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I meant this as a compliment for the hard work you guys do evaluating all the potentials and making deliberate, thoroughly evaluated decisions on who you work with. I'm sorry if I didn't convey that properly.
As someone who was 13 in 1996, I wonder if in 2030 they'll have funny tools to "Make any webpage look like it was made by a 28 year-old in 2012"
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> In this case, icons, although they may look nice, should always be accompanied by text.
So right. Icons are too ambiguous for across-the-board use as Google has been implementing.
I use it to organize everything I'm doing. iTerm2 does splits, and both iTerm2 and Terminal do tabs, but using Tmux decouples my workflow from the operating system I'm using. Additional benefits are being able to close my terminal at the end of the day and reattach the next morning with all my programs open, being able to script things I do often, etc.
If we pass the card over to a service and let them do everything we wont have to be, will we?

At least thats the type of service i'm looking for.
I think a more important aspect is that YC is able to connect with exceptional individuals (and groups). Even if one particular group fails they may add talented individuals to their network and connect them with other more successful startups.
Kandan looks interesting. Just curious, why have a private beta for an open source app?
An interesting read, thanks.
I think there's a general purpose need for "optimal" form components. Let me elaborate:

- Fields for typing-in a credit card

- Fields for typing-in an e-mail address

- Fields for typing-in a U.S. street address

There are widely-known techniques for optimizing data entry for these fields, yet these techniques aren't widely adopted, and further yet they're known to increase conversation rates.

Someone should build a (subscription) service where you can embed a bunch of fields (and labels) onto a form with a single line of Javascript.

Then, the fields would render on the page. The performance of the fields (their effect on conversion rates) could be measured continuously. New variants of the labels and fields could be A/B tested continuously as well. That is, the performance of the fields would improve over time.

If there's interest I'll elaborate in a blog post (with mockups).

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Well, granted this is my experience, but if done properly you would rarely see this sort z-fighting in hardware acceleration. Usually when I saw that it was because of two surfaces trying to exist on the same plane regardless of orientation. Which I believe is what you are describing.

Thinking it over I may be incorrect in referring to this in the way I have. The issue I'm seeing is the back-to-front rendering (I'm assuming this is what the example is doing) of a smaller object being displayed on top of larger object and the renderer getting confused on the draw order.

Edit: ghusbands points out my confusion below

Granted, I'm not a 3D programmer but I built enough levels for 3D engines back in the day to have to be aware of these issues to design around them. This is all from memory so I could be totally off but this what it seems to me.
Awesome. One issue found, a hotmail.es was suggesting a hotmail.fr domain
Great work and thanks for the mention. We've been thinking about doing something similar but going a little further and actually checking mx records, with a response if they don't exist. This would help with the long tail domains.

Edit: Another good idea from hinathan.
I'm in the same situation. Got a hobby writing app slapped together that has a built in Markdown converter. I want normal people to use it but the idea is to focus on the writing, not the formatting so there's no buttons for WYSIWYG editing. I think I'm the right context Markdown only would work. In my situation I'm probably just going to throw up a short intro to Markdown tutorial for people who want to format their writing. It's okay in my case because the focus should be on words, not formatting and I have a hunch regular folks can learn Markdown within 20 minutes at most for the most part.

Shameless plugs: http://writeapp.me (source on github at http://github.com/billpatrianakos/Write.app)
"If the word 'design' evokes images of stylish yet
comfortable office chairs that retail for thousands of dollars, UI design would be more like finding a way to build subway benches that homeless people can’t sleep on."

I love the informal style so far and the fact that you essentially dive right in without too much of a preamble. Nicely done!
As far as I've seen, disk space hasn't been in computer-purchasing discussions at all for a few years now - salespeople just say "more than enough" and leave it at that. If you know otherwise, you're in a special class of consumers, and it still matters to you. Plus, if we get 60TB drives tomorrow, we'll have new ways to fill it within the week, and some people will do so, just as we've done to this point.

I totally agree that spinning disks are on the way out, except for high-storage purposes. And then only until flash storage meets / exceeds their density (solid state has a habit of doing this). And I totally agree that the HD size means nothing to most people buying computers. But it does drive sales over smaller numbers, so we'll keep seeing them go up as long as that's true. Maybe the tipping point is now, but I'm not putting any money on that.

