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Big monolithic desktop apps just are not and probably never will be a strength of FOSS development. When I do use FOSS for office productivity I prefer a program with a uniquely FOSS-y take on the problem sphere (like Lyx for word processing) over one that's trying to play catchup on propretary models.
I am saying that group insurance is so close to con artistry that it boggles my mind that it is legal.
This look sick and I LOVE your funnel - Quickly show how it works, register and then sell. Def. will check this out!
At first this looks like another submission about the value of objects, a la "The Best" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470, "The Worst" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838109, and countless others in between.

However, it's really a (roundabout) way for Peter to tell us how much he likes using pen and paper, and what advantages he sees in them over the alternatives.

This is the right way to look at objects: suitability. Not best, not cheapest, not highest-quality, but most suitable for the job.

Crucially, by the end, the strongest point made in the first 80% of the article has not been addressed:

"The problem with pens that cost more than a dollar is that, well, you lose them at the same rate you lose pens that cost less than a dollar."

I look forward to a follow up post when he has misplaced it, given up using it for fear of misplacing it, or perhaps treasured this wonderpen so much that it is still faithfully by his side after 6 months of note-taking. In short: how suitable really is it?
I believe them. If you're going to use a malicious certificate to spoof traffic, you'd be pretty dumb to start by targeting Google, since all their properties are pinned in Chrome. You'll just get caught.

Also, using X.509 CA=YES certificates to mint new certificates on the fly is a standard and legitimate feature of corporate network hardware. In virtually every large enterprise network, employees don't have direct access to the Internet; they bounce through proxy servers. The middleboxes that make this work all have "upload a root CA cert here" features to make this work.

That they accidentally issued a malicious certificate, I think, makes things a little worse from my vantage point. There are a million ways to get hacked, but not as many excuses for just being sloppy.
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It doesn't make sense to compare Backbone to any of these. Backbone is a low level library for getting you started.

If you are looking for something easy to use to get you going you just use one of the frameworks built on top of Backbone, I suggest Marionette.
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They probably should've written that as "major consumer computing platform."
As someone who has sacrificed his last few weekends and holidays writing documentation for my open source projects, I can assure you that that is not my attitude, and the fact you think so is very disappointing.
No, it won't harm our ability to manage certificates. What it will do instead is create a point in time where suddenly a whole mess of websites that used to be protected with HTTPS are now no longer protected with HTTPS. If there's a graceful and safe way to provide effective advance notice for this, I haven't heard it yet.

I agree in spirit; I'd like to see more CA's get the death penalty. But the pragmatic argument against it is convincing.
I've cut caffeine out when I stopped drinking soft drinks. Its great. After being used to the caffeine kick of soft drinks, you develop a tolerance for it and it becomes necessary to perform tasks [without feeling like crap]. Now the most caffeine I get is from very few and far between softdrinks, or through unsweetened tea [which is a small amount, and interacts with your body differently]. It feels a hell of a lot better to be off the stuff. [Also, I never liked coffee]
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If end of line always means end of statement, by all means get rid of semi colons. If some non-trivial algorithms is used to infer end-of-statement boundaries that is more complicated than detecting end-of-line, then...there will be subtle problems.

I went through this transition before in Scala, the error messages got a lot worse after semi-colon inference was added. I wound up telling people to add semi-colons to their code when they were scratching their head at some sort of parse/type error message.
5,000 pageviews in 9 months - A good start to my blog?
Thank you! It seems to be working -- our conversion rate from homepage to registration is about 10% (although it's very early, and I'm basing this off a few hundred uniques). Still hoping to hit the HN homepage :-)
> All the pictures are safely stored on Memoto's remote storage service. We know what you're thinking... two photos a minute is a whole lot of photos

Apparently you don't know what I'm thinking. I was thinking that a whole host of minor crimes like reaching 35 in a 30 zone or downloading copyrighted files can suddenly be data mined. Or computer passwords. Or pin numbers off a cash point, or confidential documents like passports, or credit card numbers ...
The Patent Office makes billions of dollars?????

There are some five hundred thousand applications filed per year, about half of which (so same order of magnitude) are granted [1]. In order for them to make a single billion dollars, there needs to be a few thousand dollars _profit_ on the fees -- I assume, since you said "make", that we're talking about profit and not revenue.

If we're talking about revenue, then it is somewhat close to believable, but there's no reason for them to be reluctant to cut revenue if it also means that they get to cut expenses (on employing reviewers). The top patent holders for the last several years running [2] are all in the software industry, so it's reasonable to expect the USPTO's expenses to drop significantly if software patents were disallowed.

