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Most silent films from the era were supposed to run at 18fps (that's why we have a preconception of everything moving fast in silent films--years later they were threaded into sound projectors which sped them up to 24 fps.) BUT many cameras of the day were not motor or spring driven, but run by a hand crank. The cameraman would hum a popular tune at the right tempo and try to turn the crank in time with the beats of the music. This meant that there are subtle faster and slower moments. Also, I noticed a couple of tiny jump cuts where a frame or two may have been lost in the original, also munching with the motion. Finally, not motion related, but the old cameras were not great at exposing every frame exactly, causing a flickering that is very noticeable, and may impact your sense of motion.
YMMV, but I find Mission Control to be absolutely invaluable in Lion (and I was a huge Spaces fan - removing it for Mission Control was one of my biggest apprehensions). It was worth $30 (amortized across all my Macs) to me, easily. I don't buy that we've reached "peak operating system", though I would say that in the Microsoft ecosystem they may have reached "peak Windows" with Windows 7.
I wish the article would have covered the current situation where these colleges claim ownership of original work that undergraduates do, as if the students were employees doing work for hire. This is the most important aspect of these cases.
There's yet to be a real standard-bearer for Android tablets (the Transformer was close, but Asus alone didn't have the name recognition to push it) before the N7; so I'd expect the quality of tablet apps to start shaping up finally. ICS being on a respectable number of devices should help as well (since 3.0 was a "breaking" release).

IMHO, with the exception of games[0] and such, Android handles phone-tablet scaling much better than iOS does: the UI properly fills the screen, text isn't pixelated, and you aren't forced into a phone-size keyboard that doesn't even reach the screen edge.

[0] games are typically very specific wrt resolution, this isn't a tablet problem as much as an Android problem thanks to the wide variance in screen aspects.
I think the issue is that if we know only one thing about you, that one thing is your label.

I see a policeman on TV, he's a 'cop'. Sure he may be a father, avid sci-fi junkie, and so on, but all I see is one dimension.

If Star Wars Kid cured cancer, we wouldn't forget about his light saber antics but we'd add that to our impression of him----now he's a nobel winning scientist, with an impressive intellect, who has saved potentially billions of lives..... oh and in his youth he used to geek out on Youtube.
It's kind of a shame. In my opinion, the microphone icon makes for the best user experience because there is no ambiguity about what it is going to do when you press it.

With a talk bubble or a picture of a robotic head you can guess, but it is not immediately clear.

It's interesting because it seems like Apple wants to avoid confusion for users thinking the app is Siri by hurting the user experience in each of these apps.
If _everyone_ had bought Sparrow, they would have had enormously larger revenues. Almost as important, they would have had much greater certainty in some portion of future revenues. That certainty is economically important, one reason for taking a chunk of Google Cash is checking off the 'funded retirement', 'funded kids college', 'bought house' items off the to-do list.

They also would have been more likely to attract investment for development without a big partner.

They might still see reasons for joining Google, but financial security and investment would have been less important.
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"How do we recalibrate people's expectations about the value of software back to pre-2008 levels?"

As someone who wasn't quite old enough to be interested in following this when it happened, I feel the need to ask:

Why did the App Store affect pre-2008 price-levels as much as it did?

Were most apps this cheap at the launch of the App Store, or did it lower over the year(s)?

Did Apple set any guidelines for the price-levels of apps, thus creating the levels we're seeing today, or was it entirely up to the developers?
I don't understand this response. Just because any individual such post may not work for you, if you read 100 such posts, you might come across a technique that works spectacularly for you. Much of life is about trial and error to discover what one is good at and how one is good at it. Hearing about what others have discovered in this regard cannot hurt our individual searches.
Show HN: Co-optimal - A Steam matchmaking app made in Node.js and Socket.io
Pretty impressive, given the specs: "(128MB ram, 128mb burst, 25gb disk, 350GB bw, lighttpd)". I'm curious if that is using PHP, as mentioned in the post-clusterified version: "round-robin DNS, webroot on a GlusterFS replicated filesystem, lighttpd + php5 + SSL, automated git deploy cluster-thingie".

Oh, and that page got 20,000 hits in one day? Wow.
> I would argue if you're using Java, using an IDE is the only way to stay sane. Context aware class navigation is pretty much a requirement on any sizable project.

This applies to any language, not just Java.
Two issues.

1. The definition of "rich". I've responded here that I mean a level of comfort that is better than 99% of the rest of the world. Not necessarily millions of dollars.

