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>Not too many people would buy an Xbox and use it for Netflix

I can very much tell you that's not the case.

And seriously, is everyone missing the point? This is a packaged, streaming video capable player. It will be running Android. It already has more capability than the Nexus Q and is a third of the price.

The point is that this competes with existing game consoles in more ways than just gaming. It doesn't preclude it being a success from gaming, but it means that it has a wealth of other uses.

I can't count the number of technologies that have been priced correctly to sell decently for reasons beyond their primary use. And if you think people don't buy Xboxes to play Netflix, well, I can categorically tell you that you're wrong.
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Agreed. It's one of those "we'll figure this out later" things from the late 90's without any real programmatic constraints that led to a mishmash of pointless and unexpected behavior.

I personally can't come up with a good reason not to just remove the green ball entirely.
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Sure. In my view, that's another context where I don't know what's going on. Ergo, sometimes I give in and use a debugger.
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r/seduction - anything good in there? That's a pretty funny sub!
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/r/depthhub and /r/bestof are some of my favorites too.
Looking again at the post, I think the author was in fact rather careful to not give away anything about security practices at Dropbox when he was there, for obvious reasons.

He keeps many comments at a high level (security/convenience) and refers to a few non-Dropbox examples.
For your printer problems, funnily enough installing Bonjour for Windows on both machines can help quite a lot.
Typekit.com goes down taking with it many websites
... and this to go back to the state of the file 10 minutes ago:

:earlier 10m

and

:later 10m

to go back. Note: This is independent of undo/redo cycles as Vim keeps track of that in a tree-like structure. There's just no really great default way of accessing it. See Gundo for a plugin that tries to make it more accessible.
Java.

Seriously, it's a language sufficiently verbose and inexpressive to effectively require an IDE. If you're just going to be generating 70% of your code from your IDE, why is it there in the first place?
there are features that haproxy support out of the box, e.g. sticky session load balancing, http 1.1 to upstream (newer version of nginx also support btw); on the other hand, people use nginx for SSL termination.
Where did I say ponzi scheme?
Not a nosedive...they "adjusted their conversion factors."
we should have a day of protest doing exactly this to eachother......
I've done that quite a bit, but only to make printer discovery on the network actually happen. Are you saying you can use it to share out printers as well?
I'm glad they decided to give us some choice.

I just wish they'd done it from the beginning.
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Heh heh I love your phrase "searching for tiny pockets of awesome in a sea of idiocy" - that pretty much sums up my entire relationship with the internet :D
I'd be tempted if it meant a significant pay raise and/or a very real expectation less coding and more design.

I certainly wouldn't want to do it if there was no significant pay raise or the expectation was that I would be a tech/team lead but still have to log 40 hours a week of coding.

> It seems to have surprised a bunch of people in the management so I'm getting second thoughts about whether I'm doing the right thing by bucking this trend.

That could easily just mean you have a better perspective on things than a bunch of business majors, for all we know.

I would ask them why they want you to be a team lead over other people, and how it would make your life any less stressful or more enjoyable or interesting or how it would benefit you in a tangible way. Tell them to sell it to you!

At any place I've worked, there was this definite division, where once you got above a team lead, your actual programing skydived and you seemed to only attend meetings. I think that would be nice and low stress.
Their Status page (http://status.typekit.com/) is also down.
This is going to be big! Great work guys!
Thanks for the detailed description! Nice to see actual experiences rather than speculation.

"a significant percentage of the world (possibly > 25%) either Hates Facebook or wants to keep their Facebook account isolated."

And some people don't even have a Facebook account. Around 6 billion people, last time I heard :)
Yeah, but I always ssh from Emacs using Tramp. When all I have to do is C-x C-f /user@hostname:~/path/to/file, there is no reason to use anything else.

Just as pragmatic, and I get to use all my nice normal Emacs features at the same time.
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Why did you let the reddit community turn to shit?
It's possible to spend too much on "insurance" and we almost certainly do that when it comes to climate. The general scientific consensus is that the next half-century of warming generally makes humanity better off. So this risk you presumably think we need to be actively trying to mitigate - as opposed to just doing the sort of stuff we do for asteroids - is predicated on the idea that current trends continue for a century. But 50-60 years is quite a long time when it comes to technology. Even if the models are right, by the time global warming starts to be a net negative rather than a net positive, our grandkids will have a lot better options to deal with it then than we do today. Our kids and grandkids will be richer, smarter, better fed (due to longer growing seasons and CO2 fertilization), and MUCH better informed than we are today. The best thing we can do for them is give them an economy that hasn't been crippled due to paranoia that any one PARTICULAR threat we can foresee today will doom their world.

