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Well, obviously I disagree. I've launched two startups, been an active participant in Hacker News for five years now, and have a karma of about 5k.

I think that folks might be interested in what it's like to write 900 pages of fiction, especially given that it's science fiction (which typical HN-ers like) and given that not many folks have experience on both sides of the street (startup, writing).
Thanks man :) I appreciate it.
The biggest problem to be solved with home automation, IMHO, is making things cheaper.
Stripe is $0.30 + 2.9%, not $0.50 + 2.9%.
It was kind of a pain to install Ubuntu on a MBA, but I found everything except the trackpad drivers worked pretty well. And this was a year ago -- I'd assume the situation has improved.
The main reason to buy a ThinkPad is to use the TrackPoint!
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I was just about to try Xubuntu on my MBP, but after seeing those power consumption stats I don't think I can justify it.
Sad but true: Linux worked better in the old school Desktop era when batteries, power consumption, sleep/hibernation and wireless networks weren't there to mess things up.
Chained method calls is analogous to function composition from bQueryView to bQueryView. You could write it this way if you don't like the look of it syntactically:

bqView = bQuery.view()
bqView.set(...)
bqView.on(...)
MyBackboneView = bqView.make()
I stay away from any game with "craft" in the name - knowing that I have a hard time not not playing video games with no end. Then very recently I had my second back surgery. I purchased Minecraft for Xbox 360 as I knew I'd be able to lay in bed and play for hours on end, which is what I'd have to do to recover anyway.

Well, a week and a half later I pretty much mastered it, and purchased the PC version because it had more features.

I've spent A LOT of time playing this game recently. Then I got onto PVP and Faction servers. Playing with others and the thrill it brings to blow up a base with a TNT cannon and steal everyone's shit is very addicting.

I knew I was getting into trouble when I bought the original Xbox version. In a moment of weakness I purchased the PC version and the number of hours I spend playing is not very healthy.

Luckily for me, my wife will kill/leave me before it ever gets really bad, so eventually I'll get pulled away and bored with it. I usually do. I hope. :)
Right right, check out boottheme and some of the other resources in the article! Boottheme shows you everything RIGHT THERE. You can even do a "dice roll" and have colors/settings scrambled to your liking. The scrambler actually works pretty well too and half the results aren't too bad either.
You could remap the right option key with keyboardremap4macbook, it also allows you to change it only for specific applications like Terminal.
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I agree and I have disabled the trackpads in the bios settings for both of my Lenovo laptops. I just wish they could solve the slight movement drift you experience sometimes when using the ThinkPoint.
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Bootstrap should come in 25 subtle-variants, and a random one should get picked/compressed/served with each download. Like Magic The Gathering // Pokemon booster packs. Remember those? You never knew what you were going to get.

I agree with you though. Also, most of the customizations I've seen of bootstrap look like garbage. Seeing the same bootstrap styles EVERYWHERE is definitely getting old and annoying, but I have to force myself to remember that Bootstrap is pretty damn cool and had some great design thought put into it.

The variations? Typically: not really. The first example that comes to mind is FoundationDB (a local DC startup woohoo!) but they took Bootstrap and in my opinion made it worse: http://foundationdb.com
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That is literally just an implementation detail.

The controlling interest is the nonprofit, the for-profit part exists for tax/etc reasons.
You can also explore dotcloud. I have been using it for more than a year now and it's quite good.
I was under the impression that you couldn't install onto a non jailbroken iPhone/iPad without going through apple ( either App Store/AdHoc/Enterprise). This gives me hope that I am significantly wrong on that which would make my life much easier.

