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Putting a standard front end task in the back seat raises the question "what other corners were cut?" particularly on the backend.

If you are selling a game, I get it. It makes sense.

But this is B2B sales and you're asking me to trust you with client information and my sales data.

Just because I'm looking to replace Quicken or Quickbooks, doesn't mean I hate Microsoft, nor does it mean that I want my mom to jump through hoops every Thursday when she does my invoicing.

Not supporting IE9 (and probably 8) falsely segments your potential market.
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Great article!

Do you find that you are able to reuse your mixins easily, or do they evolve slowly to become general and reusable components?
By the same token, when all those "email is dead" memes went around, email wasn't "dead" either. "email is for old people","everyone uses facebook", etc. were all popular for a bit a couple of years ago, iirc.
How is this better than http://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/ which does almost exactly the same thing?
They are further off but it's a completely unrealistic endeavor at this point in time. With automated vehicles automated delivery men become much more palpable, if not inevitable . As more and more people become comfortable with automation it will only further the other areas where robotics could really make an impact.
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Thanks I have been looking for this text for a while, read it once and then lost it.

I think it has some excellent insights, all developers should read it.
The pitot tubes unfroze after a few seconds, so the autopilot was perfectly capable of working again, but the pilots didn't re-engage it and kept trying manually, causing the end result...

My one question is "Who the hell decided that averaging stick inputs is a good idea??
That is a somewhat misleading representation of the "Law of Jante". It is not specifically about achievement or success. It is rather a "small town syndrome" (Jante is a typical small provincial town) which says you shouldn't try to act as if you are different and better than other people. Outwardly flashy display of wealth is definitely breaking the law, but so is beeing indifferent to material possessions and living like a poor boheme or eccentic.

In typical protestant style, working hard and becoming wealthy and successful is concidered virtuous, as long as you dont "act different" but remain "one of the people".

Of course the opposite culture exist in big cities, were hipsters and celebrities try to be as flashy and individualistic as possible.

Anyway, I don't think The Law of Jante is a real impediment to startup culture, the real cultural issue is that Scandinavia doesn't have the same risk-taking culture of the US.
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I did found a startup once. But as the founder of a flop, I was left financially quite devastated. Took a while to bounce back :)
Really? How? I'm currently coding and browsing the web and I'm only at 1 GB, out of 2. Sure, the VM isn't on, but that's still another 500 MB.
> But then, why would you rewrite from scratch?

Why not? Professionals knowns their tools much better, so they will made better choices in every aspect of project. If you place restrictions on their tools, they will work less efficient, unless you are already professional developer.

> The source (with doc) of a software is a compiled version of business/technical knowledge of the team that developed it and not really that good as a guide to the next team.

Of course. They will ask questions, so somebody from first team should respond to them.
I agree with the author's central point, although I don't know if I would de-emphasize the importance of the visual designer to such an extent. I think a couple of the examples he links to (Google, Facebook) are outliers. They succeeded in spite of their lack of visual design because their products weren't just executed well; they were executed extremely well. Generally speaking though it takes a bit more finesse in order to make your users feel at home using your product.

With that said, I agree that if the core product isn't well engineered then no amount of lipstick on the pig is going to make it usable. You can paint rust any color you like but it's still rust.
This looks like an incomplete page, or perhaps a work in progress. Which method was used for generating each mesh? How many input images were there? What do they look like?

What's the takeaway message?
We came up with this when we saw that several of our components did too much and we had to much copy&paste going on, so we haven't actually created many from the ground up. But the one we created using TDD from the ground up has proven to be very reusable. So I guess my answer is both, but in the beginning I believe it's primarily the latter.
The reputation hit for blocking on the web is more or less permanent for most companies. Sure if I'm running Opera, I'll probably switch browsers to access Google. But Paydirt ain't free, it ain't Google, and I don't think I need it very badly.

