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TextMate lacked polish, I think that is the fairest indictment you can make of it. It really did bring some awesome features and customizability to the table with probably the lowest difficulty-of-customization to flexibility ratio in the history of editors. It's easy to dismiss how impressive it was in 2004 because so much of it has trickled down to other editors. It really goes hand-in-hand with Rails which people are so quick to criticize today because of how much improvement it spurred in the competition.
Oh god how I love the float planes. As a pilot I love watching them (and the smell of Jet-A at mocha house). As a passenger I love the relaxed experience. It is honestly, Victoria t at its best.

You've hit the crux of it - sophistication. Or rather, having enough skill to recognize ones flaws and correct for them. This is something Victoria as a whole does not have.

We don't have enough skilled players in order to sustain an ecosystem at the level needed to attract and retain that top level talent.

Try looking for a senior python developer. That'll be tough. Now try looking for someone with machine learning, compiler design, mathematics or other hard but very useful skill. You just won't find them.

So the companies in Victoria are stuck working on shallower problems. Usually with many competitors and without an ability to build a moat. Which means the people skilled in those hard skills move away to find employment, or do remote work.
> I certainly don't like repeating information if it's not necessary.

On what grounds?
The kind of flight demonstrated is routinely done by flies with smaller brains.
A person allegedly breaks several different laws in different jurisdictions; is prosecuted for each alleged violation in each jurisdiction. What's wrong with that?

A more extreme counterexample would be that a case where a person broke into an office and stole a USB stick, kidnapping an employee and shooting a guard on the way out. There's IP theft (federal), kidnapping (federal), and homicide (local). Which should that person not be prosecuted for? How do you choose?
Whenever I hear stuff like this, I feel an existential crisis looming.

I'm about 99% sure that I'm not just a brain in a dish plugged into a simulator.
I think this has less to do with a drop in user postings and more to do with the obvious irony of an EFF Advisory Board member extending their rights over user content so broadly.
They conflate algo trading with high frequency trading among other things.

This post http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html will explain it better than I can.
They should compress well.
jQuery is now modular, but jQuery.com doesn't have the custom download option like they do for jQuery UI's themeroller. When that comes out, it's going to be big news yet again.
To go one step further...

RFC3339 gives a more tightly defined subset of ISO8601, which is even more useful and lacking things like "week of year" which have little use on modern systems:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
Funny thing, in the past few weeks I started making more HN comments just to get a feel for it. Of the lot of them some are insightful, some helpful, some joking, many boring, and one mean. The one mean one is the highest rated.
Sarcasm failure? The comment's intention was to suggest that it is directly and unequivocally in the interests of AV and infosec companies to dress up these daft events to make them sound as evil as possible, as the resulting fear drives their bottom line.

I'll walk you through it step by step.

> What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts?

This alludes to the fact the evil hacker espionage ultra-worm targets banking web sites, which is exactly the kind of worm we've had for hundreds of years now, only it's not written by governments, it's written by the kind of people who can sell those details on the black market. My attempt at making seemingly obvious humour in the form of "nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts?" was clearly a failure.

> Advanced Persistent Phish?

Here I allude to a vague concept ("Advanced! Persistent! Threat!") pushed over the past 5 years or so by the AV/infosec community: one of this ill-defined superpower, for which evidence rarely exists, ready to pounce at any moment, spending trillions of Afghani rupees over years on the ability to read your private mail, and therefore obviously in return you should spend a great deal of money on your security (because you never know.. the boogey-man might already have root!).

> 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.

Well that's just it. This is a virus I could write, and I'm not even a vx guy. As someone else pointed out, the 0day it uses is distributed with Metasploit! This isn't exactly screaming "APT", "nationstate", or 007 is it. More it's screaming a pasty faced 15 year old armed with nothing but wget and the URL "www.phrack.com/my-first-virus-tutorial-1985-edition.txt".

> 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.

If you've been following along, this clearly references the copious scaremongering white papers produced by AV vendors around the time of Stuxnet.

