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The code for this is pretty messy/gross.

Look at the Gemfile, which was committed as a conflicted file.

https://raw.github.com/iamues/Simvla-Network/c316e42ad85dcb1...

If you're going to duplicate Svbtle, part of that is understanding the Dustin Curtis™ way of thinking. Simple, uncluttered, straightforward. This is just an absolute hackjob with a layer of paint to give the illusion of Svbtle. The essence is not there.
Well, this seem to be a good case for the use of DRM.

But it's users the ones who will hold the keys for the kingdom, not corporations.
I agree emphatically with the spirit (and especially title) of this article. I'm a programmer and Physicist, and until a couple of years ago never really did any activity apart from computer-based, even to relax, and certainly never thought of myself as someone who 'could draw'. I took up Photography in a deliberate attempt to give myself a (non-computer) creative outlet, but found that I really easily slipped into the technical side of it (for which there are many, many opportunities).

Then, I went to a free sampler and then started going to a Life Drawing class (we have the benefit of a very good community locally, and is all drop-in, so no long courses to commit to). You don't need to jump all the way to painting, even just the very basics of charcoal of pencil I found incredibly relaxing, and it was certainly nice to spend decent quantities of time away from the computer.

One thing I think is key, is to realise that drawing and art is a skill like any other - very few people will find a "natural aptitude" (if such a thing exists) and it's purely practice - I'm happy if my drawings show a general trend of improvement, even though individual days or weeks may be a high or low point. There is no pressure to produce a 'decent picture' from anyone except myself, and I'm the only real judge of that - people will always like, or dislike, ANY art.

Even if it's not art or drawing, I think there is definitely massive benefit in completely changing from your usual routine occasionally. It can only be healthy.
Um, nope? What exactly is google-specific about it? Nothing from what I can tell. It's as general-purpose as C or Python or JS etc etc. In fact, it's basically C, slightly redesigned from scatch for this decade rather than the one 30 years ago...
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Thanks for the feedback, those are all very good points.

Because we were looking for something to create forms fast and collect data inline from emails, we created this initial version and decided to share it already. So although it's currently still lacking features like rich formatting and email list management, we're curious to see if people like the concept, and if there's enough uses already for this first version. It's all still pretty basic, so currently to make changes or start a new survey after a "test" run, you'll need to send a new email to new@emailform.io. It can be used already in combination with services like MailChimp though, e.g. for more email list management.

Anyway, thanks for checking out the demo, and we hope to add more functionality soon.
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A little Tcl story. When John Ousterhout interviewed me to be VP of Engineering at the Tcl company (Scriptics) many years ago I told him I knew nothing about Tcl at all. He told me that the two great virtues of Tcl were that it was incredibly easy to learn and had very powerful regular expression facilities (I think he was trying to contrast with Perl which also has great regular expressions).

I blurted out "Don't those two things contradict each other? You can't have something that's easy and have regular expressions!".

I immediately figured I'd totally blown my chances and discovered afterwards from the recruiter that the one thing he really liked in candidates was to be challenged. Me and my big mouth got me that job.
Here in Taipei we have a place called The Escape Artist ("The art of paintertainment") http://www.escapeartist.com.tw/ You can go there, get a canvas from them (the mini for ~40USD is already pretty big), they have all the brushes, colours and tools that you need, and paint away for the whole afternoon. It's really fun, I've been there twice so far, and from their fanpage it looks like they have plenty of people going (so much better paintings than I could do).

So yeah. Paint. Or doodle (it's even cheaper). Just have fun and explore.

(edit: funny, as another commenter right now, I'm a programmer and physicist too, maybe scientist do like escaping into art)
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I actually was forced to use Tcl recently on a project, and I came across this article at the time.

It so happens that I was getting into Lisp at the same time, and the parallels between them are obvious. You effectively get macros, so it's a pretty expressive language. There's even an object system in Tcl based on CLOS. But ultimately, it feels like a language with lots of good ideas, implemented poorly. I'm not a PL theorist or purist, but "everything is a string" constantly feels like a really poor abstraction.

