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> devoted to a frivolous activity

You say that with scorn. And yet here you are, talking about frivolity on the internet.
Congratulations to Neil, Christian and the team! This has been a long time coming and I guess the best way to comment is through a clip: http://reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7063/40
As far as I know they never said cloud sync would come soon. Just eventually. The rest is inferred.
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I wonder if there is still enough interest in the app where people will contribute all of the community's desired changes -- I hope there is.

I don't get what you mean by "if there is still enough interest". If you wanted a particular feature or change, couldn't you just fork Textmate and then implement it? That's the advantage of it going open-source. We are not at the mercy of some developers who don't think our requests are worthwhile. If I want something on top of my open-source editor of choice, I can just "get up to speed" [1] with the source and go ahead and implement what I want.

I do think we rely a little too much on other people to do things that we want for ourselves. If you really want a feature and no one else offers to do it, then you will have to pony up and do the legwork yourself. And that's a good thing.

[1] Getting acquainted with the source code doesn't have to be that hard, either. It is a bit of a problem in less-organized projects, but still better than a closed-source base. As a developer, I think this is something more people should be used to. That is, rolling their own solutions when they don't get what they want.
Maybe not anymore but at the time SCO was laying off employees (2007), there were a bunch of posts saying how whatever person/company wouldn't be hiring them or in general that they wouldn't get hired. It probably had an effect on some of them.
Are you planning on keeping this mac-only? Any reason for not making it browser-based? looks great, would love to try it
> I don't think one person would make a case study

Actually, that is the definition of a case study.
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Valid point! I'm not sure about visibility of OUYA though, time will tell.
That depends. Do we have a long history of trying to exterminate those other nations? We have a very long history of trying to exterminate the Jews, or oppressing them regardless.
I'll use mine to display stats and metrics on a tv in the office, but that's pretty boring.

Probably the most cost-effective way to do so however.
Linux (QT/Gtk) port.. Anyone? Anyone?
you clearly don't work in hardware.
> Erm,

http://twitter.com/karlvanhoet
Just looked up my TextMate order email. I bought it almost 8 years ago, on October 6 2004, and received license #36.
Those authors must really hate public libraries then...
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It's better than nothing. The lack of activity means the author isn't very interested in continuing the project. But you can find another lead developer to run the project, at least. That's the merit of open-source.
Yes, we agree that there will be some drop-off, but we're taking that chance in order to provide the best experience across platforms.
Accepting "education is for a job" in the first place: you're lining your kids up to chase the biggest growth area of the last 20 years, when biotech is likely to be the most successful area in the next 20?
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An abandoned clone.
It's really hard to get funding for companies/ideas/products that change the world and the way people live. Especially if the product involves tangible goods. You either have to have super rich friends or be a member of the old boys club. Alternately, you can just stick to making software that contributes to the current feedback loop.
> Who would hire someone who only has W3Schools knowledge?

And this pretty much negates your whole argument. If you ever plan on getting hired or being taken seriously enough to get clients, this isn't the resource. How pissed would you be to find out at an interview or after a breach that the site you used to learn all this stuff was the laughing stock of developers?
I should be noted that XQuartz (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/) is required in order to install Python on Mountain Lion (and possibly Lion as well).
lots of images and text explaining the process of stitching and processing. Here is the money shot that made me go :O
http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Venera_Perspective.jpg

Also this shot of Halley's comet fly-by from another Soviet craft (Vega-1) that only served to deposit a lander on Venus but then went on to fly close to the famous comet as well:
http://www.mentallandscape.com/CS_Vega02.jpg
A text editor made for web front end coding, with a Firebug-like UI for tweaking css, html, and JavaScript in real-time.

http://liveditor.com
It's definitely coming to mobile (probably iOS first) if there's enough interest. There are already a few browser-based players that search multiple services, and I wanted something that doesn't require me to hunt down which browser tab is playing music :)

CloudPlay is basically Spotlight for Music. (Spotlight is the Mac indexing service/always-running-app that lets you quickly find and open files on your system.)

EDIT: To answer your actual question... it's Mac only for now, since I'm an army of one, but other platforms may come depending on demand.
But I think the point of this comparison is that everyone has the same chance of having an Olympic champion born in their country. Thus countries with more people have a better chance to get medals. This is just an attempt to even things out by diving medals over population. Not a perfect comparison by any means, but neither is just medal count when you compare China vs Grenada.
But education (at least the way we do it now) is a political phenomenon. Science has little to do with it.