There are an infinite number of potential threats that aren't hurting us now but that we can imagine might hurt our grandkids. Only some of them will actually turn out to be a serious problem. Spending trillions or even billions of dollars of resources combatting any one such threat reduces their potential ability to address all the others.

There's nothing wrong with caring about things like global warming, but there's quite a lot wrong with trying to "fix" it now. To put it in programming terms: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
This is an extremely poor article. I am still considered young in the industry at 24 but even I know plenty of programmers that graduated with me that hadn't started programming until they got to college who are absolutely fantastic and have high level jobs at Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Rockstar Games, TakeTwo, Blizzard and others.

I don't think you need to start programming at a young age to become an excellent programmer. The biggest issue I've seen is that people have a hard time understanding the hard and fast rules of logic and other people just get it. I know people that have programmed since they were 8 that still have problems programming even simpler projects but they enjoy the challenge and can solve problems that they have (such as doing VBA scripts in Excel).

There was a fellow student in one of my classes who wanted to become better so badly that he would always ask some of us who were stronger at programming for advice and tips and he would follow each one. He had been programming since he was 7 and his dad was a software engineer. This guy at the end of college was a mediocre programmer at best and not for a lack of trying, he simply had issues changing his thought process to fit that of programming. It was really sad watching him fail after trying so hard. So far has he been through multiple tech jobs/programming positions and it seems he is really down on his luck.

I don't think any of the criteria mentioned really makes much of a difference. Just because I pick up a new language and play around with it doesn't mean that I am an good programmer. Just because I've been programming since I was 10 doesn't mean I am a good programmer. Yes, for some people that is the case, but not for most.
No love in Safari. Not a fan of tools I can't rely on.
I really, really hope it takes off.
1. Brewster.com was down for me.

2. The app slurped up all my accounts and then told me to leave.. They would message me when everything was ready.

3. I got a message 20 minutes later.

4. I opened the app and saw a grid of flashing gray blocks. Some blocks had names of my contacts on them.

5. No photos loaded, but the blocks kept flashing.

6. The app asked me to select my favorite contacts. What the hell?! Aren't you supposed to auto magically figure that out?

7. I couldn't find my wife in the giant list.

8. The contacts seemed to be in completely random order. People I had forgotten about were at the top of the list.

Maybe the demand spike caused a server failure, but I am disappointed.
Valid doubt as well as they did a little experiment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238075

Moral being, target your marketing in trusted markets and verify any feedback for validity and if you too find that flase people are comming as a result of the marketing, then it is perhaps time to ask for a refund. I'm sure even facebook don't want nor wish people to lie and cheat to give a false impression and in that they would be more than happy to refund your expences. Especialy as you are checking simple details that they should of picked up early on by them.
Interesting. I like many of Rust's language concepts (and I have contributed some small fixes to the Rust runtime), but (to my eyes :) the syntax is snowballing into a hybrid of C++ and APL.
Article relates to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238078 and is the research to back it up. Or Smoking gun as some might put it (as long as its not on a facebook private chat :).

Can't fault good research or a good bagel.
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That's a very strong claim. What evidence do you have for it?
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What in particular do you not like? To me the proposed stuff on the roadmap fixes the problems I see (changing "::" to ".", camel case for type names, "alt" -> "match", => after pattern matches, #debug to debug!, removing argument modes -- no guarantees that we implement these of course, they need consensus), but I'm curious as to what your thoughts are.
It wasn't a web app ;)
yeah, something shady must be going on.

My guess is that you'll find similar people on Digg's and News.me boards. And this was just a way to a) write off Digg as a permanent loss off the books and b) transfer those assets cheaply to the other company, which might boost them from being a loser to being a winner

Noone sells Digg for $500K...not unless they are millions and millions in debt
This is obnoxiously false.