Tcl is practical for small, quick projects, but you soon run into insane things like the fact that curly brackets are syntactically significant in strings - and comments.
The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, and New York Times seem to have settled down fairly solidly.
i agree... we need more execution not ideas
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I came to iOS from Android since Android was on Sprint first (and let's leave the Sprint hate behind - my plan is awesome, and service is improving). First a Hero, then the Evo 4G, then a Nexus S 4G, ranging from Cupcake to Jelly Bean. I liked the idea of swapping out functional apps at an OS level, and actually ended up having to use ChompSMS because HTC's SMS app had a nasty memory leak that bricked the Hero if left active too long.

My issue was that I was never happy. I rooted and ran custom ROMs (Fresh, Cyanogen, MIUI very briefly) and even tried rolling my own, but I found that I was spent too much time trying to make it something else. Analysis paralysis, in a way. In a way, I think I prefer having iOS locked down, because it doesn't leave me with a persistent feeling of wanderlust. That, and having been on Macs for over a decade, I'm kind of entrenched.

I agree that Android is getting better, though. I revisit the SDK every once in a while (and am spending a lot of time in it right now for a work project), but even with the advancements in Jelly Bean, writing code requires supporting so many versions with significant gaps in functionality. The compatibility library helps, but it doesn't solve the issue. Having to pass Android from Google to the OEMs to the carriers makes a lot of hoops to jump through. I hate the term fragmentation, but it's really a problem. That, and the layout structure - one per orientation per screen DPI. That's a lot to manage for a solo developer.
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ST2 seems to be sticking around so far, it's not the author's fault that it's new.
The wages would only be low if the skills are in low demand compared to their supply. If we only had VCs and no entrepreneurs, or if everybody was an entrepreneur and no one actually built stuff it wouldn't work either.

If you don't want to start a company (and you don't need to) just make sure you find a trade that has demand (or adjust your skills to that which does have demand). People still need english majors - somebody has to write the documentation, to write ad copy, just make sure you don't get into a profession out of laziness.

You need initiative to get anywhere.
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I see your point.

Perhaps what's reassuring to investors is that Amazon don't have to change their business model to become profitable. They just need to pull the pricing lever a bit harder.
"Welcome Back to C++ (Modern C++)" while not a book is not a bad place to start (I posted the link earlier in a prior comment, sorry for the dup):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654.aspx
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I found Angular was easy to pickup - initially. Once you strayed from the path it became more difficult to understand. It is a cool framework, but I feel like you have to take it on whole-hog or nothing. Also - and this is completely and illogically subjective - it doesn't feel like JavaScript to me. It feels like Flex or I don't know what...
Spot on.

Such assessment doesn't answer my personal question about why so many people are fixated with emulating, comparing and flat out copying Svbtle.

Dustin outlined some very cool design decisions when he first introduced Svbtle, but the presentation of final content wasn't incredibly unique which further confuses me. He shared some interesting workflow ideas which people are free to share, so why insist on publicly using Svbtle as some arbitrary benchmark?
In my experience, the sad truth has been that most average people have responded to this issue by saying that they have nothing to hide and don't mind since it helps catch terrorists.

Normally, you could expect Republicans to oppose a big government program like this, but, as we all know, as soon as you say the word "terrorist", they're all suddenly in favor of big government and big spending.
The website has a pre-5 image. The app name is not search friendly (but then nor is the app store), found it with musi roklor.

Re-searches too soon, I had to type quick to not see it flash something for a split second. No indication if the video is HD, or if I'm streaming the whole video and just getting audio.

Feature requests: Youtube personal playlists, hd icon, make it obvious what is being streamed. Possibly an option to stream hd on wifi and lower on 3G. Certainly an option to only use wifi.

Something that probably requires investigation: Does pause mean stop streaming, or continue streaming the rest of the song?
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Yes; one of the primary reasons I choose Tcl for certain personal projects is that it has a remarkably easy to use GUI library. The notion of "text variables" even introduces a notion of reactive programming.
Nice anecdote.

I'm curious what your thoughts on Tcl the language are today, given your former position at Scriptics.
Because it hasn't been dominated by domain squatters and it has a techie association (input-output).

