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Do you have any examples of Microsoft throwing away their codebase and starting fresh? I believe that is what Apple did with the OS9 to OSX transition. I can't think of too many examples where starting from scratch worked out though.
Oh, not at all — but it does make the potential hubris of a rewrite (slightly) more understandable. When you have no time for a rewrite because competition is fierce, the question never really comes up; it's not necessarily the conscious avoidance of "second system effect" that it might seem.
In the case of (La)TeX I'd actually also be curious if i.e. the rules governing hyphenation/justification makes any difference as well, not just the typeface.
Perl module for such: http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.60/lib/Acme/...
Sorry, your comment made me laugh. Yes, one example does indeed make a case study. It may not be scientific proof of a theory however.
3D-printed miniaturised fluidic devices
For those of you who are too young to have lived through the original dot-com boom, I can't recommend this 1999 article on company naming from Salon highly enough:

http://www.salon.com/1999/11/30/naming/

Read the whole thing, it's hilarious.

As soon as I saw the parade of names in the OP I was reminded of one of the names the naming consultants in the the Salon piece devised -- "Jamcracker":

When Altman and Manning presented the name Jamcracker to a client recently, the reception was not everything they had hoped for. "I put the name up in front of their creative people," Manning says. "There were a couple of women sitting in. One of them got up and said, 'Oh, that's disgusting.' Another said, 'This is really sick.' I said, 'Excuse me, what are you talking about?' They said, 'We can't explain it, but that name is just creeping us out. We don’t know what it is, but could you take it off the wall, please?'" Manning remains mystified by the incident. "There's apparently some strange, uncomfortable meaning attached to it in the minds of some women," he says. "God knows what that could be."
That was great. I'll have to share it with my loved ones.

I like to think of myself as being radically honest, and I generally trend to saying "Yes" to "Does this dress make my butt look fat", and it often goes badly. But I'm a damn long way from Blanton as portrayed in that piece.

Also, I don't drink, partly because I want to remain in control of myself, which relates to honesty. I guess I don't trust people to like me when I'm drunk. Maybe where other people might give up drink (e.g. for Lent), maybe I should try giving up sobriety. Might not be optimal for job performance, though.
I know and it's great, but from Alcor released QS as open source until it was picked up and new proper releases started to emerge, it took 2-3 years? So waiting 6 + 2 years (in the best case) for TM2 is too long even for me. RIP TM2.
Because it's developement were happening at a rapid pace before the releasing of the code?
Parse launches custom built Help & Community
This happened to me. I checked if a domain was available, it was, I went out of the house to tell my friend. We went back to register it and it was gone.

damn!

Now, I just use whois from the terminal.
Viet Cong that implement IUnknown. Crazy.
Also, please do not transfer your past product's mailing list to your new app's mailing list unless it's directly in line with or an add-on to the type of service I originally wanted to know more about.

I recently had this happen and even though I was actually very interested in their new product, I was put off enough that I unsubscribed from both. My email address is not your launchpad unless I'm subbed to your company's newsletter.
I believe the TM developer is still very interested. I believe he thinks this is the best way to get TM moving again.

That's just my opinion. Time (and commits) will tell.
the link: http://www.the-local-kitchen.com
looks awesome, we are working on something in similar lines - tapfame.com, our work starts after you create your portfolio - to get you new freelance gigs.
I understand this sentiment. e e cummings and James Joyce might be interesting counter-examples, but then again they were not tech writers. I suppose that I mean incisive and beautiful prose will keep me coming back and paying attention to what you say (because it is a pleasure to read) rather than being lost in the flotsam and jetsam of articles bobbing to the surface of HN every day.
I don't think outputting the version is overkill at all. It's much easier and simpler to deal with it this way. Probably the nanosecond business is very much overkill, that only matters for a smaller subset of problem domains.
I've paid a designer, and they've vanished. What to do now?
About 9 days ago, I paid a designer to do logo work for my site (picc.it). I hadn't worked with them previously, but was referred to them through a business contact who works with them closely.

We did a paid trial run at first, then after I settled that they were good at their job I produced 100% of the payment for the main project.

Since then they haven't responded to any emails, or otherwise contacted me.

I paid via Paypal so I have 45 days to dispute this. Should I dispute or keep trying to contact them or ask the person who referred me to them to contact them (I'm sure he has better contact info than I do)?

Any advice would be welcome.
Vintage mode is admittedly getting more complete every day, but as a regular Vim user the absences that exist are often a jolting distraction — attempting to use some command that doesn't exist jerks you out of your flow and it feels so inefficient to then have to remember the Sublime way of doing things.

