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Lobster is bad. Bello is bad. They're bad because they are ill-designed typefaces that leave much to be desired in the realm of readability and just the general aesthetic. They're display fonts that you can't compare to something like Gotham that can be used as display, headline or body.

Saying Gotham is overused is like saying Arial, Tahoma, Verdana are overused for web. If it is clean, visible at a distance and generic looking enough not to be annoying, it's hard to say it is overused, much like Helvetica.

Note: I say this as a designer that sees Lobster and Bello used (almost literally) hundreds of times a day in various capacities, a lot like Museo back in the day (yuck). Not sure if it is because they're Google fonts or if one startup used it and therefore every company had to use it, but in most situations they're the completely wrong type to use and when you see them, it's usually a sign of indolence/ignorance or lack of a real designer.
This really only works for cheap commercial genre-material. This doesn't work for quality works of literature.

Which leads back to the original point.
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Plugins+Extensions are terrifying and awesome simultaneously.

When that warning says "all your data on all of your websites" it f'ing means it.

Imagine the extension as a person on a computer in a remote location who is looking through every web page that you visit and taking actions on your behalf.

Different extensions might:

- Look through the content of a page and find things that are likely phone numbers and make them Skype links

- Select sections of a page and push their content to a server (ala Clipboard)

- Check if you're on a banking site, append an iframe of the site to itself and transfer funds out of your account.

It's the web browser equivalent of downloading a program onto your desktop, once it is installed (sandboxing aside) it can do quite a bit.
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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river causes a lot of environmental damage. They dont want Chinese citizens to read about it.
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> does Psychonaut appear to have some Burton-esque feeling to it as well?

Early Burton aye, it reminds me of Beetlejuice.
I didn't realize they were that short, so I donated, again. As a listener (as I type this), I appreciate the post.
They are fighting it by giving Chinese internet users access to a search engine that reveals when censorship is occurring. This is not a move that the Chinese government will be happy about. Google needs to carefully toe a line here. If they take a harder stance then the Chinese government will block them 100% from operating in China, which does far less good in fighting censorship.
In the .git folder, I have multiple of these files:

FETCH_HEAD
FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (1))
FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (3))
FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (4))
index
index (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (1))
index (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (3))
index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (4))
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Amazing analysis. When things like this get such large rounds I can only assume it's because they love the team and are confident that if this does not work out they will pivot to Pinterest for food or something.
I am working on my business model (and not posting a begathon). That's why I feel entitled to say they should work on theirs.

I don't begrudge them continued success. I just don't think this is the appropriate way to go about it.
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That's sad. I hope this doesn't become a trend for future Indie Bundles.
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Okay, thanks for the reply.

I myself had done the same thing for some clients.

The clients were quite confused when they saw the error message after pasting text from some external rich text editor that littered everything with <span>s.

I wonder if there is a better way...
Touchy, touchy. In the context of the OP, if the user liked the shoes but not the website, she could order them on Zappos (for example) instead.
Awesome! I'm glad you like it :)
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I hate to disagree with the inventor of the internet, but TLDs are not necessary. Not new ones, not the old ones. (While I'm at it -- Mr. Gates, file name extensions should not be necessary either.)

A domain name should be composed of a string of characters on a first come/first serve basis. A company shouldn't have to buy multiple domains to protect their brand.
in theory gnu parallel can be used to automate an idea in place like xargs
My big question: Why do we have TLDs in the first place? Why are they needed?

Or are they an accident of happenstance much like "http:// ?
Exactly! In 2 weeks it'll be over 15$ I bet.
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I think you only get that with recent blockbuster releases that garner "fanboys" who feel that game X is either the best thing in the universe or a direct insult to their mother, even though they've never played the game.

I mean, look at Mass Effect 3 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Older games like Psychonauts and Amnesia tend to have more accurate user ratings.
I hope this means they are developing a connector that doesn't require special cables and chargers for new Apple devices. I know it's been said a million times before, but they really should just move to two ports: micro usb & 3.5mm. Even if that means they need to extend the usb spec to support things like analog audio.
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if by "currently" they mean "as of March 9, 2011" (the day the requisition was posted), then sure...

