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> That is not a browser default. That is fluid vs fixed.

Nitpicking. Fluid is default unless you change it. Fixed layouts belong to fixed media, such as PDFs formatted for a particular paper size. [with them I have no problem, and, incidentally. I have yet to run into a PDF that is not viewable in a window 800 pixels wide.]

> Me not wanting to support people with 800px wide browsers is not a bug.

In the same way that Excel 2003 having 64k row limit is not a "bug", but it's still unusable if you have a larger dataset. (From what I've seen on the net, newer versions support up to 1M rows; but the fundamental problem - arbitrary limitation - is still there.)

I really wonder how you would have replied had I written that I tried to read it on my phone or a tablet.
After seeing some early videos, I had mixed thoughts. I was impressed with the idea of the game, but thought for all the time he spent on it, it might be over the heads of 85% of the gamers out there.

I'm still wondering if he's just putting this game out there, or if he actually has a target audience he's aiming at.
If Apple were interested in serious gaming on iOS devices, they would've put application-assignable buttons on their edges. We all know that didn't happen, so now they have the hokey volume-control workaround for the camera's shutter release.
For competent people, getting fired is awesome as it always means a big pay raise.

Can you explain this?
You could have skipped all the calculations and just say, that 1000/200=5, I.e PostgreSQL 5 times more cost effective than MongoDB.
In terms of casual gaming, the xbox 360's Kinect and Wii have already been wildly successful. One could argue that as an entertainment all in one hub, where the whole household buys casual games over the marketplace and watches TV shows and movies effortlessly, the xbox has failed.

This is the device Apple and Valve might be building. Not only are they going to try and streamline the software and UX of the whole thing to be in line with Apple's standards but I think they are also going to try to make it a replacement for cable tv. This is something Sony and Microsoft have not tried to do with their consoles, which confuses me.

Personally, I think Apple should just make a T.V. Apple has become such a strong brand that people will trust their hardware and software, even if the markup is somewhat outrageous.
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I think it's perfectly doable - but it will require custom validation to run on the server. I like that Meteor embraces that reality, although their implementation is not complete nor documented.

The Firebase/Parse/Stackmob approach of API-driven ACLs and "zero code in the backend" adequately covers certain common use cases, but completely breaks down when you need something more custom - and, inevitably, you will. Sooner or later these guys will need to run your code on their servers (or their API will expose a dsl for querying/transformation/acl complex enough to be called "code").

I do like that mayop100 mentions they'll "make it easy to hook up your own servers too", although I'm not sure what that means in practice?
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No, the misunderstanding is yours. Postfix IS an SMTP server. SMTP servers connect to other SMTP servers to deliver mail. Your mail comes into an SMTP server just as it goes out an SMTP server.
I have two small servers (plug computer) on two different locations / providers / IP addresses with all my data. They are synced by rsync. That is my own small redundant cloud. Not expensive and quite easy to setup with some Linux knowledge.
While I disagree with a large number of TSA policies, I have found TSA officers to be thoroughly professional and nearly always courteous. The anti-TSA bandwagon on HN seems to be the product of people who don't travel much basing their opinions on a few rants or CNN coverage, or perhaps just general anti-authority bitterness.

I've flown at least once a month for 10 years, domestically and internationally, and almost never have a negative experience with TSA personel. While I hate taking off my shoes, turning off my phone, and find the liquid rules particularly ridiculous, I have found that TSA agents have more than met my expectations of professionalism in implementing policies over which they have no control.

Millions of people travel every day. A few bad encounters can be expected. Don't be an asshole and tear down the employees of the TSA because of a few anecdotal occurrences. In doing so, you are just as bad as an ignorant talking head on Fox News. Think and put yourself in others shoes before you rant.
Your "risk-averse wife" should consider the risk of having an unhappy and resentful husband in a few years' time. As a couple, her happiness is entwined with yours, and vice-versa; neither will be content until both are.

If you feel you are on the wrong track - and it seems you have quite soundly arrived at this conclusion - start hunting around.
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Love it. However the thing that often keeps me away from rich IDEs is that they so often only support 1 or 2 languages: so I get used to the nice features, then I'm stuck as soon as I have to switch language.
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This is LevelUp's business model.
This is easily solved in Postgres. You dont do alters with default, or non null values. Alters become fast [enough] and bearable, even at scale.

http://justcramer.com/2011/11/10/scaling-schema-changes/
I was thinking HL3 Exclusive to the new Apple TV / Steambox device... but only for a month or two.. then a full pc release.

