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Both, actually - we have some real designers on the team to help examine submissions, as well as people versed in IA/UX and accessibility. We (the board) have gotten lots of feedback over the years, and really want to make something more accessible, welcoming and modern.

The team vetting the designs is not 100% board members, intentionally so - as I said, we have domain experts as well as psf members, it's a small team to keep the noise down, but the goals and thoughts are outlined in the RFP as much as possible.
Oracle acquires Vitrue
Wow I could have written this same exact blog post. "Maybe all the time I spend looking for better ways to do things is keeping me from, well, doing things." This realization also hit me not too long ago. Everything had to be setup just right, I had to know every little detail, and it had to be done efficiently. However, I realized I was getting absolutely nothing done. I learned much more and got more things done by just jumping into whatever I needed to accomplish.

"The perfect is the enemy of the good" - Voltaire
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Yet another screw-up involving "real" money/assets and a "real, tested" financial system to add to my collection of "See, it's not just Bitcoin's youth or digital embodiment" rebuttals... I'm looking forward to seeing how all this plays out. I still think the stock price will go up past $38 over the next 6 months, but we'll see.
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I will definitely give this a try. Nice job!
IBM makes ships these days? ;) But yeah, that service is pretty much a voluntary wiretap capability right there.
Many site contributors prefer offline editing - such as checking out a repo and performing the work, then submitting to online editing. Additionally, the workflow of certain sub sites, such as the jobs board require a fair amount of offline vetting prior to content going live.

Essentially, we have to serve two styles of workflow - we have both types of people wanting to contribute content today, and we are attempting to fulfill their workflow needs. A 100% online CMS does not do that.
I don't see a difference between this and Pinterest or Instapaper. The author says "In Instapaper (as far as I know) you can’t grab an article list from another user and package an eBook that you can then download." I would say that's something that Instapaper should/will add as a feature. Now I understand what the author is saying, but this is a bit paranoid:

Readlists is a service to allow people to completely avoid reading a content producers site, allowing them to repackage and redistribute their content all without permission.
See: https://twitter.com/ncoghlan_dev/status/205290363437580289

:)
Is the list public or do you prefer to keep it to yourself?
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Why do so many languages choose JS as a 'middle' language? Is it something inherent to the language itself that makes it particularly easy/attractive? Or is it simply because of the availability of the interpreter in the browser?
I agree that is is not useless, however its usefulness is limited to the implementation level, verifying the translation from the Haskell specification to assembly/C/blub implementation is correct.

The higher level question is whether the Haskell specification fully and correctly specifies the desired behavior. In my 30-odd years of experience in Mil/Aerospace, I have never seen a fully and correctly specified set of requirements that could be transliterated into correct executable code. If nothing else, they all have had implicit assumptions. That is the Achilles heel of the IBM "Master Programmer" method, reborn as "outsourcing".

Since the specification is executable Haskell, that implies they wrote Haskell test programs to show that the specification implements the desired behavior.

Writing a program to verify the specification that another program implements... and then claiming a formal proof of correctness of the system is now recursive. Turtles all the way down.
I can see the value in having a pointer to get people to your app, I can see that a URL distribution method like a QR code is an appropriate method, but doing it in a card shaped like an app icon is a gimmick, and will create small annoying pieces of paper for people.

If they are handed out surely you can use something more effective, like a QR code on your device snapped by their's and if they are to be left somewhere they will be too small to be an effective call to action.

As ever I find myself thinking that promoting apps with pieces of paper seems like a compromise solution ...
Blind since the day I was born and lovin' almost every minute of it. AMA
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I'd guess that there are current website editors (especially writing docs) whose existing workflows include a lot of offline time. Poor Internet connections at home, lots of time traveling and working on airplanes, vacations to beautiful places with no Internet...
Get enough money to be happy because the startup probably will close and the equity probably will worth nothing. But remember to take some equity just in case they are the next Google :).

Some ideas about how much equity you should get, by Joel Spolsky:
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
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I recommended the Minimoog VA VST to some people earlier:

http://home.no/gunnare/

A lot of fun if you have a Windows installation knocking about. Free VST host, if you need one:

http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm

Not quite the same thing, but it has the same level of accessibility in the interface - a testament to the engineers who put the Minimoog together.