If no one liked reddit, no one would be there. The majority of current users came from digg. You can watch the decline in content and maturity since then (and before then as digg was shedding users before they flipped the switch on diggv4). The content APPEALS to them which is why reddit keeps gaining users.

The "real" or "hardcore" users, aka the ones that have been there since when the content was good and relevant, are smart enough to find subreddits that appeal to them because they like the style and functionality of reddit.

I will agree that digg could go back to its tech roots and gain back some of that crowd. I myself have found tech related news on digg that was not posted to reddit, at all.
That doesn't seem like his point. I think he is pointing out that digg changed too much and changed too much of the UX and people got fed up and moved to the next best thing.

I don't think he's saying Zuckerberg is worried about reddit, he's saying Zuckerberg is worried about being a fad or a blip. And he should be. More than one metric is indicating that Facebook usage per-user is diminishing, or at least peaking.
Sorry, I like my privacy. And it was more of a viral accident rather than a result of clever marketing and precise positioning.
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It kills me to see the reddit-hate here cloud obvious facts. There are a number of things that reddit has gotten good worldwide publicity for or has had a hand in shaping. That's not true for a large number of sites. In terms of what reddit is, it is important.
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Ok, what was the name of that non-web app?
Again, what you say is equivalent to saying "I quit". Not everyone has the luxury to choose all the tools he works with.
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I don't think anybody's saying you shouldn't be able to scale anything on your screen - just that "100%" should be the same size on anything.

100% should not necessarily be the default. Fit page width to screen/window seems like the proper default.
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I'm very interested in hearing some feature requests or any issues you notice. Feel free to post here so others can comment on your comment.
It's like no one read my post. I specifically do not want to sleep.
What's your plan of attracting such partner if you are not even willing to share the name of your web site?
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I prefered it when this was caled the Millinium Falcon a year ago.

I do have my doubts about this for many reasons.

1) Radar was in it's early days during the war and Hitler during his the war will be over in a year approach - canned alot of great research projects, radar being one of them - setting research back two years. This meant the Allies were ahead on radar and even they did not have radar on submarines from what I'm aware of.

2) This is the north sea, a area which was the wrong side of the UK with regards to action, not even in the channel area, so for some super duper secret weapon I'd have to raise more doubts on that point alone.

3) If it was a UFO or indeed some misplaced Nazi tech then there would be military people investigating it, this is not so and if they don't think it is then there is not even the remotest chance with all due respect.

Still fun and harmless article and I'm sure it will get dragged on for more years or until they need more funding, whichever comes sooner.
Windows might not, but KDE certainly does. It lets you make any window full screen, which gets rid of the borders and makes it take up the whole screen (whichever one it happens to be on). Moreover, it also lets different programs customize their full-screen behavior: for example, Chrome and the Dragon Video Player both have their own full-screen modes.

And this still lets you use all of your screens. It's great.
I don't care if the feature broke because QT 7 and QT X have completely different code bases or because they removed the correctly functioning code. Either way it's broken and it's really fucking annoying.
Makes me think.. is the NS prefix in cocoa frameworks short for "newstruct"? I always wondered about that one.
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Which is a piss in the ocean if you're looking to start a real business.
any chance could either explain this a bit more or post a link to a blog? this is very interesting to me and i do not know much about it
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This is a great question. Perhaps what I should have said is that this program doesn't appear to have buy-in from other divisions inside of Microsoft.

This is evident from statements from the "About" page like this one: Q: "Should my startup apply to Bing Fund, Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, and BizSpark? Can we apply to all of them?" A: "Any of these programs could be appropriate for your startup, depending on your stage of development and the kind of resources and support you need."

If the Bing accelerator was aligned with, or had buy-in from, other divisions inside of Microsoft, this statement wouldn't be necessary.

This is different from BizSpark (for example), which is administered mostly out of the "Server and Tools" division, but has buy-in from every other division inside of Microsoft.

So what this means is, if your startup is doing something that aligns very well with the goals of the Bing division, then you should apply to the Bing Fund. If your startup is doing something that aligns best with the goals of another divisions, then, who knows?
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"My appeal is to software and hardware developers to ensure that a 12 point font will be rendered the same size everywhere, regardless of screen size and density."

This is a not very well reasoned appeal. If it were implemented, every Keynote presentation would be unreadably small when projected onto the big screen, literally the same size as the presenter holding up a piece of paper for the audience to read with their binoculars. Likewise, no more than a few characters at a time would be visible on a phone.

