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Oops, didn't mean it as a callout, just hoped the bug report would be helpful. Probably should have emailed it.

Given the number of browsers you'd need to check, it's completely understandable for a lone developer to miss something like this. Though I do wish people would leave the standard scroll functionality well enough alone.
Design the architecture again. It's surprising what you can fit in an FPGA these days.

I'm convinced the entire hardware and software stack is broken and we need to start listening to people like Chuck Moore a bit more.
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The underlying API is always going to be POSIX and the ABI is going to be C based which in this age we can do better.

Regarding abstraction - there is way too much already.

A platform should stand alone and self host be viable, which is impossible with the Linux kernel as you have to pull in most of GNU to build it and change it.

We can do better!
A Model M feels nothing like a manual typewriter. Trust me on this. (I own a Model M, and wrote my first million words on a manual typewriter, until the keys began snapping from metal fatigue.)

Having said that, the Model M does feel similar to the classic IBM Selectric golf-ball typewriter, which was actually a whole lot more user-friendly than any manual device (although it guzzled electricity, hummed loudly, and took a hand-cart to move around).
Of course.

You learn the business stuff as you go along, ideally before you run out of money.
Man buys 14,962 tickets to a football game in 24 hours. Plans on selling them later at a profit.

Man buys 14,962 acres of land in 24 hours and plans on selling it later at a profit.

I'm not sure when I am supposed to get mad.
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Target your audience. This is what made HN successful instead of trying to accommodate a large(r) segment of a population.
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Connection in Ukraine is much better than in Malaysia, for example. Lag is lower (Ukraine is in Europe, obviously), speed in higher in average, price is lower. Speaking from personal experience.
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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Correction_technolog...

The latest technology was a "glue" ribbon that erased the letter by making the ink stick to the glue and pulling it off the paper.
The xnu kernel is pretty far from FreeBSD. It's based on CMU Mach 2.5 (mainly virtual memory and IPC), 4.3BSD (mainly networking and VFS) and the Apple/NeXTSTEP-developed device driver framework called I/O Kit (which is written in C++). I don't think any kernel changes have been merged back into BSD. At this point they've probably deviated too far anyway.

Building xnu from public sources is quite an undertaking. It does still seem to be possible (although it got a lot harder with the x86 transition due to more proprietary drivers). The PureDarwin distribution still seems to be based on the Snow Leopard kernel, I'm not sure why. http://www.puredarwin.org/
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"Months" actually sounds pessimistic to me, but I am ignorant, and I'd welcome a pointer to a list of the necessary biz knowledge and how to acquire it.
My impression (based on long acquaintance with a whole bunch of them) is that most "older content creators" either write long-hand then copy-type on a word processor, or adopted word processing as their primary input mechanism with shrieks of glee in the 1980s. The ones who still insist on using a manual typewriter are eccentrics, or jerking your chain.

Manual typewriters were pigs. They take a lot of effort to operate and produce very uneven impressions on the page. Because it's a mechanical lever system, they have a very long key depression -- typically 2-3 centimetres. Ever trapped your pinkie under the (sharp) rim of an adjacent key? If you're not a very precise typist it happens every few minutes on a manual typewriter. Because of the effort involved in hammering the keys, and the fun of trying to clear the frequent key jams you experience if you type too fast -- the type arms need to have time between keystrokes in which to fall away from the platen; if you type too fast you end up jamming them together -- it's very difficult to attain the same typing speed on a manual typewriter as on an electric model of any kind (except for the early, insanely slow, daisy wheel machines) and you end up with sore, inky fingers.

NB: Your go-to reference for the history of typewriters is "Century of the Typewriter" by Wilfred A. Beeching: http://www.amazon.com/Century-Typewriter-Pb-Wilfred-Beeching...
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Tipp-Ex is [was] your friend. First in a pot with a little brush on a stem, then later on paper strips -- you'd backspace over the typo, insert a sheet of Tipp-Ex paper between the ribbon and the page, and hit the same letter again. Which would mash a bunch of white paint over it, upon which you could then type the correct character.
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Using Kickstarter is a good idea, but I'm struggling with the moral implications of it. The chance that I'll succeed is inherently small, and I'd feel absolutely awful if that $1M wound up not resulting in some useful contribution.

Still, I have ideas, along with the skill necessary to test them. And if I were independently wealthy, then this is how I'd spend my time...

If I were to Kickstart this, then I'd keep a public daily journal of my efforts and short-term goals. There would be a webpage showing exactly how the money was being spent. I'd make everything as transparent as possible.

