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> Is the snark really necessary here? Why so mean?

Marco has long shown a visceral disdain for non-Apple products and those who use them. Unfortunately, this sort of behavior is on the rise in general, and not many people are willing to call out those who find it necessary to take a potshot at the "other camp" every chance they get.

As for Marco's comment about Windows-using web devs, one of the most respected members of our community and a serial web entrepreneur, patio11, appears to be a Windows user, at least as of 6 months ago: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3422608
Yes.

I had to pause a second to search my mental vocabulary database to make sure it was what I thought it was, but yeah. I wouldn't say it's the most common word used to describe the concept, but I would think that it would be well known.
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You are correct. I should have been more precise: once a company has >500 shareholders, they the same reporting requirements as a public company. Since reporting is one of the biggest disadvantages to going public, this means that companies with >500 shareholders are very strongly incentivized to go public.
Well, another reason why app name is important: Hide pictures with KeepSafe instead of KeepSafe.

Btw, why the name of the iOS app is "Hide Pictures and Photos with KeepSafe", but the Android version is just "Hide pictures with KeepSafe"?

In my iPhone, when I search "hide photo" I can't find your app, so the keyword "Photos" is therefore useless?
This is the advice I recieved from an old supervisor who was known around the world for the quality and depth of her research.

1. It doesn't matter how hard you work but how hard people think you're working. If the door is shut and you're working all night you're only hurting yourself as people will fail to give you the recognition you deserve. Work hard, but make your hard work known.

2. You don't have to be intelligent to create great research. You can buy intelligence (and equipment etc) etc. What you need is imagination, organisation, motivation and an ability to network.
foobar2000 + foo_upnp, BubbleUPnP on Android, XBMC, and PS3 Media Server have all worked fantastically for me in the past. Windows Media Player and my TV's built-in UPnP support, not so much.
Here's some example student projects from a leading design school:

http://www.artcenter.edu/accd/gallery.jsp

Refresh a couple times to see more. Many are commercial, and some of those are for established brands.
It is important but not urgent (sorta depends on your site demographics). I'm not dropping a couple grand for a 1st run, rushed to market laptop. I can test now using the other methods he mentioned and I'll get a retina laptop when they are more reasonably priced, the hardware is more refined, and when most software is updated to look right.
I had the same experience. I have comcast and I bought a Motorola SB6121 on amazon because it was $85 and comcast charges you $7/mo to rent a cablemodem so you save money after only one year. Anyway, I plugged the modem in, it downloaded some config, rebooted, and started talking to comcast. It was pretty painless. And I just picked the cheapest docsis 3 modem off a list of probably 25 approved models.
I'm really excited for the high DPI Web. Higher resolution should be the last piece of the puzzle needed to finally kill the (terrible) practice of using images or Flash or (gulp) Silverlight to display text. Finally text can be beautiful to graphic designers, but still be text to developers and software.
I’ve been using a Retina MacBook Pro for one week, only as a secondary computer,2 and I’ve already changed my font, redesigned my narrow layout’s header, and conditionally replaced an image with text. I’ve noticed that fonts, especially, respond extremely differently on the Retina screen: many of my old, non-Retina choices simply didn’t look good, and many fonts and metrics that were previously poor for screen use can be used nicely on Retina screens.

So you swapped out your old fonts that look good for 99% of people for fancy new ones that, while "poor for screen use" for those 99%, look nice on Retina screens?
Clearly this is the truth. Except (and I'm being quite serious here) to those who just dropped a big chunk of self image into their new toy. There's a huge psychological investment to a product like this. It's better! And anything that prevents it from being/seeming/acting better is an abomination. Marco Arment is deeply, personally offended that site designers aren't improving their work so that it looks better on his personal screen, because that situation reduces the value of the thing he so admires.
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My bad...I mistook the "setup a free project".
Ya. It is JB only but the Q hasn't officially launched yet. All the marketing material says 2.3+ and I expect that will be accurate in a coulpe weeks.
You don't tend to see this type of behavior from long-time Mac users. It, interestingly enough, tends to come mostly from people who were Windows users and then jumped on the OS X bandwagon at some point in the last 10 years.
Well, the article mostly discusses non-bcrypt solutions so the question seems reasonable. I suspect bcrypt is in limited use because it's not built-in to any of the development environments.
The iPad 2 does not have a retina display.
This OpenHome is interesting, there's a lot of stuff going on here! An OS to host Web UI's for controlling a network stack... whoa, there's a lot here.

