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Ironically, Py3s purpose _is_ to fix Python’s warts. You just seem to be lucky enough to not have encountered them yet. :) Python 3 was about _losing_ baggage so we can start adding features again.

The fact that Python 3.3 has a lot of more features than Python 2.7 is is due to the fact that 2.7 was the last release that got Python 3 features back ported (two years ago) and is in bug-fixing mode since then. (and people in these comments still complain about Python moving too fast)

There also have been efforts to ease the pain for PyPy et al by requiring new modules to have also a Python based implementation and by – put simply – giving them money from PSF funds. Jython’s problem was rather lack of interest and developing funds as they were stuck at 2.5 forever until one of their developers got funding to bring it to 2.7.

It’s not all as bleak as it seems to you and chances are that your porting effort will be negligible as soon as the dependencies are met.

And the GIL…just leave it be. There are really no plans or efforts to remove it for many, many reasons I won’t reiterate here.
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I like the fact that they are open sourcing the tech though, perhaps someone else can improve it so it doesn't go on fire.
If i can throw a PSD file at your site, and get "valid" html5 and CSS3 back, please submit another story to hackernews.
Won't play FullHD video? Maybe if you're talking about crazy everything-x264-can-do encodings, but a decent 2006 computer will have a geforce 7xxx or similar and play "normal" FullHD video like you buy from itunes just fine.
He probably didn't have a long term position. More likely he was hired through a job agency or on a 0 hour contract in which case yes, you can be (effectively) fired on the spot. Same for his supervisor.

A lot of things stink about this story, but this isn't one of them.
Absolutely.

My dad's a builder, has been for 35 years, when on site he tethers his iPad to his smartphone to download spec sheets for fixtures and fittings. He used to have to wait weeks for this info to be posted from suppliers.

Anything that makes it easier to access, share and collaborate on information will make peoples lives easier.
(on OS X) ST2 cannot render RTL (Right-To-Left) text properly and the developer said in the forums that it won't be until ST3

although less mature editors like TextEdit or http://vicoapp.com or http://chocolatapp.com (beta) and http://activestate.com/komodo (IDE) don't have any problems with bidi and rtl texts

other OS X editors that could't show bidi and rtl texts:

TextMate 1 (http://macromates.com)

MacVim 7.4-64 (http://code.google.com/p/macvim)
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The "640K ought to be enough for anyone" quote is apocryphal at best:

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9101699/The_640K_quo...
It's classic worse is better: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

The web had a much, much faster "OODA" loop than competing platforms, and it had a much easier route to being more widely used. Sometimes we fail to see elegance because we see right through it.
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Galaxy Nexus is pretty much awesome, though. I've heard that the unofficial port to the GSII was actually smoother than the official one, too!
The Wikipedia article, at the moment I quoted from it related to Max OS X but not mentioning Safari at all, and Safari runs on other platforms: iOS and Windows."

Moreover the conclusion that "the JS engine is used wherever WebKit is used" would be false. Wwhen describing the use of the given engine, it's not a good description to say "the engine in WebKit" as there is an example of the very popular use of WebKit without the engine: Google Chrome.
Or if you've rooted, there are ROMs already available... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737849
Because they have literally hundreds of handsets to support, as opposed to about 4
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I totally agree with the common belief that patents are the wrong way for protecting most startups... But, an interesting thought about patent trolling, I believe, is that if patents are useless then why can the trolls make $29B/year on trolling? I'm confused!
Unfortunately the top hit on google for "nodejs ssl certificate chain" looks correct (it even works in most modern browsers) but it doesn't correctly specify the whole certificate chain for older browsers. This caught me out, so hopefully this post will help others too.
Anybody else think this guy seriously needs to pipe down? He sounds like 37signals minus the success. Every pleb thinks they can do a better job than the king. Nero thought that too...
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I had a short bit about this in my datavis talk at Pycon. Youtube link directly to the explanation of vision / color physiology: http://youtu.be/vfYul2E56fo?t=18m31s.
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Vim has the ftplugin (filetype plugin), which makes this easy as pie,
and extremely configurable, too.

You simply

set filetype plugin on

then put configuration files for a filetype into ~/.vim/ftplugin/$filetype.vim
(for example, python.vim, text.vim or even gitcommit.vim).

