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A relational table is meant to store data, but is not meant to represent data by its own existence.

"Represent data by its own existence" means, if you wrote an app where every time a user created a new account, a brand new table called "user_account_XYZ" would be created to store that user's account information. This is the classic "tables-on-the-fly" antipattern. It's not the same as a horizontal sharding or replicated system where tables are structurally broken out for scaling purposes.

We of course have "on the fly" schemes for all kinds of things that are normally manually generated; some template languages automatically generate backing source files, cloud-based hosting spins up and tears down servers on demand, and database replication or sharding schemes will generate new schemas and tables to accommodate growth or change in the overall dataset. That's not what I mean when I say "on the fly" - I mean an application that relies upon creating new relational tables on the fly in order to represent data.
Shallow, almost childish article. A waste of time.
I also find it funny that they're using the processor intensive version of the bigtext plugin AND emphasising performance on the same page...
This is blog spam for a register article which is sourced from the Sun.
The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed
The only difference I'm aware of (I haven't looked into it much) is that Vundle downloads plugins too, rather than just install them, but it's a pretty big difference when you're looking for a plugin manager.
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Starts too early, in my opinion. I wish it would begin rotating a bit above the halfway mark. It is very attractive, though.
You think ayurveda is crap? What makes you think that?
> Having known people who benefitted from ayurvedic treatment

Anecdotal evidence.

> needless to say many treatment centers are based in cities and visited by what you might call a more educated and worldly crowd

Appeal to authority.

How about some actual scientific evidence? I'm no expert on the matter, but from what I can find on Wikipedia[0], the benefits of Ayurvedic medicne were inconclusive at best.

As someone who has spent time in medical research, I will admit my opinion is skewed. I've worked with plenty of researchers from India, and none of them have given any credence to Ayurvedic medicine. These are people who (like any researchers) will use any and all means available to them to come up with scientifically viable theories that they can use to get grants. If Ayurveda were as great as you claim it is, then they would have definitely given it a shot.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurvedic_medicine#Scientific_a...
Wow! A great hack on hacker news! Thanks Erik. Don't let the griping grind you down.
Nice to see another VIM article on Hacker News.
Original link:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/03/bruce_willis_in_itun...
I've just launched http://www.bravecreators.com and http://www.alicecombes.com and I'm hoping to turn both into businesses eventually. I have a full time job at the moment so only have time in the evenings and weekends.

I've tried doing other things to make money, like opening an online shop selling craft kits, etc - but my passion wasn't there. So one thing I've learnt is that it is very important to do what you love, follow your passion. Your passion is your motivation.
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Please do read my comment. If you compare the pay in dollars, of course it is less. But the cost of living, the local economy, etc probably puts them at higher pay or equivalent to what people in US would get.
Wow, very cool. I like C#, and the DOM is actually specified with types, so statically-typed web dev with this would be awesome.
The main censor package on the Global Hawk is the Hughes Integrated Surveillance and Reconnaissance radar [1]. It has SAR and Moving Target Indication capability. So not only can you get hi-resolution scans of the target area, you can also automatically discriminate the vehicles from background. I imagine that it would also carry a pretty sophisticated visual/IR sensor system. The Global Hawk was meant to compliment/replace the U2 spyplanes, and THOSE had a resolution of ~2' back in the 70s.

[1] http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Radar-and-Electroni...

There are all sorts of other fun things going on with military radar and electronic warfare. The latest generation of radars coming out are typically all solid state and rely on beam forming. They're typically flexible and powerful enough now that the radar unit can be used for some jamming purposes.

Some other fun things for you could be Digital RF Memory. Basically, you can play back a received radar pulse after running some DSP on it to create false contacts of different size/shape/location.
Can you elaborate on your requirements/wishes here?

For me my vim environment consists of my vimrc plus plugins. Granted, I pick plugins based on the "doesn't need extra steps to work" requirement.

vundle therefor restores my setup completely from a (potentially restored or managed in a git repository) vimrc file. What's missing for you?
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Some browsers, and ES Harmony, have yield. You could add a compiler switch to use native support, although only Firefox seems to support this just now.

Curious to see how you managed the emulation - splitting up a function? Web workers? :)
thanks so much for this, I've saved this template as an automatic reply ! haha
Are they already open / matched by wildignore?
Glances - an easy CLI overview of your system (CPU, mem, I/O)
Yeah, I deal with this on (almost) a daily basis. My response is, "I'm not LOOKING to emulate the iPhone interface. I design my own buttons and widgets" There is nothing that does a great job of emulating the iPhone interface. And even if you DO get close, it looks foreign on an Android device. As far as performance, all these kids that follow a few Obj-C tutorials and build a couple of forms in Xcode make me crack up. You're NOT gaining performance, you're probably leaking memory like crazy because you don't understand C very well. I agree with the sentiment of the snobbery. Hey, if you write Java and Obj-C at the speed that I can code a web app, great. But don't complain when mine looks nicer than yours... and the performance isn't THAT much different.
I think the pi has been great, and am currently using it as a NAS. As a programming platform it's a great introduction to programming for ARM.
Maybe they were doing surveillance over the straits of malacca? Lots of piracy there.
Thanks for the clarification. Having only access to a single JB device (my Nexus 7) myself I didn't even know that this is 'special'.
> It's not about existing sales, it's about stock.

