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Quite simply, the best way to strangle your productivity and toss it in the bay is to work at an office with a regular 9-5 weekly schedule. For innovative types (e.g., software engineers) and people with my temperament, what ends up happening is that you build a lifestyle based around the daily schlep to work, and you end up doing just enough to get by.
>Generalists like Hillman Curtis, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are becoming more and more uncommon.

Citation needed. I'd argue that they've always been uncommon, which is why you know who they are.
Football is not an end in itself. People play it because it's a fun social activity. You can easily play football in a vicious way which, while still entirely within the rules and increases your chance of winning, diminishes the enjoyment and social connection which brought people together for the game in the first place.

Similarly, economic activity is not an end in itself, and economic strategies should be critically examined for what they contribute and diminish in the communities where they're adopted.
Killing people and destroying stuff is why they exist. The threat of it is sometimes sufficient but history has shown that often they'll actually have to go out and do it.

Whether or not people agree with the reasons and the use of the force, that is a political question not a military question.

I lean towards pacifism myself - but to think that a military exists for other reasons is to muddy ones thinking and introduce bad data.
I'd agree.

As with all things in life, sometimes even the best of us get into arguments. From semi-colons to jumping the shark because your app is published on multiple platforms, geeks have been known to have their fair share of silly rants. And this article represents one of them.

Let's ignore the obvious confirmation bias of the author with their Eclipse background and ask ourselves the pertinent question: even if the author is correct, so what?

With open choices, we can choose to use any IDE we feel like. Some, like myself, feel that Eclipse is too cluttered and would prefer a visually streamlined system. Why then devolve yourself into putting down the work of others because you don't like it?

There's an absolute difference between a review and the way the author propositioned and explained his rationale as to why Light Table was not for him, explained by the reactions here in HN.

Let's be critical, rather than criticise.
I think you are arguing a cultural phenomena.

I am an Eclipse power user myself but alas Eclipse is not an effective option if I need to drop into a remote server and cut some code. (Yes, I use VIM for these occasions.) And let's be perfectly frank: developers who get their start on IDEs are typically (not all, don't be offended) relatively clueless on the command line. IntelliSense gives these what unix commands have long given the developers who got their start on _nix, vim/emacs, and find, grep, awk, sed, etc. [their] way through their workflow.

My personal take on LightTable is purely aesthetic; I think it is gorgeous. Eclipse (and even IDEA) are really too noisy and just feel heavy. Psychological aspect of programming is very important. To wit, IDEs encourage complexity and bloat and fat function/methods. On the other side of the cultural divide, the tools really encourage (but don't force) you to be concise. Naturally, the language being used also has a significant say on what is idiomatic code.

I think it is perfectly fair to say that the LightTable concept may not scale to cover the entire spectrum of developers, but given a matrix of workflow, language, and development environment, it probably hits a sweet spot for a not so insignificant segment of coders out there.
But you can't do it in two minutes over the Internet.
Efficiency is actually not the only, or even most important, concern. At least, not necessarily.

For example, one important consideration is how easy to use it is, especially for new programmers. For better or worse, Eclipse makes programming in Java easier for many programmers. This is a pretty important consideration for most organizations.
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> A code of 73 lines with inlined semi-collons is no better than a 200 lines code

You mean: a program of 73 lines with inlined semi-colons is no better than a 200 lines program

Code is a mass noun (as is software, BTW). Program is a count noun.
Beautiful!

It's very difficult to assemble a circuit without a substract (PCB or other), and those wires aren't going to stay straight by themselves.

The shining capacitors are a special touch (I guess he removed the plastic cover on them)

I'm not sure about the sound quality though.
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You need to read further. The next sentence says: "Remember when I said “quick and easy”? I lied."
Yeah, it is really weird for him to open a positive review with that.
I have to be honest: I thought the OP's points were very well made, and as much as I loved the LightTable demo, I think I immediately dismissed it, in my mind, as "looks cool, but can't be made".

As a longtime Smalltalker and contributor to a Smalltalk development tool, I think it is possible, though the odds are long, based on what the LightTable guy doesn't know.

More importantly, I'm an IDE and editor nut. Most of the start of my career was on Visual Studio, then SlickEdit, and since then I've tried out many IDEs and editors. I now mostly use Vim, while sometimes dropping into SublimeText.

I think Eclipse is an amazing tool, and couldn't imagine programming Java without it.