Can someone confirm that?
I love how bubbly it is, I guess in reaction to what looks like ice below it? So, rising water vapor? I'd bet that makes for some interesting rock patterns.
<I>It seems a bit weird to publish a collection of papers as a textbook, especially at a low undergrad level, but I hear it's happening these days.</I>

Took a macro-economics class at my local community college. One of the required texts was a collection of essays that the professor had written (much of it incoherent blabble but that's a different topic), collected into a 130-page paperback that looked like it might cost $3.99 at the local BN. Cost: $55. No copy available in the library.
Guys this is obviously fake.
Reminds me of a project my brother and I did a few years ago for Maker Faire. We took the 3'x4' Fresnel lens out of an old rear projection TV and melted pennies and locks with it - video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoMjBkKOkPc
What is the biggest fear of a Software Engineer?
I was addicted to DOTA just like Tom and wasted 1 whole year on it, and almost dropped out of school(thanks to loose quality control in China's higher education system, but I'm not sure it's a good thing).

I got out -- and I'm the first one out -- my little DOTA addicted circle who did it.

What got me out is programming, I learned PHP/Java/Python/Javascript/Android etc... since I quited playing DOTA all day.

I still play DOTA, but very controllable and sometimes didn't play it in months.
At 1% you're literally on death's door. He's either exaggerating or just making this story up from whole cloth. My guess is it's one of those cases of "the older I get the better I was".
I find issues and the wiki to be the weak points of github. Fix those.
I dunno... I could see the heads of some traditional McDojo type TKD or Karate schools trying to promote thinking like that. I think they realize that most of the world has moved on and recognized MMA / hybrid training as more effective for actual combat, so they might try to reposition themselves by trying to paint MMA as wanton violence.

Heck, some of them might actually believe that their stuff is superior to MMA, based on some woo aspect or other. :-)
"Professional scientists almost never use this method."

That's because of confirmation bias. All of his examples seem to be:

1) Experience a 1 to 2-sigma variation in normal performance.

2) Look for something different in what you did that day.

3) Keep doing that, and voila, a minor improvement.

You'll find yourself doing some pretty goofy things if you follow his suggestion too regularly.

Edit: misspelling/layout.
I don't think I can make the jump. I'd rather pay my $7 or whatever it is than entrust my corporate secrets and repo stability to a new guy. Maybe in a few years.
Windows 7 has something similar, but rather than blocking the app just tells you something like "This application has known problems on Windows 7" and gives you options to check for a fix online, or to run the application anyway (in most cases. there are a select few where it doesn't let you run them at all, but you still get a button to check for a solution).

Even if Apple sticks with blocking the application entirely (which in this particular case they're probably right to do so, as it would cause a kernel panic) it would be nice to put something actionable in the dialog.
This article is about the Mac App Store. On iOS you must use the App Store to distribute apps (without jailbreak).
Agreed. Look, I'm not saying do this for everything but if you want to stick with Bootstrap default or don't want to mess with the settings too much, or just aren't a front-end dev per se, at least use those techniques stated in the article. I did it for my own projects but I've also built other projects where I just pasted in some BS stuff that I found fitting (for example, their table styles).
Rather than stick with the default (for rapid app/site devs), spend that extra small amount of time to make your product distinct.
If you're working long-term on a larger project, i don't suggest this as the route to take (ie. customize bs and just stick with that) and agree with you that things SHOULD be more customized to what you need.
The trackpad on the X1 Carbon works phenomenally well on my unit running 12.04.
"If you want to use jQuery for ajax, for instance, you lose all data bindings because vanilla javascript doesn't have the angular secret sauce!"

Data bindings should work as normal...if you're running into issues, try using $scope.$apply().

Angular uses jQuery, internally, so there are events you can hook into -- jQuery events.

And comparing the complexity of Angular and Backbone's internals is a bit misguided. They aren't meant to solve the same problems. Angular is complete Javascript application framework, and Backbone isn't. To use a non-foolproof analogy, if Angular were Rails, Backbone is Sinatra.
Thus the use of markdown became popular.
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on a MacBook Air [1] right now - much to the consternation of my IT department - and it works mostly-fine. The install was a bit fiddly and installing kernel updates breaks it, but both of those are due to needing to patch the kernel, which apparently is no longer needed for Ubuntu 12.04.

Day to day, the battery life isn't as good as it is in OSX, but other than that, it pretty much just works.

