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I want to know how many of those apps replace basic functionality that is just built into Android. There are am absurd number of paid apps and services that have no purpose on android because the functionality is built into the OS or the Google Apps.
The process described in Notes on the Synthesis of Form is 180 degrees from that advocated in his later work. It is top down and all at once. His later work advocates many hands working incrementally from the bottom up.

I would also suggest that his work is about the user interface of buildings and thus has implications for the design of analogous interfaces for software.
I can't speak for NYC, but even out here in the suburbs around D.C. some of the local galleries/art studios offer very good intro to painting/drawing/sculpture/etc. classes. The county also offers a pretty nice selection of art classes in their continuing education offerings.

What's nice in both cases is they know their clients and tend to offer the classes on nights and weekends. All the ones I've taken have been taught be very experienced professional artists and focus about 50/50 on technique and learning how to see.

The best one I've taken was a beginner survey class at a local artist's workspace. Every week you come in, they give you supplies for a specific type of media, they give a short lecture and off you go for the next 90 minutes with the instructor available to offer advice. Charcoal one week, pastels the next, oils the following, etc. I found out that I loved working with pastels and I never would have even thought to try them before.

The lecture usually cover very basic concepts for the media, how to blend colors, how the paints blend on the canvas, how to build up a image (e.g. for oils start with dark tones then move towards light, for waters work the other way) how to use tortillions etc. But they definitely leave you to develop your own style.
I've never heard a user say, "I don't want to buy apps because Samsung didn't build or license Android." Most users don't even know what that means.
I'm betting that traditional devices won't disappear, as having a real keyboard is too important. We'll probably see a surge in tablet/laptops convertibles, and towers will continue to lose ground wrt laptops.
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There are a lot of drugs that contain >1 ingredients that work together. What makes you think it must
be a poisoning conspiracy? The paracetamol+opiates combined
effect is widely documented in medical literature,
and many of the most common painkillers are combinations
of paractamol along with a mild optiate like codeine.
Peel-and-stick solar panels
A laptop with multiple external monitors and a clicky keyboard :)
Am I the only one, or the article is missing any advice (if not tutorials) on backing up, before trying this? common, you don't want to spend your christmas/newyear along a kindle you just ..err.. technically suicided?
Try pastels instead, the results look great and you get to really get into the work if you like. Blending with your fingers is fun!
Having floor plans available is a great idea! Unfortunately, I searched a few hotels, but was unable to find any. Do you have any example hotels, or am I not looking at the right place on the website?
Avjinder, your post smells like a " Java sucks lol" style comment about eclipse. Eclipse is one if those softwares that people love to abstractly complain about without specifics. Also, you're doing something massively wrong if you think android lacks a proper debugger.

Also, hasn't the new emulator been out for nearly or over a year now? I tire of people whining because they refuse to upgrade their tools. Also, good luck with that simulator...
Exposing the IDF propaganda is going to get this guy in a lot of hot water. I wish him strength, he's going to need it.

One thing I don't get is that he clearly isn't anonymous to the IDF anymore, so why continue the secrecy towards the public?
The SpaceX booster is actually decades old technology. The booster is just nine old school liquid fueled rockets welded together. The government does cost plus deals because the government issues it's own currency and material costs are volatile in a floating exchange rate system.

How many defense contractors make the Forbes wealthiest Americans list much less the world list? Perspective is everything. Marketing is manufactured and refined messaging to win your heart and soul, so don't take everything so serious just because of a pretty photo.

Rocket launches are beautiful no matter the design, price or success of the launch.
I'm pretty sure every major carrier has a one Nokia WP8 phone or another currently.
Good point. I guess I had my blinders on for how I hope to react / maintain focus on what's important.
Is there anyone here use cloud based workstation ?, for example you use virtual machine in amazon and access it from low powered device or laptop.
Interesting point. Could you elaborate?
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
The article praises Live Picture, but offer no hints as to why it failed to "kill" or even simply concurrence Photoshop.
Decoupling inlined UI code
Low Cost Land Mine Remover on Kickstarter
The competition doesn't care because people don't care. Seriously. People could not care less.

I got a free developer program membership and got my phone unlocked through that, but I've never used it to sideload code onto my phone and never plan on doing that. It's just not something I need to do.
Facebook paid £2.9m tax on £840m profits made outside US, figures show
In terms of an interface, unless we can come up with something vastly superior to a keyboard, it's not going away.