Too many scientifically-minded people ignore this reality and cling to the idealistic notion that schools will teach the best ideas, so we simply need to show our ideas are best. No. Schools are politically controlled and will teach what political power dictates.

So long as scientifically literate people think we're above politics, we'll keep losing.

(Personally, I'd rather continue to see a growing number of people empowered to opt out of politically controlled education entirely.)
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Thank you. You can test the mobile app without signing up. We found that many of our users didn't know about our account syncing feature (because they didn't sign up). They then told us that it was difficult to switch between devices when they downloaded our apps as they had different news sources on different devices. This is an effort to remedy that confusion by keeping one single consistent account across platforms. Trying to get users to sign up later when they want to sync (which we've tried on mobile) has proved to be difficult for most users.
Hi. I answered this question, and was delighted to see it because it was the sort of question that is fun to answer. I was surprised about the "do your homework" rule as I've never heard of it before. So I read the FAQ and it's not there. You need to read the FAQ AND from there click on a link to go to another page to explain this rule.

I don't know what good this rule brings to the site. Sure in a lot of cases it's better for the person who asks the question to try and solve the problem themselves, but for the site itself it's better the more questions and answers there are to read.

The original question could be changed to be more generic, such as: How can I write elisp code that transforms a selected region of text? or something similar.

What I would like to see instead of questions being closed is just a banner at the top of the question saying: Warning: This question may not meet the standards of the site due to [which rule it broke] and let the people searching decide what weight to give it.

All this said, I think the way the question was handled was quite polite and proper given the rules.
>>It's sad to see how someone, even scientists, are considered to be anti-science for even doubting evolution.<<

There are no viable alternative scientific models that compete with the theory of evolution in terms of explaining change across successive generations of biological organisms. There are theological models, but those by definition do not have any scientific evidence. Which is why doubting evolution is considered anti-scientific - rightly so, in my opinion.

The amount of hard evidence we have for the theory of evolution is so overwhelming at this point that doubting it has two possible reasons: the person either does not understand science in general and evolution in particular, or they are driven by a religious agenda. Incidentally, both of these are very common in America due to shoddy science education (esp. with regards to imparting critical thinking skills in children) and the influence of religion in politics (and therefore education).
I'd probably be disappointed if a kid of mine was in the biotech field. I don't support genetic modification of food, for example.
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Xbox 360s were sold at a loss until years after launch. (MS made their money on license sales from games.) At a production run of a few tens of thousands, the Ouya is not much better off than a full-custom hardware build, and it's difficult to make such a box for ~$100.
I guess,

1 - It implies IT tech related, IO = input/output, as pointed out by otoburb;

2 - Domain name availability, as pointed out by yolesaber;

3 - Google named its developer conference 'Google IO', just a guess.
Scientists have historically been very skeptical about automated region-of-interest cropping, or fancy novelty-detection methods, or even certain kinds of compression. They are always afraid that something of importance will be filtered out. It's a difficult argument to win.

Prioritized downlink is accepted (you still get everything, but there's some automation that finds the most interesting stuff and sends it first).

There's even experimental acceptance of planning/machine vision systems that choose targets opportunistically while a rover is moving from point A to point B.

That is, points A and B were chosen by science planners. But while the robot is moving from A to B, it looks at stuff and stops en route to collect more data if it sees something interesting. You can sell this to scientists because they still get the data from points A and B (they're in control) but they also get more data from in-between, that might be interesting, and that they would not get otherwise.

This has been used on Opportunity and won the NASA software of the year award last year (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-380). It's a harder problem than it sounds like, because the robot has to re-plan its activities on-the-fly ("plan" in the sense of moving cameras, turning the robot, etc.)
Great looking landing page, but whenever I choose an app and click 'Smorify', nothing happens.
Fair point. As you said, you can test the mobile app without signing up. We found that many of our users didn't know about our account syncing feature (because they didn't sign up). They then told us that it was difficult to switch between devices when they downloaded our apps as they had different news sources on different devices. This is an effort to remedy that confusion by keeping one single consistent account across platforms. Trying to get users to sign up later when they want to sync (which we've tried on mobile) has proved to be difficult for most users.
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Some guy made a compilation of the author comments he could find on FB.

http://www.2abd.com/politics/copyright/lendink-taken-down-by...
Until you get RSI from your crappy keyboard. Which is why people will pay $100+ for a keyboard.

I've bought 3 Microsoft Natural 4000s (about a $60 keyboard) over the past 3 years simply because I was away from my office for an extended period of time and my wrists started hurting.
If we are completely honest, Textmate was always a sub-par editor.

