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Steve Jobs did not make iTunes, iPod, iPad. He might've drawn a picture and said, "I want it to look like that.", but he didn't make it.

If I simply drew an interactive touchscreen toilet seat, and had an army of minions to actually get it to the market, all I'd need to do is sell it. That's what Steve Jobs did. I'm not saying he's not worthy of your love, but to say "Steve Jobs did XYZ... what has Woz done?" is quite ignorant, considering Woz did make the original Apple machines!
Feel free to join this google group https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi
Could somebody do a TL;DR, please? I am interested, but I am not sure where the article gets to the point?
Strike this. My bad.

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First thing I tried: dG to delete everything, didn't work. So, it still needs improvement. Now, I'll admin I'm not 100% sure if G is a vim command or a vi one.)
> I would like to get a list from him (or her).

Why is an answer from sofal not acceptable?
> I'd also like to apologize to Sean and the team for not trying harder to contact them personally.

That sounds like an odd thing to apologize for. You should not have to dig up personal contact information to get minimal customer service.
Evolution encourages diversity. At any given point in time and place, some people are better adapted than others. The least adapted make up at least some of the poor. By this relative definition, some poor will always be with us, even though their standard of living is rising continually.
Both "just talking about tech" and "talking about the lack of women in tech" are perfectly valid and necessary types of conversations.
"Just because I can use a hammer, doesn't mean I can build a house". Android opens up the entire tool box for you and expects you to be a responsible designer. Problem is, not everybody has the skills to do effective UX. Just because it's pretty, doesn't make it usable. This can tarnish the platform experience.

Part of Apple's strength in their walled-garden is that they have created an ecosystem of design. Google tried to do the same, and enforce style guidelines, to no avail. Seems like Microsoft has created a similar ecosystem that encourages usability.
I'm curious, is the name "ZombiePlatypus" a reference to any specific recently acquired startups with monsters and animals in their names?
Galaxy Play Store Outs Jelly Bean as Android 4.1, Arriving “Soon”
I can say the same but there's a clear gap in how seriously the vendors take it: it's been a long time since I've crashed any browser other than IE. The closest I've come a couple of times was getting Firefox to use enough memory that I killed it rather than waiting for it to page.

If you are crashing them as often as you claim, you should be filing security bug reports - every other browser team will respond quickly to non-Flash crashes.
Sad to see a project with so much promise jump on the latest trendy bandwagon. I think I'll stick to Ocsigen. http://ocsigen.org/
Yup, not offended at all, just looking for clarification.

Gender and sex are not equivalent -- OED even makes the distinction -- and I merely was curious as to the intentions of the organization.
I don't think this is a gender issue. You can be a parent who's there or not. Men have the same dilemma.

Now some people EXPECT women to be there more, but that's a societial expectation. Both sexes have to balance parenting and childrearing, and choose which is more important for them.
This looks great, and because it's based on <canvas> rendering, everything looks perfectly sharp on retina displays...
Every time I show up at a tech event and someone shouts "Yay! There's a girl here!", it just makes me want to leave.

That's good to know. I'll stop doing that. Sorry.
And he removed the big name-calling rant section after the phone call... the one set off by a loss of 51 dollars. Looks more like a publicity stunt rather than righteous outrage.
Thanks for posting this article. It was extremely well written, so much so that I just bought some of his books. It feels like this should be a movie. Sounds more inspiring than Stand and Deliver, Freedom Writers, etc.
> My efficiency comes from planning, not counting keystrokes.

As if the two are mutually exclusive...
It also doesn't crash IE9 on my Windows 7 PC or Windows Phone. I don't think most people have actually tried the page in IE9.
A Volvo full of LTO-5 tapes still has a very respectable bandwidth. LTOs come in 20 tapes boxes, about 10 litres in volume; a Volvo break with backseat down fits about 1500 litres, so you should be able to fit 150 boxes of 20 tapes = 150 x 20 x 1.5 = 4.5 Petabytes.
What's excites us is that he is getting the kids excited in something important. He is showing the kids that they can have their OWN computer -- like Dad -- instead of promoting the "exclusive priesthood" concept of computer programming.

What if your dad pretended as if cars were a black box, "don't touch them!" and you are never allowed to look under the hood? You will have a very different outlook on life than if your dad had you help with the tools and showed you what they do and how they fit together, or sat you on his lap in the driver's seat every now and then while the car is parked and let you pull the steering wheel this way and that.

Unfortunately, most people probably promote the "don't touch it!" mentality.
bad luck.
(bad genes, bad parents, bad country...)
We don't exactly know if the services troubles in this down times you cite were caused by a disaster, so maybe even the disaster recovery thing may be lacking.
Sign up for the google group I created here https://groups.google.com/group/cloud-vi and I'll let you know when I add evernote support
Well command lines can be quite stubborn when they don't want to do something.

