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Seems like about half the issues you've mentioned relate to differences in syntax/behaviour. This is to be expected. That is what vendor prefixes are for. They are a known (and necessary) evil. Would you prefer to allow the design by committee approach to continue? We've already suffered through 10 years of stagnation due to this approach.

Right now, for example, Chrome has taken so many shortcuts to try to improve responsiveness that it's just plain broken when it comes to refreshing the page layout or even just repainting in timely fashion after a DOM or CSS change. That means even popular UI toolkits have trouble with basic things like displaying dialog-style content, an everyday task if you design browser-based UIs. And because it's not repainting properly in the first place, presumably because some internal events aren't invalidating some cached data they should be, there's no clear workaround nor any guarantee that you'll get the same breakage from one update to the next.

This one sounds like a biggie. Do you have a reproducible test case to demonstrate this behaviour? I know it's time consuming, but you really should file bug reports for this type of stuff. I've filed a number over the years and they do get worked on and they do get fixed (sometimes a lot quicker than you'd imagine).

Are you building apps or websites? I can't imagine seeing the fundamentals of layout, box model etc breaking from one release to the next.

On the other hand if you're building applications that rely on vendor prefixes then I agree you do have to tread carefully.

Moving on to Firefox, when they pushed out the LTS release a few weeks ago, they included a bug that basically stuffed every site that used such obscure technologies as Flash and Java applets.

Software breaks life goes on. If i'd never personally shipped a line of code with a bug in it I might complain louder.

The pace of innovation is blistering. Just look at all the stuff that's come out recently websockets, webgl, flex-box, css columns, dnd, offline storage, css animation, audio, video, filreader, canvas the list goes on.

If you're building just another brochure website none of this will interest you. On the other hand life is sweet if you have the luxury of using these features. Sure they're sometimes broken. Sure we're all effectively beta testers. But everyone knows that.
Right. iOS only for now.
Looking better every day.

I do have a question though. I'm a .Net guy who has only worked with self hosted systems and Azure and I've always wondered how the latency affects people who build serious system using the add-ons provided. I just can't imagine it performing well without knowing where exactly your RabbitMQ(CloudAMQP), MongoDB(MongoHQ), and Memcache type services are hosted. They could be sitting in the next rack to you or in a completely different part of the country (in theory).
I thought so, at first, but I don't believe that anymore.

I think it's plausable that small projects with shareholders who want a profit may actually be less stable than projects by independent groups who have funding without oversight.

I'm happy to give money to projects I believe in. I spend a lot of money on Kickstarter, and I'm happy to see projects succeed. Yeah, I hope I get a cool wristwatch out of that one project, but mostly it's about living vicerally through the experience of artists and designers and engineers being given the opportunity to really realize their own vision. That's worth a lot to me, and I'm willing to spend money on it, with no guarantee that I'll get mailed a toy at the end.
Meh.. wouldn't you expect mortality rates to increase dramatically as one approaches the end of their life? Correlation ≠ causation.
Thanks for that read. It's splendidly written and really hits home - and is the last straw to convince me to get a plasma instead of an LED for my new apartment :)
The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook
What is the point of this article? The guy said he'd make a video game, and people pledged money. He's pretty upfront about what he's making on the Kickstarter page. The article author is upset because the fellow is using a tutorial? Who the hell cares? So long as the supporters get their "sidescrolling platformer action/adventure game, reminiscent of console classics like Super Mario Brothers and Sonic the Hedgehog", like he promised them, what's it your business anyway? They paid for a game, and he's developing a game. What's the problem?
I think most visualizations require a bit of explanation to understand. The standard rrdtool graphs in Munin, for instance, are surprisingly complicated to understand the first time you see them. And smokeping is a fabulous tool despite having a totally idiosyncratic display. Horizon charts also take a little time to get, but not much.
My startup uses it in production. We probably send a couple million events a day and have a big dashboard with around 40 graphs on it. We also have other dashboards split out for viewing specific things. It works pretty well once we got MongoDB tuned properly. We're receiving events via UDP (which we had to add in, but is supported out of the box in the new version, I believe)

I don't think it's meant to be used as a full-on data warehouse. The closest thing people usually compare it to is Graphite.
Show HN: A simple script to help with those abstract Mac application names
If one has to become a sophisticated Yelp user and do a substantial amount of detective work in order to determine if Yelp reviews are legit in order to get any value out of it (or at least not get actively misled by it), then what value does Yelp provide?
Google launches an official Google+ Share button....to crickets?
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Ha interesting! I was in the business of copying the mannerisms and styles of some of my college professors. It was fun, it was sort of a game I played.

