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Gentlemen,

A Google alert brought your forum to my attention this morning and it all makes for an interesting read. My reference to graphical programming dates back over 25 years when I used a homegrown icon-based language to develop a distributed building automation platform that has sold over $2B worth of systems across 40,000 facilities worldwide. After I sold www.Novar.com to Honeywell, I have been developing a future software development infrastructure that fully utilizes visual computing for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). www.CoreTalk.net provides a list of the Cubicon IoT Infrastructure Capabilities. Your thread points are well taken and I am familiar with all the issues including knowing and interacting with the likes of Dave Thomas and Dick Gabriel who can attest to the credibility of my work.

Let me start by making two points: First, why is software development the ONLY domain left that does not fully utilize visual representations? I claim that all the examples that you cite remain early attempts at mastering visual abstractions for ‘software engineering’ that desperately needs to evolve to a ‘systems engineering’ discipline to manage modern complexities. Many objectors to graphical programming point to the ease of editing with text when there are SO many other issues that need to be addressed in current and future complex network computing ecosystems such as the IoT.
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Now is the time to buy stock in mug manufacturers, seeing as I'm already awash in MongoDB mugs everywhere think how many more $42M can buy....
This is the reason I keep my phone on silent. Not even vibrate anymore, but silent. Keeping distractions under control has greatly improved my mental well-being.
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But how would you express nuances in certainty?
There are things I know, and there are things I believe are probable. Are you saying I should not talk about the latter or leave out the information of certainty for you?
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As Joel Spolsky points out, you might value a t-shirt at $10 because it costs $10 at The Gap. But it actually costs closer to $1. Giving away free t-shirts is basically a no-brainer in promotional terms.
We can talk again once that equally good device exists.
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You should also add in Media sale and consumption - music purchase and listening, etc.
Better lenses are fixed aperture though, so I don't think it's unreasonable to replicate that here. My 24-70 is 2.8 across the board.
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It's similar to when you wanna open a file, but doesn't know what app to open that file type with. The OS shows you a list of apps that can handle that file type and you can choose a default one. Except this is now handled by the browser instead of the OS. And it let's the website choose which "file type", and it's not just for files but for any links. The "file type" is what the web intent is and the app can be any webapp or browser extension.

Sharing in just one of the many examples of intents. You could also have one intent for editing a picture, which would open an app for editing. Or playing a video. Adding an event to the calendar etc. You can make up your own intents, it can be virtually anything.

If you used android, it works just like android intents. When an android app needs to play a video, it doesn't need to say "open app X", it just needs to say "I wanna play this video" and the OS will show the user with a list of apps which registered to be able to do that.
You may enjoy the following TED Talk on the consequences of ``sharing'': http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
This makes me think of sidewiki. Will many people really go find rebuttals and contribute back to the original page? It seems a little bit too much of work.
Firefox and Chrome stable both implement SPDY.

IE users should already be used to lack of rounded corners, full page reloads for address changes, and more things as IE's release policy causes it to fall further behind the web. Not letting them do something else won't change their already poor experience.
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Another point here is Amazon Silk caches/records a huge amount of your browsing, it's between the user and the web, and so does Opera Mobile (not opera desktop as far as I know). Facebook in this way will capture even more than they do through their ubiquitous "like" buttons which are constantly recording where everyone goes.
Glass is a bad material for that kind of application; being brittle, it's weak and unreliable under tension, and the failure mode is shattering without warning.
If that's what you prefer, it's your choice: don't use OS X Mountain Lion (or use it, with Gatekeeper turned off). You (and I) can understand FlashBlock.app is a malware and wouldn't install it, but ordinary computer users don't, and that's the market Apple is after.
Decreasing rate is financial suicide imho, once you've done it there's no reason to stop.

My point of view is I'm offering great value and if they don't want it, someone else does and I couldn't care less.

In the worst case, I'll take the opportunity to go get a better rate elsewhere.

On the other hand, I don't have a very high rate yet and it's much too easy for me to find another job to be really worried.

