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Did anybody notice that this feature is already available (off by default) in Firefox 11 stable?

I hope they don't turn it on, or advertisers will move away from Flash to Canvas.
"Unfortunately, Java's designers didn't seem to value CPU time at all. The language has a nasty reputation for sluggish interfaces, and its execution speed drags well behind C++'s. Pointer aliasing or not we are many generations of optimisers away from languages such as Java overtaking C++ so if you need fast code C/C++ is the obvious choice."

So maybe Java is slow for UIs. But this general statement isn't true. Next time the author should fact check: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

"one of the best IDEs around in Xcode"
Ha. Ha ha.
Better: fetchmail and/or offlineimap, stored to a real mail storage format, preferably maildir.

Available on all sane platforms. Linux distros natively, Mac OS X (you might need to go to DarwinPorts for the software), and Windows (via Cygwin).

Note with offlineimap, changes on the server (e.g.: mail deletions) will be reflected on your local archive when re-synched. If your goal is archival, you'll want to copy the local mail you want to save permanently elsewhere.
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A better style for the (Haskell) "return a list of fibonacci numbers" example would be

better_fibs 0 f1 f2 = []
better_fibs n f1 f2 = f1 : better_fibs (n-1) f2 (f1+f2)

as this generates the list lazily.
Don't know if it's a good product or if the article is well written (I try not to read anything from Pando) but I thought Squarespace was pretty well known.

They used to (and maybe still do, I stopped listening to TWIT) get a lot of plugs from their sponsorship on several of the TWIT network's podcasts, which have a pretty big combined listenership.
Where is the proof that rails is hard to install and needs 5 months of work? Maybe more documentation is needed on best practices but 5 months of work for a specialized installer? No thanks.
Ask HN: What do you do with MVPs you no longer have time for?
I built this about a month ago: http://www.iosuserfeedback.com

It's really just a front facing site that accepts credit cards via stripe. The backend is manual entry into mechanical turk by me. Since launching I haven't had much time to devote to it, have only managed to drive about 100 uniques to it and haven't sold a single package. So I'm curious, what should I do with it?
Yup! And I didn't mean to sound so negative (sorry). I do hope it works (and want to hear about it when it does!). I've definitely gotten really excited about assignments before when I thought they were neat and that the students ought to be able to figure everything out---but which turned out to be just a bit too hard and thus demoralising rather than empowering. (If that happens, it's still not worth dropping---tweak it until it works. Once you get it working, there's probably a SIGCSE or ITiCSE paper in it for you!)
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The "Hoff" says "NO"!

Was there supposed to be something other than an image macro at the end of the link?
You're not respectful toward other people. The fact that you don't mention specific names when you're showing disrespect just adds cowardice to your sins. People are acting on emotion because the article paints you as a mean guy with an unwarranted sense of superiority. If you don't like that you should talk to the guy who wrote the article.
Apple Not Likely to Be a Loser in the E-Book Legal Fight
I agree, and it seems that Pando is spreading the notion on the basis that Squarespace is making money. This paragraph is most important in the article:

> In fact, the company mostly serves smaller blogs and businesses. It has tens of thousands of users, Casalena said, compared with WordPress’s 73 million and Tumblr’s 51 million. The key is Squarespace’s users are all paying a monthly fee. Squarespace is positioned as an alternative to paying some developer $5000 to make a site.

This paragraph at once defines and antagonizes the thesis of the article. It defines the thesis in that, if Squarespace is making a product worth using, it will spread to areas outside its current target audience. However, at the same time, it would be ludicrous to assume that independent bloggers currently comfortable with WordPress would switch to a non-free product any time soon--we're talking about moving millions of users of a free product to a paid one. How many of these bloggers can afford to move? What are the advantages of moving? The article is disappointing because it does not answer any of these questions while assuming the conclusion.
Gotta start with making something people want.
Yes; the info that returns is in headers, though, which could work just the same even if the OPTIONS response also includes REST action details in the body and/or other headers.
How do you explain the cognition of blind people?
Regardless of article quality, I'd like to mention that Squarespace is an amazing company and absolutely deserves more attention that it's getting right now.

I'm not an employee of squarespace, but I have been in touch with many people who work there, and not only are they all incredibly cool people, but they have some really brilliant designers and devs and are working on an incredible product. Their CEO does a lot of the front end dev and is an absolute genius.

In addition, they are all about the NY tech community. I teach a free class on web design and development (http://skl.sh/HMoAx3) and they have generously hosted me free in their gorgeous office many times. That kind of dedication to education and bringing together the tech community in NYC is really impressive.
Actually, yes. I forgot to test the link afterwards...

