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Congratulations on your success. I applaud anyone who is trying to help educate novices in coding.
I've never code in Ruby/Rails, and I have to say I'm tempted by the idea of having talented start up dudes I can skype with. The fact that you make your students blog is pretty interesting.
Just a suggestion, based on my experience as a paying (work paid) student at O'Reilly School of Technology (for data warehousing/analysis/etc.): You should have tiered levels of handholding so that you can maximize your revenue. There are some students who might be willing to shell out 500 for your class, just for a weekly chat and a more self-guided experience.
Hit multiple price points, and you will more than double your revenue without killing yourself over scaling issues. There are a lot of people who benefit tremendously from structured lessons, to the point where they don't need an instructor.
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For young founders (they were still in college) they seemed unusually formidable.
This happens at small businesses too. And, it's actually a lot sadder because truly nobody cares. At least MS will get some blog posts about people being confused or complaining. Small business execs who are hyped up for a re-branding usually don't even get that.
So what you mean is alternative HTML renderers. This is a security decision since each browser is a large attack surface.
Papyri scrolls leaping to e-books?
This might be a strange, and obscure question: What would academic papers look like if we had jumped from Papyri scrolls straight to e-books (or any sort of reading in a digital format). This means that codex/books, as we call them today, were skipped over.

How would we have cited authoritative sources in our research papers without page numbers?

Background: I run a publishing company that is focusing on digital-first books. This problem which accompanies e-publishing frustrates the heck out of me, and I hope to somehow solve it so that e-books can be used in research/academic writings.
Maybe he means writing css in PHP and serving it as text/css.

That does give you pretty good flexibility.. you have to pay a little more attention to caching compared to static (/compiled) .css files though.
Making money from websites. Monetizing Joomla, Wordpress,Drupal or and CMS.
Except that Google isn't trying to interoperate with anyone.

So not sure if your points apply.
Thanks. My site went down and we were trying to get some new user on today. We held on and things seem to be ok now!
I read the original comment and (before scrolling down) was tempted to chime in that 'in this context, shrinkage means "theft"' before realizing the discussion had already been had.

I could very easily see someone as having read that as physically shrinking in size, perhaps due to compression by repeated handling, as would happen in a store, or heat or other uhhh... harsh environmental factors commonly found in retail establishments. (Sorry, I couldn't think of a second good excuse)
Argh, sensationalism is very annoying. As a web dev who's used PhoneGap, and I'm glad to see it's becoming an accepted approach to mobile apps... But PhoneGap has been around for years.

Regarding responsive design: the best mobile apps/sites will have a specially crafted mobile design, but responsive design is a good solution if you lack the resources/need for a great mobile app.
To end this post, I want to just say that this post was intended to help me find WAYS of finding partners, not to pitch my product. The only one of you to provide relative, good information was igorsyl. Thank you, igorsyl. If I wanted to pitch my product, I would have.
This looks remarkably similar to Polyglot, which was released over a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669162

It's interesting how many of the comments here are similar to the ones there.
Is there a reason that Ctrl-P, FuzzyFinder, and Command-T choke on large directories? On windows, I've used this piece of software called Everything Search that seems to index the entire filesystem (say around 30,000 files) in under 5 seconds. That's really impressive and I love using it for that.

But it makes me sad to use these vim extensions choking on directories of similar size. Maybe NTFS vs ext4 has something to do with it?
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> [citation needed]

Lubujackson's entire point is that we don't know what the consequences will be.
No. You don't get any richer by a trade at market price. The goal is usually diversification.
Title aside, what I really like about this article is the section that talks about teaching terminal and text editors.

I've been learning to code over the last few months, and while I've got a reasonable handle on it now, by far the most difficult thing for me was understanding how the dev tools work together (terminal, git, virtualenv etc.)

There seems to be a tendency for coders to underestimate how steep the learning curve on dev environment is for noobs. I think there's also a reticence to deal with a fiddly topic that depends so much on the settings that the individual has on their computer.

The irony is, you HAVE to understand dev environments before you can actually make code do stuff. I know more than one person who's been turned off by how hard it was to get started.