The keyboard is pretty intuitive and extremely explicit (if I press the A key, there's no confusion about what I meant to press)

I'm not so sure about what will happen to the mouse though, it's a bit more abstracted compared to the keyboard and I reckon touch interfaces will be the norm soon enough.

In terms of what the rig would be, currently I do all my development on a virtual machine, SSHing into it and using vim. I think our desktops and laptops could become thin clients and we'll do all of our work on remote machines that are "in the cloud"
why is the accuracy bar in the format:
high accuracy(of match?) --- low accuracy ---- medium?

instead of
high-medium-low?

design flaw?

by the way, as a fellow Indian, I would suggest adding a option for whether the said medicine is subsidized or not, given how our country has a big subsidy bill (plus some bill was announced recently as well, don't remember the name)

PS: congrats on the first app btw!
I used to use live picture back in the day. It was pretty amazing, but we never really fit it into our workflow because we were a very heavy digital shop and photoshop still had a leg up in a few areas (this was a digital pre-press and multimedia dev shop back in the early 90's).

Interestingly, we were also one of the first shops to have a digital camera for use in pro photo shoots. It was a Leif back that fit onto a Hasselblad. It would take one photo for each color plane, R, G, B, and each shot took about 30 seconds. You couldn't photograph people because of how long it took. But it was good for catalog and still life and high resolution enough for print. I think it cost about $10K if my memory serves.
Sure. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I just don't have experience on that side of the fence.
>I haven't done much Android development, but I have a hard time believing Android debugging is somehow magically significantly better than iOS debugging.

Oh, the irony. I don't know X, but I sure know Y is better than X. Keep up the good work, Einstein.
I definitely found this an excellent read as well.
As another anecdote: I had to get my 920 replaced, and it couldn't have been easier. I went into an AT&T store that specialized in device support, they looked at it for a few seconds, and immediately ordered a new one with free overnight priority shipping to my home.
A few times I was given the phone number / business card of someone who may have been able to provide me with a better discount than what the checkin staff was authorized to offer.

I never bothered following up on that though, as it seemed more hassle than just booking via Agoda.
I'm not sure its as easy as the post makes it sound, the person not having a facebook account would still need to provide identification, otherwise, if its a facebook user, he can be reported for spam/blocked/banned or something.

or thats what I hope
Ask HN: what is the best way to seat together?
In a software development company we have developers, testers, designers, etc.

There are two ways to sit together:

1. By functional teams. Several developers sit together and share knowledge and information. Several designers sit together, etc.

2. By cross-functional teams. These teams consist of 6-10 people (dev, testers, designers) that are focused on a specific feature or module. It may server the goal well, but what about learning?

So what do you think? What option you think is best?
As someone that used it, it did indeed have all of those features. Sorry to burst your bubble.

As for resolution independence, what they mean is that all of the operations and manipulations you performed were resolution independent. If you upscaled the image, any manipulations weren't simply upscaled, but reperformed at the new scale which provided significantly better results.

It was indeed instant. You could load a 500 meg image on a machine with a quarter of the ram and zoom, pan and mess with it in realtime. It was amazing at the time.
> One of my biggest problems with taxes is that the output of my hard work is spent on things that I find morally reprehensible.

That's something you choose to believe. You could just as easily choose to believe that your money goes to support all the programs you favor and the money that goes to those things you hate comes from people who support those programs. Money is fungible and government is not alacarte so you have to realize every program that exists has supporters who pay taxes and want those things to exist and they feed from a common pool.

It's just silly to torture yourself over the idea that some of your money goes to a program you don't support. If it were actually possible to track every dollar you gave, you'd find it's not evenly distributed across every government program, so you may as well believe you're paying for the programs you do support because it's just as true. I support abortion, you may as well consider that my money that's paying for that.
The 12 most beautiful iOS apps of 2012
Regarding aspirin it should also be mentioned in young adults i.e. late teens to about age 20. Reye's syndrome should be something people are aware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_syndrome
We’re becoming a bit more Amish
Here's a brief comparison of Live Picture vs. PhotoShop.

It says Live Picture is sluggish and only better than PhotoShop on really large images.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:j7viI0y...
so what do you intend to say my friend ?
Spin: on the fly, LTL model checking
As far as famous I can't really recall anyone is particularly famous but you can find a good list of notable folks here

http://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-notable-African-American-f...

