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Big market or not, my point was that I like the solution I see on my android device (tablet or a phone) and that it's a far better solution than what I see in the regular computer browser.

And to turn your words around a bit, the number of desktop and leptop users surfing the web, is far greater than iPad users, so your iPad should not be considered a target market as well. But that is not the point, even if iPad has this native awesome solution, it's like you're saying "people should just by iPads to be able to use multiselect normally."

This project is simple and easy and in my opinion, it helps make the web a bit nicer for developers and users.
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"someone has made a claim without anything to back it up" that's true, but neither do any posts in HN. Shouldn't we try to get some attention from Kickstarter and see how it goes?
> Now I'm not anti-MongoDB, I'm just saying you shouldn't give it credit for something that relational database do just fine.

No, it can't. Sorry, it absolutely can't.

> If you add a default value it locks the table and re-writes it.
> However, if you don't add a default value postgres will perform the operation instantly.

And in MongoDB you don't have to change anything in the DB (hence, no downtime). It's all in your code.

Yes, I can add a field in PGSQL, then my ORM quits on me (because I can't have a optional field, of course). Or I can use hand written SQL at which point it adds a couple of months to my schedule.

Or I can use migrations + ORM like Ruby migrations or South (Django). They will blow up for anything slightly more complex.

I also can't use the old version of the DB, so my old backups just became more troublesome to recover.

And that's why Facebook and others don't user relational anymore. Sure, you can use MySQL or PG, but the real data is stored in a text or binary blob.
I think it's a rather misleading post. He cites a paper from PLoS Medicine, and I suspect that those without a good background in research would rather quickly jump to the conclusion that "it's in a science journal, so it must be (very likely to be) true." However, it should be noted that this is an essay, which PLoS Medicine defines as opinion pieces on a topic of broad interest to a general medical audience.

More importantly, lets look at this from a pragmatic point of view. Are there things that can be done better in science? Absolutely. Does science somehow 'not work'? Not at all. Does it need fixing? No, why should it? Anyone who suggests that science is fundamentally broken must've lived under a rock for the past decades, or at least hasn't been keeping an eye on what science has achieved.

I also disagree with the blog author's 'solution' to the problem. He (or is it a she? I don't know) argues in favor of a centralized approach to science, whereas one of the reasons science is so successful is because it's so decentralized!
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Since HN is about entrepreneurship, I think this article raises good questions, such as, how do you deal when someone makes emotionally-loaded claims against your company in the early hours of a Saturday, including multiple submissions to Reddit using a sockpuppet account?
That it's not that common?
A bunch of checkboxes look better, but they are difficult for the backend developer to handle.

Really? I've never found this a problem -- and if I did, I wouldn't push a load of JavaScript cruft to the front-end to work around it.
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Very nice concept, haven't experienced any similar, so I got quite excited about it.
looks nice, been using jquery.cookie for a while now.. ridding ourselves of the jquery dependency is cool.. but how many projects these days do not use jquery??? Still, certainly something I'll spend some time playing with.
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No, the proposal here is that we ban horses and carts from the interstate highway system because they get in the way of the new faster automobiles.
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At least some of the features you've brought up in the article can be done with BugAid (for C#). For example, the ability to "visualize" the data in a function by replacing the variables with the actual values can be done, albeit in a different way (http://www.bugaidsoftware.com/). The other feature, like a documentation that shows whatever you're looking at, can be achieved partially with Visual Studio by itself and Resharper (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/).
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Only one of them was developed within the industry, and that one (portal) was actually drafted in school. Finding only two examples is actually pretty damning too.
It's not for handling. It's for bringing the payments into existence.
>Wetness=the sensory brain state generated when thermo and tactile receptors fire when hand touches water. Connect your simulator to these nerves and you got actual wetness.

Only this "wetness" wouldn't soak an actual napkin.

Nothing linguistic about it.

Physical objects have physical properties --you can simulate those, but then you have to simulate the whole surroundings (or the universe in the extreme) to get the effects of those properties to other items.
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Some quality class A victim blaming right there.

How dare she engage the troll in a manner that is not how the internet recommends. Clearly she deserves everything that happened to her. I mean yes, the way to deal with trolls is to ignore them completely and absolutely, but the punishment for not doing that shouldn't be being banned from kickstarter.
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Because this story was already posted a couple days ago and never really received much attention I'm going to repost my comment from that story.

