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Expert Indian java coder
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What we did when a patent troll asked for our help
Meh, I did that 4 years ago. On a single weekend.
I just bought the WRT54GL a couple months ago, after suffering through several newer model routers the previous year.

Needless to say, it's brilliant. Fast, stable, consistent (for a change). And not only in my anecdotal experience - it still gets higher average reviews on Newegg and Amazon than any other modern router, despite being an almost decade old tech product.

It may not have met Cringley's predictions, but it is a really interesting case study in what years of software optimization on stable, robust hardware can achieve, vs the competing model of throwaway software on frequently updated hardware.
I see this is written using BroScript idioms.
Is there a license on these? I poked around for a few minutes but couldn't find anything. Seems like a generally useful icon set for any web-apps related to software or developers.
I don't see why this got a single upvote. Not only is it a fake, it doesn't even do anything cool.
If only everyone had a pitch to own a market with a potential 2.3 billion customers... well done!
This is just a single lisp macro.
I mean... maybe it's art, sure, but if it's satire in the aim of accomplishing something, i'm entirely unclear on what end this was made to pursue.
Uhh, sure.
I would also be interested in the internals. I'd expect JS + a small C event loop to outperform compiled JVM code + lots of async Java I/O libs (for a micro benchmark, at least).

But there's no question Netty is fast even on a non-benchmark. I'm using it for a long-polling server with upwards of 100K connections, and my CPU doesn't go much over 5%. Besides memory usage, the main limitation has been proper kernel configuration.
Some obvservations:

• This appears to be a straight port from the original C source[1] to JS (it's in plaintext, so you can have a look.)

• As such, it's look and feel is more faithful to the original than the native iOS port, which is partly based on a GPL port[2], has high(er) resolution graphics from yet another port and is missing some things from the PC version (tally screen, the "Yeah!" scene when you escape from the castle.)

[1] http://www.btinternet.com/~belowe/
[2] http://www.idsoftware.com/iphone-games/wolfenstein-3d-classi...

IMHO the second link is an excellent read in itself.
Can somebody help me to appreciate the genius of jazz music? When I listen to Kind of Blue it does sound nice, but I am not deeply moved by it or able to appreciate its genius, like I can with some classical music. I have the same question for people knowledgeable about poetry and abstract art (and some non-abstract art).
Maybe it is just me, but it seems around the time that "responsive" became a term for layouts that adapt to screen resolution, the other term "reactive" which denotes UIs that represent some kind of live and changing data inline on the page was becoming a thing. It almost seems like that was the cool thing first and freaked out people, and now it is like there's an initiative to minimize "reactive" as a buzzword, and put the tamer "responsive" buzzword in its place... presumably while someone works on some kind of large "reactive" effort and then can announce their "big new thing" with their own term... anyway... i'm probably making things up :D
The file view icons seem way too washed out. I'd like more visual contrast so that I can see what is a folder and what is a file. Not all of us have 20 something eyeballs duders.
So I'm curious if you say it 'hitches/intercepts' the css of the browser, why not implement the proposed spec as is, instead of a custom function ie: '-hitch-has' that way at least if the spec does get approved then sites using hitch benefit from already following the spec.

Obviously the spec might change and there's no way round that but seems better to hope for the best than to have a custom / branded pseudo-selector. - just a thought.
That sounds a whole lot like everyday life in the "third world".
Wait, what am I missing?

<p><span class="fast">Red text</span></p>

with

p span.fast { color: red; }

will work just fine.

Edit: oh, I get it. You want the entire <p> tag to be red when the span starts part way through. Why not put a class on the <p>? It seems crazy counterintuitive to select elements backwards like that.
I personally don't have an issue with CSS. The issue for me is the inconsistent implementations across browsers. That has been my real pain point, and it continues to keep me away from really learning CSS.
We used Flot after trying out quite a few other libraries
http://code.google.com/p/flot/
Sadly the parser is fairly synchronous. I would be nice if they took the SAX-ish approach of firing events (which I guess you can on top of this). Then again, I suppose there are already a couple of SAX JS implementations.
If it doesn't hurt, you're doing it wrong.

If something is hard and costly to change, yet it's the root cause of problems, it's so much more important to change.
Documentation reads: "Boom. Cross-universe compatible." ha!
Reading and writing tweets is a pleasant time-waster that should be seriously limited if you want to achieve something serious, not encouraged. The same applies also to HN, of course, where I am now wasting time to avoid research :P

There are enough (and too much) scientific stuff to read in any interesting, active research topic; the bottleneck is in the researcher's ability to read and understand, not in lack of content.