Eclipse has its roots in Visual Age for Java, which for many years was one of the best Java IDEs, and was originally written in Smalltalk. Smalltalkers often have a long view of progress in development environments, because they've witnessed lots of dumbing down of their ideas, which start out woefully inadequate then end up feature complete but hopelessly bloated.

The author of the article talks about finding functions, but offers as a comparison finding classes. This indicates a bias due to an incomplete understanding of how things work in other languages. In Smalltalk, I'm searching for functions all the time. Many times, I only look for a class because it has a certain function.
Depending on how hard you drive it heat dissipation may be an issue. It sure looks nice though.
Overly expensive unless you know you're going to use it a lot, or the cost ($300-$800) is immaterial to you even if you don't.

I've found that a hospital overbed table ($50 on amazon, make sure you pick one that goes 28" to 50" or so) is a cheap way to evaluate -- I've been using it daily for over a year, and I feel no need to upgrade to a full desk -- but I also know that if I do want to switch, $500 for a full desk is worth it for me.
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It really is a gift.

Our definition of self has become so short sighted that doing the right thing becomes a challenge for anyone to remember. Imagine trying to do the right thing in a startup, if we aren't practicing it in every day life with every thought and action.

Seeing my parents getting a little older is tough. Where they used to take me to all my doctors appointments whenever I needed it, now more and more, I'm taking them.

Why's this important? Priorities and balance and making the most of your time is so important.

In waiting rooms I see maybe one in 10 adults accompanied by their kids. My parents are comfortable going to appointments without me, so it means a lot they even ask me, maybe to see the same feeling of finding a familiar face in the waiting room, or someone to help remember what the doctor said.

Sadly we have a generation that feels its ok to believe everything is about us, at the expense of being there for others who are greatly responsible for our greatness. Some of the deepest, satisfying moments are when I get to be witness to someone's story.

Doing the right thing is for the sake of the right thing being done, not how someone takes it, sees it, or expects you to be there for them. There inevitably are things that need to be done regardless of personalities and positions.

I hope we never forget to find and live by our values that give us a deep sense of connection with ourselves and through it to those in our lives. All we have at the end of the day is making memories. Everything can go to hell but you can revisit a memory anytime, and keep creating new ones.
From what I can see of Grassroots.org, it's just funneling money from well meaning donors to Mike Mann himself.

Hardly innovative. Kanye West does the same thing with his charity: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/21/kanye-wests-...
In grad school I had a friend I had a mild crush on. She posted on Facebook that she was going to a concert by this over-the-top disco band -- "Anyone want to come along?"

I did. Not only did I like this person, but ridiculous disco music is very much my idea of a good time! We had a blast.

Maybe that evening happens without FB, maybe not. FB offers a way to ping your whole social network and see what comes back. Sometimes nothing -- which can be a downer. But sometimes it works, and when it does it's awesome.
He wrote more about it and covered heat at http://runawaybrainz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/audio-crystal-cm...

Seriously nice work. Tempted to build something similar myself.
I find the OP to be off-base in critique of the LightTable concept. To be sure, the concept has some likely drawbacks and would need real-world application to gauge viability, but I thought the critique by comparison to Eclipse missed the point. If there is anything that good design has taught us, it's that doing things better has significantly greater value than simply doing more things.

For example, the first comparative in this critique is the "docs everywhere" feature. The OP shows that the LightTable concept "eats up half the screen", "can't resize", etc. while showing that Eclipse has the same feature (with the javadoc tab at the bottom of the screen.) The OP sees documentation show up in both places, so it's called a wash/irrelevant.

When I view those same two screenshots, I see a significant difference. In Eclipse, I see yet another tab/doc/thingy with information crammed in it; in LightTable, I see information displayed in parallel with the code, not having to compete for screen space. The OP's comment about documentation "eating up half the screen size" implies that more information on the screen is better than less information. I find the LightTable design in this scenario as saying some information is more important than others.

It's mostly just aesthetics, but aesthetics is kind of the point behind LightTable.
> I disagree, at least when it comes to Clojure.

This hits on another difference: Java is much, much, much more likely to be used in the real world over Clojure. The set of people who use Clojure are very likely to be in the set of people who write small functions, both because they're more "cutting edge" in terms of TDD, because they're only writing "toy" or "hobby" projects, or because they're just better programmers (e.g. Paul Graham's article on Python programmers tending to be better).