I liked this brief history of the Minimoog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLx_x5Fuzp4

edit

Similar (cross-platform) fun is to be had with the Bristol project's Mini:

http://bristol.sourceforge.net/mini.html
> "all humans have equal value"

That's because they don't. Pretending all humans have equal value is insane, and stupid.

This is why we have pass rates of 97%+ in school exams. Because of loonies who refuse to acknowledge that people are different, and have different strengths and weaknesses.
Its been said but I would like to point out that this type of customization is trivial on android. The ability to customize many parts of my phone is one of the reasons enjoy using the platform. I have recently seen online communities springing up with non-coders showing off their individualized android phones.
This is definitely a shameless plug, but I thought it might be worth mentioning here that my current side project is a MIT-licensed Python documentation API called "Python Docs," available at: http://github.com/mvanveen/docs .

The goal is to leverage static analysis as much as possible to provide an intuitive API for Python documentation primitives. So far I have used the project to power a code browsing interface that I recently started working on, but I think that others could find the project really useful.
What can they sell me based on the fact that I just liked someones wedding photo / baby picture / witty comment? I like my friends businesses and other local peoples businesses on Facebook because I want them to do well. I've never gone on to Facebook to like a business because a transaction went smoothly. I think that's weird and think my friends would too when they see it on some feed.
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Get back to me when all the standard IDEs can also properly inspect these things in the debugger and give me an error message less than half a page long when I make a tiny syntactic mistake in my code.
Actually, social proof would be if someone other than yourself submitted this story ;-)
Why do gmail search results not have page numbers?
I'm saying that you need to broaden your input so that the people who would look at the devguide aren't the only people you're hearing from. Python can approach a local maximum that way, but the things that would make it truly awesome and attractive to web developers would be too out of the box for someone to think of like that. I'm saying, ask everyone, the whole community.
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We're not talking about retail investors getting fleeced by big traders. We're talking about $100M positions held by professional traders who were told to go pound sand by the exchange.

The questionable nature of many aspects of Facebook's business are not new -- an IPO investment in Facebook is by it's nature a speculative investment in the future. So was Netscape, the company that started the dotcom boom.

But unlike the good old days in the 90's, today we find ourselves in a new world where for-profit exchanges who handle billions of trades a day suddenly cannot handle an IPO. You have institutional investors stuck with seemingly illiquid positions in Facebook panicking to close positions poisoning the well and creating an atmosphere of ambiguity and fear.

You can't roll out the "investment is a long term endeavor" bunkum when the entire business model of NASDAQ-OMX and NYSE-EuroNext is now to operate a liquid market. The NASDAQ utterly and completely failed to operate the market correctly, and traders who expect to be able to trade quickly were hosed. Facebook, the traders, and the retail investor all suffered because of NASDAQ's incompetence.
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This is what ultimately led me to replace my iPhone4 with a Galaxy Nexus last week. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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You won't read their free book that you would have otherwise liked to have read because they don't distribute it in your preferred format but instead in 2 very ubiquitous formats that are easily converted? Really? This is not a personal attack but it is a criticism and I think it applies to a lot of people, really.

There seems to be this really weird trend where people seem to think they're entitled to free stuff when and how they want it. They don't quite come out and demand it but the subtext is clear as day. Your comment and much of the others exemplify this. You basically just said "I'm not reading it because it doesn't come in my preferred format" which isn't far from "they should release it in the format I desire". (it's not what you say but how you say it). Then there's that direct download link and the complaints about giving an email to get a PDF. That's entitlement. It seems the beggars believe they can also be choosers. Someone is giving something at no cost but people still feel they should be able to circumvent simply giving an email which they can unsubscribe from later quite easily. Imagine if 37Signals set up a booth on a public street corner and gave away hard copies of their book and then people went around saying "I shouldn't have to walk to the booth and say hi to Jason and DHH, they should just ship it to me". Its really not that big of a stretch!

I happen to notice a lot of this and it really gets to me.
Best of luck with the redesign. I recently started learning Python and finally realize what I've been missing for so many years.

