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If one cannot answer this question themselves, it's most certainly closed for them.
Facebook seems somewhere between Twitter and iOS.
The origins of /etc are lost in history. Wikipedia [1] says that at Bell Labs /etc was pronounced "et caetera," and contained files that didn't belong elsewhere. And it had the advantage over conf or misc that it was only 3 letters.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
Yea, that is why I ask questions like what would you suggest to the Google founders.
My how things have changed so quickly. I applied to YC for W10 with RFS3, got in, quickly abandoned the idea since the market didn't seem big enough, did something else (Notifo) on mobile platforms which seemed more promising, watched Twitter quickly destroy it's 3rd party ecosystem, decided never to build on top of Twitter again. All within about 18 months.
You could have at least read the article fully before going on a diatribe about Microsoft based on what they name a style guide. Jeesh. That's what they're supposed to call it until the settle on a new name by the end of the week.
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No mention of Grooveshark revenue (I mention it because I like to use it). After reading some stuff online including [1], I'm going to guess it is zero.

[1] http://blog.tunecore.com/2012/04/grooveshark-trolling-the-se...
Better story than the blogspam linked:

http://www.zdnet.com/is-metro-now-a-banned-word-at-microsoft...

This is actually a good move, since the Metro design philosophy was getting confused with the WinRT environment. You can make a WinRT app that's not Metro looking, and you can also make a Desktop app that's Metro (see MetroTwit http://www.metrotwit.com/wp-content/themes/MetroTwit2012/ima... ).

So the two different app types in Windows 8 will be WinRT apps and Desktop apps. Not a big fan of the 'Windows 8 style UI' terminology though, maybe they should come up with a different name to represent the design philosophy.
1) To get rid of a law, you have to pass a bill to repeal or change it. Most laws on the books were passed back when you only needed 51 votes in the Senate. Today, to change or repeal them, it would take 60 votes. Thus the increasing use of the filibuster directly results in government bloat and outdated laws.

2) The government is funded by annual appropriations bills. Gridlock results in omnibus continuing resolutions because it takes 60 votes to make any significant changes. Imagine if your business got to the end of every year and said "it's too hard to think up a budget for next year, let's just use the exact same budget as last year." No matter what happened last year.
This is completely made up. In fact about 90% of Groupon deals are profitable for the merchant in themselves.
They are a natural segregator of novice and advanced users. If you have a limited level of interaction with the unix shell (remember than in the old days everyone in a science academic department used a Unix machine, even the dusty professors you kept in the back of the supplies cabinet), setting up their account and then making sure that they couldnt get into any trouble because they didn't know about 'ls -a' was very much a feature, trust me.

Moreover I personally much prefer them to global configuration directories because they are always local to the thing being configured and you can always override a global configuration by using them.

In fact I think they are a very elegant way to handle "hidden options" - stuff you want to expose to the power users but not bother newbies with.

tl;dr: I am not convinced they are a misfeature.
I would like to hear a good argument for why hidden files and folders are a good thing.

They keep users from monkeying with stuff until they are smart enough to find the hidden files.
Ok, the hyperbole of both articles got me.

> From now on, the new terminology that Microsoft is using is "Windows 8-style UI"… and "New User Interface".

The blog post carefully omitted the final, critical line in the parent article (I skipped the line myself):

> As we get closer to launch and transition from industry dialog to a broad consumer dialog we will use our commercial names.
Why not just call it Urban?
Sorry, I forgot the crap article got posted instead of the better one.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/2/3216545/microsoft-metro-bra...
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also, they can simply legislate to ban it, for whatever reason the want like someone mentioned before. Its up to you whether you want to break the law or not, but most people will not.
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The marketing churn surrounding Windows 8/Windows RT/WinRT/Metro style/Windows 8 style/etc. is just confounding and embarrassing. Maybe I'm over-reacting as a somewhat-interested software developer, but this just seems like a complete fail. I agree with other commenters that the concept of "Metro" probably doesn't mean anything to the average consumer yet, so maybe this isn't a huge deal, but the concept/style/codename of "Metro" was definitely the only bright spot in the situation, so it's sad to see that term go.
This is not correct. Party conflict (which is what Friedman referred to) is not the same as gridlock.

To balance a budget you have to adjust spending and revenue. To do that you have to pass new bills. This is what happened during the late 1990s: the GOP Congress and the Democratic administration were forced to compromise with one another. They passed a new budget that resulted in the balanced budget.

