. So then to put on a prominent hackathon, and explicitly say “Hey, and really this for the men out there” is a problem for me.
Abstract. The article demonstrates errors detected with the static code analyzer integrated into Visual Studio 2010. The research was performed on five open source projects. The same projects were also checked with PVS-Studio. Results of comparing these two tools are presented at the end of the article.
You're right, you can definitely login without a facebook/twitter account now.
While active, _why was a vocal evangelist of that vision.

Camping, for example, is an MVC framework written in less than 4K of Ruby code. It was at its time the go to microframework in the Ruby world. Then _why disappeared, and the releases staled for a while, and Sinatra took the spot.

Here's the initial camping announcement, with the full source code included. The updates were added incrementally, it was hillarious to see them roll out... http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/bits/campingAMicrofr...

The current version has been brought down to less than 3K By judofyr: https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.r...
First of all, here is Downton Abbey Season 2 on Amazon [ http://www.amazon.com/Downton-Abbey-A-House-History/dp/B006M... ]

I'd like to know the actual stream bitrate he experienced. It's pretty hard for me to empathize without that number.
Seems to link to a comment ID fragment on the page which jumps it to the bottom. Better edit the link!

Good read too.
As shown with responsive web design, it is increasingly becoming an antiquated idea that a small screen means small/underpowered device.
Yep, same, a little bit laggy under Firefox on Windows 8. (Odd; hardware acceleration should make this pretty nippy.)
Couldn't you simply carry a magnetic ring? Or would that not work for some reason?
I'm intrigued by this "networked electronic mail", maybe it will replace my steam-powered telegraph automaton?

(J/k)
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What's most offensive about the incident wasn't the wording in the ad, but the fact that they were going to hire exclusively women as sex objects (eye candy) for a professional event. The ad simply provided advance notice and an opportunity to call them out on it before the event actually happened.
I can tell HN that in about a month we'll be open-sourcing the in-memory data grid that's at the heart of the SpaceBase grid. It's an IMDG different from all others, as it has some very unique performance characteristics that make it suitable for certain use-cases.
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Proprioception means you can sense the position of your limbs. That is different that what the inner ear provides. You can be blind, deaf, and paralyzed from the neck down, and you will still be able to know when the airplane is starting to descend, even though you will have lost all proprioception.
I've never liked these scrolling animations. You need too much precision to see a part of the page clearly, while with normal scrolling it wouldn't matter if the information you're reading is at the bottom or top of the screen.
30C is a pretty average summer day where I live in Italy. There, it's a very rare event.

> Also, other warm locales are just a short flight away.

It's not like they can air-freight in the warm though - you're stuck in someplace cold except for brief trips. Fine for some people, but something to experience before committing to it.
Thank you Patrick, great ideas! We did start with the credit card being required. We took it out so more people could experience the premium plan before knowing if they want to buy. To be honest we didn't leave it like that for more than a week so I have no data on it.

Also, I agree, our pricing is too low. Our focus right now is on developers who can use Codiqa for work purposes. That has a higher value than $10/mo.

We are going to experiment with some of these ideas and blog about them. Thanks again.
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A site like this doesn't need a cache, though.
An all-time high of 87F doesn't cut it for you? For me, a place that never reaches the 90s is near-paradise. Also, Icelanders tend to be educated and friendly; I spent over a week in Reykjavik in February 2010 and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. After that trip, it made the list of places I'd consider moving to and this article just makes it more attractive to me.

Disclaimer: I'm originally from Canada, so I didn't find their winter all that daunting.
True. Which means that with "just" $1mil, he's going to have to manage his money a bit more than if he had tens of millions.

(maybe there should be a "thank linus" day sometime)
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I completely disagree. Everyone is creative. Design is not about learning to be creative, but about learning how to use your creativity. Here's an excerpt from the book that speaks to this:

...we assign mystical reverence to the work of professional designers. Their elegant color schemes, provocative typography, and eye-scorching aesthetics leave us dumbfounded. Only “creative types” can achieve this; only near-savants who were born with a special talent.

Browsing design websites further compounds this assigned reverence. There, designers discuss creating processes rather than creating design. They promote glossy techniques over the boring fundamentals. They fawn over other designers, who command the current popular aesthetic.