[1] (4,2 I think, but I can't remember how to check.)
And this article suggest you spend 30 minutes on it. That's it. Nothing drastic.
You and me, maybe not. However, my daughter, mom and mother-in-law loved it (and still do).

Size of the input screen makes a huge difference in tactile response and usability.
Ok, what was it?
Finally, if you are a V8 developer, I have a number of situations I would like to discuss with you in private.

Contact info for the v8 project is listed on http://code.google.com/p/v8/

You can ping the devs directly. svn/git blame will suggest a specific dev you can cc.
Starting as a total newbie in the programming world this summer, I dove head-first into the bare-essentials. This project is the result of most that i learned in these two months with the help of my brother. When i go back to finish my last year of high school, i look forward to continuing my code journey. Any feedback is much appreciated! Thanks for checking it out ;)
Actually, it is also an effective way to help patients relax and alleviate their anxiety. And, it is for the good of patients. Even if it is manipulation, it's a great deal better than situations where a manipulator is trying to get an advantage. E.g. you are told partial truth at work by the management. etc...

It shouldn't be regarded as manipulation IMHO.
Hey Mark, any chance you could break down your sales percentages for us? How many are coming via the Mac App Store vs. your website?
I was measured at <2% bodyfat when I wrestled in highschool. They forbid me from cutting weight because of it. At the same time I was a fully functioning, healthy individual. It DOES happen, though rarely.

edit: it was one of those cheap electrical measuring devices. It's very probable that the machine had a high margin of error.
Good job, keep up the great work!
I've got an X1 Carbon running 12.04 without any significant hardware issues besides battery life. I only get 3-4 hours on a charge, but I've also not done any intense tuning as of yet.
As you suspect Gitlab is hosted Git with an open source web front-end. I changed the first line of Gitlab.io to your exact quote, thank you for the suggestion.

I also linked to the Gitlab screenshots http://blog.gitlabhq.com/screenshots/ as you suggested, thanks again.

And I'll rewrite to make the open source angle the main point.
I think it would also be fair to not entirely blame the heroin. I think in any addiction it is important not to fall into the trap of "<x> is addictive" or "<x> is bad" - you need to make sure you don't fall into similar addictions in the future, which means recognising it isn't just that one thing, but also you.
App Ecosystem Weekly: US DOJ Policing Android App Piracy, HTML5 Adoption
The 32VD is bigger/thicker than the 31 models and has a hybrid HD(24GB flash) rather than full SSD. It's got a dedicated graphics so I guess it's just targeted towards a different market.
Apple is putting Google’s Voice search app through purgatory yet again
I love that we average the least amount of sunny days for a city in the lower 48, 100+ inches of snow and lava in the parking lots:)
http://speakertext.com offers this I think. Their captionbox is pretty slick.
Things like TLB might also affect your performance, at the cost of memory fragmentation. For example bigger page size (1, 2 or 4MB) would need only two 2 page directory/table lookups, while 4096 pages would need 3.

It's just one of the examples. For example 4096bytes vs 4MB page size:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:X86_Paging_4K.svg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:X86_Paging_4M.svg
As Zynga stock price plummets, company hemorrhaging top talent
No single benchmark for the web
For the hipster in your life...
damn, what a great work!
As you throw logs on the campfire, the perimeter of darkness grows.

I like that one. I've always thought of knowledge as a sphere and what the surface of the sphere touches is the intersect of your knowledge with what you know and don't know. As your knowledge grows so the does the sphere and your awareness about what you do not know.
Facebook employees forced to ditch iPhones to improve Android app
Wouldn't pay 50 bucks for them but if the price came down a little they would make good swag at conventions.
It's worth noting that 75% to 80% of the (pretty short) blacklist is Apple's own stuff.
I have a Thinkpad X220. First thing I did when I got the machine was load Ubuntu onto it. There were a number of annoyances: the machine got really hot, the fan stayed on constantly, the battery drained way quicker than in Windows.