Having said that, please don't be offended - I'm speaking in generalities here. If you specifically have evidence that real world systems written in Clojure still look this tidy, that just makes me want to learn Clojure all the more.

Btw, I completely agree that making an amazing IDE for only one language is still a great goal, even though I would personally find it hard to work with a different IDE for Clojure and for my other code.
Tried a gevey sim and the phone randomly lost unlock once every few days. Totally unusable. Maybe they have improved since last year...
I had no idea - that's fascinating. Do you know of any translations that don't have those problems?
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Several people in the original LightTable thread mentioned that SmallTalk has many of these ideas. I confess that I know nothing about SmallTalk - can you please point me to a description specifically about SmallTalk IDEs and how they do all these things?
All you need is a VM, a good standard library with mostly functions with minimal side deffects, a way to save all runtime state, and a way to log every change and replay them in case of a crash.
I actually do maintain a list of lists and find it extremely useful-the software I use is www.checkvist.com , and I use it for short term to-do lists, long term goals, brainstorming, project planning and status updates, notes on books, notes on people, etc.
Ahem, I take it you mean Tony Robbins?
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This was a lifesaver - I've been stuck in a foreign country carrying around two phones for the past four months.
What I don't understand well yet is the way Meteor works. I'm waiting until they (and firebase) make their final version available, although I've played a bit with them.

If it does bundle itself then it could have implications. Maybe LGPL would be more reasonable then.
His "system" is universal. So you don't have family or friends in Europe or business owners in Asia?

It may not fit your vision of reality, but it's certainly not only American.

It's difficult for me to see people that don't spend time with their friends and family, never go after their dreams, and work the same boring job for 20+ years not having regrets when they get to the end of their lives.
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Real world Smalltalk projects have mostly short methods, with some exceptionally long ones.
Point taken, but I do with I had a European's vacation allotment
No self respecting debian user encourages the use of non-free video drivers.
The side-effect could also just be updating a mutable hash-map, which has much of the same issues, and isn't something that you can sandbox.
Firefox is an interesting example, because on little things it behaves differently in windows to linux. For example - double click the address bar in Windows - highlights a token. Do it in linux, highlights the whole link.
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Right - I include that under the learning curve question. But, that said, there are plenty examples of editors that are obviously not easy to use(cough Emacs?) and yet tons of people still use them because (apparently) they are more productive in Emacs. I'm not one of those people - I tend to prefer TextMate or TextMate-like GUI editors. But I can see how people are willing to suffer through a steep learning curve in order to ultimately become more productive. LightTable might end up being the same way.
And older browsers. Try opening GMail in IE7.
It saddens me to see people pay a lot of money for a device just to fight the manufacturer tooth and nail for every update and extra functionality.

As for the carriers who lock these phones, it's as if your bank wouldn't let you put holes in the walls until you finished paying off the mortgage. All this does is frustrate customers who paid for that device and who are anyway locked into a contract. Pointless anyway, since it was always possible to pay a guy $20 to unlock any available model out there.

I'd like to see device manufacturers and carriers focusing on their core business (better hardware/software/service) instead of how to cripple more features to squeeze a few extra dollars today.

Even more importantly, I'd like to see people grow a spine and just say no to buying devices if what they intend to do with them is prohibited by the manufacturer. Do that for a while and you'll see them start sweating and advertising their new open product.
Yeah, I think thats a very reasonable viewpoint to take. To me there was a lot more depth in what you just said that the OP.

What I will say though is that to me when you 'envison.. in a somewhat ugly way' its basically a guess that they won't find a nice way to solve the UI difficulties of things that weren't in the video. You might be proved right, but to really know (rather than guess) this, you need to spend probably some days thinking about and prototyping it, which assumedly they will do (and we have not).

I think they should be encouraged to do so, and my main problem with the OP was its basically discouraging tone of 'its never going to work because you haven't shown me a perfect final version that covers all bases'.
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Absolutely true. I have recently changed my career from mostly office-based to mostly working at home. I think the days I now spend at home are about 200% more productive.

The typical office environment is the antithesis of what you need to achieve 'flow'.
"Since he's a Java developer, he delivers critique on LightTable".

thereby pointing out that any other kind of developer would probably not have made such critique, thereby relating the validity of his critique with him being a Java developer/Eclipse user, thereby being an ad hominem attack.

No, it's more that he's writing as if he's unaware how parochially Java-centric his viewpoint is. Many of his points aren't very useful for other languages.
> and you end up doing just enough to get by.

