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I do not see how you can simultaneously care about making programming better but not care about how people use what you're making to solve that problem.

Programming is a verb describing what people do with programming systems, and we're nowhere near the point where it can be done automatically yet. You cannot remove people from the equation and claim to be interacting with it.
> I mean, it's not like HTML layout engines or JS-interpreters are somehow impossible to write from scratch.

Today's web standards are large & complex enough that it is practically impossible without a full-time team.
It's a fair question. It has to do with the amount of community support momentum Gnome has (which Mate has yet to achieve). I was hugely impressed with Gnome2 when I first came to Linux. I've only found OpenBox to be as useful for me. My worry is that Mate will go the way of some of the other interesting desktop innovations like FluxBox--fragmented and disorganized.
And I'm going to hope and pray that google stops screwing with their interface design.

Gmail was perfect.
I find Android having locked bootloaders to be dangerous in the long term and just very annoying in the short term. The only solution is to only buy Google devices.

iOS is a lost cause, most likely, since it won't even let users run whatever they want.
How does the developer get your code inside their book? Also, you might want to consider an intermediate plan. We're over 1000 readers (after a few months), but I'm guessing we're years away from 500,000 readers.
It's actually an idea that I've entertained before, and I think there's tons of businesses that could be built in this space (for example, I'm a huge fan of Yardsale, and this could be an interesting growth strategy for them, to build Facebook Ads directly into their platform).

Right now though, I'm having a blast working on Facebook Analytics with my team at PageLever.
I'll make a video on my setup, but:

Left: vim with Vim Haskell Mode[1], a pale imitation of emacs haskell minor mode that nevertheless gets the job done. ;)

Top right: GHCi

Bottom right: Guard, as mentioned, using guard-shell[2] to compile the file and run main using runghci.

[1] https://github.com/lukerandall/haskellmode-vim
[2] https://github.com/guard/guard-shell
Read:

The ROI on the choice to use Facebook

How much more did he sell by using Facebook than if he had sold without using Facebook?
So why not start a whole new project, instead of dumping the most successful of previous projects?
Nice linkbait article here. What about the real costs? yea, lets just omit those and hope to get some media traction. weak.
Honestly I think this shows more the power of Facebook Events, than how a traditional business should be able to make Facebook ads work for them.
It's funny that microsoft uses youtube for their video demos in their blogs!
Really quickly, the first thing that I would turn to would be Craigslist - is there a reason you chose Facebook ads over Craigslist?
Really, how many people do you know who use any email client by choice? Everyone I know just used webmail or the built-in client on their phone.
Hmm, I visited the site, but it appears you haven't actually launched? It asks me for my email to register for an invitation.
Which massive fortune 500 company were you competing with for your yard sale? I don't get how your facebook event levelled the playing field for you in any way - it just let you clear your stock
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> At best it's more of a "it's not as bad as everyone says".

This is the camp I fall in. It's not that I don't mind the new, improved, eye-candy-focused drive of Unity and Gnome3. But why abandon the products that worked to begin with?
New device transforms any content on any platform into 3-D
Thanks dude. Totally agree about Designing with the Mind in Mind. Another similar book is 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People. Here's a little gem that summarizes some of that material: http://uxmag.com/articles/psychological-usability-heuristics

Excited to check out some of the stuff I haven't come across there.
Surprisingly about the same. As you see all the strings are out as well as the keys and hammers. All total probably shed about 25-35 pounds. I'd say it weighs 325-375 pounds total. Evidently most of the weight is in the metal frame.
I had the same problems with the subject field and send button but it didn't take long for me to figure out the solution. Oddly, it seems very intuitive once I've figured it out.

Kudos to the Outlook design team for the clean UI that doesn't take long to get used to and is intuitive once you are used to it.
The original criticisms of the Facebook advertisements are for adverts to off-Facebook destinations, adverts that do not feed back into Facebook in any way, so to compare them is unfair.

This post proves that using Facebook adverts to increase Facebook engagement work, but not that off-site adverts aren't bad, which is what the majority of complaints from the last ~day are.
IANAL, but doesn't prior-art have to be published to count?
Uzbl isn't really written in one language. uzbl-core (the Webkit wrapper) is written in C, the event-processing framework and tabbed-browsing wrapper are written in Python, and much of the functionality is handled by external scripts written in sh and javascript.

The difference has nothing to do with the language; hbro is taking a very different approach to configuration and integration. (e.g. uzbl does IPC using FIFOs and sockets; hbro is using ZeroMQ. uzbl is extensible with external scripts; hbro seems to be extensible using Haskell.)

