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One which is not on here, and is my favorite, is the icon to start a PowerPoint presentation: portable projector screen. Sure, they still exist, but most people these days have never had to actually carry and/or set one up. Well, maybe I take that back... If you are using PowerPoint, perhaps you are old enough to remember using one... :-)
People used to make similar arguments in favour of assembly language, ie. you can't be a programmer unless you can drill down to the bare metal and make it do backflips/squeeze every last bit of performance out. Now computers are faster, compilers are smarter at optimising and it's only really the case if you're doing hardcore kernel programming or writing a game engine. C, pointers and linked lists are going the same way as computers get faster still: they're not very relevant unless you're coding something in a specific niche.

And I've seen people who were the opposite of what you're saying - people who knew lots about low level C/Assembly stuff, but who couldn't write clean, maintainable high level code to save their life.

But to get back on the original topic - none of that is relevant to learning how to program. Loops, variables, data structures, managing state, functions and classes are more what you want to teach to start with, and are far more relevant to most programmers than malloc or linked lists.
Well, I think some kids care about the abstract and fundamental workings of computers, but a lot are initially interested in learning programming because they see cool stuff and want to make it themselves. Teaching them the "just in time" simple concepts that lead to concrete results without making them struggle with syntax to start out is a good way to keep them motivated initially. Then after you hook them, you can start teaching them the fundamental concepts of how stuff works.
I don't believe this story is true. This employee is claiming to be 1000% more efficient and 110% more accurate than every other employee on his entire floor, and yet not a single supervisor has approached him to find out what he is doing differently. Color me unconvinced.
This looks very usable. Getting started tonight.
That would be to illustrate the phrase "but it always looks like a container of 110 Film.".
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG/countr...
Interestingly it seems that "real designers" are whomever you like the most. It seems mostly to be a matter of taste.
Just a quick comment on cost (since OP and these comments seem to have it a bit backwards):

The real cost in a DOCSIS network like Comcast's is actually in the last mile. DOCSIS is sort of like a mobile network in a pipe. The base station in this case is called a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and data is transmitted from there over RF with QAM modulation to all the cable modems on the same coaxial segment. This can be hundreds or even thousands of cable modems. For unicast IP the packet is only received by one of them but they all have to listen.

When the radio spectrum inside the coaxial cable becomes congested the segment has to be split in two parts and a new CMTS installed, very similar to how you split a mobile network cell into sectors to improve capacity. Like with a mobile network this is capital intensive.

Not saying this makes Comcast right. But important to understand where they're coming from.
Excellent product and superb demo.

Question that may be a bit off-topic but one I'd really like to know: what editor are you using there when you're editing the python service? Thanks and congratulations on your launch.
I've used it. Not a fan of many (most) of their design decisions, though it's better than the current alternatives.
I dread the day that scientists try to condense their research into 140 characters. Reading well thought out blog posts would be great, but to be honest, the ideal would simply making it easier for me to find out what the best papers are.
Not sure what the gear is you mention, but I can't think of another company that has Apple's drive for intuitive UI, which is the fundamental purpose of icons.

In contrast, HN is a text-dominant application designed for text-dominant users...
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Which has nothing to do with logos, which are raster images 99% of the time and don't use subpixel rendering for obvious reasons.
Another one: high-margin city-level business that can be repeated in every big city in the world.

Brick and mortar: Starbucks, Jamba Juice, McDonalds, Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, Kumon

Online: Groupon, Uber, Yelp, RedBeacon, SkillShare, Thrillist

There are around one thousand cities with 1M+ population.
If you can build something novel with 1M$ annual revenue and 20% profit margin that can be repeated for every big city, you can raise in order of 100M$ for global scaling.
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It's funny because education is actually is backwards here. You're supposed to want to be taught by an expert in the field.
It all distills down to the Judge's decision - Sun / Oracle might well get / keep a copyright on the SSO / API as long as any use of it covered by the GNU / Apache licenses will always be considered "fair use" (as in free not in the strict legal sense).

Otherwise this will be like having a copyright on speech - first you teach people a language to communicate (and many universities / colleges have invested substantial amounts based on the promise by Sun that it has provided the use of the Java language for free), and later you change your mind and ask a judge to decide if people using the words of the language should not all pay you money for using these words.

If you want to charge people for your language / its implementation you should not provide it as open source e.a. licenses. One reason why so many universities / colleges took Java and not for example C# was because the language was declared as free to use.

