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> That's exactly what I'm worried about. It COULD be a year (and in that case, yes, it would be worth it), but no one can guarantee that. It could be tomorrow for all we know.

If they stopped supporting it tomorrow, it wouldn't disappear from your device. The earliest it would possibly break would be in the next major OS upgrade.

Y'know, in about a year.

The idea that a measly $20 is too much to pay for months of engineering and design work up to now, let alone going forward, is utterly absurd.

I'd expect it from Joe Random Entitled-Guy, but I'd expect a higher standard from HN, where presumably the sentiment is that devs ought to be able to subsist above the poverty line.
One of the most maligned professions when it comes to forecasts is meteorology. Nate Silver does and excellent job here, shedding some light on the challenges and triumphs of predicting the weather.[1]

Software engineering can involve difficult models about different scaling scenarios. Civil engineering might involve unexpected surprises about how standing waves emerge in bridge design. Financial analysis involves a forecast of the total revenue stream the company will generate between now and the end of time, and a guess about what other market players will predict about the future a quarter from now, since the stock price, too, can affect its income.

Take P/E ratios for example. Should you look at them as a sanity check, or think of them as a broad measure of the market's beliefs about the issue's future growth potential?

Regardless of where you stand, it is patently absurd to state that financial analysis is not data driven, and the decision making does not reward empirically successful results. Whether you recommend your fund bets with or against the market you get less of a say next time when you have less money left to bet, or decrease your assets under management by losing your clients' money.

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/why-weat...
Tokens are per-application. So they do not have "a limit over 100k", they have a limit of 100k on "Tweetbot for Mac". Which is a completely separate limit than the one for Tweetbot on iOS.
Most fields won't report with javascript disabled. In those fields "no javascript" reveals 1.86 bits about you, and 1 in every 1.33 browsers has it disabled.
You're saying the license didn't permit the font to be distributed in the app right?

So you're asking that they include some sort of [re]distribution license?

Yes that would be nice to be able to purchase fonts with license add-ons.

[ ] Usage $10
[✓] Distribution $100
[ ] Resale $1000
It isn't about which is easiest to implement. No one said CSS(3) was super-easy. This discussion is also very old by now. I am surprised to bump into this view again.

A CSS layout is better than a table-based layout, due to:

- Maintenance: Maintaining or redesigning a table-based layout is very cumbersome, especially with nested tables, because:

- Seperation of content and design: The content has to be changed, to change the design, and that is not a nice workflow.

- Accessibility: CSS designs allow much better for a user-specified stylesheet. Resize the browserwindow and tables keep sticking out, where with CSS you can change the order (put columns under each other). Screenreaders behave in a specific way for tables, they try to read the "summary", or they assume the table holds tabular data, reading it row by row. A table lay-out can therefor confuse.

- SEO: CSS designs make content stacking possible, tables only allow to put the content in the order of the table cells. Webmaster guidelines ask you to check for correct use of HTML, which tables for lay-out isn't:

- Semantics/standards: Use tables for tabular data. Provide a summary and table header if relevant and possible. Using tables for lay-out semantically turns your entire page into tabular data.

- Pagespeed: CSS allows for faster, progressive rendering. HTML tables take their width from the resulting table-cell: Content will jump around while rendering or some browsers even show a blank table before all content is loaded.

A CSS framework like this is far from hacky. Using tables for layout, because CSS is deemed too complex, now that is hacky.

Also, don't forget support for "display: table" is in near all modern browsers. If you really want to design lay-out like you are using tables, it is possible with CSS too.

For responsive designs, much more is possible with CSS than a 100% width table. You can't just slap a few lines of table and expect it to work well on an ipad.
Corrupted characters in a MySQL database is unfortunately quite common. The user fix will thus propagate the corruption without this fix.
Canonical needs money. Ubuntu is the only linux mature enough to begin slowly commercializing and become a new major player on the OS market.

