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I run a site that requires users to report their monitor size in inches (pective.com). 15"/17" are the most popular.

http://blog.pective.com/post/361455212/the-distribution-of-s...
Sad that our pixel density hasn't gone up since the 90s, really. Tv ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p. I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone, and I await their high-density MacBook displays. Hopefully they'll be out this fall, but a quick survey of the 4K-rezo landscape suggests that they'll likely have to wait another year for prices to drop :/
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Accepting your framing of the selling point, the OP clearly shows that it is not being delivered on.
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Why should that "scrap years of JavaScript optimization"? That doesn't make sense. (Completely ignoring the fact, that JavaScript is not fast and will never be.)

Source-to-source-translation _always_ sucked and that's known for a few decades already.
Checkout http://fiver.com/ People are loving to do such videos fro $5. I have never tried any of them myself.
Podio is now part of Citrix
With a common bytecode there would probably be a chance for languages to be fast and not stuck with translations to JavaScript for the next decade.
Why can't you have both file extensions and file types? File extensions aren't ridiculous, they're a helpful hint for developers. Also, "my copy of Windows" hides file extensions by default (which I loathe, but understand).
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14" 1920x1200 here....laptop is from like 2008 (c2d Dell Latitude D830.)

I won't upgrade because the "upgrade" has 1920x1080, and being a Sysadmin, vertical pixels lost means less lines in my term and more scrolling. It's a shame that we moved from 16x10 to 16x9 to save a few bucks. Last I checked, Apple and levovo (w-series) still offer 1920x1200, but my laptop cos $280 used, and the lenovo or MBP would be close to 3 grand.

Sad.
Any pointers, folks?
And excluding gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson.
Already in production for months, no particular problems
It doesn't nessicarily need to be a leaky abstraction, in the case of rails (1) there was just a few miles between the path a beginner took and a pro took, which makes it real hard to stop being a beginner
Tokyo notably yet I suppose unsurprisingly absent..
Maybe that 1% platform specific code is a big 1%? :)

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see c# running everywhere.
Where's the actual report? I got an email from the startup genome guys about this but it only links to the TC article. I'd like to read the complete findings, not just the summarised version.
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I've been very excited about Roslyn since I heard Anders Hejlsberg speak about it at Microsoft's Build conference, but I never had a use case for it besides the tutorials and samples included with the CTP. One of the cool things that came with the CTP was the new C# Interactive window (a REPL environment) it added to Visual Studio. With it, I can execute C# against my solution on the fly. This is extremely useful for doing things like testing regexes, comparing the results of different method overloads, or quickly testing a method I just wrote, without requiring me to rebuild the entire project or solution.

The idea behind Compilify is to bring that same interactive environment to the web.
1) My problem with this attitude is it leads to, as gaius said elsewhere in this thread[1], "requiring a 2Ghz quad-core with 8G RAM to edit a simple document". Developers should not be relying on improvements to their users' hardware to boost their software's performance, at all.

2) My (soon to be former) work is in signal processing software for military applications. Our customers do not want to buy and upgrade hardware just because some new algorithms don't fit. This creates a situation like the console world (as klez mentioned in his reply) and the mobile device world, where hardware is basically fixed for some period of time for a given user. You have to pay attention to the efficiency of code in these circumstances if you want to expand the capabilities of your applications in any meaningful way.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827096
I'll second that.

Watched the video and i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Cool idea, this could potentially be turned in to something like this: http://www.learnpython.org/
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Not to sound like an ass, but getting a good programming job in the game industry is hard enough as it is. After all, the supply-demand ratio for these jobs is much lower than it is elsewhere in the IT industry. I would advise him to get another programming job first, learn some C/C++ in his free time, and then start looking for jobs in the game industry.
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Isn't it kind of a given that when you give your email address to a service, that you are allowing that service to contact you?