2. Yes, a large percentage of millionaires are self-made... But were they self-made thousand-aires? Or did they earn the seed capital they started their businesses with? There are no doubt, those that had not a penny to their name but went and started collecting cans for the refund and used that to invest into a food cart or something... But I think most of those self-made people were able to create their businesses because they had a certain level of comfort that could be defined as rich to most in the world. (ie, if you even have access to get a loan for $100k to start a business, you're rich compared to a huge part of the world population.)
I'm not sure if you remember the whole thing where John Carmack had to change some 3D shader code in Doom 3 because of a patent dispute. The change was adding four lines of code and changing two.[0] So I would say choosing between two similar algorithms, running two algorithms in parallel, or running an additional algorithm that always returned empty would be a valid workaround.

[0]: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/137189212519792640
Those recent articles about finding friends in adulthood gave me the idea for this. Let me know if you run into any bugs or have any other feedback. I'm still a bit of a novice at Node, so I'm sure I've done a few things wrong.
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Problem is, what happens when they stop supporting the version that you are using and happy with?

Would you feel confident going online with an OS that has known security issues that will never be patched?
> I associated them with the (thank God it failed) attempt to commoditize programmer talent

Why do you say it failed?

I do consulting for Fortune 500 companies, and I am pretty convinced it was successful, based on the majority of guys we get assigned to our projects.
And now everyone knows you like to look at pictures of men in underwear.
When designing software he prefers to rigorously document as much as possible up front before starting to write code...

This was really good for me to read. Coding is much more fun than planning, so I get pulled into the trap of staring at my screen while thinking things through, trying something, then approaching a better solution. I am trying to make myself create a clear plan on paper before turning my computer on. Only when I have a clear approach outlined on paper do I get to turn my computer on.

It's less "fun" sometimes, but it's much more satisfying.
Come on to you too... this is utterly useless article. The providers won't read it but us consumers will. So make it more useful by explaining the readers which OAuth APIs are broken and how and then show us what are the workarounds. Thanks.
I think there's a grain of truth here, but holy schnikes does it need to be treated carefully.

I never got into drugs, but I'm pretty sure that if I did I'd be a hopeless addict. I have had longstanding issues with video games and internet use. They contributed to my failing out of school.

That said, sometimes I wonder if it doesn't make me a better programmer. I lose focus with long debugging cycles, so I write better tools or learn my existing tools better. I have difficulty with routine tasks, so I've learned a lot more about automation (learn your editor, unix utilities, and a scripting language, kids!).

But heroin, man...not something you want to be goofing around with lightly.
Either way it's easy to have a flood of updates that you don't want to read, or cloud over the bits you are interested in.

If you had two Facebook accounts, one for your close friends and family, and another for interests, would it be any better?

I'm not sure if there is a G+ algo. If you aren't the stalking kind on Facebook, and don't interact with certain people - then some of your acquaintances end up out of sight. And sometimes the wrong ones end up in plain sight.

Both platforms would benefit from a 'turn this person down switch.'
I think it's a fun problem and the main reason I wouldn't ask it is that it's probably on the banned interview questions list by now (for being too well-known).

An interview isn't a written exam. You don't lose points for bringing up real-world considerations - quite the contrary! But the interviewer might ask you to solve the math problem anyway (perhaps by modifying the question a bit, on the fly).
As someone who writes Java using VIM for my job, http://eclim.org/ has proven invaluable. I suggest taking a look at it if you haven't already.
I'm very surprised there are no responses to this article suggesting looking for relevant publications in the literature.

Often, difficult problems are not unique, and it can be very helpful to take a look at what has been published to see if anyone has already devised an elegant solution for the class of problems you are currently trying to solve.
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I've never used Sparrow, but how difficult would it be from a technical standpoint just to produce a copycat application?
How do birds know when a storm is approaching?
And the next question:

What strategy should you adopt to minimize the number of steps it takes you up and down the stairs to find the solution?
"If it's not being bought, it must mean that it is sold" is just bad logic, plain and simple. It's just a nonsensical retort to an attempt to pigeonhole technology facilitating transactions into stupid categories that were made for a paradigm of classical economics, but still falls within the confines of the paradigm.
The same Etherpad which has been acquired by Google?
I'm still new to HN in general so this is probably a a rather mundane/ignorant comment - apologies - but why is this at the top of HN at the moment?

There is no content in this post, no useful points, no specific examples of what is wrong (although there is an example of how to do it right - thanks for that). No call to action other than "Do it better!".

I'm not saying it isn't worth talking about, I'm just honestly curious how the HN algorithm works that this has made it to the top. Is freshness so highly weighted?
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European IP law makes US IP law look like a walk in the park. The RIAA and MPAA notwithstanding, the US has actually been the voice of restraint in the IP rights field. Enforcement and defense is also easier, as you do not have to contend with a variety of separate court systems as you do in Europe or Asia.