(I'm the maintainer of uzbl. k0ral used to be involved with uzbl, and I'm sure hbro has learned from uzbl's mistakes.)
$150 in ads = 150,000 people who accepted invitation or 150,000 people who clicked to view the ad? if it's accepting an invitation, that's a STEAL. Although not 100% of ppl will actually go, it'll be a huge %. You're basically paying for a stronger intent than simply casual interest.
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While I loved the product, I am beginning to regret giving them my credit card number for my CodeSchool subscription. They seem to be down a lot and isn't this not the first time they were hacked?
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I got a 403 -- Forbidden from the corporate firewall.

I thought microsoft made corporate-friendly products. Must try harder!
Do you have a blog or something like that? Don't know if this gets enough momentum just from within the comment section. If you wrote a post on that I am quite certain it would go to the front page.
Damn... it directly displays in Hindi language for me. I suppose their thought process is that if you have an indian IP, you must know hindi. What's more, even after I changed the language, some of the labels are still in hindi.
More discussion going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4317923
Wait.. Twitter notified NBC who then "filled out the forms" to have this guy suspended?

I thought Twitter didn't monitor users tweets?
Okay, I need a way to get 3000 vinyles now.
I had better luck in watching tutorial videos than reading books but that's just my style of learning
CSS3 is not [part of] HTML5. CSS3 is just what came after CSS2.
An team can certainly make a lot of progress using the skills you list. But that is not sufficient to solve tough problems. You really do need at least a few people who understand things like memory hierarchies, Bloom filters, statistics, etc. To find these people you have to interview for them.
His business is in facebook ads ...
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I know exactly what you mean. Then I worked at Barnes and Noble where we tore the covers off of mass markets that couldn't sell to send back to the publisher and discarded the rest of the book. Every now and then a decent book would go into this pile (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, once) but the vast majority of time it was harlequins and similar stuff that was churned out for indiscriminate tastes. Imagine whole garbage cans of this stuff. Stuff that would be replaced the following day and then thrown out the following month.

Sometimes books simply aren't worth the shelf space.

I eventually felt the same about a $50 guitar that I bought out of musiciansfriend catalogue when I was 16. Tuning pegs that wouldn't sit still, poorly aligned frets… the rosette was printed onto a piece of paper. It's hard to believe that something as beautiful as a musical instrument could be built so poorly.
These were clearly made mostly-in-jest, however I was a little amused at the juxtaposition of archaic flying vessels together with personalized consumer-level air travel.

While we have long since passed the era of the Zeppelin, we're certainly nowhere near cruising along with air-taxis or wing/slash/jet packs.
Fuck that. Want More STEM Teachers? Pay them a wage commensurate with their ability and schooling. A STEM teacher is worth 4x what a 'Physical Education' teacher is.
You may be right that Ouya is destined for failure.

But (and I say this thinking about things other than Ouya) a game platform does not need all the things you list at the outset. That's like saying you need to create an EA in order to make games. If you can put together pieces to make hardware that will run a game successfully, you can have a start.

There is a vast gulf between homebrew and EA which is not very well exploited commercially.
Yahoo login is down?
it's like the whole yahoo login-based service is off now?
Reminds me of how fresh the first outlook web access (OWA) looked when it first came out -- it was the first AJAX app around a decade ago to my knowledge before AJAX was invented and celebrated.

I'm not surprised OWA v2 looks as well made as well as the first. I often preferred the web interface to the client. Just not sure if I want another email account or domain.
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Rabbi creates a simple, cheap device to boost the sound from iPad speakers.
jeff chimed in before me. if I were in your shoes, I would have probably leaned on Craigslist and the area subreddit (the latter is very hit or miss, but I could see something niche like records doing really well.) I'm not a vinyl guy, but I'm sure there are a TON of niche forums out there worth looking at as well.

I really wish you could apply multi-armed bandit approaches to physical problems like these more easily; obviously its hard to do A/B testing when you only have one actual supply.
This is just funny..
Many legit reasons. For starters, he could be using Firefox as a test browser for Selenium, and upgrading would break some plugins.
bringing it up only shows your lack of an argument

Can you please elaborate on this? Both are high level executives, who's contact information has been available on the web.

Twitter proactively contacted NBC. I bet Cook would also like to get informed by Twitter each time his email turns up and asked to give his approval if the account of the user should get terminated.
1) Mobile games/apps industry

2) iOS mostly but Android and Unity are on the queue as well

3) Yes, salaries start at 20k over what I'm making right now

4) Yes, and this is one of the reasons why I started thinking of a raise, some recruiters have contacted me and I asked one of them about the pay (just being curious because I'm very happy here), and he said exactly the rates you can see on glassdoor
The claim isn't that, "CT is necessary", it's "CT is beneficial".
Want more Stem Teachers?
Raise wages.
Americans CAN! Americans DO!
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We're inviting users in weekly batches. We're using a fifo system so signing up earlier guarantees earlier entry.