I find it more annoying than the lack of, say, Cmd + T in MacVim, so I've found myself spending more and more time using that — even after a concerted effort to use SublimeText for a while.
I happily use a Microsoft bluetooth mouse with my Xubuntu-based laptop, as I can't seem to stand using a touchpad of any kind. Previous Microsoft-branded hardware that I've used (keyboards) have been quite nice, as well.
Though I don't think it's common for editors, especially Mac editors?
I'll agree with everyone on the design - it's beautiful, and I really love the mascot. I just wanted to add that the video really helped clear things up for me on how it integrates with other services.

It might just be me, but I didn't immediately grasp from the content on the landing page that I should be using other services like craigslist, et al. to share it. Even without sound, the video cleared that confusion up very quickly.
But Apple didn't really "start fresh" internally with OSX, they acquired NeXT which was already a pretty robust product when they made that decision. The abandoned the OS9 codebase, but they didn't really start over from a blank slate.
Maybe... IANAEE but chip design and materials is probably still important for all that. It's not necessarily a regular chip wrapped in heat/radiation/whatever shielding. I'm trying to google around a bit for more info but have to get back to work eventually...
> This is disgusting, but everything is fair in love, war and business :(

Um, no. That's not true. Sending armed men into your competitor's retail store to trash the place and scare off customers is not "fair". This is also why, among other reasons, it's illegal.
I'm not the one who conflated "putting Israel there was a mistake" with "Israel should be pushed into the sea".
It's hard for me to put anything past Godaddy.

I was taken aback when a domain I owned expired and Godaddy "held it for me" to the tune of $80. I just waited a few months and re-registered after they dropped it.
Sure. You know that, I know that, and the manufacture of the product knows that. But "powertower" has alleged above that it does reduce sweating "as a secondary effect". By various vague and unlikely mechanisms.
I don't think too many of the authors actually held the position you describe. You describe a situation where authors understood LendInk and didn't like the way it changed lending, but if you read the complaints from authors that accused LendInk of piracy, it's pretty clear the authors didn't understand what LendInk was doing and just reacted from a position of ignorance rather than informing themselves.
Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade
Still don't know why Facebook doesn't sell collated physical photo albums. I would without a doubt order ones for my wedding, multiple of our kids birth and birthdays (for grandparents as presents), along with other special events like graduations. You and your friends already upload the best pictures from these events to Facebook, just give me a way to select 20-30 and place them in a template to be printed and mailed.
Which still killed the Netscape brand and the sluggishness of that rewrite contributed to IE becoming dominant.
NYPD unveils system that uses data from cameras, license plate readers
Windows NT? The Windows 95-98-Me series' kernel was thrown in the bin, replaced by the NT kernel when they released Windows XP.
you're right. i've already given up hard alcohol. maybe beer's next. red wine probably never
Woah. How did this drop from #2? There are articles above this on HN that have less points and were submitted at an earlier time...
My issue with host and version at the beginning of the log is that they'll roll away when your logs rotate. If you've got a service that's rarely taken down, anything written to the front of the logs is likely long gone by the time you have a problem. That said, there may be a better way to handle these two. I certainly don't like repeating information if it's not necessary.
On the other hand, I am very happy to have given him my money and supported the development of (what I think is) a fantastic editor.

Even though he said he would make TM2 a free upgrade, my plan was always to buy another copy to show my support.
While it sucks that any legitimate site had to go through this, I'm it was LendInk and not Lendle.me that got the brunt of this. I have a bunch of lend credits on the latter, but have never used the former.
The viruses (this and skywiper) appear to be both targeting the middle east... Maybe they're all just chumps and easy targets out there, but it also makes sense that they have the same people behind them.
What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Advanced Persistent Phish?

Trying to remember the last time I didn't read about some ultra-dooper-al-quaeda-cyber-virus. Seems any kid with a C compiler these days pumping out cutpasted code qualifies as a complex threat.

Coming up: 50 page white paper on the seemingly "innocuous" font (translation: obviously some previously unknown 0day secret intelligence 007 cyber warhead) and its implications for national security funding.
> Most people need a formal education.

Education is valuable for many reasons, but need is a pretty strong word. Larry Page and Sergey Brin probably wouldn't have become who they are without their education, but they are rare exceptions on the other end of the spectrum.

Does the average person destined to work at an average job at an average company for average pay really need one?
Q: Best estimate or statistic on the number of users for each editor/IDEs? 
I'm looking for a reference like ones which exist for indicating programming language "popularity." Of course they're all biased, etc., but was curious for one or several ballpark estimates.
How do you explain users mentioning the who is data linking back to GoDaddy?

I'm trying to believe this is just rotten luck, but every single account of this happening seems to link back to GoDaddy.
Oooh, this reminds me of something similar I made when I was 14 or 15. I made a program to do just this, but only with bitmaps. No Twitter Bootstrap or filepicker.io, though ;)

Web interface: http://minipenguin.com/bta/

Standalone source code: http://minipenguin.com/bta/bta.c
When I was 7 or 8, my Dad had a fancy new digital safe -- must have been one of the first -- type in your PIN on the keypad, and open it up.