I have an xbox but not an Apple TV... seems redundant as I'd mostly use the Apple TV for netflix and the Xbox already does that. If Valve releases a steambox, and Apple releases a new Apple TV I'll be in the same place I am now... But if they were the same box? Win.
Hey, just speculating wildly. Just like everything else in this comment thread.
> I really wonder how you would have replied had I written that I tried to read it on my phone or a tablet.

I use media-queries. It looks different on iPhone for example
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Since I deleted my facebook account a few years ago, Facebook comments are a "we don't want your opinion" sign for me.
I doubt there is a good value proposition for Lifehacker to implement something that works with NoScript. Saying that they should do it, without that, makes no sense.
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The issue is bigger:

All of the business logic is on the client side.

You will, eventually, have to move some of the logic to the server side.

I'm sure that it is/will be possible with Meteor/Firebase, but it's not as easy as writing a Rails app.
Re #2: Sorry, I wan't directing that at you and meant no offense. Per your post:

>> I've been running my own for 13 years now (plain old postfix and dovecot on whatever linux distro I favor at the time).

For those of us without the experience of 13 years running postfix and dovecot (and spamassassin and writing perl filters), there will certainly be at least some time investment. That's what I was talking about: the price in hours to go from zero to competent. You may be too competent by now at email hosting to realize that it would not be a minutes per week affair for most people to do well.

Obviously if it works for you, great. Interesting to note that you started running your own long before GMail; the calculus of starting to self-host is different now.

Re #1, you should lend your spam filtering tools to Yahoo! In all seriousness, a handful of unwanted messages per day would be a dramatic improvement to my Yahoo! inbox. Whatever they are doing over there is not as good as what you're running.
GMail isn't perfect. I usually get at least one spam per day, usually for stuff which should've been picked up by any decent spam filter (all caps, or "Hello I am Mr. Otogonoyu from Nigeria and I have US$4.8M to give you...")

I sometimes wonder if GMail lets these through for certain people, and relies on the "mark this as spam" button as some sort of mechanical turk...
You could use third party auth, like facebooks. you could use an iFrame on another domain to setup all the secure stuff, and then use something like easyXDM to communicate with that iFrame.
"Even better"... more like different. MobileMe and iCloud have a fairly different feature set. If you used one of the things that was in MobileMe but not iCloud... too bad.
Seems like nobody here has any interest your world-changing product...
It sounds more like your Google account was disabled for some reason and it had nothing to do with your G+ profile.
> Chromium > Firefox for open source.

Why? Both are open source. Or did you mean to say that although both are open source, Chromium is a better browser overall?

As for why someone would want to blog while staying anonymous, think of political dissidents in oppressive regimes or people who are tying to hide from an abusive ex-partner. As long as you use a free service and don't post anything that identifies you, I don't see any reason why blogging can't be done anonymously. Pictures are trickier, and you definitely don't want to post picture of yourself. But something like pictures of flowers in your garden might not be traceable back to you.
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That's what I thought too, until I found that there exists C++ ABI on linux. I tried to link together two small files, both using iostreams, one compiled with Intel C++, the other with g++, and it worked.

Though I'm in doubt [haven't tested it yet] whether it would have worked had I tried to use something std::vector across functions compiled with different compilers.
That's a terrible cop-out argument. If they're actually skilled - say so. If the bulk of the workforce isn't? Then saying so only hurts fixing the problem.

If they're so unstable that being told they're not good at their job sends them in to a killing rage, they shouldn't have that job.
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1,200 trillion is less than 100x total American spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So reduce 10 million to 100k and you suddenly have a practical policy question.
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I agree with you about the movie studios, but I think Abrash overstated his point a little.

There is certainly value in taking someone else's idea and making it better. "Everything is a remix" and all that.

Perhaps not as much value as the original idea, but it isn't non-existent. Google certainly didn't invent search, but they did do it better (for a while).
I think you're making a straw man. The anti-TSA bandwagon is not due to the fact that a small but significant number of TSA agents are very rude.