They keep a year of sales in inventory? That's a lot of money to have tied up.
I don't see it on chrome 21. Either it's too subtle, or it's not working, or I'm too dumb.
Minor point, but Pine is one of the console email clients, the conferencing software use for the actual forums on The WELL is PicoSpan [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoSpan
Not in the slightest. We added that feature when we thought Lanyrd would be a side-project that we'd use to keep us amused while we were travelling on honeymoon. We've since raised a large seed round which is covering our costs for the moment!
$2k is exceedingly cheap in the cellular space I would guess. So, the title would only be misleading out of context, in which Fabrice assumes you will find your own context, because he is to busy saving the world with code.

Also agree this is very cool use of SoftRadio.
> Seriously, how many stories of a small team making at least 70k from a single app have you heard in 2012? Not many.

Maybe it's because we're from different places, but a team of three creating $70k in revenue in a year is not rare or even that great of an accomplishment (that's not a reasonable living wage here). Maybe it is if you're spending your time making a free game or a $.99 throw away app, but there's no reason why three smart people can't solve a problem for a type of business and generate real revenue. Like patio11 and his Appointment Reminder app.
This is our second distro, Occidentalis v0.2. Rubus occidentalis is the black raspberry. It is derived from Raspbian Wheezy August 16. We have made a few key changes to make it more hardware-hacker friendly!

Version 0.2 updates (new!)
• Truncated image - only 2.6G now to fit on any 4G card
• raspi-config notice retained on boot
• Removed persistant wlan0 entry
• Password-change reminder on login
• Added RTC and lm-sensors kernel module
• Included kernel modules for: DS1307, AD626 I2C digipots, HMC6352, BMP085, ADS1015
• New! Adafruit's PWM/Servo kernel module for easy PWM/Servo control on GPIO#18

Version 0.1 updates (still included)
• Updated to Hexxeh firmware
• I2C and hardware SPI support
• I2C/SPI modules initialized on boot
• sshd on boot
• ssh keygen on first boot
• runs avahi daemon (Bonjour client) and is called raspberrypi.local
• Realtek RTL8188CUS wifi support
• One wire support on GPIO #4 when loaded
I completely agree with you as far as functionality is concerned. Both platforms have an abundance of apps for almost every possible application (hah, I used 'app' and 'application' with different meanings in one sentence!)/

That said, I feel like design-wise Android apps are seriously hampered by the multitude of available screen sizes. I have seen too many apps that seem to optimize for small screens and look ridiculously under-polished on big screens. K9 Mail or most Twitter apps for example rely on tiny text in undecorated rectangles. This is clearly appropriate if you want to cram as much information as possible on a tiny screen but looks out of place on a Samsung S3. A gradient and some text color/size differentiation would go a long way there, but look distracting on a small screen.

Thus, I have trouble finding beautiful Twitter, RSS or Email apps for big Android phones. Of course, on iOS, there is not much choice for Email at all...

(If you disagree, by all means tell me about those beautiful apps! I am still searching!)
The title of this submission: "Charlie Stross on indespensible Android apps" (emphasis added)

The title of the linked article: "Gadget patrol: indispensable Android apps" (Emphasis added)

Please do not type in headlines, because you will surely get it wrong. Instead, copy them.
Super cool project! Thanks for sharing!!!
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This was the most fascinating bit of the interview for me:

> I was extremely nervous. Since they are gangsters, I thought I should be very careful, in case I shot something I wasn’t supposed to see. But this actually upset the gang. They saw my nervousness as disrespectful. I remember one time early on this guy pulled me aside and said, “You are here to take pictures. Act like a professional.” It turned out they respected me if I was really aggressive about getting a certain shot. To not take photos was a sign of weakness.

The much-less-scary situations that I've photographed...police scenes, county fairs, fashion shows, sports game...it is almost always the case that acting like you're supposed to be there will work out in your advantage. The amount of outright aggressiveness is up to the individual photographer, but I imagine that this is why photogs are among the most aggressive in an average newsroom.

The same principle probably applies to every kind of business and human social scenario.
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For the repo I work in, CtrlP takes about 3 seconds to load for the first time; CommandT is instant. CtrlP is nice for smaller projects, though.
Multivariate testing? Now you're talking.

