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I'm incredibly excited for the guys at Quickoffice! Its really interesting, I still feel like Quickoffice is my baby (I was the lead architect from 2002-2008). It's actually kind of bittersweet to see the whole thing grown up and headed off to Google.

My first startup experience was working in a closet (literally) on the Palm version of Quicksheet as the second development hire.

Over the next 6 years we were bought and sold (twice) and along the way kept growing into an amazing team. It's been really fun being on the forefront of the mobile revolution (Palm -> Symbian -> modern phones/tablets). Quickoffice will always be a very important period in my life.

So congratulations to Google, you've acquired a great product and an even better team. I can't wait to see what the folks at Google have planned. I have no doubt this is a match that will be huge for their plans in the enterprise market going forward:)
The majority of readers of these books will not have products that require scaling to millions and will probably purchase both books. Sounds like market validation to me.
Same here: I have some interest in what you have built, but not enough interest to go through a registration ritual. (I personally do not have any problem giving my email address; it is the hoop jumping.)

Most web apps and most web sites suck. You have to provide some evidence that yours does not suck (e.g. let me try one game for 10 minutes) before I am going to jump through hoops.
The way I see it: FB is scrambling to create new ways for companies to advertise. (e.g. Facebook Logout Ads, "like" a page for Subway commercial outtakes with Blake Griffin). How do you motivate a user who only wants to check out their friend's status to buy Tide or learn javascript? This is a solid idea that FB should notice.

It's hard to think that a user will willfully submit themselves to a page of ads, but I think this might be a good solution. Ads have definitely become smarter in reaching their audience. Seems like companies are finally beginning to understand the creativity needed to get user attention. If you're able to SU through ads that are hyper-targeted, you may see stuff that actually matters to you.
No demo or screenshots?
I can't speak for dyslexia or asperger's, but there are documented advantages to not being able to pay attention: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/why-being-sleepy-a...
I said the exact same thing to a friend of mine yesterday, when we were discussing the news surrounding their IPO.

So as long as the market punishes this kind of hubris and rationally prices companies relative to real revenue and potential, I feel better about us not having a bubble.
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I was trying to learn android recently and had to take a break due to increasing headaches. Theres so many issues. Some of which they mentioned in this article. One of which is that supposedly alot or some of the performance issues are fixed in 4.0. Of of curse nobody uses 4.0. So you have to just pretend those fixes dont exist.

And the xml views are a nightmare. I actually decided to learn ios instead maybe sometime next year.
While he does raise some good points, it still feels a little like the pot calling the kettle black what with the UX nightmare of git.
I don't like this attitude. Sending that letter out is the honest thing to do. If you're gearing up to try and raise money, that is some important insight, your business is potentially in the balance right now.

I've been trying to wrap my mind around the FB IPO for a while now. FB was ordained by the media. It was the next great Silicon Valley company, Zuck is the new Gates/Jobs/Dell/etc.. All the hype was about "biggest ever." There was very little real criticism, there were some doubters but nobody expected the stock to perform like this. FB was/is a legitimate Google competitor... I think in some circles people were skeptical about the value of social and its real 'value' but still, nobody was predicting this. It was going to climb up to $70 and then settle in around $45-$50, that's what everybody wanted and expected.

To me, it shows that the investors have already closed their wallets. Maybe it shows something worse. Talking about it legitimizes the concerns people clearly have been having already but that doesn't mean they weren't there already or that it's suddenly worse. It may accelerate some things by making for less stupid people that aren't in the know but it was already happening. The stock market has done well the last 4 years but I don't know how many other indicators show that the whole economy is doing well and I think a lot of people (think not elite web hackers) would think or say we're still in the great recession, employment is still in the 10% range (maybe higher depending upon who's spin you want to take to heart) they're still sorting out mortgages and all that ilk, who knows how useful all the people coming back from the wars are I'm sure they've got some emotional issues but who knows when they'll surface, what percentage of college grads have no jobs? and then you've almost certainly got to unwind the Euro from Greece and who knows how that's going to work. Worse, if it goes pretty bad, then it's probably bad for the whole world and if it goes really well then the uncertainty could continue as there might be pressure to boot other countries out of the EU rather than bail them out.
I think your post highlights one of the problems with the Android framework when it comes to UI: it's difficult to know what the right approach is for a particular task, esp. when thinking about many OS versions and device types.

