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I take it you've never used XCode or Eclipse. If you did you would know that they are world's apart as far as IDEs are concerned.
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I don't want to be pedantic, but 25% fewer conversions is not "almost the same", it's quite the loss. You need to increase your funnel 33% somewhere down the line to make up for it (which I'm sure they did - I'm just making the point that X% -> X-d% is significant if X and d are small).
Sorry to say it sounds like it's basically over. You can't fix things if you are cofounders that don't communicate or respect each other. Get out as quickly and painlessly as you can.

What does he need a lawyer for? You have no agreements, no money, no incorporation.
You're flat-out wrong. The word "necessary" has so many connotations that you can't control it.

Necessary means that it happens whether or not you want it to.

Necessary hurts.
Focusing on algebra, calculus, and so forth would produce more engineers/scientists/mathematicians etc . These are things rote teaching the times table can not do. His not saying let computers do all maths, just the repetitive bits.

Symbolic Manipulation is still necessary.

I learned vectors(Mostly for games), eigenvectors far more intuitively by programming them on computer as a kid, then calculating them by hand.

I knew what adding two vectors actually represented, or what the crossproducts was, rather than just calculating it(Which the computer always did).

I get top marks in calculus, linear mathematics and most college level maths classes, but my little secret is that i'm not actually very good knowing my times tables by 'art. If someone asked me to calculate a basic times table question, it would take a few seconds to work it out manually. Yet the general public thinks that's weird, but I actually found it's quite common at this level.
Their macbook keyboards, while similar, have totally different feel. I don't know why, I wish desktop keyboards would be as awesome as laptop ones
Yes. That's what I am afraid of. Thanks for commenting
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This is Samsung's raison d'être.

They've been doing this with the Japanese companies (Sony, Panasonic, Sharp) for years now and have now set their sights on Apple.

It's a bad reflection on South Korea itself as between Samsung, Hyundai and the cultural copying they have the reputation as wannabe Japanese. Which is a real shame as it is a wonderful country with plenty of home grown talent.
Droplet in itself isn't a horrible name... but for your product it is. One of these days I'd love to see somebody stand up to a baseless claim like this, despite the costs that might be involved.
Hell, fancy doing some marketing for me then?
Several of the solutions use a library function to do the main parsing. It makes sense if one is available. And it may be more robust if the library code is well written.

I'm a Perl fan. I love Perl 6. Imo, if you partition the Perl 6 solution into (what will clearly become) library functions (the grammar bit) and actual code (the "for @cases" bit), it's shorter and more readable than most of the other solutions.
More distro is fine, sure... but the OP's comment seems to be taking credit for this entirely. Is that still better? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377752
In an effort not to totally derail the conversation I guess I'll mention that nearly every browser is going to have some shortcut keys that would map to common emacs functions that will get swallowed by the browser.

But what I'm really wondering: what makes you say C-k (kill-line) is the most useful command ever? This is slightly inconvenient with basic Windows shortcuts (shift+end ctrl+x, approximately). I tend to think one of the functions which isn't trivially replicated in other environments is more useful. Just curious...
Thanks for the explanation! I would suggest telling users this during signup (right before they auth).

Word of warning to everyone: when you request an invite, there's a pre-checked checkbox labeled "Follow @branch to find out about the best new branches." I like that it's easy to see, but I don't like that it's opt-out.
I think this might be because of the product. Most people probably don't want free server monitoring, as the perceived reliability and performance would be worse.
As a guy who spends a lot of time writing JS, what are the good parts of JS that CS optimizes for, and what are the parts it ignores that you do not want to use?
> What does he need a lawyer for? You have no agreements, no money, no incorporation.

Maybe it was just his rushed reaction. He probably thinks I owe him continuing cooperation after we've been this long in it together. Maybe he would attack if I took my code and used it. Who knows.
Obvious advises the company, but AFAICT, Branch is a startup with young founders that don't really have any history with Twitter or Obvious.
Wow. This was always called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia.

I guess my country is just plain racist.
Really nice and simple product. I'm going to give it a try for more personal reasons as Skype has become the bane of my existence.