Apparently, anyone having "hacker" in the username gets blocked, if you change that to "HN" it works. I made a different link without hacker in it, then got distracted, and when posting it apparently copied it from the wrong browing tab. Let's resubmit, this kinda sucks...
Why is bzr so slow?
More links:

http://capped.tv - recordings of demos

http://pouet.net - combination forum and demo repository
My nephew is 14 and has already published not one, but four books on the Kindle platform (one he wrote himself, the other three his grandfather wrote).

The new generations of authors will be very tech-savvy, to a point that may sound incredible now but is very real.

And even if some, or the majority, of authors don't want to do this themselves, why can't they hire a bunch of folks to do it for them? Why would they hand over 70 to 85% of potential returns to a publisher or to Amazon when they can pay someone a fixed price for editing, proofing and page layout, and keep 100% of the returns after that?

Publishers are clearly doomed since they don't provide enough values for the fees they demand; but I doubt Amazon's position is a lot more secure.
It's not just Ruby fans that like CS - it shares a lot of syntax design choices, but I think those should be taken on their own merits and not just "Durr hurrr JS for Ruby devs!!"

That article is good, and I prefer the standard operators (&&,||,!==,===) to their english counterparts. The good news is you can still use them in CS.

The other problems in that article aren't from CS itself, but rather how people write code with it. After a certain point, nested anon callbacks are terrible in JS (fat arrow complaint). Same thing with complex one-liners. You can wreak the same havok with pure JS.
Having poked around with Jeremy's compiler (I forget if I've sent in patches or not), I'm curious about some of the technical details behind the project. I've thought about this topic for a while and this is a rather disorganized brain dump Feel free to respond to as much or as little as you like.

The main complaint I have with the current compiler is the inability to control output either via compile time macros or compiler hooks. I would like to map Coffeescript's class construct onto the class system of a variety of frameworks. I understand most of Jeremy's rationale but I still have to patch my install to change the superclass name in order to map coffeescript classes onto yui3 (same pattern, different superclass names) and I'd really like to see the class syntax map to Ember's classes.

Any particular reason for PEGs over Parser Combinators?

From reading, looks like you plan to skip the rewriter pass. I started a PEG parser implementation in the 0.3 timeframe but ran into problems with the `x = a: 1, b, c` -> `x = {a: 1, b:'b', c:'c'}` and similar ambiguities. Do you have a plan for handling this? Will you drop language features if you can't do them without rewriting?

What sort of compile time hooks are you planning? Just (C)AST->(J)AST passes?

In the time since I've messed with coffeescript internals, I've run across two potentially useful things that I haven't really investigated:

* http://www.mirah.org/wiki/Macros <- macros in a non-lisp langauge

* https://github.com/cgrand/parsley <- fully incremental parser generator

The latter is interesting because it'd potentially allow the actual compiler to be used as the starting point for language IDE support.

Good luck, I'll be following your progress with interest.
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After doing a bit of googling, I believe what we have here is a set of borderline personalities that are unfortunately drawn together. They have plenty of outlets for their antics; we shouldn't be indulging them here.
Awesome, well I plan on bringing a car if I'm accepted so whomever lives with me will have transportation when I'm available. Good idea on getting more than one, I think this can be profitable for you (if you are looking for that ) as well as being a good deal for the people moving there.
Like it or not, blogging has become a "social" thing nowadays. WordPress and Tumblr have huge communities of users who browse one another's blogs, comment on one another's posts, reblog random things, etc. You can't compete with that on features alone. When you visit a random WordPress or Tumblr blog, and if you're a blogger too, you're likely to be logged in already. That's an advantage that can't be ignored.

If this Squarespace thing has no intention to compete with WordPress on the "social" front, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of individuals and organizations who just want a reliable blog at a reasonable price and don't care about Tumblr-like features. But if that's the market they're targeting, the article's title is misleading.

BTW, Squarespace offers a 14-day free trial. But do you seriously think a lot of people will go through the hassle of moving their blog to a new service, change nameservers on their domain, wait a day for the change to take effect, try out a bunch of features, and if not completely satisfied, move their blog away again, change nameservers again, etc. all within a span of 14 days?
That explains it. Thanks for explaining!
That is a comment from my stalker. Any traces on his location at Hacker News? His real name is Michael Rudra Nath aka. Jason Christopher Hughes. Can provide documentation from the authorities, case files, addresses, screen shots of his death threats, emails he sent me containing child pornography, etc.

-Rachel Marone
I don't mind, I have a car and don't mind sharing. I kind of like the idea of living in a remote fortress, like a mad-scientist. But yeah, probably not practical for enough people, unfortunately.
Open Source it!
The plan on how to market the app should come before building the app, it isn't something that works best bolted on at the end.

If the product is already built, then the time is build out the user acquisition part, which is just as much of a challenge as building the product. One has to decide which UA channels to pursue, and basically A/B test towards success.
I think it is dangerous to "teach" people that they should only do what they love. So much of character comes from the determination to "do the right thing" even if that isn't what you want to do at that particular moment.