But I still wouldn't use it for a serious business venture. Look at how a lot of previous x.io companies have now switched to xio.com.
Not to mention the fact that there's a whole new level of security to try to prevent sharing of code and folks using it past licensure dates that you don't need to worry about with a subscription/SaaS model.
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I don't understand your comment. Please try the following:

vec.reserve(10);

and report back how many allocations occur.
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Would it be the worst thing ever if you hired someone who was capable of memorizing the solutions to common problems?
I don't think you properly appreciate how their thinking trumps that of the unwashed plebes.
Out of interest, what do you feel are the solvable problems with exceptions in C++? The obvious one is exception specifications, which are probably best ignored.

While I agree they are frequently a pain, I'm unaware of any language which has really managed to do exceptions much better. I am happy to hear of examples however.
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I'll try to use a large chunk of the software to build something else, in case this new thing doesn't work I'll certainly just make the repo public.
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Interesting - the context menu event fires but the menu still displays for me in current FF on Kubuntu.

You can just save the page or use 'view page info' to get the image anyway - a non-programmer who was a heavy browser user would probably realise that IMO even if they didn't know how to turn off js.
No, I'm pretty comfortable blaming lawmakers for this. It's their job to keep the laws up-to-date, and they've failed in this case. It isn't random people on the street locking these kids up, except by a very extended and tenuous (albeit real, but still, small) connection, it's the lawmakers who keep it illegal without regard to human costs, who would rather send teens to prison and blaze them with the closest thing our society has to a Scarlet A (and ours is in many ways worse, certainly harder to escape), rather than risk their reelection prospects, who are to blame.

It may feel more gratifying to blame it on $DUMB_YOKELS, but given that this problem seems to exist everywhere regardless of their influence, it would seem to be an emotionally-driven decision, not a logical one.
c++11 includes std::string/number conversion.

eg:

int stoi(const std::string& str, size_t *pos = 0, int base = 10);
std::string to_string(int value);

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string
Okay, how about, it's an exact string match, it's wildly popular, and it's from a well known and long time developer whose apps have always been wildly popular? Is that enough yet, to make search not suck?

PS, Google Maps is now the third search result instead of the fifth. After how many days should search not suck?
Monopoly Deal is definitely an under appreciated gem. It's a great way to kill 15 minutes with friends. Doesn't require a lot of strategy, but it still somehow fun (I typically enjoy a lot more strategy than luck).

I've done something similar to your Magic the Gathering game. It involved a chess board and using 52-card decks to give your pieces "abilities." I believe the Ace of Spades was a "Resurrection" card that would respawn any one piece you'd lost.
I usualy use Tcl for my personal projects. It's nice and simple but powerful language, and the only real problem with it is that there's too many old libraries that can't work with multiple but different versions of Tcl on the same system.
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Technorati always seemed to be a joke to me.

A friend of mine got thousands of splogs indexed in Technorati and got real traffic from it.

On the other hand, whenever I ran a blog that was legit, Technorati always dismissed it out of hand as a splog.
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Art by Richard Feynman:

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Ever read the man page for xargs? It reads just like the perscribing information for VIOXX.
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So, here's this article purporting to answer the misconception that Python is superior to Tcl in every conceivable way and, erm, I left with the impression that Python is superior to Tcl in every conceivable way except that Tcl is a smaller language. If you really want to do meta-programming in Python by putting together strings then eval() is right there waiting for you... but there are good reasons people try not to overuse it.
Not that Marc Andreessen is necessarily /right/, but the argument that the middle class "definitely exists" is, like any statement in sociology, rather difficult to prove.

In fact, "middle class" means different things in different places. In Britain, "middle class" generally refers to doctors, lawyers, bankers, senior government officials and many entrepreneurs. The higher rank "upper class" is historically reserved for genuine aristocrats - if you're not a Lord, Viscount, Baronet etc. then you're not upper class, no matter how wealthy you are. Richard Branson is "middle class" by this definition. Essentially, British middle-classness is about values rather than economic status; even a poor person can be middle class if they listen to Radio 4. (I simplify, but not by much).