It was in responce to someone comparing his new "innovative" game to myst and how Blow is much more derivative than he lets on. It was also a response to the article implying he was the only person working on truly artistic video games.

"and don't forget the much more recent Dear Esther. Which is a first person exploration game based on an island.

Oh and don't forget that other 'cerebral' game that is yet another source mod (which Dear Esther originally was). The Stanley Parable.[2]

Personally I think this developer is stuck up his own arse. Talking about how the industry is full of dross for cretins whilst ignoring these games. His biggest game, Braid, revolves wholly around the twist at the end along with an interesting gameplay gimmick. He may be an artist within the industry. But by far isn't the only one, nor is he the best by a long shot.

Comparing the video game industry to literature and movies and saying "Oh, look at how mindless we are in comparison." Is missing the entire point. A lot of books, movies and games are mindless. But to then stand up because of that and say that the industry as a whole is mindless and that your brainchild is going to revolutionise it and fix all that is wrong is not only egotistical and ignorant but disrespectful of incredible artists like those who made the Stanley Parable. (Which was the first video game I played that really made me think. It is the game that I point to when I need to point out a video game that is art.)

[1] http://dear-esther.com/

[2] http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable
How do you know he's not a great coder?
Sigh, reading about javascript hacks reminds me how horrible the application development environment for browsers is. Web browsers are fundamentally not designed to enable the development of complex modern applications. That needs to change if web-apps are the future.
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Sorry about that, despite having CloudFlare caching in front of it, the web server completely fell over. It should be redirecting to a working mirror now.
No, she has a real cyberstalker.
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> The big problem with RAII and destructors is that you have no way of returning an error.

That's actually a feature. Destructors are for cleanup. If code is supposed to report an error (by throwing an exception) it should not be put into a destructor.
Small nitpick: I would differentiate between HTML5 and WebGL and would describe this as a WebGL game.

That said I died two times in level 3.
Oh man, not this girl again. Let's just say she is known for being at the center of drama wherever she goes. She has a very long history of libel and public feuds related to her "music project." In one of many incidents, her and her mother sent DMCA takedown requests to LiveJournal based on negative information being posted by another user (completely unrelated to copyright).

Please do not give her attention. At least, don't give kickstarter negative attention over her complaint.

[Edit: Removed comment regarding mental illness and links to other forums]
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I'm not certain that Hacker News really needs your defense. Let's hear what KickStarter has to say about this.

If Daniella Jaeger indeed said "If there is any chance that Rachel will receive spam from a stalker on her project, she should not create one. We simply cannot allow a project to become a forum for rampant spam, as her past project became." then she should apologize and look at the way that the project handles this sort of thing in the future.

If she never said this, then this has been a big beatup. Either way, Daniella needs to respond to this allegation.
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So if I have an RAII object that supposed to close or delete a file and that fails for some reason, then what?
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OK everyone. You might have noticed that Hacker News has gone downhill lately. A common pattern is for the number one comment to be some vaguely negative and uninteresting post. In this case, it's also an inflammatory post that wrongly blames the victim.

I'm friends with Rachel and the stalker dude is real. I was uselessly harassed by him because I spoke at Extreme Futurist Fest. He's real, he's crazy, and sometimes the police aren't effective.

Please be nice everyone. Think seriously before you make a comment. If it's one sentence long, it's probably a useless comment.

EDIT: When I made this comment, the #1 comment was unhelpful and just blamed Rachel. It has since been deleted by the poster, who perhaps reconsidered the utility of posting in this thread. Again, I don't want to be here, normally I would stay really far away from a thread like this, I just know that Rachel is a real person and I don't like to see trolls crapping all over this thread on this website that once meant so much to me.
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Not sure what you're trying to say, m:n means simultaneous execution of concurrent tasks for any n > 1.
Why didn't I know about this? agh... I always miss these.
Concerned about women being cyber stalked....reveals full name of a woman and where she works in her post.

Kickstarter seems pretty out of line, but interested to hear their side of the story.
Before this gets out of hand: PG, I think it'd great if you added another HN guideline that states that people should wait to hear both sides of an issue before stating their opinion, especially when it comes to these premature PR 'blunders'.