As you said, I believe far more in having too much work than in reducing your rates (I currently have enough paid work for at least 8 billable days ).
It's not necessarily bad, for example, see how it's used on the linux kernel (+/- like an exception handler)

But of course, having a mess is bad and goto makes it really easy
We all likely personally know a person that SMSs all day, especially if you have a teenager.

However, seeing somebody on their phone briefly doesn't tell you anything. How sure can you be that that passing glance at a person while they were on their phone wasn't the first and only time of the day?

What percent of people fit this criteria? I'd wager that a good portion of them only moderately use their devices. It just seems when you are seen by others doing something you rarely do, they assume you do it all day every day and are obsessed.

tldr; People watching isn't an indicator of how often individual people do things, just how many people are doing something at any given time.
Yuck, web apps.
Virtually every Chrome extension that has to deal with a web page somehow requires those two permissions.
The English language used in this article makes me cringe.
I can't tell the difference between Ruby, VBA, Perl, and SQL at first glance... instead I have to count columns and figure out where a language is
Is there a relation to registerProtocolHandler, somehow?
For Apple, UX includes standardizing things such as payment processing, distribution, and icloud as well as the standard UI bits. It's about the whole package. I agree with everyone else here. This is about Apple keeping control of the ecosystem to provide a well polished and consistent user experience so that their products stand out in comparison.

Apple has always considered itself an appliance company. They push physical products. That is where they want to generate revenue. Everything else is a means to that end. Debating over how much they make off the app store or iTunes is kinda missing the point.
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You have got to be kidding me. Who could possibly consider that "NSFW"? I have literally seen more skin being flashed by clothes people are wearing at work.

I get the necessity for NSFW warnings where appropriate, but anyone who has a problem with that tiny, flickering, black and white half-body shot of a woman in lingerie, clearly within the context of a larger collection, has got something wrong with them.
These kinds of articles need more attention on HN. Copyrights have consistently been proven to be detrimental both the artist and the consumer.
While I agree, there is no shortcut to simply picking up a camera and getting a few thousand shutter actuations to learn whats what (and most definitely not on green box mode if learning is the intention), some demonstrations like pulling two instances of this up and putting distance/focal length at opposite extremes in each to show the compression of the compression of the backdrop work very well.
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The aperture on an SLR only closes once you press the shutter release (or press the depth of field preview button, but those are becoming rare on consumer grade hardware). If the aperture closed as soon as you changed it the camera would be unusable because the viewfinder would become very dark, and the autofocus would stop working.
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I find this statistics to be interesting because technically, outside Android, there's probably not too many new books about Java published by O'reilly unlike in the early 2000 when Java for the web and enterprise exploded.

On the flip side, Head First Design Patterns, Head First OOP, Head First Software Development are all using Java and the Head First series seems to replace the "For Dummies" series for beginner's book (don't get me wrong, I love Head First series because the series attempts to write book from a different angle and it does make sure you remember what you read, just like in the classroom).

Last but not least, O'reilly has the best selection of JavaScript books out there compare to other publisher.

[edited typo :)]
Then FastMail would instantly lose me as regular user. I'd just use it for junk mail.
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> What I find to be the most annoying false cognate is attribute accesses which are secretly method calls.

The issue being that attributes can be accessed at all of course.

> Of course, Ruby, Scala, etc, are not immune to this criticism.

Well they are — or at least Ruby is — in that they don't allow attribute accesses from third-parties at all. Just consider that Python is the same (it is).

Hell, in Python `.` is already a method call. In fact it's a whole sequence of method calls.
Or do like corporation style, quote 3 to 5 times the time it takes your engineers to complete the work and accept the 5% reduction after much talk on how it's breaking your balls (cartman).
> I think that's a pretty significant feature.

The problem here is that you trade a lot of performance for stability that you should have to begin with, so in the end you have worse overall performance just so that a fringe case is covered. What's the worse that can happen if Chrome crashed? You could lose all your tabs because the default setting is "open homepage" instead of "reopen the pages that were open last", but that's your fault.

But let's investigate this more deeply - browser crashes have two major causes - internal bugs and plugins. What used to happen was that Flash (or Acrobat Reader, or whatever) would crash and it would bring down the whole browser. The solution is (of course) one separate process for the plugins. Problem solved. Going beyond that and fitting every tab with its own process to account for the fact that your business isn't really building browsers is of little comfort to me; you shouldn't be dereferencing that NULL pointer to begin with.

