skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is only the preface to a novel that could be titled "The Devil's Advocate's Guide to Responsive Web Design". The complicated decisions facing those tasked with developing and maintaining a responsive site are legion.

To start, determine your breakpoints so you can employ the magic of media queries...

...which are neat, but little more than a parlor trick in real world application since serving all the CSS for all possible views is an anti-pattern...

...especially under the currently accepted best practice/mantra of "Mobile First" site development, which dictates initially assuming a visitor is on a smartphone (to achieve the fastest response for the weakest use case, i.e., relatively low power device+high latency/unstable network) then dynamically scale the content/features based on client capabilities...

...requiring a solution for feature testing and/or device detection, which is performance overhead somewhere in the stack and, though evolving quickly, will remain a elusive target for the foreseeable future...

...which THEN means (just as the OP says) you aren't really developing, maintaining, and serving a single responsive site but one of 3 or more variations which, depending on who you ask, should have context appropriate content.

What's that? You have a highly-performing, flex grid-based, sugar-coated wonderland of a site? Tell me how efficient your responsive/adaptive image workflow/solution is...

TL;DR Thank you @beep for the job security. ;)
Zynga is the Samwer Brothers of games.

Blatant copying, element-for-element. No derivation from the original, no ethics, no shame. Zynga is a despicable company, and I have absolutely no respect for the company itself or Pincus.
Hell no. This isn't like craigslist vs. padmapper because EA was never founded as a pseudo-charity and Zynga is not the little guy. Zynga with it's 60%-70% Cloned portfolio is the bad guy. EA's flaws are by accident and ignorance, Zynga's flaws are willful and on purpose.

I've noticed a lot of comments here state that "you can't copyright a genre". These are people who did NOT read the complaint or see the screenshots comparing The Ville with the Sims. GO and READ the complaint. Jesus, it's one click away. Just skim all the way through it and look at the pictures. It is blatant copying. No mistake. Pure facts. Cloning. Copyright infringement.

Zynga might have finally bit off more than it could chew. Lets hope it chokes and dies a miserable and embarrassing death.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of this piece, but I think the distinction between layout and design isn't highlighted.

If you use a framework like Bootstrap to underpin your html and css then having a responsive layout is really very easy. The point of a responsive layout is that your site is legible and clickable to users on non-desktop screens, not that your site looks beautiful for every user.
Woah, wait a moment. One variety of commercial banana is mostly clones (the traditional yellow Chicquita/Dole type). There are many other kinds of bananas - less familiar, but also different genetically. Bananas won't disappear - only one type will.
How would you know if it is actually true then and not just an urban legend? Marketing stunts don't make sense if no one knows about them.
I totally forgot to mention the testing in my rant...
The USNWR rankings are especially insidious because they're also not objective.

I wish I could find the citation for this, but I recall reading about how when it first started the person who created the ranking formula showed USNWR the list of top 10 schools and the Ivy League schools didn't do as well as expected. If HYP weren't at the top there was a flaw with the methodology, so they had to go back and get a new methodology that would conform with conventional wisdom.

Also back in '99 Caltech took the top spot. Again this was viewed with some disdain from the East Coast elite. They changed their methodology and added/emphasized a metric they call "value add", which is the difference between actual and expected graduation rates. Because CalTech is difficult to graduate from, they were seriously penalized.

IOW, rankings are often simply a way to perpetuate the status quo, but make it look objective.
Sibelius (music scoring software) is in crisis
Try Arduino. It's ridiculously easy to get a project going.
"The world's leading music scoring software, Sibelius®, winner of the Queen's Innovation Award and OBE's for its creators the Finn brothers, is in crisis: this will be of real concern to all Sibelius users. This site aims to do something about it."
Yes. I can't imagine any argument that would make sense saying that Bill Gates made the wrong moves in the 1990s.
When this game was founded, about 7 years ago, Quake 3 was at a pretty big peak. The original goal was to make the next big competitive FPS. Though that didn't last too long, even though the scene is still largely very competitive players, there's no big tournaments for the game. Another thing to note, is that Warsow's engine is actually based on idtech 2.
I read the two sample emails, and the first seems honest, if a bit short on details. The second seems to be BS trying to put a positive face on "we're limiting work-at-home privileges because too many people are using it as an excuse to goof off." I'd be far more skeptical about the second email than the first.
I've said this a few times here, and I'll say it again - I was able to start two businesses in Massachusetts precisely because of the MA health reform, i.e. "RomneyCare" (which, for the underattentive, has roughly the same model as the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. "ObamaCare").
Ten Oculus Rift games we'd like to see
Pretty fun idea, does anyone know of a good way to make this work on osx?
Without legislation we'd all be on 16-hour days. Like it or not, employment is not an equal partnership between free agents.
Is there an example of posgtres nosql doing like 700K requests/sec?
So SpaceX is now officially a government contractor. This may be the beginning of the end for them. Can we name any govt contractor with a $400MM contract that has stayed true to its entrepreneurial principles and not fallen into the rent-seeking abyss?
the problem is that you can't have our current levels of unemployment without a welfare state or serious social unrest (and usually both.)

