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EDIT: I did some spot checks with chrome developer tools on a project linked from their front page: https://github.com/rails/rails

Chrome is reporting the code tab is taking 3.7 seconds to load. 22 HTTP requests. The Pull tab has over 100 HTTP requests. I don't consider anything over 1s to be fast.

Even the initial HTML is taking more than 1.5 seconds on the Pull tab! I think you should aim for 200ms for the HTML, and maybe 1s total. This is many times slower.
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Tell me why we shouldn't demand devices that we can change, do whatever we please with?

You can demand this all you want, as long as the only way you enforce your demand is by choosing what products to buy.

But if you mean "demand" as in "make laws and regulations", as it's clear you do, then I disagree.

When the interests of companies goes against the interests of the people, then we regulate.

No, we buy something else or go without.

At the end of the day, we're talking about smartphones and apps here. You do not need to have an iPhone. You do not need to have apps. If you don't like what's on offer, and all your efforts at persuasion fail, then, as I said, you buy something else or go without.

For example, I can't stand the MPAA and RIAA. I've blogged repeatedly about their stupid, shortsighted business practices and their attempts to get draconian laws passed to emasculate general purpose computers. But I have no right to demand that they make their products the way I want them to, or else we'll get the government to regulate them. If they refuse to listen to reason, as they have, I simply buy something else or go without. Which means that I almost never buy music or movies now. I do not have an iPhone, or an iPad, or any other iDevice, and have no plans to buy one, for the same reason.
Thanks! We hired Jonas Eriksson (http://erikssonjonas.com/) to do the redesign.
I can't believe the level of raspberry pi astroturfing present here. This board is so much more powerful that it can run full Ubuntu fast and the same chip is actually used to build very competent android tablets. I read things like "mindshare" "community" "The site is wrong" "the GPU is better in the raspberry" (Ha! sure, games will run better i suppose) , well the site looks perfectly OK for me. I gonna burn points for this, but the u$s 50 Raspberry pi is overpriced since you can get a u$s 67 complete android tablet (http://goo.gl/Misru)
What? You can't just steal Bitcoins out of someone's wallet. That's like saying, people get robbed, thus cash is unsafe.

The examples like you posted, are people who stored bitcoins in wallets on servers unencrypted. It would be like giving you my wallet and then you getting robbed.
True or not, I'm glad you made the point - if only as a counter against lazy Reductio ad Jobs thinking.
In the case of the "allow release" bitcoin account, clearly someone is sending a message to the perpetuators saying "prove that you actually have the documents".

In the case of the "stop release", a different person likely sent a message as a joke, but didn't realize that the QR code couldn't handle the number of bits for the full imgur url, and it was truncated as a result to the "/i".
I actually am more upset about it being ransomed rather than simply released.
+1. Thanks Nivi! You made our last funding effort so much easier, we can't say enough good things about angel list. I look forward to trying angel docs for my next startup when the time comes!
That is correct - all 4s devices have both CDMA and GSM support; the difference between the AT&T and Verizon "versions" is just one of activation, basically.
Wait... I thought as a Presidential candidate he would be handing that over anyway. Is that optional? I'm confused.
This is something that coders should think about. A culture of quality drives looking for perfection at every level, whether it be code, typefaces, graphs, or network configuration.

Just 'cause there's non-code aspects doesn't mean they have freedom to be ugly when you're striving for excellence.

edit: English fail.
Oh! That's good to know. Looks like I'll be giving the game another chance then.
This actually seems to me like a perfect solution (from WhatsApp's side). This way as long the user has the same phone number, he/she doesn't have to remember any credentials, which is probably the main reason (or one of the top 3) for people using WhatsApp in the first place.

And as for the "security problem", if someone has access to your phone they can just maliciously use the app itself. I'm not saying that this should just be ignored, but in this specific case the author had probably created the bigger part of the security threat by publishing the article.
Hey, I am one of the founders and yes the peer product right now is pretty broken. Our bad on that.

Because we have a demo day / investors / mentors we had to build V1 of all the products first - so that we could get companies to demo day.

As of tomorrow we are starting over on the peer collaboration product / onboarding to make it awesome.

We basically had the first cohort of users go through our system. Now we can get past MVP's on the different products.

That being said I would really appreciate your continued feedback!

