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I agree, SourceTree is very nice. Personally, I prefer the command line (with bash bindings like gc for git commit) but I use SourceTree for visualisation which I find much nicer than the one git, github or bitbucket (also Atlassian) offer.

To bad it only supports OS X. Many of my co-developers use Windows or Linux and would definitely like this tool.
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Enyo is nothing like Meteor or Derby.
Democratic? Really? Are we still kidding yourselves that we have some sort of democracy? Oh man.

Representatives of "us"? Oh, you donated millions to an election fund, right? No? Oh, OK then, you're a lobbyist, backed by millions? No. Ah well, they aint representing you then.

We are sold government in the same way tobacco companies sold tobacco in the past. Lies, misrepresentation, half truths, and attacks on the other brand. And because advertising is so powerful, yes it is, you think you are part of it. You're not, you are pawns. Necessary to get the "important" pieces in to position, but in the end, sacrificed at will for their greater good. Your jobs, homes, mortgages, businesses, financial health, health, all there for the taking so that those at the top can get rich, or as the banks have shown, survive and keep their bonuses. Its a filthy pyramid scheme, that we are conned in to supporting.

Sorry, democracy is a myth.

I assume its worse in the US.
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How do you reliably check that javascript is turned off without resorting to javascript?

edit: never mind; an img in a noscript tag.
This is a good move forward, but most people within their right mind stay away from MTA buses.
We had some load balancer issues. This should be fixed now but if you're still seeing any issues try logging out and logging back in.

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Not only that, but for every housing page with a list on it, the scraper is going to pull all those pages to parse the data and display on a map. I suspect a person who is doing a lot of apartment hunting with this extension runs the risk of just getting their IP address banned. I assume CL has that capability.
I had a similar problem with SOPA. I had lots of people telling me SOPA sucked, but very few were willing to tell me why it sucked. It seemed the bill was just a product of evil and I should oppose it. There was a lot more seeking to be understood than to understand. (Caveat: I wasn't really reading HN at the time, where maybe I could have gotten a decent discussion, including opponents to the bill who could have described why the proponents liked it without dumb sarcastic comments.)
You can also just look at the server logs. That's what most of us did before Google Analytics (and still do).
Once the biggest source of social traffic, StumbleUpon, fights to stay relevant
It seems like every thread that references Apple on Hacker News most now include a comment along the lines of "this confirms it: Apple is dying." I feel like I'm back on Slashdot.
I think CL is worried that their bandwidth would start going down as people start putting their apartment listings in PadMapper instead of CL because CL doesn't have any apartment listings any more.
Padmapper's eventual goal is to destroy CL

What? I don't think that's ever been Padmapper's goal.
Could you care to elaborate on what the app/service you were demoing to FB?
Should we be expecting a Facebook breakup soon? Sure CL and FB have huge userbases, but how are you determining CL in fact is a monopoly and stifling competition? Or is there no competition because no one is successfully (and legally) trying to start their own CL competitor?
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The article mentions some of the already launched companies in YC S'12 batch.

There are many amazing companies that are yet to be announced, but I think the article did a great job of shedding some light on what's happening in YC this summer. An information that is usually kept secret until after Demo Day.
My last place I only said that it was the 70 hour weeks. I could have vented for days.

You can always go to http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/index.htm and vent there about a company.
I read it as "slantees". But slanty eyes is way more hilarious.
I like this. I only order pizza from Gepetto's because everything else sucks. Sometimes I do mix up the toppings though.
There's no reason to assume this will overload CL servers or CDN.
I don't understand what you think Facebook did wrong.

They intend to enter this new space, using their technology and their people.

As a courtesy they offered to hire you / throw a lot of money at you.

What would you have had them do instead?

Not compete with you, because you're a precious snow flake?

Acquire you and treat you like a prima donna, giving you your own team and allowing you to take your own technical direction?

Why should Facebook - or any competitor - do either of these things?

Seems to me like they acted pretty reasonably here.

Of all the things you said, this struck me as the weirdest:

> Strangely, your “platform developer relations” executive made no attempt to defend my position.

What do you think the purpose of the “platform developer relations” executive is? To advocate AGAINST Facebook and for random outside developers?

I'm not a fan of the Facebook app (not a member) or the company...but in this case, the firm seems to be acting 100% reasonably.
You are very welcome. Thanks for replying back.