Edit: Downvoted? Nice, guys.
Are you trying to imply that those 15 year olds on voice chat on xbox live won't be calling each other "faggot" in real life? Because if so you're being very naive.
Even saying xbox live is anonymous is wrong really, their gamer tag is tied as their identity online.
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What sort of project are you working on?
Most people who were using MySQL at all have since moved to PostgreSQL and then wondering what they'd been doing all this time.
The hunt for my stalker continues yet has been
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The police say that he is “good at what he does.” Can
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> I'm not certain that Hacker News really needs your defense.

You're wrong. It does. People need to be told, flat out, the this isn't a board that wants nor appreciates mob-mentality. It promotes reason and rationality. As a long* time member of HN, threads like this are a blight. Not because of the parties involved, but because we are doing things we abhor in others.

> Either way, Daniella needs to respond to this allegation.

I hate that mentality. I understand the reasoning, but essentially we are requiring people to respond to trolls. I say this within the context of what we know: a unsubstantiated blog post is claiming certain things. There are numerous steps that could be taken to provide more proof, and I think it's important that evidence is provided to avoid these types of issues.

Basically, I see this as the same as me accusing Rachel of setting this all up as a marketing stunt. And then posting some italicized text and claiming it's from her. It's equally as credible as things stand now.

Edit: * I just want to add that I don't presume that it needs my help. Rather, every member is, in their own way, responsible for moderating HN. It can only be defended by it's users.
Are there very many circumstances where it is useful to discuss specific, possibly ongoing legal matters on the Internet? Honestly, even if the authorities could deal with this effectively and find said dude, if I thought he was ultimately harmless I wouldn't want him to be thrown in a cage for years for posting a bunch of harassing comments. It's sad that mental illness is a crime.
Oh, come on, Eul works at Valve too and joined before IceFrog did. IceFrog's hiring clearly happened with Eul's blessing.

Source: http://www.1up.com/previews/dota-2-valve-fanboys-developers
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I have always been curious about OrientDB, but from what I saw it was very small and not backed by any commercial entity and it's usage was not widespread. Also Luca, you should in fairness write that you are the maintainer.
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I love the visualization aspect of this. I can think of multiple situations where popping this open to look at a couple of interactions would be helpful, especially when getting acquainted with a code base I didn't help build. I'd happily add it to my toolbox! Great thinking, great design.

Would I use it for everything? Nope. Most of the time I just want to type with the occasional jump into the command line. For that I use command-line vim, and I don't see jumping ship any time soon.

Thanks for the work!
It would be very odd indeed if kickstarter are in a position to deny the email quoted on Rachel's website. I.e. if it is as fake as the one above. That would be her throwing whatever reputation she has away.

But I would be happier if they can confirm or deny it. No doubt they will be pressed to do so in the next few days, and a fuller picture will emerge.
My opinion of ChromeOS is that it is a toy, but please read that knowing that I am not their target audience. Plus, my understanding is that the marketing message is "the browser is the OS" but under the covers it's a Linux platform. I am not extremely educated on ChromeOS, but you asked my opinion.
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It sounds promising, but it is hard to see how this would be useful on something that is anything above basic.
Old drama is uninteresting. What's wrong with being mentally ill? I'm definitely not neurotypical, just like half of Silicon Valley geeks. Try raising VC money in Silicon Valley without projecting the image of irrationally exuberant hypomania. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups

Your comment is exactly the kind that threatens to make this thread a trainwreck. Be nice! Rachel is a very real person that can't raise money on Kickstarter because Kickstarter can't deal with one asshole posting 400 spam comments.
I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense. Stuff like what's mentioned in this article, weird PayPal stuff, or random Google account banning doesn't get fixed unless it gets publicity and outrage. There's good reason to believe that Kickstarter would ignore this unless/until people start to get upset about it. The whole point of this being at the top of HN is to get Kickstarter to say/do something.
I don't like his definitions of these terms. IMHO these definitions are better:

Concurrency

property of systems in which several computational processes are executing at the same time, and potentially interacting with each other

Parallelism

computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently (i.e. "in parallel")

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Here is a new standard. If the Instagram people asked the same questions, would they have a billion dollar company today?
As long as you still have your adress book you can set up a new account and tell everyone. If you have that adress book, that is.
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There's more than one pilot you know. We don't live in a world where a hijacker can pull on a cardboard mask and magically disguise himself and make a body disappear.