I take a lot of personal pride in being able to persevere; lots of people do -- why downplay this or regard them as "suckers"?
I wondering what the reaction would be if a few well known and loved VC firms (that have funded YC companies before) got involved and subsidized part of the rent for something like this or even something on a larger scale. Thoughts on that idea?
Some clarifications, I guess? I don't think Amazon is loss-leading the ebook market to secure a monopoly; you do that in an already established market. Instead, what I think they are doing is trying to bootstrap the ebook market. And successfully, at growth rates far exceeding 100% every quarter.

Also, Amazon is not replacing warehouses with on-demand just yet. They are rapidly expanding with many new warehouses opened every year. What they are doing is much more ingenious: they setup marketplace to allow other companies to sell products lacking in Amazons portfolio through their website. Then they offer the vendors to do shipping and storage through Amazon warehouses. Then they ultimately add products generating lots of revenue (and profit) to their own portfolio, cutting out the vendor completely.

As with "amazon basic" products, sometimes their scheme extends as far as to completely replace the producer.
Apple would probably charge $150 extra for it, though.
I love all of these different CSS3 transform effects people are coming up with!
Cyberduck seems to be pretty good for a Java app.
Phrack issue 68 is out.
We've been using a version of this for Picplum since about October I want to say. We used something else before but didn't quite like the code. This has been solid for us. Take a look at how we designed our uploader: https://www.picplum.com

edit: forgot we made a screencast last month http://blog.picplum.com/how-to-send-photo-prints-60-seconds/
We recently purchased patio furniture and elected to buy Amazon's brand.

It's cleverly branded "Strathwood" because it was (a) Rated well (b) About 60% as expensive as other, lower rated choices.

The benefit to ME, the consumer, in this case is substantial - better quality, cheaper and - oh yah - shipped in 2 days to my home for free (Prime).

That convenience and quality factor is going to be damned hard to defend yourself against in retail, and clearly this is where the future of consumer retail is going.

The author seems to be arguing against letting this play out in the free market.

Yet in the past decade we've watched AAPL serve consumers with innovation and quality, and vertically integrate themselves into the world's largest company.

We are living through an unbelievable change in consumer purchasing and commerce.

The full impact of this change is hard to overstate, and trying to regulate it properly would be like a sandcastle against the sea at this point.

edit - Calacanis has an interesting article on this as well, further suggesting retail stores, etc -> http://www.launch.co/blog/amazon-has-a-ton-of-white-label-pr...
Yehuda Katz isn't just some average 'someone' we don't know. He has a proven track record. He's a core member of the ROR team and he was lead on Merb.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/yehuda-katz

It's like saying, "Yeah Slash or Eddie Van Halen needs 40k to record a few tracks, but this kid from across the street will do it for free."

To add to that, most open source contributors live in large metros that aren't cheap (in the West and East Asia). $25k does not even come close to covering a year in those areas.
I thought the point was that Twitter can add a few lines of code that check whether a URL is shortened before re-wrapping. Fewer redirects, less time till I get to the real content.
Big lists can be useful as reference tables, though in that case I'm not sure I would bother with fancy scrolling. For example, while you can make better visualizations of per-country GDP for various purposes, just the plain sortable table imo is the most useful basic reference format.
5 months to develop a trivial shell script? Where could you possibly work that this could remotely be true?
Funnily enough I saw this for the first time today when doing an XHR to a different domain and was intrigued. Amazing how even with tools/tech you use every day, you can still learn new things!
The problems of low statistical power and publication bias
Was it really link bait? Just described what it was IMO. Weird.
I was thinking a little today about self documenting web APIs in a similar vein to command line tools. An example of web service APIs that currently expose capabilities in a machine readable manner are the OGC Web Map and Web Feature Services (WMS, WFS) which accept a GET with a request parameter of GetCapabilities and return service metadata as XML.
>>but in practical terms, it is, because you can't do anything useful in Objective-C on Linux (like write iOS applications, which is the biggest reason people want to use Objective-C these days[1])

But let me give you a simple and plausible scenario where running Obj-C on Linux might be worthwhile.

Let's for argument's sake, say I'm an indie Windows developer who wants to do iOS development but has heard the most common complaint about Objective-C -- "the weird syntax".

Before I run out and blow my wad a Mac, I can set up a Linux VM with Obj-C to just play with the language at an abstract and academic level and see if I can even wrap my head around the language first.

If I were to trust the OP's sentence at face value, I wouldn't really know that was possible.
FYI: "for your information".
Excellent post. I don't agree with how the OP defines "work". Work is goal-directed activity that may involve momentary discomfort or difficulty, but that leads to a long-term purpose. If that purpose is stupid, then it's a waste of time, but if the purpose is useful and the work is rewarding, then it's a good thing.