With regards to security. By setting up a method to access your application via the network means you have opened a potential security hole on the device. A port is opened and listening which means different types of attacks can take place given this port being opened. HTTPS doesn't secure a potential buffer overflow attack on your open port. In addition your back-end server can be attacked as well with people gaining access to data you have collected. Mobile devices are not well known for setting up firewalls and these are reactive defenses at best.

Switchboard is a great idea and again it is great that you have opened sourced the code.

With regards to manipulating the code. I guess I assumed incorrectly, I thought you used Switch board to have the ability to change code paths within your applications? I.E. use new source that has changed, or old source which has been tested and is working.

Internet access has drastically changed the retention of my applications. Currently 700K downloads with a 50% retention. I would say I could bump this retention up if my apps didn't have internet access when they really do not need it. (Currently ad supported apps).

I completely understand the two people dilemma. I am bootstrapping with only myself doing everything. I still need to do a huge make over on my pathetic web site, and I haven't started on any of my real scalable/growth ideas yet.

And again, thanks for sharing this... Cheers...
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Tell them "by being an ethical internet citizen."
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Presumably this: http://app.net/home/
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I've seen this implemented (in a very special case) with statically-linked GPG on a USB drive and a Crypto Stick[1]. Better than JavaScript (because you don't need to rely on an untrustworthy interpreter), and the keys never leave the smart card. The big limitation is that you need admin access to the system if you need to install drivers for the smart card.

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As touch is the paramount form of interaction for personal devices like smartphone and tablets gestures or motion-controlled apps will form the interaction layer for bigger screens
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Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery
Google Wallet moves to the cloud, opens up to all credit and debit cards
Who said they exist for your benefit?
I don't get it. FB took an opportunity to make an acquisition offer (or at least open the dialog) and used some hard tactics (in this case the threat of direct competition) to improve their negotiating position.

What's the problem here? This is just business. Facebook has every right to develop that app, just like Dalton Caldwell did. If it makes sense for them to do it themselves, then they will. If it makes sense for them to buy an existing player, ditto. And if so, clearly they'd want to acquire that player at a good price, right?

I just don't see the ethical problem here. They didn't lie, and they offered a check (that it happens the OP didn't want).
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Exactly.

My preferred Twitter name:

2 Tweets, 1 Following, 0 Followers, inactive for 2 years.

Worse:

I share a pretty unique given name with a world famous musician. That name is taken for everything, always. Even if it wasn't it would likely be stolen from me via some kind of crazy infringement claim.
My employer blocks it as well. That's interesting, though understandable I suppose.
Probably true at most places, but good companies can definitely drift into bad habits without being aware of it. Sometimes all it takes is a few managers recognizing the problem.
When you see shit, you flush it. Kudos to Betaworks for making such a bold move and actively working to make digg relevant again.
I am not sure how App.net, at least what it is now would have become a service on the FB platform.
Was App.net trying to do some other stuff before the attempt to build a 'real-time, ad-free social network'?
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It has clauses that intentionally ignore other laws protecting privacy, starting paragraphs with things like this:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of law..."

Beyond that, read sections (SEC. 701., 703. 704. etc http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2105pcs/pdf/BILLS-112...) which are heavily couched in language like "safeguards" and "threats" but the effective result is more about authorizing full monitoring of personal communications and sharing all of that with other private companies in government "cybersecurity exchanges". The protections in this bill seem to only protect private companies from getting sued for sharing personal communications.

Why aren't our representatives writing laws that further protect our privacy? Instead we get bills that ignore or even override and nullify existing privacy law. I feel betrayed by our elected representatives in government. It seems they are working for someone else.

(edited to add link to PDF of the Bill)
An acquaintance of mine once told me there was heated debate among his Twitter friends after they saw my handle in an @reply tweet.

They (none of whom were Asians) thought that I should change my nick because it was racist and/or offensive to Asians, despite the fact that I'm Asian myself.
Do you even understand the topic? Was your lie of omission that you didn't read it before you commented?
Pardon me for not living in the US, and not knowing its culture/social situation completely. That book has given me quite a few historical information where it seems like a chance event turns fortunes of people.
I think intel would bend over backwards to get their processors in an apple phone; it would completely open the mobile market for them. They already give apple some influence anyway -- there was something back in 2011 about apple 'persuading' intel to work on the ULV version of the sandy bridge CPU for use in the air.
The argument could be made that it's generating discussion here. I might buy one myself...
There was some recent anti smoking advertising that used that line, basically smoking = bad smell/yellow teeth = unpopular. Where a few years ago similar advertising used the smoking = cool = you become popular line of argument.