There are simple solutions to the problems you mention, but it is very difficult to know they even exist without several hours of research and trial and error. For framework environments like Android this slows app development and leads to apps that don't behave well. The tools and docs available right now need to be better if Android wants to be the dominate mobile platform for devs.
Is an interesting idea. Presumably taxes are the responsibility of the recipient when they "withdraw"?

Also, would it be appropriate to have a widget?
Includes stuff like:

-"Hey. Here is how you can support this work"

-Gittip Overview Link

-Github handle

-Public income numbers

Or is that too "gimme"? Is this meant to be more of a "for hackers by hackers" thing? Or more mainstream?
I use Pidgin to connect to their XMPP chat server. In the real facebook page, i connect once in a week. I wonder if they count my XMPP login as a regular login.
This is not about book reading. He is not saying kids should not read books.
A = the lowest value that someone is willing to sell a share at right now, multiplied by the number of shares that exist.

B = the sum over all shares of the price that each share's owner is willing to sell it for right now.

B > A, by definition. This is why buyouts typically happen at a premium above the share price, because a flat out purchase of shares on the open market would send the price through the roof. So the buyout price is set at a level where enough people feel like they're getting a good deal to let the deal can go through without stirring up too much shit.

tl;dr market cap doesn't mean very much, and shouldn't be compared to a buyout offer, at least without some adjustment.
Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately.

However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.
We have a 18yo intern at the office this summer, who keeps saying "Facebook is becoming a ghost-town", when we task him with using FB API.
I'll be pushing it to leanpub soon, so there will be an opportunity to check it out and get beta editions.
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Also Excel and Powerpoint... plus editing:)
Always take these surveys with a grain of salt. It's difficult to get accurate information from people self-reporting their behavior. Facebook has become so ingrained in peoples' routines that they don't even realize their actual usage (and in many times are in denial). I'd like to see if Facebook feels their analytics back up this self-reported data - my gut says it would not.

This is also true about the advertising. Many times effective advertising gets into the subconscious - you don't realize it's working on you. The ads have to at least raise awareness of the product.
Parsing json is a pain in android. You have to do so may things to do what should be a simple straightforward thing. One article mentioned that library but i never looked at it.
Chrome auto-updates, so there are almost no users of old versions of Chrome. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/may-br...
The great detox is on. Internet has become too much spying and exhibition(ism). The pendulum is swinging back and people want more privacy and less intrusion. Peak social is ex-post facto. I don't care if the great HN supermoderator doesn't like to hear it.

Something new will come along. We'll call it Web 4.0 and get excited. Make it happen!
Agreed. Ads are ubiquitous (I just tune them out), but clicking a link and being told "you can't read this unless you give us your personal info and let us tell all of your friends that you read this" is wrong on so many levels.

I think this sort of thing will add to the downfall of facebook. Non-savvy internet users love facebook, but it only takes one learning experience (such as seeing broadcast that you read a highly-embarrassing article) for people to become wary.
What is the concept ? How is it different from existing ones ? What problem specifically are you solving ?
Sorry to sound rude but just having a launchrock page with email form is not enough. Give us a little more.
You're referring to a line I never drew. Programs can be larger or smaller in many dimensions - LoC, complexity, features... Other things being equal, the smaller program is easier to deal with. We don't need to say "these programs are large and these are small" to make valid inferences in this area.
Thanks for letting me know, I fixed it!
It would be interesting if Linus finally broke down and developed his own desktop.
Interesting article, shame they throttle it so hard. I wonder if you could either do a competition for the compute time or donate it to the charity of choice to the best contribution / patch that cycle.
By the time I find myself doing something for the third time, I start thinking: automation.
The funny thing is that in the last one year I use hacker news much more than Facebook. The stream of news here is way more interesting and heterogeneous.
There's also the fact that there appears to be some serious security problems with D3 at the moment. That's the entire reason I've stopped playing since I don't want my characters to get robbed like that.
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> it's testing whether you can read an instruction manual, which is actually an important skill that can be difficult to assess through project-based learning.

This is the key thing that the article willfully ignores. And the whole point is to not confuse this with whatever you think you know about microscopes from your experience.