But the most annoying problem was definitely the damn trackpad. The main problem is that it's horribly jumpy and unpredictable. No matter how I tweaked the options for the device, it would hop erratically. Most annoyingly, the act of lifting my finger away from the trackpad would cause the cursor to move. So, for example, I would move the cursor over a 'close window' icon, lift my finger to do something else (e.g. press a button/whatever) and the cursor would no longer be over the icon. I'd then have to reposition the cursor. So frustrating that I just gave up on the trackpad for a while and started using the trackpoint (which, I tend to call "the nipple").

Eventually, due to all of the problems taken together, I just started using Windows 7 (which, to my surprise, I actually like) with Ubuntu running in VirtualBox. All problems seem to be gone. Trackpad is totally fine in the VM.
Precisely. But controlling the trackpoint's responsiveness on the X1 (Ubuntu 12.04) is a little tricky.
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They never stopped making laptops with the trackpoint and frankly, I don't know why they would ever consider stopping. I have never met somebody who had a thinkpad and did not like it; the only people it seems to annoy are people who have not had one.
The submit button isn't the problem. Look at the default HTML styles. What sites out there still use that blue color for a link? It's one of the first things that gets redeclared in CSS.

As far as the audience, yes, I was just messing around with a few apps and looking at them. Each time I felt like there was something drawing me away from using it. Design is not disjointed from app usage. It's part of usability, it's part of the allure of an app. Read up on it.

Also, it's an EASY fix. Don't want to look like every other page hosted on Github or any other small app page? Customize bootstrap. Within 30 minutes, you're capturing audience, but not only that, you're standing out. It may not be specifically that bootstrap usage REPULSES people it may just be it doesn't really get them riled up about your app or make your app memorable.
I run a naming service (http://namingkings.com/) and can definitely help you out.

Also, you may find these articles useful:
http://namingkings.com/blog/case-studies
I agree it takes time to build a reputation. I hope that people will start with hosting non-corporate projects. Many companies already use self-install Gitlab to host behind the firewall.

I'm glad to say that after 2,5 hours on HN we already got 160 signups for the beta, so some people want to give it a try. But there will be many others like you that want to see where it goes, I hope to convince them soon.
"On Color Scheme Designer, I find a set of colors I think looks nice and then look at the light and dark page examples ... and they look like ass. I have no patience to sit and find something that looks nice here and drop it in Bootstrap there and discover that it looks terrible."

I'd say trial and error with this is actually a great way to learn some basic color theory and develop your intuition about what looks good on a page. This is a good skill to hone and is really what the most important part of being a designer is. Once you put the time in to really study color and what looks good, implementing it will get faster every time you go.
Oh. You echo my very pet peeve with the trackpoint. I hate the slight drift.

I have a script that disables the trackpad. I will figure out how to do it in the bios.
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Is this how Microsoft’s team built its logo?
Thanks for supporting and have fun uploading pictures fasterrr!!
This may be a small step towards further "appification" of the MacBook line of products, which for better or for worse has been Apple's M.O. lately.

On one hand, I love opening up the App Store on my MacBook and flipping through all the shiny icons in one central location that is safe and easy to use. On the other hand, I worry about Apple controlling the entire distribution channel for consumer software.
I knew there was a reason I liked the new Microsoft look.
Okay, okay, okay, i got it. Use boot theme. Press a die a bunch of times, wait until you find a color combo that doesn't look like ASS. Download. Saved you half the steps.

The bootstrap customization page sucks. i don't really use it myself.
My understanding is that the thickness comes from the fact that the body isn't a single piece of metal, so you can swap out the RAM and HDD (unlike the 31A and 21A). Also, apparently you can repartition the SSD that's used as an OS cache into a separate drive reasonably easily.

As much as I'd prefer the formfactor of the 21A, the ability to upgrade to 8GB of RAM is too big of a selling point to pass up on the 32VD.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I am under the impression that by selling outside the app store, you revoke the contract you have with Apple.