Within those, you can do things like setting expandtab or the tab/shift width -
they are full local subconfigurations which override your global configuration.
They are usually not very large (5 lines on average for me), but it sure helps
keep things organized and easy to find and change.
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Tangent: the '.io' TLD seems trendy. Why? I see that it means "Indian Ocean". I associate it with "Input/Output." It would make sense for "Internet of things" company IO Bridge, which is at iobridge.com, to be at bridge.io.

Is there any particular reason for Yeoman to be a '.io' site?
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I am a non-US person. I was very close to set up and transfer my startup to a new C Corp in the US in order to get better payment APIs and make the startup more attractive to VCs. The patent trolls in the US is one of the biggest reasons why I choose not to move my startup to the US, at least not until I get funded. I guess many others also choose to stay away of the US for this reason. The total loss of business in the US must be great.
15 years ago, when I was working as a firewall engineer and penetration tester, I was asked a few times to crack or reset the passwords of systems where ex administrators refused to hand them over. It was usually very easy to do, because the people refusing to hand over the passwords weren't really that competent in the first place, hence why they got fired.
Not really related, but the popular python library for bcrypt kind of does make you have to think about salting. (And it has some other, er, 'curious' design decisions as well)

http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/
I think you can safely say it is today's Minitel for many.
But on the other hand, you do get all the benefits of the advanced technology 10 years before the rest of the world. It's easy to scoff now, but remember what Newton said about standing on the shoulders of giants. And remember that ARPAnet could easily have gone the same way, it was also a govt-backed project...
what is this news? can somebody read and try to explain me/all what exactly is happening here?
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We're heading towards the Idiocracy future:

http://acousticmonster.com/wp-content/gallery/wtf-files/wind...
It's not silly. Even as a fairly serious tech guy, the first time I saw "play store" I thought "what the fuck is a play store?" (and, half an hour earlier, "where the fuck did the market go?"). Because I'm a tech guy I have the confidence to click random things and see what they do (plus I could put two and two together in this case), but I'm pretty sure my parents wouldn't; they'd just stay away from the strange icons, and stick to the ones they recognize, like youtube and browser.
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Yeoman was launched today at Google IO.
iirc Adobe has dropped NPAPI support for browsers on Linux, leaving Chrome on Linux as the only browser that support the new PPAPI interface.

So if you want to use new versions of Flash on Linux, you have to use Chrome.
Does 'significantly' means '30 times' here?
The actual device is safe. Only the provided cheap Chinese usb charger can catch fire.
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Patents are intended to incentivize people to reveal their secrets in exchange for a temporary monopoly on the secrets. They are not meant as vehicles purely for making profit, but that is how they are being abused - by people who buy up patents and then sue anyone who infringes, or by people who patent as broadly as possible and then sue anyone who infringes. Useful for making money, not useful for the intended purpose of contributing work for the greater good of all people.

The patent system is too broken. Anyone who writes software should hate patents. Anything you write will infringe on some patent out there. If all you want is money then writing software isn't the best way to go about getting it.

A better system would be one where patents do not give protection to ideas, but do give minor tax incentives to the people who own and use a related patent in their business. Then their ideas are shared, but not using the patents gives them nothing, and they cannot block others from using the all too often obvious ideas.
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Wouldn't it be easier if we all just standardised on one power supply?
I use my 10-inch transformer as a writing device, if by writing you mean typing (I wrote a novel on it, if by novel you mean 50000 word work of prose fiction). Honestly I think the "distraction-free" aspect works against it - forcing me to move out of google docs and into something else to check train times or skype messages makes me less productive, not more. But ymmv.
So... whether employed or founder, the hamster wheel never stops spinning sigh
Conversely, my experience is that there are very good reasons not to use Mustache (and instead use Handlebars etc.) — there are just too many limitations that force you to push commonly required functionality into an awkward place within the application stack.

Plus there's the whole thing that ‘logic-less’ is a big white elephant: templates need logic, or they quickly become unmanageably bloated and un-DRY. Being able to iterate and conditionally branch are fundamentals essential to templating languages, and so whilst Mustache is an interesting starting point, it's usually not the best solution.