Some cultures engage in this copying behavior. I noticed Japanese do it quite often. They will emulate behavior and outward appearance of other cultures (American, European) without seemingly understanding the meaning of such behaviors. It hard to describe, if you see it, you'll know it.
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I've had many lucid dreams, non of them involved flashing lights in my face. More importantly of all the methods to induce lucid dreams, flashing lights in your eyes isn't among the practices normally used in scientific studies. If it were actually reliably effective, it is highly likely it would be used in studies as a reliable method of initiating lucid dreams.
I understand how you are experiencing problems like this with your personal television, but the situation is different with the Hobbit.

> Why show a mere 24 frames per second when we can magically build, or interpolate, new in-between frames and show 120 or even 240 frames per second?

The problem you are experiencing is "interpolation"- or, inserting extra frames that the movies was not intended to show.

The Hobbit is a movie that runs natively at 48 frames per second. Natively, as in the movie theatre will not have interpolation because 48 fps is the rate the film was originally shot in.
you don't have to get a dumbphone just because you don't want to get a data plan. wifi is pretty ubiquitous, and if you don't have a data plan your smartphone will still work as an mp3 player and do a bunch of other cool stuff.
does Kickstarter post stats on these kind of things? Like what percentage of funded projects are delivered?

if not, why not?
Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 embraces RWD
"You mess with my customers"? So, pastie.org was asking for it by hosting a free-form data pasting site? Again, this is you acting like pastie.org is the one at fault and is responsible for a bunch of idiots deciding to saturate the line.

It seems as though you're skewing the issue here. And I think the real issue has nothing to do with whether pastie.org was a paying customer. I'd be interested to know if RM would do the same thing if there was no sponsorship arrangement and it was paying regular bills. My hypothesis is they'd throw them under that same bus -- and that's really what this comes down to. It's hard to be sympathetic with a company that gives up on its customers (paying or not) after "9 hours". Given that they had been hosted for 3 years prior, a night of DDoSing seems like a really isolated incident, and no reason to drop them permanently. Of course, we don't know if there were other DDoSes, but given that wrecked was so eager to share the piracy concerns and didn't mention any other DDoSes, I don't think there are any.
Ask HN: Is it alright to have internal Javascript on a 1 page website?
The site in question is TimeForZen.com. It relies heavily on JavaScript and there 3 javascript files:

- 1st one is Jquery which loads from Google so it's most likely hosted and cached on the user's computer.
- 2nd one is 5kb and minified
- 3rd one is 33kb and minified

Should I just include them in the index page (32kb non-minified) internally so that there are less server requests? I'm just getting into JavaScript and am a complete noob when it comes to these things. I know it's best to keep JavaScript external so it can be cached and used on other pages, but this is a ONE page site. It will NEVER expand past one page.
Film is an artistic medium. Many many many choices are made in the making of most films that intentionally deviate from reality.

It's completely reasonable to believe that 48fps will not be the right creative choice for all films.
The Android Update Trap
Ask PG: Edits to a late YC application?
Is there any way to add an additional 3-4 sentences to our submitted late YC application? Our application is still pretty accurate, but the 3-4 sentences we wanted to add clarifies how we differ in a MUCH better way and it's important because the problem we're trying to solve can be enigmatic. Thank you!
Why does Google hate Linux?
Unless you're pasting code. Check out my trivial example:
http://www.marked.cc/4f9766f05e69190001000017
I agree. Black and white, sepia-tone, deliberate flicker and visual noise (including cigarette burns) will all have their place when used appropriately and to further push well-thought stylistic choices that are brilliantly executed.

However, those films will certainly be in the minority. To dismiss higher frame rates on the whole seems goofy.

Additionally, googling "death of the projectionist" yields more articles than I'd care to mention, including some that honestly lament that nitrate film is no longer used.
Nobody is slinging mud for taking the site down temporarily. At least, without knowing the details of the attack, I don't think anyone is suggesting that there should have been zero downtime. The mud is being slung by those who don't appreciate a host dropping a client (paid or not) because of a single incident. That shows a complete lack of loyalty to your clients, again, paid or not. RM could have found a more reasonable way to drop pastie, if it really could handle the mix of takedown notices and network disruptions, but they didn't need to do it in the middle of the night with zero notice to the owner. Certainly they could have at least given him some time to migrate his stack and not have to leave all of pastie's users out in the cold --- not that it's such an essential service, but still...
"w" is standard on most UNIX machines,

At one time, "f" was a link to "finger" on many machines, but I think that's mostly died out now.

And of course there's "X", although you usually don't run that yourself at the command line unless you're debugging something.
Does this author not understand how prototyping games works?

You'd never spend the time drawing the assets and then code up the platformer... first you just grab a bunch of temporary placeholder art, so that you can work on the actual gameplay. This is incredibly common in any project like this.