And even peer reviewed articles in respectable publications quite often are garbage and/or wrong. If your proposal "let's do stuff this way" isn't even peer reviewed, then it's most likely not worth reading - since there's a too high chance that it's one of:

a) duplicate of something that was already done in 1970'ies by someone else, and abandoned as it's not practical in real life due to X,Y and Z that you haven't considered yet;
b) misleading or simply not true, as it's not researched / repeated / analyzed enough;
c) Simply useless.

After all, if it was correct, novel and interesting, then there are quite a lot incentives for putting it to 'traditional' publishing; so if you're not publishing it 'properly' then it's an indication that you are doing it because your content is not publish-worthy, as people tend to squeeze as much publications as they can out of any decent, publish-worthy research.
I really dislike your point of view.

- Kind of Blue *is* a definitive jazz album.

- Miles was *not* flaunting during that particular time period of writing and
recording. He changed his mode of expression and self numerous times throughout
his life.

- The musicians *were* at their peak *while they were together for this
recording*.

- Cannonball Adderley's playing is often times the best of the bunch.

I don't think you can have "empty praise" when you are expressing your subjective opinion about music and you like something.
What could be more tedious than another low-level language based on subtle complaints about C?

YALLBOSCAC? How about a language named YALL and boscc as the name of the compiler?
Brilliant. I'll be sure to mention your 
name
 memory address in the foreword of the obligatory O'Reilly book (taking suggestions for the cover animal; I'm partial to the thylacine, myself).

One suggested improvement: Rust's extension should preferably be .® to jive with the language's official logo.[1] And with the advent of emoji, we can give Perl a file extension of .🐪 (Unicode Character 'DROMEDARY CAMEL' (U+1F42A)). Perl 6 can get the bactrian camel instead.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rust_programming_language_...
If you read the docs we specifically mention the "Fibonacci" farce.

Vert.x (unlike node) does not force you to do everything on the event loop. It has a hybrid model.

For things like long running calculations (e.g. Fibonacci) or calling blocking APIs, we support running them on a background thread pool so you don't end up doing stupid things on an event loop which are not appropriate for it.
I actually had the opposite reaction in terms of its usefulness.

I agree the UI/polish needs a couple more iterations, but I used this to put together an itinerary for my upcoming short vacation. Really like the gannt chart style view as a planning tool and the ability to use the bookmarklet to save stuff for later. It kind of mimics how I plan a vacation now: decide where I'm going, find hotel and flights, then look for things to do.

And it's the looking for things to do part then saving them and creating an itinerary (now done poorly with bookmarks or evernote) that is a pain in the ass that this attempts to solve.

A few kinks to work out (would love to be able to zoom on the timeline or get a traditional day/week calendar view and also actively collaborate with my trip companion) but promising concept overall.
I cannot believe my repositories have no smiles anymore, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
I go by the taxi driver litmus test. If a taxi driver tells me about (insert bubble) easy investment, then that's my cue to sell.
There was an undocumented non-supported way to do it previously. This is now official and supported.
Poets are consumers, consumers are poets.
Also, you can target every poet out there, in the past you could not target every consumer or producer.

It does not have to be big for seed funding. Might as well pay dividents.
It's labelled badly, what is actually measured is req/resp per second.

I.e from request to corresponding response and how many of those it can do per second.

If you doubt the numbers please feel free to run them yourselves, all code is in github
How could the designers of Photoshop actually apply this criticism? This is what has always bothered me about gameification, even the "good" kind of gameification this article espouses. When I launch Photoshop, I already have a goal in mind, and it isn't a goal that the designers of Photoshop have any control over. In Portal, the goals, and thus the tools necessary to achieve them, are small and additive and picked by the game designers. When I launch Photoshop, I'm usually thinking something like "I want to make a button that means add a song to a playlist". Could you imagine if, like in Portal, when you first launched Photoshop you only had a paintbrush and an eraser? If the app waited for you to master those tools before presenting others? That's madness.

This kind of analogy usually leads me toward thinking that an app like Photoshop should provide an extensive tutorial where they could teach you how to use the app by asking you to create increasingly complex images with increasingly complex tools. That has the potential to directly apply the lessons gleaned here from Portal, but doesn't actually affect the end design of the product. And it doesn't help me because I have not yet said to myself, "I should put many hours in to learn how to use Photoshop properly" I always come to it with a specific goal in mind. Plus, how is that so different than how things are now? All I see here are guidelines for how to make a great Photoshop tutorial, not design principles to guide the making of a more accessible Photoshop, which for me seems to be what the OP is trying to get at.

