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>> gimp will always remain a bazaar of features

> I agree that GIMP will always be a bizarre of features

> For design wanks...

> Only in magical fairy pixie land...

Sorry, but need to ask - are you trying to troll here?

I've used The GIMP for about a decade now and it fits perfectly into the UNIX methodology: A sharp tool that does its frigging job. There is no reinvention of the wheel and people who say that without pointing to anything but the single-window/multi-windows difference should really find better use for their time.

Actually, in your original post, you didn't even mention that. Your verdict was: "The filters and procedural image generation stuff was awesome, but everything else was at best hard to use. Eventually I switched to Photoshop because it was a (comparatively) clean, tight tool with all the bullshit removed.".

Any software has a learning curve, The GIMPs curve not being much different from Photoshop, just in a slightly different direction. I don't find any of the tools hard to use and that was from within a month of using it - not just because I've gotten used to it over the years. Actually, if anybody argues GIMP vs. Photoshop with me, they mostly try to convince me that GIMP lacks features, so I really have no clue whatsoever what you mean by "all the bullshit" that is supposedly in there.
Ask HN: should we stop telling biz people to be their own technical co-founders?
I know a lot of people have been saying recently that anyone can be their own tech co-founder. Business folks can load up codeacademy or similar site, learn development, and build an MVP. That doesn't feel like a great move to me. Remember the first time you learned how to develop (or do calculus for that matter) back in college? You were slow, stumbled through things, made a load of mistakes, and didn't get things exactly correct. You had weeks to do problem sets. Now imagine that you had to build a functioning product at that point in your life. It would be a super slow process and the end product would leave a lot to be desired. Now, imagine a business person doing this. While he or she is stumbling around writing code, who is networking, hustling, and doing all those important things that business people do? And in that slow development process, someone else can swoop in and build the same product a lot quicker. I understand that people are frustrated that they cannot find developers, but I am not sure if this new movement is the best bet. Thoughts? Maybe I am taking crazy pills.
Nice it's great that you used bootstrap so that if I change my bootstrap file it will change the module. Bootstrap for developer who aren't great designer has been a amazing tool. It has open my eyes to modules like this that gives my app the same feel.
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That's an interesting idea, and it should be possible with a strobe. A florescent light oscillates too quickly though; the gap between the water droplets is going to be inversely proportionate to the frequency of the sine wave.
I think this is the exact definition of a bubble. The phenomenon of runaway demand by a 'new class' of investors/investments has always been the hallmark of bubbles. 1920s a real national stock market with almost instant communication, now 'anyone' could trade stocks. This created a demand for stocks, so a demand for companies that listed as stocks. The 1960s, aka the go-go years. This bubble was around the conglomerate instrument. Some conglomerates did well, so everyone wanted to invest in the 'new' thing conglomerates. 1980s. Junk Bonds, or high-yield debt as we call it now. New financial instrument initially does well, demand soars. 1990s, internet companies. Recognition that the internet is going to change the world, everyone wants to own a stock in internet companies, a ton of crappy IPOs. 2000s, market conditions ripe for housing bubble. late 2000s, stat-arb blows up ( for unrelated to stat-arb reasons ) due to over-reliance on new financial vehicles. 2010s, being an 'angel' is easier than ever, and who wants to miss out on the next google/facebook.

Make no mistake, there is a bubble in early stage companies/financing. What is driving it is the same. runaway demand. This particular bubble is different than the last, because the primary implication of the last has not yet been absorbed. The regulatory structure for raising capitol and 'exiting' has not caught up to a simple reality. New technology displaces old technology faster than regulated exits can be executed. Just look at Groupon. Why do I, as a business, list with groupon, when I can just as easily list with 600 competitors who might be more specialized/niche?
These kind of computer vision illusions are always really fascinating to me. It's kind of like a natural zoetrope effect.

More:
Bass String Video: https://vimeo.com/4041788
The Phonotrope: http://www.jimlefevre.com/?page_id=200
Hi! Sorry, but I didn't get how much - roughly - you paid for the design.
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you're absolutely right, that's why we included this disclaimer in the post:

Important Note: For this data, along with every other post in this series, we're by no means claiming that the key to ranking a site is simply to buy an old domain, nor are we claiming that a new domain can't be ranked. What we're trying to do is provide data that, when used holistically in your SEO campaigns, can give a competitive edge.