It's more due to the fact that a massive and totally unaccountable police force has been created that violates people's rights left and right, and has also been shown to be almost totally ineffective, despite costing billions of dollars.

Meanwhile, the federal goverment seems to have everything wiretapped. We now life in a "turnkey totalitarian state." [1]

This seems to bode quite badly for the future of the American experiment in individual rights.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...
Look at how Parse does ACL and user authentication (which might be difficult as their documentation isn't well-organized). General idea: you add the concept of "accounts" to the database API, have the server support the password reset emails (as you can't trust the client app code), and thn use session tokens for validation. So yes: trivially obviously possible, but with irritating data structuring issues (to make the ACL grnular in the places you need).
It still covers virtually unrestricted privacy violations.

For anyone who considers privacy a civil right, this bill is still insane. The whole notion of encouraging companies to violate people's privacy and sharing information with the government without any form of due process belongs in a totalitarian regime.

The fact that this shit already happens (and puts the US in direct conflict with other Western countries because US companies operating internationally have lots of personal information of their citizens) doesn't justify CISPA.
That's not what is meant by "safe" here. Safe is when you can be sure that the data were written (into the journal at least) by the time the write call in your code returns. Doing it up to 100ms later leaves a wide window open when the application believes the data are safely stored, while they are in fact in RAM only.
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That's a good point. And it does look like their UI will have to be refreshed or embellished in the future to make this a better mass market product.
Given what the TSA has become, I can't believe people are willing to take seriously an article written by a former TSA head.

These people are not our friends.
This was exactly my first thought. C fits in my brain.

On Duff's device. My thought, the first time I saw it, was "brilliant!"
Single-threaded concurrency was never the problem to begin with and it's used everywhere, in specific forms. Even C has it... for instance in your example printf formats to a buffer and writes at some later time, which is concurrent in that the next numbers can be created and formatted before the first is printf operation is complete.

But the reason almost nobody uses any of the general forms of this concurrency (coroutines, fibers) is because the general case of this is as useless as it is easy to do. For instance there are plenty of C coroutine libraries (including Russ' libtask) and they work fine. The reason nobody uses them is the because the situations where this is called for are precious few.

The other day on reddit Ian of gccgo even butted into a conversation about 1:1 threads vs m:n threads, but could not muster up an answer as to what conditions m:n threads (ala goroutines) would be called for. Simultaneous execution (threads for example) was always the hard part and any talk about concurrency that isn't about simultaneous execution is just tilting at windmills.
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I avoid using Google services, but for the ones I do use, I have a separate account for each.
I'd be happy to discuss it offline if you want to email me (address in profile).
The article contains several oddities.

- The author recommends Linux, and then suggests TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is OK if you only use encrypted containers, but it can't do full-disk encryption on Linux. This makes TrueCrypt very limited as a tool for hiding your online activities.

- Again, screenshots of Linux side-by-side with recommendations of Windows antiviruses. Either make up your mind, or please keep things organized by OS!

- JavaScript is not a binary application (at least not yet), and unlike Flash, it always respects your browser's proxy settings. As for VBScript (shudder), just use any non-IE browser.

- Recommend NoScript but not AdBlock? (I'd add Ghostery to the list.)
Everyone loves to bash the lack of a C++ ABI. Now please name another language with native implementations with a standard ABI across different compilers.

C implementations have a standard ABI, because they usually are the operating system ABI.
Personally, I think that line is baloney.

It's not that Americans are actually afraid of terrorists. It's not that we "haven't been ready to embrace risk."

It's that we don't care about freedom and liberty anymore.

Moreover, this former TSA head is acting like the TSA has to "cooperate" with public opinion or is even in any way beholden to it. That is a lie. The TSA can and does do almost anything without reprecussion.
It is less of an issue in linux where there is a healthy ecosystem of libraries where you have access to source code and can reasonably expect to be able to compile everything with the same compiler. (Obviously there are times when this is not practical, but for most cases, it is ok).

Under Windows, the whole situation is a mess.

For current interesting platforms, the problem is often solved by either having no C++ compiler, or just one (e.g. the Qualcomm QDSP, which I think only recently gained a C compiler lacks a C++ compiler, and I don't imagine this changing soon).
Producer fails to inform consumer.

Consumer fails to understand the crap they put in their bodies.