Opera has auto-update as well. I guess we'll have to disagree on the reason Chrome has its market share.
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Listings for Java programmers significantly outnumber those for any other language on all the job boards I've checked. I'm not persuaded that some other intangible is driving book sales.
I remember looking at Ikea when buying a sofa-bed earlier this year. I dismissed it as too expensive. This MANSTAD looks great so I decide to have a look.

$699. Not too bad. Much cheaper than I remember Ikea.
Now to look for the Australian Price. Can't be too much more than that. $1299. And that's why I bought a 2nd hand leather couch off gumtree for $200.
I'm glad the EFF is working on this -- their bill of rights at the end is a great proposal. It is so deeply frustrating for Apple to promote a vision of the next generation of computers (i.e., iPhones) where the hardware maker gets to decide what kind of software you're allowed to run.

The other day Gruber posted two consecutive stories that really brought this into focus:

(1) Apple has stayed true to Woz's vision from 1977 for personal computers. [1]
(2) It's not surprising that Apple decided to unpublish software that used a "non-public streaming audio format," because it violated the spirit of section X.Y.Z of their rules of what kind of software you're allowed to run on your iPhone. [2]

Thinking about Woz's actual vision for personal computers, the second story is really a punch in the gut. No one should have that kind of arbitrary control over our computers.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/24/woz-apple-ii
[2] http://daringfireball.net/2012/05/more_on_airfoil_speakers_t...
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I know this is a typo but this is a book that really begs to be written.
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This argument makes about as much sense as claiming that in practice a minority of slaves already have reasonable lives if (a big if) they are tending to a benevolent family (remember that most people simply don't have an iPhone 3G: the iPhone 4S is a vastly different story with respect to the exploits we have; even most of the 3GS's in the wild don't have permanent untethers), those that don't can always escape (as if it were a simple process to do so, or there aren't other tradeoffs and risks), and that giving people general civil liberties would be a sad day as it would deny freedom fighters something to do while playing what is trivialized to a board game (ignoring that there are either other front-lines they could then moving the battle to, and forgetting that there are things more valuable to do in life than spend all of your time and energy fighting for something that should already be true).
> This is unacceptable. Email is unreliable.

Isn't this a spam-filter problem? How does a bad spam-filter imply that e-mail's unreliable?

Did you even __attempt__ to configure your spam-filter(s)?
That's a good point... I based my assumption on the fact that they require a private key for receiving, but not sending.

I guess that doesn't necessarily prove anything...
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Our bedroom is largely from Ikea, except for one bookshelf and one dresser. We have run into precisely zero of these issues. The only significant damage incurred was when we slammed a car trunk onto the bottom of a table, puncturing it underneath. So far, the desk and shelves have survived moves without any problem.

Ikea has a pretty big range of furniture, and some of it is made out of actual wood; maybe that makes the difference.
This is certainly not a inexhaustible list. Just some important areas. Media sales, advertising income, hardware design, integration with 3rd parties etc. are also major components.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a Google Search thing, not a Chrome thing? The Google toolbar in Firefox had the option to upload your browser's entire history to the Search History site, but that's not built into Chrome, afaik.

Chrome does have a sync service, but it requires user action to activate, allows the user to pick what they want synced, and allows syncing omnibox history, not the complete browser history.
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Amazon?

You guys need to realize that practically noone outside of the US has any idea of what Amazon is.
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Where are you getting custom tshirts made for $1? Lets also not forget about shipping and handling (time is money).
It's sad that learning from books doesn't work like osmosis.

If the amount of books i've bought would equate with the number of books I've read I probably would be a more rounded coder...

Is it common to have atleast 5 times the amount of unread coding books in comparison to the read ones?

There are surely lots of Java books bought by students who drop out after the first semester...
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Opera Mini does. Not Opera Mobile (although you can opt in if you like in Opera Mobile and the Desktop version).
Where it has value, I think, is giving people a reference for the number of important variables. Modern DSLRs are covered in controls and symbols and modes, etc. and I believe for a beginner it can be quite overwhelming. Having just these key factors in mind when shooting could plausibly give a beginner the right set of variables to focus on without being distracted by all the other fluff.