Of course, the one benefit Mustache does have is parsers in lots of languages, allowing you to share templates across client and server-side — it'd be great if somebody were to invest time in producing (say) a Ruby version of Walrus, as it looks like a very useful tool from reading through the docs.
I took it out clubbing to take photos of my friends puking, that cool enough for you?
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It's less that it's a nightmare, and more that there aren't enough people that have done it to know the right way to go about it. We've been trying for 6months to get an ESOP off the ground, and have had a hard time finding an accountant/lawyer who knows their way through it, EVEN THOUGH we know what needs to be done.
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all right, I'll explain it. One guy's cost is another guy's value (almost by definition - of course there are exceptions such as losing something to nature through accident instead of losing money to persons or companies [of any kind] by making an expenditure of any kind to them) - so the patent trolls "create" whatever value we add up to get to the number quoted.

I am not saying anyone supports patents. I'm saying hackernews should be more consistent - or otherwise admit that "creating value" isn't an end in itself. It's the wrong question.

Edit: I think the current title is fine. ("Patent trolls created $29B extra cost in the U.S. last year") I just want us to be clear that one guy's cost is another guy's "value".

I would love to see more cooperative-optimistic-tit-for-tat solutions to the prisoner's dilemma, so that instead of just saying "creating value" we are more specific about the whole system.

This is what (an unnamed restaurant review site) gets wrong and Google gets right, in my opinion. Google adds value whereas (unnamed) removes it.

Of course in a naive sense (unnamed) is also "creating value". Just as these patent trolls are.

We don't condone it, but let's be consistent.
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What will happen to Flash on the Ubuntu LTS releases? Will it be automatically removed at some point?
There is no allegedly about it, I was spammed with an offer for a new Wakemate. I forget the wording. Plus the follow up apology.
Would love to, but they _still_ don't have the Google Apps for Domains migration tool working.
Perhaps the idea that the cost of a service should equal the value provided, rather than the cost to produce the service.
Atlassian as a company is awesome, their products quality varies and of course the best sellers (Jira and Confluence) are also the worse one code wise since they are the oldest.

The point I'm starting to get mad about is this BS about not having sales. I've worked with an Atlassian partner and, well, Atlassian huge partner network is their sales force.

And over the last year Atlassian itself has started hiring internal sales people too so please stop with this "no sales"
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Before capitalism, "trade rights" were a property right. You could own the right to be a sell bread in a particular town, for example (and the right to exclude others from doing so). Those owning such rights made lots of money, but that doesn't mean they were a good idea.
Off topic, but in that quote who is the idiot telling the tale?
Sounds plausible. I had also a lot of luck with a .ch domain, which fits my lastname ;)
What does MM mean? Wouldn't M work in any context other than with the currency sign?
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Am I the only one who fails to see the innovation in that?
Not everyone needs to know how computers work. There will always be some who do, and most who don't. That's the way it has been and the way it probably always will be.
For one happy moment i was expecting a working open source implementation. Then i crashed on the ground...
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And this is a good thing in general. Computers are tools, after all. When I drive a car, I don't need to know how internal combustion engines, transmissions, steering etc work, like it was in the early days. The same is true for computers today. Why should the user be forced to learn all the peculiarities of the system if all he needs is a way to talk to his friends on the other side of the globe? If it works, it works, and if it doesn't you call an expert.

True, you should know a bit about cars if you want to do crazy endurance races and you should know a bit about computers if you want to use their full potential, but the vast majority of the users won't ever need that.
HAH! "Greg studied _business_ at Boston College until he left to pursue WakeMate"... go figure.

Alright... I can see why Gupta wants to open source it. Smart and the right thing to do.
It's become a standard name for IT products (more so than .it!) due to input/output connnotations, and as the other commenter said, it's especially appropriate for a Google product launched at IO.

Also a lot of names sound cool as .io, e.g. cloud.io can be read as "Cloudio". And due to the relatively high cost, a lot of .io names are still available. Just 18 months ago, a ton of 2-letter domains were still going (http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/two-letter-io-domains-ava...).
What a lot of shit.

8 companies from this year's Startmate batch incorporated in the US from day 1 (last year only 2 flipped up post incorporation).

Flightfox is in YC. Happy Inspector is in 500 startups. Scriptrock raised in the US. Ninjablocks went nuts on Kickstarter and also raised in the US. The other 4 I believe are either back in Australia or are heading back here, most of them also raised money in the US.

