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The peacoat on/off switch is causing a lot of cognitive dissonance in me right now. It's so pointless, but so adorable. I want to make a peacoat-related app just to have an excuse to use it.
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That response reminds me of his response to the pushback to his Tweetbot review. In both cases, he links to the original as if it is innocuous and needs no explanation, when in fact it is incendiary.
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I believe they are using (http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...)
Should we distribute RSS data in JSON as well as XML?
Interestingly, people usually complain about people who can't pull their weight technical skills wise, yet in my experience, I've found it way more frustrating picking up the slack for other people's lack of employee skills so I'm happy to see this on the front page.

I go to great lengths to be responsive and send very carefully crafted short, succinct emails. I've been working since I was 14 in IT in some capacity or another. This means over the years I've developed a savvy as far as maneuvering in a corporate/professional environment. Being paired with people who lack this has been somewhat frustrating.
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Marco is exhibiting exactly how not to act. If you want people to use your product, you don't censor things on their behalf. That's an incredible example of crossing the line.
Rodrigo just needs a $15hr personal assistant / secretary to handle to the interpersonal items. Now you have the best of both worlds.
yeah it's actually not bad, the refresh is only on the character itself so it's workable. If you have a hacked kindle you can test with a terminal emulator, it give you a good idea of how fast the typing be.
I thought I made that pretty clear with the opcode cache example. On the first request to a specific URL the script gets compiled, executed and cached. On the second request we skip the compile part and point the executor to the op_array in shared memory. We could do some hackish things where we try to persist that shared memory segment for the cli case, but that would be another artificial environment. We want to test as closely as possible to real production use cases and the best way to do that is to use an actual web server for any tests that rely on anything persisting across requests.
A simple & beautiful way to view your Local Weather - 4cast.me
For the record. Apple has pushed Google Maps off the iPhone in iOS 6. Not sure they'll allow it either as it would 'duplicate core OS functionality'
Worked fine for me, swipe right to left to go to the next page.
Truly shameful behavior that permanently destroys the huge amount of trust Instapaper has built up with users. Instapaper, as any such product, is a service to its users, not a bludgeon for political battles. That is a hard line in the sand that once crossed reveals a lack of integrity from the operators.
I was thinking if they did make 20inches e-ink - I would love to have that for my shell only workload. Would be nice for the eyes, light and minimal!
I like the concept, but the photos make it look like the fabric is "less than stellar." Can you provide a hardy/hearty fabric that doesn't show the skin beneath the models? I created a rather expensive t-shirt here in Chicago and the fabric was pathetic....I felt sorry for my friend who was the recipient, even though my "logo" was clever. No one wants a t-shirt that shows the underlying chest hair or nipples of the people.
You are correct. I'm no grammarian, but I believe I do relatively well and I don't think anyone would dispute my advice on learning to write well.

However, the rules of grammar change over time. Usage of who versus whom is a case which could go either way. There is the proper usage and then there is the popular usage. I hardly ever hear the word "whom" being used and I don't use the word because I feel weird saying it. The fewer people using that word, the less important it becomes as a rule of grammar.
There is so much that "should" be prerequisite knowledge, that people simply can't know it all.

I admit that I know very little about DNS, to the point where I don't understand large parts of your post. I have a website, and I vaguely remember doing stuff to get the domain name to resolve, years ago. I know roughly that DNS translates domain names to IP addresses, but not much more. I'm okay with not knowing much more than that. I'm confident I can learn if necessary, but so far I've been learning the prerequisite knowledge of other fields.

If I was using godaddy, this thread would be helpful to me.
Have you tried http://www.viewdns.info/ismysitedown/ ?
Check out my other comment on this thread, but even though you and I think it's incredibly simple almost no one out of my company's (relatively nerdy) target audience could figure it out.
> I'm talking about denim, paper, stone, leather...

Add glass, wood, and brick and that's probably every common surface texture that humans interact with daily. Is it really any surprise that these are used over and over? You claim it's derivative but maybe it's just common.
I'll add that the gyms one is slightly subtle. It's not just about the contracts locking you in (those are becoming less common) but it's that in the eyes of many gym-goers the membership buys them an opportunity to get fit. They perceive value in holding a membership. They are also afraid to let it go because they would have to face facts about their commitment.
Yeah, probably a poor choice of words. I think my conceptual space is unfairly colored by the exploits of the military type I know.
Sorry, but this is pathetic, are you saying there is no application of human creative skill, no imagination, no expression involved when Ive (and team) designed the iMac? How is it not copying to take all these creative ideas and slavishly copy them?

To dismiss industrial design as only valuable as a tool, never to be considered art, is completely close-minded. Art is in the eye of the beholder, what is art is subjective, and last time I checked nobody made you in charge of what art is.