I'm not sure of the intended audience of python.org (new users vs. experienced), but as a brand new Python user, the current website is filled with lots of great information, but is a bit intimidating. I think the Python language really sells itself and it would be nice to see some simple examples on the homepage as is done on the NodeJS page (e.g. http://nodejs.org/).

Reading through some of the posts on Guido van Rossum's blog was also very inspiring ("Python in the Scientific World", "The depth and breadth of Python"). It's great to see a BDFL so actively involved. There are so many great stories about how Python is used successfully across in so many industries and among well-known brands. It would be great to see more of this on the main page.
I'm not in Africa, but I do have slow (dialup) internet in the US, and every G+ link is a nightmare.

About half the time, it just fails to load, as if there's some agressive timeout in its SSL.

When it does load, it shares an annoying behavior with an increasing number of sites, of displaying a white-on-white page, with only icons visible, until some stylesheet loads at the very end, at which point it can finally be read.

I suspect there is also javascript that times out or fails to gracefully handle failure to load some resources. I've never seen the flashy bling that people were talking about when G+ launched.

Oh, and as a SSL-only site, it of course defeats entirely all my local web caching.

To give some idea of how slow it is, I've had a single G+ page loading the entire time I typed this. Still consists of a white-on-white page.

I have, in some instances, needed to ssh to a fast remote server, and read G+ via w3m when there was a link I really wanted to read.

In contrast, when I click on a HN page, it comes up with very little discernable delay. The rare times I go to facebook, it may take it a minute to come up, but it always loads.

Around 5% of the US population still uses dialup.
Many outside the UK do not seem to understand our Royal family. Just try to understand that they do not impose their wishes/power/etc upon us. They act on behalf of us. If they put a foot wrong or misjudge public opinion, there is uproar.

The Royal family is an immense force for good and long may it continue.

It certainly has nothing to do with there being "more than one kinds of people" - which is a cop out 'argument'.

I wouldn't wish being a Royal on my worst enemy. I have enormous respect for the tireless, sometimes thankless task they are forced to perform day in, day out, binding the country together towards common goals and purpose.
That's out of date. Try http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ which has cables planned up to 2014
There was a ask HN thread not long ago.

The list, totally unrated, is:

There is no speed limit

This one

Most of pg's non-tech essays (since I don't understand the technical ones)

The SpaceX couverage (being in Aerospace, I'd like to hide in shame compared to what sapceX did, but a bright example of what actually is possible)

Being deaf (it open my mind to something I never really thought about)

Among others, of course!
Almost certainly the latter. And it's not so much "I want to design a language. Ooh, I'll make it compile to JavaScript!" as "Dammit, why is X so hard in JavaScript X but trivial in language Y? Hmm, I know...". To me, it's testament to just how dynamic JavaScript and prototypal inheritance are.
A great way to be original and distinctive when networking. App2Card is made by a small shop from Quebec city. So my props for being creative and independent!
<shameless plug> A couple years back I was working at Bug Labs and we relied heavily on the Openembedded project. We contributed source code patches as you would expect, but one unique contribution was having our designer make a new logo for Openembedded. You can see it on their website today. </shameless plug>

This doesn't seem to occur to people very often, but if your company is relying on an open source project, source code patches are not the only way to contribute back.

Can you spare some time from your designer? Help out with a logo or website design work.

Do you have a doc writer? We all joke about RTFM, but if there is no manual that doesn't help much.

There are some things that developers don't necessarily want to do, so those areas often lack on open source projects based on volunteers. A company using their resources to fill in some of the gaps helps a lot.

I also don't understand why designers will compete on 99designs but don't seem to contribute to open source that often. If you are trying to break into the industry by showcasing your work, why prefer the 1 in 30 odds of having your design chosen in a crowd sourcing competition over actually helping out an existing project?
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You can request anything. They're all public records. Granted, they'll call you and try to whittle you down. If its especially burdensome they'll charge you for the man hours it takes to compile all of the information.

If someone who ran a government office runs for elected office, chances are the opposing candidate will hire someone like me, and chances are I'll request all of the office's records for review. Thats how we find things like this. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/chris_christie_exce...