Otherwise what's the point of having the address?
This is actually quite entertaining :)
The obligatory refutation of RPC (Meteor.js)
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The low level programmer is obviously not gone, as other people have already mentioned. Rather, what I think most of us who've been through a few decades of development can see, is that the hobbyist has become a different kind of person. Years ago, all the hobbyists would go "Oooh! I finally managed to print ASCII on the screen. Ok, now let's spend another day trying to get it working in color!" In 2012, there is (in most cases) very little point in doing this, and the 'hobbyists' we see now are mostly building websites 'n stuff.
or write games for Android
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What are the possible alternatives?
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Yeah man, respect the playa and keep Black Rock City weird.
You either have tons of funding or tons of talent: SV has both which is why it's the center of the IT universe.

NYC has more funding than engineers, and all other hubs are either a mix of both or have a serious deficit in one side (or even both) meaning making a startup there is very difficult, and if it takes off odds are they are going to move to a bigger hub, like SV.
Is it realized internally or are they using other cloud provider (Amazon, Rackspace etc..) and just rebranding it?
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I think he was hopeful that the same benefits could be achieved with a different server-side runtime. It's a long-shot, but with good socket-sync and something like the client-side MongoDB adapter, Rails could come pretty close.

We got pretty comfortable with the commodities the Rails environment provides, so it's understandable some people would rather just add another layer (Backbone/Spine) and avoid the paradigm shift.

The advantages of attacking new problems with a new toolkit can sometimes appear less beneficial, because swapping out the current mega-stack for something slimmer inevitably leads to reduction in features (ie.: You end up making another `view` in place of a collection partial. Mailer, gems/middle-wares, etc..)

That said, despite getting pretty comfortable with Rails/Backbone|Spine, I'm in the pragmatic camp, looking forward to tackling a few side-projects with Meteor.
Love rdio.
Read the manual: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , section "What to Submit" ("anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.")

PS: the linked reddit comment alone helped me learn more about tsunami generation and horizontal/vertical earthquake movements than I knew before today)
I'd like to see some additional detail on this particular idea:
"In Meteor, your server code runs in a single thread per request, not in the asynchronous callback style typical of Node. "

Seems one of Node's primary style advantages (async non-blocking style) has been eschewed.
Well, if you exclude MonoGame, most of the platform specific code is some window handling (showing messages boxes). The accelerometer, touchpanel, etc... is all handled by MonoGame and even though we contributed to it, it's not technically the core of the flight sim. That's what I counted in the 100% :)

For the UI, it's a custom toolkit we built on our own, so it's 100% similar for both platforms.
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I remember having seen this, and it was a long time ago.
One book I'd recommend for this is Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book. Of course it's a bit dated but there's a lot of knowledge to be learned from it and it has good discussions about why and when to optimize...

Plus some of the more dated chapter can be seen as a good history lesson :-)

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/graphics-p...
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TechCrunch and related acts are just /tech tabloids/ now. Media literacy in the USA has been on a steep decline in the past 50 years, as evidenced by how these people still make and break startups. See also: things like Fox News blaming Obama for high oil prices instead of speculation in oil futures.

The emperor has no clothes.
That's not a lie. I've read through several hundred bump reviews and their app had very poor ratings from users who expected full app/music sharing. It was misleading in the first place to not give indications of limitations on those features, though. Edit: I had looked after Bump 3.0 and they had tons of 1 star reviews for removing the features, but now they're up to 4.5 stars, whereas they had ~2.5 on Bump 2.0
As a counterpoint, there are a lot of game programming positions open everywhere, and studios are having a real hard time filling them. Yes, there is more competition than non-games roles, but programmers are still programmers - valuable and rare.

If he's a good programmer he shouldn't give up. If he's job hunting, tell him to spend a good two weeks learning C++ and build a couple of dummy programs, then start applying for roles and continue to work on his C++ in the background. It'll come.
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People seem really hung up on the idea that Python and WSGI are not supported by cheap shared webhosts. If you ever think "gee, I wish I had some decent shared WSGI hosting for less than $10/month" the answer is Webfaction. :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3826416

(@lmm: Sorry, I can't reply directly to your post.)
I don't know much about Korean, but if I were you I would just get a book and start reading it, no matter what. And check out somewhere online the most popular words in this language.
Add to the "Privacy!" nonsense the "Google is now EVIL" canard that pops up at the same time.
Pixel density isn't the real problem, it's the lack of content. Even though there have been Full HD displays for quite some time most of the HD content is only 720p, especially games on current generation consoles.
I haven't used this app but I think the parent had expected that the data he entered would be confined to the application, not sent to the app developer.
Simple analogy: Would you expect Microsoft to harvest every e-mail address you enter into Outlook?
That is awesome and exactly what I was hoping would happen.