We need the jobs. Now, my understanding is that in terms of dollars, our manufacturing sector is growing, not quickly, but it is growing; but in terms of jobs, it's shrinking. Technology marches on. Chinese labor doesn't usually compete with American labor. Chinese labor competes with American machines.

China isn't the problem; the fact that we've automated away manufacturing the way we've automated away agriculture is. 200 years ago, nearly everyone was involved in some sort of agriculture or agriculture-support position. Now? that's less than 2% of the economy. We found things for people to do when we automated away nearly all the agriculture work. We need to do the same thing now that we've automated away nearly all the manufacturing work.

It's not the tax rate that stops people from hiring. You could argue that it's the tax complexity; I mean, the complexity does cause problems and increase risk. but I don't think that's the real problem. I think the real problem is that nobody has come up with a new business model to employ the masses and turn a good profit while paying a reasonable wage.

China is doing it by having humans do work that Machines could do better. Essentially turning back the clock on automation of manufacturing. Personally, I think that's a bad idea. For the things that Machines can do, they are usually way better than humans. And I don't think it would work for us, either, because the humans involved create less value, and thus can't be paid what we'd consider a reasonable wage. It works for China because they have so many people that are so poor that what we'd call an unreasonably small wage is a step up. That's not where we should go with this. We should come up with a new class of jobs; start new businesses that do new things that turn the labor of the masses into more value than having them poorly mimic the work of machines.

so yeah. what I'm saying is that living in a state with no debt but where only one person out of five can get a job? that's worse than living in a state with near full employment and a bunch of debt. Even if you don't care about human suffering, think of the crime rate and how much effort you'd need to put into keeping your stuff safe.

The jobs problem needs to be solved first. I mean, I'm not saying that the government is the solution to the jobs problem (maybe they have a part to play and maybe they don't) - just that the jobs problem is a much bigger deal than the debt problem. And as the previous poster pointed out, it's easier to solve the debt problem once we have more people working and paying taxes.
Marc Andreessen Leaves Board of App.net
I'll vouch for the issue with a new MBA. I have two magsafe 2 adapters and they both exhibit this issue.
From TFA: "This is a decisive milestone in human spaceflight and sets an exciting course for the next phase of American space exploration," said SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk. "SpaceX, along with our partners at NASA, will continue to push the boundaries of space technology to develop the safest, most advanced crew vehicle ever flown."

So yes, he is claiming it is the safest, and I think he has good reason to, as your sibling comments explain.
The end result of that mistake (combined with all the other mistakes and good decisions made in that era) was having a near-monopoly on the Web browser market.
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Zynga got its start by blatantly copying another company's game and they haven't stopped since. If there is any justice in this world they will eventually fail horribly and go bankrupt but I am not holding my breath.

Up to now they have chosen minnows who couldn't fight back but EA is a whole new ballgame.
I love how everyone responsible for ranking colleges lives along the North-Eastern seaboard. That area is such a bubble of regional self-importance.
I think "Samurai" and "Pirate" had their day as well. I think I'm going to start advertising for Ronin Developers.

No, better yet, "Herbert West" Developers, or "Great Old One" developers (although that might just attract COBOL developers), or C'thulu Developers.
What rim just released an os update few months ago and are shipping wireless versions in canada.
Amazon Kindle Fire 2: Lead, Follow or Wander
It also revolves around the fact that it's a comparison to other rockets, not any mode of transport imaginable.
Stealing from dag11's comment below.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/101954002/EA-v-Zynga-Complaint-Fin...

I'd say that's pretty blatant copying there.
Also there are a million joke sites out there you would have to either pick a very specific niche that isn't already packed full or you would have to have something that differentiates you from the other million. If you could get a somewhat famous comedian to write some jokes for you and get them to plug it in their shows and/or via their social media then you might get traffic. Would probably cost you more than the traffic is worth though.
>Society doesn't refuse anything. If a male CEO wants to work less, he can do so. If another male potential CEO can perform better by working more, he will probably replace him.

If another male potential CEO can perform worse by working more, he will probably replace him. And that's a societal/cultural problem; we need to get over the idea that someone who puts in longer hours must be contributing more.
Isn't this exactly the same as the Apple vs. Samsung wars? Although those involve patents and this involves copyright, it comes down to the same moral issue. Company #1 starts selling black glass slabs and company #2 clones themm in almost every respect.

