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I'm complete ignorant at programming languages. But I've seen this video a few times, and it still seem like each feature are things I already do every single day of my life as an Android developer. Live documentation, organizing your work around functions, watching values and expressions change on debug etc. These are all things I already do every day.

So suppose lighttable adds support for Android development. How exactly would lighttable help me? What exactly can I do with it that I cannot do right now?

Are you guys backing this up just because it looks visually different? Is it because the languages it supports just don't have good tools for like Java does? Or am I missing something obvious here?
Why you think you would necessarily enjoy conversation with random person you know nothing about, probably share no interests and have no common goals? Unless by "conversation" you don't actually mean conversation...
I like to think that my job of writing software with .NET to control deep sea robots is interesting. How many ruby/python developers could you say the same thing about though? I mean, most web apps are simple CRUD things, which are not interesting or cutting edge. That's an invariant across all programmers.
The idea that one text wrapping approach is objectively superior for all purposes is incoherent. By that I mean it is an impossible claim given our most accurate understanding of epistemology.
alright i need help with chapter 6. i think the colors are there to confuse me and i believe the letters stand for month, day, and year. now i need help figuring out the order :/ any hints?
anybody know anything about chapter 6?
>It's trivially easy to figure out how to calculate a rough number. I'd go so far as to say blatantly obvious. It's also a waste of time to actually do it.

Given any X, only a small minority of the people who believe they have the skills needed to do X competently are right. Dunning–Kruger as usual.

It should be trivially easy to figure out roughly how many golf balls fit in a double-decker bus. In fact, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes of figuring, so the time wasted ought to be minimal. If it does take longer than a few minutes, then the interviewer has learned something important about you, so it's not a waste of time then either.
I'm actually curious why you think this, have any more info? My presumption is that outside of legal jurisdiction anything is game. I guess existing land powers claiming whatever they want, such as the moon, may be legal but practically impossible to enforce.
I think the colors must mean something, but being colorblind doesn't help me.

There doesn't seem to be an orange box, though?
Not really if you approach it correctly. Find people that share interests with you, that enjoy same things you enjoy, etc. - internet makes that much easier. Visit places where such people assemble. Chances are you will encounter some people that you enjoy keeping company with. Then you will discover when you are in a suitable company, you're not shy at all.
Opera loads and executes a page on its own servers before passing the content down to the browser.

Other browsers just wrap the native webkit.
Webnumbr is damn cool.
I see it now, thanks.

I guess my concern is that that's pretty far down the page and since the the fact that the $200K goal has been met is prominent, that message might not get across very well.
An unstated principle embedded in the post, sometimes made elsewhere (particularly in econ and political circles): change happens at the margins.
bottom right box is orange and for a moment i thought the colors were the key. im still not sure
bottom right corner is orange
Neat, I didn't know Fortran did printf right.

OCaml and Rust both have compile-time format string checking and code generation as well.
The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer (BBC iPlayer)
do you think the color says what box to look at next?
Since Light Table relies on CodeMirror (AFAIK), will some amount of money go to Marijn Haverbeke, along with other kinds of contributions to his project?
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This particular theory is insane drivel; however, there are many people who believe that the Moon landing was faked. During lunch a couple of months ago, I was surprised that my Chinese colleagues had this belief, too; they told me that this was common "knowledge" in China.

People build interesting belief networks, with sometimes ludicrous conclusions, e.g. the allegation a couple of years ago that Mossad was behind the shark attacks in Egypt (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336777/Egypt-shark-...)
We'll definitely be working something out with him. :)
"Shy people fear negative judgment" is a bit facile on its own; it was sort of mentioned in passing in her TED talk. But it's actually not far from my understanding of the subject. (IANA psychologist, though.)

The wikipedia quote you gave lists apprehension, discomfort, and awkwardness as the feelings that are symptomatic of shyness. Those feelings strongly imply a fear of something—some negative consequence that might result from a given social interaction. If that weren't the case, why would you feel apprehensive, uncomfortable, or awkward?

Many people recognize their anxiety, even if they don't label it, but either don't notice or actively deny that there might be an underlying belief that causes it. Beliefs can be things like, "She's going to notice how awkward I am," or, "I have no idea what to do in this situation," or, "If I screw this up I'll never live it down." An eye-opener for me was reading an inventory in a social anxiety book and seeing exactly how many of the distorted thoughts I accepted about myself without even knowing it.