What I'll have to say about it probably won't be positive.
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Ouch, they have? That does stink, I have one of those, and love it. Sigh...
US salaries are almost always quoted pre-tax, and the amount of tax varies based on location. If you make a high salary ($150k+) and live in New York, you can easily see half of it go to taxes. So that's about $6-7k per month.

When you include employer-side taxes (social security and medicare) and the several tiers of tax (federal, state, local, property tax, sales taxes, various weird shit like hotel taxes) the tax rate in the US for middle-class is not very different from that in Europe. Where the tax schedules differ is that, in the US, genuinely rich people can avoid paying. Working, middle, and upper-middle class people pay just as much in tax in the US as they do in the EU.

The US does have about 5 locations where developers can make more than anywhere else in the world. The Bay Area and New York are among them, but they're also ungodly expensive (house prices over $1 million). In the rest of the US, prospects aren't any different from the rest of the world. The $80-100k entry-level salaries are not happening in "middle America". Those are usually being offered in the Bay Area or New York.

For the record, what actually makes the middle class poor in the US is not taxation, but the Satanic Trinity: housing, healthcare, and education costs. Even "good" health insurance is garbage with more holes than rotting cheese, and college tuition can easily top $40,000 per year.

It probably is slightly better to be a really good (top 5%) programmer in the US right now, but I don't think that's for purely economic reasons. I think the advantage of the US is that it's easier to get venture capital, so there are more experimental ideas. It's probably easier, in short, to get a good job here... but the difference in compensation is probably not enough to justify moving over here unless it's a much better job.
I think it was due to traffic, maybe? I don't see it now but saw it a few hours ago. Seems to be working fine.
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I'm annoyed by the exact same thing. Chrome Beta is good, but it is still a beta. For some sites, I've found the built-in browser to be better. A proper UX solution, in my opinion, would be using a 3-4 seconds dialog ("Opening with Chrome") with a Change button. That way, you can change the default app at the moment you notice it. Of course, it comes with a delay, so it wouldn't work well for others.
I looked at this briefly, and it would be extremely tough. Very few events have the kind of coverage (i.e., number of input videos) you would need to even get started on the problem. Plus, the conditions are just about the worst possible -- highly dynamic scene, low light, very unsteady cameras, almost all viewpoints in the same plane, low quality inputs, etc.

Note that the switchcam startup mentioned in the other comment is almost completely manual right now, and is more about assembling a "director's cut" version of a concert video, rather than creating 3d. This actually seems more useful to me (although of course more automation would be nice).
It is a declarative language. But the underlying math of SQL is that of relations. It's closer to prolog than to Haskell. I don't know much about the theory of SQL but at least I can draw on the analogy of deriving algorithms in a Relational setting vs a functional to emphasize that the essence of functions is not the same as the essence of relations: Unlike functions, relations can be nondeterministic and each relation has a converse.
very nice and interative way to see a demo, and the solution is showing is very impressive!
Exactly, thanks. I said they didn't wait for perfection, not that they never waited at all.
You're lazy and not doing your job.

In today's market, I can't believe how lazy developers are. It's called 'do your work and stop complaining and support the damn browser'.
I'm not great with linux (just use it for home fileservers and the like), and for me it's generally a rule that debian distupgrades go catastrophically wrong (libc going out of sync and half the binaries on the system wouldn't run, that kind of thing). It's not foolproof like an OS X or Windows upgrade.
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I was just sharing that it didn't remind me of "odioso" until you mentioned it. In any case, "adioso" still doesnt sound good to my spanish-speaking ears, but I understand that's not the target market.
As far as when Ubuntu will be back at Best Buy here in the United States, or "When at Best Buy down the road?" Kenyon said, "We're working on it and I'm confident we're going to get there."

A better question is whether Best Buy will still be selling computers or anything at all down the road.

I'm happy Ubuntu is starting to gain this type of traction, but it needs two things to really make the leap:

1) Mass market game compatibility.
The mainstream computer user needs office tools, a browser, email, music, video, and games. Games are the only absentee from Ubuntu. Some major upgrades to Wine could solve this.