But during gridlock, it is impossible to get new bills past the 60 vote barrier.

Gridlock does not create new balanced budgets, it creates omnibus continuing resolutions. CR's spend and tax exactly as they did last year. If last year wasn't balanced, next year under a CR will not be balanced either.
I've seen quite a few companies in this space, and have never taken the leap. Maybe NFC will be the ticket..
I think it's one of those sexy tech ideas everyone thinks they brilliantly discovered first.
I'm so glad the chances of San Francisco hosting the olympics in the near future are basically 0
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When did everyones sense of humour suddenly die? I literally can't get enough of CoffeeScript however I still think this is pretty funny, so the rest of you should be able to get over yourselves and laugh.
Would you consider iOS and Android similar in terms of risk and developer potential?
Maybe if Mikeal wrote it in CoffeeScript, he could have written it easily enough to have a real form.
Probably because our sketchy senators tried to sneak gun control and abortion amendments into the cybersecurity bill:

http://www.securityweek.com/gun-abortion-amendments-stall-se...
It's not a low goal if you're just starting out, it's a realistic goal.

It takes time and triangulating over a lot of ideas before one gets good at coming up with passive income winners. I think the author is right on track and he has a great giver mcgiver attitude.

Also, the marriage proposal app is a pretty good idea FWIW.
Why not just go to github and explore the most popular projects? As an experienced programmer you can tell if it's good code or bad code. In JavaScript is even more clear, since there are lots of DONT'S, you know, `eval`, `==`, `with`, etc...
There is literally no connection between SOPA and these cybersecurity bills. They are completely different issues which is why you see the constituencies lining up differently.
you think customer loyalty is a niche? it applies to every business on the planet. it's one of the largest markets you could attack.
Windows ME 2.0

A more brilliant way to kill sales, I have never heard.
I think his point is that it is great because it is bad enough that it forces people use a much nicer library.
It would be great if the hiring process worked a bit better than what I experienced. Three broken interviews, each one literally stood up. You guys have pretty great software in interesting space, but the treatment left me baffled.
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@pg - I suspect politics might prevent you from answering, but
do you have a view on whether this direction of Twitter's, is smart or beneficial to them in the long run?
Windows and Linux don't leave unused memory around - both use it heavily for page cache. However what we have a problem here with is active/resident memory use and/or VM subsystem making no so smart decisions(this part seems to have gotten better with ML).

So the end result is that when Windows and Linux can be quite usable with 2GB RAM with a rotational disk, for similar workload OS X slows down quite a bit.
Ha, Touche. A simple quick glance at the complaintanator website shows the top items to be BC based. Location inference. Less weird.
Different payout rates for free versus paid users, which also varies from country to country based on negotiated royalty rates. I'd also assume exchange rates come into play.
I'm a big fan of pixel art. I've created a WebGL based low res pixel engine, a simple example of it is here: http://yaysarahandmatt.org (celebrating my wedding engagement)

I'm surprised he mentioned Photoshop. There are many dedicated pixel art programs that are far better for the task such as [Pixen][0], Graphics Gale[1], the new Pyxel Edit[2] and my own LoveToPixel[3] (done in HTML5 Canvas)

[0]https://github.com/Pixen/Pixen
[1]http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/
[2]http://pyxeledit.com/
[3]https://github.com/city41/LoveToPixel
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I wrote the text of grandparent, realized it was wrong, but hit the "Reply" button was an accident. I agree gold is not as volatile as Bitcoin.
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The big issue for me are the bitmap fonts. Fortunately he used a modern dvips, so you can run it through "pkfix" to get a version with scalable fonts. (Once it's converted to pdf, it's more challenging to fix.)
Another reason for doing this is motion. If the images themselves have double-pixels, then the game can still render moved/rotated images within the device's pixels and not the image's pixels. So scaling up your canvas makes development easier, in addition to the artwork creation.

I used this method with a little platform game I was creating, with the exception of text: http://minipenguin.com/?cat=32
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yay, thats something that makes me nervous about newsblur, :)
(even though i've signed up & paid etc, its a psychological barrier to daily use)
I wonder if that is a good solution for separating novices and pros though? For me, hidden files and folders only help to reinforce the confusion people have about computers. It's one thing to provide a folder to a user with a lock or shield on it, it's another to completely hide it from them.
No, because cybersecurity is not a voting issue. No one is going to step into the ballot box and think "hey Obama passed that cybersecurity bill, he's got my vote." It's a total niche issue.