Another random thought: a paintbrush is the same tool more or less that a beginner and a master use to create very different qualities of painting. How can that tool be so simple and yet allow for such complex mastery?
Apple and Windows, doesn't seem to be a Linux :/
I think if you understand the dangers, you also understand the point they are trying to make.
My feeling is that both wants to solve the exact same problem but they decided of a different route to get there. I feel the Firebase way started more as marketting and hype, while Spire.IO is a more traditional minimalistic version of what the real thing could be. (For instance, I could write a real app on spire while it'd be impossible on firebase as there's no authentication system.)
> At least for now, we use the law as our guide [...] since it is the point at which these issues cease to be a matter of opinion. Of course, if you’re an asshole, you'll still get the boot—that policy remains firmly in place.

So you're objective until someone makes you mad. Got it.
Hah, I was going to post the same link. It’s an excellent analysis, though: show without telling, make mechanics simple and environments rich, and teach the player without “bloop MEGAMAN MEGAMAN!”
Nice, but I'd really wish it supported a half-way decent transpiled CSS language, like SASS, LESS, JESS, GUESS, or ASS, that gets auto transpilezipped with a simple 'ant ruby merge push' command.
While we're sounding like Steve Jobs: It's also Amazing, Fastastic, Brilliant, Incredible, Wonderful, Great, Awesome, Extraordinary, Phenomenal, Unbelievably great, Gorgeous, Terrific, Super...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZS8HqOGTbA
Why is Scott Thompson still CEO of Yahoo?
Windows and Mac OS X are, and they are slowly incorporating such changes, as I mentioned.

Don't forget that UNIX was once upon a time a research operating system, and took a few decades to have industry impact.

New ideas take time to mature.
Facebook IPO Food for Thought
New Social Business: Merely a Buzzword or Something Revolutionary?
There's a few comments here about old appliances and the cliche that "back then," things were built to last. Barring contrary statistical evidence, sentiments like those can largely be attributed to survivorship bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
The Next SoundCloud
Vert.x has a hybrid model.

It has both event loops and a background thread pool, so you can choose which to run your task on depending on what kind of thing it is.

E.g. it's stupid to run long running or blocking actions on an event loop.
Fun project, but am I the only one that finds the zig-zag flow of the "Fb-timeline" difficult to follow -- or atleast more difficult than a linear feed?

What are the advantages of this style of timeline - other than less scrolling?
FixMeStick: USB virus scanner & repair
I don't have any plans at present as I think the channel concept covers at least some of the use cases, as long as people can create multiple channels. You'll notice Player FM keeps playing through the channel once it finishes an episode, so it's a kind of playlist.

What kind of playlist did you have in mind?
An interesting startup idea might be providing some kind of financing for higher quality goods. If the problem is that they don't sell well because the initial price is much higher than throwaway junk, then spread the initial price over a longer period, with the lifetime warranty as finance-cost-reducing collateral?

It's easy to finance consumer purchases these days, but I don't know if there is any financing program specifically aimed at highly durable stuff (besides cars), like consumer goods with lifetime warranties.
Hey man,

Really like your app and seems like it makes sense- I would definitely use it. If you really want to get good, why don't you try writing the website again? Yes that might take a long time, but by giving yourself another feedback loop you will learn how to do things faster and even correct your mistakes.

Best of luck.

Alex
Is the iPhone’s Built-In Calendar Overlooked?
God says...

19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon
the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD
being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him
without the city.

19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad,
that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay
thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

19:18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD: 19:19 Behold now,
thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy
mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot
escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: 19:20
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:
Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall
live.
s/Unbelievably great/Insanely great/

Edit: Watched the linked video. It appears the iPad was introduced as merely "unbelievably great" as opposed to "insanely great" like the Mac.
What could happen is a great open source library that you could host yourself on a linode. So, it's "backend-less" in the sense that you don't have to do backend stuff, but you still have control over your databases. Seems like it's the way that spire took.. where you can use their services if you want, but you'll be able to host everything yourself because they open source mostly everything. Their challenge, a little bit like Github, is to make their service so awesome that you don't want to do everything yourself. I.e. On github you have visibility, issues, wiki, easy creation, multi-users, etc. out of the box.
Would love to see optional inclusion of the following:
- Bootstrap (1,2)
- jQuery UI
- YUI
- skeleton framework
- facebook meta tags
- viewport toggling
- foundation framework
- google analytics code (minus acct. #)
I am not sure what makes you say it is a thin layer over Socket.IO... or even the comparison to Firebase. I would say Firebase solves a different problem, not really a harder one.

Firebase doesn't have an identity service, does it? Firebase doesn't seem to address the issue of security or privacy at all, which seems to me to be fairly important to a web application.
Here is a youtube video of same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1zzDXlJoA

(For some reason Firefox + linux doesn't like Vimeo most of the time)

This is a cool device. And wire bending is used in a lot of things, from making holders to support frames. These things tend to be tuned to a particular wire gauge and minimum radius so some tool and die shops will have either multiple benders or various dies for a configurable bender.