This can be a reason Shuttleworth is afraid of critics. Imagine a new feature will be "Ubuntu Premium": a package of brand new professionally developed productivity apps, ranging from webdev and graphics to security products. It's the next logical step after the introduction of ads.

If such an unpopular feature was announced today, Ubuntu will lose its users way before the release of v13.
If anyone wants a good primer for a "top 4 lifecycle emails to send," I found patio11's post on the customer.io blog to be very helpful: http://customer.io/blog/What-are-Lifecycle-emails-patio11-pa...
My thoughts on this article, since I submitted it:

Due to bulk licensing and paid bloatware, Windows computers are only about $30 more expensive than they would be without buying the OS. So I think the author gives too much weight to piracy and too little weight to the "My computer already came with a free OS" feeling most people have.

But in general I agree with the conclusion, basically, that Linux loses because people don't want to switch from a "free" OS they're familiar with to a Free OS they don't know. And that if people really did have to pay $100 for every copy of Windows they used, Linux's market share would skyrocket.
Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS App Store
Does your sales team need iPads?
So you can run them they'll just be slow? And could Chrome Frame be modified to run Chrome apps in IE at full speed?

Edit: just to be clear, without VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect(), you can't really run any JIT. No LuaJIT, no PyPy, no Java. No Scala, Clojure, or jRuby either.
Why does Apple even have to pay the $5M to Color and its investors.

Why not just offer the employees the package and ask them to quit Color?
Android is more like fast-following Apple and not innovative. If Android makes Google innovative, then they are not really more innovative than MSFT because MSFT did Windows Phone, Surface, Online Office (really surprisingly good - but still not innovative because Google Docs was the first), Outlook.com, etc. I think Xbox Kinect is innovative.
Convert.com throws Clutch.io developers an A/B testing lifeline
Bloodthirsty
Why are only metropcs'phones being tapped?
The Staggering Android Business Failure
Easy the company A 'lays off' 20 employees and company B 'agrees to hire' 20 employees at the same salary. You present it to the employee as a yes/no choice, you want to work in the new company or not at all. It often saves the laying off company from paying any form of severance and is only modestly disruptive on the lives of the employees. (although at the hiring company you have to manage these people who come in really angry/confused.)
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I think the workers presented are rather candid, most you cannot even see their expression, so there is no faked "infomercial" quality to this. I am also aware that in any industry there will be people that are not happy for many valid reasons.

I would not use the adjective "depressing" to qualify human labour that respects the environment it is set in, helps populations keep living in interior mediterranean areas, and to speak about the product; help make something that has a wide field of application. In fact these zones benefit from a lot of quality rural turism because of the loop feed that comes out of grape, cork, rural area setting with life quality parameters that are disappearing all around the world. These are strong people that shouldn't be paternalized for their strong value system that preserves habitat and social condition in a strong group pattern. But that is just my opinion based on the contact I have with this sort of cultural setting. All of these things make this specialized manual labour part of a culture that warrants preservation, not arbitrary value imposition.
how are they going to implement the browser based AES on files before/while they are uploaded?
Am I the only one smiling at seeing the equivalent of limited-edition software in the year 2012?

Twitter is weird.
On the other hand, I've encountered issues on OSX that I simply couldn't fix. With Linux, if you care enough about a bug you can generally find some workaround. (Assuming it's not driver related!)
Women (or anyone really) do not give consent to be photographed for sexual purposes merely for wearing a certain type of clothing in public.
At least for me, it has a nice plus. The new Chromebook is not only Windows-free, it's Windows-proof.

Not that I would want to install Windows on it, but it certainly feels nice to have a machine like that.
Some countries recognise the right of privacy. In which case, it is illegal to distribute personal information (like photos) of people without their consent.
"Tech" small businesses are doing just fine. And they represent only a tiny fraction of small businesses, probably even more so when you measure by employment, which is what people tend to care about.