I know that means they probably didn't have the commitment needed, but for those that do, setting up dev tools as a hazing process still isn't fun.
Oh I dont disagree with the price points, just what was the thought process behind changing them. Its their company they are free to price their product at will.

I just want to be a part of it.
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Holy shit that's brilliant.

I admittedly haven't been to Youtube in forever, but that actually got me to click, if only to find out how (other than altering the querystring by hand) you did it.

I still didn't see how to do it though. Is that a logged-in option perhaps or am I just missing something?
You're silly, that's silly--stop being silly.

This "average user"? Frankly, we've had the 'net for like fifteen years--now's a good a time for users to learn as any.

Unless, of course, you prefer to spoonfeed the next generation of consumer whores?
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Invert appropriately for a left-hander.

Or just do what I do and keep a pocket knife around. Shrug
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Ok, so I commented in a thread here, and just now saw your username. Thanks for your work. Your "Learn the Hard Way" books are great. And your advice on being a professional programmer vs. being a professional who knows how to program really gave me some new perspective, and, I say this in all seriousness, affected my career path in a good way.
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Assuming the songs are on the phone, it should fail gracefully

Any functions requiring server access should inform you that they are no longer available, while the game bit itself should still be playable

Obviously login wouldn't work any more, they should offer one final upgrade to let users use the app without logging in
What's the difference between having a Google account and a YouTube account? Google owns YouTube.
It uses placehold.it, actually: http://ryhan.me/fixie/sample.html
Excuse me if this is a silly question, but I don't get this:

> Let’s face it - Helvetica rocks. But unfortunately, we can’t ensure every user sees it.

Is there something special about Helvetica licensing that prevents you from purchasing and embedding just like any other font?
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Depending on what browsers you're supports it's probably far easier to use generated content (:before, :after). Maybe combined with calc or CSS expressions.
FYI, it threw an initial error after authenticating with FB, but then loaded upon reload. What's it based on? All public posts, comments, and likes, but not private messages?

By the way, I think I met you at GET; it was nice talking to you. Was that Zeo charting website you showed me public or some private thing you had built? Would be interested in playing around with it!

It would be cool to see this site's output as some kind of chart too.
You're assuming the average person using this is going to be as committed to learning a language as you. Maybe this isn't the tool that you go to when you decide to learn a language but it's an easy way to better yourself.

It's awesome that you're immersing yourself but I'm never going to do that unless my priorities change significantly. I installed this extension and now I'm going to learn some spanish words.
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Google Plus already fucked up a good portion of faithful GReader users. The share feature used to be a very nice feature used exclusively among a group of people, not it just sucks. Also the G+ button tries to re-crawle the RSS source, so it lags and is anoying as fuck.
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The statements jwb made about assumptions you appeared to be making were not vague. And they had nothing to do with religion either. The only one who started making statements that included anything related to religion was lancefisher, and on a completely different thread branch. I think my original statement stands. You're not responding very well to jwb's statements. In fact, you're letting your opinion of lancefisher's statements influence your decision to respond to jwb. Again, jwb made no religious statements. In fact, the whole thread branch following jwb's comments is 100% free of religious language. I don't know why you're allowing yourself to do this. It makes you look unnecessarily obstinate.

edit: Looking at the lancefisher thread, you're not being just obstinante, but also dismissive. I don't think it's fair to complain that others aren't using reason if you're not willing to respond with reason. Whether you think of it as a waste of time or not, I think you lose the right to complain about lack of reason if you're not willing to display it yourself in detail like the way I'm trying to do now and the way others are trying to. If you think it's a waste of time, then it's better to just exit the conversation.
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I agree that Goog is currently making mistakes, but this one isn't one of them. Of course they consolidate all the upvoting and liking stuff into one database to then use that in their universal search ranking. Whining about not getting upvoted by anonymous users is a little silly, because your competition doesn't either.

If you want to talk about huge mistakes of Goog, count the seconds it takes to execute all the JS crap they have stuffed even into the simplest of their pages now. Or talk about their failed attempt of a re-design and even them following the current position:fixed; hype, cluttering small screens with headers and footers that don't scroll (the rainbow <hr> of our times).
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I used to speak French. Since I still know the grammatical rules of the language, but have largely lost any vocabulary I once had, this is perfect. I've been using it for the last hour or so and words long-since forgotten are slowly coming back to me. I'll leave it enabled and see how things go.
Currently of limited utility; depending how many people you follow on Twitter, links can fall out of history pretty fast. More networks and speed improvements will come as the Singly API improves.

