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This proves nothing.

They say they aren't front running and never have, and yet how many times have people looked up a domain on GoDaddy only to have it registered minutes or hours later by a GoDaddy account.

That doesn't mean that GoDaddy itself is doing this, but their employees certainly could be, or they could sell domain query data to a 3rd party to keep their hands clean. Some Godaddy employees certainly have access to the data of who is looking for what.

It would not be hard at all to have an algorithm that looks that those domains for dictionary words and possibly look at Google keyword search volume on each one and only buy the ones that pass some minimum criteria. That would be smarter than Network Solutions and harder to prove.

I personally stopped doing domain lookups on GoDaddy because they would register domains I didn't pull the trigger on fast enough and I've been moving domains away from them as well.

Just because some VP says they don't do it doesn't mean they aren't lying or there isn't some low level tech or manager who isn't doing this on their own.
ClickPass is effectively this, although they were OpenID. I don't think it worked out too well for them but it was several years ago, so they may've been too far ahead of the curve. HN used to use them as a sign in provider.
That's the problem with the old publishing model. They should set up a "choose your price" download model where people can download DRM-Free ebooks. Or the author creates their own torrented version with a link for "donations"
http://producingoss.com/en/copyright-assignment.html

http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=1171

http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Open_Sources_2.0/O...
Do you have a link to the tldr of the conference about the debris?

I'm curious if they think it's a problem.. ?
Surely it's worth no less than its replacement cost, which is the price of the replacement keyboard plus the work lost due to the time spent getting it and plugging it in.

This is only going to be <$10 in general if you have a pile of spares right to hand, with unit cost <($10 - epsilon).
Not having a spare, it'd cost me a lot more than that to replace my keyboard. Gulp. Better get one...
Well, they don't want to show any restraint, AFAIK. The saga of clueless/greedy/whatever authors against technology is much larger than this particular case, e.g. just two days ago it was reported that the Author's Guild is seeking $2B from Google for book scanning and making snippets available, that's $750 for each book! Many authors back these efforts.

My (optimistic) feeling is that a small circle of businesses is brainwashing the authors, citing music piracy and the "success" of RIAA in suing pirates and the authors are taking the bait.
This article truly deserves 'TL;DR'.

BUT, having lightly skimmed it, I get the general idea because "real" engineers have been whining about the Software Engineer title since nearly the first day I was at college like 11 years ago.

Oddly, perhaps, I haven't ever heard scientists complain that computer scientists aren't scientists.

I can't speak so much about software engineers as that is not really what I do, but as a computer scientist I can say without reservation that it is indeed a science. Research and experimentation is a core part of a lot of what computer scientists do. Solving problems that had no solutions until you came along and invented them.
what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...
Building breaktheicefor.me, a story of 30-minutes plus cloud services.
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I would like to see it controlled for age group, I remember liking Comic Sans as a child. Would Comic Sans have an effect on children, the same way it seems to for adults?
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Celebs wouldn't need premium accounts, they already have verified accounts. Except in the most superficial of cases Twitter is a one way communication tool for celebs, they talk we listen, it's a different tool for them than for us the unwashed masses. Celebs that don't have PR flacks manage their Twitter accounts probably have mention blindness the way we have banner blindness.
>This doesn't make much sense. You say it appeared at the right time and was pretty and native on OS X. What better editors deserved the success it had that were available when TextMate was popular?

The fact that there wasn't another editor that fulfilled all those "needs" at the time (mainly: simple, native looking) does not mean that it deserved it's success. What I'm saying is, it got its success not because it was better than the competition but because there was no competition.

So, I just wish that something better was available at the time with the wanted features (mainly: simple to use and native looking). It would have been better for all in the long run.

>I've never understood when people say something or someone doesn't deserve something they've earned.

You can earn something for lots of reasons, not always the best of reasons. Nixon got the vote, doesn't mean he also deserved it.

>TextMate is successful because lots of people bought it. Who are you to judge what deserves to be successful and what doesn't, especially when history seems to disagree with you?