I am considering a lower pricing tier for a menu. Currently only St. Louis has a couple menus, because curating and formatting the menus is a pain.
The difference being that your software probably isn't going to save anyone's life. While a specific chemical compound designed for that purpose probably can. There is a clear moral difference.
Every time an article like this comes up, snipMate seems to be mentioned. This particular author even pointed to the old repository which appears unmaintained and has not had a check-in for two years.

Where's the love for UltiSnips? [1]

UltiSnips is actively maintained and well documented, not to mention supporting many more features, such as Python interpolation. More info at [2].

[1] https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips

[2] http://fueledbylemons.com/blog/2011/07/27/why-ultisnips/
The top two things about the S3 are the much bigger screen and Swiftkey. Those two things alone would be enough to tip the scales for me but there are a bunch of other small things I appreciate.

1. The pull down menu to toggle wifi/gps/etc is much more ergonomic than fishing around in the settings menu on iOS.

2. Widgets can actually be a lot more useful than the typical clock/weather header. I have quick toggle widgets for alarms, a player widget for music etc.

3. Intents. I can share a picture directly to a dozen different apps, not only the ones with support manually coded into the parent app. I can choose my own default browser, mail client, photo editor, twitter client etc.

4. The photo gallery and integrated G+ uploading is so much better than iOS's photo app it's not even funny.

5. I can block incoming calls and SMS from people I don't want to hear from.

6. I can carry a spare battery if I'm going to be away from a charger for a long time.

7. I have a real choice of browsers and currently Mozilla Firefox Beta is better than Safari or Chrome (IMO).

8. I can buy books directly from the Kindle app instead of playing hopscotch around Apple's stupid rules.

10. Gmail is much better integrated and more functional than any mail client on iOS.

11. Background updating. I don't really think about app updates anymore. They just happen in the background. I can turn this off on a per-app basis if I really care.

12. The play store is a lot more pleasant to navigate and shows a lot more useful information than the iOS app store.

In the last six months a lot of holes have been filled. Pinterest, Path, Flipboard, Instagram etc. I don't really miss any apps from the iPhone.
How many files is the project you try it on? CommandT is faster for me, but only noticeably on large projects.
It also renders Buffer Explorer obsolete, if used with buffer search mode.
It's so typically IBM to concentrate on Businesses and forgetting consumers with a technology that could even eat into Google's market. They should partner with Microsoft / Nokia and get license fees for every Windows phone. Now that would be some exciting stuff getting people to buy WP8.
Bjarne Stroustrup says about this too.

Also have a look at Larry Wall's web page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/
Google Play sale is happening, as long as you can find it.
Even more succinct tl;dr:

- It's a diversity problem. Too much money in the hands of white guys in suits.

"I don't think there's too much money sitting around. I think there's too much money in too few hands. So when six white guys in suits control two and a half billion dollars, that's not a good thing. Instead of being allocated just to one firm, it would be better if that two and a half billion dollars was allocated to 25 firms at $100 million each. It would lead to more diversity or people trying more things: data sciences, urban sciences, transportation, energy, materials science, and many others. "
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The problem is the twitter API - I'm currently rendering with JQuery clientside, and the number of trucks in SF would exceed an IP's call limit.

I've been working on a cached serverside implementation that uses multiple IPs to overcome this, but it's too much of a pain. In addition, I would have to completely redo the UI to accommodate that many trucks.

I think that the current site will stay for mid-sized cities (30-50 trucks) unless a developer steps in. I had almost finalized giving 49% of the company to have the rails shop in town completely redo the site and do the caching.
I already happen to have these in my setup; if you're a git user I highly recommend fugitive.vim too.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
I always think how these hackers manage to do it. If you look at the projects in his homepage they vary across domains.

How do they manage to stay motivated, how do they learn all the stuff they do. And if I'm not wrong they do this apart from their day jobs.

Projects on his page are inspiring.
I gradually switched (since Jan 2011) to consulting part-time (I'm down to 2 days in a week) at my previous employer and I've got one product (http://apps.shopify.com/fliptabify) that makes a decent amount of money (enough to survive* but not yet comfortable) and I'm working on a few more.

Currently doing everything myself. Lucky to have a few friends I can bounce off ideas with.

Edit: * To add more context, I'm married and have a 17 month old daughter.
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But there's no way app.net is going to be Twitter without ads if you have to pay $50/year for it. It may be Super Small Niche Twitter, but it won't come close to being actual Twitter in numbers.
Well, obviously this is a matter of taste and certainly there are plenty of ugly apps on the store.

But one of the things I really like about well-designed ICS+ apps is that they really feel like an integrated part of a task-centric UI and not some over-fetishized designer's extravagance. I think Apple's embrace of skeuomorphism has encouraged a flood of hyper-stylized but not particularly ergonomic apps that each exist in their own little unique aesthetic universe.