The thing is, most of my ideas will turn out to be impractical, but there's no way to know which until I test each of them. That process would require money from people who are okay with gambling on the off-chance that one of my ideas turn out to work. (Sidenote: if I happen to succeed, then I want to repay the people who funded me, at the very least.)

Here is a glimpse into the future I envision:

- A sensor in your bed scans for tumors as you sleep.

- If you have a heart attack, a sensor in your clothing immediately detects it and pushes an alert to your phone, which dispatches emergency services to your exact GPS location. (Most people keep their phone in their pocket or purse, so this seems doable.) A speaker embedded in your belt yells out step-by-step CPR instructions to the people around you.

- Your toothbrush takes your temperature and absorbs a sample of your saliva, which it analyzes for deviations from your long-term norm. It uses wifi to upload this data to your computer, along with a map of the surfaces of the teeth you brushed. The next time you use your computer, you'll see a visualization of your teeth; any surfaces which you missed when brushing are highlighted in red. (e.g. if you aren't brushing behind your molars, then those areas are highlighted.)

- As you're driving, a sensor on your rearview mirror will detect if you fall asleep at the wheel (your eyelids close for more than one second) which triggers an audible alert to wake you.

I'd love to spend my life coming up with pragmatic ways to use technology to benefit your health / monitor for emergency conditions. I'm just not sure it'd be ethical to use Kickstarter to fund possibly-crazy endeavors like this. I don't know.
What colored "F" image?

The 'Favris' logo?
You pluck the low-hanging fruit early in your career.

This doesn't mean there isn't scope for new thinking and originality; it just means that it's much harder to do something original, and it will take you longer and make you sweat more.

The real mind-death is a job which delivers no challenges and consists of endless repetition.
it's going to get worse for all of us here on HN in the next 40 years. Medicine has put us in a very awkward position, one of being able to maintain the body when the mind went long ago. Or (imo worse) maintaining the body and mind when the reasons to live have gone. My friend's grandma openly talks about wanting to die as all her friends are dead. But does my friend's Mum want her Mum to die? Of course not. This is a very odd time.

Preach it. (Those who downvoted you obviously didn't read far enough.)
If anything, this article supports the claim that C++ is a good language. The fact that C++ templates are Turing-complete and allow for this kind of thing is pretty darn cool in my opinion.
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Google, if we're being picky about the listed founders. Although I guess you could argue Eric Schmidt was one in spirit if not paperwork.
"HN is not exactly immune to this"

Wait, isn't the whole premise of Y Combinator exactly that? Giving $20k to hackepreneurs to build a company? The mentality isn't born in a vacuum.
This explains a lot. Android, the Gmail redesign, Google Wave...
Spot on.

In the article, one of the doctors mentions that the process of growing meat in a lab needs to be more efficient than in a cow or pig.

I'd say the process needs to be AS efficient, and could even be slightly less efficient to be economically viable.

There's a large and growing market of people who do not eat meat for ethical reasons. I've been a vegetarian for about 17 years now, and can't wait to take a bite out of a lab grown steak with some nice seasoning.
I usually go with a simple metaphor so I have more to lean on for the design and theme of the product.
>First, Lua is not spelled in all caps, because it is a Portuguese word. That would be like spelling PYTHON in all caps.

That argument is orthogonal to whether Lua should or should not be spelled in all-caps. Besides being a Portuguese word, it's also the name for a programming language, and that use could have a different spelling rule.

For example a "gnu" is an english world (an animal of the antelope family), but we spell the organization that bears a gnu as it's logo: GNU.

Same for Python. Actually, Python servers as a counter-argument to your point, because we spell it "Python" (initial cap) whereas if we treated it as an english word it would be just "python".
Reading 'Still Alice' by Lisa Genova has helped me.

http://www.stillalice.blogspot.co.uk/

Edit: Link.
I agree with most of the points - documentation is well covered by IDE's, yep, I guess (don't use IDE's myself) ... finding functions is also pretty solved (personally I just use grep).

But I disagree with the part about small functions and the example being contrived because real world functions aren't small and you can't just get your output directly like that.

First of all, functions should be small. Anything you can unit test, you can put in this sort of instant feedback. It's basically just a unit test! Input goes in, output comes out. Without side-effects or other horrors.

Okay, so not all functions make sense to be unit tested. Sometimes you need an integration test and the function can't have direct output like that ... you have integration tests don't you? Why not just evolve the "Instant feedback" feature to being your set of tests?

