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Very interesting concept and really pushes the idea of writing code beyond simply text editing. I'm in Visual Studio all day and I really wish I could do more with less panels and wizards. Or get a getter bird's eye view of my codebase without all those tree views. Sometimes I wish my class view was my code view.
I love tabletop RPGs, and I wish there were better options for playing with friends online. I chipped in -- hope you get funded!
I disagree. If McDonald's announced that they would be adding dog next month, there would be outrage. If it were to come out that they had been doing it for the last year but had tried to pass it off as a vitamin supplement, people would be burning shit down. Both "I ate what?" and "My trust has been betrayed!" are powerful motivators.
Why the cool kids are using Laravel (PHP Framework)
PHP is easy to learn and the documentation is extensive. But it is very easy to do things wrong in PHP, mostly because people learning PHP do a lot of copy/paste coding without really understanding the domain they're coding for (in this case, a web browser over the internet).

There are a lot of sites that give information on working with PHP correctly (including http://appwithphp.com/ and http://planet-php.net/), but expect to do a lot of reading and experimenting before getting it right.

I personally didn't care much for Perl as a web language, although it's great for system-level scripting.

I'd add Python to your list of potential languages too. I've been having a lot of fun with it lately :)
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Oh. Well, either way, the illustrations in the ruby book are just commics as a cute way to make side points, but the pictures themeselves don't actually convey information in the same way as the gopher diagrams in the talk. Please feel free to reinterpret my comment retroactively to be about how that is the case :)
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I thought this was going to be about an apple printer...
Well maybe you should spend more time actually knowing about the platform you're talking about.

It was ALWAYS known to developers that purchases made through iOS apps would require you to pay 30% to Apple. Whether that is Amazon, New York Times or some random game.
Working fell for me for a year or so. Just chose it as they have local connections.
Most of the triggers for massive social change since the agricultural revolution have been new technologies, as while you may have choices, the choices you have are restricted by the tools available to you.

So the introduction of a new set of technologies into a culture can massively alter the social dynamics.

The washing machine alone, completely transformed the social landscape of the industrialised countries.

When all you have is a hammer...
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All they need to do is build a totally new business model on top of something that already only kindof loosely supports it!

SO SIMPLE!
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I understand why some people can be upset, but when i think about what I enter into websites... are people really under the impression the government doesn't have this data?

The government knows my credit card numbers, they know where I live, they know how much I make, etc. They don't give two shits that I bought new racketball glasses yesterday on Amazon, and they really, really don't care that I posted a new picture on facebook.

It seems to me the people who are really upset with this bill are the people doing the illegal activity. Everyone is torn on the whole pirating issue (probably because they love consuming for free), but the fact is that it's still illegal in the US. I imagine the opponents of this saying "Oh, well, look at these rights they're taking away from us!!" while they've got six torrents in the background in an attempt to distract from the point.
Ask HN: Any tips on finding challenging JS/Rails contracts in the valley? 
It's time to look for a nice fun contract again, and I'm lucky enough to be in possession of a high demand skill set (Expert level JS/Rails).

If anyone has insight on how to find genuinely interesting gigs in the valley (based in Mountain View), I'm all ears. The usual route of recruiters and job boards tends to result in a flood of interest and offers but less than ideal signal to noise.
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shoot me an email (it's in my profile), and we can have a good chat. anyway which I can help.
> Remember, Visa and American Express still get their take and they
> still handle all the billing. Apple is just charging a convenience
> tax that would be well worth it to internet brands and retailers.

One of the "Steve Jobs lessons learned" I read about was when they were behind in handling music on computers (unable to burn CDs on the iMac), they didn't just catch up with everyone else by just introducing a CD burner; they leapfrogged everybody by creating an online music platform in iTunes.

Similar for payments, what are the odds that Apple leapfrogs everybody and becomes the equivalent of Visa and Amex, taking it all for themselves? If they offered better discount rates, they could piggyback off of the existing credit card companies but encourage merchants to directly accept iPayments and get a few percent knocked off of the discount rate. For example, instead of N% for Apple's fee plus $0.30 and 2.75% for the credit card fee, it would be a flat N%, whatever value N is.
OK, Backed.
I like tools like this. I think too often they get cluttered down trying to implement the rules system in the game.

I don't want that, I don't need that.
That's what the GM is for, and trying to implement the rules themselves mean I need to program, in order to run my game.

I just want an extension of my minis map, on the web.
I'd like to click-and-drag to move figures around, scribble on stuff, and maybe import some PNGs if I feel motivated.

Or not. My scribbles are good enough, since you have VIDEO of me, right there, describing it.

Again, this is where people get lost.