That being said, if you are running an international operation, your IP should never been based in the US for tax reasons. It should be held by an Irish (or other low-tax jurisdiction) company dedicated to holding your IP (i.e., an "IP holding company").
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I am a native English speaker and I'm having considerable trouble parsing that :-)

I think the idea is: you report a bug in code that I wrote, and I (childishly) retaliate by reporting a bug in code that you wrote (the bug I report is then a 'Counterbug')
I wonder if it would avoid this kind of objection (which always comes up in logic puzzles) if problems was first stated in mathematical terms, and then analogized to a real world scenario. Something like ...

Assume two sets of integers (1..n) and (n+1..100), where 1 <= n <= 100. Your goal is to discover the value of n by asking whether a given number falls within set 1 or set 2. If you propose more than one number that belongs to set 2, you can propose no further numbers. What is the maximum number of proposals necessary to determine n?

If it helps, you can analogize this problem to dropping two fragile objects out of a 100-story building or something. Just don't forget the failure mode of "clever".
Mostly, I think I'm a human who likes to program.

Labels are like design pattern languages; useful to provide a high level overview in a common terminology, but ultimately unable to express the details that make a particular person or design unique and worthwhile.
I'm curious. When I first heard the term "brogrammer", without a definition, I did not assume the "bro" part meant drunk, misogynistic, immature frat boy bros.

My first guess was it meant "bro" as used in "How I Met Your Mother", which encompasses a diverse set of behaviors (consider that Ted, Barney, Marshall, and Robin are all "bros"). Thus, a "brogrammer" could include immature misogynists (Barney), erudite nerds (Ted), somewhat regular guys (Marshall) and women (Robin).

Anyone else go that way, or did you all go right to the drunk immature frat boy meaning?
The last time I poked at it, ZoHo was surprisingly competitive on features (and for documents, features tend to matter. otherwise there are plenty of pastebins out there.) That said, that was a couple years ago. Google's has mostly stagnated / rewinded but got a cleaner interface and better collaborative editing, not sure what ZoHo has done.

http://www.zoho.com
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I find that the nipple requires a little too much pressure (T500), which is a little tiresome. You can be really light to the touch with some touchpads (including simulated clicks.) I'd prefer a nipple more like a touchpad - something like you get on the Blackberries (not the old trackballs.)
Did someone delete all the commas from this article what do you the reader of the article think?
Good straw man here. It looks like you think that meritocracy is some kind of moral theory of what is just. It's not. It's an approach to selecting people for the task. And it works. Universities are mostly meritocratic.
Or at least should be.

Personally, I hear about meritocracy not from people who want more just society for all, but from people who hate the weak and want more just society for themselves. "The Weak" are entitled to their opinion about their entitlement, and could pressure system to get what they want. But meritocracy works. Modern civilization is built on it.
Question, have you had points where something you just learned deeply and suddenly changed your understanding/intuition of reality, I only ask so as not to presume, and what were they, or the biggest one or two?
I'd also like to hear an expert's opinion, but isn't the entire point of a limited liability company to limit liability?
Technically not difficult. But Sparrow does nothing that any other email client out there does - the great thing about it is its "feel".
It will hurt some consumers if they change nothing, but cheap oil is not a right, and being dependent on it now or in the future should be discouraged for good reason (mostly because a lasting ecological catastrophe is worse than diminished standards of living). Some hints that will help commuters save money: better public transport, carpooling, working from home, moving out of suburbia.
Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away
he cut open a tape with a knife. if you have nails, you can take off the tape with it, but I bite my nails, so I had to use my keys, and it's easier to do it with cut tape along a crevice anyway.
The metaphor for the cloud is programming. Only it's not metaphor, it's reality. A cloud is nothing more or less than a hosting provider you can interact with via an API. I guess my best non-programming metaphor would be "it's itunes rather than a record store", but even that falls short because most people don't script their itunes purchasing.

But if you're making software you shouldn't need a metaphor to understand the difference between something you can control programaticly and something you can't. And if you're not making software, what are you doing with any kind of cloud, internal or otherwise?
The U.S. has jurisdiction over ICANN and thus over all TLD's that are not country TLDs (i.e., .co, .tv, .ly, etc.). But jurisdiction extends only to the domain itself, not to the company, unless you are doing business in the U.S., in which case you are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. to the extent of your business contacts. Transferring your U.S. assets will probably not spare you, as jurisdiction is established by past or present contacts (though past in this context means at the time of the tort/claim giving rise to the lawsuit).
And the excuse for keeping it is compensation of the original creators.