The design forums that helped groom and educate many who now call themselves professional designers (including myself) have all but disappeared. Instead, we have ffffound, Dribbble, Cargo Collective, and other closed-gate communities where the intent is that you peek in through the bars and hope that someday you’ll get inside. There are fewer modes of meaningful learning. Less sharing of experience. Now, it’s “Check out this beautiful illustration and custom lettering. If you can’t do something this cool, we won’t let you in. Good luck getting here.”

Seeing all that, you’d think design is difficult. You’d think it’s complicated, and that gaining basic skill requires hours of studying a multitude of advanced topics. And you’d be wrong.

Anyone can be a great designer with practice. It’s both at once liberating and frightening: your future as a designer depends only on how hard you’re willing to work. Design is a skill and a trade; you get better at it by practicing. First, learn the basics and go design something. Then, call yourself a designer. The more things you design, the better you will get and the more lovely and insightful your creations will become. No magic knowledge hidden away in design books, blogs, or classes will teach you to be a great designer. All you have to do is practice. Learning design is that simple.

The basics you need to learn fill the rest of this book...
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Maybe this: https://kodingen.com/

I have no experience with it though.
The articles they link to that talks about their product all say to not try it. I think that's probably good advice.
Oops, well-noticed. I didn't notice that was there when I copy/pasted the link. Unfortunately, HN does not allow me to edit my URL. Can someone with superpowers please fix this?
Why Vim?

1. Because it's installed everywhere.

2. There is no 2.
http://diesel.io/faq
Was using Chrome, I like the concept but didn't just crash my browser, crashed my entire machine. Ouch.
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ExtremeTech regurgitates the same figures and anecdotes from the articles in the Economist, Wash Post, etc. and then prognosticates. This is the world we live in now. We've turned all media into a big feedback machine. Has it beet this way for a while, even before the Internet? Perhaps it's just more apparent to consumers of media now that everything is so accessible.

Regardless, the result of the new buzz life-cycle is that even truly interesting stories feel cheap and fleeting; oh well, we'll be worried about something else is 3-5 days anyway.
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Exactly. It marginalizes women in the profession. It also supports sexual objectification as being okay in a workplace / professional environment.
Oh yes there bloody is: an opinion held in spite of overwhelming evidence.
Thank you. I have tried several times to articulate how weakly we can reasonably attribute rightness to any of our beliefs, and you've done a wonderful job of it. Mary Wollstonecraft succinctly expressed this as "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." (Full disclosure: only came across this as a section quote in _The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor_.)

On the general topic, I can't add much except that Sqoot's response adds to the apologetic miasma that suffocates honest expression. It is not the same thing, but of a piece, that several times daily a person will say "Sorry" for such transgressions as brewing their K-cup before I can brew mine, or for crossing paths as we walk around the office. It lacks conviction, and it should: these are not offenses, are not rude actions. They so quickly issue "Sorry" that it's as hollow of meaning as the familiar "You know" and "like." It is mere social lubrication without intent.

On the other hand, there is at least one subtlety I haven't read here yet, and that's this: if I enter another culture, either by travelling to another country or merely travelling down the street, I may risk doing something which is legitimately offensive in that culture but which I don't personally find offensive. I can easily, then, find myself in a situation where I am earnest in my apology even if I have no intention of changing my opinion. I can simultaneously claim my values and care enough about others to understand they may find them objectionable and respect them by either keeping my mouth shut or apologizing if I feel I've offended them.

Is there a line to be drawn between that scenario, which doesn't seem controversial, and Sqoot's predicament? Is there room for allowing the male-and-macho developer set to think sexism is cool and still earnestly apologize because they realize others are offended?
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I really hope the FTC stops this. If there is anywhere we need competition it is this industry.
A complicated bit of text editing software if after 20 years of daily use you're still learning significant new tricks. Statements like yours are why vim seems completely unapproachable to me.
Eavesdropping on cockroach neurons ... and some MITM jiggles
... and hooking them up with iPad & iPod
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I don't think anyone is debating that music can be recorded cheaply, the point is about standup being easier to produce (from a technical perspective), and unless you're thinking of a solo acapella singer, music requires a lot more production value, even just to get something sounding "decent".
Booth babes are a problem and the protests have gone up about them (to the point of misidentifying a women as a booth babe will get you in trouble).

