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Wrong.

wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong.

A rebuttal -

1. It Defeats User Expectation

This only holds true if A: your user has never seen a mobile site before (and if they are on a phone thats true for about ~0.5s), or B: if your responsive design is poorly implemented. A well designed site will be intuitive.

2 - It Costs More and Takes Longer

Let's assume that you have customers that will use your site on a non desktop device. If that is the case - you are making users use the wrong tool for the job. A site that takes advantage of the desktop experience will not work as well on mobile. Creating a tailored experience for them will absolutely increase conversion (if your site converts anyone to anything), and at the very least, reduce frustration and eye strain. I can't speak for everyone, but the month or two of part time work it took one of my jobs to add a mobile site was paid for by the increase in sales not too much long after. Not only that, but its now built in. When the kindle fire was released, we saw great numbers on that device. Why? because the responsive design was well done and fit that device's screen great. Saying that it 'costs more' is incredibly short sighted.

3.Non-Responsive Designs Usually Work

'working' doesn't mean it can't work better.
all text websites work, too. But we use images because they enhance the experience.

4. There is Often No Load Time Benefit
All this is saying is that a lot of sites are done badly. This has nothing to do with the style of responsive design in general. Tools like Modernizr allow you to optionally load a number of resources that would otherwise not load.

5. It’s a Compromise
Of course? All design is compromise. The goal is to make the compromise in the favor of the customer.

Responsive design is not a silver bullet, and not always a good idea, depending on the site - but this article is /really
/ weak.
As a web developer, I find that implementing a responsive design to be a fairly and rewarding task. I think it is worth the efforts given the screen variances of web-enabled devices. However, not all websites/services are fit for a responsive model. Something like a Google Maps or gmail will benefit more from a separate mobile site. While a Hacker News could easily go responsive.
I'm doing 86 miles (43 one way) a day if I don't go into town (then its and extra 13 one way). Housing shortages will do that to you.

My commute here takes less time than my 30 mile (15 one way) commute in the Twin Cities.
Shouldn't other failed drugs count, though? If you have to develop e.g. five drugs for each one that you find to be successful, the R&D costs for the four that failed should be counted as part of the costs for the successful one.
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As far as I can tell, the problem is with the Samsung Dialler application that's part of TouchWiz.

If you install a second dialler application via the Play Store, you'll initially be asked which dialler app you want to use before the code is executed - which can prevent execution.

There's a strong possibility that other dialler applications aren't affected (i.e. stock / 3rd party).
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"then should he not be kept away from society and denied the ability to hurt others?"

How long do you think he should be kept away from society?

His actions don't justify a life sentence or the death penalty, so he's going to be part of society at some point.

Is taking him out of society going to make him a better person? No.

The best way to rehabilitate someone is for them to have something to lose.

If this 17yo had a wife/child of his own then it is far less likely that he would have done this harassment.
It cost thirty bucks. My students (who wrote their first computer program last semester) had it up and running within the first hour after it was delivered. Two weeks later and they have a wifi controlled skid-steer robot prototype running using the Rasp. Pi, Arduino, some proprietary motor controllers, a PS3 controller and PyGame. Now they are refining their code/design, improving it. They spend so much time working/playing with it, that they are slacking off in their Communication Theory coursework. What a tragedy.
> He said "education" with any further qualification.

Sure. And the Hacker News crowd loves people who point out statements that are not strictly true. Hey, who cares what the author actually meant, this line here is wrong!
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Don't give yourself a hernia shifting those goalposts, dude. First you defined worth to society in terms of pay, which would make, say, Snoop Dogg more valuable than, say, the guy who discovers a cancer cure. Now you're defining it in terms of "ability to be easily replaced" which would make, say, the Guinness record-holder for the longest sustained belch more valuable than, again, a cancer researcher.

"He seemed unable to apply logic, only describe it"

Wrong. He was, as you say, not into experimentation, but that doesn't make his logic invalid. Logic is independent of the truth of the premises. His premises were wrong, but the logic was 100% sound.

"rather than his having penned the Declaration of Independence. "

The Declaration of Independence is nothing more than a philosophical statement, pure and simple. "Acting on it" required going out in the field with guns, which Jefferson never did.
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After taking inflation into consideration you can buy yourself a cheap laptop for the equivalent of the $200, install a Linux distro on it and you have a workable dev environment.

You can even go on lowendbox.com and get yourself some cheap hosting to share your creations with the entire planet.
That's actually not how airplanes fly at all...