We appreciate your patience, and you can get in touch directly if you'd like us to get your account activated more quickly.
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While a worth while experiment, you are still going to have a hard time getting a comparable result set. You have records left over... presumably all the ones that the first batch of shoppers didn't want. You are also targeting a local set of people... hundreds of which already attended your sale and have picked up the records they wanted. If your next sale is solely advertised on, say, Craigslist, I would not be surprised if your take was much less than $10k. But I would not necessarily blame that on Craigslist when those other factors are just as likely to affect a second Facebook advertised sale as well.
Yes, I would curse them both ways. I'm sure the engineers get enough appreciation from other people :)
Adding our plugin to books is easy - you just upload the book file (using filepicker.io from our batch) and it is automatically modified to include the plugin.

Also, thanks for the feedback about pricing! We're looking into some changes that would address your concerns.
Gmail might warrant a second look. I have not touched it in more than two years. Yahoo Mail is good enough for me to pay for their enhanced service, Google would have to offer something better.
Not really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.
These is quite prescient, interpreted liberally:

* Very liberally, drive-through car wash
* Air as a domain for combat
* Commuter air travel
* Aerial firefighting
* Air mail
* (okay, nobody's riding on seahorses)
* Roomba
* (okay, nobody's hunting seagulls)
* Air traffic control
* Mechanized farming
* Spy drones
* Mechanized animal processing
* Automated goods fabrication
* (okay, nobody's stealing eagle eggs)
* (okay, nobody's riding fish)
* Synthesizers
* Mobile homes
* Online education
* Very liberally, drive-through car wash (again)
* Tanks/armored vehicles
* Bombers
* (okay, nobody's playing sports underwater)
* (okay, nobody's domesticating whales or commuting underwater)

Most of what they got right: things we do which are labor-intensive and could be automated

Most of what they got wrong: the value or cost of putting people under water, and the degree to which animals play a role in daily life
I must really want to try this out because the signup took me 5 minutes. Between giving my real number, chosing for an availble nickname and having to retype more than 10 times the antispam code (it just wouldn't take my input???)
To be fair: downloading a .iso file, burning the image onto a blank disk, rebooting and entering bios setup, setting boot device order , inserting disk and rebooting again, partitioning disks and doing install process isn't something that an unsophisticated user is going to be able to do without significant guidance though.

The BIOS flashing does add an extra risk factor though, prepare for many "Linux fucked my PC!" rants from users who screwed up the flashing process.
It isn't really a new approach to [web]mail it is just a redesigned Hotmail that looks like Office 2013 and works better with touch devices.

Also I wish Microsoft would ditch the whole folder approach to mail. Labels can work just like folders if you wish but are so much more flexible and just makes so much more sense IMHO.
Sorry, I don't have access to a study directly on degrees. If you want that, go hire some social science people to study it.

However my personal, anecdotal experience is that peer coworkers that I've had who did not have college degrees have, on average, been better than ones who did. By "peer coworker" I mean "working with me, with a job title similar to or better than mine". By "better" I mean "impressed me more". My measure of being impressed is what I thought of the quality and quantity of work that I saw them doing.

I have no idea what their salaries were like. There were some that I know were making less than coworkers with degrees, even though I thought that their work was better. Most I never had a discussion about salaries with.

That said, on the whole I would wager that discriminated against workers get a worse salary even if their productivity is equivalent or better. Why? Because salary is the result of a negotiation, one of whose inputs is what your alternate options are. People are not paid what they are worth to the company. They are paid what the company thinks it needs to pay them to keep them happy, and the difference between that and their worth is kept by the company as profit. (Companies that do not act this way soon find that they are not able to make a profit and some time later find themselves out of business...) If some employees have a hard time being paid more elsewhere, then they will often be satisfied with less from you.

This phenomena is presumably why the paper that I pointed you to measured productivity on the basis of company growth and profitability, and not on paid salary.
This is a great idea! Do you mind letting us know what your setup's like?
Nothing could be further from the truth. Your metaphor is specious.

(Sorry if that sounds harsh, it is intended more to be just a firm statement).

The complexity of the piano sound is very, very difficult to duplicate, although we've been trying for decades.

There is no question that electric pianos are more practical for certain situations (country houses in climates with high humidity, for example).

But those are exceptions where practical concerns outweigh aesthetics (like watching a DVD on your laptop on the train).

A fine, hand-made acoustic piano has no serious contenders at the moment, from the viewpoint of both the musician, and the sophisticated listener.