As far as the situation of blacks in tech, I have written at length about it before here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170071
Since you are a designer, what do you think the top design books for non-designers are? I'm primarily concerned with understanding the basics and language to better communicate with others rather than be the primary designer.
Asteroid Retrieval Feasibility Study
I think it helps significantly to qualify what kind of app we're talking about (because then the demographics wanting each will vary) and revenue models. Game apps in general seem to do significantly better on the Apple store. At the very least, there's significantly more games in the Apple App Store than the Play Store. That likely has to do with the demographics that hold Android vs iOS phones. It also doesn't account for the alternative revenue model that most Android games take, that is the ad-driven model. If you're in it for the revenue, Android's ad-driven allowances (as much as I dislike them) may be a valid approach. For most other types of apps (productivity, education etc it's a toss up in my opinion, and will likely come down again to pricing model.

Might also help to consider where you're developing for. Different countries each have VASTLY different usage numbers for the different platforms. Big statistics that cover the whole globe aren't altogether that useful.

As a last point, I highly doubt that Android fragmentation is going to be the major reason why development is going to cost 20% more. That just seems wrong and arbitrary, especially with all the measures Google has taken to patch it (a la ICS). I could just as well say that the Apple app submission process is a hellish procedure that will cause massive delays and increased cost. It's really hard to say which is more costly to develop for due to all the variables.

Last throw in, just on an intuition, I'd develop for Android first, simply due to the significant reach in my country, greater experience with it and the type of app I'm considering. All in all, with so many variables, it's really hard to explicitly say.
Well, you don't have to use vi or emacs. IDEs exist. I personally find Eclipse to be a huge pain in the ass for anything other than superficial Java maintenance, but it's there, and sometimes it's the right tool.

The command line will never die. It's precise. It works. If you don't know how to use it, you're not a programmer. End of story.

I think that, just as programming is becoming multi-lingual over the years, it'll be more important to be able to switch between (a) emacs/vi and the command line and (b) a read-only IDE for code comprehension/navigation. (I'm surprised Github hasn't taken that on, at least for the major languages.) IDEs are great when you're reading code but they become a mess when people use them to write it, or when IDEs become formally a part of the company developer environment. (Watch out if the latter happens.)

I think the low level will change more slowly than the high-level. For low-level, staples like C (and possibly Go) will remain in force. It's at the high level where the rapid change happens. Of course, this kind of change is good and bad. It's great when you're in charge and get to play with fun new tools, and it's horrible when you're a grunt and change is inflicted upon you by others.
I suppose the point I'm making is to the general sentiment I'm seeing in this thread. It will take better than a 50% success rate of putting satellites into orbit before Lockheed starts thinking about the huge disruption I keep hearing about on this website. If you were to put a billion dollar satellite into orbit who would you choose?
I'd like to see the 'impossible image' that was created with LivePicture and impossible for Photoshop...
Tried that before. Oftentimes they end up having rates that are 2x what the websites offer.
without an objective, you must not start a journey. or if you must become a wanderer, you must try all the places.

in short, either ask yourself, what do you need either c# or JS for or do both, and rest of the 'all' i.e, php, phython etc.
Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
I think this year was poorly in comparison with 2011, in regards of new releases. So, what were the best books you read this year?
Totally an aside, but if you're in the US and there's a collections agency after you for a bogus debt, it's easy to make them go away: Send them a formal dispute letter under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act and advise them not to contact you further. If they do anyway, you can sue them for punitive damages.
Not misled but unaware or ignorant and also the binge drinking is a big part of it.

I can't recall where I read it but I remember reading how a person should not use Tylenol even three days after drinking since the liver is still dealing with it. I'm not sure if that's true for any drink or just binge drinking.

College students who bing, take Tylenol, next weekend bing and so on are probably the ones who will suffer the most liver damage.

The liver is an amazing organ it's the only organ that can repair itself and regrow due to physical damage but not systemic damage.
> Will my grandson watch me type and wonder what I'm doing? Laughing at how old his grandfather is and that he "still uses a keyboard and a mouse"?

My 5 yr old son does exactly this! He calls typing on a keyboard "working", whereas writing on the ipad screen isnt "working" according to him. He tries to do things on my laptop by touching its screen ... the spoiled brat!
It would be nice to read a review of the books...
A very psychological chocolate
Having a Linux instance available in the browser is really cool, and greatly reduces the barrier to getting started. It seems to have no man pages, though.

It would be really nice if there were an easy way for the reader to correct typos. Emailing the author or posting such things to the comments section is just so much more clumsy than it could be.
I'm unclear what crime this blogger committed? Is the blogger even in Israel? Using my American mindset, isn't a reporter relatively immune from prosecution as a publisher of stuff as long as they didn't break into computer systems themselves? The NYT isn't being prosecuted for publishing Wikileaks stuff, etc...
Sorry to burst your bubble, if you think there's such a thing as unlimited and instant you're sorely mistaken.