As someone who has cofounded both a tech company and a traditional bricks-and-mortar small business, I can assure you that the traditional small business has slogged through copious red tape. It's true that much of it is state and local, rather than federal, but that's small comfort.

You might think that a reasonably smart person should be able to independently figure out how to pay a dozen employees without accidentally breaking the law and getting fined. You would be wrong.

The payroll processing industry doesn't exist because it's hard to write checks. They exist because it's absurdly difficult for a non-specialist to be compliant without expending disproportionate effort.
Don't forget about IBM!

Seriously, Glass and the car projects are simply slightly more practical outputs of Google's research division. MS and IBM are doing a lot of research in areas that simply aren't as practical.
It's more an observation that HN is highly skewed toward consumer Internet companies. And doesn't focus much on specific companies generally (Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook/Zuckerberg excepted).
See, right there, that's perfect. Concrete examples of stuff that's wrong and what they could do better. Great comment.

When you say thinks like Unity is a pile of crap, i look at the pile of crap a neighbor dog left on the lawn and think that would never display emacs.

Also, no gun to your head. run whatever you like man. I'm only engaging you because you're kind of being a jackass. I think you have something useful contribute, because you're clearly passionate about Unity. It's just hard to get you to say exactly what you mean.
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I would believe that if they had bought Sprint, T-Mobile or won the spectrum auction; but fibre in one city is not very exciting if you're not in that city.
I thought the main reason for not using tables for layout was that the layout algorithm is very expensive, since the size of each every cell depends on the size of every other cell.
All 5 of them.
I never said you couldn't? The point is that to call Chrome "just a browser" is misleading.
> What happens to the tokens when people pirate this app? Does it count towards their limit?

Yeah. There's no way for Twitter to tell them apart.
Pretty much: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/18/online-b...

(That article if anything understates how bad the problem is.)
Right, and you now have variables under your control to drive their power requirements arbitrarily high -- namely, the better your timing, the higher your effective S/N ratio (because your spread-spectrum signal can be, in effect, very-very narrowband, but hopping all over).

You increase your timing accuracy by 10x, and the jammer's power requirements increase by 10x (crudely speaking -- not a 1:1 trade, but directly linked).
It may be possible, Google may opt to release Chrome on it (or someone may port Chromium) but the lack of an optimizing runtime will probably make it suck when compared to IE.
the free sharing of information, no matter how controversial

So, it's OK to share the personal information of people on the Internet?
Is Dell lying when they say their desktops can play 1080p? They don't even have a screen at all! Playing 1080p is more a gpu/cpu performance thing. Chromeboxes can do 1080p on 2 monitors, which is quite a feat considering their hardware.
Appeals to emotion rarely have any substance - but remember that sometimes there is other supporting evidence for arguments, even if an emotional appeal is used.
Intersting. Wonder why they aren't made from compressed wood pulp. In fact I assumed that is the case.
I think some people are misinterpreting "programming is easier than I thought it would be" to mean "programming is easy".

Just because the barrier to entry is lower than I expected does not mean I think your job is easy. I have a ton of respect and admiration for developers. I have led teams of developers that could do things I could never do. There is no need to get defensive.

The google translate metaphor is actually pretty good. Tech is evolving to make it much easier to learn. A lot more folks can dive in now. You don't always need to find a translator :)
This schema is actually more useful for secretive document "dead drops" (such as handing a tranche of files to Wikileaks) or for friend-to-friend swaps than it is for making warez available to the web at large. As soon as the files are publicly indexed, the excuse "we don't know what we're hosting" becomes a lie - they would have to delete it. The law's attitude would be "if we can find Lady Gaga on your servers with a Google search, so can you".
With a tiny team and no VC investment, we've been able to roll out solutions to hospitals across the country within a year of our initial product launch. For example, we are at the head of the pack in providing hospital systems with an easy way to set up online scheduling and doctor appointment booking for their physicians, and this year we'll start releasing new products to these hospital systems.
> If they stopped supporting it tomorrow, it wouldn't disappear from your device. The earliest it would possibly break would be in the next major OS upgrade.