There are a lot of AV components, listed at http://openhome.org/wiki/OhMedia . Multiroom and party-mode synchronized audio are there too.
I bought one as my primary work machine for developing iPhone, iPad and Android apps and I can recommend it to any developer of all sorts. This is just a really nice developer machine, I love coding on that thing.
Fallacy.

Vivek Wadhwa has the better perspective on the matter. The author is assuming that "because people who believe in homeopathy are believing in something that does not follow from our scientific models, homeopathy must not work." But this is fallacious.

We all know about the placebo effect. Do we know the efficacy of homeopathy in the realm of the placebo effect? Perhaps a pill with a bogus (but plausible to the naive) reason has more power than a sugarpill with no explanation at all as to why it works. If so, by some definitions of efficacy (say, "works better than a sugarpill"), you would have to conclude that homeopathy works (albiet in the context of our world, where many are scientifically illiterate).

The universe does not follow our scientific model. Rather, it is always(1) the model that follows the universe. There will always(2) be inexplicable (and apparently scientifically impossible) phenomena, and the purpose of science is to find them.

(and also to simplify the axioms. Wolfram might be disappointed with the LHC outcome, but I'm hopeful that somebody will find a new model -- equivalent to the standard model, or at least one that leads to the standard model in other scales of physics -- that I can actually understand ;) )

(1) Well, never say neither always nor never, and mileage may vary based on unexpected factors.

(2) This I've concluded from Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem, but then again I don't actually buy that 100% either. I don't buy that (X implies X) implies (X is true), which I think is assumed in GIT. Input appreciated.
This is just silly. Are there legions of websites that work on non-Retina computers that actually break on the Retina MacBook Pro (rather than just looking bad)?

Web designers should not default to the latest-and-greatest. When they do, they often produce sites that are completely unusable without it. Web designers should spend more time worrying about users that don't have the latest-and-greatest (aka most users).

Most web designers need old laptops and low-end smartphones far, far more than they need a Retina MacBook Pro.
How did you find the problem to solve?
Relevant: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_pa...
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Yeah, but I don't mind monopoly protection for something somebody worked a year on. Software patents are granted for many times the effective lifetime of a technology, for something you or I could do in a week based on ideas we've all had because they're natural solutions to their problems.

Like patenting the use of a hinge for a door instead of patenting how to make a hinge, and the patent being granted for the entire time humanity uses doors at all.
Apple had a WWDC 2012 session on optimizing web sites for high DPI displays. Interesting but not terribly complex stuff. I think if you follow the best practices they outline you can feel pretty confident your site will look good on a high DPI display. If you have a high enough resolution display you could always switch to high DPI for testing.
There are a number reasons to adopt retina graphics for your website today but it's not for everyone.

Consider the time it takes to update and maintain 2 versions of all images and ask yourself, is the >1% user base going to outweigh the time it takes to update this?

Make sure you consider the possibility that the >1% who are early adopters of the retina macbook may also be the type of early adopters who would try your alpha version.

As a designer, I know it's a major problem that if you primarily work on the best/brightest displays, you forget what your designs look like everywhere else.

So if you decide to "go retina", make sure you don't get carried away with fine lines and make the <99% squint to see your 8px #f0f0f0 text.
I wrote this about software patents:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2948724
This reminds me of an incident I had with a former employer. It was xmas break and I was at home the final week (xmas to new years). I spent about 75% of my time working.

When I got back I was accused of taking "10 days off." He counted the Saturday I left to the Sunday before I got back. By that logic, I often took 2 days off a week.

Anyway, even after I told him I was working during that time he still said "this wasn't the end of it." When I told him he was overly sensitive to face time he seemed to want to just deny reality.
Ok, so the truth is raising the hackles of HN. Cool. Examine why you're upset, is he wrong or is it because he's right but he's talking about the other team/company that you don't like?

He is right to say that web designers need to start designing for high-dpi displays because high-dpi is going to be or already is the norm. Look at phones, they have what 150-200+ dpi? Tablets? Yep, high-dpi there too.

Windows? Well, actually yes. Windows 8 was designed to support high-dpi as well. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-dif...

Perhaps the article would be better worded to say that web designers should buy Retna MBP because high-dpi is the future and Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android are all going to have high-dpi screens inside of a year or two, so it's going to take off pretty fast, and the Retna MBP is the best/only mainstream high-dpi workstation you can buy right now.