CLIs were more interesting to poke at though and allowed you to be much more specific about what you wanted to happen. For example say you want to move all of your .mpg files from all subfolders of a particular folder recursively to another specific folder this is generally a lot easier with a CLI.

CLIs also don't tend to change very much, I've been using Linux for over 10 years and been through godknowshowmany window managers but I've never had to re-learn the CLI stuff.
The whole point is that a very great fund will still have 60%+ with valuation of 0, and that's completely ok.
dG works for me
Thank you for this. Many people will remember early browsers were also editors; Mosaic and Nexus (or confusingly WorldWideWeb as its earlier name) both had document editing features.
Finally, IRC is now usable on a mobile device. Great work Eric.
What do you find lacking in your znc + colloquy? Mine works pretty well. Plus, no one else has push highlights...
Yum. Though the biggest thing I liked about this was learning about the service 'filepicker'. Smart integration.
The strange thing is it reminds me of the late 90s, the GooBook back then were companies like Cisco.
Next up I will provide citations for the fact that the sky is blue, since we seem to be on a prove-the-bloody-obvious kick today...

You can, and should, make your point without being so insulting and demeaning. We can do better than this.
I was in the process of integrating Samurai myself. Luckily, I hadn't yet launched and was able to switch over to Braintree. Thus far I've been really happy with Braintree.

The part that I find really offensive is - they're still taking new account signups, with zero support for those users.
I would be interested in the reference; but I would love to know what a Krell stack is...
I don't have the code handy (was client work for a third party), but we definitely used XML through Auth.net's AIM. Here are the API docs for it:

http://www.authorize.net/support/AIM_guide_XML.pdf

We also used XML through their CIM to manage customer profiles. To be fair, this was all in PHP, and the code was inherited so I'm not sure if there was a better way to deal with Auth.net's API.

I do know that their dashboards were thoroughly unpleasant to deal with and I felt the API was obtuse in many different locations.
I haven't been using it very long, but the vibrant plugin community (make sure you get BOTH vim plugins) and intelligent shortcuts make it feel like a winner.
Haha, thanks for clarifying, I see what you mean now..

Still sounds a little like micro-management (though you'd say quality assurance), which a lot of people (perhaps including yourself?) might find annoying (well, I do)

How do you find the balance there?
You beat me to it, this has literally been sitting at the top of my "one of these days" list for a few weeks now. Looks great, I'll be trying it out tonight.
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Every time I read the word "cis-woman" I involuntarily reel from the blast of political correctness coming out of my monitor.
Anybody have any firsthand knowledge on how prevalent things like this happen? Seeing as how his company was acquired by LinkedIn, is he admitting this was his strategy?
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By the way, how much of this post is IndexTank's own story?
you need to ask yourself who cares about knowledge management the most
I believe it was a partnership between FeeFighters and Arizona Bay (one of their funders)
Does this mean you're not going to be buying the new disposable laptops from Apple? How will you live with yourself?
As a follow-up to that. When I hire programmers I only care about how well they can reduce a problem to a viable game-plan and how clean and well-documented their code might be. I could not give a crap about whether or not they are 3% more efficient at pounding out keystrokes on a text editor. We waste far more time in other areas than in the mechanics of editing code. In other words, if editor efficiency is adequate and the programmer is really good at hitting the nail on the head, the editor is not a problem. As an optimization problem, the text editor is the wrong place to focus one's attention. It is far more important to create product that is well-written, well-documented (I hate code without comments), easy to maintain and extend.

If you are doing embedded work that involves systems that could cause harm to people or property it is far more important that a programmer understand how to write safe code and take the time to make sure it is safe than to optimize editing speed.

Nothing I have seen in my career justifies contorting ones' brain to learn the commands of a modem-era text editor. It's an utter waste of time when compared to optimizing what really matters.
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Swing low. Give it all away.
A modest house in the valley costs something like $500k. With a typical mortgage you can expect to pay about 1% of the total price ($5k). That's more than triple your total expenditures, let alone housing costs.
In the "Events" section, changing the value to 5/5 results in an empty pie chart, rather than a full one. 0-4 out of 5 all work correctly.

Edit:

The violet 16px 7/7 example in the "Tips" section on the page is also missing.

Browser: Chromium 18.0.1025.151 (Developer Build 130497 Linux) Ubuntu 11.04
Social Darwinism, really? I thought that went out of style with eugenics.
By now they have some traction: hundreds of thousands of users, some of whom are even real.