More nonsense from the article:

> Another key feature of Gauss is the ability to infect USB thumb drives

The first computer viruses spread by floppy disk. I have no clue why this is 'key' to Gauss. I'll walk you through the BS in the article step by step if you really feel it's necessary.

tl;dr I am extremely cynical of the AV community scaremongering, because given time it will result in laws that'll get in the way the freedom to use mine or my childrens' computers. It's obviously already taken root in some of the minds around here, as y'all grasp to cope with this seemingly deadly evil threat, and my making light of it.
It is a life insurance policy, but that isn't the only difference. A key point for me is that google employees are ensured to a very high level without having to send the insurance company the results of a medical exam. Most companies I've worked at can only insure you to 2x or 3x your annual salary without the exam, and they charge you extra to provide even this level of coverage. Google's policy is slightly better than 5x.
How is a company buying life insurance policies on employees that pays out to the company (and not their families) in any way comparable to this? Yes, that's common practice. This is not.
Except that they are different laws and therefore different crimes. Let's use something more obvious: a bank robber who fatally shoots a guard on the way out. That's one event but several crimes. This person can absolutely be tried and sentenced for any/all of the crimes committed in that event, separately, in separate courts (federal and state). While I think the prosecutions are typically sequential, they wouldn't be combined (different jurisdictions).

Similar logic applies to a criminal who commits crimes across several states.
GoDaddy has certainly been caught doing nasty things before, as explained in "GoDaddy goes to great lengths to hide its expired domain warehousing operations": http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-ho... . Only the company's IPO revealed its internal structure.
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Yeah, you'd think it should have ushered-in a few more serious applications but given that, as others mention, the article is from 2004, it seems that indeed "more elaborate applications are a long way off".
Several countries, including UK and Canada, levy royalties from libraries for lending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
We don’t expect to get any bug reports on this release, since there have been several betas and a release candidate that everyone has had plenty of opportunities to thoroughly test. Ha ha, that joke never gets old. We know that far too many of you wait for a final release before even trying it with your code. So now there is really no reason to wait, and you can find out if there are any bugs you could have reported earlier.

Is it just me, or is that overly passive-aggressive for a release announcement?
too young to remember that sco even made products hehe

I agree with you about IV, which is the reason why I mention it. The time for celebration after a victory is typically short lived.
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Amusingly, there is a business called Jamcracker:

http://www.jamcracker.com/

and, what's more, the copyright at the bottom of their website says 1999-2012. I wonder if the naming firm still sold the name after this article!
Sorry, I didn't mean to attack you or anything. I'm just praising the model and abilities of open-source and how much power it gives to the user.

I'm extending this idea of rolling your own code to anything/everything open-source, not just text editors. If you're playing a game, or using a webapp and there's some feature or pain point you want to add... well now writing it yourself is an option!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you have to write it because you have a thousand other things to focus on or that the reward/effort ratio isn't worthwhile or whatever reason. But you can.

But you can't tell me that having the option to do so isn't so freaking awesome. Would you prefer abandonware instead? Or seeing where Textmate 2 was going (evidently, nowhere) if it wasn't open-sourced?
"I for one hope that Microsoft's goal is to kill the OEM's. I mean, imagine if all of the sudden no other company but Microsoft could create a Windows machine."

Sounds like an invitation to an anti-trust suit. I don't think Microsoft wants to go through another one of those.
Doesn't anyone believe in the concept of grace any more? Aleynikov made a mistake. Can't we move on? Goldman is subverting true justice. And if the code is so powerful, why should Goldman be able to continue using it in the first place?
Of course we're talking about case study in terms of a group of developers with their own dynamics, not the mind of a single person.
Sounds more like a large refactoring than a rewrite. Or at the least you already has a service-oriented architecture with a well-defined interface that allowed the rewrite to be sane.

My rule of thumb has always been to break things down into the smallest discrete tasks possible. If you stay on top of your architecture this almost never turns into a total rewrite, but sometimes there is no choice but to get your hands really dirty in a major refactoring. In these cases it's critical that each escalation is well-justified and not just trying to capture more "low-hanging fruit" that the dev team is brainstorming in high-level discussions.
You could just print the version, etc. again when logrotate sends your daemon a SIGHUP.
To read the books in the library, you have to physically go there, check it out, and take it home.

My local library does e-book lending online through Overdrive. Almost any e-book format, generous checkout times, etc. You can search tens of thousands of libraries here:

http://search.overdrive.com/
>"You can do anything you want with an idea. It can be as big as you want. It doesn’t have to solve a minor problem that nobody ever really realized was a problem. It doesn’t have to fit into something the size of a button crammed into a “folder” the size of a button on a screen the size of a playing card. But everywhere I look, I see tiny little ideas,ideas that are almost petty in their inconsequentiality."