At some fundamental level you either think that competition "should" involve innovation and/or original design in order to incentivise peopel to create original products, or you think that cloning look and feel is part of the market operating efficiently without artifical barriers.
Thanks for not calling my comment "crap".

"Valve's statements about Windows 8 usability were mirrored by Blizzard."

Might Blizzard not feel similarly threatened by Windows 8?

"So It's an OpenGL vs Direct3D debate"

I slightly misspoke, but the example still holds: an attack on Direct3D is an attack on Microsoft. (Do I need to back that up? Could anyone conceivably disagree?)

"All this noise is branding/promotion of the Valve brand, and would likely be going on even without Windows 8."

Good point, and I agree. But what would it be like if Windows wasn't pushing an app store? Would they still be calling their main platform a "catastrophe"? (Maybe, maybe not.)

So I guess I should have asked, "How much does Valve fear a Windows app store?" And also, "Doesn't it kinda seem like Valve is attacking Microsoft?"

Sometimes it seems like "Hooray for Valve/Steam/Gabe" are three of the internet's favorite topics. I get the impression that the Venn diagram of people who love memes and people who love Valve probably looks like a circle.

How does Valve manage to get so much love from the internet? Sometimes I think they must have a small team dedicated to feeding social news sites. For example, "Hey look guys, a new Team Fortress comic!" Or, "Here's some fancy talk about how enlightened we are! P.S.: Give us your money."

Aren't there better-loved companies that receive much less internet-love?

According to the internet, Valve is not just a company, it's a hero. And Valve clearly feeds this idea. For example, this very article. Valve doesn't just want your money, it wants your love.

Is this dangerous? Is this effective? How much does internet-love translate to real dollars?
The problems in this space are based on attention ( time on site/ interactions), interest (consumer segmentation/focus), and intent (willingness to make a purchase).

The problem of most ad based apps is that they trade attention for interest and purchase intent. The problem with facebook is that it's so good at getting your attention that you rarely visit facebook with the interest or intent of buying something.

The core difference of google and facebook is that when you go to facebook, you are engaged with your friends and are in a lean back mindset, while with google you are actively pursuing interest in something.

I think VCs should actually come up with standard KPIs around interest and intent than saying lame things like X number of users is worth $y amount. It would be much smarter to say things like, a user with a KPI of K is worth $Z this year, and $Q over a lifetime.

A Dropbox, and Apple user looks much different than a Facebook user.
They are quite organized, it's pretty hard to be disorganized, when you only have 2 main developers, and 2-3 occasional helpers.

I think the biggest hurdle in developing this version was actually the choice of using libRocket to script the UI with. Turns out the lib is very slow, and it needed lots of work to get working properly.
Yeah, but, "identical behavior" and "strikingly similar" are not Copyright violations.
Why Apple TV Just Became Apple's Most Important Product
Sorry, you misunderstood. My bad writing.

I am not writing the jokes. I am asking people to spend $1 to share their joke with 1,000 people and then tell these readers about their product/service.

Does that make better sense?
> Obviously, the time and labour of Valve's employees is worth more than what Valve is paying them, otherwise Valve would not be turning a profit. I'm assuming that employees really have 100% work time for their projects as you claim. Then in essence Valve is providing facilities and connections (to other smart employees) in return for the lion's share of the labour profit.

I think you're underestimating the value of those facilities and connections. That is the overhead.

Also, the time and labor is valued higher because they're employed together; that same time and labor would not be as valued outside the company.
They already have a contract with NASA to deliver supplies to the ISS, and the first mission was a success. I'm not worried.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-05-25/us/us_spacex_1_spacex-dra...
They have been down this path before: http://blog.games.com/2011/02/23/mafia-wars-zynga-digital-ch...
It does work on OSX, you just need to install elinks (brew install elinks ?)
It looks like elinks is available in Homebrew[1], so the only added step is
brew install elinks

[1]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
> No thanks. Feminism, like religion, should be kept to one's self. Stop trying to proselytize.

The whole point of feminism is to effect some changes in society. How do you propose to do that without, you know, talking about it?

Incidentally, I feel the same way about religions. I'm fine with being proselytized at, because I'm okay with people trying to persuade me of their opinions on any subject -- I don't consider religion special here. (And really, I'm not sure what to think about people who believe that their religion is the one true path to salvation, and don't try to convince others to join. It seems kind of... selfish, I guess? I don't believe any of that stuff, so I guess I should be happy about the peace and quiet, but it still irks me slightly.)
I think parsers are a decent way to introduce monads, and I really like the way Graham Hutton's Programming Haskell does it, by demonstrating parsing without even using the word monad, and then in a later chapter on IO, saying "oh hey and this thing is called a monad and we used it once before!"