One could argue that fine, hand-made instruments are becoming more rare because they are more expensive to produce and the market has shrunk, but that is a different argument.
Absolutely - there's a huge competitive advantage being in the Bay Area, and Craigslist ads can get you pretty far. In the past, I'd used Craigslist ads for selling records and seen an okay response - maybe 20-30 people or so, but nowhere near what I saw for this.

The other advantage that I didn't fully realize until I started running the ads is how the activity within the Facebook Event serves as a reminder for people to show up - we see tons of ads for events every day that we want to go to, but very few of them ever make it onto our calendar the way that Facebook Events do with one click.

My argument isn't that Facebook Ads are the be-all end-all marketing channel - just wanted to share my experience with them. YC folks - feel free to ping me if you want help spinning up some Facebook Ads - always down to help folks out.
Well, it's tricky. People that are happy with their desktop environment are not particularly likely to go to some site and talk about how good it is. They'll just happily use it.
Sometimes new version is actually better and the uproar is just resistance to change (which is 100% understandable and legit). Other times the uproar is the result of resistance to change combined with the fact, that the new version is actualy worse. It's hard to distinguish between these two.

Gnome Shell feels overdesigned. I just can't used to it. It draws too much attention to itself instead of getting out of the way. Classical Win7/Gnome2-like panel + exposé would be much better.
I wasn't saying they were equivalent, just that they possess similar moral issues. Privacy is a key feature of both, though you get far further with anonymous networks than with safe deposit boxes.

The specific issue with these networks is proportion of use: they get co-opted so early by bad uses that they never get a chance to show their legitimate side.
In terms of UI, the differences vs gmail seem trivial and possibly in the wrong direction. The three column format is identical; it is mainly cleaner because it removes useful features: inline email text preview, a prominent search box, navigation to other frequently used services, e.g. drive. On first glance sparse designs look better, but for frequently used software people tend to like the greater data density in practice. I also image that they will introduce l their own navigation bar to other services at some point, so that minor distinction would be temporary. On the hand it is far better than Microsoft's existing offering, and being able to integrate with third party social services rather than g+ is a substantial difference they should continue to run with.
Any benchmarks between Zing JVM, Oracle JVM and OpenJDK JVM?
I have something similar, and I agree -- a quality digital piano is almost as good as the real thing. In some ways better: it never needs tuned, and the gentler touch is easy on the fingers.

I will admit, though, when I want thunder, there's no substitute for real strings.
I can't wait to hear all those stories of people who buy a "Windows" RT device and then find out they can't actually run any Windows software on it.
The media player is what renders all the little movie thumbnails in Explorer. So it's got hooks in the OS. (Not to mention all the DRM cruft, that's probably down at the driver level.)
Indeed. It makes sense to me. Are my intuitions about the origins of ;s separating top-level clauses accurate?

(Hello, Robert! :) )
Wow, this is really nice. It even works in IE8, Gmail no longer works for me in IE8
I think the answers are here: http://blog.appfog.com/if-paas-is-expensive-and-slow-why-not...
Maybe that info should be on the page itself somewhere. I wouldn't know to look at the github to find your guard script: https://github.com/haskelllive/haskelllive/blob/master/Guard...
Giving your number was optional. You could provide a second email address and security question (you had to click a link just below the email address field to use a security question instead of your number).
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Trying to find where they say what license it's under, anyone have better luck?
"2 minutes on capcha"

That is generous. I dont like to spend more than 30 seconds max on capchas.
Another example of immigrants taking American jobs because the job doesn't pay enough (anymore).
In the HTTP headers, I see:

X-We-Are-Hiring: joinwebcommfd@microsoft.com
Ah, for some reason I had my history backwards and thought successful winged flight attempts came before Zeppelins had seen that much success. Thanks for the correction.
> Both are high level executives, who's contact information has been available on the web.

Tim Cook has nothing to do with this instance, though. This executive didn't want his email address being passed around. Tim Cook might, he might not, who cares? Just because one person allows his info to be posted online doesn't mean everyone else has to deal with theirs getting out there.
I've never been a fan of the GMail web UI so this is a very refreshing change. I've been ready to make the switch away from GMail for a while so it's nice to have another option. I was seriously considering iCloud mail but I have some reservations about how committed Apple is to iCloud.com -- the Mail UI isn't terrible but it lacks features. I really need server side mail rules for example. My only reservation about OutLook is that Microsoft has so much Google envy they might do all the same things that are driving me away from GMail. At least with Apple I know how the game works. I give them money and they give me a product/service. I'm good with that arrangement.
I want subtitles to perform their primary accessibility function. How about YouTube annotations?
Combine this with Google Glass and you've got a killer portable computer.