I wonder what percentage of users are generally fake and how much some startups goose this number. Maybe adding in 5% worth of fake users increases an acquisition price. I'd imagine it varies by the type of app (CRM, social, etc) but that you'd probably have to get your next funding from the Salvation Army if/when you get caught.
Slight issue: counts do not work in combination with insertion commands. (in other words, you can't use 5i to have something inserted 5 times, or for a more useful example you cannot use 5o or 5O)

It's an easy to overlook, for a long time BusyBox's vi didn't like combining counts with o/O either.
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Stylishness is not equivalent to truth.
Works fine for me (Chrome)
What people call game cloning I call "entering later into a genre" or "reusing a mechanic" or even "reimplementing a game".

League of Legends and Champions of Newerth aren't "just" clones

Halo isn't "just" a Doom clone.

Bach Fugues aren't just clones of Buxtehude or Handel

Thunderstone isn't just a Dominion clone

Coincidentally, game mechanics ARE patentable. (Monopoly was patented, for instance). If you are that sure you're the owner of your idea, and want to lock of the mechanic from culture, fire away via your lawyers.
That's not really the definition of 'loyalty' they're looking for though.

"I'm great to work with as long as I get my way".

People who want 'loyalty' are really looking for people who will stick around when things get tough - perhaps pay cuts, wage freezes, benefits reductions, longer work hours - etc. If you stay through those, without complaint, you're "loyal". Being "loyal" as long as "I'm treated fairly" isn't really what they're after.
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If you apply, we'll let you talk to Geddes who leads our team internally and he'll tell you how awesome his job is.

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Firstly, Steve Jobs name is on many of the key patents associated with those devices and I doubt anyone would think that he didn't have a role in the design and development.

Secondly, engineers are a dime a dozen. I am one and have met hundreds over my lifetime. The really key people in business and most rare are those that can unify the business, marketing, design and technology elements together in a way that doesn't suck.
Ask HN: Do you live outside of a large city?
After 8 years of living in a large city, I'm ready to move back to a small town (nearest big city is 3 hours away). I'm not interested in working for the most glamorous or trying to make it rich playing the startup game.

Really I'm just trying to enjoy a better quality of life and a slower pace. The problem is that I'm a software developer, and I'm worried about my potential for finding remote work outside of a tech hub. I've asked around on the internet about this, but so far have gotten pretty negative feedback about it. Negative as in "why the hell do you even want to do this?" not as in "you're going to have a hard time".

I'm curious to see if anyone on HN lives outside of a large city (suburbs don't count) and has made it work. If so, how?
Cool. Emacs fans wanting their fix in the browser can checkout ymacs:

http://www.ymacs.org/demo/
Hah, I just realised what caused it. I have one of those vim-browser plugins and it apparently caught some of my keypresses and didn't pass them on.

Sorry about that, it's definitely cool.
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To be clear here, they're not actually sending Arduinos into space, which would be silly. They're putting several of the same microcontroller used in Arduino on a custom PCB. The idea being that the Arduino environment is very beginner friendly.
I agree with looking at photographs, especially curated collections (published books, exhibitions).

"It shouldn't take you more than a day to figure out how aperture, exposure and ISO work."

I disagree with this from the perspective of teaching this stuff to teenagers (some decades ago now I admit). Probably easier with digital cameras.
In academic circles it is not controversial at all. Outside of academia, people will always resist these facts.

However, keep in mind that this is one part of the puzzle, and always explicitly note that when talking about this subject in public to minimize negative reactions.
Hello everyone -- this has been an interesting and painful conversation to watch. I am Sean, co-founder of FeeFighters.

Integrating the acquisition of a small company into a large company is hard. I suspect there are very few acquisitions where customers do not experience at least some pain. I am deeply sorry for customers who have had support tickets get dropped or experienced slow responses during this period of integration. We are working to smooth things out.

When we got bought, in addition to some personal stuff, like moving across the country (most of our team moved to Palo Alto, so we could all be together instead of distributed), we had to very quickly build additional functionality and scalability into our product to support the ambitious goals that Groupon has for our technology. Since we have been more focused on development and since Marc and Stella, who were doing a lot of our customer service, did not come along with the acquisition, our customer service has suffered.

It is really uncool how quickly other startups are to snipe at each other. We started a business, pivoted, built something valuable, sold it at a profit, and are now in an amazing position to solve the customer problems we initially set out to solve. If that resulted in you having a bad customer experience, it is perfectly reasonable to complain about it, and we are listening and working to fix it. But (Fred from Fleapay) why would you insult us by saying that we didn't build our product (we did)? And what do you know about why Groupon bought us? And what does Ayn Rand have to do with this anyway?