Edit: Expanding on my point, why not think of this instead as an art movement? A group of artists have agreed on general principles, but this does not give license to slavishly copy each other to the finest details, to make exactly the same paintings. They can use the same materials, the same paint, the same brushes, the same techniques, but not paint exactly the same picture. What HP has essentially done here is said "I like the Mona Lisa, let's make one exactly like that".
I didn't say Apple invented the personal computer, or the portable music player, or the smartphone. What they did, and did very skillfully, was to appropriate the ideas and make a product so unique that it redefines the market around it. This is stealing the idea rather than merely copying it.

It's most interesting that the biggest problems Apple faced were when it was trying to copy the IBM PC by building dozens of different Mac models with expansion slots.
I didn't feel bad for Timothy Treadwell when he got eaten by a grizzly bear as covered in the film, Grizzly Man. It was almost expected given his actions.
Am I the only person who doesn't give the slightest fuck whether a product looks a bit like another one?

The iphone looks like a rectangular case with a screen attached to one face, my android phone also looks like a rectangular case with a screen attached one face.

This isn't exactly the Sistine chapel.
Indeed, there was a huge production of so-called beige PCs, and nobody complained that they looked the same, since they looked like crap, and people wouldn't purposedly copy crap, now would they? The fact is that Apple products look gorgeous, and they want to keep it that way. Commoditization of that style would destroy its value completely.
That is, unless they keep leading the pack in design innovation, instead of trying to protect their old productions, and milk their fan base out of recycled ideas.
To the authors: Please make sure to remove trailing whitespace. I see it all over the code base. Run 'git diff 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 --check' to catch those. That SHA is that of the empty tree, applicable to any git repo.
Nice job confirming it.
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http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basketball ;)
No, you might just be drinking coffee, or at a library, or on Google's public Wifi, etc.
I guess I should have said "ridiculously lucrative" or "stupid mad money yo."
A todo app uses a design that makes it feel like a leather bound paper notebook is skeuomorphism. A weather application is with a denim texture is just a weather app with a denim texture. It could just as easily have a squiggly line texture or have a solid purple neon background. It might be ugly and stupid but that doesn't make it skeuomorphism.
Not if you are doing dissipation, as in this case.
I've been a software developer for many years and sexy design sells. For good or bad, that's the way it is.
Maybe, but there's a difference between the real Rodrigos, and the programmers that just think they are in that class, but only match up on the negatives (unresponsive, don't show up to work, think they are above the rest of the group).

I'll take a team player who has room for improvement almost every time over some rockstar who can't take constructive criticism.

Not that we only have these two choices, but the truly great AND nice are kind of rare compared to the wanna-bes who think being an amateur professor at work translates into business value.
Ask HN: How much do employers value personal projects when hiring?
I'm a college student who turned down a three month internship at a medium-sized reputable development company this summer to work on developing my own SaaS startup.

I'm working extremely hard right now to get to launch and become ramen profitable before graduating college so I can work on it full time. If this doesn't work out, and I end up looking for employment (until my next project), I'd just like to know how much employers would value someone who has done all the backend/frontend/database work on a SaaS app, launched it, marketed it, supported it, and so forth, in comparison to someone with internship experience at another company.

Thanks HN.
I have tried to follow Marco and DF on and off for years, because I like to keep up with what Apple is doing and they seem to be pretty good at talking about that.

Unfortunately they are also pretty good at being utter children about near everything else, and seem to live their (public internet) lives in some kind of us vs. them bubble, ripe with snide bickering and pointless hatemongering.

They seem to be, unfortunately, the Fox News of tech journalism.
I disagree, but you didn't give me enough to argue against. However, I stopped reading his articles years ago. Maybe his articles have gone downhill since I last visited the site.
> You can't do this until GoDaddy.com is back online.

You actually can. You will have to modify your /etc/hosts file, go to your GoDaddy account and change to a new DNS service (name servers)

I followed the instructions in this post and I solved the GoDaddy hell for my sites:

http://davewasmer.tumblr.com/post/31283249223/migrating-from...
Given the web is credited as being created by a Brit in Switzerland, I think we can all agree that both its origins and its intent are international in nature.

Given that uncultured in this context is about lack of awareness of cultures beyond their own, your definition seems consistent with mine.
He had a fine point to be argued until he brought it into his app functionality. Seriously, not only is that is ridiculously childish, but it's totally unnecessary—he has the audience to make his point in full editorial glory. If it's libel then sic a lawyer on them, don't play games with your user base, most of whom don't and shouldn't give a fuck.
I felt bad for him, but not surprised at the outcome. But when grizzly bears ate Timothy Treadwell, they were not deliberately trying to be malicious, at least as far as we know.
Kitsch UI 4tw!
Ouch. Wired coverage: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/godaddy-moves-t...
And Google dragged their feet in updating it for years.