Took me 15 minutes to try the number on the Social Security card in the desk beside the safe! Presto!
I'm sorry, I've really tried and even said this out loud a couple times, but I don't get the pun. Explain?
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Where?

On http://macromates.com/ I just see a download to a 30 day trial version of TextMate 1.5.11.

After googling, I found http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/ which is from 2011 and provides a TextMate 2.0 alpha (r8930) download which also requires a licence key.
i think not misguided.

they pay very large bills to make their platform work and people who use the API to make alternative clients are benefiting from this without paying.

No wonder Twitter is cutting them off.

Overall it is a dangerous choice to build a system based on a free API.
> In a sense, textmate changed the nature of what an editor was about. I think extensions are a large part of an editor's value now.

You've never used Emacs, have you?
Did you look into using Zombie instead of PhantomJS? It advertises itself as a tool for headless full stack testing utility but I have come to rely on it for integrating headless browsing in node.js apps.
I don't know about you, but TM has long been the sharpest knife in my tool drawer for a long time. To me it's worth multiples of its $50 price tag.
Except that TM2 is vastly superior in almost every way to the original, it might be 'too late' but it is a great editor.

Perhaps TM2 was possible as a series of small changes, maybe it wasn't. But I think we should be grateful for the time spent on TM2, and that it is now open source so we can learn from it, and maybe even make it even better.
Hmmm...

I have no proof for what I'm about to say but here it is anyway.

The only information that bidders will practically care about is the current top bid. So the information that you are charging people for is the same thing that most auctions already display (that is, the current top bid). As the seller, I want people to see this top bid because it will raise my revenue. Charging people to see the top bid will result in less people seeing the top bid and lower revenue overall. It makes money for the site but less money for the seller. Then I might want to go to another site and make more money for my item.

You might want to look into using a 2nd price auction (like eBay) does. There's a nice book called Auction Theory by Vijay Krishna that might be of interest to you guys.
When I used GoDaddy they automatically park your domain until you configure the nameservers like you said. This is the most likely explanation of his/her account.
I may well have used this if you had launched a month ago. At this time I have my own system stitched together with the integrated mulit-OAuth-provider API from OneAll.com. I'll give you the same advice I'd give them: since you're pitching to busy, new, or possibly-competent-but-slow developers, I would encourage you to take the next step and see what else you can get done for me as a neophyte developer at the same time. I'd really appreciate an MVP starter kit -- a single download that includes an ideal usage of your code already wired in, the first thing I drop into my new site's FTP before doing any real work. In particular I'm thinking of a Twitter Bootstrap framework with all the appropriate supporting files all rolled up. One config file to point to my local MySQL instance, Facebook app, etc. It's great that you've made it straightforward for a competent developer. Please make it straightforward, safe, fast, and easy for a soon-to-be-competent one.
"You don't get to pick what other people work on, unless you pay them."

Tangent: I donated a small amount of money to two PyPy projects (STM and py3k). But I didn't see the donation bars move at all -- at least in the case of STM, I'm almost positive that it didn't move a single dollar after my donation. Do they update those things? If not, it's kind of hard to tell what is sufficiently funded to succeed and what is not.
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I agree, there's definitely a problem with salary, and I don't dispute your characterization of it. However, my observation is that you need to be able to wait for the well paid senior positions to come available. If you need the work, you're in the unfortunate position of having to look in the places that can't tell the difference between fresh grads and senior devs. It gets better if you mostly get work via word of mouth or recruiters. There are a few developers that have ended up following me when I've moved jobs because they know I only work for places that pay and have interesting work. Likewise, I recommend them, because I've worked with them before, and I know they're good senior developers who are worth the money.

I've been making noises about organizing some other developer focused thing to make up for how crap viatec is... need to find sufficiently round tuits first.

As for health startups, it has at least one that I know about (and I'm not talking about genologics).
normal font format

METAFONT predates TrueType by more than a decade.
This misses the most obvious difference to users, which is that the font changes in the middle of the article. Taken in conjunction with all the other fonts on the page, the harmony of the specific font to all other fonts in the article and on the page is probably the most important factor here.
"...smart people I consider to be excellent writers—are unironically using the word “SPOTLIGHT” as a verb in an Hacker News thread."
"I think a lot of it is the shifting demographics of TV watchers"

That's true, but I believe the pharma ads started because of a change in regulatory restrictions that allowed them to advertise.