2) A mobile strategy
There's definitely been attempts to put Ubuntu on mobile devices, but nothing concrete from Canonical. If they had been more forward thinking, they could have been Android instead of Android being Android.

Finally, I'd personally like to see a lite version of the latest Ubuntu releases. The reason I got into Ubuntu in the first place was to bring new life to my old hardware. Unity doesnt work at all on old hardware, and the fallback is not as good as the old Gnome 2 experience. I'm still running 10.10 on a number of machines because it was my favorite release.
Once legislation is updated to allow self-driving cars in most parts of the world, I wonder how profitable self-driving cars could be for Google.
About 77 million cars were produced in 2010. With the appropriate licensing, a percentage of that could make a very nice profit.
I should buy some Google stock :)
I would imagine this would work somewhat similarly to Android, so you get a list of intent providers you have, and a way to make one the default:

http://android-er.blogspot.de/2011/03/pick-file-using-intent...
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I agree. Especially if you are trying to have a 1:1 mapping between tables and classes. The convenience you gain in the short term will be paid by complexity, performance, and code base lock in 100 times in the middle and far term.

The relational database and your imperative program are two different things, trying to "unify" them will not work.
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I’ve just killed and restarted Firefox, then duped my current set of tabs over to Chrome (in-house jukebox using websockets, a slideshare presentation, couple of open Google Docs spreadsheets, a Pivotal tracker session, a couple of tabs of a local development project, Google Plus, and this HN thread). Totalling up ‘Real mem’ in Activity Monitor shows Chrome 18 using 735.4mb (of which 33mb is Flash). Firefox 13 (beta release to be fair) is coming in at 450mb (of which 65mb is Flash).

The internal memory measurements (about:memory) come out as 835mb resident for Chrome, and 324mb (of ‘explicit’, whatever that is) for Firefox.

I’m not using any extensions in Chrome. In Firefox I’ve got installed Firebug, FireFontFamily, FireQuery, Lastpass, PDF.js and QuickJava.

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The point about visual aesthetics may be true, but that's only a part of what a graphic designer does: a good graphic designer will solve communication problems, and that is definitely a business problem worth solving well.
There are two big obstacles I see for web apps to take over:

* Poor interoperability between apps (solved by WebIntents)

* Monetization (though services like GitHub and Flickr do this well, and there are providers like http://chargify.com/ to make it easy for developers)
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. From the post I gathered that the atomic region locked the entire data structure, and that any thread would wait, I didn't realize it was a specific data region.

That sounds pretty nice, then. I'm looking forward to see the sort of speedups possible with this.
That idea is very cool; but I feel it introduces a whole new amount of complexity.

Making a car that drives you (safely) somewhere is the problem Google is working on.

Delivery of packages along a route is a whole other matter; for example I live on a street with a weird t/fork at the end. Vans tend to struggle getting in and out.

The decision making process to effectively get a van to my door probably still one that requires human input :)
It all boils down to education. If former laborers can be efficiently trained for new job opportunities, society wins. If not, society continues to stagnate. Farmers don't become robotics engineers or rocket scientists spontaneously.
Yes but communication problems are primarily existing pre-sales and some people are very good at that.

Designing the actual interface/service/functionality/product is a different problem all together.
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I wouldn't remove them, but I'd certainly want to invert the power structure.

Make me dictator for a day, and I'd change the whole tax system so that the local govt gets 30% of your income and th e federal gets 1%.

The military and entitlement programs in particular would serve the wants and needs of the people better if they were structured and deployed by local power as opposed to a large, centralized one.
Raymond, what's your take on the ``redirect_stdout`` class not inheriting? I thought with new-style classes inheriting from ``object`` was the standard.
the real cultural issue is that Scandinavia doesn't have the same risk-taking culture of the US

Exactly. Courage is the biggest problem here.
As of Python 3.3.0a3, both printf and PEP 3101 [1] string formatting are still available, despite references to a possible deprecation of the '%' operator in the documentation [2]. I hope this is one of the areas where the cpython devs can turn a blind eye on the whole there should be preferably only one way to do it way of though.