Things don't need to stand alone, like they would in Diablo, or Baulder's gate. I don't want to spend a long time mapping out a dungeon before we play, I want to fire up a game, and wing it as we all play together.

That's what I love about Tabletop games.
As a GM, I can just use my marker, and my voice, and GO!

Make that easy, and I'll get all my friends to get their friends to sign up ;)
And, generally speaking, infrequently.

That's why mobile-based payments tend toward small, frequent purchases. Those are the situations where a few moments of additional convenience can be the difference between a fleeting thought and an impulse purchase.
Hardly a "new" concept. MS Research did something akin to his different functions on one light table. Displaying HTML in the REPL is (I believe) a Factor thing, amongst others. Documentation everywhere is supported by any decent IDE these days.(Except it's usually a hover tip, not a separate window). Code is not a file is the subject of entire Internet rants.

Don't get me wrong, this is cool when you tie it together. But it's hardly new. I'm inclined to say it would benefit from research into what others have done, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you really need to be unencumbered by old ideas to push this again, and maybe succeed this time.
It is readable. It is intuitive. It is minimal, and it has a small learning curve.

CoffeeScript syntax is very simple. It takes about a half-hour, at most, to learn using the language overview (http://coffeescript.org/), assuming you know JavaScript. There's also many well-commented examples you can learn from, such as Conway's Game of Life: http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html

Do you want to integrate a CoffeeScript library into your JS project? Compile it (many CS libs already have a pre-compiled version available) and use it. Hell, if you really don't want to learn CoffeeScript, compile it without minifying, and use the output for reference instead of the CS - it produces more readable JS than some coders I know.

It really is that simple. You don't have to use it - I only use it for large-scale projects - but you shouldn't get annoyed that people use it for their libraries. I don't want to argue this issue much, but I just don't see any difficulty involved here. I'm a terrible, still-learning coder who's still baffled by every Lisp code sample I see, but CS was super easy to grasp. If I can get it, I'm sure you can too :)
Switching to a different tab (Federal/State/Local) just shows a blank page until I manually reload.

Chrome 18.0.1025.152 m on Windows 7.
You can remap capslock to <lovehotel> for easy access, if you end up typing it a lot.
they dont sell books through the apps in app purchases though? its just an app that allows you to see your book purchases isn't it?
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You don't want an AI, you want an artificial genius who can handle any task.
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This... is fantastic. I want it. A lot. What are your plans for further development? How are you going to distribute it. I guess I'm really just looking for, can I have it, when, and for how much?
Scumbag US government.

Gets caught with hand in cookie jar.

Demands cookies remain in jar.
Nope, you're absolutely, provably wrong. Amazon was selling books on the iPhone long before Apple even had an in-app purchase platform.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209580/Apple_s_new_A...
Because it's Yet Another Runtime that I Don't Want to Have to Install and Maintain.

I have yet to see an AIR application that is truly cross-platform functional. They run, but that doesn't mean that I want to spend time in them.

I hadn't heard of hall.com before this post, but while I appreciate that (a) you've done this out of response to your users (good) and (b) you've done this because it's faster than doing something else, (c) I don't install AIR.

These days, I only want .apps that include everything I need inside of the app bundle and don't require external installations. (I say this as someone shipping a USB stick with an app that, to apply an update of the app on the stick from the Mac, you have to have a driver installed. I don't want that driver, but I have to. Can't stand it.)
in which i tell you to take a look around outside your little bubble,

posts on coffeescript (and all posts about software) need to be taken in context. This post's context, it seems, is the type of problem where your pain points are, it seems, "javascript: the bad parts". Coffeescript is pretty great at cleaning up the bad parts and if that's your pain point on a daily basis then coffeescript is probably great for your team.

there are other classes of problems where your pain points are different - e.g. layers upon layers of inheritance hierarchies, complexity on top of complexity, bringing feature development pace to a crawl. Teams where all of the grizzled engineers know javascript cold, know the idioms and thus are rarely bit by "javascript: the bad parts". Switching from javascript to coffeescript provides at most a small, incremental improvement to this class of problems. These are the teams that are laughing at the OP. These teams are also a hell of a lot more interested in ClojureScript, because it brings with it a whole new toolbox of idioms to solve problems of complexity.

i think you one could take all the coffeescript blog posts, and sort them into buckets of "loves coffeescript" and "just doesn't care", and these buckets align perfectly with the two categories of problem i described.