Actually history seems to agree with me. Did you miss the part when the promised 2 was worked on for 6 years, got nowhere, delivered a disappointing alpha and got dump half-heartedly (as in with GPLv3, with the intention to continue commercial development) on GitHub?
I wrote a post about building the app: http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2012/08/09/building-breakthei...
It certainly doesn't help their argument that they are independent of Facebook.
I remember making a python script in high school that did this same thing. If only FilePicker had existed then!
If Pulse is in fact violating copyright law (not saying they are), how is it a violation when it's behind a password protected user account, but not when it's behind an app that requires authentication to access?
That, and a reflection of the ecosystem as it was when TM2 first started development; it's a lot easier to countenance a full rewrite when you're by far the dominant player in your particular market.
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When (as in the current case) I don't see a way to download source code, I assume it is a startup or a project that will become a startup if it becomes sufficiently popular.
You can always just execute the command:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine myTrojan.app

Now you can run the application no matter what the Gatekeeper setting is set to. No need to be paranoid. Gatekeeper isn't meant to lock down the Mac against yourself. It is a security feature only.
Recently, I was checking whois for a 5-letter domain which had just expired. It was available, but seconds after I checked it with Godaddy's whois (checked the update timestamp), it was taken by Domains By Proxy, LLC (Godaddy's company). So for anyone checking this out, consider they may only do it with recently expired domains or short domains.

They may also turn off this code if this blows up in public.
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I find it odd that Comic Sans and Georgia change places in the weighted totals.

Now I'm going to petition Randall Munroe to gather more data (thinking of the color survey).
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This is not even remotely true.

There are a lot of Android manufacturers who Apple isn't suing right now. If you want to talk about a company that IS then let's talk about Microsoft which has licenses from nearly all of them. But then again Microsoft just doesn't generate as many page views as it used to.
Yeah, it's definitely the kind of solution that makes you twitch a bit. The reason we wrote it is because we needed it now for meteor.com, and it wasn't too much engineering work (I think Nick wrote the first version over a weekend, and then it was a couple days of packaging it up). The reason we released it is, well, why not? :)

The "real solution" is coming, and we will get it right. It's connected to URL routing, and sending down initial HTML on page load. We're all excited for the day when Meteor apps initialize the client session on the server. It will look at first glance like a traditional server-side app. :)
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nice! thanks for sharing.
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This sort of thing always confuses me. If I were an indie author, I would want my book to be as widely read as possible. If I got more money upfront in exchange for what amounts to free advertising ("jrockway? never heard of him. but sure, I'll read his book for free."), I'd call that a pretty good deal. But I guess someone heard the word "free" and thought it would be a good idea to prevent any transaction that doesn't generate new money...
I exercise a lot -ish, with the goal of increasing my lean weight.

I need the carbs for energy so I can train, think and not sleep a lot. Because next to training, I also keep a somewhat busy freelancing schedule.

I need the protein for building muscle mass.

And I need the fat because fat burns in fat and you can't get leaner without consuming fat.

The idea is that you can't digest more than X amount of protein per day anyway (so 20% seems okay), you want fat, but too much fat will amke you fat (so 20% seems okay) and 60% carbs is pretty much what's left.

My biggest problem right now is that I don't eat enough carbs, but do eat too much fat. Protein is going pretty well.

Because here's the tricky part, once you let go of simple carbs (white flour, processed sugar etc.) it becomes really really really difficult to eat enough carbs. And a lot if not most of high protein foods (especially animal protein) are also high in fat.

For instance, an egg is something like 33% protein, 63% fat and 3% carbs.

PS: I got the 60-20-20 advice from Scooby -> http://scoobysworkshop.com/nutrition/
This is about creating a web page for your app, not the launch image.
http://www.feedsapi.com/

is a full text processing system for rss with an integrated API, it turns rss titles into full text rss articles and generates rss feeds for static sites on the fly to monitor webpages
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Yeah. We ate our own dogfood, too: when I joined, Techpubs in Watford was running on a single PC -- a 33MHz 386DX with 32Mb of RAM -- and a Stallion OnBoard smart serial card (with its own 286 to drive the 32(!) RS232 serial ports) to talk to the Wyse-70 on each employee's desk. 9600 baud taught you to use vi, and use it efficiently -- it took a whole second per screen refresh -- but we had a team of 15 people working productively on that one PC.

Yes, we were managing that 30,000 page documentation set using sccs, vi, and troff, with a custom (sco.mac) set of macros that forked off of the Xenix version of man.mac some time back in the 1980s and that had been hacked about to support semantic tagging because "we're upgrading to SGML next year" ...
I can't imagine this was because Textmate isn't selling well enough.
I could be wrong but I always looked at Textmate as an example of an app that must be making a killing.
>"brilliantness"? Are you kidding? Have you worked with vimscript? Oh well, at the risk of feeding a troll...

No, I haven't worked with vimscript. What does it have to do with anything?

Vim/vi is a brilliant piece of editor software, with a solid concept (an editing language, the dual modes etc). And it is in continuous use for 30+ years now. Does anybody disagree with that?

Now,vimscript being crap, or even it being totally absent, would not change those facts. In fact, most of the decades of vi/m using by hundreds of thousands of programmers have been without vimscript existing at all.

