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It would work fine. It had bit-level operators, easy assembler integration, simple macros. Decent looping constucts after the first version. Everything was an expression which makes lots of things easier and a good optimizing compiler (rember Wulf?). It did have a major quirk: you had to be explicit on addresses vs. values. To get a value you put a '.' in front of an address. Used to drive some people crazy, but I never had any problem (much) with it.
Huh? I mean, I would assume if you use Google Voice, they have an ability to do so. I doubt they are, if anything they might use text messages the way they use Gmail mails, but this article seems to be implying that Google has access to calls between arbitrary subscribers on arbitrary networks.

Besides that being an absurd claim, I'd rather Google do it than those who we already KNOW are listening to them....
Why can software engineers and companies get away with such horrendous practices?

Because most of us who write software believe that the risks associated with effectively zero liability for software failure are far outweighed by the costs of government intervention. General purpose software is far too "easy" to create for mandatory liability to make any sense.

The better solution is for the market to demand simple security fixes in situations like this.

[Edited to clarify that software risk is less costly than government intervention]
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Yeah, but there isn't a 1-1 correspondence between CLR bytecode and native instructions. If you want to access SIMD instruction sets on x86, x64 or ARM, the CLR won't let you do that.
What about the CloudFront pricing? Is it cheaper than scaling own servers?
Nice, but a bit annoying to mix styles and other settings in the data attribute like that, and they would have to be repeated for each knob.

A library to easily parse custom CSS properties would be pretty cool. The "CSS" could be either in regular stylesheets (browsers ignore properties they don't understand), in a data-style attribute or maybe in a <style> element with a custom type attribute value. Browsers ignore properties and selectors they don't understand anyway.

<style>
.knob::-jquery-knob { ... }
</style>

or

<style type="text/jquery-knob">
.knob { ... }
</style>

or

<input style="width: 150px; -jquery-knob-skin: tron">
Agreed. It's no longer a floppy disk. Its meaning in the new context has a life of its own. The fact that the metaphor no longer has any connection with is original context IS the reason why it is now effective! :)

"When things, signs or actions are freed from their respective ideas, concepts, essences, values, points of reference, origins and aims, they embark upon an endless process of self-reproduction. Yet things continue to function long after their ideas have disappeared, and they do so in total indifference to their own content. The paradoxical fact is that they function even better under these circumstances."

Jean Baudrillard from "The Transparency of Evil"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Transparency-Evil-Extreme-Phenomen...
Every time I see a blog post from Simple I literally salivate. I've been on the waiting list since February 8th and all I got was this lousy "Thank you for signing up" email. TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY
Not entirely true. .Net and JS code on Windows RT will most certainly be JITed. All you need to do is target the CLR or JavaScript runtime.
Ideally the CLR takes care of that (it's in Microsoft's own interest to have it create good native code)

I don't mean to translate "mov eax, ecx" to the CLR bytecodes of "ecx = eax;", but targetting CLR as kind of a CPU in its own right (with whatever capabilities it has).
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A programming language is under copyright of the creator. , which can decide to put it in public domain, standardize it, give an open source license to it, whatever.

Implementation -- yes, the language itself -- no.
http://www.claymath.org/Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper/

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Agreed. I just tried to find the confirmation email from Simple to see when I'd signed up - "Simple" gave 200 false positives, "from:simple.com" found the email. In a search-engine era being difficult to find isn't the most strategic move.
Good question. It depends on the caching strategy.
As we essentially serve Gists we have two types of URLs one something like [gist-id]/ meaning the latest version of that particular gist and another URL is [gist-id]/[revision-id] which is a particular revision. For 'latest' URL we just do a redirect to particular latest version.
For first type of resource we have 60 seconds expire, however it is also not too expensive to re-generate it. For second type of resource (with particular revision) we have much higher expire time (several days).
By this type of caching strategy I assume we will get only 20% of all requests to our servers so saving is significant.
That was then. This is now.