As for 'boots faster / less waiting', it isn't something that's generally quantifiable because it comes with a wide range of caveats. Even if it were (I haven't seen any, but I haven't PC shopped for a while), most people I know are well aware that computers slow down over time. They may not know why, but they have seen it happen to every computer they've ever owned - "It wasn't this slow when I bought it" is a common complaint. On top of that, the vast majority of people I know simply don't shut down their computer until an update forces them to. Computers resume from sleep very quickly - my laptop is awake and responding by the time I can get my hands on the keyboard to punch in my password. Cutting that time in half gains nothing, it has reached the 'fast enough' point that it's not an incentive.
And just in time they announced on Twitter "Early prototype of nginx/SPDY works in the lab" https://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/182176707275534336
It implements a proprietary extended version of the Markdown syntax. I wonder why the author didn't look at MultiMarkdown (http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/), which is already a popular choice?
Then goes on to stamp out an entire intelligent life form

... which happens "off-camera" (sort of: the event is presented as a video game fiction with no visible non-mechanical participants), and is presented quite clearly as a moral lesson in the text. Arguing for censorship on this basis would rule out things like history lessons about real wars too, wouldn't it? You don't want to teach middle schoolers that war exists?
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Why not have both?

This seems much nicer looking: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dheionainndbbpoacp...
I like where this is going. Too many times there are great products out there that get little recognition because they don't go about marketing and selling properly. I could see this being great if there were some newer companies having sales issues and learning from sales people. Coming from a sales background, one of the hardest things is understanding who might be having the problem you are trying to solve and then going after them. There are plenty of very successful SaaS companies that didn't have a super viral launch but once they figured out their customer went and crushed it. (b2b applications come to mind)
> So in order to "support github and bitbucket" you have to keep copies of your project at both sites?

Yes. It's not difficult and means you can accept pull requests from both Mercurial and Git users.

https://bitbucket.org/sjl/gundo.vim/src

https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim
BTW, did you use Emacs to draw those diagrams?
If you look at the site referenced, Juno, it does let you quickly and conveniently download WAVs without any DRM, easy to find and all. Cheaply. And legally.

But not for everyone. The question is that you are prohibited from doing so due to B.S. licensing issues described in TFA.
That is just a port of handlebars to YUI, not YUI's take on mustache.
Thanks! Glad to share it.
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I hear that but I feel like there are some things in life we'll never be rid of and messy markup from WYSIWYG editors is just one of those things. I've never known any GUI tool to produce clean code whether it be GUI settings managers on Linux or WYSIWYG editors on the desktop or web.
the polite term for that is the marketing department ;)
This is a great idea, thank you.
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This is just as true for client side upgrades, for example in the App Store. As an app developer you're upgrading every client out there, and it's much harder to revert.

Just as you test on the client side, you should have a staging cycle which tests releases before you deploy them.
Yeah, Spotify was a huge leap forward, although it's not perfect by any means. TV and film is as dreadful as it ever was.
The financial people recognize that in most cases the value of an investment degrades over the time. If you pay $1M for new machinery, it will be worth lot less after five years.

In software we should have similar mentality and we should somehow turn this into numbers. If you don't touch your environment, the value keeps on going down - until it reaches zero. In order to keep the value, you need to constantly work on the environment. Patch operating, upgrade libraries, upgrade frameworks.

Each time you do a quick'n'dirty thing, you essentially increase your liabilities. Refactoring equals to decreasing those liabilities. If you would put numbers for these, you could actually create a balance sheet every year for your software.
I think it's mainly to make it easier to manage user feedback.

But the annoying sign up form is there because the app is not ready yet. As soon as it's functional, people will get access fairly quickly.
As someone living in Canada, I can VPN my way through the IP barriers. So that isn't an issue for me. But when it comes to paying, they sometimes still don't want my money if they see a Canadian address. There is definitely something wrong with a business model that must function this way.
It's a thoughtful book and such its "violence" can't be quantified onto a simple scale. The personal confrontations are calculated and desperate, they serve the dramatic purpose of establishing the seriousness of the stakes. They also show Ender's resourcefulness, attention to the long haul even under pressure, and savagery when cornered. Ender's choices in the space war are entirely rational, which quickly raises the question whether the morality of the xenocide lies with Ender or those who framed the problem.

All of which sets up "Speak for the Dead", one of the best sci-fi books I know.

Anyone rejecting violence qua violence should probably stay away, but they'll be missing a pretty important reflection on its causes and consequences, and the possibility of redemption.