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I mean, I know what claim you disagreed with. We just had a conversation spanning 9 hours where we hashed out (heh heh) what I actually meant in that post. I don't want to reset back to that post and start explaining from the beginning because I already typed all those words explaining what I meant.

And I dunno, man, you have big log files. I don't think that processing many-gigabyte log files is what most would call a common case, but I coud be totally wrong here.
Wouldn't you rather have at least an approximate map showing the more swampy areas on your random walk up Performance Mountain (or is it down into Performance Valley? The sight of all these top-rooted trees is confusing me)?
It's the difference like you have to get a Condé Nast subscription in order to comment on reddit.

Condé Nast owns reddit, remember?

I don't want to link my personal email (Gmail) account with the what cats I watch on the Internet.
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Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. :)
"Between semicolon-free folks and JavaScript traditionalists, who gets to play the role of the expert?"

You're framing this as a disagreement between equals. It is not. There are degrees of expertise. (Total lines of production code * amount of usage) is a reasonable approximation, and those who rank highest on this scale are overwhelmingly in favor of requiring semicolons.

If Carmack and Torvalds were in agreement on a C best practice while Odesker^W^W^W^W^W^W^W Topcoder user #12571 said to do something else, I wouldn't go with the latter.

Google, responsible for a JS engine, multiple compilers that target JS, and what is likely to be the single largest JS codebase of any company: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript...

Brendan Eich: "The moral of this story: ASI is (formally speaking) a syntactic error correction procedure."

Or you can go with the Node.js guys.
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Sure it does. Ultimately you do what your boss wants you to do, or you look for another job. Boards know that, and CEOs know that. Of course shareholders don't have any interest in getting involved in the day-to-day stuff. But if they want something, as a group, they get it.
I suppose one could make the argument that any company that grows more slowly than the rest of the industry is becoming less relavent.
> It's not really a competitor product for a serious office suite

How many people really use the "serious office suite" features in Office, though?

Most of the users I've encountered just want to add clip art to their PowerPoint. The folks writing an entire application framework in Excel macros are going to keep Excel, sure, but they're pretty rare.
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That would be even more expensive than upgrading a bunch of equipment. The whole point is that the solution had to be retrofit onto existing facilities at minimal cost.
Back when I was an undergrad we used to play MUDs, which were a player-extendable cross between a MMORPG and a text adventure. It was a terrible time sink, but I'd always wondered if it would be a good tool for making foreign language learning more fun.
I'm pretty sure the human race "survived" before computers existed. At least, I think so...
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No, there's hardware to do that too (speculative reads), but it's even more complicated. Really the driver of cache line size is simple efficiency. Software has to jump through lots of hoops in practice to try to align accesses to cache lines, and that could be avoided if memory could be efficiently cached in word-sized chunks.
No. I can't tell what that does. If I create a new document, and then set File -> Language -> French, and then begin typing, it will still spell-check in English.
I come here to read informed analysis and thoughts. If you prefer misguided positive commentary instead of critical analysis I suggest you don't read HN comments.
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Fair point, but I think it's the browser's job to decide what to do when the user types a domain that doesn't exist. Chrome gives you a search page if you enter a nonexistent domain.
this is pretty cool! what other usecase can you make?
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Ask HN: What music makes you a productive programmer?
What music is good for being productive while coding?

Also, do you think that listening to the same album a lot puts you in the same state of mind and makes it difficult to think outside the square?
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Separate vars is what I prefer to do, but JSLint actually recommends that you change multiple var statements to a single var with variables separated by commas (and with a semicolon at the end of course!). (And also all var declarations at the top of the function...).
Logo is a Lisp and yet does not really use s-expressions, and even has infix operators.

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And who said they wanted to squeeze the air out --and have the deflated look, easy crushing and all?