(Finally, the patent office is not a private corporation, but an entity of the government, so the battle is absolutely winnable by merely outlawing software patents.)

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_paten...
"It seems that most people today, when thinking about their next JS project, will use Backbone because it's the most popularl framework when it shouldn't be." (sic)

Here's a long list of examples why maybe it should be:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

In comparison, here's the public list of interesting apps built with Angular and Derby:

http://builtwith.angularjs.org

https://github.com/codeparty/derby/wiki/Community-Projects

What you want to look for in a library goes beyond feature checklists and magic datepickers. Lots of client side developers have been burned in the past by JavaScript frameworks that promise the world and end up getting in the way more than they help.

Backbone tries to provide the barest useful essentials -- the main business of building your app is up to you.
Even more precisely would be to collect IMEI numbers from mobile operators. In the absence of that I've seen some guerilla work where people drive around 'fake' 3G cell sites which slurps IMEI's from phones that ping them. Totally illegal of course but if you read the article on how an RPi was turned into a cell site [1] you can get an idea of how its done. Since you're not actually taking calls you don't raise the suspicions of users.

[1] http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/how-pa-shrunk-30-ft-m...
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Thanks to APD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder), most songs sound like that to me (I can only understand fragments of most lyrics unless I google them). I love music and listen to a lot of it, but most of the time I like the sound and not the words.
Santa Clara held a conference on potential solutions to the software patent problems a few months ago. The proposals ranged from abolishing "computational idea patents" (Stallman says even calling them software patents is flawed) to fee-shifting. It's pretty interesting if you have a few hours to spare.

The video feed is here: http://ammsweb.scu.edu/webcasts/mmedia1/20111014-083613-1e_o...

Wired op-ed series based on the conference presenters:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14cb0c/im_snoop_lion_a...
Seen this may times now, and most of these efforts end up in something slightly better than the mess you started with. I believe the main reason is lack of support, mostly political. This has nothing to do in particular with Java or any other technology, it is just lack of direction...
A little late, but I hope this clarifies why the headline is misleading.

The natural interpretation of "Quantum gas goes below absolute zero" is that someone had a super-freezer that cooled a gas so much that it is passed the 0K and it's so cold that it has negative temperature.

The real thing is that it is so hot that the temperature "goes beyond" infinity and is negative. A better headline would have been "Quantum gas goes negative absolute temperature".

Usually "bellow zero" and "negative" mean the same thing. The problem with "absolute" temperature is that the natural order of the real numbers is not the same as the hot-cold order. (It's a topological problem :).) (It's explained in more detail in other comments.)
This video course should explain the whole situation and more and is targeted at undergrads with essentially no background knowledge:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Ignore the hairdos, it's from the 80s, the information itself ages better than the fashion.
Isn't it still significantly slower? Even though it probably doesn't matter most of the time, it would helpful for all 3's items to be in the "better column."
I don't doubt for a moment that the guy could be a schmuck. I disagree with characterizing him as a 'huckster' simply because of the terms of the deal.
Short answer: no, but there are plenty of pretenders to the throne
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More to the point.

I am amazed and terrified how browser landscapes differ from country to country. In the UK iPad Safari is now ahead of Mac OS X Safari, and in Russia Opera became more popular than MSIE 8.0!

To sum it up, I now develop and test for the particular browser landscape, not for everyone. This is not overkill methodology, but at least it is sane.
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I suspect that when I was younger, I had a similar issue without realizing it. I used to think all lyricists were higher than a kite any time they wrote anything. After getting a diagnosis late in life for a condition I was born with and getting healthier, as I got healthier, songs began sounding a lot more prosaic to me. Some guy that I thought was trying to catch "a moon train" was really catching the Noon train to meet his girlfriend. Overall, most songs became drastically less intriguing and whimsical-sounding.

Fwiw, songs by The Beatles still sounded the same to me as always. I have wondered if that somehow explains their popularity, that there is something about their music which is fundamentally easier for more people to hear correctly and, thus, it was more widely appreciated and struck fewer people as gibberish.
Yes there has been some decay since 1998 (unsurprisingly), but in the past years it's been nowhere near as dramatic as it may seem at a glance - the charts are just difficult to compare due to the jumping scales and colors.

Freenode, for example, keeps growing steadily since 2007, many of the smaller networks show pretty much a flatline or cross-shift in the same timeframe.

As it stands the networks still serve ~500k daily users; seems a bit early to call it "dead".
I'm fairly confused by your stance here. I was expecting you to tell us that a) security with backdoors is worthless (intermediate CAs, for use in packet inspection devices, not merely proxies) and b) security without control (and repercussions) for those that guarantee the security.

