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Just a heads up that adblock is available for ff-android (dev version i think). All i'm waiting for is modify-headers and it'll be almost as good as desktop!

loving the recent firefoxes, although aurora seems to crsh a bit for me-- by far the best mobile browser now IMO. The tab selection could be better in landscape though; 80% of the width is unused. Idea: press tab button and move finger l/r to 'scroll' through tab selections (select on release)?
Also i wish there was a refresh button in the same spot as 'stop'.
I think that if you're using Java you might as well get some benefit out of the static typing- use an IDE that can put it to good use for source navigation.

I'm a long-time Java programmer who's spoiled by tools like Intellij, and I cry every time I want to delve into a Ruby library that my code uses, but can't do so because the editor (even Intellij/RubyMine) can't find it. Oh, you want to jump into the "foo.open()" method? Here are 58 choices- pick the one that looks like it might be the one you want.
instead of gearing up through farming, they eliminate the "slot machine" appeal of the game by making the only way to gear up through the auction house.

Really? Just don't use the auction house, and farm for fun if that's your thing... This is a major complaint I see all the time about D3, but it doesn't make any sense.
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This is cool, but the tracking script included in the default setup is NOT cool.
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Your comment is screwing up the page layout. (Firefox, Win7)
I also switched to vim so that I could run it in a terminal. The reason I did it is that I found Sublime Text 2's file listing cache would sometimes get corrupted or out of date, so suddenly I couldn't using Cmd+p to open things anymore. I couldn't find a way to manually bust that cache, so this was very aggravating. I'd basically be dramatically slowed down until ST2 deigned to update itself. IIRC, this was especially bad when adding new files and whatnot.

I was using NFS, btw. Never tried sshfs.
Why do you need to specify the initial number of rows/cols? Or is that optional?
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Flagging is for stuff that's really off topic, like politics, not for something that you didn't happen to find interesting.
Paywalls are probably a bigger issue, but it's still friction. Anyway, modern browsers give the option to save all of the images along with the HTML file.
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The one window your parent is referring is a terminal window, not a vim window.
> it is their duty to take the proper moral stand. Otherwise they are clearly just part of the problem.

They are taking a moral stand. Their stance is they don't want to get involved with software which they believe is primarily going to be use for piracy. Their company, their decision.
From an SEO perspective, does the generation of fresh content increase your rankings in SERPs by itself? Or is the idea to generate interesting content that others will link to?

It's also worth mentioning that blogging gives you a great way to go after the long tail.
Dude, I left Microsoft and almost doubled my salary in less than 2 years. Just quit. (Or find a job then quit, it's good advice)
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Adobe has a lot of things to make up for with the kind of people who could actually make a meaningful contribution.
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Well, we have to start somewhere. We are actually doing a ton around HTML and Web:

http://html.adobe.com

(I work for Adobe)
Yes, in particular the "bulk edit actions" (not sure if they have a proper name) that you can do in Vim in either visual mode.

E.g. make visual selection, shift-I = prepend text to all selected lines. This is the same functionality as sublime multi-line editing. The problem is that neither seems to work in vintage-mode (or I'm just too dense to figure out how).

Edit: Nevermind, it works now after I started over with a fresh config. Apparently I had something bad stuck in there from earlier experiments. Thanks for the replies!
So what does it do exactly? Is it something like automated A/B testing on prices/segments of customers? ("let's see if we can charge visitors on Macs a dollar more?" type of stuff?)

Love the design of the site.
It's a coincidence that any profile exists with that number. It's meaningless too, you could use ANY number.
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Most of that piracy stuff was not based on bittorrent. Also, Dropbox is currently used for piracy without bittorrent.
I consider the big-ugly code to be a part of the learning curve - it exposes "concrete" problems of implementation, and once built, you nurse it through a few rounds of changes before a major refactor or redesign to sweep up all the new concerns.

The main problem of this strategy is with other people - as soon as you have a whole team pounding away at the same piece of code, the incremental changes obscure a high-level revised view of the problem, being distributed across several minds. Descent into a ball of mud becomes the status quo.

