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> Isn't it ironic that this is posted on a site that does startup funding and the comments are "please put this on kickstarter" not "please apply for Y Combinator"?

Why, one can do both :). (eg. Pebble is funded by Kickstarter, but the creators are an YC company)

Anyway, the most important thing is: make it happen, make it happen fast, and don't let it become another CodeBubbles - an IDE idea with a video that captured imagination of programers few years ago, but implementation of which is yet to be seen.
i will gladly support this endeavor with donations.
I read the comment from nkoren differently and agree. With something like ClearCase or a CAD tool there is a defined licensing model. They aren't going to charge based upon each CAD file generated.

With meteor there is no knowing how the pricing will be without asking first; but nkoren's concern is that they won't know a viable business model until after significant work has gone into development. At that point if nkoren doesn't like the pricing they would have to switch to another framework.

I never got the impression that nkoren was against paying for meteor, just against taking a leap of faith on _any_ system which would require significant investment of time before finding out even a general idea of how the pricing works.
>On the other hand, what is the profile of the typical guy browsing with JS off or blocked ? I’m going to surprise you: someone who wants JS to be off or blocked. Someone who is thus actually pretty tech-savvy, and who actually took the time to wade through his browser’s configuration to find the switch to turn off javascript. Or someone who uses NoScript, or equivalent browser extension.

I'd go with "someone kooky, wearing a tin-foil hat, a tiny minority, and very unlikely to be interested in what I'm selling anyway".
No, but it should be.

Presumably that account isn't submitting for karma, but rather because they're being paid to do it.
Why create a title that contains a term you don't care for but then start your article with an apology for it? There was nothing stopping you from creating a better title... unless of course you actually wanted that title.
thoughts on promoting via Pinterest? They've got the female userbase, and there's tons of creative ways to design the hook.
Spreadsheets would be nicer if they had a coherent dataflow model. Some spreadsheet programs do this automatically, but it could be a great place for a visual programming language too.

One ugly pattern that I'm often doing is to set a column with values by the function "A3=A2" and dragging that down. This gives a column of constant values which are tweakable by tweaking just the first element. That's what a scalar variable looks like in a spreadsheet. I'd like a separate calculation area where I could refer to these. Also when I select a column I might right-click and choose "Reduce → Mean", and the mean of that column could appear in the scalar area too. With some visual tinkering you might even have a sort of "iframe" containing the columns and the scalars at the bottom of the page, and have the mean appear underneath the column to remind me what it's the mean of -- but it should float; I shouldn't have to move it when I want to drag-down the calculation to enter in a few more rows.

With spreadsheet logic you have a couple of atomic operations like, "this is a fixed column specified by me," or "this is a column containing every half-int from 12.5 through 28.5" and so on. You have reductions of those list types, like Mean and Sum and Length. You have transformations of the data too, like NormalDist(x, mean, stdev). And some of them are cached-recursive, e.g. the running-sum function you might use to find a balance given a transaction history:

balance[-1] = 0
balance[i] = change[i] + balance[i - 1]

Finally you've got a wide variety of visualizations of that data, which might also be linked from the "scalar area" -- in fact it might be nice to develop ultrasmall "thumbnail versions" that update dynamically as the data updates.

I think those elements are sort of the "core" of a spreadsheet and are handled woefully inadequately by Excel, which was not originally designed for the popular usage case it has become.
As an aside, both Twitter and Google+ are browsable from lynx. Facebook? not so much:

http://www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts

https://plus.google.com/117936580045594333068/posts

https://twitter.com/dunkindonuts
This article is wildly speculative. :/
You're doomed
Where is the download link?

Just please don't let it become another Code Bubbles - a nice idea, breathtaking video, and no working tool available in the coming years.
This is my dream. I would love if someone, or a group, could develop this.
Raising VC money? Here's advice on how to handle the VC partners' meeting
There is Still a Market for Resistive Displays
As concepts go, not a bad start. One of my immediate thoughts was that this would be better served on a multi-monitor system. Every single one of our development machines has three 24 inch 1920 x 1200 screens. It's fantastic. You can keep everything you need up and available. It makes working on complex ideas an absolute pleasure.

On the hardware design front we use a program use a EDA tool called Altium Designer for schematics and board design. This, by far, is the most well thought-out application I have seen when it comes to multi-monitor smarts. It makes for a nicely flowing and efficient design process.
When Big Brother watches IT
> "Shit Umbrella"

I have in the past categorised managers as "umbrellas" or "funnels" (and I guess there's an inbetween 'pipe').