Funny how lies work.
This is what I meant when I said it wouldn't be perfect. There are serious challenges, as you have pointed out.

In the case of kinect, perhaps small "friends and family" personal use databases could still be allowed. But large-scale databases (e.g. millions of faces) to recognize any person could be prohibited. This way, your xbox and whatever personal devices can recognize you for fun, but random strangers cannot.
I've never heard of that; can you give a citation?
It needs to have a clear silhouette though.
Sounds like a great idea for a kickstarter.

I'd still take "basic bugfixing and maintenance" over "gone completely" however.

I suppose in some sense it's a bit like owning a classic car, the warranty and support from the manufacturer is long since gone but there exists a community of owners and refurb businesses keeping it alive.
Enforcement limited to the U.S. European courts do not honor software patents.
Why Did Sparrow Sell Out?
If you build something of strategic value to a big player, they'll pay more for it than the present value of its expected cash flows. They're expecting improvements in cash flow in other, non-competing products, which they can realize but which the original product will never see. Big players will "overpay" for something of strategic importance.

So if the hope is that buying small products will free you from the big players, yeah, that was always dubious, at least in the corners interesting to those players.

On the other hand, Sparrow got built, didn't it? And whatever you liked about it just got a big fat Market Stamp Of Approval. It wouldn't be surprising for similar features to start appearing in other mail clients, some of them open source. Maybe someone will build Sparrow The Sequel ("Google didn't get every egg in the nest . . ."). VCs just got more interested in pitches for email software.

How much this matters depend on what you want. If you want freedom from "you are the product", the complaint makes more sense to me. But if what you want is more innovation, well, Sparrow's DNA just demonstrated its ability to generate returns. And returns on innovation more generally have been validated. So it isn't clear to me that buying Sparrow "failed" to push innovation forward.
Would the "feel" be difficult to reproduce?
Maybe someone in a country unhindered by the DMCA could reverse engineering it and find whatever the secret sauce was.
Patents and standards are at odds with each other. We needs only to look at the war that has held back a common video format for the web for proof. The mpeg vs ogg kerfuffle is irrefutable proof that consumers are hurt when a patent is the basis of a standard. In domains where a standard is necessary, no patents should be granted. The economic incentive to innovate is still there because the common parts all people to be part of a larger ecosystem of devices, which is essentially a market to profit from.
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I can think of very few algorithms that don't have sub-algorithms. Isn't any composition of existing algorithms also an algorithm? I can't think of any restriction that algorithm (singular) makes relative to the plural.
Weekends are typically a bit slower, so getting 18 points (upvotes) in 45 minutes is enough to put something near the top of the list. It will likely move down somewhat quickly.

But for weekend content, it had enough "content" to matter. Weekday content tends to be more technical. At least, that's my observation over the past few years.
Although rxon are from the emacs side, Armstrong has a pet-project for an IDE, that keeps a kind of browsing history related to the code. He noticed, that many lookups happen before a few lines are written. And after they are written, the "why?" is lost, i.e. how the author actually got to the given lines needed. Hence the lookup history for the web searches.
Very similar to my experience. I hate the creeping "accountization" of Google services - especially since they started to auto-login into YouTube.

The problem I see with Google is, that the switching costs are really low and there is not a lot of lock-in of the users. This is something they are trying to improve with Plus, but if a better/more convenient email provider comes along, I would be out in a second. Plus this would mean my log ins over all sites would be dropping to maybe checking Plus or YouTube once every two week or so.
I was similar; I figured "bro" was being used the way it's been used on 4chan forever in all kinds of circumstances: as, effectively, a weaker version of "friend".
The original description I saw talked about partying and liking to "bro down and crush code", i.e. trying to cast programming as a macho activity.

This, I suspect, fairly effectively skewed my expectations - but equally I've never seen anybody focus on the actual "band of brothers" concept, so I don't think that's important to the social type.
After residing in unix-land for almost a year I decided to come back to Mac OSX just 2 days ago, and after re-downloading my purchased apps, the announcement by the Sparrow team was the second mail I picked up. Fuck.

Thinking back, in unix-land no such jokes were pulled. Something abandoned? another trooper taking over. How the $#&% can you charge money for something _non-open-source_ and then just leave it to rot?

I would pay a hundred bucks for a similar app (or a monthly fee) if I'd be assured that the developers were dedicated to ME and THEIR PRODUCT.

Sparrow is above average. Congrats, I loved you for that. But you sinked your goddamn ship before it got half way. I'm only this pissed off because it could have been so much more. I will wait and see what glorious work you do for Google. I (and all the people who paid you money) await your work with great anticipation. Good luck.