I've had a similar idea to your automatic status updates: Some sort of contact/buddy list for your smartphone that tells you the best way to reach a particular person at that time. So if a friend is at work/class/gym, the app knows that and sets their status accordingly, displaying that the best and most immediate way to reach them would be text/work phone/gChat/etc.
The point is that that worry was never satisfactorily substantiated, so we have to look for other reasons why they wanted us to pull the post.
But when Windows 8 comes out, Chrome Frame will stop being a valid solution, at least for IE's "[Metro|Windows 8|Modern]-style UI" version.
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Well, while you mention forward compatibility, there is also backwards compatibility. I am really a person that loves to move towards 3.x, but having a ton of users (some not technical enough to compile Python) with old Python installations (2.5.x or older) as default on their machines (CentOS for example is always an issue...) it is a double-edged sword since 2.6.0a2 is required to use Unicode literals and the print function [1]. I remember reading a long time ago that the fact that Python comes as default for many distributions may very well become a curse, I fear, that this may very well be true.

[1]: http://docs.python.org/library/__future__.html
I got my first job by e-mailing 5 local development companies with a straight to the point, no nonsense e-mail. I said I've been doing it as a hobby, I'd like to get a job in the industry, could I be of any use to you. Straight away I got 3 replies.
Now I'm doing freelance work from home, earning more per hour than I ever have.
I've spent a few days 60-70 hours in app.net, got questions?
Im not paid in any way or connected in any way except through my membership. Ask away. I think there are many misconceptions about it but I want to know what you want to know.
Another problem is that we have no portfolio yet because we're starting.

We could solve that participating on some logo contest on 99designs
I didn't really see much specific stuff here, to be honest. There was some program that you could use sliders to figure the best life insurance policy ... I mean, ok ... that's great ... What's the big deal again?

What are some specific examples. There's all this "wah schools only teach calculation." Well, what specifically are they teaching that is bad and what specifically should they teach that is better?

So, are we saying, no reason for a student to know how to take a derivative, they should know how to turn the knobs on some program to figure out the best fuel efficiency of some device in some really neat simulator?

The example about limits ... ok yeah that's cool but if you aren't actually teach them how to "calculate" (is the word "calculate" used as a boogey man?), how is that you are not doing anything other than teaching "math appreciation?"
I suppose it could have been developed on a Mac, where a bunch of emacs keybindings are integrated into the OS itself.

I had no problem deleting and re-inserting that above sentence with C-k and C-y, in the textfield, for example. Hell, even C-t works.
In my opinion, the "next big thing" in home energy usage is device-level monitoring. The ability to look at your realtime -energy-usage, and say, "Oh, it looks like my fridge is using this much energy, and my A/C is using that much..."

There are a couple companies that are starting to offer this. Bidgely - http://bidgely.com/ - (which is compatible with Wattvision's hardware) on the residential side of things, and Verdigris - http://www.verdigristech.com/ - on the commercial side.
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you're the only one in this thread that knows chaos. So fuck you. :D

edit: ok well, to the point of expressing it. orthodoxy. he's the only one that was willing to fight orthodoxy.

because my thread had its bearings in the absurd and often wrong orthodoxy of reddit.
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Maybe you could print out a color calibration strip with known values, and then use that as a benchmark so you could reverse fading via software? Kind of like what NASA/JPL does so they can color-correct photos taken by planetary landers.

(I know that this isn't what the OP meant, but it's interesting to try and mitigate the limitations of the more common backup solution -- i.e., just printing the photos themselves).
The one thing that sucks about projects with one-char names is finding them weeks after you first discover them, when you really want to experiment with using them in a real project.
You lose something when you cross that wall.
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http://pastebin.com/txM6NZBS here, to copy and paste
Tell me why this isn't a clone of Twitter where I pay to talk to almost exclusively under 30yo guys.
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As others have said, you should put your email in your profile. I have something you might be interested in, but I have no way of contacting you.
10.9 bits, 1 in 1900 some odd.

Running Firefox with no-script/ad-block/request policy + UA string set to IE 8. Sites I enable scripting on will surely get more info.
I agree with what you are saying. I've been contemplating the reasons why I don't understand math the way I understand programming for some time, and opened up my old Calculus book a few days ago and started rereading it from the beginning. I intend to work through the entire book over the next couple of months. I believe because of the way math is taught, I never developed a truly intuitive understanding of what was going on after algebra. When I taught myself how to program, I learned then immediately applied what I was learning, and continued applying it continuously in all the software I wrote after. Algebra and arithmetic are pretty analogous in that regard.

