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> Seems to me it was more likely they stopped because it wasn't giving them their jollies like they wanted.

Indeed, that's a better explanation.
One variant has the kids playing soccer and yelling in the park near the old man's house, it would fit the story better.

My apologies, the story isn't à-propos enough and I though it was more universal.
Who said anything about better?

Besides, it's a false dichotomy. The best products don't always win, the most popular products win. Popularity can be influenced by marketing and agitprop. And what's better for one market isn't what's better for another market. The problem right now is that the smartphone market only caters to one audience. You can't say that's "better".
Nokia had alternate operating system and they abandoned it. Maemo was well liked by the people who used it. It seems Nokia decided to board another company's burning ship. It's a shame to see all that engineering talent go to waste.
Are you talking about currency devaluation, or price inflation?

EDIT: also, are you referring to people who have their savings in cash, or investments?
The reason you wouldn't think to search for "battlestations" is presumably because you don't visit 4chan. That entire subreddit is actually an example of a part of 4chan leaking onto Reddit.
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Read the post I was responding to. He was talking about iPhones and iPods.

Regardless, if you care about being able to change the RAM, HDD and battery don't buy a MBP. It's pretty simple.
For me, the most important missing feature is tab lazy loading -- without that my usecase is impossible (hundreds of tabs).
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IE6 isn't the only XP-only app I have to use in my daily job, so it's entirely feasible that members of the DoD are still using XP.
The fat pen is fairly useful in this app since when active it doesn't let you go outside the lines. However, you only seem to get to use it when the shape isn't divided up into sections.

I've used other apps (a branded Crayola one on Nintendo DS springs to mind) where it remembers where you put the stylus down and keeps you within the lines of that section until you lift it from the page. Worked quite well and I think it'd be a good fit for this app.
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I wouldn't tag it as tldr;, it's not some shitty blog article. Please read it, it's worth the time.
Why people get excited by a 1.5ghz and half gig ram running something?

I've run web browsers alongside heavy cad applications on way lower hardware and not that long ago.

...think my most responsive desktop so far have been a 150mhz 129mb ram Indy pizza box running irix 5 something, driving a 24" crt with considerable more pixel count than fullhd.

Funny thing, back then, The system config whole ui was Mozilla 2.0 engine with js and css1 or something.
> I am also getting mixed feedback about buy buttons

Personally, I prefer approach where there is a free version with ads, and a non-free version with no ads and no buy buttons.

Alternatively, some apps simply have the full version ad-free and buy-button-free, and you can optionally buy a "support the developers" version from the store. If the "support-app" is installed, the full version simply adds a "thank you!" on the launch screen.

I don't know how well these approaches do in sales statistics, but I personally go for products like those if given a choice, and I always pay for them if I use them. If nothing else, it's more straightforward and honest.

It is very frustrating to have a fun or useful app which is only provided as a free version and constantly annoys me with buy buttons and ads. I want to just pay - sometimes a lot - for the product instead of watching ads and being nagged to buy Koynz(TM).
Can Chrome display your bookmarks at the side in "split view", with bookmark folders and bookmark folder contents in their own pane? Really? Thought so...

> "I prefer being able to pick-and-choose features and I appreciate the rich playground for ideas of the Firefox extension ecosystem."

Well sure, and Opera has extensions, too. It just does some things out of the box that you can't even do with extensions for other browsers, OR for which you have to pay the prices of longer startup and constantly checking for extension updates before starting up.

FF (and Opera, and all browser) extensions are great; as long as you don't have many dozens of them. Then you really really want those features done in core code, not in Javascript and what have you.
I think you're underestimating the time suck this would've been. Those customers needed invoicing and collecting (it was automated credit card billing) and hand-holding. Sure, this was fixable, but only with a lot of dev time, which I wasn't sure would move the product forward.

It's often better to admit defeat and do something new.
This is the biggest caveat with community spaces. Although Redditors can subscribe to subreddits to customize their content, each subreddit remains a community space. IMO there isn't an alternative to heavy moderation when shared spaces are inherit to the design.
I mean, the only other living inventor of C is working on Go...
Yep, thanks, Ghostery is the one I had in mind. I'll take a look at Priv3 as well.
You can predict the time that malloc(3) and free(3) take to run? You know they are backed by very complex data structures that need to manipulated and iterated over?

The point you mention is only valid when using entirely static memory, which is a very rare case in real C code (only really used in a few small embedded codebases).
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No one has mentioned that Opera 12 is the first GA browser (I believe) to support WebRTC. Basically you don't need to flash anymore to access devices such as webcams and microphones.