The 9/11 hijackers had crowd controllers for a reason.
I'm confused what exactly you're asking for. What kind of 'proof' would satisfy you?

Screenshots of the original emails? I'm sure they could be spoofed. Screenshot of the page of comments? Same. Statements from other people who were backing her?

Really, I don't understand what you're asking for.

Edit: seems there's more to this story about the individual involved but that doesn't change anything about how Kickstarter reacted (assuming, of course, that the events played out as described).

Edit2: Please note. Edits to the parent post now make this comment appear out of context (and therefore unhelpful). Decided to leave it up though.
It depends.

- If the file has been opened for reading only you can put fclose into the destructor and safely ignore the return value.

- If the file has been opened for writing you need to call fclose() before the destructor to be able to react accordingly. Throwing an exception in the destructor would not be helpful in this case anyway because your scope is gone.

BTW, writing a file safely is much harder than what many internet sources and textbooks make it appear.
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I'd writing a talk on web application monitoring and if people have a moment I'd love some data to use in that talk.

For your currently live project/team/organisation/whatever what is the ratio of unit, functional, integration tests to checks in your monitoring system?

For instance in a recent project (medium sized rails stack) we have ~2000 tests to about 240 checks in Nagios.

Any data points would be interesting. Anonymous data is fine.
Right, so, no counterargument or evidence being provided from Kickstarter is OK in criticizing them, and any evidence that this person may have a history of causing similar types of drama is 'uninteresting'?

You're persistent in asking people to be civil towards Rachel, yet are completely fine with the bashing of Kickstarter without giving them a chance to make their case.

Sounds reasonable. Guess what? Kickstarter isn't just an institution outlined by a few hundred federal documents. They're run by real people!
I feel you man, I really do. I share your concerns over the major social networks, and I can see that you're really passionate about what you're doing and where you're going. I can see two major roadblocks, though: getting users to quit their Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Path is HARD. You're running against some mighty big dogs, here. How are you going to convince users to switch?

The other roadblock is monetization. If you arent't going to sell your users data to advertisers, how are you going to make enough money to keep things going?

If you figure these things out, you're onto something. Let us know how things are working out, I know we all like to read about a coding guy with a crazy idea who lives in a beach cruiser!
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You can get backups of Docs & Picasa:
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Gmail should let you download all emails into an email client, but the point people are making about losing access to the address itself remains very valid.

Would be interesting to know if anyone has ever lost access to their account and filed suit in an attempt to get it back. Current MegaUpload case is a bit different, but related.
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And at the same time, there are places like HN, which can be as anonymous as it gets and is one of the best places in the web I know, and at least partly because of it.
Please read the following in an exasperated tone of voice, because that's what I feel here.

The problem is the very public trashing of kickstarter on her blog, combined with the multitude of people who have had run-ins with Rachael over the past few years calling her "crazy" etc.

Allegedly the FBI are uninterested in prosecuting the cyber stalker. However since coming across this today I've seen nothing that indicates they actually exist, or if they do exist, the kind of hateful things they harass with.

As far as anyone external to the situation can tell the stalker is either a figment of Rachael's imagination or someone who is going around informing people who potentially might give her money of something she doesn't want them to know.

We just don't know.

So in light of the very public trashing of kickstarter, it seems only fair we get to see all the evidence publicly as well - like documentary evidence of complaints to the police about the alleged stalker's behaviour.

Edit: and instead of downvotes, please tell me why my train of thought on this matter is unreasonable.
I expect Kickstarter to have a sober, well reasoned response to this by Monday afternoon. Hopefully faster.

It would have been nice if Rachel was nicer to Kickstarter in her post, but she wasn't so here we are. It's not like I like this being #1 on Hacker News. This is sort of an awful story. I would have liked to have gone to sleep by now, but respect Rachel enough and have fond enough memories of the time when Hacker News didn't suck that I wanted to try and make this comment thread something resembling rational and reasonable.