This. This sums up how I feel about the whole startup scene. The lack of real innovation is incredible.
I don't think it will have an adverse affect on signups. I don't think the banner you put up will have a positive effect on getting more freelance work either though. Like hndjmrh posted here, I think a link in the footer is more effective.
Ah, good point! I bet this lady has one of those tubs of myelin: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2025069/Joan-Ginth...
Let's test this.

WECHEATPEOPLEOUTOFDOMAINSFORFUNANDPROFITANDWEHATEKITTENSTOO.COM is available. Just $12.99*

I wonder how long that will stay available?
"When the language you employ to communicate your ideas is small and boring, your ideas are going to be small and boring."

That's how I felt reading this blog post. A long, pedantic, raging post that does nothing but demonstrate that the author has an inflated sense of his writing prowess. His post is basically one type of Hipster raging against the Hipsterisms of a different type of Hipster.
Is there any chance you can add in a way to remove obviously fake bids? If too many users abuse the system it could ruin the functionality of the virtual cat that haggles with potential buyers.

For instance, someone might do a real bid of $500 (let's call them bidder A), but if there's a fake bid of $2000, would the virtual cat try and make bidder A bid higher than $2000?
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But gedit is pretty impressive, still! It's extendable too, maybe just not to the extent of Textmate.
So soon as you leave google you have to sign up for a real life insurance plan? At that point you may be too old to get one at a good price. This seems like a sneaky way to scare people from leaving google?

As I understand it at a normal company you pay into a life insurance plan each month from a young age, so that if you take this plan with you to a new company you get to keep the low rate you have earned. With google you loose all your life insurance if you leave Google!

Am I confused or is this a crummy deal?
How did the brain know what situations were good or bad? Were there reward and pain electrodes or something?
They came built-in with TextMate - big difference to be a first-class member of the editor.
It depends on the individual case. It's not always possible to isolate subsystems in order to refactor incrementally, but on the other hand it's also almost certainly a foregone conclusion that you will underestimate the complexity of a rewrite.
I think most sites rely on Facebook/Twitter logins, not because it is easier than adding in their own system, but because users don't want to have ANOTHER login in, and it allows for easy shareabliity.
> As for health startups, it has at least one that I know about (and I'm not talking about genologics).

I was thinking more 3D printed walkers, canes and replacement hips...

I think the best thing for Victoria to do is be humble (Means shutting up viatec's constant spouting). Make a deliberate effort to learn as a community at the management, business and technical level. To grow the infrastructure and gain sophistication at all of those levels. Not a flashy apps will save the world sort of thing, but it'd lead to a confident viable niche.

As for the local angels, they're part of the problem. Not the solution. You don't know the half of it. I've never taken funding of any sort though, so I don't know the real depths of the issue. From my interactions I can just imagine how deep they are.
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I'm going to be a bit pedantic: switching to another editor is also effort spent. Learning how to use Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Vim, Emacs, ed, etc. etc. Some stuff is simple (text input from a keyboard), but they each have their own weird incompatible little worlds.
In American schools we have most likely to succeed but also things like most funny, etc.
Lots of Windows software will run under Linux with help from Wine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29)
I was thinking the same .. a splash page while the app starts
Lastly stack traces, if they even have a use case at all in production, should not be in the main logfile.

I would have to disagree with this one. There's no way to generate the stack trace after the fact if a particular bug is extremely rare; having a complete call chain makes fixing the problem much easier.

Someone once said that removing error handling once the code is working is like removing the landing gear once a plane is airborne.
Fun thread. My first computer mischief experience was in "Computer Class" in first grade. The computers were running DOS 3.0 (IIRC) and the class was for teaching computer basics, which mainly consisted of "Introduction to programming" using Basic (with a gentle introduction to I/O, variable assignment, and flow control.) The way the class worked was: an assignment was printed out and handed out to all the students. You followed the steps and at the end of class, the teacher would look at your output to see if you did everything correctly. I finished these assignments pretty quickly, so I used the time to figure out how to exit the editor, find the "hidden" games stash, play them for a bit, and then get my work back up on my screen before the end of class. Pretty soon I was being asked by all the other students how to perform this feat on their own computers. I showed them, and so every time the teacher would leave the room, everyone started playing the games.