I built a really simple site to see how this all works. It will fall back to flash if you don't have WebRTC support which includes Google Chrome Canary and now Opera 12.

http://gotcaption.com/p/39
Yes, doing it yourself in a short time frame is not realistic in most cases. The real 'problem' are those people who make free software as a hobby. They write these softwares for years (sometimes with more free time than I would have if I would decide not to sleep at night at all), and this raises the barrier to entry for those who want to create paid products (for example bootstrapping on the side, with a family to support).
Storage is a model by model issue. Some models of phones and music players have SD slots and some don't.

Do you know how many times I've needed/wanted to replace the storage on my iPhones? Zero.

Do you know how many times I've needed/wanted to replace the battery on my iPhones or MacBook Pro? Zero.

Sure, if the batteries are crap, or the device comes with insufficient storage from the manufacturer, then those are important features because you have to correct a defect in the product.

Regardless, if that capability is an important feature to you; don't buy Apple products. It's pretty simple. Getting into a righteous rage on the internet hasn't changed the way Apple designs their products for the past 5 years, what makes you think it's going to suddenly start working?
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Sounds like he's working at a software agency considering the number of "products". Let me say this loud and clear:

DO NOT WORK AT A SOFTWARE AGENCY

People who start these kinds of businesses are not entrepreneurs. They are naive idiots who think that having 100 bosses instead of 1 means that they are independent and actually own a business. In reality, they are splitting their time between many projects and doing them all very, very badly. Anyone worth their salt will leave a position like that and either get hired by a company who have their own software product or start a business (read: not agency) of their own.

If we all boycott this type of business then they will have nobody working for them and will slowly die off.
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Right. That's why we did only B/W. Unfortunately I don't have the time now...
I used to do the process you describe, but have greatly improved it using autosquash:

* Add your changes to the index
* git commit --fixup SHA, where SHA is the commit you want to fixup into
* git rebase -i --autosquash, now or later

When you commit with --fixup, Git will make a commit with a message that begins with fixup! and continues with the message of the SHA you gave it. When you enter the interactive rebase, Git will automatically have moved the fixup commit just below the commit it's going to be fixup'd into.

With this method you don't have to manage moving around the fixup commits, or use a system to tell you where they need to go. I used to do messages like "git commit -m 'f into a98oe6e'", which works until you do a rebase and the SHAs change.

You can also enable autosquash in your gitconfig (git config --global rebase.autosquash true) so you don't need to pass --autosquash when doing the interactive rebase.
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> DSLR Lenses that can properly cover a full-frame sensor are still going to be expensive

Nikon anounced yesterday the "NIKKOR 24-85mm VR" Lens for FX (full frame) with a suggested retail price of $599.95.
http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Camera-Lenses...
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This is kind of odd. Paul Graham straight-up lying
about how he hellbanned me on his site:
http://bit.ly/L6uABO Oh the nerd drama!

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/213106763464048642
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Have you done any usability testing with little kids? I'm intrigued to know if they'll be able to instinctively navigate through the options. Also, isn't using the hardware back button is going to end up with countless accidental app exits?
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Kogan really has a nice way to educate people to choose a better browser, but I think this will hurt his image a little bit.
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>>In other words... I'm still not convinced that tablets or phones are very good for "coloring" or "painting" for children.

My personal experience has shown they can be very beneficial. My little sister has Down Syndrome and never did well with regular book coloring. I downloaded an app that used tap-to-fill and what she learned from it has carried over to real life. She learned the lines are the edges for colors, different sections can be different colors, etc. I fully credit the app with teaching her that.
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When you say `most proofs' do you mean proofs that you would find in an intro level course, or do you something more. I strongly disagree that the search space for most proofs is as small as go. This may be true once you restrict to a suitably relevant field, but this is a nontrivial reduction which takes a great deal of insight!

Fermat's last theorem resisted the attempts of mathematicians for three hundred years because it required insights so complex they couldn't be formulated without a deep understanding of disparate subfields.