I suspect that a "Connector Design Engineer" doesn't necessarily mean they only focus on engineering the dock connector; there are many, many connectors in the internals of most iDevices -- just open one up and see for yourself.
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It's not quite that simple. Primitive obsession is a form of duplication, and it's particularly difficult to spot without practice. Once found, it can be a real bear to remove. Chapter 4 of my screencast [1] shows this; it took me an hour and a half to refactor a trivial application to remove its primitive obsession. (And there's strong case to be made that some of the difficulty I had in earlier episodes was due to primitive obsession as well.)

I agree that premature abstraction is a pain, too, so I wouldn't want to go down that route. However, preventing primitive obsession can be as trivial as using a two-method wrapper class. More methods and abstraction can be added on an as-needed basis. Also, removing the wrapper class is automatable with the "Inline Method" refactoring in some IDEs.

So the design tradeoffs I see are:

1- Primitive obsession: high duplication burden, high complexity burden, hard to remove

2- Wrapping primitives that don't need it: low complexity burden, easy to remove

So I prefer to error on the side of wrapping primitives. That said, I've never actually encountered a case where I wrapped a primitive that didn't need it, and I still accidentally create the primitive obsession smell a lot. It seems so innocuous at first.

[1] http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play/
I usually give most of the money to charity. While I have purchased the majority of the Humble Bundles, I don't actually have time to play games. For many of the bundles, I've not even bothered to download the files. That's how I rationalize it anyway.
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I poked around and wasn't able to find a way to export my structured data (RSS, API, something). This is admittedly something that would initially only appeal to a very select few users, but would enable both much richer users of the data and at least the beginnings of an ecosystem around your product.

Also, and this is not to be negative, but I have been burnt repeatedly by bookmarking/clip services going out of business and while I wish you the best of luck a _key_ aspect of trying a new one is that they do not act as a roach motel for my data.
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I went 75% developers, 25% humble on this one; I'm usually much closer to 50% devs / 30% charity / 20% humble. My reasoning being this is an above-average bundle IMO, and I want to see the developers rewarded handsomely so that more critically-acclaimed games will come to the bundles.
Care to be a little less heartless. SOMA-FM is great and helps many of us get through the day at our jobs.

That's an extremely funny (ironic) remark to make to someone who is in the kind of deep doo doo I am in through no fault of my own. My debts are due to getting myself well when the rest of the world not only said it could not be done but actively tried to hinder my efforts. I could, instead, be using many thousands of dollars per year (or even month) of medical care at taxpayer expense. No one cares that I am saving them money and very few people care that my situation is incredibly unjust.

Peace and carry on, Mr. (or Ms.) Big Hearted.
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This article doesn't make a lot of sense. If the next-generation iPhone is to be released later this year, the design is close to being finished by now. Either this next iPhone won't have an updated dock-connector, or it's already been designed. This job posting may signify that the former is true, or more likely is unrelated to the iPhone.
The same here in Argentina. You have may have a Computer Science which belongs to the "Exact Science" department (along with Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, etc...) and then, you have a Software Engineering curriculum in the Eng department, (along with Electrical, Mechanical, Nautical, etc)...

Back in the day I choose Software Engineering because the other (CS) seemed extremely theoretical to me. But I think that having that "blur line" of yours (ref to SoftwareMaven), let's you mix both worlds a little more, so I would prefer that. But maybe it's just because we always want what we don't have ;)
That doesn't mean you should compare the country to second and third world countries when analyzing if something needs improvement or not

That's like comparing America's murder rate to El Salvador and saying it's perfectly fine. Instead, it should be compared to first world countries, and it's soon very clear that it's not OK and is a serious problem for such a prosperous country.[1]

This kind of comparison leads to apathy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
(sort the list by "most recent", and have a look where the United States sits compared to the next first world country.
I guess you're new to Hacker News?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202081

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982142

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3954596

Real databases have real features like transactions, and guaranteed writes to disk, and not retarded security. Crazy shit like a commonly-used query language and tool support.
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The rift between CS and SE is unfortunate. To use Greek terms for different kinds of knowledge, computer science is logos (reasoning from first principles). Software engineering is metis (practical, local knowledge). They complement each other.