No Vim or Emacs style brilliantness, no BBEdit style tons of features and mature engine, no IntelliJ like, er, intelligence, no ST2 comprehensiveness, etc etc.

Plus, the Textmate 1.x text engine was probably a mess too -- I remember the very first versions being laggy (and that's coming from someone who doesn't find even Eclipse laggy). That he couldn't easily fix the one-character-undo is another pointer to that (and, for all I've seen, the 2.x engine is not that better).

It's main saving grace was the many extensions it had, and looking half-decent and native on OS X. Basically, it caught on because it appeared on the right time, and appealed to OS X users like web programmers etc, that wasn't old-time unix buffs, and wanted something native looking without forking for BBEdit (which itself was/is Carbon based and with a custom text display widget).

I don't think Textmate deserved all that success --it should have happened to a better editor.
Welcome to the walled gardens in the cloud.
Because he's an actual scientist not an Internet rasterbator.
China's answer to subprime bets: the "Golden Elephant"
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There is a new mission Venera-D, they plan to launch it in 2016-2017.
More info here: http://venera-d.cosmos.ru/index.php?id=658&L=2
I guess I'll pose my question about HFT directly: what value do you add to the economy by being in the HFT business?

Surely the markets must at some point be "liquid enough". i.e. that the companies that are supposed to actually benefit from liquid markets no longer do see any additional benefit from increased speed. If trades could only be made once per day, then traders would be very, very hesitant to invest in a new company IPO, because if there was new information or a problem, they couldn't sell it for 24 hours, at which point the price could have plummeted. Companies would have a bona fide problem raising new capital.

But does that problem really still exist if trades could only be executed once per second? per quarter-second? Billions are now being made that justify shaving a few milliseconds off of a signal -- how do you justify that in terms of benefit to the companies?

I think its on the people who don't want HFT to be regulated out of existence to convince the rest of us that it actually has value for someone other than themselves and isn't basically legalized gambling.
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"Technical innovation comes from depth in a subject area, and you actually have to study something before you can innovate in the context of it."

I think you are making three assumptions that can be disputed:

1. The only place to gain a depth of knowledge is a traditional university; and

2. The best time to gain this depth of knowledge is between the ages of 18 and 22; and

3. You need to innovate to have a successful business (where "innovate" is something more profound than just being creative).

Youth is the time when people are most able to adapt, learn, and change their path in life, so it's no surprise that K-12 and colleges would like a monopoly on the nation's youth.

But entrepreneurship teaches things that colleges stifle, such as independence, following your own path to success on your own schedule, and learning the consequences of your decisions quickly. And there's no law saying you can't study on your own while starting a business, or study later if the business goes south.

We're already in a situation where a bachelor's degree is watered down and doesn't offer any differentiation. Many students feel they need to get a doctorate to differentiate themselves, or in some cases, just to get in the door. In many situations, it's not a question of whether to spend 4 more years in school after highschool, it's whether to spend ten more years. It's no surprise that people simply say that the opportunity cost is too high, and do something else.
Thanks for pointing that out. We will make pricing more clear on our site -- though it's pretty clear in the iTunes store (we think).
That's the day I'll finally try Linux as my full time OS! :P
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Oh sorry when you asked about screwing people over I thought you meant content owners. Yeah I definitely agree if you meant screwing over site users.
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We need better teachers AND a better system AND better parents. We can't just put all of the expectations on the teachers and expect any sort of change. We do need teachers who are willing to be tough (like it sounds like your mother was) yet caring, but that requires a system that rewards teachers not based on seniority but on merit (sorry unions) but also doesn't encourage teachers to artificially raise grades or teach to specific tests. This means we'd have to invest more in evaluating progress in students, instead of just throwing standardized tests at kids. We also need parents who allow teachers to be tough (no complaining because your kid fails!) _and_ who are supportive yet disciplined back on the homefront.
Hardback: $14, Kindle edition: $18

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"We've launched a mobile site built entirely in AngularJS - thoughts?"

My only thought is title-bait. This is a usability article, with almost nothing to do with AngularJS. But hey, I guess it worked.
> Stack Exchange provides a Meta site where you can take up issues with the entire community.

I tried to merely ask why an item that was very much in a gray area was closed without a reason given more than a year after I posted it and accepted an answer. The Meta "police" were mostly unhelpful, provided answers without actually reading the item in question, and did down-vote driveby's on the question even though it was already closed at that point!