To tie this back to the go analogy, the search space of go is large because the branching factor is big (<400) and because the number of moves is quite large (<400 as well, for all but a very few bizarre situations). For real proofs, while the branching factor may be substantially smaller (given some axiomatic system), the length of the proof is much much longer. The exponent in proofs beat the branching factor of go.
This works great but can only be used to amend HEAD. If you want to amend a commit that's HEAD~1 or further back, you need to either use the fixup strategy I mentioned above, or, if you really want to use --amend:

* git rebase -i SHA-to-be-amended~1
* select SHA-to-be-amended for edit
* make your changes
* git commit --amend -CHEAD (This takes the message from HEAD without presenting you with the editor. If you wanted to edit the message, use -cHEAD.)
* git rebase --continue

It's good to know when and how to use both. The fixup strategy is much quicker and doesn't require you to do the rebase immediately. I will sometimes stack a few fixup commits and just do the interactive rebase (with autosquash) later.
They're making a long term investment with Windows Phone (WP) -- with the current plan they probably won't reach profitability for another several quarters. If the plan succeeds, Nokia will be profitable again when the point comes where WP gains a significant enough marketshare where Nokia is able to completely replace the drop in Symbian sales with WP phones (and their new cheap feature phones).

If you follow the path of no-Elop, Nokia would still be investing in Symbian and Meego. Are you claiming the stock would've been better if following that path? It's very unlikely, especially if you look at the steep drop in Symbian phone sales over the past few quarters.
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Good point. I'm actually talking about inflation. I'd assume devaluation usually leads to inflation, especially if we buy a lot of imported goods (we do), but it ain't necessarily the case.
I like Go but it's not a replacement or even just competition for C. Garbage collection alone ensures that.

C is for low-level code, where you usually want deterministic, real-time behavior. Go cannot deliver that because of its GC.

You can certainly write web server software in Go (what Go was designed for), but could you write an "AAA" video game in it? Or a mission critical embedded system with real-time requirements?

Also, the author's portrayal of C is misleading. If you have 'naked' malloc() calls all over your code you are doing something wrong. Much C code never calls malloc() or follows the "no allocation after initialization" principle.

If you write C like Python you will run into problems. In C you do not wildly allocate objects on the heap all across the program. E.g. in my current program almost everything comes out of memory pools. E.g.

Object* object = ObjectNew();

..and if I forgot to release it I would know quickly because any "memory leak" would cause the (pre-allocated, fixed size) memory pool to run out of free slots. In C you should manage memory in a systematic fashion.

I think the C standard library should be seen as the very foundation of a program, something you use to build the abstractions which solve the problem, not something you use directly to solve the problem. People often warn about the dangers of strcpy() (an the author uses it). I never use it except at the lowest levels. At the high level robust C code looks more like this:

ObjectSetName(object, newName);

than this

strcpy(object->name, newName);

..the difference is that ObjectSetName() can internally guard against overflow and that the concrete details of the object data structure remain hidden and thus later code changes are easier. It is a very common C idiom to use incomplete types and such functions to achieve a very high level of encapsulation.
Just that commenting on most sites is fairly bland non-html. An option to upgrade the stock commenting on wordpress would be terrific.
actually i wanted to write sth bout "once upon a time in germany" on this one, but i better pass.
We, as ever, need some idea of the costs to consider if this is viable.

It looks pretty low cost, but we're looking back so bandwidth costs and such might have been high. Still if 80% of it is available as wages that's going to net (I'm guessing after tax+NICs) about £600 per month. A £1200 per month mortgage means he's living in the South East or in a massive mansion (for 2!) in some other part of the country.

I cant see why you couldnt pay a salesperson on results, was the product somehow really low margin??
Because in a real application people are checking to see if those lazily match every 3 to 4 lines... Half of this stuff that makes the haters "cry" is unrealistically used things.
In the mobile world, Microsoft does not apply any pressure because they essentially don't exist.

Notice that, with any new technology in the field, Microsoft does not exist.
I think this app (although nice looking) misses the point of coloring book exercises. I think that using a pen/cil to color is not only aimed at fostering kids' creative process but also developing their hand-eye coordination and improve on their focus. I dont really have the time to dig out the references for this right now.

An additional side effect of this app is that now coloring takes less time. A great feature of coloring books is their ability to "buy" you (the parent) 30-60 minutes of peace.
Hah, I didn't know that about the performance publishing. We used nginx for static content and as an fcgi front-end.
...because many of them are probably too young to remember those ... other days:)
1. It's trivial for you.

I used to think like this until a recent conversation between 2 cousins on facebook concerning the nautically naughty bay.. I had a bit of a shock seeing one of my "knuckle dragging, mouth breathing" (my words) relatives spouting on about VPNs etc. and getting it mostly right. I suspect if it's a choice between not accessing certain sites and learning you'll be surprised at how quickly people will learn.
False equivalence. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
The only case of a failed leader committing ritual suicide I am aware of is in feudal Japan, which was far from "more civilized".
Yes, the mail client is great. I have used that. Problem is more with my college where IMAP, POP ports are closed. So, I can access mail only via web.