"Play" is usually used to refer to divergent creativity. Convergent creativity is also important, and most people who never experience any pressure or limitations never get the latter of those down. Here's a post I wrote last week on divergent convergent creativity: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/creativity-an...

What makes most "work" idiotic and soul-munching is that most of it's white-collar social climbing. Most people are actually more relaxed and happier when doing work activities than on average. What makes them unhappy are all the social stresses and extrinsics (such as unreasonable deadlines, bad personalities, implicit threats of professional adversity) that "work" imposes on them and that have nothing to do with actually getting things done.
I don't think beefed up LCD displays are superior to eink for the purpose of reading books (or text). Thats akin to adding another horse to horse carriage while someone is rapidly iterating cars.

It might happen that the LCD prevails - if its true that people place a huge premium on integrated solutions. Thats one theory behind the explosion of the smartphone market.
This essay really sucks. Everyone attempts to go against common wisdom for the ulterior motive of trying to appear to have further insight into life. This is not creative, not origina, and I certainly don't believe it to be true. The tone of the essay was depression... I don't want to live life in a depressing manner, even if like is depressing itself. Ultimately you can choose if you're happy or not. Cliche indeed but also true. Bottom line. I can go against everything this essay says and live the opposite life he eluded and in the end I could still be happier than him. Happiness is relative, and that is what I found to be an objective Truth in my life.
I don't have a problem with anyone making money if one can. Good for him I say (the opposite was not my intention in the original comment), he found a way to make some money while doing open source software.
"Caro has been at his work for so long, his books span the modern history of book making. The Path to Power, published in 1982, was printed using hot-metal typesetting, on a Linotype machine; its handsome cover lettering was drawn meticulously by hand. Means of Ascent, published in 1990, was part of the computer-mainframe generation. Master of the Senate, published in 2002, was the easiest to create, via desktop publishing."

The production manager for the books has a career that has spanned three distinct technologies. So will our careers (I've done teletypes and punched cards). Its all so short isn't it?

Back on something like topic for this forum: did you notice how Caro uses a specification for his books? Those outline sheets pinned up on the notice boards?
Some bad ass experiments
Does not only happen with GitHub and pull requests, but in any open source project, I guess.

I've recently submitted a patch to the mercurial-dev list (as requested). The answer was positive but asked for tests and a better commit message.

Few days later, when I had time to fulfill the request, I found out that one of the main developers fixed the issue in a different way, with an unrelated commit message and with no tests.

Most probably he did not even notice my patch attempt on the mailing list. I guess this happens all the time in every OS project. I still found this discouraging.
I'm not sure how subsidizing the rent would help the companies, especially if they've already gotten into YC (and thus just got a bunch of investment, with other investment pretty readily available).

Seems like it would be better to just keep the investing as direct dollars for equity, like it is now. Unless I'm missing something? I'd be happy to be wrong here. :)
I don't think so, for two (related) reasons:

When it follows the rules, disruption starts at the low end, competing with non consumption and its near margin. Lots of books can't be viably published via the old system but might still be viable fo self publishing. For example, a book that can expect 2000 sales.

The question is not necessarily will the established authors & publishers prefer "to write, not deal with the minutiae of self-publishing." The question is will future authors prefer to try and find someone willing to publish their books or will they just self publish? I think a lot of them will self publish.

The second reason is cost. The traditional publishing process is expensive. It's an all exclusive package that includes financing, editing, promoting and all sorts of other stuff that authors probably want to avoid but it costs. Authors earn a small percentage of the price of a book. From what I understand, it can be between 1% & 25%. That is a lot of room for improvement.
> how they manage to overcome the limitations imposed by the scene

It's pretty telling that the scene adapted to the increased hardware by imposing their own limitations instead of anything-goes. If we can't be wowed by what they do on limited hardware, we have to be wowed by what they can do under their own very harsh limitations.
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Many successful businesses attracted customers by offering something for free before asking them to pay for the full service. Pandora, Dropbox, and Evernote are good examples of this. There is an art and a science to finding the right mix of free vs paid services, this skill hopes to surface some of the techniques.
you're dead on — i was thinking the same thing: their mindset of going head-to-head w developers who charge $5k for a site seems a pretty thin market - they should be going after Tumblr rather than WordPress.
"7 bullets vs 3 bullets. PlatformLayer is more than twice as good!"

'nough said. I'm with PlatformLayer.
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Congratulation on the launch! I'm in love with productivity app so I'll definitely test it in the very near futur :)
These are great advises. I have been reading many articles on this issue and I have never read such a great summary. Thank you.
if you talk about it, it's a show, but if you move about it then it's a go - Shabazz Palaces.