A couple mods were nice, but overall it was like trying to ask for a complaint form in a police office:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8v7lF5ttlQ
Adding new HTML conventions puts too much responsibility on authors. HAIR requires very little of authors: store your images according to some new convention. This burden exists in other systems, too. HAIR is unique in that this is the only burden placed on authors. They don't have to worry about making their HTML or CSS match their uploads. They don't have to compare dozens of competing JS solutions every time they start a project.

Blissfully dumb machines are a less worthy goal than blissfully dumb authors. Raising the bar for millions of people--especially without a standard to bind them--is impossible. OTOH it takes a handful of people working on server and browser software to add HAIR to millions of clients and servers. Another handful of people will make macros to help designers export images into the new format.
And it's not like being "nice" precludes one from being direct, honest, or straightforward.

It sort of depends on how you view the dick<->nice spectrum. I see 'nice' as friendlier than 'baseline common courtesy'. And if that type of nice is what you are trying to achieve, it's going to take a few extra words here and there.
It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good for advancing the state of the art, but they're wasteful. And if you're trying to do something other than advance the state of the art, they're a trap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis
Yes, the extensions are its saving graces. I'd use it for typing up a web page in HTML, but as soon as I try to type in Japanese characters, it all goes to hell.

No, seriously. Typing Japanese characters in TextMate is a worse experience than, say, typing them into a terminal window, or typing them into an aged Carbon application that was obviously not designed for Japanese input.
I was struggling with designing a page for my appstore app. This will certainly come in handy!

FYI: Just noticed you have a bit of duplicate markup in your head - the dns-prefetch links are duplicated
No it does not. Clearly looks like a promotional blog post.
No see, you are including more sensible factors in your calculation of utility. The issue is just justifying price with "how much have you used it for work related activities", which is silly for just about everything except maybe soothing buyers remorse.

I have an old Model M at home that I value at a hell of a lot more than $10; I am not here to argue the merits of expensive keyboards. My point though is that the cheap keyboards I have around that have gotten a lot of use are not worth more because I have gotten a lot of use from them. No matter how much work I have gotten paid for while working on a $10 keyboard, it is still a $10 keyboard.
Not sure about the job market, but if you find coding to be interesting, or even exciting, things will be much easier.
You offered two possible explanations for the use of a 2MP camera, (a) money, (b) risk. I was saying that, in this case, it did not really have to do with money.

My second sentence above was trying to point out that many people underestimate how important risk is to a space mission.
Per above, we considered that but didn't want to create bad will with a "free" app that didn't do anything until you added more money. (It's also against Apple TOS, though widely flouted.)

In the future we may consider something more along the lines of a free sample.
This disappointment is based on an ancient view of the world - that those with post-secondary educations are abnormally high achievers, and thus one would expect greater than average compensation.

This hasn't been true for at least 3 decades. Post-secondary training of some sort, whether in a skilled trade or a degree program, is critical even if your ambitions do not stray further than "strictly middle class".

Instead of wondering why those with post secondary education aren't rich off their asses, I'm much more concerned about why 50% of the population doesn't have any post-secondary education whatsoever, and how in the hell we expect to keep this population employed and competitive with that foundation.
>I don't get what you mean by "if there is still enough interest". If you wanted a particular feature or change, couldn't you just fork Textmate and then implement it?

No, I could not.

1) I have other things to do than building my own tools. I work creating _stuff_, not creating tools.

2) You assume I have spare time to delve into the code of a project, understand the whole structure and add a feature --which might need tons of changes all around the engine.

3) You assume I can do it. I might not even code in Obj-C/C/Cocoa. I might just be some HTML/Javascript/Python whatever developer.
Regarding raw text editing, Notepad++ (on Windows) is vastly better than TM.
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I can grab 5 to 10 more keyboards just like the one I am using right now for free. No history of use is going to bump the value of this keyboard. It is a piece of infinitely replaceable crap that bends like a paperback book.
I met one the Thiel fellows. His employ? He gives talks about skipping
college. It was inane; I don't think I've ever met a more transparent circular
argument.

I've also met people who dropped out or never went to school, and did amazing
stuff during that time. Nobody paid them to do it, though.

The problem with children is that they haven't been around the block. Giving
them money just for being young and eager only further distorts their warped,
child's view of reality. Put me down as not a believer.
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And there is no reason to remove that social lubrication because you're of a different opinion. If they're not doing the +1 and selected answer, then tell them to, but don't stop them from being decent human beings as well, even if you'd prefer the world that way.