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There is nothing stopping you from separating presentation from business logic in node. The difference is that with single page apps, we're returning to a true client/server model. The server is very basic and easy to write, the server becomes more complex.

Now, while it is true that the goal of meteor is the sharing of code between client and server, that is business logic code (ideally) separated from the presentation code on the client. (Further, we're still a ways away from truly sharing that code.)
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I said that many things are well represented by trees, not all things...

And we sort-of already have WinFS, in the form of full-text indexes on file systems.

We have nothing like WinFS in practice, we don't think or use our filesystem as if it was a database. That is the key difference, not the implementation.
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For me, this not an IF-ELSE question since you could do both.

Furthermore you aquire many new skills while doing so, which will make you more employable and thus increases your future income.
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Maybe, but I guess ideally, the user would want to be able to say: "open my 2008 tax report" or "send Jack the photos of my trip to Paris this year". This fits more closely to a Spotlight-like search plus actions, a direction that Apple is clearly moving to.

Sure, things are imperfect now: Spotlight search does not catch everything and Siri often messes up. Coming from hierarchy-oriented interfaces to documents, it sometimes feels like throwing your data in a dark pit, where it is impossible to retrieve it again. But if they can nail this stuff correctly some day, we surely have come a long way!

In some cases it almost works perfectly already. I never put e-mail in IMAP folders anymore, since Mail.app's search functionality allows me to find stuff quicker and more effectively.
Agreed, especially on Windows this is very confusing. So much junk in your home folder by default so it is hard to tell where your things should go. A clean or almost clean home directory would be much preferable.
When it comes to games, originality is a crucial factor that's frequently overlooked. It's difficult for indie devs to compete against licensed properties (e.g. Temple Run: Brave) or against freemium games that can throw a lot of money on user acquisition. Creating truly original or interesting games is one way to compete against them. Unfortunately, the typical reaction is to just do a spin on high grossing casual games (e.g. Fruit Ninja) leading to a price war and generally low revenues.

When we made our running game, Zombies, Run!, we had absolutely no interest in competing with the freemium or 99c games - we don't have the properties or resources to do that. Instead, we made a game that straddles the fitness, gaming, and storytelling genres. We also charged $7.99, making it the most expensive game in the Top 200 Grossing today (even more expensive than Minecraft).

Part of the reason why we can do this is because we basically have no competitors - although obviously that made it a little harder to educate the market. I'm sure we will get competition, but the skills required to make the game (iOS dev, web dev, award-winning author, voice actors, sound producers, community support) are not trivial to find and organise.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, people will pay for an app that they think is original and worthwhile, and not just on iOS but Android as well (we're very happy with our Android sales).
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With an internet connection like that, CrashPlan might be more interesting. The fact that you could back up to a friends computer would be nifty to test.
Sometimes theres room for compromise.

But then, sometimes there isn't.

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I couldn't find the criminal offense bit. Read more like civil law to me. Did I miss something?
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> "...heard from an anonymous guy..."

Though it does sound plausible
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I don't think you're being a designer-snob. Bootstrapping your design with Twitter Bootstrap is cool, making Twitter Bootstrap your design is not.
Depends on what you mean by better hardware. The specs will probably be better, I have a Thinkpad and it would have cost me twice as much for an equivalent Macbook. That said, the build quality of the Thinkpad isn't even close to the MacBook, it just depends on what's important to you. For me, an aluminium case isn't worth $1500, and I don't really want to be seen with an Apple product anyway :)
This is simply brilliant.

It's fascinating.

I sometimes think that these people who puch for the "second system" really have no idea the problems they are bringing about. That is, it is innocent.

Hate me for saying so, but there are just a lot of people working in software who lack a sense of wisdom. Folks like Fred Brooks who can see the madness are few and far between. Even rarer are those who both see the stupidity and take action to stop it.
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To me, this is about choice.

If a computer has a file system that is accessible to the user and supports files and hierarchical directories, then users can choose to use it or not. If they want to use directory hierarchies then they can. Or if they want to store all their files in one place and rely on applications to present filtered views or search (not necessarily even in terms of files) then they can.