I suspect that the only reason there is such a rift in the first place is because the sources of funding for people employed in CS and SE are different. CS is funded via (predominantly) government grants. SE, clearly, is typically funded privately.

Like China commenting on diplomatic rows between North and South Korea, I'll say: both sides need to learn how to work with each other.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to help keep a schedule?
Such as calendars, todo apps, freeform "scratch" files, etcetera.

Personally I tried Google Calendar for a while and didn't like it. I currently use a plain scratch text file to hold a schedule/todos/etc, but the simplicity actually gets in the way with the schedule, enough that I'm looking for a better solution.
Those HN'ers in the SF Bay area may want to visit the USS Hornet (CVS-12), the aircraft carrier that recovered Apollo 11 and 12. In the hangar bay, they have an isolation unit used to hold the astronauts (basically just a modified Airstream trailer).

This page has a photo of the command module being hoisted aboard the carrier:
http://www.uss-hornet.org/history/apollo/
This is the best HN iPad app for sure - nice work! I like the news:yc iPhone app although though, so not sure I'll switch. One thing I'd like in a HN app is a "night mode", the reddit app I use (Alien Blue) has such a mode, which is great because I always read HN&Reddit in bed.
They hotlinked to a different domain, and the traffic brought the other site over its allotted bandwidth. Very un-neighborly thing to do. You should always host your own images or use a dedicated image host.

Edit: never mind the moralizing, it was his own domain that he linked to :)
Investors are interested because GrubWithUs is the only company solving the overcapacity problems that cripple many urban restaurants. Rents are high, so extra space is expensive, but everyone wants to go out on Friday and Saturday nights so the restaurant tries to accommodate them. Leaving a bunch of unused floor space on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

GrubWithUs lets the restaurant sell off that extra floor space in chunks, and keeps a good chunk of the value captured (and also gets people to meet each other, or something like that).
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I should clarify that I posted this, not Browserling. I'm just a happy customer.

I put YC Reject in the title because I thought it would be interesting to explore the companies who didn't make it into YC, but have still grown into successes.
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No doubt they've applied for .plus
I was having trouble using this on Firefox 13 (beta). I keep getting "Invalid referer." dialog boxes when entering the artist in and three "Invalid referer." dialog boxes when going to a Artist Report. The only information loaded on the Artist Report is the Biography.

Just loaded the site in Chrome and works great.
Basically, we should only learn the 'real' programming skills and forget that the whole state of computing technology rests on the shoulder of giants who created these algorithms and did all this research for 'real programmers'. Oh, we certainly don't need CS, because it gets in the way of writing code.

Seriously, I understand what the author is trying to convey, but IMHO he goes too far on the bias against CS.
It is a serious handicap to program anything worthwhile and using APIs and frameworks without understanding (at least to some degree) what they do ... my .2 cents
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I agree — at the time the presentation was produced, he was an external consultant for Microsoft.

However, as per his LinkedIn, he does work for Microsoft today:

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My understanding: arbitrary decision back in the 80s. People needed some kind of label-to-ip-address resolution protocol, and why not make it hierarchical? A top-level-domain is just the top of the hierarchy in the domain name system.

Someone correct me if there's a juicier anecdote.

Here is what I mourn: that we write subdomains from right to left, instead of right to left. We see it in programming namespaces, but I still wish we had com.foo.bar.baz instead of baz.bar.foo.com
Amnesia is fantastic example of using gameplay mechanics and rules to create mood.

Amnesia wants to use its interlocking game systems to make you feel afraid: You stay sane longer in the light. You have a limited amount of lamp oil with which to create light. Monsters make you insane (and kill you). Monsters can see you better in the light. Monsters make you go insane more quickly if you look directly at them (in the style of Lovecraft, gazing on things you should not see rend your mind).

The end result of this is a pretty wonderful set of rule balancing where, upon seeing a monster, the player immediately douses their lamp and hides in a dark corner staring at the wall, slowly going insane from a horror they cannot look at, knowing that looking at it will make them go truly mad, and turning on light for comfort will bring them a swift death.