This particular game might well end up being completely terrible, but the whole post shows a crazy misunderstanding of game development.
If that's true, is there a technical reason that no one used different frame rates prior during the age of projected film? (for big budget movies)
This article made me think; Was Google the first _web_ startup? They made an algorithm and made some stuff happen, and voila.

Seems like everyone and their dog is trying to do what Google did back then. Find something, make an algorithm and dream big.
No, it isn't. I'm not a big fan of dictionaries but they must serve when basic English literacy fails, so here:

"titter: to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle, snicker"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/titter
Jackson Pollock.

My kid could paint that, he just didn't.

"All Steve Jobs did" is nearly impossible for every single company. I'm watching bosses fight over the possibility of including dynamic content in a jQuery slideshow. I'm wading through thirty meetings to get approval to roll out an update to a javascript file that was nothing more than changing an easing function.

Most companies are not able to move beyond political infighting to coalesce around a goal, let alone the correct goal.

They coast.
After you fill out a totally unnecessary captcha that seems to only be there to make some users give up at that point.
I'm got a completely different pricing plan than everyone is mentioning. Maybe they're doing some sort of price elasticity testing.
Also, the University of Arizona does have a Department of Hydrology and Water Resources: http://www.hwr.arizona.edu/about-department
Another day, another...
First, since cloud storage is the only reason Dropbox exists as a company I think they'll try harder to do it right. If Google Drive doesn't live up to Google's expectations they'll shut it down like they've shut down all of their other unsuccessful projects.

Second, possibly related to the first point, it seems the other companies are doing cloud storage to sell their other products. SkyDrive ties in with Office Live, Google Drive with Google+, etc.
How to be a successful programmer without a CS degree
Reminds me of people who said CDs would be a flop because they reproduced sound too faithfully, and consumers would be uncomfortable listening to music that didn't have the distortions and white noise record players produced.

In other words... BS.
So what led MPAA to create and lobby for SOPA?
Does Yelp policy forbid sales people from being friends with customer service / database / etc. folks?
I recall reading a blog post about this months ago, when the first iOS 5 betas were released.
Higher frame rate doesn't automatically translate as "better"

Our eyes (actually brain) have a natural fusion frequency, images shot with a relatively long exposure at 24fps - with corresponding motion blur - is different from shorter exposures at 48fps.

Remember Ray Harryhausen's stop motion monsters? Those are much 'sharper' than actors, but not necessarily more realistic ( except in the case of Keanu Reeves)
This is the single biggest issue I have. I wouldn't say I distrust Google, but I don't trust them enough to store my documents with them. Algorithmic lockout happens with their other services, and with no customer service resource that I could contact, using their service seems to risky to justify the cost savings.
Startup Life: Exploding Head Syndrome
I'm not arguing that criticism isn't valuable, I'm just arguing that it isn't valuable when you are still in the early stages of building your idea. Build it based on what you think it should be, see if people use it, and then accept feedback.

The people criticizing you, especially this early, are obviously not your customer.
> Terms like "artificating" and "juttering" are terms still best known among hardcore tech heads, not moviegoers, and frankly, that's because when most people watch movies, they aren't seeing those "problems."

I suppose they just have to ask my mother "Hey, what did you think of the first minutes of Quantum of Solace?"

The argument for 48fps is a simple one to make: With faster cuts and pans, photographing a scene 24 times a second only gets you so far.

24p was mostly an economical decision - made decades ago. Unlike, for example, digital audio, which is modeled after the maximum detail that the human ear can perceive, 24 fps was simply set at that limit because that's when people stopped noticing the flicker - in movies at that time.

I would say that any change as big as this will take a while for directors to get used to. I don't think it will get quite as ugly as 3D, though, and I'm not sure why people are trying to make this connection. A lot of digital content is already in in frame rates far beyond 24 fps, so we're getting more and more used to this every day. Finally, this new technology is just another tool - now it's up to the directors to use it in a way that entertains audiences.
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No home video formats support 48fps, though TVs do.

"Both blu-ray and ATSC do not support 48 fps at any resolution. Both do, however, support 60 fps at 720p."

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2011/04/framerates-for-movies-and...

Does anyone know if there is newer information or standards planned?
You are seriously delusional if you believe that naming an application after a biological name on the human body is "sexism". You really need to go back to "Sexism 101" if you've messed up this badly.
Actually, don't even pick on it because it's a poor game (and granted, it looks like one whopper of a poor game and I'm as shocked as anyone that this got funded). The magic of crowd funding is that decisions as to quality belong to the backers. They felt it was worthwhile, it's their money, so it's none of our business.