We're just trying to add to the list of best practices you can follow when trying to optimize your site for the search engines.
I don't even get how people can claim that there is a big difference anyhow - If we were brutally honest here, Photoshop is really only multi-windowed, too - with the main window maximized in the background and carrying the main menu.
If we assume a bubble is an implicit, crazy multiplicator of evaluations, then it makes sense that if we are in a bubble companies are still relatively comparable. So this does not provide much info about the fact we are inside the bubble or not.
"I think we don't have enough investment vehicles for rich people and so the lack of supply has driven up prices"

I think there's a strong correlation between the end of the recent Housing Bubble, and the start/ramp-up of all these $Billion tech companies.

I think you're right that rich people need to put their money somewhere, whether that makes this surge in tech valuations a bubble, I'm not sure, I sincerely hope not; but I am fearfull of when the "rich money" starts looking for greener pastures...

If memory serves, the only reason the Housing Bubble happened in the first place was because of the end of the "web 1.0" tech bubble.

Is history repeating itself?
All this bubble talk reminds me of 1995.
Why can't I just drag files right into the example application without having to open the window and click "my computer"? For e.g. I can just drop file on Gmail and it attaches them.
Show HN: Pactt - Keep in touch with occasional incentives
also they might be getting repeated business through this "new" client called grouper and then notice some of those people having sec in the bathroom. It's probably more than a one time thing so they realize it's a business and then don't want to get associated with certain kinds of businesses which the law is really hard on. It's illegal to make profit from or take any more from money made from prostitution so it's in their interest to make sure everything ok and they aren't being turned into some poorman's brothel and don't have to worry about the cops shutting them down next week.
Today's hyper-connectivity is damaging to relationships. Services like Facebook help us keep tabs on friends, not keep in touch with them. This false sense of proximity is dangerous, and I've personally witnessed it gradually rot away meaningful friendships of mine.

So I hacked together Pactt. Would love to hear your feedback on the MVP, below or via feedback [at] pactt.co.
I've done it in an almos empty disco, with some strobes and a cord with a key(or any other weight) at the end. I turned around the key (like using a sling). Playing a bit is pretty easy to make the key stop in the air like pointing in the direction you choose.
Also you can see the effect in some videos of flying helicopters, they seem to be flying with the rotor freezed. It is Pretty cool!
but they don't exclude bagels. ;)
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Show HN: Path's animated clock scroller in javascript/html
key phrase: "what if"

also: iOS is open enough for 99% of the smart phone users.

I don't hear my mom complaining "oh how I wish i can install a custom boot ROM on this iPhone".
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I've seen it at a children's science museum, forget which one. They had a dark box you could look into with some kind of strobe which produced this effect in the box.
Four MIT students and this is what they decide to make?
Yes, movies too. I just liked TV Show more because they last longer and they provide a lasting context.
spot on. as usual asset pricing fails on longer time horizons. add an unrealistic assumption on how long those companies will stay on the upswing (eg. acquiring new users) and you end up with ridiculous valuations.
matter of fact, looking at the ever faster changing nature of the internet, a lot of businesses will become obsolete and hence just extrapolating current earnings exponentially into the future is a stupid and risky bet.
Their entire product is based off of taking your facebook data and friends graph and arranging these meetups. It's not some instafail slapped on at the last moment because they thought it was a good idea, its a core peice of how they work. If that doesn't work for you fine, but in this case then their site isn't for you but oh well
I'm aware of the different NewsBlur features, I'm not saying that I don't like the software (if only it didn't have such a huge stack needed to run it…). And it's great that I can choose. I just wanted to state where I stand in the content vs. presentation issue. Even most a-list bloggers often have pretty unreadable, if pretty, layouts. I'd include DF there, by the way…

I'm also not quite sure about the ad argument, i.e that you're eliminating the revenue of bloggers. The feeds themselves can contain ads, there's the compromise of abstracted posts in feeds, and then there's the distinct possibility that users who are proficient enough to use RSS also have something like AdBlock installed. Personally, I see more ads in feeds than on actual sites, due to dedicated feed readers not blocking ads, and the relative low level of annoyance doesn't prompt me to use a filtering proxy for that - never mind that I could on mobile devices…
There's an exhibit at the Boston Aquarium that is exactly this with a strobe light. It's really cool to see in person.
That list is misleading.

1. Mandarin

Lots of people, but spoken in only two countries (China and Singapore) and essentially nowhere else.

2. Spanish

With only half the number of speakers of Mandarin, Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world. The people of over twenty countries on three continents prefer it.

3. English

Only third in speakers, but the most widely spoken language, number one in both art and commerce.

4. Hindi

Spoken in only two countries.