For example, I'd much rather look at Tweet Lanes, even though it's pretty much a stock ICS app, than any iOS Twitter client loaded down with drop shadows and gradients and organic textures:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tweetlanes...

If anything I'd like to see a move in the direction of Windows Phone, with an information-centric focus on clean typography and presentation of data.
I've tweaked mine to this, which includes untracked files, but honours your gitignores:

let g:ctrlp_user_command = ['.git/', 'cd %s && git ls-files --exclude-standard -co']

It was annoying me that I couldn't open files I'd just created with CtrlP, as they wern't yet tracked.
Agreed, that LESS post spurred me to write about it (briefly): http://coderwall.com/p/p7suww
You don't even have to apply if you have already an interesting and popular app on other platforms. A client of mine has been contacted by Microsoft and been told, that they wanted to sponsor the development of his app for Windows Phone. And so they did.
Actually, where's the love for neocomplcache? [1]

neocomplcache is actively maintained and well documented, not to mention supporting many more features, such as file path completion, register completion, omni completion and Vim completion.

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplcache
Tell HN: I'm giving away an expiring domain name
I bought the domain name Bluffr.com 4 years ago and I've never done anything with it. I originally intended to build a poker-related side but life got in the way.

The domain name is up for renewal in 2 weeks and I don't intend on renewing it. I figured that instead of letting it go to squatters, I would offer it here first. If you're interested in this domain name, here's your chance to get it for free!

Here's what I ask from you:

- Tell us (HN) what you intend to do with the domain name and what your timeline is.

- You must have real intentions of using the domain name. Flipping or selling it does NOT count. You must actively use it.

- You must pay the fees to renew the domain name (currently registered at NameCheap)

I will give the domain name to the person with the most interesting project and who I believe will deliver on his/her promise.
We started coding in october 2011, first pilot customer was december 2011, and active sales started february 2012, with approx linear growth ever since.

I'm in business since 2008, and this is my second business, first one was hosted PBX service.
I just answered a similar request here [1] - but basically the site can't support a city with that many trucks because of Twitter's beloved API call limits.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470623
My favorite example is http://okmij.org/ftp/

Quite beautiful.
If you want to learn more about the yakuza, I recommend "Tokyo Vice" by Jake Adelstein.
That's very nice, but speaking for myself, I will never again voluntarily own an Nvidia graphics adaptor. I've seen too many of them overheat and fail in otherwise normal circumstances, resulting in the involuntary abandonment of a laptop before its time.

At one point I had three Nvidia-equipped laptops stacked in my closet, all essentially bricked, each eventually replaced by a laptop equipped with an ATI/AMD adaptor.

I initially had nothing against Nvidia, and Dell seemed to prefer them in its offerings, but experience has forced a change in my outlook.
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I <3 pulseaudio as well, glad to hear someone else loves it. All the reasons you mention :)
The reason for #2 is that the domain name changes to ssl.google-analytics.com for the https version.
I clicked the article thinking "Please, don't say Surround, Cmd-T, snipmate or Buffer Explorer".. These are amongst the most popular plugins for Vim and every week there are blogs saying exactly the same thing.

Note: I have nothing against this blog in particular.. but please, upvoters, try to upvote new stuff.
Some of the images can be found in http://www.antonkusters.com/category/yakuza/
I didn't realise shopify had an app market. Is it big enough to make decent money? Does shopify take a cut of your subscription income?
And also don't forget he is just 40!
Yeah, you are right. It should be a bit more subtle. But still, I like it.
I tried to incorporate it in my workflow several times, but usually I end up <C-Z>ing the Vim process and commit, branch etc. via the command line. I understand that Fugitive _might_ help resolving merge conflicts, but this is really just a small percentage of my daily Git workflow.

Maybe, there is some deeper sense in it that I haven't grasped yet?
Agreed. I used to use Command T religiously, but I move machines frequently due to the nature of my work and was spending more time trying to get it and its dependencies working on the variety of machines that I use than I was actually, you know, coding.

Granted, Ctrl-P is much slower than Command-T. Won't deny it. But carefully excluding all .git, virtualenv (for python) and similar folders in my .vimrc, along with making sure I cd into a directory a little closer to my code makes it almost as quick for me. And it just works, which is invaluable in my book.
App.net is a terrible name. They should change it.
> One of the core values of any government should be to make available all of it's data ... [emphasis added]

On reading both this post and the title of this thread, one might be misled into thinking that "it's" doesn't mean "it is".
Very nice visually, but it doesn't look like it's accessible (#a11y).

And, this makes accessibility even harder, but I'd like to see more interactive simulations and tools rather than passive animations, like at http://www.socr.ucla.edu/ and http://phet.colorado.edu/