Granted this was sub textual, but the implications where clear enough.
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So because you can't think of an alternative, there should be no way of handling a scenario where, say, maybe that port is already in use?

Again, the explicitness is by design. My "handle" code would be checking the failure and acting on it: trying another port, logging a message, sending an email telling me my server isn't starting.

I doubt the existence of a real world app that really fires up an HTTP server and blindly dies without so much as logging to indicate failure.
You guys are just talking past each other. Apple, just like everyone else, makes modifications/optimizations to the base ARM designs. Look it up on wikipedia if you like.
I don't see why you wouldn't tell them anyway. At the very least they'll know it's a big enough issue that people will quit over it.

If you're not going to answer their questions about why you're leaving you might as well save everybody's time and skip the exit interview.
It is the unavoidable end-game if padmapper is successful.
Mark will probably see this, but will anything change? Probably not.

The simple fact is that as a company, FB have to meet their targets and Dalton's app is a bit of a conflict of interest. So, no surprises there.

However, I agree with his point about big "media company" social networks being eventually replaced by a much larger number of specific micro-networks. One network for photo sharing, music sharing (Soundcloud?), messaging etc.

Even once you have all these niches, I'm sure there's space for two or three due to the fact that people have different priorities and visual tastes.

As a company, Facebook aren't on course to die but I'm sure we're going to continue to see decisions like this being made that surprise us as the tech community due to the fact that they don't align with the vision we thought the company once had.
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I'll get back to this when I get to overhauling the icons in my apps. Not sure when that is.
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I'd like to like Oauth but its rise has made some use-cases very difficult or impossible. We write automated scripting (to display data feeds) where no human is involved, and oauth has cut off access of many of the big sites. Twitter is one of the few that leaves us a backdoor, but who knows how long it will last.

We are working around oauth, but the user experience for someone trying to use our scripts is horrible, a multistep process that requires a technical person (too much for some of our customers).
Since users will be browsing the CL website, CL will still control the distribution of their content. I'm betting tech details are just details as long as users are browsing the CL website.
Am I a bad person? I found this incredibly tedious and, hell, I enjoy Haskell.

But from reading it, it seems like we're trying to graft a Haskell-like type system onto a couple of languages with little support for it in the first place. I think the impulse is noble but there's a truckload of boilerplate which introduces another layer of complexity. It seems brittle to me.

Maybe invest the time you'd otherwise spend maintaining this kind of scaffolding into more/better tests?
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What's your point? Fairness to whom? Why is Craigslist under any obligation to be "fair"?

They're especially under no obligation to define "fair" entirely according to the whims of those who would like to grab a piece of craigslist's pie.
In the Jewish/Christian scriptures, Joshua 2 tells the story of Rahab lying in order to hide a pair of Jewish spies. She is considered one of the great heroes of the Bible.
In the meta copyright tags.
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Yeah, I find the "loss" of the useless former data to be a positive, not a negative. If their site was socially "corrupted" by astroturfers and paid Diggers, starting over is the best way to create a new culture.
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Unfortunately, that's exactly how it seems to be working, with the post getting flagged and ranking way below the page and below other posts with less upvotes and posted earlier. Typical HN behavior really.
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I'll agree that if you have an important invariant then it's nice if the compiler can check it. But the question to ask is: where did these constraints come from? How do you know they're true? What if they change?

If they're business requirements: can you undo them if the business changes? If they're environmental constraints: do you really know mobile phones or browsers or the server OS that well, and what do you do when a new version of the environment comes out and invalidates your assumptions?

Generally speaking, it seems better to take our inspiration from scientists doing empirical work, rather than from mathematicians. Use tests to figure out how the code you depend on really behaves, not how you wish it would behave.
Sometimes the correct approach is to ignore the error.

If printf or equivalent in a hello world program can't print to stdout, what should it do instead of crashing? Send an email?

I don't think I've ever seen a hello world for a language with exceptions (checked or not) that actually handled an exception from printf either.
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The simple proof that Go's approach is wrong is to look for all the Hello World examples. I have yet to find one that looks at the error return of the println, just like none look at the return of C's printf.

The builtin println does not return a value. As stated in the language specification:
http://golang.org/ref/spec#Bootstrapping