The books after "Speaker" suck.
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Everyone learns to perfect their craft through constant failure. Musicians/artists have the luxury of failing over and over while in the isolation of their bedroom. Comics have no choice but to fail repeatedly in front of a live audience, and nobody wants to pay you while you're learning to fail.
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I watched all three original Star Wars movies with my son (Episode IV through VI) when he was three and a half and honestly, I don't get the point why you shouldn't as long as you watch it with your kid. Since then he likes Jedis as much as he does knights in general. Aparently it didn't harm him.

As far as parental censorship goes every parent may decide for himself. but when parents are starting to try to get convictions of teachers for reading books in school they should rather for home teaching if that is legal. Books are knowledge and as long as they are read in the proper context they can only do good. I mean it#s not that Shakespeare or the other classics (e.g. Goethe's "Faust" or other works of him) are any less violent and / or pornographic. Personaly, I have problems with banning books or art, we have been at this place already too often I think.
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Embedding a credit card field using third-party Javascript sounds scary.
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This is really cool. It would definitely be useful on my sites.

One thing we do differently on http://www.queondaspanish.com/ though is allow users who haven't confirmed there email use the logged in features but with limitations. They can keep track of their lesson progress for example, but not send messages to other users. They can also change misspelled email addresses, which I think would help in your case.
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This reminds me of my favorite episode of the show with zefrank. http://www.zefrank.com/thewiki/the_show:_07-14-06
So how about keeping the user on-site for a while and notifying them immediately if you detect their confirmation email has bounced? If you push the temporary session dowbstream enough to correlate seasion with bounce tou can talk back to the user. You could probably account for a healthy chunk of those bounces which this js doesn't catch.
Why? Many of us use Spreedly / Chargify / Recurly. Imagine embedding a Spreedly form on your site. Still scary?
If you can predict the correction with good accuracy, why wouldn't you just fix the address on the backend? The only reason I can think of is to avoid spamming someone else in case of a wrong guess. But for popular domain name spelling errors, that should be almost never.
I'm unable to see this working in IE9. Works fine in Firefox and Chrome. Bummer, but IE9 makes up about 25% of the visits on my site, so no go yet.
Lua is a big glue language in the game industry these days.

And not just slow-paced games either; the Lua Foundation gets a credit in some of the recent Street Fighter games.
This reminds me of when Fred Wilson pirated the Knicks game because nobody let him pay for it:
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/screwcable.html
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HTML5 and tablets are moving towards this. You can set the disposition of the on-screen keyboard based on the input metadata, making it easier to type stuff in. I think email is included in the spec.
As I understand it, this is cheating— they used lossy compression on the PNGs to achieve the size reduction.
Did management explain that this was surely the only round of lay-offs, and did people manage to stifle their laughter, or keep from rolling their eyes so hard as to snap their optic nerve?

I bet installing a nursery for colicky babies in the now-empty cubicles would have less of an impact on productivity.
Sure, except that site misses lots of music I'd normally download or listen to (or find on Spotify). And the convenient/legal/cheap argument applies to music/tv/film.
I want to migrate to scriptogr.am, but after a weekend of failed attempts modifying [Jekyll Blog Migration scripts][github], I was giving the free market (and my laziness) a nudge.

While posterous demise makes tumblr the winner of the space, I do think its social features/direction really gets in the way for those that just want a simple and fast blog.

Some more links for anyone interested hint, hint, wink, wink:

* [ import-from-tumblr.js][github 2]
* [Tumblr to Jekyll migration][github 3]
* [ Migrating from Tumblr to Jekyll][55minutes]
* [Markdown to HTML to Markdown to…][pennywised]

[55minutes]: http://blog.55minutes.com/2012/02/migrating-from-tumblr-to-j...
[github]: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations
[github 2]: https://github.com/rsms/rsms.github.com/blob/master/_scripts...
[github 3]: https://gist.github.com/867468
[pennywised]: http://pennywised.com/markdown-train
This is being worked on.
tl;dr: Getting data out of S3 is far harder than getting data out of S3.
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We didn't use a launchrock page. We built our own viral mechanics. But, honestly, it's the products that get people to share.
No problem! The Mailgun webhooks helped us collect and analyze the delivery failures, so that was really helpful. Thanks for that.

A mx checking service sounds awesome. Keep us posted if you guys do it.
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Better yet "see it in action". Users don't want to try something until they understand it a bit.
Publishers do not manufacture content; they buy licenses to reproduce content created by artists (authors, musicians, whatever) and sell copies of it to retail customers.

