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He was saying that the phrasing, from a back end guy, revealed exactly the lazy attitude that was described in the post.

When a back end guy says, "Hey front end guy, make it look pretty" -- that's not showing much appreciation for what they actually do. Front end guys: is what you do just making things look pretty? Or maybe it's closer to understanding how people actually use a product. And designing a UI that can cater to both novices and experts, etc.
Mark Suster is one of the most compelling VCs in the business and is worth following closely. His blog is pure substance too.
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She, Pamela Jones [aka PJ], has posted far more reasoned, and unbiased [by money] posts on Motorola Vs Apple.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20121105153442192
and
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012110322254380

are just the latest on throwing this FRAND case out.
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> PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format

And that's the basic design flaw - it is a data interchange format despite not being designed as one, and the terrible job that it apparently does at it. The people who wrote it didn't recognise that they were going to be filling that need. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
the noun project is awesome much kudos to them
The EntrePass thing is a ball of hurt. Initially it was set up with virtually no onerous terms, but they brought in the crazy conditions about 3 years ago.

Definitely using a local accountant & director to set up the company and then employ yourself is the best way.
Wireshark solves another problem, when you need it, you have a problem where you want to analyze the packet content, or drill and cut through a historical capture. That's not always what you need, and it's often cumbersome to run on a remote server that isn't supposed to have GUI stuff installed anyhow.

Sometimes you just need to know if DNS resolution is working.

Or if the right DNS server is queried.

Or if some server backend is actually firing off packets to the proper place when you hit a button on the frontend.

Or you just need to verify that data are coming in when the guy on the phone says "check again now".

For these sort or problems, tcpdump is great, as it easily allows you to experiment with different filters on the command line, which will take you an order of magnitude more time click through in wireshark or wait for reparsing if you use a display filter.
It's incredibly annoying to have the loading screen on each page, no matter how much it takes to load. It should appear only on the content (don't cover the nav!) after a 100ms or so timeout.

Apart from that, beautiful theme
As a developer, setting expectations is the most important part of your job.
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To Die at 128
On the evening before my 128th birthday, I would like to write the best program I've ever written.
If English is their first language, then yes, they speak English "perfectly" by definition.

Languages are a constant clash between its natural evolution and its rules (which came from past evolution)

If language hadn't evolved romance language speakers would be speaking Latin today, and English speakers would be speaking Anglo-Saxon maybe? (which themselves evolved from other languages)
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is really a STUPID guy! The poor economy of US is not due to lack of innovation or capital, it's simply due to the fact that most of its low-tech jobs have been replaced by the cheap salary Asian workers such as Chinese workers! President Obama once asked Steve Jobs when he visited Apple Corp.:"Can you manufacture iphone in the US?" And Steve replied: "No, those jobs will never come back again", meanwhile Apple has earned $100 billion of profit! As you all know Iphone is designed by the American genius designers, if Apple needs to employ 1000 genius designer to design Iphone, but prefer to manufacture it in China by 100,000 Chinese workers in order to earn more profit, then US will lose these 100,000 low-tech jobs only because Apple wants to earn more profit! And obviously, no matter how you train these 100,000 workers, they will never become the 1000 genius designers, and it's unnecessary to have 100,000 genius designers too! So the answer for the poor US economy and high jobless rate is so simple! It has nothing to do with innovation or capital, it's just about moving those low-tech job posts back to the US! You ask Apple President: please sacrifice a little of your profit, but move your production lines back from China to your mother land - USA! Then think what? American will have 1 more million jobs and 10 production lines overnight! That's what Apple is using to manufacture Iphones, Ipads and Ipods in China now! Only for maybe $100 or so more profit per product! Greedy capitalists, including the Apple CEO are the guys to be damned! Obviously!
The overriding aim of most formats was to load into memeory efficiently - fast load times was the key winner in the 80s and 90s. So you did not want a simple serialisation because that meant slow CPU intensive save and loads. But if you slammed it in pretty much as it would be in memeory you would win. Downside is if you change the in memeory representation of the running program you had to change the file format.

And .mov would have no such concerns - it's prime use case is store data in serialised chunks anyway - it was already serialised so could use very dumb stores.
I've seen it. But it's the same as anywhere.

Good people are hard to hire.