If the file system is not accessible or doesn't support hierarchical directories then you have no choice. This is not an option that interests me.
If OS vendor would like to switch to using metadata or tags to organize documents, allowing just two level directory structure could be the first step.

Documents in root would end up having no tags at all and the folder name would be used as the tag for those stored in folders. Obviously you could also do this with complex directory structures, but then the tags would become quite long.

Metadata/tag based systems don't necessary exclude the complex folder structures as we have seen but having both can make things complicated.
Is it just me or is there a new "superior-than-the-others" NoSQL solution every week?
Actually, for most people, the bank giving them a mortgage is deemed a success. It means that the bank believes that you, as a person, are responsible enough to pay back a massive loan. It is a huge personal validation for a lot of people.

In the same way, obtaining VC means that a fund believes that your team and your idea are strong enough to return on their investment, and anyone who isn't pissing their pants with joy about receiving an offer, even if they're not going to accept it, has a seriously deficiency in their Oh Shit Is This Really Happening receptors.
"$11.2 million is a lot of money. What it gives us is certainty. No matter what else happens in the world, the core team will be able to focus entirely on Meteor for several years"

Assuming you're not targeted with any software patent suits.
I'm neither dense nor bitter, I just think there's something[1] a bit wrong with a world in which SpaceX (a startup FWIW) can bootstrap a space programme from scratch for less money[2] than a photo uploader is apparently worth[3].

[1] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/04/quote-ad-g...
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18108742
[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/facebook_acquires_in...
I think a guy like that would not have any trouble finding another job. It's more likely he was suffering from severe depression, a complex and sometimes tragically undiagnosed illness. Sad to see him go. I see he died on the same day as my mom two weeks ago :-(
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The desktop doesn't fit into a hierarchy very well. It feels like it ought to be the "root" of your computer, but it's always really a folder in the user's home directory. In Windows it's even more confusing since they put "My Computer" and the drives under the desktop, which is really in your home folder...

It would work if the desktop WAS your home root, but then you can lose files simply because they're covered up with windows. They could let you open the desktop again in a separate window like current OSes do, but I'm a proponent of the Spatial file manager[0] so I think that would be confusing in other ways. Also some people (me) object to the clutter :)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager
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Ah, I had assumed you were making an argument against all approaches to data management which do not use a directory-based approach rather than just online ones.
But all of those cars would make the same journey without any problems - you are confusing carrying capacity with the fundamental utility of the things we call cars.
Good point; I had forgotten about them, and they're big enough to change the total returns significantly for institutional investors who were routinely buying into the entire sector (as opposed to those who got unlucky in only picking Facebook).
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There really seems to be a meme at the moment for stories about how difficult it is to make money on the iOS / Mac app store. Ever since the sparrow acquisition, it seems like every day there's another similar story on the front page of HN about how hard it is to make money there. Which, unfortunately for me, is quite discouraging because i'm about to launch an iPhone app in a week :(
AngelList is already doing what FunderClub are going to do partially, isn't it?

Sorry, I am a PG and I don't well versed in startups.
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No.

The W3C semantic web efforts were run by academics, and were never of interest to enterprise OR to web developers.
I wonder what the numbers would look like if we did the same calculations for websites instead of apps. Of course, it would be practically impossible to do but I bet that at least 99% of revenues would come from <1% of websites.
Sure. Having a few apps in the store makes it a lot easier to land a job or a client.

Just don't bet your mortgage on app revenue.
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Interestingly I am developing a single-signon provider as we speak, and I chose OAuth 1.0. I did it mainly because the libraries (jersey-oauth in my case) seemed more mature for 1.0, and the fact that 1.0 is a standard, whilst 2.0 is a draft at the moment.

