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Over the years I've tried various HTML to PDF utilities and have yet to find one that works correctly.

Previously I was using htmldoc, a project that was abandoned years ago and doesn't work with CSS. It worked for what I was doing but without CSS it's very inflexible and hard to maintain.

I recently moved to wkhtmltopdf but it has plenty of its own issues. The biggest problem I've found is that it doesn't wrap text between pages correctly. If you have a multi-page document it's likely the last line of text on a page will be split over 2 pages. IMO this is a show stopping bug. It has been known for a while but it seems no one is working on it.

The OS X version is broken. It was creating 5MB+ PDFs that should be about 50k. The Linux version doesn't have this bug.
Absolutely. I used to work for a government body and saw time and time again that we'd go with huge, inflexible solutions using technologies like SAP, because that's what the large consulting company insisted on.

But: the people making these choices aren't stupid. Government has very little appetite for the startup-style thinking of trying something, trashing it and iterating. Maybe it's because tax payer money is at stake, but any kind of risky venture is seen as a bad thing. We have to combat that, first.
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For me, if I got a "reward" for funding a project on Kickstarter and then found out the project itself was in dire straits because the rewards were unexpectedly more expensive, I'd be pretty tweaked at you. if I fund a kickstarter project, it's because I want the PROJECT to succeed. The reward is the icing on the cake. This goes doubly so in a project where the end result of the project is something that's available in seemingly limitless quantities like software. (edit: As opposed to a project for a physical item, where the "reward" for funding is some flavor of the item being produced.)

Fund the project. Apologize for shirts and posters if they can't happen, and offer a more reasonable alternative for rewards if you can and when you can. Most people, I think, would understand that, especially if you deliver on the project as a whole. But I'd rather have the software and no t-shirt advertising it than a t-shirt advertising a piece of software I might never see.

Also, using your kickstarter funds to go to PAX was the biggest waste of all the project money you got. Yes, I know the visibility you'd get at PAX, but no, don't do it with your project funding unless somewhere in your project plan you stated you were going to spend some of those funds going to PAX and advertising vaporware. Your project funders were funding the project, not the advertising and the free ride to PAX.

Remember what you were asking for funding for - the game. Not the rewards, not the business setup costs, not going to PAX, not anything but the software. I'd even excuse the use for taxes because you didn't understand how LLCs work, but that'd only be in the realm of making sure your project stayed in good graces with the IRS so you could... deliver the project.
It's pretty awful on a desktop, too. Here's what I see on my 1280x1024 screen with a browser taking up nearly all of that vertical space:

http://imgur.com/Z6aeQ

Where's the content?
How do you feel taste is different from good design?
In short, because the binary is also covered by the GPL and must be redistributable and usable, and nothing that comes from the App Store meets those requirements for anyone except the original buyer/downloader, because they are all encrypted.

If Apple's platform merely refused to run unsigned binaries (like Tivo), it may be kosher to ship GPLv2 (but not v3 for this exact reason), but they're encrypted too, which takes away those rights OUTSIDE the platform as well.
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I don't think Google is fooling anyone. They would obviously profit from a more open web. Anything that helps the web as a whole, pretty much helps Google as a whole. This is why if you care about the Internet, Google will be your ally in most cases (yes, not all). That's why they helped with SOPA, too. And they will probably continue to remain an ally in such cases.

So just because Google has something to gain from it (otherwise why would they even do it?) doesn't mean they are wrong on what they are saying about the walled gardens like Facebook and Apple. A more open Internet would help Google, but would also help new start-ups. It would help the next Google as well. Imagine if every website would've been a walled garden in the early 2000's. We wouldn't even have a search engine right now, or at least not a very useful one.
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No he didn't, he's hired maids who would otherwise be maids for someone else.

But now the company they came from has to hire 8 new maids. If his business model is superior, he may eventually drive the old company out of business and employ at least as many maids as they did. Even if he only employed the same amount as the old company, he is providing more value to his customers, either through increased efficiency or lower costs. So even in the case of there being no new jobs created, creative destruction has again moved our economy forward.