Cali, you're up next (I hope!)
Not at the bottom end of employment ladder. For low-skill jobs there are often more candidates than open positions, so almost everyone is expendable. For example, a food store on the corner of my street can, and has many times fired a clerk only to find a replacement within a day or two. At the low end of the job market there is always someone who is younger, has less integrity and/or is willing to put up with more crap than you - so you're completely expendable.
"Affirmative action in the US seems to revolve more around not negatively discriminating against women when making hiring decisions,"

Affirmative action is when two people are equally suited for a job/position/benefit, the one from the disadvantaged group (based on sex, ethnic/socioeconomic background, physical impairment, ...) gets it. In more extreme varieties, it means that the one from the disadvantaged group has less strict requirements to fulfill. In a way, a women's quota is a species of the genus affirmative action.
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This is a gimmick and there's no way around it. NFC, once widely supported, will make this obsolete.
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> I now need to buy-in to the entire (framework) mindset to progress which slows things down

That's interesting, that idea could be folded into the technical debt metaphor.

So, by taking on a library or framework, I get a head start by just using it, but take on the knowledge-debt of not really knowing how it works. And when you get to the edge of what it can do, you either pay off the knowledge debt by learning how it works, or you throw the whole thing out and use a different library.
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Libertarianism only seems likely to work in two cases:

1. Small societies where everyone has skills or resources that are essential to the others, or

2. Societies where everyone has resources to be self-sufficient.

There may also be a requirement that the society not be in competition with outside, non-libertarian societies for necessary resources, because libertarianism is poor at handling negative externalities. A non-libertarian society has the option of careful government regulation which allows better utilization of important natural resources.
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"Basic Income (BGE) is a very liberal socal policy(something I could see Friedman or Hayek support)."

Actually Friedman (I assume you're talking about Milton Friedman here, since there are several prominent economists named 'Friedman' nowadays) advocated just that in 1962 in 'Capitalism and Freedom', albeit in the form of a negative income tax.
At the bottom rung of the skills ladder, there are always more applicants than jobs - you have to count the "overqualified", as they will apply for those same jobs.

This is only the case in a poor economy (which, admittedly, we've been in for... some time now). In a booming economy, I heard fellow business owners, when I was one, complain about getting zero filled applications for advertised positions in which they mostly needed a warm body to sweep or greet customers.
Sorry, but productivity is best measured by evidence previous work-- not one's piss, blood, hair, or facebook friends.

The other reason that drug testing is senseless and stupid is that it is imprecise. "False positives" do wreck careers and/or cause enormous hardship on good people, you might call it collateral damage, but to the people it occurs to it is a disaster.

In my own case, I had been scheduled to submit to a hair test as pre-employment screen. I showed up at the testing facility and was told my hair was too short and that a urine sample was required instead. These are different tests and the urine sample does check for alcohol consumption whereas the hair test does not. The previous night I shared a bottle of wine with dinner with my wife and I had also taken advil because of the headache induced by the stress of giving my termination notice at work. Everything turned out OK, but the stress caused by worrying about a stupid false positive because of the wine, advil, or my prescription was really not a nice experience. If there had been a false positive, I would have been begging for mercy, disclosing my drug prescription, explaining away the advil and wine. I guess some people would see value/pleasure in that. I fucking don't.
"Please try again. Bump works better if you enable location on your browser."

Seems like bump works better without enabling location, maybe because I prefer it to fail rather than to spy on me. Talk about not failing gracefully.
> Why should that "scrap years of JavaScript optimization"? That doesn't make sense.