Of course, that would be rational and nuanced and those things don't get you clicks, links, or pageviews because after all this is the internet.
Software patents may indeed be unnecessary largely because software already receives copyright protection.
Yeah, the news kinda comes down to: "CERN data centers run Linux", which is cool, considering the work that is done there, but not really that surprising at all ;)
So... anyone want to buy a Nexus Q, new in box?
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There is probably a simple explanation, but I'm stuck wondering why a pixel-doubled image looks worse than that same image at native resolution on a lower resolution screen? Why doesn't "combining" four pixels into one make it look the same?
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Perhaps not maintained, but still around:

http://code.google.com/codesearch

For other hints, search for older articles on this topic on HN.
Pretty much the same concept as what StartupHouse is in SF. (http://startuphouse.com)
The comment was about web designers not developers. Patrick is well respected round these parts for good reason, but it is certainly not for his design skills.

I didn't read it as being particularly harsh or snarky. It seems Web designers using Windows are becoming a rare breed. At least from what I can tell anyway. FWIW, I am not a designer and run Mac/Windows for testing purposes only.
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To write an OS, you need to have a few things:

- ability to manually access memory

- ability to use assembly and translate said assembly into the high-level language

- ability to install interrupts

You probably also want the ability to precisely constrain the amount of memory a block of code uses.

I suppose there are other nice to haves as well: e.g., GC will need to be fairly controllable.

I see no practical reason why a Lisp can't be used to write an OS, but that Lisp will need a few extensions from the usual modern Lisp capabilities.
The particular picture problem? I used to work as a PM and constantly took pictures of whiteboards and would show them to co-workers later.
When I would swipe through these, there would always be pictures from my private life. I needed more control over this...
Windows has been scaling to various DPIs for ages (sometimes to undesired out-of-the-box resulsts, such when, a few years ago, I plugged in an XP desktop to an HDTV over HDMI and it tried to make the fonts display at the same physical size as on a monitor despite me sitting much further away). It's something it (and Linux, and Android) has ahead on the curve of compared to Apple—from an engineer's perspective, just going with doubling is a rather inelegant solution.

XP wasn't very good at it when it came to third-party apps, but on Vista or 7 (I forget which I was on back then now) once I got the DPI slider in the right place for that TV, it provided a quite enjoyable experience, even on older or non-standard apps.
I'd guess they are going to miss out on a lot of potential media device buyers anyway, by offering a crappy expensive product.
That's interesting! It shows up for me for that search (that's why we included it).
Are you also using the US app store?
Shouldn't it be download it and throw away your mouse? ;)
>Your ordinary corporate middle level manager, is totally incapable of understanding this. Because he despises any form of extreme nerd/tech/geek culture. He perceives that as a threat to his own kingdom, he is afraid that your success will overshadow his noise making. He will do everything in his power to keep people mediocre, to make himself look good to his bosses. In all of this a ferevrishly hacking geek churning features, coding by the minute, his way of work, culture and cult is a threat/disease that can destroy the managers career.

Why would you continue to work for such a shit manager? My manager is is all about interacting with customers, prioritizing tasks, and shielding us from the bullshit.

I suspect that a lot of the difference is in companies where the managers are devs vs MBAs
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$1200/month might be a good price for rent in San Francisco but you can bootstrap your startup at half the cost if you look around on Craigslist. It also helps to live somewhere other than one of the most expensive cities in the United States.
$40/night? I don't personally know anyone in Menlo Park, but know people with places to themselves in/very near SF for $1200/month. Even with rent going up lately, $1200/month for not even a private bedroom?
Can't say that I view Sergey's poop as smelling any better than anyone else's.
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Don't most insurers these days require you to take the generic if one is available? So it shouldn't really matter whether the doctor prescribes the brand name or the generic. Or does that generic-if-possible rule not work here because the brand name one is ever so slightly different?
The network stack? Well, I guess that's been removed, but it took a while...
Isn't this just another name for a college dorm, but without the whole college classes and graduation and degree thing?
When are people going to learn that PayPal is never, ever, ever to be trusted?