If the outcome of this case will be that Google is forced to pay licensing fees for using the building blocks of the Java language, this will also be a death sentence for Java. Already now even with the strong demand for Android developers the demand for Java programmers is shrinking since at least 12 months.

Luckily sharpen (Java -> C#) is making great progress these days and MS is step-by-step understanding the benefits of open source for platform / infrastructure providers.

At the same time how about giving Oracle their way with this process and at the same time provide all universities / colleges / training centers and all those having been trained there the right to reclaim the cost for training in Java and retrain them in another (but still free) language, pay them salaries and educate them for years until they got to the same experience level they might have with Java now. 10 million Java users is a lot and 1995-2012 is a long time.

And lets do these reclaims "Hollywood style" just the way ORCL likes to do it themselves - how about $50 Billion, $100 Billion or even better 10 Million times what they claim from Google Oracle should pay back to all those who invested into the Java language after having been deceived by statements from Sun & Oracle that Java is a free language they can use to build businesses on.
I found myself in a similar situation to the redditor, but with out the bonuses. Part of my duty description was inputting MAC addresses of "authorized computers" into an extremely dodgy database system which allowed them to pick up an IP address via DHCP.

When I first started in the position and had this explained to me I pointed out that anyone could just plug a machine into the network and use trial and error to find an IP address to manually enter and get them onto the network. IE: the process wasn't securing anything.

My point was pushed aside because "this is just the way we do things".

The 1st time I had to input 20+ new PCs into the system I whipped up an autoit script (I had to insert via a terrible GUI interface as the DBAs wouldn't grant me direct access to the database) which grabbed the data required from the xls the supplier gave us and automagically inserted the info. My scripting didn't get noticed until one day when I input 200 machines in the space of an hour, the task had taken the previous person in the role a whole day or more.

I was rewarded with a higher workload and grudges from all my co-workers, who had all previously done the task before moving up the totem pole and dumping this ridiculous job onto the next new sucker.

The highlight was when I gave notice and during my exit planning meeting my supervisor said that one of the old staff would train my replacement on how to do this task, rather than me show someone the system I hacked up which was an order of magnitude more efficient.
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As an American I had to use TinEye to find out that this image was of the Deutsche Post logo.

Then I realized it was a horn, and understood the connection. But only because I had once seen this faux historic mailbox in a SkyMall catalog or the like:

http://www.mailboxnet.com/townhouse_mailbox/mb500_townhouse_...
Are there any operational transform libs that are transport independant? Socket.io and socketstrwam can handle communication.
The publishing houses have been around for centuries, literally.

One of the interesting things about scientific publishing is that the current arrangement is a recent phenomenon. Many journals started out as independent or university-affiliated publications which charged to cover costs; then were gradually spun off or bought out by for-profit institutions through the 60s and 70s. The accretion of publishers into a small number of companies, each with a virtual monopoly on critical journals in the field, resulted in the insane balance of power we currently experience. Inelastic demand for information (it's extremely difficult to do research without access to the major journals in your field) means Elsevier et al can jack up prices almost arbitrarily.
If you prefer a video:

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I didn't take away anything like that from that sentence. I felt that he was saying "the pie is not fixed, and when your company realises that they can get the same results with a much smaller pie, most of your co-workers will be fired, possibly yourself along with them, and replaced with the script you wrote. Prepare to find another pie."
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Even by press release standards, that release is vapid. Searching for Leap Motion reveals a web site equally devoid of information about what Leap Motion does and why we should care about its apparently new 3D motion-control tech.
Happened in America too. Boss took the "hacker" to the side and said "Look, I'd have to fire my entire staff if the higher ups learned of this and then I'd be out of a job too." Ah, nothing like firing the guy who could save your company tons of money just in self-interest.
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So the question I have is how big of an impact is this going to have to online marketers? (Especially if Chrome/IE follow suit)
Is funny that he mentions the Madagascar coup.

That was a strange mess.

The President who was looking at charter cities there had just sold half of Madagascar as farmland to China.