That's not true at all. Twitter could revoke their API access or something that could break it tomorrow. Yes the actual app may still be on my device but nothing says it will actually still be able to work. That is all in Twitter's hands.

> The idea that a measly $20 is too much to pay for months of engineering and design work up to now, let alone going forward, is utterly absurd.

That is their decision to make this bet. If I were to spend years and years making the perfect toaster and I charge $1,000 for it (to pay for the engineering and design work), you're saying it's absurd NOT to buy it? It's actually the opposite. It's absurd to assume that just because someone puts engineering and design into a product, that it automatically makes the product worth X price.
Interesting analysis, but this is just the initial shot. There is lots of CG work ahead, and I would be surprised if this kind of thing is not included in the effects necessary to make it more realistic.
My thoughts about standards in specification of RESTful API's and why do it?
This probably makes more sense and they wouldn't have needed to give up a 30% cut to Apple.

Right now, I don't see how they will be able to continue to update the app once they hit 100,000 users whilst preventing the app from being purchased by new users via the Mac App Store. In order to offer updates via the MAS, your app needs to be available to sale to new customers.
Just what I've been looking for. Love it. Thanks.
I can only speculate, but these things can get messy. Investors could find a way to sue Apple. 5M is peanuts to Apple compared to the value at stake. If they bother with the acquisition (which takes lawyers, due diligence, lots of boilerplate work), they might as well make sure nobody involved feels shafted.
The cost could be better, but keep in mind that this thing can drive 2x30 inch monitors. My latest and greatest macbook pro can't even do that smoothly. Actually, streaming 1080p Netflix on my 30 inch monitor makes the fan get pretty loud.
The comment you replied to said "Chromebooks just run a browser. Windows runs a browser and other things." The fact that Chrome (and Firefox) can run apps doesn't change that.
That's why they failed at building a mobile operative system. Same happened when they tried to get into the email business. Or the office applications sector.

Oh…
How did you come to that conclusion? That is, how are you able to differentiate a story naturally being bumped off the front page by other stories getting more aggressive upvotes, and a story being buried by many flags?
How to prepare for a job interview
It could break much sooner than that. All Twitter would need to do is cut off access to it, like they just did with [Tweetie](http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10/11/rip-tweetie-for-mac-w...)

I think we can expect third-party clients to be allowed for a while more, maybe even a year or two, but who knows.
Use Google cloudprint. If you sign-in, it should list all the printers that are connected to any of your other computers where you're signed into Chrome (i.e. through Chrome settings, not just signed into gmail).
I thought they only allowed you to replace user space, not the Kernel?

I'm always so tempted by Chromebooks... All I want out of a laptop is no moving parts, < 12" screen, an 8+ hour battery, and 1080p video playback using my Linux distro of choice for under $300, but nobody delivers... Instead it's just endless parades of 'ultrabooks' that mysteriously cost $800+...

I could care less if the hard drive is 100 gigs or 16. But if you can't use your own Kernel I won't use it. Too much like buying a car with the hood welded shut.

But I guess for me a laptop is just the minor sibling of my desktop that's supposed to be good enough to watch movies while traveling and look up something on Wikipedia from the couch, and also be cheap enough that it doesn't have to last or not get stolen. In other words, not my main computer. But still have a keyboard.
This product looks very similar to Macbook Air.
Good points.

Vaporware (Self driving cars. Glass.) is not what I'm considering innovative because these things are not in production. And IBM and MSFT are very very good at vaporware.

Maps are not innovative (they might be the best for some people but, on my iPhone, Nokia maps are actually better).

There are few places that compare to Google.