Consumer is shocked that their processed food contains, um, processed food.

Who is really to blame?
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I've met a lot of "lifers" too. I worked at UMass Boston for a few years and it's depressing. It's like working with indentured servants.
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Meh, Duff's device works in C++, too. If anything, it's an argument against both languages.
Yep, and it was one of the greatest platformers of all time IMO. The "story", while at times verbose and overwrought, imbued the character a sense of urgency and personality compared to the classic "Princess is in another castle", which is the point of the article: The artization of video games.

If we can't think of things like Braid, or Infinite Jest, or Downton Abbey without thinking pretentious, then all games should simply be derivatives of The Jersey Shore or just long fart noises and rubber-band physics. But, obviously, that's not what all people want, or else the aforementioned "pretentious" content wouldn't be so popular.
I'm not sure what you mean here by "name another language". Do you mean other than C? I don't understand what that would demonstrate.
You don't even have to pay to use gmail with your own domain. I find it difficult to find the relevant links, though.
Since being schooled by other HN readers on parallelism vs. concurrency in the past, my way of distinguishing it:

Concurrency is a programming language issue, parallelism is a resource allocation issue.

EDIT: Well, this appears to be stated pretty clearly in the presentation, but I only got the presentation working after trying it for the 3rd time (in the 3rd browser).
"I had met John [Carmack] in person just once before, but he knew me from PC graphics articles of mine he had read when he was first learning to program the PC"

Ha, if that's not geek cred I don't know what is.
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Agreed. If you can provide an generic implementation able to work across many applications, you save everyone from having to reinvent the wheel - at the cost of delegating a portion of your app to the service host.

The model I used in pageforest.com is to enable users to secure their documents as public, private, or shared access with other named users. Some apps don't fit in these neat categories, so a more complex system would be needed to support them.
I think there's a big difference between being passionate about technology itself and being passionate about getting a business/product off the ground using technology. The latter, along with your relationship, sounds pretty good.

YC companies are quite diverse these days and many require as much, if not more, non-tech work and understanding as deeply technical work.
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Further: if you're at a large company and do something that saves/makes that company say $5M, you will get somewhere between 0% and 0.00025% percent of that money as a bonus. Whereas if you're at a startup, and have 10-20% ownership, then when you save/make the company $5M, there's a good chance you will get 10-20% of that. (Speaking in rough terms, of course. But you get the point.)
Facebook is not my thing, but it's not for a commie to badmouth a company actually making money.

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In recent years, it actually dawned on me that it's important for my country that these companies succeed. It's actually profound that we are the country where these companies start and with export imbalance, this shit's important unless we want to stitch together shoes for $5/hour.

Keeping people employed is commendable and possibly stressful. When Microsoft does shit, I think about how they must keep people employed. Intel does all kinds of crazy shit. I shake my head.

God says...

25:32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three
branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of
the candlestick out of the other side: 25:33 Three bowls made like
unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls
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the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

25:34 And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like unto
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25:35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a
knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of
the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick.

----

My professional opinion? "Ahh... pleasant unstressful stuff." I just walked home. Cops? Could be asm NOP instructions. Ohhh!! He's talking about Intel processors and missed branch penalties and no-ops. Don't worry -- it means nothing. I love God and enjoy His company.

I recently learned "url" is pronounced "earl". I say "no-op". I wonder how my vocab is being away from physical people so long. Dad used to say buzz-words were critical for getting jobs in his field.
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Text is still the best way too tell a story and programs are just that: stories. I would say that any language requiring a fancy IDE is doomed.
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There were a 2GB limit in Outlook Express (the free one shipped with XP and i suppose older ones) for its dbx files: when you reach the 2GB limit, you cant receive (or send) files anymore. It was particularly nasty if it happened on your sent folders, because emails were continously pulled from outgoing, sent to receivers, failed to copy into sent, copied again in outgoing for the next send cycle, so if you didnt intervene you'll have people flooded.
Office Outlook (the paid outlook) had not this problem (at least since 2003 to 2010), I manage a network of 100 users circa and we use Outlook for multiple personal and office IMAP accounts, and some of them are way larger than 2GB. Sometimes corruption happens on PST files, but I cant relate it to their dimension.

And, by the way, you can always use Mozilla Thunderbird