It's also worth mentioning that cognitive behavioral therapy is largely about becoming aware of these anxiety-provoking beliefs and developing different responses to them. If anyone reading this is interested in trying to reduce their shyness, I recommend researching this approach.
Microsoft isn't even explicitly banning Firefox, from my interpretation of things. They just don't allow executing code in data-space for security reasons, which is a feature that firefox uses for its JIT for performance reasons, but can just interpret it instead. Whereas, Apple explicitly bans running code at compile time.
i thought that for a moment. but chartruuse green isn't one of the colors and cyan and red are both months. the only time this works is green, magenta, yellow.
Get a lawyer. Immediately. That is the only advice that matters.
I wish that they had taken this opportunity to discard the use of OAuth. These are native applications, not web applications, and there's near zero security value to using OAuth.

When mixing OAuth and native applications written by non-nefarious parties, the only entity you're preventing from reading the user's password is the user themselves.

However, if a nefarious party writes a native app, they can easily acquire the password even if you do use OAuth.

It's a case of bad UX being pushed on users due to fundamental cultural misunderstandings between the web teams declaring authentication requirements, and the native developers who want to provide the best UI.

Twitter is absolutely doing this correctly by providing xAuth for use by native applications.
I'm stuck on 16... doesn't seem to be doing anything after I shared the folder :/
GNOME Classic is really just a thin skin over GNOME 3; it doesn't have any of the useful features that the GNOME team removed from their software.

XFCE and KDE just aren't very popular in my area, though I don't know why. I have seen people discuss moving to KDE on internal mailing lists, so there is some interest elsewhere in the company.

The two people I helped convert have, to my knowledge, not bothered with customising xmonad. They just copied my config, changed a keybinding or two, and then left it alone.
I'm stuck at Chapter 19. Anyone know the language of the Asian looking letters/numbers?
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Indeed, very intense; especially when Linus was throwing out statements like, "The truth shouldn't be sugarcoated." I had to believe there was something concrete behind it, however, and I was glad to see that there was.
This IDE/text editor has some very good ideas, but I would never use it because it doesn't seem like it will be open source, free software, or even freeware.

I wouldn't rely on a text editor that can't be improved and changed by the community.

Besides, it seems to run inside the browser, and most browsers (even for a single tab) consume quite some RAM.

Good luck, nonetheless!
You sound dead on to me. Java tooling is basically light years ahead of JavaScript, just because it's so much easier to write for a static language. Most people don't learn all the advanced features of Eclipse and other IDEs and debugging until they are stuck writing in them for years and years anyway. I know how to do things in hot keys in Eclipse that I don't even know how to do otherwise. Hot code replace and debugging and all the other stuff is similarly an advanced topic, even for many Java coders, so it is no surprise JavaScript programmers think it is something new.
No, Snapchat Isn’t About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel
Well, I don't agree with your assessment of Rob Pike. As far as I know he worked with Thompson and Ritchie (who unfortunately passed away last year) and I regard all three of them as one of the most important figures with regards to Unix and systems programming. And they marked the history quite significantly, in my opinion. At least as important as RMS or Linus.
Create picture to text mosaic or ASC11 Art with Textaizer Pro.
at least read the description of the product you are criticising...
It will absolutely be open source. You just didn't read the FAQ ;)
> Would Gnome 2 -> XFCE or Gnome 2 -> Gnome Classic not make more sense?

In my experience, the more minimal window managers such as XFCE, Open Box and so on required lots of configuration to get right. Furthermore, they don't give you a big advantage over something like Gnome or KDE, except for being more configurable. I'm using the tiling window manager dwm with minimal changes to the default config (added 2 shortcuts and changed some colors) for almost 3 years now. I think the pure simplicity and stability of the software is compelling compared to a minimal version of Gnome.
I recall several 8-10 years olds I have known who were seriously evil. They knew it and they liked it.
Take the image and invert the colors in it. Then you'll be able to work it out. :)
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Didn't read the article, but I read the headline to my wife who has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and is studying for her MFT license exam. Her response, "That's garbage. Shyness isn't a bad habit, it's a personality trait; and it's perfectly normal." She went on, "The American culture tends to favor the extraverted, but studies show that introverts have just as meaningful lives as extraverts. They tend to have a more refined sense of self, they tend to know what they like, and they tend to be more selective with their friends. Introverts make great leaders and work well in groups, they don't demand extra attention."

She points out that people conflate anxiety with shyness. Same with anti-social habits and behaviors. Being under-socialized and not open to new experiences... I'd guess that's what this lifehacker article is doing. So if it's encouraging people to open themselves up a little more, more power to it. But please stop making "shyness" out to be some kind of defect!
Your theory that apparent sexism in the tech community is actually only poor social skills

I said "largely the expression of".

requires that sexism in the tech community has died out

It absolutely does not.