Judging by how fast his first maid came to his company, I doubt he pays them less (I didn't see him mention this).
Oh, it gets better: try searching for something in the top part of the nav then play hide and seek with the auto-complete items. Classically bad JS. Maybe it's for IE only?
"It’s almost a daily thing now, reading blog posts from people sat behind desks somewhere in the world talking about “what’s wrong with the London startup scene” to drive traffic to their site. Consider this post two-fingers up to those people."

Touche!

Silicon Valley is unique and will always be. Trying to replicate this scene just won't happen. Fortunately places like London are so diverse (Americans, British, Brazilian... ) and things are happening.

You can find like minded people anywhere. If you have the enthusiasm and are willing to work - the money and people will find you.
Just to answer your question with regards to (2):

Suppose I open up LibreOffice Calc, and my first row gets the values "c", "x", "y" in that order, as labels for three columns. The second row gets the values 2, -2, 0. The third row gets the odd formulas:

=A2, =B2 + 0.02, =B3 * B3 + A3 * B3 - 1

Now I highlight C3 and drag it up to C2 (the y=0 term which shouldn't be y=0 is now correct). I also highlight A3 through C3 and drag it down, until my x's range from -2 to +2; this happens at row 202.

The key thing is, this "dragging autofill" has quickly managed to make all of the y computations dependent on the same c, whose authoritative value is stored at cell A2. (I can also change what x's I look at by tweaking the cell B2.)

So I highlight the x and y columns, click the Chart button, to do a scatterplot, lines only -- no point markers. Then I need to kill the autoadjustment of the y axis because it will confuse me, so I set it to go from y = -5 to +10.

Now I can just start modifying this parameter c in cell A2, and see how the graph changes. I might notice for example that the vertex of the parabola hits a maximum when c = 0. That's an interesting feature; it suggests that the vertex of the parabola describes its own parabola as you vary c. Et cetera.

The only reason for doing it this way is because that is the easiest way I know of to get the computation right for 200 data cells. You're right, I could hand-write 200 different computations to all point to A2. It would take a long time and I would hate my life. I could also write in the value "2" and whenever I want to change it, drag across 200 rows. But then I would never get to see how this thing changes. (If you've never seen it, see Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle" talk for a discussion of the power of having a direct connection with your artistic creations.)
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There's only 37 minutes between my post and your reply :-)
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I recently discovered about Microsoft's BizSpark program and I must say, I'm really tempted to try and build up a side project just so I can apply to BizSpark and have tons of free resources to build my side project. I love .Net and I think Azure is really good, even if the article says it's too cumbersome for a small project. I think the fact that developers can forget all about server configuration and implementation and just start a VM in one click is nice.
This short blog post could be summed up by the final sentiment: start a company with someone you love, cause it will be more enjoyable. Burying the lede used to be a journalistic faux-pas. Now it's a lauded tool called link-baiting, and it's necessary to be heard in the sea of noise that is the Internet.
So you believe providing ad content isn't to the benefit of consumers?
See: The internet's response to Twilight or Justin Beiber. Or the book burnings and bannings of Slaughterhouse Five or Huck Finn.

Even going all the way back to the Salem witch hunts, it seems it's human nature for us to attempt to unexist anything we disagree with, don't like, or are scared of. I wish I had an answer to make that problem subside, but I'm not sure it's a solvable problem.
Somebody should do a HN poll. I bet it was already done, but I am too lazy to search for it.
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'Blaring messages about sales, quickly spoken copy, and flashing graphics are not going to make anyone look fondly on your brand...Rewrite your script. Never use phrases like “4 easy steps.” '

Tell that to direct marketers who very deliberately create such advertisements. While your statement may have validity, I would argue a more important point:

"Taste doesn't matter if you lack sales."
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Just curious to know some methods you use. There can be issues like time conflicts, not keeping them in the loop enough, and advice that comes like after you've already made mistakes.

Is it hard to make sure you get the most out of relationships from advice-givers?
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I keep wondering about this. The argument comes back all the time, and yet sexual repression continues unabated.