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=22977
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Right, and iron horses will never replace real ones in farming because they are too heavy and use up too much coal.

Take a look into graphene-based supercapacitors. It _is_ possible to charge an electric car in a few minutes. It's just a matter of time. [and no, we're not talking EEStor. We're talking multiple research universities actively looking into the technology. Angstron Materials is one.]
I have to seriously disagree with the 1st point.

Give me a usable website over one that "meets my expectations", dammit! As much as I like the desktop version of let's say www.theverge.com, I can honestly say it wouldn't work on a mobile at all. It would be too cluttered, and the links too small to tap.

On a side note, is there a mobile version of Hacker News out there?
There seems to be an implicit assumption in your statement that either the only meaningful type of consequence comes from the authorities or that the parents will not enact any type of consequence themselves. Considering the reaction of the parents, I think it is quite likely that they will/did provide consequences more severe than a slap on the wrist.
Look at that S car go!
The source I worked from, http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger , contains only this about solar power…

And, at many locations, solar cells mounted on the weather canopy charge your Model S with solar energy.

I'm sure SolarCity projects will be supplying more power than Teslas use, but not from these charging stations. (Unless virtually no one uses the stations, which is probably not the plan. There'd be no reason to install 4 parallel charging stations if you were charging less than one car a day. Another possibility is that they build car ports that cover many parking spaces in a lot to support each charging bay. That's not what the picture shows, but it would work.)

I can't find an original source for the idea that the stations will produce more power than they consume, but it appears, attributed to Musk, in both Engadget and Huffington post. Most other articles on the event don't have it. It seems to have come from an oral presentation.

The good news is, if a Tesla S goes about 2 miles on 1 kWhr of power and if an average person drives about 10k miles per year, that is only 14kWhr/day. Each bay would supply the typical power requirements of two Tesla S cars.

Update: The press release is out now, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-motors-launches-revoluti...

It clearly says the stations will make more power than they consume. So either they are huge compared to the picture, or Tesla S drivers aren't much for road tripping.
You kind of already do target mobile – except, of course, professionals quoting wikipedia.
The author raises a good point about page load times not really being minimized and lack of thought around good responsive design. However, I'm unconvinced about the rest of the arguments.

For example, he notes "The first rule in usability 101 is to give the end user what they expect." Maybe for the first year or two in the smartphone era it might have been acceptable to simply provide a shrunken zoomed out version of the site. The onus would have been on the user to navigate appropriately. Which... is a lot of work. My (swiftly getting older) eyes appreciate the larger fonts and readability that in theory a responsive design provides. I now expect to be able to read am article in portrait mode with a decent font size without having to zoom in and out. Maybe I'm alone but I would not be surprised if more users expect this now.
So, at what point does the local government slap a tax to pay for the roads and how much will it be?
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Yes, in a couple years there will be more electric cars, but solar power installations are getting less expensive every year. I don't know how long until there are enough electric cars to need "Germany-sized" solar installations, but when they do they'll pay a lot less than Germany did.

I don't think Elon Musk would green-light the "100% solar power" line without doing the math. Again: you can argue about whether he's lying, but I can guarantee you he knew exactly the scale of what he was promising. That makes it all the more impressive, imo.

Re:lying, I'm imagining at some point they'll transition over to "we buy 100% solar power for SuperChargers", which is fine by me since it's functionally equivalent to what they're doing now.
Somalia is, or at least was, a land without a government. If libertarians or randians are correct, it should be a land flowing with milk and honey. Of course, this is not the case. At least, that is how the argument goes.

I'm a former libertarian of the anarcho-capatilist-rand flavor, and I think there are much better arguments against that stance than somalia.
I'll leave the food influences by religion of a region to someone more familiar with that, but it's safe to say that religion has influenced diet for thousands of years.

I'd say the major way has been by affecting alcohol consumption. My religion bans various little things, but the big change in diet in becoming religiously observant (I'm mostly not, mind you) is the sheer number of ritual meals involving rather large glasses of wine, usually red.

Given the heart-health effects of wine, it might almost cancel out how fat the Orthodox tend to get from sitting around studying religious law all the time.
Seems to me it would be easy for the android console to go into standby while the car is off. Basically turn off all the radios and just keep ram alive so it can come up instantly when the car turns on again, using minimal battery. You know, like your laptop. ;)
Google isn't a payment company and because of this, they don't know how to run Google checkout properly.

Both Amazon and Google automate their customer service for anyone using their checkout services.

