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Really, all Photoshop needs to kill this is some more attention towards Web-designers.

It's a lot easier for Adobe to squeeze in browser simulation, button states, etc. then it would be for Easel to emulate all the features in Photoshop.
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I was just kidding...
The long held philosophy is that men are problem solvers, and when someone comes to them with an issue they want to solve it. Often what people really want is just for you to listen. So when your wife says "I hate this tap", she doesn't actually want you to fix the tap, she just wants you to nod in agreement.

So the secret to a happy marriage, just always nod in agreement, and try and pay enough attention in case she asks what she was just talking about.
Its also interesting that lawyers seem to operate in 2 modes. Bully mode where they try to say whatever they think will shock the "victim" into easily giving up his rights/money, and "civil" mode where they politely ask a disinterested third party to forcibly take resources from their victim and hand it to them.

The first mode, I believe is responsible for much of the bad PR the legal profession has. Its kind of a "shock and awe" deal where ordinary people are just astonished that any human being can behave so repugnantly and this makes them afraid, especially if they have never dealt with anything like it before. This is a feature, and is very much intended. Lawyers have been accustom to behaving like this in what amounted to nearly full privacy. Even their clients were not fully aware of the extent they did this.

Enter the internet. Paradigm shifted.
> You can respect his coding knowledge if you can force yourself to ignore his high claims and self-importance.

Still seems totally insane to me. The extent of his features are things like "DNS lookups are asynchronous in all libraries".
Make you one for about $4k. Yes, I'm serious. I will make you one if you can come up with the cash.
"So, only your first argument ($99/year, for 100 devices) is actually correct."

Only if we allow you blowing off the "need a Mac" requirement to equal zero dollars...

It's kinda a decent sized hole in your argument.
The entrepreneur could be an awesome developer who also is very talented.
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I don't even think that would fly on Reddit.
I did some ballpark numbers looking at the stuff you mentioned, and it seems like that 50% just eats away any real benefits the site gives. Anyone know why they charge so much?
Right, but your proposed terms aren't really mutually exclusive with the entrepreneur who could be a dev/designer/whatever him/herself.
Looking forward to these posts. I've remember being completely fascinated by Diablo 2's virtual economy, and saddened that I could find so little articles about it.
What's so bad with that? From what I could see, anyone could choose to sign up as an entrepreneur. What a wonderful world, where people can choose their class!
That book, How to talk so kids will listen, and listen so kids will talk has been a staple in our (childless) household since we discovered it decades ago. The extent to which we recommend it to new couples and new parents is embarrassing.

It's partially about empathy, but it's also about taking smaller steps to communication. E.g. I see Legos all over the floor rather than look what a mess you made!.
A big part of that is that Apple controls the horizontal and vertical (sorry if you are too young to get the reference). I would imagine they have customized store builds that they can easily restore to a normal state when someone royally screws it up. Then there's probably a level of reasonable user level protection setup (no admin access). I've never tried going into an Apple store and tried to do admin type things. I'd be interesting to see how they deal with that.

The contrast is even sharper in other countries. In some places it is a huge cultural no-no to go into a store and start touching stuff. Just try going into a toy store in one of these places with a US-raised kid used to ToysRUs.
... the only difference listed between an entrepreneur and resource is that the former has an idea they want to try out. So I'd fully expect the entrepreneur to be a developer/designer/sales person who can contribute in significant ways.
Yes, but actually making that motion and convincing a judge is a lot more work than just sending a letter (to any or all of Apple/Google/Amazon/etc). That's one of the important checks and balances in the legal process that PRC was able to work around (with Apple's help).
> Using mouse cursor hovering, one could change the background color behind the image based on an event (such as a mouseover of an input field) that is probable for a human to make, but less so for a computer. This is difficult for a computer to solve, but not impossible to break.

How would this reveal the CAPTCHA value to a human but not to a computer? If the string is readable over only some background colors, then it's written on a transparent-backed image, so the whole background-changing script can be ignored. Just OCR the image with the transparent background.

If you're suggesting the CAPTCHA itself be the movement of the mouse over specific inputs, rather than deciphering a string, then this is trivial to break as well. The code that watches the mouse events and does whatever it does to indicate human-ness has to be written in JavaScript and transmitted to the browser... which means it's sitting right there to be analyzed and copied by the bot author. They don't need to replicate the mouse movement, just trigger the same code the correct movement triggers.