For me, it is necessary to develop an intuitive understanding of something before I can really appreciate it, and more importantly, manipulate and apply it to arbitrary situations. The way math is taught, intuition is never really delivered. In programming, it's possible to look at an algorithm and have trouble understanding what it does. However, I have never implemented and debugged an algorithm or data structure and not developed a thorough understanding of it in the process. In Calculus, the rules were given, but there was never any effort spent to foster an understanding of why they are the way they are, or the bigger picture. To me, this would be like learning merge sort by running through the steps, but never actually implementing the algorithm as a whole to truly understand what is going on. In going back through it, I intend to relearn it the way I learned programming, so I can truly apply and reason around such a powerful tool.
If any Wattvision customers are here, or if the team is looking at this, I'm curious...what kinds of changes in behavior have you noticed?

I ask because my electrical consumption is relatively constant. I come home, turn on the TV, make dinner, surf the internet, pass out. I've noticed that its tough to influence my bill in any direction, except from when the weather changes from hot to cold and vice versa. But those are changes I'm conscious of and fully expect to be paying more during the extremes.
Meta filter has been around for years. Usually troll free, decent answers.
With the new pricing though you are no longer a targeted customer.
Not sure I fully understand his wife's comment about him not wanting to live in Silicon Valley because he was a family man(I don't live there, is it not family friendly?), but this is still very sad news, 51 is very young. Condolences to his family.
Like http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Minnesota/A...

Lots of chuckles there. But you don't have to buy them, they are free.
HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. StackOvereflow is focussed on narrow topics (and moderated by Nazis). That leaves plenty of room for a site like Quora which is oriented around finding answers to questions you have on any serious topic. Other sites might have better matereial when you do a direct comparison, but that's like saying a book of essays by Richard Feynman is always more interesting than looking the same topic up in Encyclopedia Britannica.
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It sounds like you might be asking about what's often called "rapid prototyping". That doesn't cover every possible case (e.g. adding a new feature to a large existing system is not usually covered by "rapid prototyping"), but I think it points to the languages that tend to emphasize ease-of-getting-something-out. Python and Ruby are often promoted in that category. Delphi used to be big, but is waning.
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After spending a considerable amount of time using the service are you excited to continue using it? Do you see exciting growth potential?
It looks interesting, but does the added complexity have any tangible benefits over a benchmark app using a url-frequency table (a 0th-order markov chain)?
This interview really helped me feel the excitement Katy has for Hacker Dojo and all the awesome stuff they do, as a result I backed the Kickstarter even though I don't live in the area. It would be a shame for a great place like this to be shut down due to bureaucratic nonsense.
HTML, CSS and a little bit of Javascript/jQuery... I'm self taught, just finished an internship in front end dev at livinsocial, but want to get down to the real stuff, you know. But I'll take your advice I think and learn a little more about Ruby before continuing with all these Rails tutorials and what not.
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As with any archival storage system, the CAP theorem applies. Clay, Acid-free, Papyrus: pick two.
Thanks for your thoughts, but the third wheel theory isn't actually true. We investigated this, of course, and a third wheel without balancing provides a pretty crummy and bumpy user experience. The key is reaching the magic human height while keeping the base no larger than a human's foot prints. Look at the VGo, they opted to limit their height to about 3' and add a third wheel, but the driver is always looking up at people's stomachs and up people's noses. It's awkward in a standing conversation and, even at that height, it's a bit shaky riding around - not to mention the extra counterweight they need to put in the base to weigh it down. Two wheeled, self balancing is simply a more elegant solution all around.

Also the extra cost of the accelerometer and gyro is almost negligible these days, thanks to smartphones requiring them to be made in such high volume. For both together, it's maybe $20 or less in volume.
I'm not a fan of Skype, hence more options are welcome.

Someone could explain me whY he was so heavily downvoted?
We definitely could have been more efficient, we had a lot to learn. But the biggest problem I see is that we were still quite efficient producing features but not so much validating assumptions and developing customers/users (my stance: "let's go test it now and perhaps make some mistakes publicly but get feedback early", his stance: "it won't work unless we finish feature X, we have to change our business model and implement feature Y to target customers more likely to pay because this awesome guy from this large company I just met says they would pay", my reaction: "ok, sounds reasonable, let's try it." and it of course lead nowhere :) the awesome new guy probably changed his opinion, etc.).

And yeah, I have difficulties with trust maybe in general but I believe I've done my part well enough in this case.
Thanks, I asked them to fix the typo in the article.
I think it's an amazing piece of work (seen the video? whoa). As a former science teacher and longtime coder and netizen I'm guessing it'll become a web-standard and a legend quickly.
looks like something broke in copying and pasting. try:
http://pastebin.com/txM6NZBS
I wonder if it would be possible to fit an entire webserver and web framework runtime into L2 cache? (I'm thinking Lua VM or something like that.)