That being said, I absolutely agree that the only way to learn photography is to get out there and shoot.
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I think I'd be hard pressed to find anyone here in the UK that doesn't know what Amazon is.
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Mathematics also has many false cognates. I agree that they make the subject harder than they should be for beginners by bringing in extra baggage. It takes more effort to dampen an old association and compartmentalize a new one than to form new ones.

A good example I can think of right now is Imaginary numbers and complex numbers. The legendary Gauss said they would have been better named Lateral Numbers.

But for programming languages avoiding false cognates is even harder as they not just naming things, but also deciding structure and must draw from the same pool of words as hundreds of other languages.
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I don't see why you need to learn vim. Just open your files with your preferred editor from the command line, as in Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial. It's a google away to set up 'subl' to open a file in sublime text 2, for example.

I think the larger idea of knowing the surrounding tools and resources is crucial and can be glossed over (for example, not once has a professor at my university mentioned StackOverflow). Great idea making this post mikk0j.
I may have had bad luck, but the last time I shopped there, the customer experience was horrible. I had a new tenant coming in, so perhaps I was buying more than a usual purchase, but an app that let me know where to pick up all the parts for items (for some I would have to go to different parts of the warehouse) and let me check them off as I got them (perhaps using the phone as a scanner) would have been very useful...
Very cool; I forgot about web intents for a while, but this is very encouraging. Who will build the extension to rule them all?

Example use cases where file is at an arbitrary URL:
1. Save a file - saves file in your dropbox.
2. favorite a song - music service (i.e. soundcloud) saves to your favorites
3. get copy of code repo - forks the repo for you on a versioning system service (i.e. github)
4. register for event - adds event to your scheduling service (i.e. plancast, google calendar)

What other ideas can you think of?
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You're not at depth limit, HN just limits replies per minute to reduce the incidence of flamewars taking over the page.
This reads like a parody of all these types of blog posts.

I mean: "The iPhone plainly put is the perfect phone size. It feels right, this is not something Steve Jobs would have gotten wrong."

Totally made me chuckle. Upvoted for the brilliant parody value alone.
Apparently he doesn't have WWW setup on his domain.

Thanks for the fix.
It depends on your performance use case. 2^32 is only about 540MB of RAM so you can allocate that all at once and then all subsequent actions are read/writes.
I like this approach, it is very straightforward and allows for easy internal collaboration. Obviously, buckets visualize the amout of people in different stages of your hiring process very well. If I had to hire people, I'd try this instantly.

Edit: I have to apologize. I overlooked that the names are made up, so the following statement is incorrect. Sorry Ryan!

Sadly, I have to whine about some privacy issues: I don't approve of Ryan Carson's publishing the names of his applicants how it can be seen in the screenshot at [1]. I'm quite sure these are real names beloging to their applicants, and I wouldn't like to see my name published when I'm applying for a position at this company. On top of that, I would feel sad to see that my name had been greyed out but Person XY has advanced to the next stage.

Perhaps it is better to anonymize the information as I suspect it was not Ryan's intention to publish these names.

[1] http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4s36gOUJz1rneiz8.png
In my experience:

> Foster good principles of logical debate within the community

This is the most agonizingly difficult problem to deal with.

Getting people to actually judge arguments on their logical and factual merit is ridiculously difficult. Many do not even seem aware such criteria exists, much less have capability to recognize or respect those traits in opposing arguments. The moment you start touching on politically or emotionally-charged issues like religion and discrimination, fair judgment of opposing logic and facts becomes scarce.
lusr, that is extremely non intuitive for sure. Have you checked in Nikon addressed this in a later firmware release?
According to this site[1], CrapWow seems to be the best in raw performance: http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/noncryptohashzoo/CrapWow.htm... (Crap8 in second place and Murmur3 in third place - one at a time performs quite badly in this guys benchmarks)

Performance graphs: http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/noncryptohashzoo/speed.html

[1] http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/noncryptohashzoo/
Still, to compare amazon with apple, facebook, microsoft or google is ludicrous.
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