If the demographics were different, cash-rich pharma would probably still use a ton of air time, it would just be ads for different target markets. Acne medications, ADHD meds, anti-depressants, smoking cessation drugs, etc.
It’s not just alternative clients. It’s LinkedIn, Instagram, various value-add specific tools… stay tuned, it’s only getting worse.
Looks pretty awesome! Can you give me some use cases?
I don't think it's that tricky... instead of quarantine, make it like direct messaging: whoever pays more must opt-in to hear those paying less.
I like how they call it a "nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit", and then go on to refer to its unknown creators.
Yes last.fm scrobbing would be awesome.
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There is a misspelling in their example page in the video.

"Like ous on Facebook ..."

I am never sure if there is a contest for noticing these things. lol
As someone who is two years out of college with CS degree I very strongly related with this post.

The reality of what the press says and what tech companies say about recruiting is belied 100% by my experience looking for a job.

First of all, for job seekers, your ability to discover good-fit/good-match employers blows. Supposedly everybody needs 'engineers.' Yet 80%+ of job listings seem to be from recruiters who will vaguely describe their job, don't have a good understanding of the skill required, and can't tell you who they're hiring for. Okay, maybe a third of those recruiters have decent job descriptions. But still.

Likewise, most of the jobs listed from non-recruiters either list unreasonable/stupid/silly experience requirements (5yrs+ plus experience with agile development? You can 'learn' agile in a week), or are obviously legacy companies that nobody in their right mind will want to work for (coldfusion? really?).

And invariably when you do find something from an interesting company that's not through a recruiter, what they want is 5 years experience with their exact technology stack.

I know quite a few skilled programmers and they do not have loads of people hunting them down throwing money at them (though somebody should be).

What I believe has happened is that only programmers in a narrow community with a narrow set of experiences are being considered for reasons that are not sensible.

I would encourage any company that's trying to find good people to make good people aware that they're looking. I won't go through wishy-washy recruiters. Anybody else who cares where they work isn't going to be doing so either.
Google Translate can now read images of text
> that doesn't preclude having a good interface in your app that lets you edit them.

I've never ued ST, but it being an text editor, you'd think that they would have _that_ down right, FFS
I read the Textmate announcement, saw some great comments here and then decided to write the article instead of composing a comment. I didn't think the article would get any traction.

Agreed about the context being key. It always is. My point was more about adding incremental value to your customers with solutions to small problems rather than going after all their problems with one big release.
Does anyone use "postcards" features? I've seen this on cell phones since about 2003 when they started getting cameras, but I've never heard of anyone ever sending or receiving one.
Oh ho - and suddenly Standard Chartered is fingered for transactions with Iran!

Yuk Yuk Yuk - I wonder what is going on with this then!
I've submitted like 3 articles to hacker news, I'm clearly not a pro.
Metro now called simply Windows 8
Zynga Employee Calls Working at Farmville Maker “Devastating” in Quora Q&A
That's an interesting point. This can also happen with SMS and recycling of mobile numbers.
I would tend to agree, especially as the other pull models for content consumption are a lot better in every meaningful way.

TV's entire model is funded by advertising, the sole purpose of which is to get you to buy things. So, again, I wouldn't take it over, say, a PC where I occasionally stream/pirate videos or, even better, pay artists directly for the performances I enjoy.
Maybe the real lesson here is, don't get in technical debt. Do it right from the start.
Worlds most famous automotive hackers aka tuners (listing).
It would be useful if you listed the permits/regulations that you are violating, and why/how. I keep seeing "the city is shutting us down!" but that is not informative. What specifically are the issues?

You would probably get more donors with full and complete information.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll figure out how to clean up the copy a little bit. Glad that the video cleared things up!
Oh, that makes sense.

I haven't seen that command before, and from the context/presentation of the script, it made line 20 appear evil to me. :P
"Which, in meatspace, you can lend an infinite number of times."

Well, no, because in meatspace you have a more limited social circle. Few people would lend a physical book to a complete stranger, or if they did, would know they'd probably never get it back. Plus of course time is a limitation, and if a borrower is not local, there's the time of transit back and forth, which doesn't exist for an e-book.

And as a practical matter, it is pretty unlikely that you'd be able to find a borrower for every one of your physical books. But that would be possible with e-books, given a way to lend them to strangers, because of the way the site can match borrowers to lenders.
That we're having this discussion about a text editor that hasn't seen a real release in around six years (not counting the TM2 beta) is a testament to the enthusiasm. I'm hopeful and optimistic.
I think it's one thing to be passionate, and another to tell people that work for you that their work is "shit". It might be one thing to say that to a good friend of yours, but if you constantly tell your employees that, they're just going to think that you're an asshole and it's probably going to be very detrimental to morale.

The OP's point was that he would have been fired for the way he acted, not his abilities. Of course we would all love to work with passionate, talented people, but just because someone has those qualities it doesn't mean you can ignore how they interact with others.

To your point, it's hard to have (and demonstrate) these qualities without coming off as abrasive.