On the other hand, optimizing the source text prematurely(either via code golf or Big Architecture) is even worse since it's not even built on a stable foundation of intention, then, but on guesses or convenient hacks.
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Brightcove helps iOS developers build dual-screen apps for Apple TV
Really? I was using the dev builds without paying (bought my license yesterday).
How it works? Laptops have a battery. Hence they are less likely to power off suddenly when mains voltage drops. And powering off suddenly increases the probability of some electronics in the system failing. No need to research, just simple electronics and logic.
That's a really good point, I hadn't thought of how sensitive the effect might be to turbulence caused by cables and whatnot around it in a case.
Google brings Lego building to Chrome
You clearly have a different focus than the author of the software, and its fans. ST2's proponents are more concerned with awesome editing power than having a preferences pane.

That being said, this is not the first time I've heard this line of criticism.
This is great work and it's still early days. Looking forward to seeing the code clean up and having more extensible options for things like legends and fewer properties tightly coupled to chart instances.
Y'know, I'll bet Dropbox is small enough that one engineer with a resignation letter in hand could've reversed this before it was announced publicly.
Active record tells you where it came from in the log.
And when being voted out of office is the only way that the citizenry has to hold officials accountable... would "very-indirect" be good for the people?
See my earlier reply to mikeash: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4162587

In short, enough people respond to a Nigerian scam to make it one of the country's biggest industries. And that requires constant, active participation in the face of a blatant scam that gets less plausible at every step. Passively allowing your perception to be shaped by how an idea is presented is many orders of magnitude easier.
...and this is why I will never depend on such a service.
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The copy at Microsoft Research is offline.

Here's another copy of the paper:

http://eurosys2011.cs.uni-salzburg.at/pdf/eurosys2011-nighti...
My app currently is not ranked in any categories on the App Store and I noticed myself constantly counting through search results to track my progress up or down in the rankings. So I made this. Right now it grabs your rankings for searches in 8 countries for both iPhone and iPad. I am working on having it poll hourly so that it is easy to track progress over time.

Most of the work is done by workers running on Gearman plus a nominal Django app to launch the jobs and present the results.

Would love to get any feedback! Hope you enjoy.
jeez ahi, that is an incredibly narrow-minded view of the way things actually are.
This is awesome. I'm impressed at how smooth it is even without WebGL (Canvas mode).

One issue I'm noticing is that the cursor target zones for the "tooltip" labels are a bit off (for me at least). As in, if I want to see the label for a lift, I need to place my cursor a bit to the left of it.
It all depends on your average typing / coding speed. Autocompletion doesn't offer a lot to someone who knows the language framework really well and type 90+ wpm. You may even find it's annoying more than helpful most of the time.

I'm not that fast and to be honest I really don't miss code completion at all.
> knowing eating breakfast really kicks up your metabolism

I'm not sure this is experimentally verified. There is also the "skip the breakfast" camp that advocates remaining in the catabolic state a little longer to keep burning the fat.

Also, why not throw the exact same greens into a blender. Surely that powder in the tub cannot be any better than fresh vegetables.
Yeah, I read the word "people" there and it set off my Sarcasm Detector. Your correction makes sense. ;)
Take a look at https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel as a potential Syntastic alternative in ST2.
Since the database they used is from "a period of 8 months in 2008" (Section 4, "Measuring hardware failure rates") I doubt they had any significant number of solid-state disks in their data.
Something worth noting: if you have good content, the placement is super easy, so if you find a good writer, get more than 1 story from them. Maybe a press release, an interview-with-the-founders kind of thing, and a top-howevermany things list comparing you to some others in the space.

Once you have an arsenal of content, find sites like forbes, techmeme, and the like that publish non-staff writers (they usually have a "write for us" link somewhere) and reach out to some of the independent writers. Do a little googling and see where else they publish.

Once you get an article up, push it as hard as you can. Blast your friends and family to like, share, upvote, and whatnot. If you don't have friends or family, buy some. You want that article to look valuable (and it should be if you spent enough money on it) because this will be the foundation of your relationships with other bloggers.

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It's not really like that at all. It's worthwhile having a backup account at an alternate bank (that's obviously not within the same banking group), for the same reason we make backups of our data -- things happen. It's nice to know there's a second debit card and a chunk of change in another account should anything happen.
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The most common use of a butter knife is not murder.
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Fuck the man!!

That's slang for "This guy is off his god damn rocker." People like this who have such blatant disregard for proper procedure should be castigated into humiliation.
You know what's cool? The only news about your company is that someone wrote it a check. Your website has fuck-all about what you're doing. Apparently I can sign myself up for some unspecified email content at some random point in the future, because I don't get enough email.