If they had quietly done it and female developers had showed up, the damage would have been worse, much worse. Words are one thing, pictures of scantily clad models serving beer at a hackathon would have been a little too juicy for the bloggers. Twitter pictures turn into mainstream media articles rather quickly these days.

Their crime is thinking it was acceptable. As my Dad told me (constantly as a youth it seemed), "I'm amazed you thought of that, and appalled you actually did it." Fantasy is best kept out of the professional workplace / event planning.
There's a plethora of brilliant and accomplished people on HN, I'd love it if they came out to answer a few questions.

They wouldn't even have to be "intellectual superstars", if all they did was build out idea/product/service X i would still find it a very valuable addition to HN.
+1 for Grantland. Simmons should have become an Editor-in-Chief of separate (if not autonomous) sports site years ago.
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There's a pretty key difference. Deploying countermeasures against an extinction-level asteroid strike is a realistic possibility with current technology. An extraterrestrial human presence which could survive an extinction event just... isn't. Sad as it is to say.
How is the record of online nonnewspaper reporting in forcing politicians to resign or exposing other scandals? And how do we establish causation (that any one story brought someone down) in a world where many readers, for example nearly all readers of HN, get their news from multiple sources?

AFTER EDIT:

Taking into account the other thoughtful replies here, I remember reading in the mainstream print press (Business Week) about the housing bubble no later than 2005, and I'm sure that wasn't the only mainstream source pointing out that housing prices made no sense in the mid-2000s. The print publication The Economist was also referring to inflated housing costs in several countries, notably Spain, before the bubble burst. One problem any news source has in establishing credibility in predicting problems is hindsight bias: once a problem blows up, it's "easy to see" that the problem was inevitable, but until it blows up, plenty of people are making money off of betting that they can stay solvent the whole time the market stays irrational, and no amount of responsible journalism seems sufficient to overcome that kind of mass delusion.
Doppler-effect lets you add gestures to your computer
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Not if you mirror your display.. they take advantage of the external display when you mirror
What I really want is the reverse of this tool. I want a service that lets me contact the companies I do business with via email, bypassing all of the annoying forms that they set up and require that I have to fill out.
What's up with all the people trying to discuss the physics involved? The video is blatantly fake, for other reasons entirely: the obvious viral factor, shady YouTube channel, bad acting, fake camera movement, etc. This thing is probably a Red Bull viral, inspired by that other "walking on water" viral.
> (As an aside, can we please get some sort of sane mechanism for quoting text?)

I've always done it like email.

Or you can be a journalist, and put quote marks around what you are quoting.
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This argument fell flat for me as soon as I read that newspapers are the only ones left to hold the gov't and wall street accountable. Newspapers are corporate for-profit entities, and like all media companies they are owned by the people they 'report' on.

In the traditional sense, newspapers will not survive. I believe that independent journalism will survive, as people like me move to curated content services, and pay for valuable new stories. The way to do this is to combine the kickstarter model and the steam model. Small teams of topical reporters post stories that they want to write and/or pursue, and potential readers bid on them to do so. Then when the content is finished they can distribute it through a global distribution channel, like a Steam for news media content. You can bundle subscriptions from your favorite news teams, get the 'all inclusive package' get the just 'sports and gossip' package, or whatever else works.

Sure a lot of content will seep out there for free, but the kickstarter-like company can add value by explaining to people the importance of funding these teams. As teams get established they can get to a level of continuous funding, or at least for X # of months at a time, that way they can do indepth whistle-blowing type stories, without having to give away what they want to do in the original kickstarter.

I have only just started thinking of this, so I'm sure there are many holes to be worked out. Nevertheless, I do want this industry to 'pivot' into success because I do think they provide an important social good.
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I don't disagree with the notion of being efficient and getting out of the way. But I do think remembering that you're talking to a human being is important.
The highlights from the end of the article.

> iTV’s adoption should be even faster than iPad.