Btw, please don't use the word "troll" out of context. I made an argument. Reply or ignore it, but don't use conversation killing words like "troll".
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shrug different strokes. I learned to website via the MDN.
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I assumed he was being sarcastic. Otherwise it is the worst investigation I have ever witnessed.
Hi benarent, great to hear. Thanks for using Hojoki!
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It's kind of strange how it looks like it could be a picture of somewhere on earth but it's really much, much colder
> Amazon has made it quite clear

A link would be useful to this discussion, because

> they do not support sites such as LendInk

does not make it clear whether this just means they don't actively support them, or if it means that they would actively reject them from the affiliate program over it.

Amazon doesn't 'support' blogs on various topics, but many of them may be on the affiliate program.
Here's the color version of that surface image:

http://mo-www.harvard.edu/microobs/guestobserverportal/Galil...
OK, I'll bite. How can I tell if I've re-invented your (wholly-owned) implementation? If I actually come up with a way to do some particular task without consulting php.net (or whatever) what's to keep me from (very inadvertently) "stealing" your implementation?

I'll give you an example: a while back I wrote some code in C, to push an element on to a linked list. I forget exactly why, but I ended up passing the head of the linked list as a "struct list " or something like that. That project died, but I kept the function just because I was so proud of it.

Years later, I saw a programming quiz. The question was almost exactly my task. The answer to the question was my function, with the variables renamed.

Independent invention. It ruins "Intellectual Property" as property.

And yes, I'm deliberating conflating copyright and patents, because the rest of the world does so. It's "World Intellectual Property Organization", not dual "World Patent Property Organization" and "World Copyright Property Organization".
Firstly, I apologise for down-voting this response.

A week to learn Erlang. Where do I start?
Agreed. You have all these great ideas on how to do things better, but along the way you inevitably forget all the work it took just to ship version 1 (let alone v2 with all this improvements both feature and design wise).
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> all of which, AFAICT, are in agreement with the second view:

As you presented it, the speed is an important factor in the second view - I disagree. Proper regulations (assuming they are observed and diligently enforced) should be time-scale independent.

Glass Steagall kept the system-as-a-whole safe -- e.g., it would have greatly reduced the effect of the "subprime" crisis (though sadly, blame lays just as much with the Clinton administration, which means GlassSteagall might not have helped). But is mostly unrelated to HFT - e.g. Knight Capital, which lost $440M million in the course of 45 minutes last week, would not have been subject to Glass Steagall.

The fact that everything seemed stable does not indicate everything was indeed stable - e.g. Madoff was doing his thing for the last 17 years, and things blew up only because many people wanted to get their money back in the same time (as a result of their losses in other places).

There is an interesting result from complex system theory, which is that when such a system breaks down, it always looks like there is a specific culprit / event, but the truth is that any one of hundreds of qualitatively different events would have started the ball rolling.

All of the big banks (and most governments, including the US, Japan, UK) are bankrupt - or at least would be, if they were run like a business, no one dares admit it (although greece and ireland were already forced to, spain italy and portugal will need to admit that sooner than later).

We will hopefully know the truth about this crisis in the future. It is unlikely that we will have a reasonable idea before 20 more years have passed (and especially the statute of criminal violations....), though.
The fact that settings are in a text file that I can easily sync is a GOOD thing. I don't have to rely on some godawful third party service to sync settings, I can just export them to Dropbox or throw them on a Git repo. This is one of the many things people love about Vim too, that you can set up your editor in a minute instead of trawling through GUI menus.
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When I was in Uni I had a similar experience. I never collected enough data to really show a conclusive relationship and obviously it was possible my writing improved around the same time that I switched.. but it was still something that I noticed.

One of my theories was that professors expected rushed papers to have poor or missing formatting, but my rushed papers wouldn't. The formatting was therefore sending a signal to the professor saying "He didn't write this in the morning, so give him the benefit of the doubt." I never considered that the typeface that I was using could have been involved.
So at what point did I advocate pure black on pure white? Please reread.
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Can't say I've ever done (or would) do TDD for HTML, but I have made copious use of wget, Watir, and Selenium to do sanity checks.

For example, I use wget to spider a site then check both the Web server and wget logs for signs of trouble (404 or app server messages).

Watir is very handy for making sure things are OK on IE; I've hooked in calls to screenshots so I can crawl a site then look at a gallery of pictures for obvious rendering issues.
The best part about TextMate is that it led us to Sublime.
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sorry if it's a naive question, but... what's the use-case for this?
Really fun! Nice implementation of photo to ascii.
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Wow, it feels like I stumbled on James Kunstler's site today: http://www.kunstler.com/index.php

The way I see it, we really only have two choices: nuclear (fusion) power; or "A World Made by Hand".