Now it's on hn with some crap about how you've "since expanded"... great. Get back to me when you're in business.
Every society is "democratic" in the sense that the people with the power and desire to rule are the ones who make the rules. Of course, a person without a gun has less power than a person with a gun, and a person with a fighter jet is more powerful still. So, if by "democratic" you mean all individuals having an equal voice, then I would say that fascism is by no means a demonstration of democracy working. Of course, if a significantly large and powerful group of people in a democratic society want to switch to fascism, it will almost certainly happen, and I guess the morality of fascism is another argument altogether.
I've tried Brackets on Windows but changing HTML doesn't reflect on the page. Have they implemented that yet or is it for CSS only?
What the parent commenter is saying is that he is technically acting within the legal bounds of his office. That is, impeachment will be impossible unless an actual violation of law is found.
Cool, was just about to start a search of projects like this. Does anyone know of any other similar projects (besides Active Widgets)?
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"I wouldn't say "hate" programming, people who hate programming tend to write the worst overcomplicated code (...)"

No, this is just being slopy. Developers who "hate" code will always push to deal with the smallest amount of it, so they think twice before they touch the keyboard.

"Persuading people not to add functionality they don't need is a good idea of course, but this isn't always going to be practical. Firstly it assumes that the developer understands every aspect of the business well enough to evaluate this, in which case they really may as well just put the developer in charge of the whole thing."

If he doesn't understand the aspects of the business and doesn't have any stake on the final product he's not a developer, he's just a programmer doing repetitive work at a software factory - "code monkey" on jargon - and is not in a position to provide the kind of disruptive, ten-fold improvement software is able to produce.

In fact, I can only feel sorry for any business which depends fundamentally on software and doesn't have a developer as the main stakeholder.
Noise and bragging. Please come back and give advice when you are wise and know the consequences of your past decisions. In the meantime, what is the goal of blogging about this? There are an infinitude of things happening at every moment, I would much rather if on HN we only found things that were useful to better understand the world. Stuff like this is one random person's over verbose twitter feed.
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I don't know whether English is your native language, Thomas, so perhaps that is the problem here. In any case, do you realise that you come across as extremely rude sometimes? In particular, you often seem to assume that others (me, in this particular case, but I've seen you do it to people before too) are not successful or do not know what we are talking about because we happen to disagree with you or someone you agree with. That is a very annoying habit, and it does nothing to promote interesting and informative discussions. I hope you will forgive my bluntness here, but you seem like a man who prefers honesty.

As it happens, I run multiple businesses today, one of which does work on bespoke projects for outside clients, and we do just fine with our calibre of clients and we send them invoices for a lot more than $1,000. In other words, I have no axe to grind here. But I don't see how that is relevant, really, anyway.

I simply objected to Patrick's characterisation of people who have problems with clients as being at fault themselves. I also object to the implication, which you seem to be making as well, that $780 is somehow a trivial amount of money and not worth bothering about, which is obviously not true for a lot of people out there particularly in the current economic climate.

It is not OK for someone to act unprofessionally, including not paying legitimate invoices within a reasonable period, regardless of the size of the deal. It would not be OK at $100,000. It would not be OK at $1,000. It would not be OK at $10. Whether or not it is worth involving lawyers as a practical matter has nothing to do with the ethics of the situation.

I therefore found the implication that someone new to the industry -- a position we were all in once -- somehow brought such poor behaviour upon themselves merely by taking on a relatively small job to be distasteful, the casual dismissal of the value of sub-$1,000 contracts to be rather conceited, and the whole post unnecessarily discouraging towards beginners who are taking their first steps into what often feels like a new and uncertain world.
The problem with this is it is an abstraction, while d3 uses the DOM directly. In principle SVGweb ought to work, but again there seem to be issues in actually getting it to work. Fundamentally all these methods are much harder than it appears they ought to be at first glance, and several people have tried one or other of them and given up after varying amounts of success (I didn't stay at it long).