Singapore also has a relatively favourable short-term working visa with the US (H1B1?), which makes moving to the US more feasible for SG nationals.
I'd draw a distinction and say that it's probably something determined by a designer who wants to show off their Photoshop skills by having several meticulously designed websites for different devices.

As a developer, I'd leave the zoom as is and avoid this browser stuff like the plague. Too much repeated code.
All you need to know about setting expectations: underpromise and overdeliver.
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Ah thank you, that clears thing up.
> There's a lessen in there somewhere.

Greetings. I have arrived from the future to spare mankind more years of pain by stating it clear here that the lesson is not "serialize your data to XML".
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MIPS Technologies is being sold.
Docking wasn't THAT hard, and was one of the most fun parts of the game for me.

Not much has matched the fear and excitement of docking after a dangerous run through pirate infested outer space while holding valuable cargo. That moment as you enter the space station, matching your rotation to its rotation, only for your heart to skip a beat as your ship drifts off-center and you hear it scrape against the wall before successfully docking.
> Things were padded to 4 byte boundries because the 68000 processor would crash if you read an unaligned 32bit value.

It is actually padded to 2-byte boundaries. The 68000 had an external 16 bit data interface. That's the only thing I would fix about IFF if I redid it today. (And I would add a 64-bit length extension, and a "reserved chunkid" designation, e.g. anything that starts with a '$' must be registered in some central registry)
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I'm with you on A/B testing being hilariously inefficient (and have founded a startup to do better: http://mynaweb.com) but I disagree you can't test creative content. There are two things:

1. Delivering content in movie or TV episode sized chunks is an artefact of inefficient distribution mechanisms. Smaller units of content are easier to test, easier to produce, and less risk if they tank.

2. Any script contains numerous decisions. You can test the main ones. It's viable to do this if you aren't making big bets on big chunks of contents.
I was wondering when they'd get around to updating the addons page. Looks nice and it should help now that there are a lot of competing addons for each category (there's now something like 5 Redis providers).
You mean there are people who do NOT always use -p with add?

I guess you learn something new every day. I thought this was the only way people use git and I was actually surprised to find out it wasn't made the default.
I would really love a reference for that.

I do not doubt you. I just think it would be helpful if there was a reference.
WebGL globe with 2012 election data from social media
Required Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, but shows off a bunch of mentions across social media comparing data between Romney and Obama. For the politics data nerds!
I loved Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga, I played it for 6 years. It was probably one of the main reasons I still had an Amiga as my main computer in the late 90s, and I'd only got to around mid-level in terms of my status.

If this was 2000, I'd have handed over my money straight away but Frontier Developments has had that many false starts over a new Elite game it's almost like the Duke Nukem forever fiasco (except that Elite IV pre-dates Duke Nukem forever).

I want to believe. But I just don't see it happening.
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i don't really see why this might in any way be significant. (and why should customers of esx be worried now? it's not that they employ security-by-obscurity, or do they :D)
Nice job Glenn & team :)
People vote against their own interests all the time. Women aren't an exception.

This particular issue exists purely because of the religion, which is still prevalent in the country.
Very interesting to hear the attitudes towards TV during the early adoption phase of the technology.

You can hear the excitement in the announcer's voice as he describes a TV broadcast.

It reminds me of how I felt when I connected my modem to the computer and dialed onto the internet for the first time.
I've found (having written too much physics code for my own good) that floats give you 0 digits of precision - I ask for 4.0 and it gives me 3.999999999998 .. ;)

The solution is, of course, to use rational numbers ( http://gmplib.org/ ) if you have time to debug why GMP doesn't compile on your processor.
I still feel like detailed commit messages and fine grained commits are just too much busy work. I think that there must be a better, more automatic way. I'd love to start with a system that just let you easily drag back and forth history. I feel like the future may well still be built on top of git, but I don't think that we need to be so meticulous with our code.
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Ah, but it would work fine on a website where you're selling things to humans (whose bank accounts can't store ha-pennies). I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to let the physicists near financial markets - there would be heavy losses on both sides.
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You can generate your own with gen_bridge_metadata.
But bridgesupport is only necessary if you want automatic access to things you can't get from the runtime.
Git ready » learn git one commit at a time
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You're somewhat mistaken, here. The system of checks and balances was very much designed to prevent the abuse of power. The Federalist No. 68, however, argues that the tiered electoral process is designed so that only the best, or the "right leaders", would attain the Presidency:

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"The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue."