This is unacceptable to me as a business owner. Paypal isn't perfect, but at least they're in the business of payments. It's not a side business.
Can't wait to try this out !
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firefighters have many mundane tasks as well. Doctors are exosed to viuses that could be widespread if they fail to do their job properly. Id argue that they are exposed to dangers they can bring home to the kids, which in my opinion make it just as, if not more dangerous.
Personally, I do not want to see a sidebar, taking up a third of the screen, on my smartphone. I find the example that he considers fine quite unusable and would not read that on a smartphone.
The share seems a bit odd, since I have to leave the site to read the story, and probably will share it from there (the original site).

Probably it should be visible below the quote, and not only sharing the title and link, but the quote itself (less for twitter 140 chars) because that's what I want to share from your site.
About how he'd become engrossed in conspiracy sites.

Anti-semitism is rife on conspiracy sites. I just assumed 'the game' thing was started on one such conspiracy site. Paranoia, hatred and naivety can be breeding grounds for these attacks.

I view it less as a street gang game, and more of a game of 'hunt the Illuminati'. Doesn't make it any less despicable. If anything these conspiracy sites (and its posters) carry part of the blame for incitement.
The author fails to take into consideration tablets, e-readers, smart TVs and every other device, currently available or in the distant future, that will have a web browser.

"It Defeats User Expectation"

So let's keep everything exactly the same?

Responsive design to me is progress, eventually we'll either come up with good practices for working with it or maybe something else will take it's place. The way we access the internet is in constant flux and the 960 magazine layout has many pit falls in terms of usability outside of desktop sized screens.
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I've not found anything such floating around yet I find Redis to be best storage engine for inverted index due to its data structures. This is just an initiative to ping developers and bring Redis based inverted index storage to main stream.
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I filed a bug.

https://github.com/robohornet/robohornet/issues/67
Won't be much of an issue when we have self-driving cars.
Who cares why they do it? And who cares why the 419 scammers do it? The point is, scamming makes the world a worse place and it's done because it makes money. Anything that can be done to ensure that it never makes money makes it more likely to go away. Yes, there's a chance people just looking for work are the ones who's time is wasted. Bad luck, but they chose that job. Yes, it's possible that the counter-scammers enjoy their hobby a bit to much. At least they use their possible character flaws to better mankind, ever so slightly.
Classic case of a developer putting a backdoor in (for testing) and forgetting to take it out. I'm curious as to how long it will take to patch it and if there will be any fallout over this (they are the number 1 phone producer in the world).
I think the answer isn't so much giving people consequences as giving them responsibility.

It's ridiculous that some kids get their post secondary education degree without ever having held a job (of any kind).

I find it amazing that teens walk around with $200-$2000 worth of electronics that their parents paid for them with no thought to their value because they didn't pay for it, and they know they'll be replaced if they whine enough.
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The `either` function is really crippled compared to a proper ternary operator; it works only for strings, and both `a` and `b` are evaluated at the call site, so side effects in those expressions are out.
Page size was a very valid concern the last 5 years of iOS / Android, but LTE will make the issue about as minor as it is today for desktops.

I'm not suggesting pagespeed isn't important, that's something completely different and impacted by variety of factors.
Previously: fungus zombifies ants: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392038
(and other stories at http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=zombie+ant&... )

Unlike the seemingly-confused bees in this story, the mind-controled ants exhibit very specific behavior, resulting in them ending up on very specific part of plant and in specific relation to sunlight and local humidity.

[edit]

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6785-11-13.pdf seems to be a shorter version of a full-lenght paper I can't at this moment.
With mobile-first you are optimizing for mobile, so the only extra bandwidth would be that fraction of your CSS that addresses bigger screens, so I think that his page load times is a weak point just like the first one, it all comes down to badly designed sites being bad.
They aren't claiming that four days is typical, rather that one time it happened that quickly.
I actually found them quite useful as a bookmarking tool when comparison shopping appliances at retail stores. They usually had code to the retailer's page for the appliance, and another for the manufacturer's page.
Yes - those are called trams :-)
Yeah but that would die out eventually, like your laptop. These newer cars with sophisticated systems probably do something like you're talking about. My macbook will write the contents of ram to the hard drive once the battery dies and load up form that image next time you boot it up, maybe that is a way to handle it in cars.
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I ate that article up like a starving raccoon.

Working at github is sortof a personal fantasy.
Note that bit about Paypal phone support being responsive and helpful: true to my experience.
Pretty cool.