And I disagree a bit about RWH... I'm in the middle of it now I think it's great, filled with meaty examples that aren't too complicated at all and are generally pretty concrete. Maybe I'm just not far enough in yet? There are bits where it goes off into the weeds (the chapter on JSON goes so far as to fiddle about with character encoding IIRC) but I just can't imagine a PragProg book could do much better, without sacrificing depth.
It does seem like there is a variance on the sizes for the male/female parts which can cause connection issues.

I've had to swap the power cords before on new Macbooks as the cords that came with it wouldn't fit well. If you bring it in they will replace it within a year at no cost.
Top: A Free OSX App to Emulate iOS's Scroll-to-Top Functionality
we're just getting started.
Google Acquires Wildfire Interactive and Zuckerberg's Sister
James Gosling: Robots, and Water, and Whales, Oh My - Marakana
I didn't watch the keynote so I don't know exactly what was said but, Carmack is in the business of trying to make AAA titles.

I wonder in what context Carmack's comments are in.
In fairness, OP makes precisely this point:

For consumer startups with non-transactional models (ad-based or unknown business models), you need something closer to 10 million users versus 1 million users to get Series A funded. For consumer startups with transactional models, e.g. e-commerce, the number of users required is often far lower because revenue is the more important metric.
And in countries where services are taxed, the tax is generally rebated for intermediate goods.
You need elinks, that's all. So: brew install elinks
I don't know if balloons are practical, but that's the general idea of the Pegasus rocket, although it never achieved the cost savings they were hoping for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28rocket%29
His second e-mail is unclear and big, it is wasting the time of his employees. By using a text structure you can be more clear. Here is a structure you can use for policy changes.

1. What is the measure?
2. What is the goal of the measure?
3. Why is the measure needed?
4. How should the measure be implemented?
5. What are the effects of the measure?
Actually I just realized they can claim prior art. Zynga have been ripping off other games for so long without consequences that they can now claim this process is prior art...
I would hate to see SpaceX become an acquisition of NASA, or a nationalised company of the US Federal Government. Stranger things have happened, of course, but if Musk wants to retire to Mars, he had best be concerned with this.
It's similar, but has one fundamental difference.

The Apple vs. Android holy war spans many different devices, user interfaces, brands, packaging methods, and advertisements. Some Android phones copy the iPhone/iOS more than others. For example, I feel that the Galaxy S1 absolutely tries to copy many key aspects of iPhone and iOS, down to the device appearance, UI appearance, packaging, and marketing (in terms of visuals). However, I don't feel that many other phones (such as the Galaxy Nexus) resemble the iPhone to the amount that Apple wishes it did.

In contrast to that situation, this EA vs. Zynga battle is over one specific product, with defined features and aesthetics.
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I dare you to name a team that built an iPhone app with 1 million DAUs that couldn't successfully find an investor if they wanted one.
> Tablets are still a relative niche market

2 years after the iPad was introduced and with 84 million sold, this is arguable.

> iPads absolutely own the tablet market

Android owns the tablet market. Apple owns the iPad market, which happens to be much larger. If Microsoft wants to compete in the tablet market with the RT, they'd better have something for under US$250, which would be a credible point in the non-iPad tablet market, assuming they can bring substantially better functionality to the table. If they want to compete in the iPad market, they'd better make an iPad better than Apple's. The same reasoning about substantially better functionality remains.

> And most importantly, there is software that is entirely exclusive to Windows systems

Which is software that has no compelling use case for the tablet format. Do you feel sudden urges to use spreadsheets on tablets? Are you frustrated not to be able to compile that Visual Studio project on your tablet?

Most important than that, the vast majority of Windows-only software will only run on the high-end x86 surface (and only on W7-like mode). Even assuming Microsoft is eager to destroy their relationship with their OEMs in the ARM tablet space, I can only imagine the damage directly competing with their x86 PC partners would do to their relationships and what would happen if those partners started pushing non-Windows PCs to their users (who really couldn't care less what the machine is running and will be very happy with whatever the manufacturer installs as long as it works).

Putting the Microsoft brand on a device doesn't make it automatically desirable. I think this is the lesson Microsoft has to learn before they succeed.

edit: downvote for disagreement... How mature.
As a self-employed Bay Stater, I am in complete agreement. I have a self-employed buddy in Hartford, he applied for health insurance with a CT agent. The questionaire he had to fill out for the application asked if he had ever felt depressed - not diagnosed as clinically depressed, just if he had ever been depressed. Well, as anyone who has ever worked for themselves can understand, it's hard to not ever experience a moment or two of depression. He answered honestly 'yes'; the agent told him that counted as a pre-existing condition and he was denied coverage.

I am so grateful that is something I didn't have to deal with on MA.
That's interesting, and sort of disturbing.

My box is not a desktop, so that's probably the difference. I still find that scheme an atrocity.

When going to that length they could at least have settled for one directory (~/.appdata or whatever). Half-baked is the most polite description I can come up with.