> When the site started in May, $12,000 in orders for a car diagnostics device poured in right away. PayPal, which the founders used to process payments, decided their account was “high risk” and suspended it, freezing their money for six months, Mr. Wu said. Mr. Wu and Mr. El-Hage maxed out their credit cards to fulfill the orders. Without investors backing them, they nearly went broke. MassDrop has recovered to “above-ramen status, but not that much higher,” Mr. El-Hage said.
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I admire these people who are willing to live in a 10-person dorm room while setting up their business, but the fact three "Hacker Hostels" have sprung up feels like a symptom of SF & SV being so over-hyped and incorrectly positioned as the only place innovation will occur with less friction. Am I wrong or just missing something?

What real significant tangible benefit are these people getting that compels them to live like this and pay a relatively high cost for the privilege? $1,200/month or less gets you your own private room in a shared apartment in NYC, Boston, or just about anywhere else.
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What is laissez-faire about the major industries (banking, defense, oil, agriculture and many more) being the biggest lobbyists? They pay politicians to write laws favorable to them. Their PR industry tells you its laissez-faire, but think through what you say.
They're starting to do this with the Vic Police in Melbourne. The police are predictably upset about it.
The article really misrepresents Chez JJ. We have a professional cleaner come in every week and we cover food, including an organic vegetable subscription box from Farm Fresh. We're not like frat boys -- this is our home and we choose to let people in.
Any plans on opening up the data through an API or possibly for download as a CSV? I'd be interested in running some analysis on it.
I was just going to say more or less the same thing. I think I have a better working relationship with one of my coworkers that lives 1500mi from me than the guy I sit next to. Now I'm sure that personality plays a part here, but it's clear that distance really isn't `that` much of a detractor.
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Huh, I find the syntax for literals a breath of fresh air--but I also grew up in languages with rich data structure literals and find the {}, (), [], #"", #{} distinctions make it much easier for me to understand, at a glance, the shape of a structure. I also prefer the vector notation for arguments in (fn [arg1 arg2 & friends])--the brackets make it easier to recognize the argument boundaries, especially in one-liners.

In general, Clojure code seems to have less nesting, which makes it easier for me to read and parse. You're honestly the first person I've heard express a dislike for the reader forms, so I thought it was universally liked.

I think you're right: a lack of configurable reader macros is a problem. I'd also point to the lack of tail recursion (and consequent mucking about with (recur) and (trampoline) as a notable flaw in Clojure. Its error messages are pathologically malicious. On the other hand, I think Clojure's packaging environment, thanks to lein and clojars, is quite good. There also seems to be more consistency in Clojure coding... style? preference? than in CL, which I attribute partly to its young age and small user base, but also, perhaps, to a more opinionated set of attitudes around mutability and types.

Regarding the #() form, I almost never reach for it, partly because it never seems to work as expected. (fn) and (partial) feel more natural to me, so I've never taken the time to understand how #() works.

I also prefer Lisp-1s in general, although I understand that's a more contentious differentiation.

Either way, my CL experience is minimal, so it was wrong of me to claim these as obvious improvements. I'll defer to your expertise here: it sounds like you've used CL enough to understand it better.
Well? Finish the story!

What happened after that? Did you apologize and change it? Leave it?

How did she react afterward? How's your relationship now? Were you able to fix things between the two of you?

I know the rest of your story doesn't really have anything to do with the message you are giving, but I like my stories complete. :)
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So her not using Google+ has much less to do with her being a woman and much more to do with her job requiring little to no online presence.
I'd more specifically qualify that as: "Don't ever use PayPal to process a large & sudden volume of orders for a product" -- which, granted, can be hard to anticipate. It seems like this is a guaranteed way to trigger their fraud detection, getting your account frozen. This is anecdotally a bear to fix. I believe the GP2X guys got burned by this at one point. Also, doesn't PayPal frown on taking preorders in their ToS?
"Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever."

You're waiving your hands here; flailing, even. None of this is quantifiable, it's all your based on your gut feeling. There are plenty of ways culture can transmit online, but I'm afraid my examples would involve just as much conjecture as yours do.

I telecommute, but also make a trip to be on location every couple of months. I agree that face to face contact is important to some degree, but not in any way I could accurately measure. I'm FAR more productive when I'm telecommuting because I don't have colleagues interrupting me with questions ever 10 minutes, I don't feel the temptation to "shoot the shit", I can work through lunch, and I waste no time commuting. As a result I'm more productive than the average non-telecommuting worker.

Raises and promotions may be a function of relationships, but perhaps they shouldn't be? Perhaps they should be based on performance.
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