The relevant passage: The travel records date to when he was sworn in as U.S. attorney in 2002. They were obtained this week by the campaign of Christie's Democratic opponent, Gov. Jon Corzine, under the Freedom of Information Act.
Am I correct in believing that the scope of these documentation proposals is limited to the python standard library and runtime, and does not include the Python package index?
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It seems you missed my point that defining none scoped functions pollute the namespace. They also tend to drive the developer to be too generic for the specific usage that is needed. Scoped functions can be customized both in name and function to the specific need that they fulfills within their narrow scope. The problem with scoped functions in Ruby and Javascript is that they cannot be called before they are defined. Thus, the "thesis" of the code needs to come last, which is opposite to what the reader wants.
Hmm... some of the apps mentioned have costs, some require logins, some don't integrate well with other apps, some don't exactly rock the design department. While each of them has something to love, I don't know how much real scale this "replacement" process is. B/c to get some of these great features, I have to give up confidence that it's "Apple vetted and integrated". For a techie, it's a relief to have a non-apple capability, but I wonder about the average consumer, who likes the "free, integrated, no accounts/logins required, apple-ly cute" aspects of default apps.

If anything, I expect to see things go the other way: Apple will replace google maps with it's own maps, and any other app that we really love a lot will have an Apple analog: integrated deeply but controlled by them. Siri was but the first step, I fear.
Are you certain this isn't just you?

I've heard of exactly one of the dozen-odd apps you listed, and that one only because it's been on the frontpage of HN so often. I don't have a copy of it though.

I think that people who customize their iPhones to this level just assume that it's normal to do so. Among people I know who have them, there's a sharp divide between the small percent who have seven pages of apps and most people I know who have maybe 3 or 4 apps installed.
As a designer, I found the content well presented but kind of fluffy.

Design is about understanding the users and the experience you're trying to create. How long it took, colors chosen and testing w/ real content are mainly just technical details.

I would have loved to hear about the process of breaking down how Circle would improve the lives of your users and the design thinking around that.

Or even why the "simplistic circle" concept made the most sense for the problem you're solving, outside of the aesthetic/branding appeal.

It might have made a good sales pitch for your product as well.
I wasn't aware there was a threshold on censorship issues?

Does book burning still count or have we raised the bar to extreme renditioning before we can be concerned?
The main duties of the Lords are to impart wisdom and delay bills. On the whole this is a good thing, and it is unclear what benefits will come from being democratically elected.
All these new services enabled by advancing technology are great, but companies really need to start being more upfront about what they're doing with your data.

I'm willing to give information to companies to let them make my life easier as long as I know the tradeoffs. I should be able to make the determination on the value of my data, but I can't do that if I don't fully understand exactly what I'm giving up.
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I'm not taking a stance on whether significant whitespace is better or worse than the alternative. I'd consider swapping the {} for

where
...
end

which would make more sense and is more similar to Haskell
If you want something that isn't a toy and emulates all the best features of analogue synths, try AlsaModularSynth -- http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ -- also available as amsynth in many Linux repositories. It's got demos that emulate Moogs in all their glory.

Steep learning curve as you'd expect from a full modular synth, but lots of samples and demos, and works with MIDI so you can play it with a real keyboard.
That might get you an IDE plugin for working with Java VAMPIRE tools for Bayesian statistical analysis of gene expression array data.
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You probably already know this, but your website doesn't function correctly in IE.
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I'm currently "in charge" of posting most of the PSF related updates, like meeting minutes and resolutions. It's only a once-a-month thing, but it's a huge pain in the ass. To do this, I hop over to my SVN checkout of the site, make a change, build it locally, then `svn ci` my changes and hope they build on the real site and hope we both have the same versions of everything.

I'm currently writing up a doc for a non-techie to take over that task and the steps to go from a clean machine to a functioning system that can make even simple typo fixes are barbaric.
I walk every line of code I write multiple times with a debugger. So the answer is, a lot. But I mostly work in an environment that makes debugging easy (VS).

Lack of good debugging support is a good reason to avoid a platform. Logging, screen writes, dumps, are awful ways to work.
What he said.

The vast, vast majority of 'regular' iPhone users have never, and will never hear of the apps described in this post. For them, the default apps are just fine.

That's not to disparage the choice, just to recognise that regular users don't care about this kind of thing one bit.
It's pretty much the web's bytecode. When minified and gzipped, it's pretty small, too.