As always, if you are a customer and you want to talk, I am at sean@feefighters.
Evolution encourages diversity.

That's quite a general statement for the discussion here, which you then use to make a specific conclusion about the human behavioral issue under discussion in this thread. Could you kindly fill out the reasoning steps you are implicitly following with more citations to research on each factual assertion you are relying on?

even though their standard of living is rising continually

This is generally correct. A popular book on the issue (I don't endorse ALL its conclusions, but I like its citation of many different reliable references) is The Rational Optimist.

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/
If a guaranteed six-figure passive income is not "never worry about money again", I don't know what is.
You may be in the minority but you're not alone!
addendum to the above advice from me:

How could I forget the substitution command? <range> s/old/new/g (g == all occurrences on the line.) range can be a lot of different options. The most useful <range> options in my experience would be:

%(all lines in the file),

select something in visual mode and press :,

-x, +y for + and - x and y lines from where you are.

exact range is not that useful in my daily use.

The other thing to note about the s command is that you can use other delimiters instead of / I like to use #

% s#/some/path/to/a/file#/another/path/#g works just fine and is much more readable than % s/\/some\/path\/to\/a\/file/\/another\/path\//g
I don't recall seeing too many people that were outraged when twitter was down, more just talking about it. Those that create services that depend on them know what they're getting themselves into. I did, however, see a lot of angry people when Heroku was down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
I have to disagree there.

DirectX is going to be much more compelling for developers IF Microsoft can unify Windows, Windows Phone and XBox Live Arcade together. The idea that I could write one game and sell to all of them would be huge.
I did find the lowering of barriers that would impede access to education like providing free meals, free transportation, and access to free babysitting to have been really helpful. In a way, it's like lowering the activation energy required to get motivated students into an environment where they can flourish.
Works as expected (full pie) on Firefox 13/Ubuntu
Can I embed this as an iframe?
I also never used that feature and I've been a heavy vim user for maybe 8 years.

Thanks to the relative line numbers patch being merged in finally (:set rnu and now you show line numbers relative to your cursor) you get easy moving up and down.

I prefer the easymotion plugin (https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion/) that annotates your file with little markers (like the vimperator/pentadactyl/vimium browser plugins use to click links with the keyboard) that allow you to jump around extraordinarily quickly.

It was, and still is, a learning curve since it adds to so many basic vim commands that are muscle memory for me by now but it's worth it.
There exist companies where you pay $100 and get 1000 to 10,000 people (read: south east asians) to sign up to your service.

CEOs have been invited to conferences to speak about their "sudden rapid growth." They never admit they are cheating. You can usually tell who does it because their traffic will abruptly stop once they realize the 100,000 one-time-login users in Singapore aren't virally spreading or clicking on ads.
Yeah, I really can't believe this made the front page. Really man? You're whining about people whining? It's just noise to me. Social media reflects what's happening in the universe, however deep or asinine. When people die or twitter is down, I find out about it first on Social Media. Granted, I try to put forth a little more signal than noise in my own communication, but I don't think blog posts complaining about it is really "signal".
Interesting. Here's the non-XML AIM guide: http://www.authorize.net/support/AIM_guide.pdf

That's the one we use. I didn't even know they had an XML option--and now I'm going to try to forget it! :-)
> Sure, some artists used Megaupload to share their own works, but these uploads were far outnumbered by their illegitimate counterparts.

Has this been demonstrated yet? (I currently slightly favor your belief but I could see it being the other case.) I know that Megaupload provided tools for the labels et al. to remove infringing content in a very easy way (just like Youtube offers), and there was a lot of outcry from people over their personal files being lost because they were treating it like dropbox.
Would you like programming with a thumb keyboard instead of a full-sized keyboard? That is how I feel typing in a text editor without a vi-like setting. The absence of vi style editing feels unnecessarily crippling.

If you don't feel the same, then whatever; nobody is trying to force vi style editing on you. I don't see what your issue here is, why is it that you seem so intent on discrediting the experiences of others?
The whole comparison is flawed/irrelevant anyway. Their point is valid irrespective of the airplane comparison in that having CDN servers closer indeed mean faster downloads, but I could have a perfect 100Mbps connection to the building across the street and try to download a 1TB file, it would still be insanely faster to travel to the other side of the road and lug the hard disk back.
It is on a track. Thanks for the advice!
LiPo's are used extensively in RC flight now (main power source for electric flight) and that group knows first-hand the dangers of these batteries. In fact, you can buy "charge bags" that are non-flammable incase your cell bursts into flame during a charge.

Great batteries, but very susceptible to over and undercharging with sometimes disastrous results. I basically never leave the room when I charge mine.