I honestly don't care about much else in the LightTable demo. But I love the idea of instant feedback. Especially when working with Haskell or something.
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Adding everything to a to-do list isn't so bad, as long as you consider it a "rough list of ideas it might be a good idea to do, but need to be seriously prioritized" instead of a MUST do list.
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It's not exactly hacker news, but there are two elements that make the linked video worth watching: it is a nice description of a tunnel boring machine, and the video uses some great CGI to support the narrative.

In short, I liked it, and thought others might like it, too.
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So? Fear, uncertainty and doubt can also be seen as being careful. Yes, they are spoiling everyone's fun by pointing out how everything would fail, but would you really prefer if nobody questioned the wonderful silver-bullet business models?

It's even quite benign for FUD — they're not saying "this is a load of crock," only "this is not magic".
I got further than just reading the title as well.
It depends on the work you do. The bad chair obviously not and besides that I have most of these things. I'm very productive for what needs to be done by me in the position I hold currently. As developer, this would be a great way to destroy my productivity indeed.
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As for the field, I'm referring to new media design for entrepreneurs invested in high-growth ventures. As for luck or timing of Hillman's success, I think that "Energy finds its way to the right time and place". These pioneers created their opportunities. Specially in the case of Jobs and Curtis, because they reinvented themselves a couple of times.
You also get significantly worse security and transparency from Linode versus EC2.

* No multi-factor authentication for admin screens.
* No ability to pass environment variables from admin screens to instances (useful for keeping logins off instances).
* Customer support has ability to gain root access to machines.
* Little to no information provided about security incidents.
* Generally poor transparency for all incidents e.g. outages, security.
* Recent history of major security incidents.
* Inability to get all information in a single RSS feed.
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That argument is orthogonal to whether Lua should or should not be spelled in all-caps. Besides being a Portuguese word, it's also the name for a programming language, and that use could have a different spelling rule.

It's not an argument, it's a statement of fact. I'm not more than a Lua dilettante, yet I know this. The name derives from a Portugese word, so it should be treated as a proper noun, not an acronym.

EDIT: iPad completion snafu.

EDIT: For example a "gnu" is an english world (an animal of the antelope family), but we spell the organization that bears a gnu as it's logo: GNU.

GNU is an acronym, which is why it's spelled that way, which is stated on their websites.
I can just imagine receiving a link like this while I'm on a spotty WLAN, trying to load it, it not loading properly, refreshing, and having it be "expired".
It sounds to me like you have a pretty good idea of the technical details and challenges in such a project. You'd need to find someone with medical experience that you could work with to figure out the details, but you could find quite a bit of that expertise just by chatting with your local medical school. And at least in the short-term you won't have to worry about medical device certification, since most of the ideas you've mentioned would not directly get used for medical treatment; any actual diagnosis would still get done by a physician.

If you're serious about being willing to work on this proportionally to how much funding you get, then please by all means start a project. Pick a couple of appropriate ambitious-but-likely-possible goals, set expectations very clearly, and see if you get any takers.
You don't need a track record for me to invest, but you do need a credible plan.
>No. I don't like the iOS-like direction Apple is heading in starting with Lion. I didn't feel the need to enumerate all of them.

How about just one then? I don't see a iOS-ification, I just see a cross-pollination of concepts. Haven't met many people who don't like full-screen apps for example, especially for certain tasks that require concentration, like writing, drawing, etc, even programming. Though, could a full-screen Emacs still be considered a full-screen "app" (full-screen OS?). I also like how I finally have one bloody view for both spaces AND "expose" that is convenient.

>Incidentally, Lion chugs resources when compared to the same exact hardware on Snow Leopard.

It seems like something that it's either obvious (say, a 20% slowdown), or something marginal that needs lotsa testing to find out. I haven't experienced anything of the former. As for the latter, do we have any numbers? At least, some benchmark run on the exact same machine, on a newly installed Snow Leopard AND Lion. This guys ran one, and it showed the exact same performance for both Snow Leopard and Lion, with marginal variation in different areas to one or the other. The more impressive gains were on the Lion side:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4485/back-to-the-mac-os-x-107-...

Same results as these guys:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20081987-1/snow-leopard-...

So, no, "Lion chugs resources" sounds like a subjective unsubstantiated claim to me, as does every similar statements, whatever the OS or app, if it's not accompanied with numbers.

>I never said their direction was to chug resources -- I implied their new direction chugs resources, and it does.

This makes it sound like the "chugging of resources" is, if not the direction, as you say, an inherent attribute of the direction (i.e like with that direction it would be inevitable NOT to chug resources).

The numbers show that this is in fact not the case at all -- it does NOT chug resouces.