Cool things you can make with these are baskets for catching/holding parts, springs, latch returns, awesome bubble wands, and artistic lettering.
Elements aren't lining up and running into each other. Some icons are oversized and overall the page looks lot more cluttered. Adding even more colors doesn't help the fact.

There's always going to be pushback when doing a UI revamp, and today I'll be that guy. Running Linux/Nightly.
Hey Zed, your video a long time ago about not being a corporate programmer-serf is what inspired me to take up guitar, so appreciate that. What you said about chord substitution, do you mean some chords are more dissonant sounding compared to its major chord counterpart (e.g., dominant 7 or half-diminished)? So in scales, you have different scalar patterns that also have different qualities (e.g., minor pentatonic to the minor scale) - but how do you actually then use the scales creatively instead of just playing over the minor pentatonic scale to a blues jam because it's a stereotypical bluesy scale.
Amazon is eating Seattle: How 20K+ people will remake a city
Ask HN: Our office IP was banned from HN
On our office network, we get empty responses from http://news.ycombinator.com.

To our knowledge, none of us have done anything malicious that would deserve being banned.

What should we do? Email in profile for IP address.
You can do this with M-x butterfly on Emacs.
The technical term for this is "empiricism," and you're right that some adults lose this after a time, or at least mental models start resembling Kowloon Walled City.
I am sure your sarcasm tag is on. That would be horrible.
TBH I don't know

I was certain this charade was going to explode in 2008/9 but it didn't and it even got bigger.

A guy I know mentioned the only thing that's going to pop this bubble is the Fed raising interest rates, which are near zero. That will severely limit the amount of money available for investments like these.

The problem is with a shitty job market and an economy that's doing bad almost everywhere else but tech odds are the government wont do anything that could risk heavily indebted California sinking into the sea because SV imploded.

Back to jobs, the amount of ex-something-else (not coders) turned watrepreneurs is staggering, and that's because they all want to ride the gravy train and "get paid". This is one aspect that's almost exactly like during the 1.0 bubble.

One scenario I think could pop this bubble is a new bubble in another industry siphoning the money from tech VCs to that other industry's investments. But it would've to be a revolution to beat the insane returns of some tech M&As.

But as long as there's people rushing in because they are afraid of missing the next instagram-like opportunity this is going to keep going.............until the "nextagram" explodes in a ball of fire burning everyone involved...

Then again chances are the guys who started this will get out mostly in one piece, since they already made their money. But like when the previous bubble collapsed there are going to be a lot of actually good startups with great ideas caught in the shitstorm, seeing their valuations drop to the price of a used geometro, and no way to get a loan let alone investments.

And the culprits? they'll be back the moment valuations get crazy again, and they'll make more money, again.
It sounds like my wife imitating me talking to other nerds.

Thanks for the laugh.
Here's a thought experiment I found interesting.

Assume Charlie is right: this is a bubble and the pop is imminent. What would the you in 2014 or 2017 wish you had done now to prepare?

What will happen to your primary source of income when bubble2 pops? How much runway do you have to secure another source of income? What expenses would you wish you had cut? What relationships does 2014-you wish you had cultivated to help find new sources of income?

Then, I suggest you make it a priority now to do those things while you have the chance. If this is a bubble, and if it pops, you won't have any more warning than you do now.
He was talking about not living in the USA specifically, so your not tied to your job like that, and you don't have any US tax requirements unless the income comes from the USA.
IE is older and has a larger user base than other browsers- FF and Chrome also have their share of non-upgraders, and as they get older they will have the same problems.
Good idea, but, sorry, don't like 'em. Neither the execution nor the conceptualization.

The execution is too detailed. Details, regardless of how pixel-perfect they are, do blur upon quick glance, and the more details there are, the more it looks like a gray blob. The execution is also inconsistent - why the book is 3D, but the rest is flat? Except for the coffee mug that is neither.

The conceptualization is off too. The fact that they need to explain an icon is a red flag. Why book? They answer that with 5 lines of text. Why wrench and a screwdriver, when a gear is a visually simpler icon that is widely understood? Why the Logout arrow implies that someone walks in through the door? Why is the letter A transmitting, when it's actually about receiving?

So not to sound like a complete ass, here's what I would've used instead - a gear for preferences, a "power off/on" symbol for logout, a simple blank page with a plus sign for "new", some sort of inbox or even an envelope for "notifications". Just keep it simple and don't overthink.
Dell acquires Sonicwall