The old saw (from the days when you worked for the same company for decades and retired with a pension):

Companies pay employees just enough not to quit; Employees work just hard enough not to get fired.
Well, it expands to 155 lines when newlines are inserted in "normal" places (replacing semi-colons and after if statements mostly). Which is still imho fairly neat.
Indeed, I actually thought about not using 'code' while typing, but then just thought "it shouldn't matter.".
oh god, obfuscated CSS...
IMO, it's a two-sided problem. You've got indie developers with little understanding of the business pitching consumers who have even less understanding.

Sharper minds than mine have already demonstrated the emerging pattern on Kickstarter: that a majority of the "backers" don't really see themselves as investors, or even charitable givers. They see themselves as consumers pre-ordering hot products. They're handing over X dollars in exchange for Y goods (and maybe a tiny bit of Z street cred). It's a very transactional relationship. And the problem with such a transactional relationship is that the backers/buyers are expecting to get Y as quickly and cheaply as possible, nevermind how the sausage gets made. (Ironically, Kickstarter is all about the sausage-making process, but its users are uninterested in process; they want finished goods).

The article raises a lot of good points about the problems that the Kickstarter paradigm presents for indie developers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts. But it only scratches the surface of the backer-as-consumer issue, which, to me, is a much dicier one. In the long run, I think this dynamic will be net-beneficial to indie content and product development. In the short run, would-be developers and creators will need to think critically about precisely which stage of their fund-raising vs. sales vs. marketing activities take place on Kickstarter, and about who the Kickstarter audience represents in the lifecycle of their product launch. (Are Kickstarter backers your hardcore fans, with a higher willingness to pay to get the goods before everyone else does? Are they early product evangelists? Are they beta testers? Are they something else? And, most important, do they see themselves as any or all of these things?)

I suspect that the long-run winners at the Kickstarter game will be the ones who develop the most sophisticated and savvy method for differentiating both among Kickstarter user sets, and between Kickstarter users and mainstream consumers -- and, accordingly, the best ways to differentiate the product offering to these sets of users.
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Agreed. Who puts code on Hostgator and not Github?
HUGELY interested. Thanks!
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He could make a killing selling these devices - if the sound quality is good and if he can find a way to produce an audiophile-sized batch.

I'd pay in the $100 range for one without thinking, real audiophiles would probably pay much more.
Oracle/Sun couldn't sue MS for their VM because .NET has nothing do due with Java except some common high-level architectural strategies (bytecode/msil, GC, VM, etc.) that neither company has exclusive claims on.

In fact the .NET VM came about as a direct result of the fact that Oracle(Sun) did sue Microsoft for incompletely implementing the Java JDK under a license agreement between them, and MS had to abandon J++ and started work on C# to replace it.

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1997/jw-10-lawsuit....
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Not knowledgeable enough about domain names but I am certain that buying lottery tickets is lose-lose proposition to anyone, by design.
I am not a nutritionist, but my understanding from reading a bit about it and from the writings of Michael Pollan and others is that our understanding of the nutritional needs of humans is pretty rudimentary. There may be (or there likely are) unforeseen consequences of breaking down food into component nutrients and consuming a cocktail of pills instead of eating "food, mostly plants, not too much" as Pollan recommends. Even industrially produced meat and vegetables may contain things we don't understand and aren't currently capturing in supplements.
You mentioned being hit by a trojan. I'd recommend starting there and letting them know about that. Then mention how your business's domain-name was stolen because of the security hole. Once they realize a business is being effected; hopefully that will get you a little more than ok thanks, here's your number. We'll call you.

I'm not saying this is an easy fix; but it IS Cyber-crime. I'd also consider talking with a lawyer if you can pony up the money.

And (not at you) ROFL down-voted for suggesting contacting the FBI. That's ok, keep paying taxes and not getting your money's worth. Government is there to help; they make a mess of things but they are better then a-LOT of the alternatives in other countries.
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I'm sure others have been in similar (if not exactly the same) situations; what have you done, and how did things turn out?

It's highly likely that my "problem" has one clear course of action; but for someone who's been out-of-it for a while due to the pressures that come with having been out of work for over four months now, I'm not entirely sure how to go about it.
Not really.

A headphone (even a big one) uses little power. For this amp, output power is around 200mW apparently.

Sure, acrylic is not the best conductor of heat around, but I'm guessing the tight coupling to the chip casing and low power makes it a non issue.