But even if it was, I wouldn't rush to call it an inherent attribute of the direction, but merely an accidental one, some bug or sloppy coding that introduced performance regressions and that can be fixed, whatever the direction.
Instant feedback is what makes LightTable the great concept it is.
Thanks for the tips, I'd done most of these when they changed to the new theme, but the the icon button/web clip tips escaped me. Thanks for those! I couldn't find the high contrast theme, unfortunately.

As a random anecdotal data point, my inbox would be completely unusable without priority inbox. My email volume is way too high without it.
"Since I am a Java guy and the IDE concepts are defined as being language agnostic and that support for additional languages can be added later, I will compare the examples using Java code and Eclipse as the IDE."

And you end up proving nothing more than Java isn't a dynamic language where everything is available to you all the time without recompiling - and therefore won't really fit into to LightTable very well. The examples in LightTable are not contrived as you call them - people using dynamic programming environments work with instant feedback like this all the time.
I've registered a healthy number of domains over the years for projects that didn't go anywhere, including most recently a brandable two-syllable domain that contained two search terms that described the business. I didn't park it, and if after it became obvious I didn't need it if anyone genuine had approached, I would have let them have it. I let it go when it expired, and it immediately got snapped up by a domainer who is now asking $K for it. I don't think your suggested approach solves the problem.
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Would this project need FDA approval? If so, the timeline would be quite long and a million bucks would come nowhere near covering it...
As he says in the article, functions should be small but real world code isn't always written the way you'd want it to be. I think instant feedback would be great for understanding a piece of code that I didn't write but the chances are that if I don't understand it it is probably badly factored with large function sizes and mixed responsibilities all over the place.

Ultimately there will be code for which this feature is useful and code for which it is not. I can't say I wouldn't want it to be in my IDE's bag of tools though.
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>It's not an argument, it's a statement of fact. I'm not a more than a Lua dilettante, yet I know this. The name derives from a Portugese word, so it should be treated as a pronoun, not an acronym.

And again, the fact that the name derives from an actual word tells us nothing about how we should treat a language that uses it.

For example, I can make a language called "table" and specify in the docs and faq that it should be written as TABLE (all caps).

Also: "pronoun"? Huh? Pronouns are words like "his", "him" etc. Perhaps you meant "noun"? Still, we don't treat either nouns or pronouns with an initial capital mid-sentence, whereas for Lua we do.

>GNU is an acronym, which is why it's spelled that way, which is stated on their websites.

My point is, the spelling is a arbitrary decision by the project. Notice how, despite it being an acronym they don't write G.N.U, but GNU (and keep the gnu animal imagery).
They could have dictated for us to spell it gnu or Gnu or G.n.u, just as easily.

Case in point: the BETA programming language is spelled in all-caps despite BOTH not being and acronym AND being a proper english word.
I had an idea of creating IDE which frees developer from organizing files and functions etc. Every class definition and functions will be stored in CodeDB. Compiler/Interpreter talks to CodeDB to resolve. Controller seats in the middle and talking to All three, developer, CodeDB and compiler. Maybe I should create concept demo/video/image of it.
The domain was most likely registered with 1&1 Internet; both companies are subsidiares of United Internet AG, and from what I recall, domains purchased from 1&1 are registered with Schlund + Partner
"Hopefully regulators will monitor the whole situation"

Which of course, they won't.
I'm pretty sure for .au domains you need to have a connexion with the domain (either it being your name or the name of a registered business you own.)
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I'd like to learn how a dynamic language here is different from "static" language like Scala. Care to explain?
The way Meteor works is that the client side framework is bundled with your code and pushed to the browser of the end user, it's this pushing of the merged framework + your code that counts as distribution under the GPL.

The code isn't just run server side.

Also you should read the following sections of the GPL faq which should help clarify your understanding of the issues:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL
(the output of a GPL program is also GPL "when the program copies part of itself into the output.")

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
(linking doesn't have to be in the compiler sense of the term any form of tight coupling between code is covered)
I'm an Australian who's visited both a few times, including 15 countries in Europe and 10 states of the US last year. Now, Europe is very diverse and a great place to be, but the US is full of awesome stuff. Sometimes I wonder how many locals appreciate what they have.
I think the author did not really get the motivation behind the LightTable concept. For those interested, it was this talk that inspired the guy(s): http://vimeo.com/36579366

It's about the instant feedback during development as opposed to the classic change/compile/reload cycle.

Especially for concepts it's important to understand the intention rather than picking on it point-by-point (which in itself, while true for the most part, seems rather pedantic to me).
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