There are real alternatives today, including not upgrading. Microsoft may come to regret making Windows 7 as solid as it is.
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They are, with your Google Account password by default, and if you want to be extra cautious, with a different passphrase.
Government Programs?
At present the US Code of Federal Regulations is perhaps the buggiest code ever written. The CFR has yet do deal with issues of legacy code and has probably never been refactored. Ever. There are numerous conflicts within the code that lead to the legal equivalent of a SigAbrt, without the benefit of an error log. The return values also vary wildly and, in many instances, are in direct conflict with the intended results of the various classes and methods within the code base.

If you, as a coder, were handed the CFR to debug and refactor, how would you do it? Also, could you create unit tests to verify the algorithms are producing the desired return values within the framework of that much legacy code?
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Try duckduckgo.com

It was created by one of our own here in hacker news.
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strength of work != Oracle

They are the king of doucherocketry. Just less noticeable because it happens in the boardroom and not the living room.
The first Wunderlist for android was a Titanium app, but is was very slow and unusable. They rebuild it again natively: http://www.6wunderkinder.com/blog/2011/09/05/wunderlist-for-...

I think the IOS version is still Titanium?

A high performing Titanium example on android would interest me also.
My experience exactly. I switch completely over to DDG, and ended up switching back after I realised I was starting so many queries with !g it made no sense at all.
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Not until Adobe's patents expire, they won't.
GSM being a great counter-example.

Although in general I agree with the premise you put forward, it shouldn't be a principal applied without thought.
Google agrees with Mozilla's Windows RT browser concerns
The first thing I enable in Safari is View->Zoom Text Only. Just because you prefer whole-page zoom doesn't mean the rest of us does too. I use zooming only when a page has unreadably small text size, in which case I enlarge it to be readable and do not want to scale up and uglify images that are usually perfectly fine in their original size.
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I also wondered about that phrase till it dawned on me:

The released security upgrade (not "update") for Adobe Photoshop CS5.5 is … wait for it … Adobe Photoshop CS6!
I have heard others raise concerns about adverts reflecting recent google voice calls. I thought this was outside the current product terms?

However it would not be out of the question google had the technology to do this. Not sure this is a breach of privacy.
To most of us, mines are just a handy framework to wrap the deductive gameplay around. This isn't the case elsewhere in the world, where they remain a threat, and a symbol of pain and suffering. In 2001, a group calling itself the International Campaign to Ban Winmine attempted to make Microsoft choose something less controversial as its subject matter, and there have been other similar protests over the years.

Is this for real? Wow!
Impressive. On FoxWeave, we're using Rackspace (at the moment). Fairly sure they don't offer anything like this, which probably means we'll have to use a caching reverse proxy.

Nice post... thanks.
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Hah, I remember reading your comment and thinking "wow, this guy sounds like he has initiative. I wonder why he's on reddit instead of HN..."
A context switch from one thread to another is less expensive than from one process to another. And there are other advantages to running in a shared memory address space. It tends to make some things complicated, but if getting the most out of your CPUs is the goal, threads are the way to go.
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Err, yes, I do blame the site for abusing HTML. If they misuse text markup to represent what is semantically an image, how is that my fault? HTML has <img> for a reason. There's perfectly suitable markup for text and another for images: using the former for the latter is no less idiotic than doing it the other way around.

This fad is supremely annoying.
Yeah, for an operating system that hasn't been released yet they're really not selling very well. Oh, wait.
I don't know why you was downmoded; I also use startpage, along with DDG, Bing and Google. Actually, it is technicaly not Google scraper, their results are different than Google's. I use them when I don't want to reveal my search string in the URL.
Huh. Guess I was wrong, then.
Now as it happens I'm of completely the opposite opinion - I much prefer the kind where you have to click and drag in an orbit around the control, because you can move further away (screen space permitting) to achieve finer control.
I'm not in college anymore. I graduated 4 years back and have been programming ever since.
I've based my views on candidates that I have interviewed over the past few years.