The bytecode that browsers compile JavaScript to are incompatible with each other. They would either have to pick one (wouldn't happen) or design one together (wouldn't happen).

A designed by committee bytecode would also effectively eliminate browser vendors' ability to compete on speed.

> Source-to-source-translation _always_ sucked and that's known for a few decades already.

In what way? From what I read Gambit Scheme compiles to C that is as fast as hand-crafted C. I would assume that CoffeeScript is no slower than regular old JavaScript. So if not speed, how are these things sucking?
I like the approach but I think it's a big mistake to not strip stop words. He should focus on nouns and verbs imo. The top words he lists are all stopwords/grammatical particles "de", "que", "la", "y" etc. I don't think knowing those words will help to understand anything. I think if you understand only the grammatical particles in a sentence it won't help at all to understand the meaning of the sentence. On the other hand if you know the verbs and nouns but not the grammatical particles you can at least infer some meaning or what it's about.
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I sincerely doubt that. PHP has fundamental issues.

It's like the people 10 years ago saying "if [other OS] was as popular as Windows XP, it'd be overrun with malware too". No. The issue wasn't Windows marketshare, it was the completely crap security.
This is great, it means I can run a music blog without breaking any laws because without illegally uploaded the tracks to soundcloud / blogger / tumblr.

It also means that you could rigup a Spotify powered muxtape.

Now if only we had a Web API for adding tracks to playlists etc
TV ruins people with 42" screens at only 1080p.

Actually, that pixel density is typically too high because they sit so far back. From http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/high-definiti...

"A survey made some years ago by Bernard Lechner, a television engineer at the former RCA Laboratories, near Princeton, New Jersey, showed that the median eye-to-screen distance in American homes was nine feet. At that distance, a 1080p HDTV set (with a screen 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels high) needs to be at least 69-inch across a diagonal if viewers are to see all the detail it offers."

When I play games on my XBox, I need to pull up a chair so I can sit about 5-6 feet from my TV. My couch is about 10' from the TV, and I simply can't make out the detail as well from that distance.
Sadly, neither rdio's or Spotify's embed works for iDevices.
the key feature is the "composability" of the RAII technique.

I think it might be possible to have composability in RAII in Go if such objects weren't allowed to live anywhere but the stack. (Which would limit passing through channels.) Those objects would have a well defined creation and destruction time. While not completely universal, this might still be quite powerful and useful.
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This is http://kia4sale.narod.ru/insta/02.jpg instaphoto (Earlybird) from Android version

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You can always print out, let's say, 50 top words and not bother with "de", "que", etc.
> I can't code.

I guess there are many people who would benefit from this idea and, like you, can't code. It sounds like a good idea for an Internet service - a list of words to check before reading book X in language Y.
I was just wondering the same thing, using the onchange action.
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I consider this to be a feature, rather than adding new customers that they can't support fully, they turn off registration. Others might just stick new customers on the old hardware.
Decreasing typing (of keywords) is exactly the wrong way to go when designing a programming language. A program will be read far more times than it is written; the optimization should be towards reading and understanding rather than typing. How long it takes to type should be a distant consideration, if at all.

Often times, a language construct that can be defined in the fewest lines will be more readable. So the end result will generally be a more compact representation. But things like "iface" for interface strikes me as the result of designers who have their priorities mixed up. It's not even an abbreviation, it's just awkward (fn on the other hand has a long history of being an abbreviation for function).
Asking on-demand for everything lands you in the usability mess that is Vista's UAC.

Please let me clarify: a properly designed system should allow the user to "always grant" that one permission to that one app, so the total number of permissions dialog goes from 1 per app to N per app with N=number of required permissions. The advantage would be, that opposed to Windows (where you only grant one rather opaque "Administrator" permission) you will see how your current action caused the permission request.

To come back to my example: you tap on the contact shortcut on your desktop, and Android asks you:

"Launcher requests the permission to perform a (possibly billed) phone call. [Grant] [Grant always] [Deny] [Deny always]"

Of course this model does not work for all possible permissions and applications, but it is still a vast improvement over what we have now.
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