The idea is that there is work the team should ideally not be doing (the 'shit'). That either needs to be rebuffed by the manager or handled another way (e.g. by stalling on it, doing it themselves, or making it someone else's problem).

Good managers keep the shit away from the team somehow. They're umbrellas.

Poor managers act as simple proxies. If anyone requests anything from them, they pass it on to someone on their team, without considering if they should or could block it (or handle it themselves). They're pipes.

Really bad managers act as intensifiers of the shit. e.g. by getting multiple people on the team duplicating effort on it. Or by being the sort of corporate busybody who goes and attracts more of it. Or by having slow, talky meetings about it which add time and friction. They're funnels.
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> I like Visual Studio, but I feel more and more it gets in my way when I'm debugging/navigating code. There is too much "chrome"/widgets/toolbars and hundreds of specialized windows, each with their own chrome that eat up precious space on my 27" monitor.

Chrome eat up space on a 27" monitor? Not sure if you're actually being serious here since a 27" monitor probably has 2560x1440 resolution which is gigantic compared to the chrome. Furthermore, you can customize the UI to disable every toolbar manually. Or in VS2010, there is a full screen mode where it hides all the toolbars from every side, and shows a basic text editor. That's probably what you want.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/07/17/full-scre...
It certainly is a power grab, but that doesn't necessarily make it evil. Evil would be deceptively creating some sort of financial instrument and masking the fact that outside Shareholders will lose voting power. But creating new shares which have no voting rights is a common move, and it seems like Google is being pretty open about it.
Less likely than our generation having no idea how CPU branching mechanisms work. Files are still how the vast majority of people, coders and non-coders, interact with their documents and data artifacts and organize backups. Anything deeper than that should be abstracted away, since it's subject to change.
Not related to the article but the site: has anyone else been getting "connection interrupted" errors with tumblr recently? If I load a tumblr blog for the first time in ~24 hours the first and second page loads will result in connection interrupted, the 3rd and beyond will all load fine.
Spotify's got a 'special announcement' coming next week
I actually wonder if MLB would have issues (Giants trademark, etc) with a site like this and try to shut it down.
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D'oh. I should've searched before submitting.
But Wired says it could be on brink of passing Turing Test! ;)
Hadoop in 17 syllables
Oh that would be glorious. I'd pay good money to see that hammer fall.
Heterogeneous Computing Is Here, Now
Yes, that is a typo. Goroutines are multiplexed to OS threads, but this is done transparently, you don't have to worry about it.

You can have tens of thousands of Goroutines without any problems.
Holy crap, I couldn't agree more. Thank you Benjamin!

I just wrote a comment/follow-up from the flip-side perspective: someone wired to be a "Shit Umbrella" who is stuck in a world where you have to be a "rockstar coder" first – http://levifig.com/articles/a-tale-of-priorities/
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YC Facelift: Flutter
Actually I remember reading that part of the reason FaceTime hasn't turned into the open standard that Steve promised is that when he made that announcement at the event, this was the first time that anyone had heard of it being an open standard. The FaceTime team had no idea and then maybe he dropped it after meeting with them. It isn't referenced anywhere except in the video of the event and breakdowns of the event on blogs.
SF Muni Buses now issuing traffic tickets
non-FB embedded link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3S2MVQW_qs&feature=share
@lbotos if your talking about Apple's Messages (I guess you could call it a platform), it would actually make applications like Hall.com even more powerful. Now if you are talking about Hall.com competing with iChat(or Messages or whatever apple chooses to call it), then I believe instant messaging is only one part of Hall.com's abilities. I believe platforms like Hall.com and its ilk will drive the next generation of collab tools taking what IM's, IRC's, Email clients etc has done very well and either complement them or disrupt them.
> To work it into an analogy: What is the point of having good, easily available wheelchairs, if there are no ramps (or equivalently wheelchair accessibility means) for people to use?

Because the millions of dollars spent adding rubberized material to some-but-not-all street corners sounds-based UIs for some-but-not-all intersection lamps could easily buy those who need it a vehicle to climb stairs?
y? do tell
@sohn, care to elaborate?
I've worked in Canberra (Aust. government) IT circles, and this comes as absolutely no surprise - you could probably count the number of federal government departments that store their data (even public data) on any public cloud provider on one hand.