Saying "at Posterous, they use it but don’t have any real JavaScript engineers" is ad hominem and uncalled for, but if you squint past his tone, he's saying: there are different kinds of software, and some problems are harder than others, and it ain't one tool fits all.
Precisely. Valve is the place to be if you're a game dev. There's lots of other great studios around, but none have the cachet Valve does. It would be like asking why Ferrari doesn't advertise openings for automotive engineers: there aren't any, and if they were they'd find the best through people already there.
> But I also don't know many developers that slam it or recall an abundance of anti-CoffeeScript articles...

There isn't one, but apparently the CS users need validation and have decided to take a page out of the GOP's handbook.
"I think parents did think that school hamburgers were of roughly the same quality that they'd get if they decided to make it at home."

If the beef they were buying for their home burgers was from Walmart (or any one of the many retailers selling pink slime beef), then the parents were correct to think the quality was the same.
It's the libraries. Write an app with OpenGL or SDL and it works fine. (Minecraft is a perfect example)
> but really boring to type in almost all `for` statements.

Use _.each, you're done. Pleasure.
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Who, Gabe or Cook? If it was Cook I don't believe you, and if it was Gabe we'll have to wait another 3 months for Ep 3.
This looks really interesting. I've also looked at a few of the other virtual tabletop products out there and not been super happy with what I've seen. Making a note to myself to make a pledge later tonight.

Have you posted a link to this kickstarter anywhere else? A cursory search on reddit didn't pull up any results, and I think there are a few subreddits over there that might have some interest as well.
I'm just using the web-ified version directly. It works very well.

http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
> He is claiming that is missing for computers to understand humans is common sense in the form of a big ontology (database of relations between entities).

Doug Lenat claimed that in the 1980s and spent quite a while trying to build it (Cyc IIRC). What is different this time? ("We can do it now" is a perfectly reasonable answer.)
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You have a point that one of the most interesting points in CISPA is that the entity sharing the data can put restrictions on the use of it. But the suggestion in CISPA that data could be anonymized where appropriate is nothing more than a suggestion.

I feel like we're arguing over whether or not to get rid of a few toothless guard dogs. While I can understand the argument that getting rid of toothless guard dogs is a no-op, I'm worried because the current plan does not involve replacing them at all. And there I think we agree: reform is needed.
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Really like the redesign. Great, great work Kyro! My one feeling, as a non-designer and merely as a user, is that the product itself is so much fun, I wish there would have been a bit more of that vitality infused into the design. Just experientially, I feel like using the site should closely mirror the experience of using the product. So something a bit more dynamic, maybe in color or vibrancy, might have punched it up a notch. That's a small quibble. Overall, really solid.
Project Wonderful is worth whitelisting simply to see the ads for everyone's exquisitely terrible webcomics.
Cool game. FYI, when you visit the site using IE9 it just remains stuck at "Loading".
>You're right that MongoDB is designed from the start for horizontal scaling,

Nope.
Both are very aggressive towards anyone trying to disrupt their industry (eg., generic drugs or online distributions for example), and both use government power (regulations, patents, DMCA, etc.) to try to preserve their control over their market.

How pharma companies (ab)use patents is a great example, they will patent some drug, and then wait until the patent has almost expired, and then make the slightest modification (sometimes in something as basic as packaging for 'slow release' or whatever) and patent the same thing again.
I have to respectfully disagree. Your comment is a bit sweeping and I really don't think that MongoDB's sharding solution is a bad one ... simply the strategies are different.

There is a large set of nice features that makes Mongo, for most people, nice to use long before you even need to address sharding. The percentage of people that will need to shard is much lower than the percentage of people that can get considerable benefits of how you can query data in MongoDB, for example, vs. Riak.

You are such a Riak-lover. :P
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His argument is that, while a human can do something with or without understanding it (e.g Memorizing), a machine can only do the former and will never do the latter. The argument may hold for the currect (simplistic) AI, but not for a future full brain simulator.
We've posted to /r/rpg and /r/dnd, but linked directly to the site (http://roll20.net) instead...just as a sort of mini A/B test to see if it made a difference :-). If you know of any other subreddits feel free to spread the word!
Yeah, seriously, the average smartphone user probably uses about 5-10 apps regularly (by which I mean more than once or twice a month).

I can definitely see the logic in what he's saying, though - less effort == more sales. I'd love to be able to route payments through my phone in shops instead of using cash or card. My phone's easier to get at in my pocket and would let me use apps to interact with that payment data more easily (finance apps, budgeting, etc.).
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What's the analogy for really, really bad managers who pass everything through, but not before completely misunderstanding the request and garbling it beyond recognition such that the developers deliver something completely different than what the customer actually wanted? These managers are also adept at completely misunderstanding their developers and telling clients outrageous things because they're just pretending to understand.
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Isn't that basically what SCO tried not long ago?
This assumes the very thing CAN be simulated. Well, you can simulate molecule interactions for water molecule in a program, but this doesn't get you actual wetness.