This annoyed a lot of people and in the ensuing kerfuffle, apparently supported by the French and some bits of the UN, the former radio DJ Andry Rajoelina was put in charge of the country, with his first action being to throw out the agreement with China.
When I was teaching I found that you have to learn the subject, then you have to learn to teach the subject. In a pinch some teachers do both at the same time, and as long as they are bright and it is not an advanced level class, this can actually work better.
That's not the worst thing in the world, since most pedagogy that works is of the basic format "You should know X. What should you know? Class repeats X. Good, because you should know X. Timmy, if I say Y, what do you say? Timmy repeats X. Good job Timmy, because you should know X. Susan, if I say Y, what do you say? Susan repeats X. Good job Susan, because you should know X. You should also know that if Y', X'. What should you know? Class repeats if Y' then X'. Billy, if Y', what do you know? Billy says X. Can anyone point out Billy's mistake? June does. Good job June, because if Y', X'. Billy, try it again. Billy does. Good job, Billy. What if Y instead? Billy says X. Good job Billy. Billy got the right answer because Billy knows X, except when Y', then X'. Class, what have we learned? Class repeats X and if Y', X'."

While it is true that they don't know how to code, the more specific status is that they are presently learning to code. That's not the worst thing in the world -- so am I, and I get paid for it fairly regularly.
Well, they keep calling it e-paper which I always understood to be a synonim for e-ink displays. If it's an LCD I think theyre trying to deliberately mislead.
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I think it's actually unfortunate that the first popular server-side JS framework is so tied to the async model. I'd be more likely to try it if it weren't.
If you follow Ries' definition (which seems to be the most accepted and popular), those don't count as startups though.
Even for JavaScript, that's an accessibility nightmare. Horrible!
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Big companies are built to fail. The variety of departments and personal empires built by managers of those departments create an environment where innovation (or even the ability to ask "is there a better way?") gets crushed because "that's not the way we do things." Departmental managers don't optimize for company success. They optimize for personal success. A bigger staff and bigger budget is a promotion. Saving money means a smaller budget means a de facto demotion.

Smart people move on and the big companies are left to wonder why it's so hard to find good talent.
The point about dictionary is an important one. When I teach I try to keep redefining the words I'm using over and over again, even if I've defined them already. I feel this is one of the more underestimated complications.
Especially in my math classes I've always found that teachers are all too eager to just write down some definitions and use them from then on, spewing out theorems that involve them and expecting people to follow. The dictionary takes time to sink in, at least it's always been the case for me.

I am also worried about the analogies and how they're all slightly wrong. I usually resort to trying to explain exactly what the computer does in completely reductionist terms on the bit level when you write an assignment, print, etc, but it's a bit of a rabbit hole and finding the right balance is hard.
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So satellite is responsible for these coverage numbers? I don't buy it. In the report, satellite connections account for a mere 0.65% of all high-speed lines.

I realize that's not the same thing as coverage of zip codes. Unfortunately the report doesn't break out the number of non-satellite providers per zip code. But, it does break out the number of providers of different types reporting per state, and satellite provider numbers are either 0 or redacted across the board (because they're deanonymizingly low).

If you run numbers on the zipcode data for 2008 [1], 88% of US census tracts had 4+ providers, 75% had 5+ providers, and 60% had 6+ providers. It's just not plausible that satellite providers account for this.

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_...
Too many slow javascripts on too many pages, the web is ridiculous these days.
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It's very hard to find good English-language secondary sources on the period. Basically the choice is between liberals, who have a big axe to grind, and various Catholic whackjobs, who ditto. A comment above links to some of the latter.

One exception is Evelyn Waugh's Robbery Under Law (1939), which is fabulous, but only pertains to Mexico. I'd link you to it but Eldred and all that. I am also very, very fond of the great Colombian reactionary Nicolas Gomez Davila:

http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/

I actually prefer reading between the lines of liberal sources, but it's not for everyone. If you want to taste the crack straight from the source, try John Reed:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Insurgent_Mexico.html?id...

Don't smoke it all at once...
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He did say that he "probably overcompensated, which resulted in some lost some detail in the P and S"
> forcing everything into the same font seems a bit excessive;

Worst case seems to be that you go to a site and it's not quite as pretty as it might be, but still perfectly readable. I'd take that in exchange for not having to press a button to make a site more readable.

Can you give examples of the sites you're thinking of?

edit - that should be "worst case provided sites aren't using fonts to display nonstandard icons".
A local maximum will come from those who recently acquired the knowledge. But truly great teachers, that can consistently reach students of diverse aptitudes and thinking styles, are made over the course of decades.
If the judge determines that APIs are indeed copyrightable, will this not have equally important implications for the FSF in the other direction?

To use a particularly well-known example, libraries implementing a readline-compatible API could become subject to the terms of the GPL. Am I wrong?
Reminds me of a Bucky Fuller rant about the "incorrect" words we still use every day even though we know more now than when they came into use.