There is simply no serious counteragument; nobody can say making things unviewable would be a step forward.

The best you can do is complain that the name of the units is misleading. Fine. So what about introducing a new unit that is truly faithful to a real world measuring stick? You can argue for that all you want, but guess what? Nobody in their right mind would actually use it, outside of exotic scenarios, because generally you want to avoid the above effects. You want your user interface to be visible to users at different screen sizes meant to be viewed from different distances.

Thus, even if we were to introduce a new "TruePoint" or "TrueInch" unit, it would be largely.. and I beg you to excuse the pun here.. pointless.
Great advice:

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And those complaints are, in turn, a response to overwhelming pro-Apple advocacy. It seems people are content claiming that Apple makes the best software that is clearly superior to Windows and Linux(!), and then surprised when others point out glaring deficiencies in OS X.

I always see such complaints not as "wow, OS X is completely unusable" but as "wow, OS X is not better than (Windows|Linux)". It's no crime against humanity to make a mediocre operating system--just don't go around claiming that it is by far the best!
This is a long shot, but in one of the videos on the hardkernel.org site they show the ODROID-X working with four miniature web cams. Does anyone know what brand of webcam they are? They look like they would work very well for a project I'm working on to record pollinators visiting flowers.
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was I the only one confused by the name...
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Software development management == business management?
This Software Management Manifesto seems to conflate both.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SoftwareManagementManifesto

A case of a good manifesto with the wrong title?
Wait, isn't that Nexus 7 only selling at 199$ with same cpu cores plus a nice touch screen?
Languages don't just fall into two black and white categories of whether or not it requires an IDE that understands the language. It's a spectrum, which means that all languages should benefit from an IDE that understands the language. If not, then you've just found the perfect holy grail of computer languages. Until then, face the fact that language integration is nice.

Unless I'm missing something, specialized non-VIM IDEs tend to be much better at auto completion (especially in C++), jump-to-definition, refactoring, etc. IDE users (who typically are ignorant to VIM) can use these features with extreme productivity. On the other hand, VIM users tend to be rather ignorant of how incredibly productive you can be and how nice it feels to have these powerful context-sensitive tools at your fingertips (and sorry, but CTAGS is useless). Regardless of what IDE you use, nobody can deny IMO that having an editor look up APIs and function lists for you in a context-relevant manner is productivity-boosting versus the alternate of scanning headers manually.

So in this sense I think both VIM/EMACS and IDE users are ignorant to other editor paradigms. What I don't like is how each party tries to claim that their method is the best, without having truly tried both.

I've used both extensively (used VIM for years) and I prefer IDEs by far, but that's just my personal preference.
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Why do people say Apple Computers aren't able to be modified? Go on Amazon/Ebay. Find the screwdrivers. It's a computer not Fort Knox.
That's true, if nobody liked reddit nobody would be there. That does not mean that reddit isn't missing out of millions more users that are driven away from the site because they don't enjoy the "popular" content but don't understand how they can customise their own reddit, or they don't want to work to get reddit to be a site that they like.

> The "real" or "hardcore" users, aka the ones that have been there since when the content was good and relevant, are smart enough to find subreddits that appeal to them because they like the style and functionality of reddit.

That's a god awful assumption to make.
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On the other hand, during grad school, I developed a LIMS system and order tracking system (about 2004-2005). It was very similar to Quartzy, actually. It was done on the side to support my own research. My university decided in its infinite wisdom to license the tech out to a startup that had very little experience. The idea was that they would take over the system to add the next features that was needed and I could get me back into lab. They were trying to get SBIR funding.

The last time I checked, the company folded and my lab never got the new features back. Worst of all, the code is now locked away, never to be seen from again. Even the code that I wrote can't be used outside of that original install.

So, I agree that academic centers are usually not very skilled at developing software that can survive, at least the projects that do succeed are generally available to the research community.

Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to get tenure working on such projects, so anyone that is skilled at projects of this scale leave academia pretty quickly.
Or, most importantly, Emacs! I don't know where I'd be without a full-screen Emacs.
I completely agree with you. Don’t be so aggressive, be nice!

Apple should remove the zoom button. It’s not necessary, more confusing than anything.
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