I wonder if it's because violence doesn't provoke the same copycat response as sexuality does. After all, the whole existence of porn is based on it being a stimulant for sexuality. However seeing a violent scene doesn't stimulate you to go beat something up. Or at least any human that I know of ;)
> Contains the destruction of a historical site. Do not buy this game if poor archeological practices offend you.

You know, there's probably the germ of a pretty cool idea for a game in that.
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Kind of. Code Bubbles inspired a few of us (mostly steven schermerhorn + chris) to write a prototype of it for VS called Codeporium, which was at least part of what made it into debugger canvas. Of course, we didn't do any of the hard work (like getting the debugger working), so I'm not sure how much credit we should get :) Chris probably remembers more about it than I do.
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Yes, many people that I know working on ML do not remember statistics well enough. Some keep their ignorance while relying on mathematicians on-staff (who can't really code), while others either start buying college textbooks or go to night classes. There are too many people who don't understand the algorithms being used.
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So publishing houses fill a need after all?

But seriously, in theory, crowd sourcing of editorial reviews should resolve this. But the reviews are not as well surfaced on other devices. If you shoulder surf the computer illiterate, you'll find it amazing what they're happy to click unquestioningly.

The only way to combat this is either deny self-publishing (bad solution), or improve customer trust signals to the point it's not profitable for a self-publisher to assemble even a 23 page pamphlet.

Amazon should step up and make trust signals more prominent.

// "The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo" sounds much more interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Girl-Tattoo-Adam-Roberts/dp/B00...
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I googled this regarding previous years and it seems like they're sent out early evening Eastern time.

edit: mid-evening Eastern Time.
What about languages that have no syntax? Or have very little syntax? In my experience, I find them easier to reason about, therefore easier to read and easier to write. My sense is that children would find this to be true as well.
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"one would think the presence of any sexual content at all (to say nothing of “partial nudity”) would convince most parents that Mass Effect 3 isn’t right for their children"

Fun. Dismissing weirdo homophobic comments and ending with weirdo "nudity is certainly bah and not for kids".

For me, both is a reason to shake my head in disbelief.
I lived in the Houston area between 2002 and 2005 and don't recall the food scene being the most interesting and/or innovative in the state, let alone in the nation especially considering the strong competition in DFW or Austin. Have things really changed that much? Is it now worth making a trip out to H-town for some delicious food?
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You're saying "Atlanta" and meaning the "Metro Atlanta Area". He's saying "Atlanta" and meaning 'The City Limits of Atlanta where you can live in an walkable urban setting and not worry about driving everywhere'.

Mean scores aren't as high for the APS schools: http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/domain/104
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I used to develop .Net applications and I love that platform. MSDN is awesome and Visual Studio is hands down the best IDE. I know at least two startups that participated in BizSpark and they get lots of free goodies from MSFT.
As a counterpoint, we decided to with underscored_names for our JS since we work with a lot of serialized Python data structures via JSON and using the same naming convention on server as client means our JS doesn't have a mix of camelCase and under_scores for things received via JSON and things defined in the JS. We're not writing reusable libraries for other projects to use, and we don't use a heavy amount of 3rd party code, so it's no big deal.
The funny part of all of this is that games like Mass Effect barely brush the PG-13 barrier in terms of depictions of sex. What people are the most upset about is the frank and open acceptance of homosexuality. To which I say: go crawl back under your rocks, and good on EA/Bioware for not being bigoted asses.
Could you explain or give examples of what you mean by no or little syntax?
I guess JavaScript has a pretty bad random number generator. The tool I linked does a good job at showing that. If you post a string here I'd be curious to look at it.

In the past computers where using generators that under some particular tests turned out to be performing really really bad.
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You're right - they have been able to spin things to their advantage. However, to my understanding, many are still based on the geocentric view of the universe and that we are a very special exception to every other planet we've observed w/o life.

We are just now discovering that planets are actually abundant and are all around us. A thought that seemed alien just years ago when we thought every other star lacked planets.