5. Arabic

The world's third most widely used language, but usually spoken in places where you just can't use it to pick up girls. (Unless you are a girl yourself)
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I somewhat agree with the content criticism, it is indeed fairly random sometimes - I doubt I'm ever going to use the French word for 'postage stamp' or the French word for 'ladder'. I think it might have got better in this regard --- you learn a lot of words for food in Level 1 Unit 4, and I've also learned stuff a tourist would ask. Also, to be fair, I think the word for 'ladder' is only taught because it helps you learn the word for 'hardware store' later :)

There definitely are verb tense lessons if you get far enough! It doesn't teach you by rote, but that's the whole idea, I had lessons in French at school where we did rote learning and Rosetta Stone seems to be working a lot better (I feel more confident in my ability to actually speak and read) than my lessons in school ever did.
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Honestly, I don't like the advice people are giving to just dress "how you would every day" because that's the real you,etc... The bottom line is, when you are programming all day and only meeting with maybe an internal manager / team leader, etc there is little reason to dress up. However, I would think if one day you have to sit in on a meeting with an important prospective client, you might dress a little differently than you do normally when you are just doing programming. Business people often dress up because they have meetings and it shows respect to those they meet with, I can often tell around my office when a "business person" has a day with no important meetings as they tend to dress down those days.

When you go to an interview, you want to show the person respect and it is a special situation, its not just another day at work. You aren't part of the company yet so I don't know why you should have to wear exactly what you would when you actually start the job.

I don't wear a tie, or a suit, but I do tend to dress up a bit. If you don't want to, thats fine, but there's no reason to deride someone for thinking they should treat an interview a little differently than they would just another day at work.
This is a good future resource: http://www.acronymfinder.com/
"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
here are Oracle's slides. I hate to say, Oracle's evidence are much more convincing.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/opening-slides-1...
+1. I'm actually curious about this as well, and I've read the VRSN doc. What comes next after filling out the form? What kind of vetting, if any, did they put you/your app through? Do you have to identify the app you plan to build in advance and what if you don't know what it will be yet?
Hello Nico, I'd be interested in your services. I'll shoot you an email.
Finally got around to reading the slides from both sides... wow Google slides are so weak. Their four points:

- Sun gave Java language to the public

They basically just say APIs and programming languages are the same thing, and Ellison said the programming language is free for everybody, therefore the APIs are too. Their quoting an expert saying that an API is like a technical paper is bizarre, since technical papers are clearly copyrightable... Google basically agreed (slide 12) that an API is copyrightable.

- Google built Android using free and open technologies

Basically saying other people did it and Sun didn't sue, so it's ok for us to do it. Also another defense that, ok maybe they did what Oracle claims, but even so it's no big deal. The 'me too' and 'meh' defenses.

- Sun publicly approved Android's use of Java

The defense is that Sun approved the announcement of Android as a Java-based platform, which Google says it isn't. So Sun didn't approve of Android.

- Google made fair use of the Java language APIs in Android

The defense is that Sun was incompetent so Google had the right to go it alone without Sun's approval or license. Seriously?! Their quote to support this from Ellison even talks about licensing Java to phone carriers -- why would they do this if Java was free? Their own evidence presented undermines their argument.

Meanwhile the Oracle presentation is chock full of damning quotes and evidence from Google's own people. Google better have some serious kung-fu in the trial part, because the opening statements are a disaster for them.
I could have a line in my license statement for my book that it's legal for you to buy my book, but not loan it to a friend.

That doesn't mean that any court would find fault with you, if you bought my book and then loaned it to a friend. That's totally fair use.

Just an analogy to show that just because a company tries to make you believe they have the right to limit what you can legally do, doesn't mean you are legally limited.
The same effect can be achieved in real life by adding a strobe light.
that's sort of how I feel ... I trust none of them but at least (to my knowledge) Apple's business model doesn't depend on them selling my information to third parties
This is your universe at 24 Hz.
I actually think Evernote is not very well designed; especially on the web front.

Not sure if there any other people out there who feel the same...
The density of psychopathy on the Internet varies widely by time of day
We can read the description on the video, you know.
It's good that you included that disclaimer, but that line quoted above is simply false. The data you posted is interesting, but it does not confirm that Google favors old domains.
Yeah, that was a fun hack! I think live C++ recompilation is something that is occasionally theorized about, but rarely attempted.
Yes... A real Atari does the same thing! That's what the processor and the other chips produce when the machine is started with no ROM to be executed.
I tried to implement the emulation at the hardware component level as accurately as I could. It happened spontaneously!
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Well, yeah, but is that really necessary? They demonstrate intent, they support the accuracy of Google's view of the situation, and I'm pretty sure they'll make it harder for Oracle to paint Google's actions as tortious. It's similar to how you'd have a hard time suing somebody for injuring you if you admitted you jumped in front of their car to get money out of them — that's not a contract either, but it won't help your case. If even Oracle believes that what Google is doing is OK and doesn't constitute infringement, then that paints them as rent-seekers rather than an injured party.
50x is ridiculous, just not on a relative basis in among the peer group. Many retail companies trade at less than 1 (Walmart trades at .5, the S&P trades at around 1.5)