If it's fraud, then sure: Kickstarter would be on the hook for abetting it. If he promised something he didn't deliver, there's a problem. But this doesn't qualify. It's just a dud project. Projects fail regularly, that's why they can't easily raise money from investors.
Male privilege is a myth.
I wish the split keyboard had the same popup letters the iPhone has. I can understand how the non-split versions are big enough not to need it, but on the split my thumbs cover the whole letter.
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With 90% of the negative comments breaking down to "It doesn't look 'cinematic'", a single word judgment that seems to spare them deeper involvement with the subject - I would agree that it whiffs strongly of hipsterism.
> theaters will need to upgrade the software on their 3D projectors to handle 48fps, about $10,000

For a planned software upgrade? Is this some kind of obscene vendor lock-in?

Is that figure per projector or per theater?
Nothing, actually! It's already in our Nightly builds, and will be appearing in Aurora some time this week. You can grab Nightly at http://nightly.mozilla.org
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On-site training is the most effective, time efficient and above all the easiest way of gaining an industrial license.
What do you mean by "browser bloat"?
I did not realize that. Interesting. Thanks!
It seems that bittorrent would be the logical choice for distributing the dataset. I wonder if this is an oversight or if they are not expecting many people to download the dataset...
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Rule #1: Your opinion is wrong
I’m sharing my product management rule book. This is rule #1: your opinion is wrong.

An opinion is what you THINK the customer and market want. Once you accept “your opinion is wrong”, you will enable yourself to build a product that you KNOW the customers and market demands.
Yes, the Firefox updater uses SSL and other mechanisms to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. The update payload itself is signed with a private key controlled directly by Mozilla, to avoid vulnerability to CA compromises [1]. The connection to the update server uses SSL and performs additional checks to ensure not only that the SSL certificate is valid, but that it matches one of a small list of known certs or issuers, so a bad CA can't issue a forged certificate [2][3].

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/Firefox10/SilentUp....

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544442#c24

[3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583678
Nive tip about the private PyPI server. I might use it in the future if we end up in the same situation again.

Also, one more nice thing about using distro packages for your own deploys: if you ever need to mix Python with anything else it is a godsend. For example, at one point I had a network sniffer/userland packet forwarder that was written in C deployed alongside our Python daemons. Debian packages do not care what you put in them: C, Python, JavaScript or pure data.
Great to hear that. So you say most of you take a lunch hour, and then say you only take 30-45 mins. So, some work 32 hours, some work 33.5-34 hours a week, and others work 36, so that's 4 to 4.5 days a week, depending on who you talk to on the team. When I'm talking about flex time, I'm not talking about a long lunch, I'm talking missing hours in the morning or afternoon because your wife or kid is sick or is in a play at school and making up those hours on Friday. My point is not that Treehouse isn't a great place to work or that a 4 day work week can't work, but that there are a ton of startups that have flexible 40 hour weeks that allow telecommuting, and that flex time and telecommuting add to the complexity, which makes it just as much if not more of a feat to be profitable- and that is my point: it is laudable, but just isn't that big of a difference. If everyone in the office did 32 hours with no extra time and have flexibility to take care of their family as needed and work from any location they want as much as possible if they desire as long as they get the work done, and still be a profitable startup, then that would be impressive to me personally.
Combining a phone and a tablet, anyone?
I would like to get some opinion from you guys....

I am a startup developing a new kind of mobile device that combines a phone and tablet - putting a 7" screen on a less than 5" phone body. (It is not like the Galaxy Note, where the size is fixed.)

SO when you just want to make calls, check SMS and emails, just use the "phone mode" with a 4"+ screen.
When you want to surf web, watch videos/photos, transform it into a 7"-screen tablet.
All of this in ONE SINGLE device, no detachable parts.

Now my question is about the potential market for this device, as it seems that no company is creating a device like this, I am worried if there's no market for it.

a) For those of you carrying two devices (a phone and a tablet), are you feeling a bit inconvenient, annd would you like to have this device?

b) For those of you carrying only a phone, would you like to have a bigger screen, perhaps 7", while retaining the same portability?

c) Would you still buy a 10" tablet after you have this device? (assuming you already have a laptop)

Your help will be very much appreciated!
I know I'll get a lot of shit for this but good riddance. I hope it never comes back. I've felt this way since I found my stolen accounts posted on Pastie and they ignored requests to take it down.
Did people say that? I just remember the other side of it, people saying that CDs were lower fidelity than good vinyl recordings.

Of course, now we listen to MP3s.
> I haven't heard of such a thing, but I imagine you could do something similarly cool with the camera of your phone

Andrew Davidson showed the first real-time monocular visual SLAM in his ICCV paper of 2003. A classic paper, and do-able on a phone these days.

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/Publications/davison_iccv2003.p...