And GMail interface has many other features that I prefer.
That makes sense. I was thinking that supporting the 6 customers might have been easy.

Shifting focus fully to other things clearly worked out well for you, and I admire the ballsy decision to do that in spite of the the loss of revenue.
> A IDE user who only knows how to modify projects by adding files and clicking checkboxes for optimization settings will do that for the rest of their career.

Sorry, but seriously that is BS. I started coding with Basic on a Commodore 64. By the same reasoning, I should be mystified by a mouse.

People learn, tools and languages evolve, especially during the whole span of a 40 years career.
That is not A/B testing, that is circumventing the duplicate submission filter.
Now you're just jumping through hoops to avoid linking to anything concrete. It's a shame, I was looking forward to hearing real arguments from you, instead of a fabricated "common sense."
Thoughtbot wrote a lib that they bundled up as a gem that does this for you called Backbone Support. It's an easy way to get started, but you'll likely want to tweak it later :)

https://github.com/thoughtbot/backbone-support
Looks beautiful here on Linux. Just make sure to pick good fonts (Sans, Sans Serif, and Sans Mono are solid choices) and that qtconfig-qt4 looks OK.
I'm sure kids will like this but that doesn't mean thats something they should use. Sure some kids (someone mentioned a kid with down-syndrom) will benefit from such an app but I would prefer if my own kids would use real pencils/paper instead so they won't be limited by the application. Of course the results won't surely look as nice but I think it will benefit the creativity of kids to use the real world tools.
I work for a site which gets a lot of traffic from mainstream Australia (ie we're not in the tech space).

We still get a significant amount of traffic from IE7.
F11: As far as I know, there's no way to make address/tab bar visible in full screen mode.

I prefer the way Safari does it. When I take cursor to top, address and tab bar are shown!
> “It will certainly open up Facebook inventory to companies that want to reach people in this manner,” she said.

I like how she refers to Facebook users as inventory and people at the same time.

Also, I feel like some Bill Hicks ^^
So, the answer is to just be rich and then it's all easy?

I'm here now, not having fun; but I also rather like eating and having somewhere to sleep ...
I think people in hacker community are always way too afraid of where privacy is going. We should all understand, it's gone already. Facebook's remarketing is same as Google + Bing. Notice all those Tigerdirect ads. Personally I like ads on sites. They tend to be related content and helps site owners monetize. I think the conversation shouldn't be best way to stop cookie tracking but how to control what you want out there in a single place. It's really crappy to have to worry about privacy settings on hundreds of websites. I don't want to use the web on privacy mode.
for me its the amount of bills I actually have and trying to keep track of all of them.

I have about 16-17 bills monthly (mainly because I own two homes) but I have to remember to login to each of those accounts and make sure all of the payments went through even if they're on autopay, I'm also anal enough that I like to check every single bill to make sure there are no charges I did not make etc.

I'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback.

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It's something I find interesting. PHP "haters" keep pointing at flaws, yet in almost 10years of doing PHP, the only thing that really ever annoyed me is the string and array parameters order...

And I've done a wide range of thing in PHP, including scaling websites to millions of pageviews per day.

PHP might have design flaw, but in the end, they don't matter because they actually don't affect the day to day developer.

And I've tried my hands at Ruby, Python (still use it but more for scripting than web dev), C# (was actually my first language for webdev), and weirdly enough I find that they get in the way more that PHP does when it comes to building websites.
.. Are you kidding?

In what possible sense is it insulting? Linux explained pretty succinctly why he described it as selfish and backed up the argument. What possible point is she trying to make?

EDIT: What I'm driving at is who is she to decide whether or not "selfish" is a pejorative in this context?
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Better than "Private Browsing" or "do not track" for 3rd-party surveillance, because it will not load other server's tracking images / javascript.

Only downside: expect some frustration when shopping online. It will break your first attempt at paying for anything via 3rd party payment services (which often use 3-4 different redirects to obscure banking providers - and each redirect / iframe will fail, of course). You can whitelist those, but it is more work.
> What you call a "DSLR lens" is really just a temporary thing. The past and the future is just "SLR lens".

Nope. Ever heard the term "pixel vignetting"? There are inherent differences between a sensor and film. "DSLR lens" should be built for better telecentricity than the classical ones.
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