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa68.htm
Rumours of it's death are premature. It's used by over 80% of the Alexa top 100 sites. http://mobiforge.com/designing/blog/server-side-device-detec... Why? Because it can help tailor the user experience, reduce page payload etc.

You can test whether a site is using UA detection here: http://hydra.mobiforge.com
There is of course http://www.oolite.org/
In general I agree. In the case of git, I disagree. The git CLI is downright terrible and dangerous to use unless you're already a git pro, I would never ever force a git newbie to stick with the CLI instead of using a GUI like SourceTree (which is fantastic).

I've used CVS, Subversion and Mercurial in the past and never needed or wanted a GUI, but with git, I don't even want to be bothered by all the inane commands and switches. I love git for all it does, but I despise the CLI because it simply is downright evil: inconsistent, incoherent, convoluted, allows you to shoot yourself in the foot in too many ways, terrible user messages, and so on.
It looks fantastic, I'm not really sure it's phone ready though. It's very slow on my phone (3GS). And there are lots & lots of js includes. Also the 1 dial per window seems a bit excessive.

HTML's pretty good though, only a bit of div/span nesting, I've seen a lot worse. Also watch out for the custom jQuery UI include in there, I still don't get why the jQuery UI team thought that was a good idea bundling a custom package so you have to start picking apart a min file just to see what was used.

Personally I'll probably purchase this at some point for something.
Why? Because it can help improve the user experience (page payload, image sizes etc). There's a good reason why Google, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Yahoo, BBC, Amazon etc. do it. It's also part of RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0) and RFC 2616 (RFC 1.1). Not exactly a hack -- it's designed into the HTTP protocol since 1996.
I found a citation for something opposite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_...

> Further, in research performed at AT&T Bell Laboratories, it was shown that comparison by angle was less accurate than comparison by length.

Also, my guess is that speedometers are circular because of technology available at the time first cars were built. I think I'd much rather see a bar as a speed indicator. I guess it could be tested; anyone knows any racing game which allows to switch between standard speedometer and some kind of speed bar?
> isn't this also true for languages more directly targeting a physical machine, e.g. C?

No, because the core architecture is very stable and optimizes for existing programs, which uses the existing quirks of the previous architecture.

Not so for JS VMs.
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...at least they could post smth funny along side it and make in into a pro "open source" (like "open source yourselves or we'll come and open your sources" - alongside a picture of a vicious blood filled can opener) or anti "security by obscurity" (like "what's left of your security, now that we removed your obscurity?" - and a pic with a camera and a flashlight over someone doing smth naked in the bushes or smth like that).

...someone should put the fun back into cyberwar ;)
Nice (not so on ie8 although).

But I am still waiting for a template that works on ie7 (some of us are targeting business users here), on tablets and on phones. On top of that, it should load fast and it should be practical (to be fair, this is rather practical, I would put an accordion on the sidebar although).

At the moment, I am designing this myself, but I would really rather buy it.

For that I would pay double the ammount of this one.
i'm not sure i get your point about the similarity to (early) office data formats. these are very badly supported now. that's a stark contrast to your assertion that psd is backwards and forwards compatible to a very large degree.

care to elaborate?
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Saw title. Saw Braben. Pledged.
I'm sorry - you make excellent rational points - but I don't care. I lost four months of my teenage life to this damn game and I want more.

Make it better than eve and you can have a kidney to sell, the dodgy one on the left.
Most of the time web pages look far better on my Work iMac, but this is stunningly well designed, it looks perfect on my cheap windows laptop, my phone and my iMac.
Jim, this idea (private and pay per domain) is already done extremely well by squarespace.com
Ditto for Emken here in CA (http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Elizabeth_Emken.htm):

Respects the sanctity of life and will fight to uphold it. (Mar 2010)
Define marriage as between one man and one woman. (Jun 2012)
US should be drilling for oil in ANWR to reduce gas prices. (Apr 2012)
More US troops to Afghanistan--we must win this war. (Jun 2012)

Do we really expect someone with short-sighted, old-fashioned ideas about society to be an improvement in the tech space?
I shall do stuff, in fact I already do stuff, an idiotic open source project. And thanks for the advice and luck, all so very much needed.
I'm not sure if content chunking is an artifact of inefficient distribution mechanisms. It would be impossible to tell the Illiad through tweets, for example, for anything other than an intellectual exercise. But to be less radical, consider that there don't really exist ads longer than 1 minute.