Requiring previous state adds nothing to the test either. If a human has to visit a certain sequence of pages before submitting a form, the bot can make the same sequence of HTTP requests and replay the same cookies or however you track the state.

It doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about.
Go troll somewhere else.
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Interesting questions brought up...can great tech entrepreneurs be bred?

My opinion is no, mostly because it takes a significant amount of good luck and perfect timing to have great success in SV. Even if you were Mark Zuckerburgs son...he could invest in your company, give you advice, introduce you to good partners/customers. This doesn't automatically translate to success.
> The "installing whatever on my smartphone" is really really low in the freedom list...

Given how important computers are in our society (and they're only getting more important) and given how many people use a smartphone as a primary computing device (and that's only increasing), I think "installing whatever on my smartphone" is higher on the freedom list than you think - and it is only moving higher.
> DHS paid $180m for ten of them

Errr ... those are Predators. Literally the military model. You know, the ones that can shoot missiles and stuff.

Nobody is talking about that.

I can stick a battery powered WiFi cam on a model airplane and get remote surveillance that doesn't cost 18 million. This is the same issue as plastering cameras at every intersection.

Guess what? My town just did that. They have cameras on almost every intersection. That's sick.

Wake up.
A minor bug: if you change a value in a text field (such as the Y offset for a drop shadow) and click the OK button, the value is not saved. You need to first make the focus go out of the text field and then click the OK button.
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What about torrent trackers making money showing ads ? Or sites like Megaupload who made loads of money from ads ?

It's right that the final pirate is not making money... but the pirate in the middle is.
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What's funny is I spent last year porting a Flash app to Javascript.

The Flash codebase had become unmanageable. We found that the majority of Flash developers were used to coding up some advertising banner or something of that ilk and that individuals with experience making large applications didn't know Flash. Our team was mainly Ruby and web front-end guys and we had no clue what the Flash guys were up to.

After the change, our web designers could work directly with the markup and CSS in order to make changes, something that was a nightmare before we switched over.

Was it just Flash? No, it wasn't, it was a number of issues, mainly poor architectural decisions and a lack of vision from the technical leads.

All of these issues disappeared mainly because a CTO was brought on who really knew his stuff.

In summary, it's not the tech, it's the people putting the pieces together, and most importantly, knowing how to organize the people who are putting the pieces together.
>making the argument that dynamically typed languages are not suitable for large web apps is a difficult (not impossible) one to make

Is it? And even if it is, why? Because dynamically typed languages are in vogue? Java does fine as a server-side webapp language, as does Dart (on the client too!), as does Go, etc.
He meant the ads are in line with the content. The fact that it's an ad is certainly highlighted but it is intentionally subtle.
Maybe. I don't think I've ever really been constrained by the power of Awk's pattern matching. I wish I could do it recursively, but that's not so much a power issue as a composability issue.
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You're being silly now. I am not trolling - I stated my opinion. You said:

> Waving your arms and pushing your own absolutes on other people however can be quite so.

Which seemed to be directly in response to the OPs assertion:

> Ronald Reagan was a wise man and great president.

You can see how I would think you were referencing this in your comment as you specified that you were stating an opinion and the OP asserted this comment as fact, yet I stated:

> As far as I'm concerned he is an embarrassment

Which is obviously presented as opinion and not hard fact. I did however back up my opinion with points in a follow up comment.

edit: the downvotes don't make me any less correct in my response, if you disagree please explain.
Someone with a shite attitude like that probably hates his job ... time to complain to his manager and put him out of his misery.
On a very related note, "The Ikea Effect" :
http://hbr.org/web/2009/hbr-list/ikea-effect-when-labor-lead...
The example really made me laugh out loud.
zeromq or coroutine libraries like libtask (by a go author!) have greatly reduced this advantage.
Someday soon Javascript will have WeakMaps. They're already in Firefox.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:weak_maps
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If you look at the HN thread where that paper was discussed, people on both sides were shooting holes in it. That's partly why I'm asking, is there anything solid on this out there at all? People are just repeating the same beliefs over and over. We've all heard them a zillion times and we all divide them into two categories: "shit I agree with" and "bullshit".