And thanks for giving it a shot in the first place!
I discovered the exact same thing. I had previously bought an RSI wristguard to use at work, with limited success... started wearing it overnight and the pain went away very quickly. Lesson learnt!
I'm having some serious cognitive dissonance over your comment. You're saying that if apple does not change the form factor of the best selling phone on the planet, sales will "drop off a cliff"? Solely on the basis of your personal screen size preference?
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You pay use tax when you register the vehicle at the CA DMV. You get deductions for paying out of state sales tax in certain cases.

http://dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/index.jsp
Yeah we have been focusing on providing value for our users. Will be making more of a public presence in the fall.

I like building sleepers :)
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I don't know. Getting an API to 4chan is like getting a parking pass to the local garbage dump. What statistics are you actually mining here?
They already did, and it seemed to be a solid device when I tried it a bit. Of course they are not very happy to sell anyone that as it runs the infamous 'burning platform', Symbian.

http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/products/phone/x7-00/specificatio...
>Last time I played Supreme Commander 2 (about a year ago), had the most braindead AI I've seen in an RTS in a while. The single player skirmish (and I normally prefer skirmishes to campaigns) was therefore unsatisfying and frustratingly annoying to play due to shockingly bad AI.
>Maybe they've updated and improved it?

Not an expert, but I believe it started off as a mod, and eventually the modder worked with the devs to integrate it into later patches in the game.
Hey Joe, no problem. I didn't know you had a demo day, I just joined a few days ago. I sent you another email a few hours ago, if you could reply after the demo day so I can figure out why I can't add any startups, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for your help!
PricewaterhouseCoopers PR managing director Chris Atkins says: “We are aware of the allegations that have been made regarding improper access to our systems. We are working closely with the United States Secret Service, and at this time there is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was any unauthorized access to the data in question.”

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4481292
This could go both ways, though, as I would expect that at least the cars are reasonably well serviced.
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I completely concur. I've been typing (almost) exclusively on Dvorak for the last 12 years, through university and a career as a professional programmer. It's hard to hear my colleagues complaining of wrist pain on a regular basis. I've tried to get some of them to switch but it's really not easy when your job relies on being able to type. You really do need to immerse yourself on it - trying to learn Dvorak while typing all day on Qwerty isn't going to work.

I'd actually recommend people to make the switch if you ever happen to take a two week vacation where you're still on the computer. Your hands will thank you.

It's even worth the continual comments from my coworkers - "What the fuck is wrong with your keyboard?". Actually, that's a lie, the 16-year-old inside me still loves those comments. :)
Mostly because he hasn't actually announced it yet. The website is still in process and cnx-soft found it recently. Thus all the hubbub.

He has shared the info with people who are friends on G+. But ripping in to someone for their choice of nickname? Seriously? I've seen many worse nicknames by people in this so called startup community that seems to be more and more filled with cynicism and negativity.

Apparently if you don't use a Mac/rails/js it isn't worth looking in to.
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The discoverability thing was maybe valid on Gingerbread and below. But with ICS and above, the widgets are integrated into the app drawer, and there should be no discoverability concerns.
For what it's worth, if you were working for me, you would be instantly fired.

This is exactly the kind of opinion that perpetuates the mass of low quality crap in the world. It's an example of cutting corners, and long-term, it ends up costing so much more than it saves.
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Hey Danny - I would love to have you list the Beeminder API on http://mashape.com, I think our developer community will love it!
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I suffered from hand pain, and solved it with a mechanical keyboard. With a decent mechanical keyboard (I use ones with Cherry switches - blue and red), you don't have to bottom out they keys to get them to register a keystroke.

Getting rid of this shock makes my hands pain free, whereas if I have to move back to a membrane style keyboard, my hands start to ache after a few minutes of typing.

It's an incremental step in a positive direction, at about 1/3rd the cost of a Kenesis, and without the odd key layout the Kenesis imposes.
There's no legal requirement for any candidate of office to disclose any tax returns. It has become a standard thing to do, and Romney has released at least one (2010) and has pledged to release another (2011), but it is totally optional.

Obama, on the other hand, has released tax returns going back to 2000.
What if you charged for it? (Not saying this is a good idea, just that it's an idea.)
Well Zemanta tries to help the author instead of reader. That might sound like a small difference, but it actually is a huge shift - author is a human filter and things that the end reader see are not computer-recommendations, but human selected ones.
Maybe he just meant from the user's perspective. If someone just wants to able to call their friends and family, they do not need 32 million users to switch over to anything. What they need are simple instructions and the code to set up the network and make those calls.

The people who brought you your Skype were a bit "bold" don't you think? Shouldn't they have just left VOIP to the telcos? The telcos have 100's of millions of customers. How many did Skype have when it started?

Is this a startup forum or an "I love the status quo" forum?
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Releasing someone's private financial documents against their will is pretty ugly as well, but I agree that the ransom/blackmail/extortion angle makes this particularly ugly.
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You've mentioned before that you visit 4chan every day. Do you visit any text boards?