Content dictates length, not the other way around...
Rant, of course, as in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134426 Rants can be very informative.
Here[1] is a good summary of why Montreal has one of the highest concentrations of tech jobs in N. America. And, while Quebec citizens might have to bear a larger tax burden than other provinces, there are heaps of tax incentives for businesses (especially technology) to startup or relocate there. There are massive SR&ED (Scientific Research and Experimental Development) tax credits and other incentives that can halve or more employee compensation expenditures.

Vancouver needs to play tax catchup (while boosting technology sector wages to level out the cost of living playing field).

[1]http://www.startuprev.com/archives/2012/10/the-montreal-tech...
Did they really stop innovating?

The iPod, the iPhone and the iPad in 11 years. That's a record of innovation that stands up to pretty much any company in the last dacade and a bit. The iPad itself came out less than three years ago and they've put out four versions of it plus the iPad mini taking it from a product that no-one had made work to a product that is now tearing a major chunk out of the laptop market.

Maybe it's just me but I think that's quite a rate of progress. The iPad is less than three years old and people are saying "what have they done lately?"

Put it in context, who is doing more? Who else has introduced just one product on that scale in the last five years? In the last ten?

People talk about the new innovative Microsoft but do the Surface, Windows Phone (both massively reactive plays) and Kinnect really stack up that well against what Apple are doing and have done in the same period (and I didn't mention the MacBook Air or Apple TV in there). Don't get me wrong, these are good products and it's great to see Microsoft upping their game (my background is as an MS developer and I always thought they got more criticism than they deserved so it's good to see them getting some credit).

Google have got Glasses which are interesting but still basically a prototype, ditto the car and Google TV which is going nowhere fast as far as I can tell. Android is a great OS but I'm not seeing the Android devices that your typical unbiased observer would sit next to an iPhone and think "that's just in a different class". Great phones (and now tablets) and there are certainly things that they can do that iOS can't but is it innovation on the scale of the original iPad or iPhone? It's always easier to make improvements when you're catching up as Android has been - now it's achieved parity I think we'll get to see what Android is really about. Other than that Plus is nice but hardly innovative, Hangouts likewise and from a business perspective Google remains at it's heart an advertising company.

I love what all these companies are doing - I love Google for Gmail, search and Reader, I love Apple hardware, I love that MS is raising it's game, I love that Samsung are making great phones that are pushing the form factor and keep Apple improving things which in turn will keep Samsung improving things (and I love my Samsung TV and the fact my iPhone is basically half Samsung components), I love what Amazon are doing with content and I love my Kindle.

What I don't understand is some of the lazy narratives that people want to put around these things, as if the lawsuits mean that Jonny Ive is no longer designing because he's training as a paralegal. The law suits were a dick move (almost entirely let's not forget driven by the Apple-isn't-the-same-without-him Steve Jobs - Tim Cook seems to have a far more pragmatic view on them) but I don't think they've changed a single thing Apple have been doing on the product side and I'd be really interested to see any evidence that says they have.
It's very slow on FF 16.0.2 but it really is so pretty.
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Fight with or against your friends in this fantastic game on your iPad.
While being beholden to Wall Street is a double edged sword, you need to be a special sort of person to really work without being answerable to anyone in the way Jobs and Gates did.

I think Ballmer shows that for lesser mortals, some responsibility is a good thing.
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Many other CMS's are easy to develop for. The "scalability" issue is true but as I'm aware none of the top ten sites use WordPress.

The point I disagree with the most is that users won't need training to use it. I hear this all the time with absolutely nothing to back it up, other than "I haven't trained a user to use it".

Well, I have, and the users for this company struggled a lot with how things will work. I've trained users on numerous scripts, including Umbraco, Sitecore, Concrete5 and bespoke CMS's and every one of the others were far easier to both sell to a client and train. Umbraco and Concrete5 are far better for users than WordPress.
Imagination acquires MIPS
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