Yeah, there are a bunch of non-security reasons for this (latency, bandwidth costs, variable service costs), but in my experience it's always come down to security; and with what happened to Megaupload, the potential widespread (mis)use of National Security Letters / FISA Surveillance, and the general lacking of concrete privacy / security / SLA guarantees from the providers, it really doesn't surprise me that they're saying that putting your data overseas isn't a great idea.

There's no reason that US-based companies can't host infrastructure in Australia and certify that it's compliant with the DSD's ISM (which is part of where all of this is coming from), which itself says that it doesn't preclude the use of foreign owned service operators, but that they should ensure that information is hosted in and doesn't leave Australian borders. Which, in the context of what's above, makes 100% sense.
A Tale of Priorities (or Why Coding Should Be My Priority Number Five)
Know of any quality tumblr themes that handle the startup blog experience better? Or a tumblr alternative?
"Well, shit.": or, When It's OK to Give Up
I think it isn't so much that an AI has a good reason for that but rather that there is no good reason to have an AI incapable of it.

Of course, an alternate solution may be just around the corner--imagine talking to a person who has some sort of direct interface to Wlfram|Alpha (maybe Google glasses or something like that)--he would be able to answer those questions as easily as a computer, for the same reasons.
Indeed, love the idea but not the transparency. Disappointing to see closed-source, demo-only videos on the top of HN.
Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth
I actually did enjoy being a team lead for awhile (once I got the hang of it). If you're a people person, it can be tremendously rewarding to see your team thrive at delivering piles of awesome. I just reached a point where I wasn't learning anything anymore (Fog Creek's just not that big; you do pretty much run out of novel managey things after awhile) and wanted to do more coding again. So I guess I'd tell you to grasp on really tightly to the idea of hanging your success on your team's success, and knowing that if they're doing their job well, you're probably doing the right thing.
I guess the question Java now has after 11 years is... How do you like me now?!
This is one of those things I don't understand.

It seems as though a lot of companies look to the "mobile first" argument without first considering the context of their application.

In this instance, why wouldn't I work on a desktop app first? That's where my users will most likely be using the app: on a desktop. Sure, there will certainly be times when they're mobile, but what about the majority of the time? It seems especially odd when users are requesting it ad nauseam and it's a logical next step.

On a different note, I signed up for the app and it looks awesome. Can't wait to get some friends together to try it out.
Looks good, I'll start using it today on Galaxy Note; are you thinking about any special developments for this type of "phablet"to take advantage of the stylus?
Please note that the case was not appealed, certain questions were remanded to the European Court of Justice for it to decide sine the applicable rules are harmonized within the EU. Further the Advocate-General does not decide anything, he/she merely presents a recommendation to the Court. The actual decision is still pending and it is not publicly known when it will be available. In other words it is presently not known what the law is in the EU regarding the copyrightability of programming languages.
> Does Google foresee a future entirely built in Go, the same way NeXT expected the world to evolve towards Objective-C?

Eventually, sure, why not?

Still you don't need your whole OS to be in pure Go to take advantage of Go's features, most Go systems are purely in Go as the stdlib is quite complete, but even then there is no issue linking with (most) existing C code if you need to (C code that does its own threading stuff obviously is more problematic).
Show HN: Who represents me in government?
They probably could automate this even further if they added some software to read license plates and then it would be child's play to program a set of rules which spit out potential violators for humans to review.
If that is the case, those screen readers are broken.
I've been using this method since elementary school. It's funny to see someone mention something that seemed like such a "private trick."
The Culture of 'Can't' in American Schools
They did wait to post it until they had already quit.
I think there are other reasons as well (e.g. analytics, as mentioned in the post, when links are consumed through third party clients), but I don't buy this one. Wouldn't this only be useful in breaking spam links when they are spread beyond Twitter? On Twitter itself, they don't need a URL shortener, they just need to remove the offending tweets. It might be a nice side effect, but I doubt it's the real motivation for shortening everything.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Spotted at video game designer Valve headquarters
Even without the latency (which is significant), there are two more technical issues:

1. Australia has pretty limited data pipes to the outside, so the more traffic is kept in-country the cheaper it is and the less likely there will be issues with world-traveling traffic

2. Aus ISPs have pretty low quotas for international traffic (40-200GB range I believe) but none for national traffic[0], which also lead those same ISPs to build or help building massive national caches of international resources (I believe Steam download traffic, for instance, is kept mostly or solely national)