Without exception, when a candidate comes in with no graduation and having done a basic 2 month programming course from some private institution, he lacks of a programmer. He may have some idea about his core specialty, but deviate even slightly from there and he is lost.

Alternately, a person with a graduate degree is much more likely to be a well-rounded programmer and has his basics in place.

I'm from India and I believe that the country you come from matters here. In India, society gives a lot of importance to a persons qualification. I guess this affects my views on the matter too.
Could be some kind of blue car syndrome.
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I'm working full-time for the govt, while bootstrapping my SaaS product. The govt job is mind-numbingly terrible, but does allow me the flexibility to work on my product.

With that being said, its hard not to want to leave to follow my passion, especially when the environment I'm in for 8 hours a day is depressing, but I've got a family and bills to pay, so I'm doing my best not to lose my mind.

Interested to hear from others that have done the same, and looking back, what they may have done differently, if anything. Time management tips, ways to keep yourself focused, and how to handle a bad full-time situation. All advice/comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Agreed, there are some things (like volume controls) where you really don't want wrap-around.
Yes, since they had such an obviously biased pro-bing article this needs to be pointed out (eye roll).
Steve Jobs was right. Adobe is lazy.
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Well, Adobe had to wait til they had the new version out for people to upgrade to.
Since there is a 1005ms latency for a cache-miss, for the average user the loading times are shorter?
(based on your data on hit/miss ratio)

I was thinking to use Cloudfront to lower the latency (not costs) for dynamic resources, because in Italy there isn't an ec2 datacenter, but there is an edge location for Cloudfront.
You'd have to be a customer for that to apply though wouldnt you?

Would US fair use cover creating a fix? Or you could just a friend's copy.
"If you’re never really going to escape Google—and if Bing is pretty much exactly like Google—what’s the point?"

From my perspective, there still is a point doing so - enhance privacy by feeding less personal data to Google. I still use Google search when necessary, but I also use DDG, Bing and startpage.com.

I also use some of the Google services, like for example Reader, which is a superior product far ahead of any competition, but I stopped using some of their other services like Gmail, G+, Bookmarks, etc.

So while ditching Google completely is currently inpractical, reducing its usage is still justifiable thing to do.
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Vector icons tend to look horrible at small sizes. A post from a month ago:

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3720363
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Agree with the colors. That would turn your screenshot there into a Jackson Pollock :). It could also use some more base shapes, I think (triangle, line).
can i find demo somewhere?
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"Who are your users going to be?"

That's a very hard question because a 'word-processor' is a horizontal product [1].

I want people to use it instead of Word. I want to create great UX, easy to use, clean interface, fast operation. But should I concentrate on technically inclined people, or should I concentrate on the typical Word user? At the beginning should I concentrate on a nieche (for example students and academics who use math equations in their writngs)? I have not completely decided it yet.

"If you focus on including cool features, your program will end up as difficult-to-use bloatware."

True. Still, I am trying to gather good ideas, 'user needs', but I will of course filter them to create a product which has integrity and market strategy.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
> That's one of the reasons to ditch Google. Collecting data, no privacy, down to the tiniest details....

I don't think THIS is an example of privacy invasion at any level. In fact this is an example that shows that not all data collection is, excuse me for my abuse of the phrase, _evil_. All these browsers are provided by Google, the user is free to not associate Google accounts with them - they work really well even without them. There is no major loss of utility if you don't. Installing a third party addon to sync bookmarks across varies installations (as I used to do in FF) is trickier, wasteful and unnecessary.

If I have to browse something that I don't want Google to know or associate persistently to my account, I use Incognito Window. It works really well for the purpose it was designed for.

> Did the OP get it at all?