I'm not disputing that. Google is definitely a great company. But the claim was "the most consistently innovative large-cap around".
I have used these guys multiple times and have always been pleased with the feedback. Can't beat it for the low prices.
Yah, exactly: a redistribution/resell license. This is from the FAQ:

"Every product sold on Creative Market comes with our SimpleLicense. This license allows your customers to use your product in personal or commercial projects, but does not grant the right to redistribute or resell your product, whether modified, unmodified, or as part of a new work."

https://creativemarket.com/faq

More info on the Simple license here:
https://creativemarket.com/license
Using Open Source Static Libraries in Xcode 4
Avoid the pain of Windows 8.

Stay classy Canonical...
So if the naked eye cannot perceive detail greater than the retina display why is this needed? The article does not talk about the power consumption of the screen, but outside of that is it worth increasing the resolution?
So as someone out of the rails world for a few years, I found the line about the webserver needing to be "thin/rainbows/puma over unicorn" hilarious, since I have no idea what any of those words mean.

Rails-world with your changing of servers and plugins-of-the-week, never change.
I just realized I'm very excited about a cheap VR headset. I don't even care about gaming, but I imagine it won't be terribly hard to get a window manager to display on it. I would be able to fill my field of vision with windows, switch any one by looking at it (while getting some neck exercise), put them nearer or farther, reducing eyesight strain, and not need a desk at all!

I could just have the keyboard on my lap while on my easy chair and stare at the ceiling, lie down, whatever. Why is this thing geared towards games? It sounds like a revolution.
To make a link clickable in a comment, you need to prefix it with "http://.
If a story has 50 votes and was posted 5 hours ago, it should be ranked higher than any story that has less than 50 points and was posted more than 5 hours ago. If not, it shows that the story was flagged.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/IlAn2.jpg

Another example: http://i.imgur.com/fSJqq.png

Also, Paul Thurott's http://winsupersite.com is completely banned from HN, most probably due to excessively being flagged for the crime of being a Microsoft watcher news site.
you just can't add files anymore but nothing will be deleted.
Windows 8 or Ubuntu. Fight is ON.
That sounds like augmented data for if you take your notebook out and about, while they expect you to base it on Wifi if you're at home. It's a cost-effective combo.
Pre-IPO CTO: "This Will Not Be Your Last Job"
No way! We just put a ton of blood, sweat and tears into it, and we're not done. :)
Perhaps I should have used scare quotes.

I use the term because Reddit uses the term, and my intent was to characterize their feelings on the subject. I don't personally think that Gawker actually did maliciously leak ViolentAcrez's personal information. I think that they were reporting legitimately on someone at the center of a controversy who has chosen to put himself there.
Why is this on HN? Flagging.
But the landing page doesn't have the awesome (seizure inducing) video!
..."Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity and String Theory. These theories may have had merit at some point..."

Is QM without merit now? Seriously, is this a meaning of the word "merit" I'm not familiar with? I do sometimes trip over American and British differences.

As far as I can tell, this is a crank site promoting a pet theory, and should be trusted as far as one expects.
Maybe it's just me, but I spent less time getting acclimated to Windows 8 than I did with Unity. I find nothing difficult about it at all.
Unity Versus Metro or Ubuntu versus Windows8
Nope, flip the dev switch and it'll let you do whatever you want.
Also: Find out who specializes in shitty, undiscoverable, clumsy UI. They will definitely fit in somewhere at Apple, probably on iTunes.
Creative Market is open for business
Reverse-Engineering Twitter To Solve An Advertising Mystery
Great article, but it seemed like a lot of the suggestions were old school techniques. I think to land a job now a days, you need to think outside the box and go beyond those simple variables.
EPEAT explains acceptance of ultralights
It's working now:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE303C12-A01US-Chromebook-Wi-F...
Github is down :(
Wouldn't completing a list of goals contradict "not ask leading questions"? Why not just give the app to the user and tell him/her to do his job with it? Instead of telling him what to do.

In the end, the app is supposed to help him accomplish what they want, not what you want them to do.
Reminds me immediately of "Intuitor Insultingly stupid movie physics": http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/