Indeed, it's a very valuable skill to be able to read and interpret any kind of text without letting your preconceptions get in the way. You don't want low-level nuclear plant technicians ignoring or misunderstanding written safety procedures based on what they think is their own personal understanding of the plant from experience...
I don't think it's an argument against computer checked proofs. He even seems to acknowledge that automatic verification is a good idea. Unfortunately the world we live in is filled with proofs that cannot be checked by a computer.
I don't have Facebook. Does Airtime provide alternative ways to sign up, and if not, why not?
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I find it boring because it's dominated by power users that post multiple times a day. These people may or may not be close to me, but typically they aren't. My closest friends don't post all that often and when they do they get drowned out.
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I used to work for Quickoffice and it's an incredible group of people. Very well deserved. Congratulations to everyone there!
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I downvoted you for reasons having nothing to do with political ideologies. You are far too quick to call people "intolerant" and "leftist".

I downvoted you for saying "My success and failures in life have had nothing to do with luck," which is certainly false. Using one of the examples from the HN comments, you didn't die as a child, and that has certainly contributed to your success.
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Well, about 12% of Chrome page views are from old versions so "almost no users" is a bit of a myth or exaggeration. But it's definitely a smaller proportion than other browsers.

Firefox also auto-updates, but has a longer tail of users from old versions since it's been around longer and had a more obtrusive update process until recently. Currently about 32% of Firefox page views come from old versions, but this is decreasing steadily now that Firefox 3.6 users are being auto-updated to the current release channel, and now that updates are more "silent."

Stats are based on http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201206... and http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201206-201206-...
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This. I have a hard time believing there was not some sort of fine print somewhere that allowed it. And if there was no waiver or contract or what ever then that was her mistake.
I don't think what I said was bullshit. So you wrote tests to make mongo fail, and you've seen cases where people run into problems with it. That still doesn't disprove my point. With postgres, you roll your own sharding. With mongo, you don't have to.
I'm sorry -- is this really a "great quote"...?

"The essence of design lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it."

Just seems kind of obvious to me.
Wouldn't this be easy to defeat by changing words around yourself before distributing? It would either match to someone else's copy of the email, or not match anyone at all. It would need to be highly resilient to a lot of tampering, which doesn't seem reasonable for relatively short documents like emails.
Not really looking forward to apologizing for the weak graphical tools, however-

"Ever try to change the color of a button on Android?"

android:background="#ffee11" on the button?

Or use something like CSS variables (you know -- where CSS wants to go) and pull from a resource. Are you talking about something much more complex?

You can define a shape resource and then reference that in your button. Your button can be almost any shape and look you desire, via a shared resource file so it's easy to replicate elsewhere in your app. Making a shape occupy n-percent of the screen, or having padding left, right, above, below is trivial, and I'm predominately an NDK developer and don't even deal with this normally (but just quickly validated it. Rounded corner buttons with gradient backgrounds and specific padding occupying n-percentage of the screen).

I am left completely baffled by your complaints. There is nothing arcane about a shape XML file (it is profoundly clear, and is obviously intended to be reused so you aren't scattering disparate presentation code -- such as a button style -- throughout your code), and if you don't like that you can declare the color directly. Of course that is only one of your complaints, but if you don't understand something so elegant and trivial, I have to question the rest of your concerns.
Sorry, miscommunication. waveform was the troll, not you (though I dont think adding single word replies ever adds to the conversation on HN).
My major concern with gnome/unity/xfce is that the default font sizes look too big and really ugly. I guess choosing the right font sizes is not so trivial given various resolutions, but on fonts, every bit of effort will be paid off. And this can certainly be achieved. I am happy with the default system fonts in Mac and Windows nearly all the time.
Not sure about that - I've been using SoftMaker's beta Office apps and I find them much, much better than QuickOffice for maintaining document fidelity.

I suspect that the first company to reach the uncanny valley in terms of document fidelity and round-tripping is going to win out - Google support or not.
I absolutely love the service that we are building. But even more than that, I love the company we are building.

I think this is one of the strong points of GitHub. Everyone I know who has gone to work there has a real love for the company as much as the team. I'm not convinced as many of the many Rubyists heading to, say, LivingSocial (which has an amazing, all star team) feel the same way.

The egalitarian approach clearly has some significant plusses, but a downside IMHO is salary (it has been stated people generally have the same base salary at GitHub - https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/150). Egalitarian salary structures work for some but also have their downsides.
It gets even more weird when using Unicode imperceptible characters

x = {}
x[String.fromCharCode(1)] = "1"
x[String.fromCharCode(2)] = "2"
x[String.fromCharCode(3)] = "3"

And obligatory reference to namespace function (to easily create namespaced modules): http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19030/Namespaces-in-Java...
Funny anecdote: I wrote a GM script a loong time ago to block the FB ads. And promptly forgot about it.