But that's different from doing a specific edge-case breakage with a petulant message.
I'm not sure that's such a great advice... I have some friends who ARE doing a fitness app (gympact) and they seem to be doing pretty well there (it's an exercise tracking/incentive app)

For the record, I've been in your shoes before. Started a mobile games company back in 2002, struggled for 3 years with almost no sales at all and had to shut down. Met a first-time founder in 2009 who had this idea of "opening a mobile gamung company" and advised him wholeheartedly about not going there.
He's now hiring his 30th employee, making millions every month (and didn't even take VC money to start)...

TL;DR: it didn't work for you, but it CAN work for someone else...
Please, take that feminist rapeculture nonsense out of here. Nobody is holding her responsible for all she's going through and nobody is the blame but the anonymous people on /b/. But she really should have known better.

It's interesting how quick people jump on shaming the victim blamers when it's a women being harassed but nobody is there to reassure me it is not my fault when I stick my hand in boiling water.

You people seem to not be able to make the distinction between deserving something unpleasant and getting what's coming to them. She absolutely didn't deserve what happened to her but she did provoke it.
The fascism of unch.. oooohkaaay. Right. Gotcha. Sounds good, I'll be on the lookout for that. Thanks for the warning.
Anonymous claims responsibility for GoDaddy outage
This would be a good place to start: http://xkcd.com/605/
Etsy and Twitter swap engineers for a week
Don't Be a Blind Copycat: Why Good Web Design Starts With Product Goals
GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign
In political circles it is thought that a Democrat president could never have been the first to go to China because they would have been accused of supporting communists. Only a Republican president could do it because he was insulated from attacks from the right. The idea I was trying to express in my comment is that Obama can go further to attack civil liberties because the left won't criticize him. When Bush was president liberals would frequently criticize civil liberties issues, nowadays they are silent.
I don't know. The only rail I see in this discussion is "wow, she should have known better." Nothing about how pathological the response was, nothing about the culture that encourages that community to retaliate with such vengeance and mirth. All of that is in the story, and in the background, but we're not talking about that... we're talking about whether or not she should have known better. That's the rail.
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> a hacker claiming allegiance with Anonymous

But then we'd have to argue about what the word "hacker" means.

Seriously though, I'm actually quite OK with using "Anonymous" as a collective noun. Granted, it is a less accurate shorthand, but we all know what it means. For those who don't, I'm not sure using "a hacker claiming allegiance with Anonymous" would be any more enlightening. In fact, it may actually reinfornce the mistaken idea that so many in the non-tech media still seem to have, which is that Anonymous is some kind of more or less traditional, hierarchical, online terror organisation.

"An Anonymous", yeah, maybe. Still seems needlessly confusing to the less knowledgeable. But I'm open to being convinced.
I expect that one of the disruptions here will be dropbox. Photo sharing is pretty seamless and even those 'on my machine' photos are pretty easy to export with existing local UX.
I agree with you, but most of the time it's not the ability to explain technical issues what pulls these people ahead, it's the social skills that ease friction among coworkers and clients.

I used to work with someone who had this gift. If an unimportant feature was difficult to implement, instead explaining technical details and ROI, he'd somehow make the client talk himself into removing the feature.

Psychologists do something similar, they guide you into a train of thought hoping that you will arrive to some conclusion on your own. It completely undermines whatever defensive stance you had and all you need is some reassurance that it's the right decision.
Worse yet, how many users will write it off as a technical error, shrug, close the window, and move on to read other things? Instapaper has found a way to stifle the readership and mindshare of whomever they choose, that, for non-HN readers could have it's cause masked from view.
Becoming a skilled developer is hard, therefore many of us seem to think that when a business hires us to develop software they're hiring us for our hard-earned skills.

However, businesses really hire us because they want to achieve Objective X, which requires some software in order to get there. The overwhelming majority of of businesses frankly don't care about the code, and are concerned only about whether it gets them closer to Objective X.

Though Rodrigo is a better coder, if Gabriella is more capable of getting the business to Objective X because she's able to better distill business goals into actual solutions, she's exponentially more valuable than Rodrigo.

I've hired a lot of people - quite a few of them were incredibly talented developers. But at the end of the day, building the right software, even if not the best software, trumps the inverse. We often fail to quantify how destructive a poor communicator can be to the success of a business.
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There is a very important distinction with regards to integrity, though. Marco imputes an incentive to appease manufacturers to keep review copies coming; Gruber speculates that they don't want to rile up the eternal "other side" of the Apple vs. the World debate.