Without this contract, wouldn't simple use of any API involve infringement? Aren't you opening yourself up here to actual serious issues?
There's nothing wrong with submitting something old to Hacker News if it's still interesting!
> Maybe I'll give Linux on the laptop an honest try. I know for sure it won't be Windows.

Just install Ubuntu, it works very well with ThinkPads and it's made to be easy to use for end-users.
I think this is a slightly different 'backwards compatibility' than uepsed elsewhere. I bet Mathematica has seen zillions of incompatible changes. For example, http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/quick-revision-history.ht... lists "Many new automatic simplifications for derived distributions, including affine transformations, sums of variables, parameter mixtures, and censored and truncated distributions" for 8.0.1. I haven't used it, but I bet that there still is only one "Simplify" function, and that there aren't a zillion settings to make it behave 'just like version X for any X in 1.0, 1.01, …, 8.0.

Compare that to e.g. windows, with its BlaEx, BlaEx2, etc functions, or a typical database, where a zillion flags control what language dialect they follow, how exactly NULLs behave, etc, or filesystems (for example, Apple's HFS has a bug in its filename sorting that has been faithfully copied for decades now)
I think the silly part is why would you run 12 miles, get bored, and then WALK home? Shouldn't you just run home?
I'm a fan of turning the entire trackpad into one giant scrollwheel (and cranking the palm-detection up). Might as well use it for something I figure.
Many merchants offer a discount for paying in cash or charge a fee for using a credit card for small purchases. The only reason such practices are not ubiquitous is that they violate the merchant agreement.
This has no place in this discussion and you are the first to mention Android.
He's also 21, in a poor state, and remembering when he was at his peak. He may be exaggerating a bit.
Don't know where the "beer goggles" part of the title came from, this is just a time delayed video feed instead of a mirror. Fun but nothing special.
I wasn't aware of $scope.$apply, should help simplify some of my angular stuff. Thank you :)
So this article really emphasizes how little Ben actually understands what design is. "But good product isn’t pretty: Good product is product that works for users and works for the company." I don't know how many times in my comment history I've said it; but design is not "pretty". Design is functionality merged with simplicity.

He cites Craigslist, which we've talked about all too often here. Their lack of a better design was acceptable at a time when technology didn't allow for it and when people didn't expect or know what good design was. The entire Padmapper debacle was because they did Craigslist better than Craigslist. Then eBay. We had a discussion about this recently too - the UX is terrible and the search - which should be their #1 tool - is even worse.

Now with Amazon, they're one of those sites where the necessity to keep the design dry for the sake of usability is integral to the business. Even still, they've nailed their UX down so that you've only really got to use two or three functions of the site to get where you need to go and then some.

Then he really loses me when he says that this is painfully clear because people buy Ford Focuses instead of Ferrari's. I really don't even need to touch this one and I'm not even sure why he shot himself in the foot like that. The comments on VentureBeat do a good job of picking him apart there.

As an aside, I don't think I've been to that site in years, and I'm not exactly sure who does - is it below the ranks of 9GAG and FunnyJunk?

Actually now that I think about it, I once had a recruitment agency tell me that "that Cheez-.. what is it - 'I have a cheeseburger?' .. 'Can I have a cheeseburger?' site is constantly hiring our designers" and "maybe we should check with them." I laughed on my way out. When your talent agency can't even remember your name, maybe design (as branding) is something you should care about.
A step by step implementation of a bloom filter would be awesome.
One person's consumer feedback doesn't really add much to the dicussion.
For someone who runs distance seriously, 24 miles is pretty normal. This is not to say that the OP is on the level -- I'm also skeptical of the martial arts claims, among others. If the kid has a real problem with video games (and with the family life he sketches out, anybody would have some problems), sure, OK. But the whole thing reeks of fabulist nonsense.
What's wrong with it? I haven't used an X1, but I have a T400 and T410, both running Linux, and there are no issues with TrackPoint responsiveness.
It's easy enough for a person in very good shape to run 12 miles. Some marathon runners cover >100 miles per week in training (in their case, of course that is their main training activity).

All together, though, those bragging points add up to something implausible.