[0] I may be wrong, and please correct me if I am. That's what I recall from past conversations on the subject
I've disliked Instagram even before it hit Andriod so I've never seen how the app works. When you take the picture, does it upload automatically or do you have to actively share it? Because if it uploads automatically, then I think that is not good (for me anyway). If the crap filters (and previously being iOS only) weren't already keeping me away from Instagram, that feature surely would. But if you have to hit some sort of "share" button then you now have 2 steps which is not greatly more simple than what I do already without it. Since most of the Instagram pics that cross my stream have something written with them, I assumed there was a step after "take the picture". shrug to each their own though.
Ask HN: Managing email address and username changes across many, many sites?
PG wrote recently that to "replace email" would be a great startup idea. He noted that there should be a "todo list protocol", but I have another sore spot for you and PG related to email:

I am changing jobs and I have no clue how many websites I registered with using my work email address. I have tried to manage the important ones, but I'm going to lose notifications for bugs I submitted, and other notifications or access to various projects. I wanted to keep work and home/other email separate and I have never worked anywhere where I did so much open source work, etc. that I want to continue after I left.

For those that had this problem and did something about it to avoid pain from future changes, how do you do it? Is there a "Gravitar" for email addresses? How about usernames? I've had to setup new accounts in places because the old username was too tied to work identity.

It may seem at first that the easiest thing to do would have been to have used personal email for everything and my work email for nothing, but that has it's problems, too.
WebGL demo showing off raytraced water with reflection/refraction
This is a fine piece of work. I like all the ASCII art too!
The drug and movie industries are your best examples of healthy innovation and creativity? Really? They are some of the closer examples to cartels you will find anywhere.

There is also plenty of evidence that shows historically industries have done better when free of intellectual property. For details see this book by two respected economists that looked into the issue: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...
But then a lot of CIA's work can now be done by keyloggers, hacking and viruses.
For years I've been bothered by the fact that we still use ASCII text-based documents to program. Having spent a good deal of time programing in APL, a language that uses symbols extensively, I'd like to think that I saw just how different things could be.

Having said that, every time I've looked into graphical programming paradigms they almost always seem to fall apart or get in the way of translating ideas and thoughts into machine instructions.

In the end, at least for me, it's about having an environment and a language that gets out of the way and let's me program the way you'd play the piano: The music just flows and the technical bits that make it happen are invisible.
Kickstarter is product-focused, YC is founder-focused.
The US practicing what they preach? Hah.
Many people have said this already, but as soon as you create any way to donate to this project, I'm definitely in.
I can say without a doubt that they would.

I've had run ins with MLB for using commercially using my own photos from games that had team logos visible in them.
Microsoft almost invented the smartphone... in 1991
Mac Flashback Trojan Removal Tool released
After reading up on this for a bit, I think I see where you're coming from. It does sound like the GPL treats the entire client side of any given website as a single application, and so use of any GPL-licensed code triggers the requirement to release all client-side code.

With this in mind, the MPL does sound like the better choice. It's still vastly superior to BSD or MIT, since it requires you and me to release any changes we made to the library itself.

What I think this means is that the GPL (or a new successor to it, since Richard Stallman is too much of a curmudgeon) needs to start distinguishing between portions of web applications according to their origin, to enable the various scenarios that are possible when distributing executable code but currently not webapp client-side code.
There's one thing I don't understand. When you execute code automatically, what do you do about side effects? If I have code that write, read or delete a file for example.
Physicist claims victory over traffic ticket with physics paper
I'm sad to see the current generation of programmers who don't understand that a hierarchical filesystem is one possible choice for organizing data on an underlying storage medium.
What is a “Front-End Developer”?
You could just sample and show an example - that's good enough for many uses.
One thing I notice while playing video games is that having an SSD doesn't help that much once the game is loaded. This is because game devs think about file access and make sure that it is optimized. It would be nice to just get something like eclipse that takes 5 minutes to become usable and slows down all the time because it is hitting the file system without any regard for performance.

Due to a jar locking problem I'm having to restart eclipse several times a day and it is so painful watching it "build" and validate all this code when my real build happens on the command line.

I wish video game developers would start writing IDEs for other reasons like graphics as well. They seem to be the only ones who understand flow and how disrupting it is for a program to just become unresponsive for even a few seconds.
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