We also never got caught. Wild times in first grade, let me tell you.
I'm be quite willing to bet that the attack vector was a compromised password that was reused to access their admin panel.
It's not in lieu of normal life insurance. It's an additional benefit.
Doubtful. The old rendering engine was a dead end and everyone knew it. Netscape 5 still would have been miles behind IE 6, and it would have taken substantial engineering effort to get it there. Instead, they focused on Gecko and Mozilla.
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Is there trully more pictures? (I mean, except the cats)
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1. There's no way to confirm or falsify that counterfactual.

2. Even if we stipulate that Firefox would be more mature/popular without the rewrite, I think there are many decisions that might have had an equal or larger impact. For example, the design choices they made for their plugin architecture made it harder to compete when Chrome came along, and have had deep influence on their ability to do frequent unobtrusive releases. If you admit one counterfactual you must admit them all. Was the rewrite really the biggest turning point in their trajectory?

3. If you'd offered the firefox creators the level of success it has today, they would take it in a heartbeat. Quibbling about levels of success is a luxury you can only afford after you have managed to not die. (http://paulgraham.com/die.html) That was what my comment was concerned with.

Conventional wisdom (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html) makes the far stronger claim that rewrites kill; if we retreat to arguing levels of success I will happily declare victory and go home :)
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Legal? Perhaps. Ethically questionable? Certainly.
The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) enables Service Providers to unify the delivery of disparate cloud services to their direct customers and through their channels. Key features include:

http://www.jamcracker.com/

Oh goodness
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jQuery’s selector engine is faster than ever, thanks to a rewrite (well, really two rewrites) by Timmy Willison.

Would love to see some benchmarks!
I think mattacular wrote about the run-of-the-mill programming blog that gets submitted to HN. They feel more substantial than one of those spammy "125 free icon sets that'll turn you into a Design god", but they're mostly half-baked regurgitations of Software Engineering folk-wisdom, rehashed from a dozen other blogs which quote some testimony from a famous book.

No code, no maths, no algorithms, no statistics, no nothing.
I love it! Great job Gilad and Schlomi!
Linux doesn't provide consumer class support. Here's Ubuntu's response to "Well, this is embarrassing" when Firefox doesn't load properly:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+questions?field.search...

Note that the first answer suggests switching to daily builds. I'm not sure that's sound advice for my mother.

Yes, better support is available for Linux. It starts at $99 a year for Red Hat, $109 per year for Ubuntu. That's more than a Windows 7 OEM license.

The other issue with Linux is the sales channel. Lower priced computers (assuming that retailers lower the price of Linux machines) mean lower revenues for retailers while fixed costs (other than inventory investment) remain the same - i.e. a Linux laptop incurs the same shipping costs, takes up the same display space, and requires the same (a generous assumption) level of sales support.

In general, lower margins are not appealing to electronics retailers unless there is a higher sales volume. I've yet to see a convincing case that an increased supply of Linux computers in the retail channel would increase overall computer sales (I don't think I've ever seen an unconvincing argument for that matter).

Android succeeded because it allowed the smartphone market to expand. Aging form factors were displaced by more sophisticated devices - one should not discount the fact that the overall market for mobile phones was expanding, either. The case simply isn't analogous.
Is it possible that it's someone else registering the domain but using GoDaddy's privacy package to hide their registration details? I think it's domains by proxy or something along those lines.

Also, for every registration don't registrars have to pay the ICANN fees for each domain? At almost $10/domain it would seem unwise to automatically register any domain people are searching for as it could end up costing a lot of money in fees.

Disclosure: I work at GoDaddy, but I do not work on domains, so I have no knowledge about that area of the business.
They've made the build tools modular using grunt.

Considering that they have custom download options for jQuery UI and recently added a tool for jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/download-builder/), I expect it won't be many more months before they add one to jquery.com.
You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized...

How is this in effect any different from a non-exclusive license? Are they going to ask each person if they gave permission for something that was cross posted multiple places? At least now people can post an ad to multiple place, but CL wants to make sure that they aren't crawled?

If I were CL, I'd be more worried about losing Safe Harbor protection than whether or not I owned user submissions.
I like it, looks like Robby the Robots great great grandfather in some ways I suspect.

Also looks like something not totaly out of the reach of home ameteurs thesedays, prohibited parts and materials aside though.
jquip (aka jQuery in parts): https://github.com/mythz/jquip

Does include an online builder at: http://jquip.ubixar.com/
It's also the only version of jQuery to support Google Closure's advanced compilation mode.

Anyway, I'm happy to see jQuery moving into a smaller more modular code-base.