So why did they incorporate in the US instead of Australia? Because ONE company from Startmate 2011 raised in Australia (that'd be us), and even then most of our first round came from the US.

So the choice is either to run an incubator that results in no companies getting funded, OR you get them to a place where they can raise money and be successful, and last I checked that's the whole point of an incubator.

As far as VC's go, it makes literally no sense for a VC to be pushing their portfolio companies to the US were valuations are higher. All they'd be doing is making it more expensive for themselves to invest in future rounds. They're not that dumb.

There will continue to be no investment in startups in Australia until there is PROOF that investing in Australian startups isn't a dickhead investment. The best way to do that is to do everything you can to get these companies to be successful. These companies are doing great things in the US and it is ALREADY encouraging several (up to 6 that I know of) new funds to get started in Australia WITH substantial incentives from the Aus Govt.
Wanted the site to more informative. Video dosen't really convey anything. When I clicked on the title: "Quickly build beautiful web apps"- I was expecting something totally different
So uhm a sunglasses-shaped smartphone ...

1st time I heard about it : nice idea man, it's prolly better in reality than in books and movies

20th time I hear about it : dude . I don't care, sell it already before someone beats you to it.
No, that's not implied at all. The remedy for most "illegal" things is repayment of damages suffered, or a statutory fine. Nor can you imprison an inanimate entity, like the government that carried out the illegal warrant.
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Very cool-looking, especially the cover photo for events. Should companies/bands/artists and the like start taking G+ seriously, this will be a big selling point (they love little branding opportunities like that).

Calendar integration: Just makes sense. Not really a feature so much as an obvious subfeature.

"Party Mode" looks promising. I'd say the only thing I don't like about Facebook's events is the lack of a group photo album for events, so Google have done well in integrating this.

But, again, until the people I know are actually on Plus, G+ events are just going to be something else just for the geeks.
I'm assuming some of it has to do with licensing agreements. My guess is carriers want to keep control of the code on the device because many preload their images with extra stuff ('crap' or 'value added service', ymmv).

Sun/Oracle can put out timely JRE/JDK updates for Windows/Linux - why doesn't Apple? Similar situation, and one which I thought was incredibly stupid for Sun to get itself in to years ago. If Java is really that core to your business (changing stock symbol to JAVA even!), don't let a third party control the availability and release schedule of that software for some of your users. Sun did it with Apple/Java, and Google's going it with multiple manufacturers and Android.
The "just works" however should be only the outer shell, and if you want to do more, or if you want to learn, this shell should be easy to remove. As you can open your car and look inside, mess with it.

Instead many modern systems are designed to be blocked in the most basic shell, and to deny all the rest. Like the Apple iPad for instance.
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The article is very biased and for some points with factual errors:

> This meant that even the poorest of households contained a set, subsidised by the taxpayer.

It was a freemium model, France Telecom was making a lot of money and was able to fund the Minitel without tax payer money. In fact, France Telecom was a cash cow for the government, not a single time took France Telecom money from the tax payers.

Also, my grand parents were able to use it, basically everybody could use it, the Internet took off extremely well in France across all the generations because it was possible to say: "this is like the Minitel, just type here the address, and there you go".

I did introduction courses to learn how to use Internet in the late 90's and for the 100's of people I helped, the Minitel analogy was perfect and allowed us to move forward extremely fast.

Edit: Thinking about it, this is the same model as the app store. To sell on the app store, you need to ask Apple first. You had to ask France Telecom at that time.
But without the GPU (and I'm not sure how geforce 7xxx driver support looks now) even 720p videos might get problematic, some becoming pretty much a slideshow, some being just slightly uncomfortable when going around 20 fps. I know they do on my 2007 macbook.
>>I just can't imagine that many people using these.

You are in good company. "There is a world market for about five computers." was what the IBM chairman was able to imagine in the 1940s.
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This is the broken window fallacy.

Patent trolls who serve no purpose other than to litigate don't create value. And if we take one in particular Lodsys. They had the potential to destroy a lot of value when they sued small app developers many of whom simply didn't have the resources to defend themselves.
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The problem is not UI simplicity, but rather the consumer monoculture of consumption destinations like facebook or even reddit. As the article points out, many young users rarely go beyond popular sites and fail to learn basic computing skills. This is a problem of users viewing the web as a new form of couch potato TV, but I would not blame simpler UI for this phenomenon.