What experiments could be done to test these beliefs?
It's too bad the link is for the dashboard for the project, rather than the actual project, prompting a log-in
And to be fair, the divisions in which we're talking about high levels of security aren't using those browsers on the internet anyway, they're locked away in SCIFFs, accessing internal-only applications.
This is truly fascinating.

I remember hearing about virtual economies where money can be injected at any time through gold mining, etc, and that they were inherently unstable. Once you got the gold farming schemes that sold gold on e-bay, it created massive hyperinflation.

And it totally made sense that hyperinflation would occur since the creation of virtual gold was limitless and effortless, so the gold farmers didn't care how much gold they sold it for as long as they got real money. That rendered the price of gold worthless, and it drove up the prices of virtual goods across the board.

I would love to see how these problems are tackled in the virtual world.
Is this the first not-small web software company that Microsoft has acquired?

I wonder if they're going to eventually convert all the Java and Scala to C# and F#
The root problem is that there's no central authority from which all wisdom and official validity flows. There's just a bunch of people. Anyone's free to scribble out whatever and then decide it means whatever. This is just a case of a collision between two or more domain-specific symbol paradigms in a single UX space.
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So if the debt is interest-free, who foots the missed opportunities for capitol gains?

(The school has to pay its operating costs, so these are at least partly real expenses, not numbers in a ledger.)
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> When they teach you how to drive a racecar, they tell you to focus on the road when you go around a turn. They tell you that because if you focus on the wall, then you will drive straight into the wall.

This is very true.

When I took racing school, my instructor told me the same thing. I learned to focus on the road and the turn; by the end of the course, I nailed every apex on lacuna seca in my little formula dodge and set a blistering lap time.

Funny thing is, I didn't realize that I'd been applying this to my life ever since until I read this article.

Thanks, Ben.
I guess I would be interested in a truly economics oriented game that modeled nations without it being about wars, raids, guilds, spells etc. Not sure if something like that exists though.
Apple store employee here. This indeed does happen although after a while you get pretty good at judging a 70 deg angle without an app.

From anecdotal experience, it really does make a massive difference in the level of interaction customers have with the products. Even if people just come in because they haven't been in an Apple store before, the first thing they do is push the screen back and by that point they've already started interacting with the computer.
Because they can. It's not necessarily a bad thing that they do take such a large percentage however. The more money they make, the more economical it is for them to advertise & invest in the platform. More advertisement & investment means more buyers. So for the creators on codecanyon, themeforest, etc, the money they give up in sales is hopefully for the purpose of more sales.
Have to say this was very confusing for me too. I can't remember a thing like CTRL+SHIFT+5, besides from the fact it isn't even explained what it's supposed to do?
I am not the author of G-WAN. I am not claiming to have done anything.

This whole thread is based on a misunderstanding. G-WAN does not have any CAPTCHA support. The example merely demonstrates how to use G-WAN's image generation API.

The CAPTCHA example is not meant to be used without modification in an application. CAPTCHAs are not a feature of G-WAN.

No where did anyone claim to have invented stateful web applications.
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Here's the full text of the article:

Business-software company Yammer Inc. has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for more than $1 billion, according to a person familiar [with] the matter.

It is unclear when the acquisition will be completed and announced, this person said.

A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment. Representatives for San Francisco-based Yammer didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Yammer is often called Facebook for the workplace because it creates a private social network inside a company. The purchase of Yammer could add social-networking functions to Microsoft's popular Office suite of software. Microsoft has an existing product, called SharePoint, with some functions that overlap with Yammer.

Bloomberg News earlier reported Microsoft was in discussions to acquire Yammer.
Why do most electronics retailers use empty or powered-off demonstration devices? To reduce costs - from customer theft, employee theft, damage or abuse by prospective customers, etc. At Best Buy, when a customer's kid spills their soda on a laptop or phone, who pays for the hardware? Best buy, the parent, or the manufacturer?
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The part where I see a disconnect is when you mentioned "Though there could be a huge number of american engineers, it simply doesn't match the demand at present."

I see this as a function of supply and demand. I haven't studied economics formally (beyond the examples in my math classes), but I understand that economists talk of a demand curve and supply curve. At lower prices, consumers tends to demand more of a product or service but producers supply less. At higher prices, produces have an incentive to supply more but consumers tend to demand less. The point where the supply and demand curves meet is considered the market equilibrium.