I guess it's my own fault for fighting against the nature of the site, but sometimes I try to go the extra mile and put some effort into a post, and feel like no one even notices when I do. It's very discouraging for a conversation to have long since moved on by the time you've posted, or for a person you were trying to help to have given up already and left their thread. While I like 4chan for what it is, I'm still a little bit sad that the textboards never really took off as much, and I wonder why they didn't -- anonymous somewhat-long-form discussion sounds appealing to me. I'd be right at home in a text board with a fraction of the userbase of a 4chan board and a slightly slower pace, but most of the ones I know of are practically dead at this point.
>Today, a hacker allegedly stole Mitt Romney’s tax returns, is demanding $1 million in Bitcoins for silence, and sent a USB drive and letter to the GOP and Democratic party offices in Williamson County, Tennessee as proof.

The hacker stole the information today and was able to physically deliver a letter and usb drive to two government offices? I wonder how he did this without being caught on video? There are cameras everywhere around these offices. He could not have used the postal service as it would have taken more than a day. Courier services would have witnesses.

Strange that he would not just email the information to a contact email in each of the offices.

This whole thing is nothing but a Con (a pretty good one too).
> This is the most magical aspect of 4chan, which is why I don't care for archives.

The written word allows us to lend ideas (memes, concepts, what have you) a sense of permanence that they never would have had otherwise. But at the same time, it prevents them from evolving in a way they otherwise might have, if their exact origins were not so easily recorded & referenced.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 4chan, which lacks this permanence, is the origin of so many of the top memes of the past decade (and by 'meme', I don't just mean things like LOLcats).

(Gleick argues this same point in the first few chapters of The Information, for those who are interested).

EDIT: Just realized who I was replying to - if I may ask, are you concerned at all that an official API might detract from 4chan (by making said content more traceable)?
I've had wrist problems with the Dvorak layout, in fact I didn't get any until well after switching. The real benefit is probably that relearning how to type will change your posture or other behavior while you type, relieving you of the habits you got that caused your wrist problems.

I managed to solve my wrist problems by getting a piano.
Right, so the question is why we die when we die, not why we die at all.
I had a bout with tendonitis ten years ago and was worried I'd have to quit coding, but I found the problem cleared up after doing push-ups for a week.
Thanks for your answers, nice insight. Great job on the dashboard, its interface is really inspiring.

I still don't grasp how API can be so efficient while doing basically the same thing as the public-facing site minus probably the HTML rendering, which leads me to believe that rendering is damn resource-heavy in Rails.
You're absolutely right about the truncation, the text is exactly 160 characters long, and the QR code generator used silently truncates the clipboard contents, so that it's very likely that the person was unaware that some characters were missing.

Any volunteers for sending a Bitcoin message to tell these guys that they messed up? :-)
The person/organization in charge has to be caught, otherwise the world is being signaled that bitcoin is the perfect extortion currency.
Do you have an idea of a site that you consider fast? I just checked a few sites around the web, and 1.x seconds seems pretty average (I'm looking at the onload time, as that seems like a somewhat-maybe scientific way of looking at things.)
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I'll update one of my comments. The book IS crap. He may have stumbled onto a phenomenon, but his explanations are crazy. Deepak Chopra and Freud. Not scientific at all.

That said, despite the utter silliness, somehow I believed his premise that "there's no actual physical problem there, it's just in your head" and _magically_ I stopped having RSI issues. I can type curled up on a chair on my ThinkPad with no pain - before, I needed all sorts of fancy tables with nice ergo keyboards.

So, it's worth starting to read his book (Mindbody Prescription), even though you'll toss it in disgust after an hour, just on the off-chance that you, too, end up tricking yourself into not having pain.
I think a lot of the App Store rules will have to change eventually. It is anti-competitive for them to not allow apps that duplicate their functionality and Apple has "market-power". I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that someone with strong market power and restrictions in place to slow competitors or ban them entirely is good grounds for an anti-trust suit.
I don't think everyone learns email as a metaphor though.

While I'm old enough to have sent and received paper mail as a means of communication, it's highly likely that my toddler will have sent email (and internalized the concept) before having interacted with physical mail systems. It's a metaphor for us to call it email but it's a vestigial name to the younger generations.

Think of the floppy disk being a metaphor for saving a file. Few people younger than 15 have used a floppy drive but manage to save files regardless. I also understood radio buttons on web forms as exclusive selections as a young person even though I didn't know it was a metaphor for real buttons on old car radios until a couple of years ago.
Don't mind the haters that think twitter bootstrap is a good enough UI wrapper, those are some pretty sexy graphs.