So I was a bit confused when people would mention FB ads, and I was like: where are you people seeing these ads? This confusion reigned for a long time until recently, when one day I opened up my GM userscript manager panel and saw the FB ad blocker. Oops! So, for me, ads are not an issue (so far).
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What about throttled loading ? processing wise, what is in the background will have 5% cpu allocated.
Chatroulette never became a commonly used service with its ease of anonymity. With Airtime putting a users identity in to the mix, I still can't imagine that people will hop on to video chat with strangers. I might be overly cynical about this, but video chat seems like a difficult service to build a user base around. Few people I know use Facebook's video service or even FaceTime to chat with others they already know, let alone strangers who just happen to like the same TV shows and bands that they do.
There are competitors to many of the built-in functions already. How many other browsers does Android have? How many other email clients? Heck, even a competitive app store from Amazon. Just because Google does it doesn't mean there's no more room for competition.
First he should fix that horrible Tcl/Tk based Git GUI.
In what formats will this book be available? When I see a new self-published book, I assume it will be available digitally. Your site (which is really well-designed) mentions nothing of the format.

Either way, I would like to see images of what the product will look like. For someone like me who doesn't need this book but is still interested in its topic, images of a well-designed book might make the difference in whether or not I purchase it.
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All the serious D2 gamers knew all of the best items and finding them was a big part of the game for them (or perhaps it WAS the game?)

Diablo was always about the exploration and the loot hunt. That was the game. Diablo 3 is a deviation. The loot hunt kept you playing. It let you set defined goals: "I want to obtain a perfect Skin of the Vipermagi and then use the quest reward to socket it with a perfect topaz." D3 does not let you do that. You don't set item goals, you set achievement goals: "I want to beat inferno."

I'm sure a lot of people will prefer this, but the effect is much different. In particular, without the excitement of the item hunt, there is no reason to keep playing after you complete the game a few times; No surprises.
Same on a desktop with low resolution. The fixed menu should be killed.
I think it's wrong to judge Zed's Learn Ruby the Hard Way too harshly as the OP does...yes, it's a straight port from the Python version, but both versions focus on teaching programming to non-programmers, which is a concept that can be largely language and idiom agnostic...at least between Python and Ruby.
I believe (speaking from the Udacity material) it also uses a stereo camera setup for localization (e.g. where the car is within a lane). Sebastian mentioned something about how they could deal with rain, but not something like snow that covers the visible references.
Much appreciated. Good luck to you! Looking forward to the book.
Probably should have taken his own advice when it came to Garfield.
Yes, please do not forgo the completion of your book. I would love to hear about it once available as well. I have never had the chance to work in an environment where scaling PHP was necessary, and I am trying to gain all of the knowledge I possibly can on the subject so that I can take on bigger projects.
I completely agree. I would say that the situation is sustainable if we are careful not to lose the whatever advantage we have and if we invest in finding new ones but also very tenuous given the global nature of our world today and the nature of the competition that is arising.

In case I misunderstood, I agree that losing the classes you mention could very well mean losing our edge in design and invention but losing spec work to factories in China is not a very good argument to keep those classes.
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This comment sounds exactly like the sort of thing you would read in an 'Agile Project Management' book. I think it's just fashionable to rail against agile now, when we've already incorporated all of the good stuff into our processes as though it were the way we always worked.
Thanks for the feedback- all really good points. As the month goes on, I'll have some pictures of the cover-art and chapter list available.

It will be self-published, DRM-free in PDF, mobi, epub. Looking into what it takes to publish on the Amazon Store/Kindle/iBooks, but hopefully that's something I can figure out after launching.
How would others rank the story line of Diable 3? I loved the story line of Dungeon Siege when I was younger but I haven't found a modern replacement.
yes interesting in that "normal" ppl gets a chill from others who by will or ability differ ...
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The problem with html5 apps right now is theres no good platform for developing them. Jquery mobile has issues. Sencha touch has issues. Ive looked at touch before but am concerned abut bugginess and i really dont want to learn c#.

The mobile app environment is a huge headache.