Because otherwise poor social skills would just make the tech community sexism more obvious than mainstream sexism.

And there you go. It's unlikely that misogyny and 'real' sexism exist among the tech community at levels significantly higher than other fields, yet it comes up all the time in the tech community. So, what's the explanation? Horrible socialization.
Did you even look at the page?
On the page it clearly states that it will be open source and will be extendable using javascript.
Light Table is an interesting approach. I think, it would turn out to be something different & interesting if the project leverages that aspect of it. There are lots of editors which have already done a fine job of editing code. Unless a new interface to computers comes along, those are here to stay.

What I am trying to say I guess is that, if the project separated the approach and editing aspects of coding, and then integrated the approach aspect with already existing editors (or an API/protocol of sorts, like what X server is to the various WM/DE); I believe it will turn into something really interesting.
did you try to put them into translate.google.com it usually detects the language
Where you using a multimonitor setup or just a single big monitor?

I found xmonad not so pleasant in multimonitor setup where it saw each monitor as a separate workspace.
Note: The AT&T patent in question is actually 775 rather than 755:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=UOMZAAAAEBAJ&dq=4555775

This was posted a few years ago and that also resulted in a fairly interesting HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607335
We had a database problem. All settings changes were failing. It's now fixed.
At the beginning you won't be competing with anyone: http://cdixon.org/2010/06/26/competition-is-overrated/
And before you invest time in learning to code, you still have plenty of options to verify your concepts (interactive mockups, landing pages etc.) I believe that learning about them first is better investment and a good foundation for further learning (assuming that you really have zero skills).
I'm inclined to agree. You cannot beat Vim and Emacs as editors... the key is to play a game they can't. I mean to show some examples of that with the next demo :)
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Apple-bashing aside, in the US, we already have this problem. We call them CDMA phones. They're locked to networks, aren't portable in any way (if they have a SIM slot for GSM use, it can't be used domestically), and they're typically worth a lot less on resale.
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It's an image, so it's a bit difficult to copy/paste them ;)

EDIT: I could try Google Goggles though

EDIT2: Hint for other people - it looks like it's Chinese Horoscope Signs
I think this is the wrong analogy... The parable seems to say that if you spread your seeds across many areas, it's bound to grow somewhere.

That would be a good analogy if the post was actually about spreading ideas in as many bubbles as possible and hoping one bubble picks it up.

The post is actually about making 1 idea of high enough quality and insight such that it can be transferred from one bubble (yours) to the next by the "edges".

So you'd have to find a parable that speaks of getting a good seed and planting it in your garden, in the hopes that the flower that grows from it spreads its seeds to your neighbors!
The only unique attribute this particular kid has is that he happens to have gotten picked for a NYTimes article. Psychopathy's/Sociopathy's incidence rate is hard to nail down due to both definition and detection problems, but estimates are generally 1% of the population, give or take a bit. It's not that rare.
It's great if it worked for you. I did the same and forced myself into social situations for years. I became quite functioning socially after a few years but I never got really comfortable and in the end had to stop because I was completely exhausted. I also went through therapy with the same result and the therapist basically telling that I am a loser.
Psychological problems are difficult. Most obese people probably know pretty well how to lose weight but they just can't do it. Same for alcoholics.
Not Just That. All the incompatibilities kept users locked into IE6 and Windows for a long time.
And I started seem to have the flame war! Here are my two cents if they make anyone feel better: First it is a recommendation from a user not lecture from a UI expert. Second as a developer I'm flattered that compared my crappy blog whose audience is me and probably one other person- its usability expectations with HN. Third your point well taken, I need to work on responsive CSS when I get to my machine later in the day. Thanks to your comments, I just fixed viewport scaling issues.

But my post is not about me. It is about an issue in HN which I thought others would be facing too.
The post has two other questions:

what are the best practices when it comes to PHP?

And are there recommended ways of tackling certain task?

And these are, I believe, ambiguous, vague and overly broad (not to mention subjective).

Also the third question, the one you quote, is actually a yes/no question that would be pointless to answer. So, assuming that's not the real question... what is? I believe it IS difficult to tell what is being asked here.

StackExchange is just not meant for discussion, I think. At last not as it is right now.
Hit the "Repair Dropquest Folder" link on your current chapter's page to fix that.

I had the same issue after the chapter where you invite an email to share a folder. I invited it to the Dropquest folder, which I guess was a bad idea!
There's also Kicktraq, which has a longer history and a rough trend to total. http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table/

(webnumbr looks really nice for watching random pages that don't have dedicated trackers, though)
I don't believe in cures for anti-social personality disorder. I think the children who go on to display no symptoms in adulthood are the ones who have learned to successfully fake it. I say this as someone with many symptoms of ASPD who has learned to fake it.
if Emacs and either Google Chrome or Firefox get ported to Wayland and Wayland fixes some of the problems with X, then Wayland will have made my life better even if I still need X to run other applications.
British journalist & political columnist John Rentoul is writing a book on this: Questions To Which The Answer Is No.