A few other PEP 3101 examples worth mentioning (and their printf equivalents):

'{1} {0} and {2} {0}'.format('Wiggin', 'Andrew', 'Valentine')
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>>> 'Andrew Wiggin and Valentine Wiggin'

'{:<{w}} , {:<{w}} ,'.format('one', 'two', w=10)
'%s , %s ,' % ('one'.ljust(10), 'two'.ljust(10))
>>> 'one , two ,'

'{:^{w}} , {:^{w}} ,'.format('one', 'two', w=10)
'%s , %s ,' % ('one'.center(10), 'two'.center(10)
>>> ' one , two ,'

# see object.__format__() [4]
'today is: {:%a %b %d}'.format(datetime.now())
'today is: %s' % datetime.now().strftime('%a %b %d')
>>> 'today is: Tue May 08'

Imho, they really are quite flexible and allow for more elegant constructs when needed. Calling them 'vastly inferior' is unwarranted, especially since using them is not mandatory in any way.

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/

[2] http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#chang...

[3] http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/library/string.html#for...

[4] http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/reference/datamodel.htm...
Can you confirm whether the email quoted in the article is, in fact, the entire email that was sent out? If it is, it's just too vague; I think anyone reading that email would think, "They are dropping the Azure brand/name" given the recent "Windows Live" re-branding. I also think that a lot of people hated "Windows Live" so strongly that they might have been rooting for another "See how dumb MSFT marketing is?" moment.
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Not at all. With .sort() you're suddenly injecting state into your code, with all the complexity that implies.
Very nice demo!
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I too agree with this. Though web intents is really good and necessity for web but UX, by far, is the key for this. Just on the side note - there will be lots of other services (like translate etc) which would be intentified, and anything other than providing in-line UX will kill intuitiveness.
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A step by step guide to build a successful startup by YC mentors will be a great resource for entrepreneurs from all around the world.
Your school board, county supervisor, and state governor are flacid, neutered versions of their virile predecessors of the 19th and 20th centuries. All of them spend most of their time wrangling federal money.

And your representative and senators vote consistently along party lines, and, again, get re-elected almost entirely based on how much of their constituents' money they bring back from Washington.
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It's not "Ubuntu for phones", i.e. a replacement OS. It's "Ubuntu for Android", an addition to Android.[1]
Canonical enables Android phone users to have the benefit of a full desktop, but also keep Android and its apps. If you ask me it's a smart move.
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
"We've never seen a company like this before, ever. I mean it knows things about our private lives that no one else does."

Um I would be inclined to say Google knows far more about us all then Facebook does or can ever dream of.
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Another thing I do is buy the kindergarten and first grade activity books. Then we sit down and do it together. We have finished a few already.

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Is it expected that all software engineers are knowledgable in computer and network security or are this considered a different specialty? Reason I ask is that I'm working on a healthcare startup that deals with rather sensitive information but I don't have a background in security. I've actually learned a lot during the last year that I didn't know, mainly using Ubuntu Command Line, modifying web server configurations in addition to setting up the network/router for the server, and creating the databases and programming the web app, but I'm not experienced in network or computer security. I'm obviously aware of and prevent SQL injections but other than that I'm sort of clueless and was wondering if maybe I should take a CE course on network and computer security...anyone any thoughts?
> Suppose that you know the source contains this line

Then you have a massive damn problem, and you could set up the same strawman about almost any language - if you're starting from the premise that you are piping arbitrary user input to a system call unimpeded, all bets are off.

Shall we try some other examples? Let's say you accept input from a user, and dump it unchecked in to output shown to the user via Ruby. OH NOES! Ruby is insecure because it supports CSRF! Or, let's say you use Python and pass in input from a user unimpeded straight to the database without using the quoting mechanisms! OH NOES! Python is insecure because it enables SQL injections! etc etc etc

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