Solar doesn't provide much energy density. (unless you can build a Dyson sphere or a "Ringworld" and convert huge amounts of solar radiation for transport)

Methane has more energy per KG than oil, but much less per cubic meter. (in addition to low density, you need a strong/heavy tank to put it in). And it's a fairly finite fossil fuel.

Uranium and the like are also a somewhat finite fossil fuels (even if from extinct supernovas, rather than ferns and dinosaurs).

Hydrogen (fusion) on the other hand, pretty much defines the useful lifetime of the universe. That's how I define "sustainability".
That's not a programming question, it's a question about using vim. It's nice to know the answer, but really not the kind of question we want more of. Closing is a compromise between leaving it open (and inviting more questions like it) and deleting it.
Do it! That would be awesome!
I'm confused as to how he could ever sell Textmate2 if he's linking against ragel, a GPL library. Well of course he could sell it but he'd have to release the source.
another option/alternative is to use matplotlib, which is ideally integrated with ipython notebooks http://ipython.org/, well worth a look if anyone's interested.. their integration with numpy/pandas etc is superb.. and on top of all the benefits of plotting with matplotlib, you get ipython and all its features for free... for example http://imgur.com/Le8px
I haven't used TM2 since it was first released however if its like TM1 'Replace' only appears on the single file find (cmd+f) and is not available on the find in project (shift+cmd+f) dialog.
Haskell is such an awesome language, its a shame that its fame has seemed to dwindle recently. Great job!
That's great :) I mostly use vim on the command line, but Textmate is great for dealing with Rails applications. I know, there is the nerdtree plugin for [Mac]vim, but the Textmate folder view is much better imho. Also, it's a nice tool for beginners, because you have zero configuration, but a really powerful editor.
The blowback is that they keep clamping down on their API in a misguided attempt to keep Tweets exclusively on Twitter’s properties so that more people can be shown more ads.

No one has a problem with Twitter showing ads, but reducing access to our own tweets and behaving less like a neutral platform are moves that irk a lot of us.

Thoughts from late 2010: http://alanhogan.com/twitter-betrayal

And of course the whole app.net saga was somewhat motivated by these moves.
Define "new release," because Quicksilver's core app and plugins are being updated rather frequently now for bugfixes. As far as adding new functionality, that might be right but what else do you need core QS to do? It would be nice to have an additional plugin or two but as far as core QS, I can't think of anything it doesn't do that I would like it to.

If TM isn't updated much, then it's because of the same reason that QS is not updated much anymore, because most people moved on to something else and are no longer interested in it.
Not much. And you're asking the wrong generation about the '69-'72 lunar landings.

Coverage was there, for those who were interested in finding it. The Soviets' failures were, of course, highlighted, but their accomplishments weren't downplayed, either.
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That is impressive. That's a lot of work to hide your activities from other people, though. Sufficiently paranoid? I say yes. But then again, I have not met many impressive hackers in real life.

How much reading up did you have to do to figure each of those things out? Or was it trial by fire? Figuring out all that on your own?

Seriously, kudos. Those are some hacker chops.
I wrote this post after having been inspired by Nir Eyal and BJ Fogg's behavior design.

The intersection of product development in the scope of Lean Startup & behavior design is really fascinating.

Would love a bounce ideas with HackerNews
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Contrast to the marginal revenue (for the artist) for CD sales and iTunes downloads.

The artist gets very little in any of the cases.
You can try out the prerelease auth feature right now if you want. A bunch of projects are using it.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Getting-Started-with-A...
it might be my imagination, but i've heard of hacked winlogon.exe's, wikipedia says 'vundo'?
Sure, doesn't mean the record labels are any less evil for it. They could have made profits without screwing over people who didn't know any better.
I've been a TextMate user since... well as long as I can remember (I was so glad to be done with all those BBEdit trials– seemed liked every time a new MacWorld magazine was out it would come with the latest and greatest... BBEdit). But, over the last year or two, this is the one problem that has caused me to revert multiple times to other editors. I was hoping TM2 would improve on this a bit but so far nothing's happened.
time is expressed in seconds? My computer does about 3 billion things every second. I think milliseconds or preferably microseconds would be much better. Different domains have different needs, though, I'm sure. Also, I'd prefer the log specify the time zone it thinks it's in, rather than just convert to UTC automatically.

pid - yes, knowing the process id is good, but knowing the thread is also useful.

version - outputting this on every single log line is probably overkill. Ditto for host name.
I've never used the git transfer plugins but I've had some past headaches moving to different source control systems. I usually just start a fresh repository with the latest snapshot and keep the old system available if anyone has to really go back that far (in my experience after a few weeks no one really ever has had to do this).