Right now, it sounds like prices (salaries) for engineers haven't hit equilibrium. 80-90k may sound like a lot, but clearly the economy is demanding more engineers at this level than the market will supply. I don't know where that equilibrium point will be, but considering the number of very lucrative career paths smart people have available to them, I suspect it's going to be quite a bit higher.
there are a lot more permissions in Android than there are in iOS http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
whether I agree with you or not, please, let's not bring politics to HN.
It might be more accurate to say that thought has been given to the prospect of a "generic" collision with a space object, but that no thought was spared for asteroids in the asteroid belt in particular. Twice nearly nothing per cubic megameter is still nearly nothing.
Firstly, I don't think it really matters if there's a small community. Or if it satisfies the nerds. In the end they need volume, that's it. That's also why I think Android will suffer long-term -- it just might be too (or overly) complex/confusing for many people.

Personally I agree Meego had/has potential. And the fact that it was fully multitasking, and based on Linux, is cool. I just don't think any of these facts (and most derivative effects) matter to the vast majority.

Lastly, FYI -- WP will have keyboard options when Windows 8 comes out.
The 10-20% discount is just another way of saying the loans have a direct cost of 10-20% and then get indexed to inflation. With that 10-20% upfront cost plus inflation adjustments work out close to the same net cost as my 3.2% student loans in the US assuming you pay them back in a 10-20 year time frame.
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You are confusing the "how" (the API specification) with the "what" (the data the API exists to provide access to).
> but it's not uncommon for a coworker to check in changes to a JavaScript class that completely breaks a part of the application that the dev wasn't thinking about

You don't need to write unit tests to check the type of each value, you just need to have a decent set of integration tests to make sure you aren't breaking other parts of the app. If errors in the browser after a refresh don't help you catch it, failing integration tests will. This is how we do things on my large scale javascript project and it works out just fine; we have development challenges, for sure, but weak/dynamic typing issues is not one of them.
Could also be measuring the galvanic skin response and the like to try to further narrow it down. But I don't know how well that works for reliability since stress can change it i think.
They could be bundled and not all permissions have to be interactively granted, just the ones that could do the most harm.
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Apple had a prototype where they experimented on this idea with the older Macbook Pro (pre-unibody) so this was quite a few years back. See: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/14/photos-of-a-prototype-ma...

It was posted on eBay and eventually pulled because of Apple. You can google for more info. As to why it never became a thing? I suspect (read: guessing) that it has to do with a few things:

1. Network speeds have trouble supporting tablets and smartphones as it is

2. Not everyone wants this

3. City wide initiatives to bring wifi have been ongoing

None of those are really valid enough to excuse why no one else have done it. But then again, its not like no one has. Some netbooks and some models of laptops out there do have built in network cards (I know some sony models do). Just not sure there is a huge market demand to cost ratio for this.

I for one wish there was such an option as well, one that can also translate to a hotspot but I'd imagine we're going to wait a bit longer before that happens.
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You're assuming that someone's lifetime future income is predictable before they enter college. To some extent that's true, but there are enough exceptions to keep things interesting -- and you only need a few exceptions who get a lot richer than anybody expected. (The same thing applies to venture capital, incidentally.)
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Verizon offers a little device called a "Jetpack" that is essentially a battery-powered router that is eligible for 4G service from Verizon. You simply carry it with you and it acts as a hotspot for up to 5 devices, including laptops.

The only downside is that the largest data plan offers only 10gb of bandwith for $80/mn.
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FWIW, check out https://github.com/politician/outback for a bidirectional declarative binding solution for Backbone. It'll help you keep all of your DOM manipulation code safely away from your Views.
Is it really failing? It's a latecomer, but it's gaining traction. Windows Phone phones are best sellers on AT&T in the US, and supposedly beating the iPhone in terms of sales in China. With Windows 8 coming out, who knows what will happen. Speculating on whether it's going to fail or not at this point is just that -- heavy speculation. The fact that the Windows Phone is a very decent OS, is simple to use, has a decent app market, and is being promoted on so many fronts (including the main service providers, because they benefit from a 3rd smartphone provider), all makes me believe that it is bound to be a success if they continue to improve the foundation that they have and don't make big mistakes.
Right context is king. For example, "don't desert me here in the desert." English is littered with example of writing and speech this ambigus in isolation, but we don't be come confused in our daily lives because the context makes it clear. This is no different.