It's not exactly a "standard and legitimate feature" either; there were lengthy discussions this very year [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724929
A similar effect can be heard in "Skwerl (How English sounds to non-English speakers)": http://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY (speaking starts at 0m30s).

It's not quite as good, is it? I wonder if this effect is easier to achieve in a song or if it's more a case of how much time, talent, and effort goes into making it.
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There are no processes that generate entropy on a stock Android. The whole point of the reported hack is to install such a process (rngd).
But probably not for long, since Android is growing at 5x the pace of the iPhone globally, and about 3x the pace of iOS in total.
Sssh!!!! Did you guys hear that? It's the sound of rms cumming in his pants.
I'm always entertained when these numbers are so drastically different. These guys are getting their numbers from interviews. Think about that.

Wikipedia used to keep a meta-table of a bunch of different sources and market share numbers, sadly that's gone.
That's pretty interesting. I feel like I have a hard time understanding people in group settings. It's not uncommon that I have to ask people to repeat themselves, and I feel I do this much more than other people. I'm also not great at understanding song lyrics, but I feel like most people can't figure them out either (based on all the faulty lyrics out there).

In one-on-one conversations, I'm usually fine though. Is this what you experience, or is it much more dramatic?
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It's worth noting that Turktrust is not a government agency, and ego.gov.tr is simply the website of the municipal department that controls traffic and public transportation in the capitol city of Ankara. The likelihood that they would use these certificates for malicious purposes is virtually zero.
I've got a GSM Galaxy Nexus. I picked up a 3.5 Amp-Hr battery on amazon, and the phone lasts 3-4 days on a charge now. It's a massive quality-of-life improvement. The only things I switch on/off are GPS and wifi.

I had an iPhone 3G. I despised the thing. It just made me wait all the time for everything I wanted to do. It was probably the slowest iPhone ever made (bad RAM decisions), but after I left, I'm happy never to go back. Most importantly, I can avoid the iTunes ecosystem now. I can stream my music on my work linux box, off my phone, or any other device I want.

My 4G Xoom dies really quickly with 4g on. it's kept me off of 4g as a technology for at least a year.
Why is it universally a better way?

<span data-bind="text: someVariable"></span>

may look ugly but it is very clear that there is a variable associated to this DOM element.

It took some time getting use to but once I realized how much it made sense I got over it.

So tell me about this universally better way to go.
It's not about "fanbois" (whatever the hell that means), it's about the fact that articles about Apple attract orders-of-magnitude more clicks, and PR-reposting sites like Mashable worship at the alter of pageviews.
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Knockout's tutorials are great.
He definitely is incredibly good. Did you ever try to fluently speak gibberish? It's pretty hard to come up with something without repeating yourself, not to mention something resembling an existing language.
Why would people use this over Goodreads?
I did this a few months ago for GAE-Boilerplate: http://stackgeek.com/. Runs on GAE under Python.

I'm using Disqus for comments, but have considered switching to Github's comment API for gists for the post comments.

A friend of mine pointed out that the gists themselves can serve as a 'backup' blog post.
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Once upon a time I wrote a lisp to lua compiler in 100 lines.
https://github.com/meric/l2l/commit/a530f0133e002c3981937d21...

It's now over a thousand.
https://github.com/meric/l2l/
Apple moves to patent iOS Notification Center it cribbed from Android
The JVM also takes 100MB to startup a Web server. Maybe I want to use less ram?
This project always reminds me of "The Final Cut" with Robin Williams. A somewhat disturbing near future scenario about life logging with an a brain implant and the social consequences

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/
Sorry about this, we're going to be cutting a new release soon so that should resolve this discrepancy.
I'm looking forward to the swappable User model feature. Has anyone seen or heard of a site that has looked at migrating from a profile approach to a full in swapped User model? What does that migration look like and how painful was it?
As a young man, Richard Feynman was fascinated by the sounds of Italian, and faked Italian sounding gibberish, even to the point of "performing" it in front of his sister's Girl Scout troop.

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-surely-youre-joking-mr-fe...
This song made its biggest splash three years ago on Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html

(Google trends graph http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Prisencolinensinainci... )
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Hopefully Ghostery [http://www.ghostery.com/] will start tracking Referly -- I prefer to know when a site is saying nice things about an affiliate who will pay them money if they turn me into a customer.

I'm not saying all affiliate revenue is distasteful. But affiliate links that aren't identified as such are, in my opinion.
That seems fairly close to the general population breakdown (59.2% are pre-Honeycomb and 62% wouldn't have been too long ago).