Since 2009 he has curated examples at http://blogs.independent.co.uk/tag/headline/
This is fallicious. Anyone can register for an account. Knowing someone is on HN only gives enough information, that said person is in the 'HN demographic'. Just because he happened to register for an account, vs someone similar who didn't, does not give us the amount of entropy removal you implied.
"Some people say shyness is like gayness, something your born with. I haven't observed that to be the case, not that I've researched it."

It actually is the case, for those who have researched it. Simplistic example that demonstrates this: I have two 1-year-old nieces. If you say, "Hi!" to one she gets excited, looks you in the eye, and smiles and giggles. Do the same with the other and she'll smile but immediately bury her face in her shoulder.

I think what you're talking about -- and many of the other comments on this page -- isn't shyness, but something completely different that actually has a much more descriptive name: Social Anxiety Disorder.
I was commenting on the specifics things you mentioned (sans redirection to pages that don't exist). Slowness, lack of good formatting. That sort of thing.

I'm certainly not saying that half-baked is the same as minimalist, and I'm also not saying I wouldn't make some changes given the chance.
>"[RMS]: You may have heard that AT&T has a patent on a simple technique called "backing store" which consists of saving the hidden parts of a window in off-screen memory."

Rob Pike didn't seem to correct this as wrong or overly-simplified. If true, the patent is kinda nasty. The idea of saving hidden parts of a window seems like a basic idea to anyone who develops a windows system. I don't this particular idea is deserved to be patented.
if you invert the colors there are some colors lying about what color they are. they all correspond to a m/y/d
Amazingly, I moved from dwm/dmenu back into Unity a couple of months ago and don't see any need to move back too quickly (Ctrl-Super-left-arrow and Ctrl-Super-right-arrow provide a basic, way basic, tiling behaviour on Unity).
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> They should vote for ideas and concepts.

Isn't that why parties were invented in the first place? I mean, at least in theory.
> the children who go on to display no symptoms in adulthood are the ones who have learned to successfully fake it

This is one of the reasons why Dexter is simultaneously disconcerting and fascinating to so many people - it alerts us to the (very real) possibility that we are surrounded by psychopaths who pretend to be normal people.
Social Lunch: a new way of networking for Japan's tech-workers
Great, I'm just getting my head around people missing features in Gnome 2 so instead going to a 'bare backed' window manager like Xmonad.
Because they will take down everything else with them.
From the article:

The Facebook app 'Social Lunch' uses the social networking site to pair people with common interests in the same location for lunch with one another in hopes of expanding their business networks.

In the six months since its initial launch, Social Lunch has gained over 35,000 members and organised 2,500 social lunches throughout Japan.
Thanks Sidnicious. Fixed now.
Sounds like a David Foster Wallace short story there... go on ASK
If that weren't the case, why would you feel apprehensive, uncomfortable, or awkward?

Because it is irrational? People can have phobias against pretty much anything, even if you know that the fear is irrational and groundless you can still be petrified by it.

Shyness is particularly common among small children, I don't think they fear negative judgment.
$1,000 seems much more affordable to me than $4,000. Four times more affordable.

Also this looks to be aiming for a different market than people that really need a whole house solar system or people who don't really need it but can afford the $4,000 out-of-pocket. Which actually is a bigger market, because most people don't have $4,000 handy and most people don't have a real immediate need for whole-house solar, but there are a LOT of people that want to decrease their energy bill or just REALLY want to "be green". The lower the price goes, the more people will buy solar panels, just based on the concept of having solar panels and being more sustainable.
this is one of those so-simple-yet-effective learning techniques that is obvious in retrospective :)
I can assure you that any existing software would fail to meet the requirements (hint - primary requirement being related to/friends with/lobbying the decision maker).
That may be good enough. A psychopath doesn't necessarily have to understand the rules of society intuitively, it would suffice if he accepted and followed them.
Do you really mean Kernel Virtual Machine or did you mean Kernel Mode Setting?
On the mailing list Chris also mentioned that it "will likely use a browser somehow, but that might be abstracted away into a webview or some such thing so you wouldn't really know." [http://groups.google.com/group/light-table/browse_thread/thr...]
One of our clients had their FTP credentials compromised causing a similar effect. It may be a decent idea to check the logs and identify if this was the method of entry.