The GOP opposed this particular bill because big business opposed it, and the GOP tends to line up with them. Big business opposed it because they thought it would allow the government to regulate cybersecurity more strictly.
Okay, I give up. HOW? What does his 2d-to-3d converter actually DO in order to produce 3D? I read the whole linked article and watched the video on his fundable page and it seems like it's all just handwaving. What is being done, and what are the tradeoffs?

On the output end of things, it looks like his glasses are the old red-green color filters. Yes, you can use color filters to generate 3d "on any device", but only at the expense of losing color info in the source image. (Will people really want essentially black-and-white 3D over either full-color 2D or the full-color 3D you can get using polarized lenses (with a special screen) or active (powered with a smart shutter) glasses?)

On the input end of things, suppose your input is, say, a bugs-bunny cartoon. How does his software give us useful 3D info where none was present in the source signal?
I'm trying to find code that is widely accepted as being great code. The popularity of a project is not as effective ass attribution to a specific well known developer.
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you sure it's the page file? page file or hibernation (safe sleep) file? Memory swaps to /var/vm/pagefile0 etc....

unless you disabled it deliberately through a 3rd party tool or command line, your macbook will dump all of RAM to disk as soon as it sleeps - this is your "safe sleep" recovery if power drops too low. It doesn't wait around for low power to dump it out, it does it as soon as you close the lid.
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Synchronization to source and perhaps being able to detect when comments are not current would be a great feature. How about associating comments to code but outside of it sort of like a "source-aware" wiki?
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If it was meant for configuration - probably it would've been - /cfg /ini /set /opt /flg /arg /prm (params)

As someone said - naming things is the hardest!
Wouldn't this be more akin to Cocoa and Carbon in the Apple world? Metro goes a bit deeper than just the UI layer, as I understand it.
Odd - I've been using an 8 gig mbp with swap disabled and I've yet to crash due to running out of ram. That's running a few browsers, editors, VM instances, possibly photoshop for some tweaking. Beachballs are very rare and would be due to software errors, not out of memory conditions - those would just crash.
They seem to be doing pretty well. They head-faked a lot of developers, but I don't think that was deliberate.
Thanks for the anecdote, by the way, very interesting.
Why are they better than Photoshop for creating pixel art?
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'reaching' 237 million people is a lot different than 237 million people actually listening to your song. Old media like radio have a long history of making these stats as inflated as possible to keep ad rates high. Things change drastically when you can accurately count exactly how many people are tuned in at any given moment.
it's not that thrilling.
Dig around - the 16 gig aftermarket upgrade may have been confined to some early 2011 mbp's - the 13" for sure (mine's on the way)
This is often due to color profiles. You take a screenshot (or a mockup), grab the color, and use that value. If you didn't explicitly disable color management beforehand, you've created a new color.

Another reason are JPEGs. You get a mockup as JPEG and you use color values from that image.

I recommend to put a list of colors at the top of your primary style sheet. That's where others will look for it.
I consider it good practice to allow users to customize where your program creates files. I don't like $HOME to be the default dumping ground for anything I run.

A standard that uses environment variables means programs don't have to provide extra options for this customization (I've seen -f,--file , -c,--config and other variants). It allows for common code (libraries that implement the spec).

If you poke around for feature requests for various open source programs, you'll find XDG basedir compliance come up occasionally (moreso for CLI utils). I wouldn't say "nobody seems to be using it"; quick scan of my folders includes Chromium, uzbl, htop. Git's next release will be compliant too.
To most startups we fund, iOS is way more important. Nearly all build for iOS first and then maybe one day port to Android. There are a few exceptions like Kyte (http://kytephone.com) who use Android to do things you can't do on iOS. And of course Apportable (http://apportable.com) has been very successful auto-porting iOS apps to Android.
Interesting that designing for iOS non-games is the opposite: design @2x and then scale down.

The scaling down can be tricky though. I'd love to see a similar post to this: a pro's take on retina graphics.
We're not laying claim to being first. Anonymous Feedback is nothing new. 'Anonymous' suggestion boxes been around for a long time.

By the sounds of it, you're aware of our enterprise product (i.e. has to be activated by a manager or leadership team) product called happiily which is also our company name. Part of our motivation in building this new product was to provide smaller companies and teams a product to collect feedback quickly.