It helps that on the art side, the visuals and audio are all built around creating and enhancing the mood, of course, but it's rare that there are a bunch of interlocking systems which can shape your behavior in a way that's that harmonious with an expected emotional output, a mood, tone, etc.

The game is rough around the edges and definitely created by a small team, but what it achieves is pretty rare.
Not really. He is offering incentives that normal people wouldn't like in order to get hackers emails.

I totally would want to do something with email if my target was normal people.
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HyperCard 2012 could be positioned as a better (and more powerful/useful) Powerpoint. Put it on the web and make it multiuser.
> software engineering is still largely a collection of (fairly subjective and contextually-sensitive) best practices.

I agree

I'm glad I did computer science. Even though my title now is Software Engineer, I learned most software engineering best practices on the job. What's very difficult to learn on the job is computational complexity theory, advanced data structures and algorithms, or simply a solid background in discrete math. Basically, you probably won't find yourself contributing hard, cognitively challenging problems in computation with a "software engineering" degree. In hindsight, if I had done some kind of "software engineering" program, I really would have sold myself short.
It's my understanding that .info didn't take off because all the internet marketers and SEO people pounced on it as a way to pick up cheap meaningful names, thus creating a swarm of appalling 'informational' sites. I don't know of many if any .info sites I use regularly or ever.

OTOH, .biz and .pro didn't gain traction because they were shit.
We found 1140 results for "Obama" and an additional 6 that contained "Romney"" - for some reason people are far more likely to reference Obama over Romney when naming their router.

Seriously? Maybe because one has been president for four years and the other is just a blip right now with the potential of either becoming president or just another has-been?
Not sure if you guys are still reading this thread, but I've got an extensive collection (3k+ images) that I've already stored up on Lookwork, in addition to hundreds of posts on Snip.it.

Clipboard finally looks like an end-all be-all for these types of services, but my problem with getting involved in yet another curation site is that I have these thousands of posts with their own tags already. Will there be any future efforts to allow the mass-upload / transfer of this content? I'd love to use the site but I can't pull myself away from two other dedicated services I've put years of effort into.

Edit: Actually, upon populating my feed and checking out the public posts, I'm not sure how this is any different from Snip.it and how the content is any better than the regurgitation on Pinterest or Piccsy. Also the layout is really busy and turned me away quite quickly.

Snip.it's primary feed is at least dictated by staff members who have gone through and vetted that the user's posts are substantial enough to warrant showing them on the front page as a means of proving quality. Much like I told the founders in the Piccsy thread, I think it is hard to launch a service like this when so many exist and your content looks the same and is equally unfulfilling. Piccsy's response was that users would do the legwork to enhance their experience, and my retort was that users don't want to bother doing all of this extra work when tomorrow another site like this will launch with higher quality content and a better layout. Thoughts?
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This movie gets so much completely unnecessary hatred. Yeah, it's a joke, but there is plenty of little nods to "real" culture in there. To me it has always been pretty obvious that it was supposed to be silly, but that the people making it knew what they were doing.

I'm pretty sure most of the books from that scene were actually real books.
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Don't forget that they can't make the phones and ipods much thinner without redesigning the 3.5mm jack, too
I interview a lot of people who want programming jobs.

What I find is: almost nobody can program, and almost nobody knows basic CS 101 data structures.

It does not matter if you are a self-taught programmer with ten years of experience in the best companies, odds are that you cannot solve a trivial coding exercise.

It does not matter if you have a masters degree in Computer Science, odds are that you cannot successfully build a tree structure.

I have no idea how these people keep their jobs or how they graduated, but this is the norm. People who can do CS at all, and people who can code at all, are both rare. Or at least, are rare in the pool of people applying for work.
I highly doubt a new hire would be the one to design the connector to power the next generation of all iProducts.
The skills of "programming in the large" are hard-won through experience. There is no good "theory" that will help you structure a large program (despite many languages from academia making the claim of good structure). That's just one example.

In my experience, it's easier to teach a programmer CS theory than the other way round. At least the programmer knows what he doesn't know.
I agree, but so long as they actually tested it to make sure that it works and will support issues with the wine setup, then it is acceptable, IMHO.
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