EDIT Xeon 3050 has 2MB of L2 cache, so the answer is probably yes!
Greg was a friend of mine since early childhood. He founded Zip2 with the Musks and as I understand it he served in an informal capacity advising Musk when paypal was founded. Greg was a humble person, despite his tremendous financial success. He had a great sense of humor and keen business savvy. He did his undergrad at Western in London, Ontario. He will be missed by those who knew him.
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Agreed and noted. "We have nothing to announce at this time" is our standard response in a situation like this.
The desire to enforce unique password across sites is understood. You might as well advocate all browsers to implement a builtin password manager a la LastPass and a protocol to auto-gen a password (by the site to enforce cross-site uniqueness) to be managed by the password manager. Imagine zero password fiddling signups!

Force a per site password policy on end users other than length is super annoying. The worst kind are those who restrict you to use only alpha-numeric passwords.

Down with manual password policies!
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Why is this better than Django or Flask, web2Py or CherryPy ect.
I didn't downvote you. And I agree they aren't interested in my conversations with my mother. However I think they are very much interested in listening in to conversations involving foreign relatives, military relatives, rich relatives, criminal relatives, etc.

But none of that is my motivation. My motivation is purely technological. I want secure services as a matter of principle. Since I have yet to find such a thing, I use whatever is easiest, just like everyone else.
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looking at the replace chains on s(val) reminded me of something a while back, is there a faster/better way to do this king of stuff? something like:

return s(val).replace(re, function(t){

if( t == '>' ) return '&gt';
if( t == '<' ) return '&lt;';
if( t == '&' ) return '&amp;';
if( t == '"' ) return '&quot;';
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});
pinboard or equivalent.
Actually there isn't a UI really to App.net per se, its an infrastructure play, more twilio than twitter. They built a UI for demo purposes to let people know that it wasn't vapor. They don't even refer to the UI as app.net, its called Alpha to differentiate it. App.net is the apis on git hub, some of which are baked, enough to build Alpha. If you get a dev subscription you get api keys. Ive seen some pretty cool stuff already. The idea is that you build whatever social experience you want for your product. here is a for instance. Suppose you are the new york times, you could build social into your website and apps. subscribers could then see their social interactions and data in context rather than crammed between a cat photo and a belly fat ad on or underneath an unrelated tweet. Sane people could go have a convo and exclude trolls by forming ad hoc groups etc... tailor to the audience and the site to enhance the experience.

Also, there are/were cool people in Alpha and it wasn't so crowded a few hours ago that you couldn't talk to them. Famous VCs, internet celebs like Gruber and McCracken and Siracusa, regular celebs like Stephen Fry etc... I don't know what the plan is for Alpha but the point is the infrastructure not Dalton making an ad free twitterbook clone. Other people have already made better UIs than Alpha even. Apis pretty easy to use.
We use it pretty heavily for calculating implied vol and for delta calculations.
The fact that OSX native doesn't use C-??? keybindings for non-unixy behavior is one of the greatest advantages IMO. It's even better than Linux in that regard, because CMD-C/V even copies/pastes from OSX clipboard in the terminal.
But what happens with copyright ? In a legal fight surely both parties will have ownership to parts of the code.

Either way get your house in order just in case. Make sure commit logs and history etc is up to date and backed up. Use Github or somewhere similar under YOUR name. Make sure your partner doesn't know the password.
Samsung is clearly addicted to copying Apple. And I say that as someone who doesn't like Apple.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353925
These how-to-apply-math skills are valuable, but they aren't math itself. Math is about building more general abstractions, keeping strict rigor, being careful with axioms, and developing techniques that are really, really broad as a result.

Granted, calculation isn't a very good way to get into this either.
It sounds like it is possible to make longer lasting CDs using a glass master, but it is only practical if I am making lots of copies. So, for purely archival purposes, optical media doesn't really have a process for extending longevity.
We do alot of what-if calculations usign quantlib and excel.

It's great because it allows the traders to use the excel macro language and vba to try out new models.

If something looks promising then we can break out C++ and R to do more indepth analysis.

Heck we have a plugin that allows traders to do straight DMA trading out of excel. You can run an entire hedge fund on excel.
The infamous yellow tracking dots are an obvious example of printer steganopraphy.

http://seeingyellow.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
I like it. Here's a slightly more stable version. But still not crazy about using eval on arbitrary code. O.O

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