The former is an attack on their journalistic integrity, Gruber's much less so - although still an attack, nevertheless.

Gruber knows to temper his rhetoric, being a guy with journalistic sentibilities himself. Marco is just a guy with a blog.
When I stopped my Linodes I'm pretty sure I remember they warned that my DNS would be stopped along with them, so I do think you have to be a paying customer for that to work.
A Guide To iOS SDK from a Web Design Standpoint
You can get a Anycast zone (basically it's Route 53) for free with a domain on NameTerrific.

Also the registration is handled by eNom, so you can switch your domain registrar at the same time.

https://www.nameterrific.com/

Disclosure: I'm the founder of NameTerrific.
this is for the abc conjecture[1] (I was thinking maybe they were being headline-y about the Riemann hypothesis before I clicked through), which, if proved, would be extremely interesting due to the number of conjectures and other theorems that have been shown to be equivalent to it or direct consequences of it.

The proof will be well beyond me, but the conjecture itself is pretty accessible, as are many of its connections.

This line from the article was confusing:

> Fifteen and 17 are square free-numbers, but 16 and 18 — being divisible by 42 and 32, respectively — are not.

but that's supposed to be 4^2 and 3^2, respectively.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture
I bought my Raspberry Pi a week ago, and I thought about the exact same thing! I have a Kindle 4, though.

Nice work!
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If you by some miracle has got a hold on Rodrigo, now you just need to weave a management framework around Rodrigo.
One which will keep him fed, undistracted and with a nice queue of interesting tasks.

Think of all the plumbing and shields that make nuclear reactor use feasible, and then of massive amounts of power this configuration will produce.

That's like the Grim Reaper management in Dungeon Keeper if you understand the idea.
>I explained it. Now you're insisting you're an expert, don't need anyone's advice

I never said that I'm an expert or that I don't need advice. I merely defended myself against a personal attack by you (accused me of not thinking deeply and not knowing basic things about the US government structure).

The point of the OP was that I noticed a problem, couldn't find a solution and wanted to see what thoughts others had on the issue. You came in with a personal attack and an answer that stopped at the first hurdle- "this would be difficult to secure." Yes a solution would have to answer a tough security question, but I don't think this is a hurdle that can't be overcome.

Maybe it is an issue of age, but when I'm encountered with an inefficient system I prefer to figure out how it can be changed/improved rather than saying "it is reality, deal with it."
I was extending an assumption based off:

"not going after people who are just distributing ten second excerpts"
I'd be rather surprised if there was anyone alive who hates Apple that much but has no idea what their products actually look like.
That's a ridiculous example, and in fact it proves the opposite.

Notice that we only shoot bears that are actually eating hikers, even though no bear actually have moral responsibility toward us; that's because we as a society do feel moral responsibility towards bears (and animals in general), and therefore avoid shooting them except when required.

We certainly don't feel anywhere near the same moral responsibility towards animals as we do towards people, but we feel some. And as society becomes less religious, that'll tend to increase.
The good news is Anonymous, representing the hive mind of the most primitive human desires before they've been filtered out by one's conscience, has a set attention span. They will eventually stop in about a week or two. It will get old to them and they'll move on.
I have a lot of respect for conservatives. I am most definitely not one of them, but many of my smartest friends are. I think conservatives are wrong; I don't think that they are part of a secret plot to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

My mindset qualifies as "in between" on the Internet, but I am probably about as close to a mainstream Democrat as you could find in the real world.
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I was trying to say: "What if they've already reduced their risk as much as is reasonable, except for special cases that they see one day every three months: that Ferrari."
> and as long as you keep replanting trees as you cut them down, you aren't really deforesting.

That may be so, but there are plenty of ways of cutting them down that still leaves the environment devastated. Poorly managed logging utterly ruins the eco-system of the forests.

You're right it can be good for the environment by creating additional economic incentives to manage forests, but only as long as they're managed well, and that's not at all a given.
A vintage Apple's game "BOLO"
Well here's how it works. GoDaddy and all other host's "one-click" is installation only. It doesn't auto-update your WordPress install so yours likely contained an old security exploit and was easily hacked. This is by design, it would be bad to install a WP theme and then have your website broken because it auto-updated WP.

Even so, you never answered my original question. How'd you determine it was a sandboxing problem rather than your own WordPress installation being compromised? Seems even less so considering you didn't realize you had to update WordPress yourself.
- Host this as a SaaS and make money, I image businesses
would love to use this as a way to gather user feedback
and talk to users.

A little tweaking and it might make a good Campfire replacement as well. :)

(Even with a smaller team, a collection of conversational "threads" could be really useful.)