What about the support for Android, any plans for that?
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I can't recommend any text on the subject more highly than "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. It covers a lot more topics than just this, but it still covers the basics very well and I believe it has references for its claims (it has been a while since I read it and I don't have a copy to hand to check).
Given how often libertarianism comes up around and here and some of the attitudes that are repeated demonstrated, it's pretty clear that a large segment of HN's population has never been in a disadvantaged situation in life, either in economics, geography, or race.
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A short bullshit article about Apple on Gizmodo? I should have known better.
There are a lot of old guys who are mad because kids don't have to punch hex into an 8085 with a keypad anymore.
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The Santa Fe railroad had a similar problem - how to feed an entire train of passengers in the 30 minutes it took to take on water (steam locomotives typically run out of water before running out of coal).

Their solution was to partner with a restaurant operator, supplying his restaurants with fresh produce & refrigerated meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Harvey_Company#History

If McDonalds was smart, they'd sponsor charging stations at their restaurants. Park your electric car, swipe a credit card, go get your McMeal, use the bathroom, etc.
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Well, the number and similar ones like that has been known for years. The new issue here is that they can be auto-called using a <frame>-tag in HTML.
> “If you find bees on a sidewalk, or under a street light or under your porch light, it’s real simple. You take a Ziploc bag. You put the bees in. You leave ‘em set for a week and see if anything happens,” he said.

Hell no ... I don't want to see a bag with dead bees exploding with parasitic zombie flies
We created Arakoon (http://arakoon.org) in-house to solve a real distributed systems problem. At small engineering scale (only a handful of contributors), using (Multi-)Paxos.
Any actual benchmarks?
This is epic. It surprises me that the markets care more about the short-term profit adjustment announcement than this long-term epic plan. I picked up a bunch of TSLA this morning to take advantage of it being down 7-12%, but I'm confused why the stock is down on such incredible news.

This company is going to take the auto industry by storm. And I bet they partner with Google circa 2017 to build self-driving electric cars that can navigate across a continent without supervision.

And at the same time, all the other auto makers are aware but somehow unable to move. They cancel their projects [1] even as Tesla expands and prepares to go further. Incredible that they're going to be taken "by surprise" as Tesla ramps up production in the next few years.

[1] http://inhabitat.com/toyota-cancels-productions-plans-for-th...
call it whatever but I do need to be able to see/read websites correctly on desktop, mobile, tablet etc.
New Jersey is about 170 miles North to South from the tips. But parent said "I've driven across New Jersey," which can be as little as 40 miles East to West depending on where you measure from.
To further add to this: there are quite a few gangs here in euroland who are successfully scamming older citizens with nothing but randomly calling them up, pretending to be a grandchild in trouble and in desperate need of some money and then that "grandkid" sends over a friend to collect the money. They are taking literally thousands from the elderly that way, you keep reading about it in the papers.

So I can see how these emails seem totally real and threatening to the average computer-illiterate who sells something for the first time ever. Remember, good scams are about that initial shock, that initial mental blow you deal on your victim to completely catch them off-guard and disable their logical thinking. Flashing a shiny batch or pretending it is an "emergency" is a very good angle.
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That's not a troll, that's just a run-of-the-mill dickhead.

Trolling is a art.
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No their not lol... Apple & HTC sell more phones then they do.
Bernoulli's principle is indeed how airplanes fly. Your link shoots down the silly equal-time theory, not Bernoulli's principle.

Basically, airplanes fly for three reasons:

1. The wing deflects air downwards.
2. Air moves faster over the top of the wing than over the bottom. Much faster than the equal-transit theory indicates.
3. Air pressure is higher on the bottom of the wing than on the top.

The important thing that few people seem to grasp is that all three are equivalent statements. They aren't additive. There aren't three different reasons airplanes fly, there's one reason airplanes fly, with three different ways to look at it.
They were scared of getting too many users and their site falling over ;)
So many people talk about responsive design taking longer and being not worth the effort.... That's true if you start with the desktop and try and work your way backwards to the small screen, which is how a lot of designers look at it, I think.

If you take a progressive enhancement approach and work your way up from low-end mobile to full-featured desktop, the process is 100x easier and the end result is, in my experience, an overall cleaner and more stable code base that makes for better performance across all devices/platforms.
Fun :).

Lothian Buses in Edinburgh has done the right thing: they've stuck QR codes to each of their information signs, which direct you to the correct page on their mobile site, and the official Android app is registered for the URLs too.
The word "Ejecta" sounds dirty. I feel weird just typing it.
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