So, what if this "consciousness" property depends on the biochemical processes and substances of the brain, in the way wetness depends on actual water?

If I simulate molecules moving rapidly and hitting each other, I get a simulation of what happens when heat is produced, but not actual heat --my simulation cannot light a match, for instance.
One thing that impresses me is how the OP has clearly learned from the feedback on the Exec design. Even if nothing comes out of his YC Facelift project, he'll become a much better designer for it.
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Saying that, "the majority of them are soul crushing boring with no care or love for the developers" is a pretty strong claim, for which you've provided no evidence. Certainly some corporate jobs are soul crushing, but the "majority"?

The wrong startup, for the wrong person, can be just as soul sucking as a large corporation. There's plenty of startups that I would never want to work for. This suggestion that corporations are inherently bad and startups are inherently good is overly simplified, and very naive. Google, Apple, and Facebook I'm sure all have employees working on their TPS reports as well. In fact, I'm sure they have security guards, lawyers, and janitors many of whom enjoy their jobs, and add value to the world, despite not being software developers.

I guess I just find the attitude that everyone should be a developer working 80 hours a week for a hot web 2.0 startup very troubling. I worry that some of us have some strange delusions of grandeur. Is the CEO of the next Instagram, working 80 hours a week, really living a better life than the guy next door? In the end, if you're living a life you enjoy, what differences does it make where you work?
Move to North Korea. It's the only thing they're good at.
They used to, before Apple demanded 30%. They couldn't afford to pay that, so they stopped selling books in their iOS app.
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Perl5 is old enough so this behaviour has a niche. Possibly even PHP4 is old enough for that. But PHP5 was born when both 64 bit ints and good, open arbitrary precision libraries were available and very fast.

This, now, where it's being used, is absurd. There is no two ways to that. And this doesn't happen elsewhere to this extent.

I will leave you the last word though. Cheerio.
Producer fails to inform consumer.

Consumer gets informed out-of-band.

Consumer is annoyed that they were not informed by producer.

???

Blame consumer.
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In the Table view it might be nice to color the cards based on their namespace like Whisker browser:

http://www.maartensz.org/computing/squeak/Helps/Programming/...
It's a matter of taste.

If you like Ruby, check out CoffeeScript.

If you don't now there's Google Dart. The IDE is pretty nice.

None of the above? Closure Compiler, jshint etc. are your friends.

Edit: a good article about "verbal vs visual" programming languages: http://ryanflorence.com/2011/2012/case-against-coffeescript/
This sounds like runtime safety, not compile-time safety. Otherwise, how can you avoid aliasing that modifies the object for which you lost ownership?

Immutable state gives you compile-time-safety. I think when people say "shared mutable state is unsafe", at least some of them are referring to compile-time safety. If it compiles, these kinds of concurrency-related bugs are impossible.
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30% isn't for handling payments, it's for building a store and bringing in tens of millions of affluent customers. Although the percentage may vary you may have seen a similar business practice in every store you've ever been in in your life.
Fixed! I actually made the fix a few hours ago, but forgot to transfer to where the live game is :/ Thanks for pointing it out!
I can't believe so many people fight over a syntax. In a perfect world, you wouldn't even care about the syntax that others use because it would automatically be translated into the syntax of your preferences when you look at it.
Were you able to play on other browsers? We have been told that happens on some Android devices as well. We are looking into it right :/ Thanks for pointing it out!
Thanks for your reply,

We have just launched our beta version today, so we are starving for feedbacks like yours.
One of the reasons we have launched as soon as we could is to deal with the empty base problem, and I want to let you know that this is only the basic features.

Thanks again, replies like yours give us a giant push to continue what we've started.
Even doesn't do much, CISPA preempts any state laws to the contrary. So if Facebook does something later and some individual state dislikes it? Too bad. State laws would no longer be able to do anything about it, you'd have to amend CISPA.

It's sort of like lowering Facebook's "threat surface" with respect to privacy laws. And, IMHO, that's really a Bad Thing. I'll give tptacek some credit: existing privacy laws really are inadequate. But I'll still argue against removing what little protection we have, just because we're going in the wrong direction.

That said, I'd like to see more arguments against the actual provisions of CISPA. I didn't see domain seizure anywhere in the law, for example, so I would greatly prefer it if my fellow CISPA opponents were more careful to advance the best arguments we have against it, not just the most popular.
"It’s fairly obvious that a developer made these"

I thought they're pretty decent, considering it was made in Omnigraffle. Looks good for a mockup by a developer!