It might've been fast in simple cases compared to the alternatives, but there's no two ways about it that all computation takes time, and you can make tradeoffs where you cache more and compute less, but that's it.

It's not instant and unlimited. It's Limited and fast, or more limited and faster, or more ram and faster, or more data and slower.
The article seems to be discussing the overall history, but it should focus on the present. Android has grown a lot in the past couple of years so how does it compare to iOS now?
> It wasn’t cheap, as Expedia takes 25 % of every booking made through their sites–a fact that hotels are forbidden by Expedia to disclose to guests.

This is forbidden to be disclosed because business contract details are covered under an NDA they signed with Expedia. 25% is their negotiated commission but it will vary by partner and hence they don't want that being disclosed to be used as leverage in negotiations with other hotels.

> For the most availability, best prices and service, always book directly with a hotel.

This may be the case with the Luna Blue, but is definitely not what we at Room 77 see in the marketplace. We're connecting with the GDS and pretty much every major OTA in the US (Expedia, Orbitz, Booking.com, Priceline, etc.) and what we're seeing is increasing price fragmentation in the marketplace. This is why we fundamentally believe that metasearch is a better model for the consumer since prices and availability do vary.

> Secondly they do not offer discounted rates as many claim.

As someone else mentioned, even if a rate is not discounted against the rate the hotel has directly, it may be a promotion against the regular rate and you have to factor in the loyalty programs that exist on many OTA sites (Hotels.com book 10 get 1 free, Agoda 4% rewards, etc.). The most probable reason that an OTA has a lower rate is that the room availability has changed. For example, a hotel has two types of rooms (A & B) may have presold a percentage to Expedia and if the hotel has sold their own allocation of room type A and only has room type B left, the lowest price the hotel has for ANY room is the price of room type B. Expedia may then show a lower price for a hotel because they still have room type A available to sell to travelers since they own that percentage of inventory that was presold to them.

The core value proposition of booking through an online agency wasn't really addressed by Tony and Cheri which is that people by and large don't want to shop a single hotel's price and availability. When I want to go to Playa del Carmen, I want to see ALL options I have in an area and compare hotels and rates and the easiest way to do that is through an OTA or a metasearch engine.

Booking directly through a hotel has it's own advantages which include: 1) payment is usually not required until you arrive at the hotel, 2) you earn the hotel's loyalty points if they have a program, and 3) the hotel will prioritize your booking for upgrades, etc. since they didn't have to pay a large commission.

From my perspective working at a metasearch company, we want to provide maximum choice and availability of options/inventory so we show both direct hotel inventory and OTA inventory and let consumers decide which one they want to choose.
3D iOS development tips for device considerations
Propaganda that appears to be effective, since simply mentioning it brought your comment several steps into the grey.
Wow, wrote this and went to bed. Glad you liked it, learning one line at a time and I try to remember to practice it one line at at time.
Yeah, I think the only reason that Amazon has sold any Kindle Fires since the Nexus 7 came out is due to how much they advertise it on their site and because most consumers are poorly informed. Google needs to do a much better job of advertising the Nexus line.

There is absolutely no justification for an informed customer to pick the Kindle Fire over the Nexus 7. The latter is cheaper, has a much better and more updated OS, a lot better app selection, and can still access all the content the Kindle Fire can, except Prime Videos (which can still be sideloaded using an APK from XDA-Devs, the site linked here).

And of course part of the reason is that many people are buying these tablets as gifts. You don't put as much thought into a gift as you would into a purchase for yourself. Not only because people are selfish, but also because during Christmastime you have to buy gifts for a lot of people, and you know yourself better than you know anyone else.
That may well be, but you can't dismiss someone as "not a hacker" simply because they make a different OS choice than you might. Even hackers have priorities.

I'm definitely not a businessman. I'm a rank-and-file engineer for Amazon, and part of the reason I stick with that is that it gives me spare time to hack on random shit or learn some random math.

I still use (and develop for) iOS for two reasons. First, when I'm not hacking I think it's a nicer OS than the competition. Second, when I am hacking on things, I think it's a nicer OS to develop for. As a hacker I can call all the private APIs I like, run in the background, fork of child processes, and really just generally make a mess of things. Oh, and I don't have to do any of it in Java (which after a day of work is a welcome relief).
It probably has to do with being located in Canada.