Even larger tech companies like GOOG, MSFT, and ORCL trade at 3-4. So, looking at it analytically, the P/S of the average recent IPO is very high, and Evernote's valuation is extremely high, even compared to them.
The new courses are great, but there's something I don't understand about these course websites. I'm doing probabilistic graphical models, but I just want the content to learn, and I don't really care much about some certificate. I also don't have a lot of time this particular month. I'm guessing that this is true for the majority of people taking the course (I'd be interested to see how many people who signed up actually kept up). What is the point in making time limited offerings for an online, recorded course?
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Ask HN: Re-inventing an acquired & closed Startup, Need Advice
Me & my co-founder started working on an idea 4 months back we are 50% into it. And two days back I stumbled across a post about another startup/product which had a same product(approximately it is a 90% overlap). This previous start-up ran for around 2-3 years, and was eventually bought by Google for rumored 10+ mil $. Google had shutdown the product(tech pundits commented that it was basically acqui-hired), Also founders have a patent about how they technically implemented the idea. The product was widely used and had an install base of 100+ mil.

Me & my co-founder are not co located, and are working. This weekend I am travelling to meet him and decide the future course. Thought of getting some advice from HN community first. Please advice if you would continue with development, or start looking for another problem to be solved(Idea).
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I'm interested. I understand there isn't any compromise - I mean, your design can be or not the definitive used. I'll email you with more details!
Cable provides a lot of entertainment, but it's expensive, especially if you pile on premium channels like HBO. Just as telephone landlines are slowly dying as people decide a cell-phone is enough, cable is dying as people move to strictly on-demand services like Netflix or iTunes. Why pay for 900 channels with nothing to watch when you can get just the shows you want anytime you want them? Even if people spend more on iTunes and netflix per month, the practice still psychologically seems less wasteful.

HBO's latest shows are not available anywhere but over the air on HBO. e.g. Game of Thrones Season 2 cannot be watched on Netflix or purchased on iTunes. Those who run HBO probably think of this as being good, since it forces people to subscribe to HBO. Unfortunately, people who have gotten rid of their cable subscription aren't going to get it back just so they can watch HBO's latest shows as they air. They might intend to wait until those shows become available on iTunes or Bluray, but it's also highly probable that they'll give in to temptation and just download them from pirates.

This is HBO's real problem. There is a big market for their shows that only the pirates are serving.
This seems like a poor analysis to me.

Did you control for other factors? It's likely that older domains have had more time to build links, trust, authority, etc.

It's entirely possible that Domain Authority has a more causal relationship with ranking position, and that domain age is unrelated.
And the stock price went up 88% from the offering price in the first day of trading, so they only made 60% of what they could have.
If the business type is just in it for the money, in my opinion, they will fail. If it is an intelligent business person who has a passion for learning, and they want to create things, I see no reason why they would not succeed. Yes, they will need more help/advice from other technical people, but I say let them go for it!
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Debian will have it in 8 years
We're going to edit our post to clarify that and take a step back from our assertion because we do agree with you. Thanks for pointing this out guys.

EDIT: We've amended our post to clarify the point you guys have brought up. Thanks again for the feedback.
(http://hackaday.com/2011/03/11/water-droplet-sculpture-using...)

There are plenty on YouTube. It is an amazing illusion.

I find it hard to understand how "a drop" seems to stay the same shape. I need to think a bit more about that.
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Another vote for Pimsleur here. I've used levels 1-3 Chinese Mandarin and its excellent. I wish they made more.

Another thing on that list is 3. Repeat lessons.
I was expecting this to be about tapping on your phone's accelerometer to gather the data.
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Ask HN: What Should I Focus on Learning Over the Summer?
I'm currently finishing up my first year of college for software engineering and I plan on taking the initiative to learn on my own over the course of the summer.

My question is: What should I focus on learning over the summer?

The one thing I know I do not want to learn is Java, as it is the one language I am already familiar with, and will continue learning when I return to school in the fall. I'm interested in developing for the web, but my goal is to just become a more knowledgeable, and better developer/programming by the end of the summer. What do you guys suggest I do?
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