Chrome Frame works well though!
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This takes a decent sized set of stones, and is overall bold, but likely to work for someone of Louis CKs status. Its been done before unsuccessfully (i.e. Pearl Jame and Ticketmaster) but I think his pricepoint and approach looks more like a sensible business plan and less like a PR stunt. Bravo!
I've been really tempted to fork and contribute to MacVim and steal some of the nicer visual things ST2 is doing. Namely,

1) rounded corners on selection boxes
2) nice glowing, fading cursor
3) smooth scrolling with a feeling of velocity/inertia
4) the minimap

I tried the Vim plugin, but so many of the motions that I use daily were missing I had to jump ship. But I'd love it for MacVim to have the same level of visual and UI polish that ST2 does--it really sets a high bar.
You have a fucked-up definition of "career."
Stanislaw Lem has written some brilliant stories (and book reviews of fictional books) about artificial intelligence going off the deep end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Lem%27s_fictitious_cr...
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Feels like scrolling with weights on my fingers.
Personally, I think out-of-the-box comparisons are fairly useless, because anyone who doesn't tune their database probably doesn't have enough data to make a difference.

I have no opinions either way on your product, but have you tried benchmarking against an out-of-the-box MySQL installed entirely on a ramdisk, so that it doesn't touch disk at all as well? That would make the comparisons more valid, since both installations wouldn't touch a physical disk.
Great article. ZeroMQ had a "smell" that I couldn't put my finger and thing article kind of nailed it. In retrospect I guess the smell is that it is tightly couples both sides of the network to make performance claims. It sacrifices robustness for performance.

I guess that it was developed for financial trading applications. Maybe it will work fine for those -- you have a few machines and high network connectivity between them. But people started doing "data center" stuff with 0MQ. Then you have geographical separation, and WAN latency and reliability.
To be pedantic, Dropbox doesn't allow upload of any type of physical knife.
Yes, but so is EC2, S3, RackSpace, Azure, MediaFire, FTP, etc etc. The difference is that Dropbox doesn't want to be seen as enabling a service that they think will primarily be used for piracy.
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The "all the things" approach is a large part of what keeps me away from Emacs[1]. I'd much rather use a single-purpose editor (like ST2 or Vim) alongside other similarly-focused tools, or a well-done IDE that's focused on it's environment. Emacs tries too hard to be everything at once (why do I want an editor that's a file manager, IRC client, organizer, and Tetris?).

[1] The other is it's absolute refusal to "fit in" on whatever platform it's on. Fits with the kitchen-sink approach: why interop with [program X] when you can just build it in?
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Not reliably. There are plenty of affluent privacy nuts who care a lot about making sure they're not tracked but aren't particularly price-sensitive.
These folks have some interesting HVAC automation solutions to reduce energy costs.

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But it's not. In fact intelligent completion is incredibly hard for dynamically typed languages. Those IDE that do perform intellisense or autocomplete with dynamic languages do it with very basic ability. In a real world dynamically written code file the editor simply has no way of knowing the members of a class. Or if it is even a "class".
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Another criteria, perhaps...

My wife loves to use Big Oven to find recipe ideas. I thought I'd also start using it so we could share those ideas more easily. When they rejected my password for having "invalid special characters" however...
Then you cannot claim you're ACID, since the D stands for durable. Something is wrong with your marketing.
The reason you don't hear people saying they're using the right tool for the right problem is that those people are out solving problems. People engaging in language wars are wasting their time, probably because they're incapable of solving real problems.
Simple solution:

[1] Someone create a project on GitHub
[2] Upload an amply sized CSV full of data
[3] Publish list of queries needed to "gauge" speed
[4] Allow anyone to post their metrics to see how well tuned any database can be in comparison

The only other criteria would be to ask them to all use the same form factor. EC2 makes the most sense.
The same way politics works, eh?
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I like it, but the demo doesn't really do it justice. I would slow everything down a bit (missed most of the transformations on my first pass, they happened way too quickly), and maybe work on styling a bit more.
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It's not clear to me why it is presumed in these articles that Bill Gates is an expert in education, more than any other person, like say a parent with kids in an actual public school system, or Salman Khan and Sebastian Thrun, both who are doing effective and innovative radical experiments and who have a lot of actual data and experience in finding what works.
http://carsabi.com/ also recently pulled craigslist results:

"June 12th: We no longer include vehicles from Craigslist, as they have requested that we not index their listings"

Too bad, it is a killer car shopping site, but without the massive craigslist db of results, they won't have nearly as much to offer.

Craigslist should really introduce a paid API or something, since they seem to hate being scraped. I think they fear becoming irrelevant.