This seems really dubious. If I understand it right we are talking about a full TV that has all the features of an iPad, not just a set top box. I already have a great TV that I'm not going to pay a premium to replace just for Angry Birds. And a preliminary Best Buy customer survey had the 42-inch at almost $1500(1). You can buy a much bigger and better TV for that much.

> Feature phone decline will open the door to massive iPhone growth.

Maybe. There will be growth once TMobile gets an iPhone, but the reality is there is more competition than ever. I think moderate sustained growth is likely, definitely not 'massive'.

> The iPad market could be close to the size of the PC market today in a few short years.

Well, PCs seem to be a declining sector, especially considering I can surf the internet on my phone or tablet on my couch instead of heading to a sit-down PC.

> Macs will keep taking share in the PC market as people look to complete their iOS set.

PCs are declining, and Macs are picking up a share of a declining market. The synergy with iTunes helps sales but the entire market is not going to get them to 2.5 times their current stock price.

> iAd and iPay are both wildcards here. They could be much bigger than what even I optimistically envision.

Or both much smaller.

Ads are a tough market. Not a lot of people are having explosive success like Google. There's money, but I don't see Apple being the company to tap into that market. Unless they lock out other ad networks in their iOS apps forcing devs to use their system, but that's not a good approach.

As far as mobile payments, I'm not sure what the author thinks Apple is going to do. Unless they open their own financial institution and start their own credit card they will still have to pay fees to Visa and MasterCard. I don't see Apple as that company.

Other highlights:

> Education could massively adopt iPads to replace text books.

Lol. Maybe at a private school, but not in a public school. Kids suck at taking care of things that aren't theirs (and sometimes even their stuff) so it would be prohibitively expensive.

(1) http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117305-apple-itv-detail...
> He is entitled to think whatever, include slavery or the annihilation of mankind, and people should not only not put him in prison for it, but not even fire him for it.

If someone wants to kill me and everyone I care about, then surely it is reasonable for me to be somewhat irate at that person, up to and including choosing not to do business with them.
Unapproachable? You don't need to know every single command and the entirety of Vimscript to use the editor. Do you know every function in every language/API you use?
Why I canceled my college subscription
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66 cents a day?

How much do you spend on coffee/tea/soda a day?
Are there really many people spending a day to build a contact form? Where does that time go and how much of it can your service realistically expect to reduce this by?
Yes, making assumptions about people based on their race, sex, heritage, etc. is not okay, especially not in a professional setting.
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He must be old, like me.

I loved Spy Magazine it was one of very few things I read for pleasure in college. Even so, I think it was instrumental for me in forming a critical view of media the included cultural, economic and political perspectives.
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One reason that sounds silly, but is totally legitimate- When your Vim-fu finally gets better than your regular text editor-fu, it FEELS great, and its FUN.
It's not reading material, but if you're looking for a place to discuss new ideas for free and open source projects: http://gun.io/mostwanted

(Okay, it's pretty much brand new..)
I should consider translating my game to Mandarin :)
/me grins.

You're backing yourself into a corner rhetorically here.

I'm not (just) white knighting here to defend all the poor helpless ladies. I am actually offended and disheartened by the comments. The things that Sqoot said makes me not want to be part of the community they belong to.

Secondly, the ladies have been more than capable of communicating that they felt this was demeaning. This isn't smoke without fire.

Here's the thing. Sqoot are obviously dumb kids, because the ad for the event was clearly written in dumb-kid-speak. I have hope that they do grow and learn from this experience, and they better understand that they should be more mindful not to be jerks to others.

What I genuinely can't abide (either rhetorically or ethically) are the mealy-mouthed defenses of Sqoot's writing.

What they did was not okay, there's really no justification of it. And to their credit they have tried to apologize. I'm still not convinced that they have (yet) internalized why everyone is upset at them, and I think that's why the controversy has continued.

But the fact that you are willing to accuse others of being more demeaning than Sqoot simply because they are explaining their grievances is mega-weak. I hope you too grow and at some point come regret the defense of Sqoot's behavior you have offered here.
Recruitment engineer probably also means product evangelist. Someone who can sell the product and be technically competent enough to sell potential hires on why it would be interesting to join.
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