As a developer I'm totally jealous of the ability to create simultaneously elegant and usable UI/UX, even when I used to try and just copy the CSS and structure right from the HTML source (I've since stopped) it was always missing that "je ne sais quois".
Only if you think prayer is going to do the person good. (Do note that this paper is six years old)
I've had very similar concerns about GC vs. Manual memory management for games. It's good to finally see some sort of quantitative research and investigation, rather than people throwing around their opinions.

It's interesting that GDC is so much faster than DMD, especially given DMD is supposed to be the reference implementation. But then he is using plenty of optimization flags with GDC.

I don't know what sort of GC D uses, but incremental or generational garbage collection would probably be better for smoothing out differences in framerate due to GC rather than running an entire GC cycle every frame.

It's actually a pretty impressive game for only 3 months; I'm sure I couldn't code a 3D game with particle effects and that sort of lighting from the ground up in 3 months.

Overall for a performance hit of 4ms per frame, It would probably be worth using a GC when you consider all the errors and issues it would eliminate from game development. For me personally it would totally be worth it developing small independent games. Maybe not so much for AAA games where performance matters.
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There is an important piece to this story that is missing from all the current news articles: a different earlier post on pastebin, dated 9/2, did not make mention of any kind of ransom:

http://pastebin.com/zdU1TK40

That earlier post simply said "The group will release all available files to the public on the 28 of September, 2012."

That says to me that a second group saw the original post and decided to try and make some money off it as a scam. Of course it's also possible that they just changed their minds over the weekend.

I'm not sure what either scenario says about the likelihood that this is real, but it definitely makes things more interesting. It's also worth noting that PWC is currently saying they have seen no signs that any data was taken.
For any blog post like this, the absolute first thing should be a demo. "Simple" and "fast" are claims that cant be verified by looking at code, and a demo is a primer that makes code easier to understand.
>The person also set up a bit of a race for Romney: first to pay the sum will receive the goods.

If the person sent the letter to multiple offices (presumably some democrats) they are guaranteeing that the story gets out. If the story gets out, they are all but guaranteeing that Romney will not pay the blackmail money. He has the ability to claim the documents are faked if he does not pay, but he would basically be admitting guilt if he does.

If the blackmailer is looking for money, they chose about the worst way to go about doing it. If however, they want to call attention to Romney's taxes, they chose a great way of doing it.

However, if their goal is to draw attention to the taxes, it would probably be better to just release the documents out right. While I could see going through the blackmail rouse to draw even further attention, it risks cementing in people's minds that the blackmailer is a criminal and not a reliable source of information.

If you're goal is to damage Romney, not releasing the documents immediately only really makes sense if you don't have them. So, while the schadenfreude in me wishes this were true, I seriously doubt it.
> It's not with showing off office pictures of employees playing around with nerf guns. Those are gimmicks. Culture is not defined by a fancy workplace. It's all about the people.

I wish more people understood this. For me personally, seeing offices full of nerf guns and foosball tables turns me off, because I worry they're focusing on that instead of real culture -- managers that don't micromanage, a sense of vision that's being communicated well, employees being listened to in a real way, etc.

It's easy to buy nerf guns. It's hard to create a company culture that thrives. I'm sure you can have both, but the nerf guns don't mean anything.

And me personally, I'd rather not have the nerf guns, because it's clear they are just gimmicks, and I trust a workplace more if they can attract good employees without gimmicks.
Got it. I guess since they've all done it I assumed that was just what they did. I personally don't really give a crap about their tax returns. I fail to see what it matters how much money they made last year or 10yrs ago. Is that some sort of measure of how good of a President they will be?
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An unsalted(!) md5(!) is never a perfect solution unless your goal is insecurity. The idea of using the IMEI as unique device dependant string for hash generation is good but you must make it impossible for anyone to find out how the hash is created or it is a glaring security hole (as demonstrated).

Many many apps have permissions to read the IMEI. Just as many have access to the internet. Add whatever permission is needed to find out the device's phone number and you have all you need.
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This is a well-known design decision on their side. This is not as much a discovery as bringing it up.
I'm not sure which way you meant that point. Ikea's furniture is notorious for being low-quality and easily broken, despite looking attractive.
I agree. He does himself a massive disservice by dragging Freud and whatnot into it. Ultimately, what he's saying is "Stress, especially stress you're not aware you have, causes pain. Process the stress and the pain will leave." And that works for at least some people, which is what counts.
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