His best example is "world wide", which he put forward should really be "world around" since we all now know that the earth is a globe and not flat.
Pebble is not their first watch. They've already sold a first generation of watches (http://www.getinpulse.com/) and I would speculate they are likely using the proceeds from these sales.
I actually go well out of my way to avoid pixel-perfect stuff. The cases I mentioned all affect opacity or position by > 30px. There's actually a lot that can go wrong given the different windowing systems. I'd expect there to be more rendering bugs than JavaScript because of that. I can't speak to the functional side as well as I'd like, but I should ping someone at Sauce Labs to see what they've experienced.
Just add an "off" button.

It is beyond me why the current interface still does not have one.

I, like many others, have long installed the greasemonkey script to suppress these idiotic popups. They're even worse than youtube comments. At least the youtube drivel doesn't pop up in your face all the time.
That's an interesting one. I didn't think much about local/brick and mortar businesses. I bet there's a whole other set of pitches that work for those.
We agree Android is important, but we found enough developers who thought iOS/OSX, JavaScript and Python were sufficiently compelling, so we focused on those for launch.

Releasing more libraries is a priority.
At some point they all were startups.

These companies follow very different trajectory than classic high-tech ventures. First, they raise little round to build a single city high-margin unique/defensible product. Then they raise big bucks to go global.

It's not about terminology. Local-to-global is an important and a bit YC-neglected strategy to build a great company that changes the world.
I think you might be onto something.

Shrill (noun) : Someone who falsely pretends to be an independent commentator in 140 characters or less.
But you deleted all of the old comments too. That stinks, there was good stuff in a bunch of those comment threads.
That looks as if the majority of the hits went directly over to the google cache links mentioned here (otherwise most likely this would be > 50k hits at least).

When the link was hitting the HN front page your site was already blocked - when the first person mentioned that the site was not reachable this HN post had about 60 points - anyway guess its the req/sec that killed you (and no cache - guess you don't have that much static content).

Have you seen many facebook referrers from people who repost HN front page stories to Facebook?
Apple operating systems (and Microsoft operating systems too) are absolutely easier to use than Linux. For example, my Linux box regularly throws up dialog boxes that are nothing more than rehashings of error messages printed out by command-line utilities. My Mac computer and my Windows computer never do that.
Thanks, appreciated.

The editor is Sublime Text 2: http://www.sublimetext.com/2
CSS was clearly designed with typography and text layout in mind - and it works wonderfully for that purpose. But it was not created flexibly enough to be well suited for anything else. You CAN make graphical interfaces with it (and we do, because we have to). But it's all hacks.

I think the browser inconsistencies are as frustrating as they are because doing seemingly "simple" things in CSS requires using advanced CSS features in boundary-pushing ways (this wonderful arrow box app is a perfect example). Browser support has to be EXCELLENT before certain simple layout things are even possible. Imagine a CSS that supported things like "vertical-align: center". That's a CSS that wouldn't NEED to have its boundaries pushed to the limits and the rough edges of browsers wouldn't rankle nearly so much.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly people jump to defend CSS as if any criticisms imply that the author thinks we'd be better off back in the days of deeply nested tables. But the sad fact of the matter is that some things really were easier and more dependable (and in some cases, WAY more so) with tables.
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The most interesting thing about this is that it's the first app store that will be available across devices. You could (potentially) own an Android phone and an iPad; but today you need to buy two copies of the app. With Facebook, you only need buy it once.
This is really exciting -- Soundcloud has changed the way I listen to music. Hopefully they will finally bind the spacebar to play/pause!
Why was this not done when Google started supporting https?

It seems almost negligent to have not done it sooner.
City-level startup can be both online and offline.

Besides Groupon and Uber, there are 42floors, General Assembly, Skillshare, ThrillList, Yelp etc.
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My comment on their "Making of" blog post expressing my criticisms was deleted without reply, how friendly!
Thanks for the suggestion - It's on the to-do list now. Thanks!
Is every object on a separate timeline for purposes of operational transformation and synchronization? As an example where this would be noticeable, if I make a change to one object, and then a different one, am I guaranteed that everyone will see the first change before the second? Put from the different side, is it possible for me to not have seen changes on one object yet, but end up downloading a fresh copy of a different object that is from a later point in time? Finally, related to that latter stating, is it possible to use the data before it has fully finished downloading, in that I might only initially need a subset of the objects (and is it even Simperium's goal to keep the entire data store synchronized, or just the active subset)?
Because you have to make sure that Google's https infrastructure can handle the load of 400 million Firefox users?