May be you are right, Google is a company that deserves no respect and no users; but when you phrase your sentiments that way, you basically call the other person an idiot who cannot understand even a bit of the most easiest of concepts. And when someone like me, who shares the same views as the OP, reads these opinions we are alienated. Just like you swayed from a largely-neutral position to make your point, we sway even more to counterbalance and what we get eventually is a flamewar.
And no I don't get it and may be I won't (probably the OP would feel the same way). I infer that I respect my privacy much less than you do to yours and mine. So even if this was a legit case poor privacy practice on Google's part, but if I (and the OP) feels that it isn't than either you should respect my (and OP's) opinion or give a little more verbose explanation while assuming I will be educated enough to read and understand your opinion.
...this is by Toby Schachman (you knew that right?) just check out the github author http://github.com/electronicwhisper
> Also, it sounds a bit strange, because Flash is statically compiled down to bytecode, while JavaScript is still very dynamic

Doesn't ActionScript use the same JIT as Mozilla's JS engine? (or did I imagine that?)
Are they allowed? Consumer protection laws in the UK suggest that up to a year after purchase one may be able to get a full refund or a fixed product at the customers choosing ... not sure why/if that differs for some reason with digital products.

I'd guess most copies are bought by businesses whom such laws don't aid.
"Fix it up" includes adding 16-bit-per-channel colour, something that photographers have been crying out for that the GIMP team hasn't managed in 15 years of trying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#Deep_color_.2830.2F...
But let us not forget that it took the Danish Government two tries to get it right.

First they tried to push digital signatures on everyone, with the idea that people should use their personal certificate to login to banks and government systems. However the banks would have none of it, because of the bad user interface (ever tried to use client-side certificates in any browser).

They then adopted a system that was a mix of systems already in use by a number of banks. Key-cards to be distributed by snail-mail and entered trough a Java plugin. Why they didn't go for a Javascript solutions is sad, but I would guess that some banks (such as Danske Bank) would have trouble adjusting.

So the lesson is probably that (some) governments are good at standardizing already (good) practices.

PS: Also note that some Companies (like Telmore, one of the largest online shops), who offered the old system (client-side certificates), won't use the new because of the absurd cost associated. (They have to pay per registered user, not by how much each user is using the system)
I'm not advocating switching over the visual only, unless the other sensors are broken or unavailable as you describe.

I'm just advocating we do the research, create some visual-only cars as proof of concept, solve those thorny AI problems. It's an artificial constraint, one which will produce engineering innovations which can then be applied back to real world products.
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this. is. awesome. I can't wait for some Schachman projects to end up in my IDE (imagine manipulating code paths like those fractal trees...) <3
I don't understand.

I have Photoshop CS5. I didn't event know there was a vulnerability in it. So, after all I paid for this, there is a vulnerability which lets an attacker take control of my system... and they aren't fixing it?

Seriously... what... the... fuck. I'm never buying an Adobe product again.
Sure context matters. Time and cost are a constraint. You pay a premium to have good code/product however where do you draw the line?

If the Apple OS was full of spelling or grammar errors but looked great would consumers not buy it?
Honest question: Is this any different from on iOS? Are you allowed to create native code-generators on iOS?

If not, why do we all of a sudden care about this now?
I wouldn't call it fine. Try hitting ctrl-c when running a process Pool. Worse, it's not just ctrl-c, but any abnormal termination such as a segfault as well which will screw everything up. The bug is acknowledged, but it seems they won't fix it. In my opinion that makes it better to just leave it out of the standard library.
Google's privacy policy allows them to use a person's data to develop new products and services. Scanning voice communications for key words and then converting those into targeted advertising seems like it would be consistent with such use.

And without the intent to do something along those lines, it is hard to see a business case under which Google could justify devoting resources to Voice.
This should be a reply to the original HN thread on cssarrowplease.
Hi,

No 1005 ms was not a cache miss it was a request to the origin server. Latency was 799 ms.

I assume CloudFront will contribute some latency, however in our case (we are using Heroku) our servers were already on Amazon platform, therefore CloudFront --> our server latency should be significantly lower. So CloudFront cache miss latency for the enduser will be not significantly higher than origin server latency for the enduser.
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