While I can't predict what aliens will be able to teach/tell us when they arrive (or when we find them), I do feel that a real "first contact" will change or make a lot of people rethink what they really think they know.
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I think he's referring to the time when the emails go out...
Good and bad are human concepts that are deeply rooted to a given observer's perspective.

Of course. By friendly I mean friendly from my own perspective, or perhaps also from the perspectives of other people with sufficient overlap to my own conception of good.
Here are details on how they reproduced Sinatra, which is probably similar to how they reproduced Tupac:

http://www.damonchernavsky.com/News_Archive/October_2009/Hol...
They can create them, but they can't pass them. It requires a popular referendum, and (edit) 75% of the states must ratify the amendment. Over 10,000 amendments have been proposed, but only 27 have passed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution#Pro...
I upvoted you. This whole semicolon war is the most banal and self-aggrandizing conflict I've seen in a while, rife with as much vanity and childishness a the ``blogosphere'' allows, as evidenced by this post. Can we move on, please?

At least everyone acknowledged that the editor war was an inside joke, I would gladly have an editor thread every week on HN over this.
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I think a Sci-Fi "theater" would be nice too, just imagine all the things from The Matrix happening in real time in front of you (that is, just a believable 3D without glasses).
I don't know about that... as a kid, I would usually jump off the walls for about 30 minutes after watching Jackie Chan flicks.

Luckily, he only fights bad guys. =)
What Light Table represents to me is the possibility to easily create domain-specific tools for editing "source code." Create a Clojure DSL for web pages, and render HTML while you edit. Create a Clojure DSL for audio, and render the audio in the browser. Create a Clojure DSL for business users to use to modify business rules, and let them see and interact with their changes right there in the editor. Seamlessly integrated with SVM and your system, the editor becomes more than an editor but a tool for evolving the capabilities of a system by a group of people that include far more than just programmers.

It's long been the dream to have an interface like this to do language oriented programming. Some attempts (JetBrains MPS, Intentional Software) seem to fall into the trap of being too holistic (invent everything from scratch) or too complicated. This is a great way forward since it uses just the right cutting edge tech (ClojureScript) with well understood tech (the browser.)

If it were me, here is how I would look at this project. This shouldn't be an IP/tool play. Make the tool free. What you are doing here is inventing a new way to build software. You want the world to shift to your vision. You want everyone to have it and not be willing to give it up. The posters in this thread lamenting they will have to abandon vi should be forced to look back years from now and laugh at themselves since a purely textual, console-based editor should look downright silly if you pull this off. (Yes, I am a hardcore vim user, but even I can see this is the beginning of a generational shift.)

Build facilities into the tool to let people mold it into an environment everyone in an organization can use to develop software collaboratively and in a domain-driven way. Make it so it will become an integrated part of any software development project. Make it so people can develop and iterate things in a startup-like way 10x faster than they can do now. Make it so the tool helps break down communication barriers that have existed since we started building software.

In the end, if this approach wins, you will be the authority on it. Once this has come together, you will easily make a killing on consulting and building custom domain-specific modules for high paying customers. Use the knowledge you learn from those experiences to improve the general purpose product. Write books on how to develop software this way. Get people to pay for training sessions. Spread the word.

The end game for this is wider in scope than you can probably imagine, if done right. It's not a matter of if but when. This is an important project and you will surely not be the only one trying to solve it. A good way to ensure the next person who works on this is able to overtake you is if theirs is the one that you can get for free.
Actually no roadblocks (details in other comment). Just python was simpler and I don't see problem writing different parts in different languages.
I'm not sure if this is what you're suggesting, but I can't imagine we will ever see someone producing entirely new Tupac songs based on his phoneme library.

It would be in such bad taste that even the American recording industry wouldn't go near it. People already get upset that they use old entire recordings to produce new songs, and those are actually his lyrics and his voice.
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"Taste doesn't matter if you lack sales."

A lot of things don't matter if you lack sales. And I should say that good taste is certainly not a prerequisite to sales.
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