Marxists (again, simplifying) generally describe the "middle class" as being a fairly narrow band of people who benefit from capitalism by virtue of occupying privileged positions - bankers, CEOs and so on - without actually being capitalists (owners of capital) themselves. In Marxist analysis, this middle class is effectively bribed to support capitalism by being rewarded with power over their fellow workers, but this power is always exercised on behalf of the capitalists. Weirdly, this idea of a narrow middle class of functionaries acting in close concert with [venture] capitalists is pretty close to the Andreessen world view as described in the OP!

If we accept the mainstream American definition of middle class as being about income levels, then Andreessen can still be correct if we read him as saying that the middle class does not /inevitably/ exist, or is not /inevitably/ as large as it is now. Falling median income in the US could, if continued, result in the eventual shrinkage of the middle class, or the redefinition of 'middle class' to include poorer people.
Although I think the headline "gotcha" statement is pretty ridiculous, his point about the 50s is not. For a combination of reasons, it was possible at that time to get a job straight out of high school at a place like Ford and make a very comfortable living. The circumstances that enabled this were

1) High domestic consumer demand for goods as a result of the baby boom and following the low-demand period of the Depression and the constrained-supply period of the war.

2) Negligible competition from imports, in part because most of the likely suspects were still a long way from recovering from the war.

3) A tight labor market resulting from the high level of growth. Growth -- particularly population growth -- as a driver of wages was noted way back in the 18th century by Adam Smith.

None of these are true in the United States today.
I assume what you are saying is the following?

* Compilers are introducing move as we move in C++11. If you compile your code in C++03 (or a compiler with partial C++11 support, no move).

* The standard doesn't place a strict definition on how vectors are increased in size as you push_back. Of course, if you want to control the amount of space in a vector manually, rather than let your compiler decide, you can reserve in advance.

Is your problem just with moving to C++11, or do you get different numbers (other than different numbers of moves) in a compiler with proper C++11 support (basically, the most recent version of everything).
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>Svbtle maintains quality because it's closed. Open it up and it becomes the next Wordpress where everyone and their mom is publishing their half baked malformed ideas.

What quality? Most posts (over all aggregated contributors) are BS. 1 in 15 is maybe worth it.
But they eventually will have to make money, or (so orthodox thinking goes), the rational market will punish them. I am skeptical to the point of open cynicism over rational market theory, but that's the point that Yglesias is trying to make.
From an user pov I don't get the concept behind having a closed network in order to obtain quality content.

As an user, if I want to read high quality stuff I go here on HN, or to specific sub reddits: news aggregators are solving the problem of quality for me.

Instead it seems that the idea of having a closed network helps more to solve the problem of bloggers to have a quality, like-minded, audience.
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Randist views can be healthy, to an extent, but like anything they're best in moderation.
I enjoy Power Grid with a larger group (4+) people, but with a small group, the game really drags. This is unfortunate, because my usual gaming group consists of my fiancee and myself.
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I think you fail to understand what it means to evolve a language specification rather than breaking one.

I think given your obvious bias in both method and approach you should probably just plan on learning a new language every 2-3 years or so when what your ideas of the "best" way to do things changes and languges supporting the latest fad are developed. Probably, just avoid commenting on C++ altogether as it is a waste of your energy because it will quite frankly never do what you want given the aims and goals of the steering committee.
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One of the biggest advantages of TCL in my opinion is the simplicity of its syntax. The lexer is quite simple, straightforward and easy to create. Properly written TCL interpreters are quite small and memory efficient. Because of this TCL used to be quite a popular choice as an embedded scripting language for various appliances (eg. Cisco used TCL for their VoIP/IVR scripts).

Nowadays Lua has mostly taken TCL's place as an embedded scripting language of choice and I must say I'm a little sorry, there are some things that I miss from TCL.
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While I understand the sentiment; I do. Svbtle is nothing more than a network of blogs by various authors that one man (dcurtis) thinks have good substance. Your argument is roughly equivalent to me saying I'm starting my own newspaper because the Chicago Tribune won't print my article and wasting my time being all angry about it. Not worth it.
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It's what makes this project interesting, i see it like an experiment to what would've been svbtle without the elitism aspect