These licenses are often encumbered with legal restrictions because the creators (via their agents) can get more money by subdividing the rights.

This isn't specific to music. I can speak from personal experience about novels.

A common form of encumbrance is territorial rights; for example, when I sell the rights to publish my novels to my publishers, I only sell them the right to publish in a specific language, and in specified territories.

I can't get more money from a publisher by offering them world English language rights rather than, by splitting US/Canadian and UK/rest of world rights and selling them to different local publishers. (In fact, if I sell world rights to a US publisher, they won't sell the ebooks around the world -- they'll merely re-sell UK rights to a British publisher, who will maintain the territorial split. Because there are still no truly global publishers, despite individual members of the Big Six trying to operate on a global scale.) So I split the rights and sell them separately.

As noted by, well, just about everyone, this makes little or no sense in the internet age. Unfortunately trying to get book contracts re-drafted so that e-book rights are global and non-exclusive is, shall we say, an exercise in pain (we're talking about getting publishing house lawyers involved: do I need to say any more?). So that's why it persists in ebooks, and it's pretty much the same story with other forms of content.

That's why this goes on. It'll probably continue for a few more years before truly global distributors show up and the existing system collapses under its own weight.
The school district's press release still only mentions the books, not the downloaded material.

I wonder if that means "we're going to fire him because he circumvented our process by bringing in books he didn't clear first, so that we don't have to publicly discuss the fact that he may have been reading more salacious material to students as well."
Do both? I'd personally like to know if/when I enter my email address incorrectly.
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I think what people in some of these countries don't realize is that there is not a big enough financial incentive to do the legal work required to bring certain artists to those regions. The amount if would cost to get those agreements done, setup distribution, collect, pay royalties on a tiny amount of sales is just not worth it.

I know, I know...everybody will say that the labels shouldn't complain when they fail to bring music to a market and those people pirate the music. At the end of the day, you're not entitled to everything everyone else has. To think so is just juvenile.
google is an ad company. the whole reason android exists is to make sure you view as many ads as possible.

you think they don't care about how that affects your battery life? if your phone battery dies, you're not viewing ads anymore. the goal is to have you connected to the internet as much as possible. the more usable their stuff is, the better they can accomplish that goal. the making-a-better-phone business is the ad business for google.
Total linkbait title. There's nothing wrong with getting the data out of Amazon, it's writing it to other cloud providers that's the problem. If you just want to access the data or move it to your own datacenter presumably you will only be limited by your own bandwidth. There's no artificial limitations being imposed by Amazon here...
Search - 1 month.

Links: We're working on something big there, mainly to showcase the designers. Give me 2 months ;-)

Sold out? ummmm, we're working on getting more inventory too. basically the rule is: First sale is an emotional test, 2nd sale is based on predictive data, 3rd sale is based on history.
Out of curiosity, is there a significance or reason for using 2 as the threshold value?
You just described my most fitting persona, one which wasn't mentioned in the OP: the Refactorer (or less glamorously, the software janitor). Reducing complexity is among my favorite programming activities. Nothing like calling it a day after disentangling some chunky piece of over-engineered object-oriented spaghetti, leaving the codebase a few hundreds LOC lighter and all test lights flashing green.
The fact that Haskell is always curried means that you always have to be aware of currying.

No, you don't. That was my point.

By pretending that functions aren't curried, you're limiting yourself to a subset of the language's full expressiveness, but it is a completely consistent subset; it behaves precisely as you would expect it to in the absence of currying. And that subset is equivalent to the expressiveness of Python (or any other language) without currying.

It sounds like you're implying that Haskell is just an odd assortment of academic "cute tricks" for impressing people who have nothing more important to spend their time on, and that any practical programmer would steer clear of it in order to "get things done". Frankly, this is the opinion of someone who has little experience with the language, or with functional programming in general. There are many ideas in Haskell which are unusual, or of seemingly little value to someone with a strictly imperative background. But as anyone who has used the language to build something practical can tell you, these "tricks" are much more than clever mathematical toys; they enable you to express your intent more succintly and with greater precision than with the tools provided by most other languages, with strong compile-time guarantees of correctness to boot. You tend to miss them quite a bit when using languages which lack these features.

Not everyone who uses Haskell falls in love with it, and there are plenty of arguments to be made both for and against the language, but your dismissive characterization is just naive.
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Thats more common than you think unfortunately - Ive seen that exact scenario happen a couple times. That or calling everyone into a room and telling them they have been laid off.