As well, we wanted to build a product that could provide value without first being activated by a manager. That's really the crux of the experiment here at Tell Your Boss Anything.

And yes, there are lots of startups seeking to improve the way people work. And that's a good thing.
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The sad thing is, Republicans probably only voted this down to spite president, but Democrats... seriously? What the hell are you doing on the wrong side of your own party platform?
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It's an entirely appropriate chastisement for their tacky, cliched, and rather lame corporate communication.
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I could never get it to run correctly on OS X. And they wouldnt refund my money. They need to hire the MLB at bat guys.
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Can someone give some examples of (hypothetical or real) "passive income" service/site? Every time I hear about the concept, the person is always very circumspect of revealing anything about their business(rightfully so), so it's hard to visualize for me.
Do you feel like Dalton's App.net could grow into a viable alternative?
To be clear, the first person that sends feedback to their boss, the boss sees that feedback and can reply to that for free.

Only when a 2nd person sends feedback to that same manager, does the rest of the feedback (from employee 2, 3, 4etc) get locked until the manager switches to a paying account.
I was going to apply but I'm a ninja, not a rockstar. :(
SFTP not handling symlinks has been the one headache I've had with PhpStorm recently. Glad to see it getting fixed.

It's also awesome to see Symfony2 support is coming along and more and more ways for the IDE to determine what type a variable is.
I tried it when it came out, on one of my duplicate accounts (apparently part of the 87MM 'fakes') because it's none of Airtime's business who my friends are. Actually met some nice people... That said, never used it again.
But that's just it: A fallback. Not totally separate codepaths for NVidia, ATI, etc, which is pretty much where legacy openGL is.
It's in reference to the YC job ad at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332117 posted an hour ago (after the AllThingsD article was submitted). The first paragraph claims that they "can't go into too many details about the exact features of [their] software".

EDIT: This might have been an old job ad that was reposted, as it claims the company has 8 employees, while AllThingsD states they now have 55.
Photoshop is chock full of tools and features that a pixel artist wouldn't care about, and they can get in the way. On top of that pixel editors tend to have features only pixel artists would care about: mirrored output (pick one or two planes on the canvas and your work will be mirrored around them), ability to define simple, finite palettes and quickly move between the 5 or so colors you're using often. Also the ability to tweak colors in your palette and have the image adjust automatically (ie replace all of a certain color with another one), but not force you into an indexed color palette. Ability to zoom in very close but still maintain a 100% view, etc.

Most also offer nice animation tools such as looping your animation in real time allowing for effective tweaking. Even other simple niceties like they are always hard edged, always scale with a nearest neighbor algorithm, having both the right and left mouse button be full fledged tools, etc.

The canonical tool was Deluxe Paint on the Amiga, and most tools still around today emulate it at least to some degree.
What part of it has bitmapped fonts?
Somehow .dotfiles work just fine under Windows :). As such they are somehow more "portable"

Emacs saves them under %USERPROFILE% - I have in there - .alice, .android, .easyhg, .eclipse, .gstreamer-0.10, .lighttable, .m2, .matplotlib, .... .VirtualBox, .zenmap

Also in "Application Data" - .emacs.d, .mc, .subversion

My point is - this system works somehow even under non-unixy systems.

Because it's simple.
Revenue models are all actually different, and kind of messy. In the US, radio pays out royalties for publishing but not for performance/mechanical. That means the rightsholder for publishing gets paid, but not the performer of the piece. (Aretha Franklin gets nothing from radio plays.) It's an antiquated law based on the idea that radio is doing promotional work for the artist (most other countries pay both.)

Pandora pays a compulsory streaming rate. Similar to radio they're allowed to play what they like as long as it's not on-demand. Hence you can only skip so many times, and you can't request a specific song. They pay both publishing and performance royalties so rightsholders for the publishing and recording get paid.

Spotify, as an on-demand streaming service, has to negotiate direct deals with rightsholders to use the music. So when you see them paying out a lower rate than Pandora it's because they've traded equity to major labels in exchange for better rates — a very clever way for majors to get money directly from subscribers without needing to distribute it to artists. Independent labels and musicians also need to authorize Spotify, but have less negotiating power so they don't get ownership stakes and have to choose to be completely absent from the system or take the rate offered them.
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On the front page, this article is directly above "FiveStars (YC W11) looking for software developers". Here's a screenshot for posterity: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/img/fivestarRockstars....

It leads to this job ad: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332117
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