Just one data point but it seems in line with credit cards being the issue not people who don't use the app store (if it was more of the latter you'd expect something like a 2:1 high end buy ratio for free apps but it looks just like the whole population).
These arguments have been going on for nearly a century, and you're trotting out the same tired old arguments. Either you're trolling me, or are ignorant of the ongoing debates/discussions/history of this issue. That's specifically what I mean when I say you're ignorant. Your words display zero awareness of the larger context.

The "We aren't racist or sexist, we're colour-blind and gender-agnostic, we're a meritocracy, and it just happens to be the case that our country club is full of white people isn't important, and you people are racists/sexists for constantly trying to disrupt our happy existence" is old. If you know that, you need to do more than whip it out, you need to acknowledge the many, many arguments against it and explain why you don't think they apply.

If you don't know that, you are ignorant of the subject matter. If you know it but do not address it, you are trolling. Some people call that being "intellectually dishonest," but I prefer to say trolling.

Of course I identify myself by all of the my characteristics that have a significant contribution to my life's experience. I have size 11 feet, but that has never meant much to me, so I don't think of myself as a "Size 11 Guy." I've been assaulted on the street and called a "Nigger" and "Spook" by strangers, so guess what? My skin colour does contribute to defining my experience.

When you call that racist, you're either ignorantly redefining the word "racist" or trolling me. I prefer to think you're ignorant of the implications. Conflating having a life experience that has been affected by his skin colour with white supremacism and Jim Crow laws is wrong. It's also deeply offensive.

I'm offended. I choose to be offended. I choose to speak out against it. That's not the same thing as being "Jerry Springer" angry with you, or curling up in a fetal ball and sobbing, but it is enough to motivate me to act.

And let me tell you flat out, this "I'm not being offensive, you're just choosing to be offended" argument is nonsense, it's like that Simpson's episode where Bart windmills his arms and says "I'm just windmilling my arms, and walking forward, if you get hit that's your problem."

Do yourself a favour, and remove it from your toolbox of arguments.
A very interesting approach, I have never heard of it. Thanks for the clarification.
I hardly feel that backbone is well written and straightforward.

This is one of the lines in backbone.js:

if ((callback && callback !== (ev.callback._callback || ev.callback)) || (context && context !== ev.context))

I feel stuff like this takes a lot of mental power to understand the context that it is being executed in and what exactly it is doing. It feels like I am knee deep in some obfuscated C code.
Yeah, I came up with a number of potential workarounds to the animation issue, all of which involved doing "non-angular" things. That wasn't ideal, but what really turned me off was how difficult it seemed to be to extend, compose, wrap, or otherwise re-use directives.

You're right - you could use ng-switch for add/remove. It's a bit awkward though. I'm curious as to why you'd consider "CSS selectors" a smell in an angular app. I'm assuming you mean some subset of CSS selectors (possibly just the first/last/nth-child selectors I mentioned?), as without selectors you can't really have CSS.
You use this argument a lot, but the ranter suggests that the reason many turn to Backbone is because of a self-selecting bias of it being the most popular.
What part of the rocket is printed? I see a lot of metal there.
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I don't think it's a professionally smart decision for most Americans to put naked pictures of themselves on internet sites. I include my wife and myself in that.
> which never fool me

Really never, or do you just never notice?

There was a great YouTube video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cAnFbEXY0) - but it seems to have been removed by the user. Not sure if there's any way to find it now. It was Americans speaking gibberish, and it sounded pretty convincingly like language.
This seems like a problem that could be pretty easily solved by the browser vendors, similar to how they do malware checks. Throw up a "this site's security certificate was issued by a compromised authority, and will no longer be valid in <x time at y date>. If this is your website, click here for more information." Run that for a sufficiently long period of time, then kill the CA.

It's not perfect, but we have a huge web of people using these affected sites on a daily basis who can serve as a very powerful driving force to spur change when necessary to minimize fallout.
BTW Angular supports prefixing your 'ng-' attributes with 'data-' if you want valid HTML.
People with auditory processing problems are negatively impacted by background noise and tend to supplement their understanding of what was said with lip reading, often without consciously realizing it. So they tend to do much better in one on one discussions, which tend to have less background noise and are typically more conducive to lip reading than group settings.
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I am generally unable to comprehend the lyrics of most songs. For years I thought it was called "The Fire of Downtown" and was baffled when I found out it really was "The Final Countdown". In addition to that I am unable to understand anyone in (semi)noisy environments like bars, restaurants, etc. and am notoriously bad on the phone as soon as there is the slightest background noise on either end. All that, despite having excellent hearing when it comes to non-verbal sounds.

Until now I didn't even know APD existed, so thank you for mentioning and linking it here.