I do realize that it's slightly more complicated for the client developer, but all things considered I think documenting my API in the best possible way will outweigh the perceived disadvantages.
He always seemed a contentious and argumentative sort on LKML. So it was good to see that the author had a much different experience with him. Sad that Andre wasn't able to find a way to carry on. Thoughts and condolences to his family.
Wow. Thank you Mr. Hedrick for fighting the good fight and "keeping the PC open." We're still in the nascence of the computing era and I think many years from now, this man's efforts and the efforts of others like him will be viewed as being even more important than they are now.

RIP.
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I'm curious, why is "low price" wrong?
Wow. $40,000 to push an update. Microsoft should put this into practice themselves and refund customers whenever Windows needs a patch.
I agree their demographics were interesting, but I think that's more indicative of the "casual games" space in general, not specifically something Zynga uncovered. For example, PopCap Games had a big hit in the early 2000s with Bejeweled, which had a similar demographic profile.

And, while they didn't make any money on their own, there were some '90s games like that as well. In his book on casual games (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262517396/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...), Jesper Juul also notes the interesting existence of very hardcore Freecell and Minesweeper players, who tend to come from nontraditional gamer demographics and don't consider themselves "gamers", despite objectively playing many hours/day and becoming very skilled at their games of choice.
Thank you for clarifying. I don't know much about DBs and the Calvin paper is the only one I'm aware of that addressed the commenters question.
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I'm all for any easier file organization system as long as it's portable between systems, allows a large number of files to be locatable and usable immediately after being plugged into a system (i.e. without a lengthy indexing process), and doesn't make it difficult to share files between users in a network (e.g. a Samba set-up in an office). I don't know if there can be any such system that doesn't become as "complex" as the current folders-in-folders way of doing things. Most of the systems I've seen assume that I only access the files from this device and I'd never need to copy them to external storage or share them with another user not necessarily using the same kind of system as I do.

Maybe a hybrid system, like the one being done in GNOME, where you have the traditional underlying file system present, and a separate indexing program (GNOME documents) that enables searching by content, context, date modified, etc would be best.
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I agree that good search is essential and helps a lot with not needing to organize stuff anymore. Making good sense of automatic metadata (with photos, stuff like geotagging and iPhoto's Faces) will help even more.

But there's still often a need to browse, and I haven't seen many successful implementations of tags yet, so I'm still skeptical that it's much more intuitive than folder. I know Gmail does it well, but I rarely use their web app, and not many email clients support it. Meanwhile I've never seen anyone use tags in, for instance iPhoto.
As much as everyone loves to blame Digg v4 for Digg's failure I don't think that's entirely accurate. I definitely think that v4 sped up the demise, but Digg as a product was not what the majority of people wanted.

If you compare Digg and reddit the differences are pretty big, beyond the basic premise ("links that people vote on") Digg had a very big focus on news and "social" whereas reddit focuses on content, whether that's farmed from elsewhere or created by reddit users. If you compare the top 100 links from r/all vs. digg.com/all you can see a clear difference in content.

A Digg type site definitely has a place on the internet, as it's been shown Digg still has traffic now, I just think reddit was the natural successor to Digg, regardless of the mistakes Digg made.

I think reddit vs. Digg can be compared to Twitter. Twitter would never have worked in 2001, the internet just wasn't ready for it, but in 2012 it's doing incredibly well. The internet wasn't ready for what reddit is now in 2004. Digg catered to what people in 2004 wanted, but it doesn't cater to what people want in 2012. reddit succeeded because reddit is more of a platform than it is a website, it offers the basic framework for a community link sharing website but their focus was loose enough (with stuff like subreddits) that it was able to evolve with the internet. If that makes any sense...
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Not sure why this is surprising. If we could take out the apps that didn't try to make money (or could somehow run an experiment where all apps were paid), I wouldn't be surprised if the revenue distribution followed the 80-20 rule.
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> Define non-geek then

I was using 'geeks' in the sense of someone who is interested in computers in their own right, as opposed to the vast majority of people who use computers as a tool to accomplish other things.

I don't mean "people who have too few items to need organization", and I certainly didn't characterize them as "not super bright"; you made that assumption.