When one talks about the "sheer incompetence" of a group of industry experts set to find a solution to a problem in an internet comment thread, while putting out an inane "solution" of his own that doesn't take all facts into account --and when he never knew all the constraints in the first place--, well, the Dunning–Kruger effect springs to mind...
I tend to listen to the radio, that way I don't have to make a concious decision about what to listen to other than the channel.

I don't mind the adverts and the channels I listen to have no-repeat workday playlists.

Services like spotify or wimp are interesting but for me, they require to much focus whilst I'm coding whereas the radio is simpler.
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Cappuccino is exactly such a reverse engineered library, as is gnu step. For that matter Linux is a reverse engineered drop in replacement for the unix kernel.
It's the context.

It's pretend deference and, to me, mildly sexist. He said men but not 'gentlemen'.
Wow, that strikes me as strange. Windows and Linux both shift to lowercase when capslock is on.

Does anyone know the behavior of other operating systems? Or is it an Apple-specific behavior?
Two of the tools that I mentioned are in the "prevention" category: syntax checkers and minifiers. The full enumeration is just a sanity check. If coding style is the only thing keeping your product from being broken, you're doing something else quite wrong.
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It's the other way around. It was illegal in ECMAScript 3, which is what IE 8 and below (at the very least) implement:

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With ECMAScript 5 it is legal:

ObjectLiteral :
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So before v5, the other browsers were incorrectly tolerating something that goes against the spec. It's only semi-recently that it's been "allowed" as a valid practice.
"Many companies regularly pass on very good people who simply don't fit an immediate defined need. I think this is a common mistake, and one that isn't just made by corporate HR drones and technical recruiters. Part of the goal of this post was drawing attention to how common this mistake is."

There are always stories going around, maybe true, maybe urban legends about how, for example, IBM could had an opportunity to buy Xerox and could have owned the copier market (which was a really big deal at one point). People talk about how a company passes on an opportunity and, after the fact, what a mistake it was.

What the stories never mention is how many ideas they passed up that never amounted to anything. They only focus on the mistake they made.

You can't hire everyone and you used your best judgment given what you needed and what you saw. If 42floors hadn't written the blog post and it hadn't appeared on HN this situation with Dan wouldn't mean anything to you you wouldn't even know about it.
At least 3/4 of those 4000 lines is directly copied from Skype, and that's just one file. I don't think that's small enough to not matter; anyway, if it really was so small, it should easily have been rewritten with original code.
you do realize that any page that contains google analytics (practically every website) will do the same thing right?
Really? I woulda never guessed. "CLEAR!"
Choice is in fact not an intrinsic good. Read The Tyranny of Choice for more on why.

It's especially not good in cases where the feedback loops are long and highly variable in outcome. Humans are very good at optimizing frequent choices with readily visible consequences, but are terrible otherwise.
We are restoring some old family photos and movies - all the black and white photos are fine, but the color photos are fading. All the old cellulite film from the 30s and 40s is pretty much dead, it's just disintegrating. There is no long term preservation besides copying.

All my digital video on tape from the early 2000s is dead. The early DVDs I burned in 2002-2004 are all dead (due to the organic dye, I guess). Many of the CDs I burned in the late 90s are dead. The most durable digital format I have has been the 5.25" disks, probably due to their ultra low density.
That's not selling user details.
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There was a small blip on the backend, that might have been the FB issue.

We did meet at GET if you know about the Zeo charting stuff, that's here:

http://beaugunderson.com/zeo-crossfilter/
https://github.com/beaugunderson/zeo-crossfilter

I hope to add charts to vacat.io too, any idea what you'd want to see graphed?
Sure, but it's hard to get a variety of content in that way. If you have a paragraph that begins with lorem ipsum over and over again, you'll quickly notice.
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Sure, thats true for the message their popping. But it also means the kill switch was in there since then. I guess it doesn't necessarily mean they intended to cancel it from the start though, if this is standard practice for all their apps.
Oh, and to answer your question about what it's based on--you're basically correct; it's based on foursquare checkins, Twitter tweets, Facebook posts & comments, and Instagram uploads. :)
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I think the mistake here is that a company that collectively suffers from Asperger's syndrome should not try to "bring the social".

Stick to your core competence always.
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