> you can put tupperware into a box, and put that into the cupboard... house ... street .. city

Yes, but you cannot fit a cupboard into a tupperware box, with the cupboard containing another 50 tupperware boxes. Your analogy ignores the important difference between real and virtual items, namely that real containers have physicality which makes it trivial to figure out at least an upper bound on what they contain.

Additionally, an opaque cupboard has context which gives it clues as to what it might contain (clothes in a bedroom, plates in the kitchen). A drawer has a volume which means that you don't need to go looking for a beach ball in it. There are tonnes of conventions as to what types of items go in what containers. For a file system, all we've got is a name on an opaque 'box' that might contain N other boxes recursing to M levels.

You need to create the file structure in the first place, spend a lot of time revisiting, organizing and curating it for it to be as familiar to you as the storage in your house. I don't mean to offend anyone if I say that only geeks have the time to do this.
I think the difference is that reddit can be exactly what you want it to be, to an extent. Or, rather, of the 100s of communities on reddit, you only have to belong to a select few of them if you so desire, and the kinds of communities you can find on reddit are vast, varied, and uniquely interesting.
If you're consuming an API you use whatever the platform decides on. In that case, this library is helpful. However, I think the real open question is: if you are providing an API, what do you choose?
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I'm pretty sure pushing an update to all Windows users costs way more in bandwidth alone.
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Maybe many HN readers are also VIMphiles.
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Days later and what do we have from them? One solitary email and a few half-assed status page updates.
I agree insomuch as you can pry my hierarchical file system from my cold dead hands. And indeed I think it is essential for anyone passing a moderate threshold of any kind of professional work using a computer. However, I the OA wrongly dismisses the trouble people have with traditional file system. The iOS model, however limiting, does work better for a large swath of casual users.
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Care to elaborate?

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I can't wait for "tablets" to be sold as "portable displays" that we can plug into small, low-power general purpose computers. We'll get the resolution of the Apple iPad butwe can use a real keyboard, a better, open-source kernel and we can do real programming without the Apple-style lockdown nonsense.

The title is a little misleading. The "non-budget" diplays are often made in the same place (Asia, not the U.S.), from the same parts, maybe even the same factories, by the same workers.
Steam got much of it's traction due to the great Valve games. The audience there just grew faster.
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>>never really considered myself good enough to pursue it though

Self-doubt is an evil, evil thing. Don't let it hold you back. I landed an opportunity to interview at $REDACTEDBUTITSATOPINTERNETPROPERTY. I didn't even want to fly out for the interview - I thought it would be a waste of time. It took lots and lots of convincing by my wife and other friends and family just for me to go out and interview. I guess you can see where this is headed - I start there in 2 weeks.

tl;dr self-doubt is evil.
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> Rose also said that Digg hired individuals with very niche skills, like developers who only knew PHP and were not as useful once PHP went out of use.

"v4 would have worked out if only my employees were smarter" is a pretty classless and delusional assessment of what went wrong.
Is this also affecting Google Hangouts? Or just Talk?
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Yes, it's the "+clipboard" option (as shown by :version). If you weren't doing macports (or brew) already, the downloadable MacVIM version does include a "Vim" binary that's usable on the commandline. Somewhere in /Applications/MacVIM.app/... (can't check at work). Just symlinking or simply setting `alias vim='<path_to_binary>` works perfectly.

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Games is the only thing why i still have Windows on my Laptop. I can cope with the rest just fine on Linux.
Sorry, but the buck has to stop somewhere. For example, if a handful of users can't figure out how to use a mouse, then do we replace all mouses with Wacom tablets because they're so "inelegant" and "unintuitive" to a few people? No, because it turns out they're very useful for most people who get it.

Do they require practice and a certain (very small) amount of domain knowledge? Yes. Is that a bad thing, considering how useful they are? No.

"The user is always right" isn't an ultimate mandate. The customer isn't right if they come in to your store and demand everything for free. Likewise a driver isn't right if he doesn't want to figure out which pedal is "stop" and which one is "go". You must have a certain small amount of domain knowledge to use the complex tools you're given, and dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator is a Sisyphean task because there's always a lower common denominator just under them.